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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1892
Page
2
A long column of miscellaneous facts and anecdotes covers ancient Assyrian scenes, delicate Boston assay scales, Japan's mikado, shipping policy changes, a Kansas watermelon king, a German emperor’s pension, snuff consumption figures, and a Georgia eel shower. It blends social quips, oddities, and brief notices from diverse topics.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton resigns to become acting secretary of the treasury effective December 1. Cleveland leads in electoral votes with 276, Harrison 144, Weaver 24. next congress split across parties. World fair souvenir half dollars to be minted. silver gold parity talks at Brussels fail. Weekly exchanges drop 11.2 percent from last year. cholera fears curb immigration. 210 business failures this week. seamen relief cost $34,000.
Reports describe Hampden Plains house fire consuming $1200 in cash, a Williamsburg steel and copper works blaze costing $150000, a New York murder sentence to death for a 16 year old, a Sharpsburg boarding house blown up with no injuries, a Pittsburgh foundered man’s body found, storms and wrecks at sea near New York, Camden business district fire, Sugar Creek almshouse fire with 200 inmates saved, Allentown prisoner’s death in cell, Slatington slate factory loss of $100000, Federal village fire, old Miles Standish grave markers in Duxbury, discovery of a new comet, and Pennsylvania total valuation up $15 million from 1891.
A cyclone near Oakland Texas wrecked many houses and unroofed others. Alison Owens killed his wife with an ax near Danville Kentucky then attempted suicide but survived. A stage robbery occurred between San Francisco and Sierra City. an express box was seized. Dineer shaved time on a Nashville track. A widow Mary Murphy was murdered in Greencastle Indiana. Sam Holloway, a 75 year old Cincinnati man, was jailed for wife beating then released after his mother’s plea. G P Rose, South Bend merchant, died of brain softening after long illness. Porter Boiler Manufacturing Co of South Chicago failed. Levy Brothers lithographists in Indianapolis caused a loss. Pekay Illinois mine explosion injured three.
A composite round of incidents from across the country reports gas asphyxiation in San Francisco, fatal mine blast near Fort Collins, a train wreck near Pleasant Hill and a fatal hotel death in Dubuque, plus political shifts in Wyoming and large-scale disaster losses in Norfolk and Nashville.
Indications show Ohio in the republican column, California for democrats, and North Dakota for Weaver. House and senate shifts favor Republicans in several states as nationwide returns narrow the path to the next Congress.
The piece cites W S Gurnertz visiting Wagner nights with limited understanding of music and mentions Tennyson advising Bible and Shakespeare verses for speech. It notes Cmm Frower’s elevation to the peerage, loyalty to liberal causes, and a Birnwnouam steel worker who died by self-inflicted injury at a trip hammer.
A Sunday riot in Homestead Pa erupted as about 2,000 locals attacked seven colored non-union men on their way to a boarding house. Shots were fired, several injured, including Peter McFadden and James Jones. Police eventually contained the scene with one man wounded by a fry pan blow and others treated for head injuries.
Utah Supreme Court orders $2,000,000 escheat to the Mormon church for church funding and parochial schools on polygamy beliefs deemed abstract. US Supreme Court appeal noted. Also reports Captain Dinsmore death, 14th executive house death under Harrison era.
Twenty years after gas lighting controversy at Vienna's St Stephen's Cathedral the archbishop adopts electricity. A Toulon tested submarine lamp lit a 100 foot radius at 30 feet depth. Aluminium touted as rheumatism cure. a finger ring pair allegedly generates mild electricity. 1891 telegraph totals reach 296 million. telephone aids Buffalo strike response as troops mobilize.
David C Cook of Chicago, born 1850 in East Worcester New York, became a leading Sunday school publisher. He started in Chicago at seventeen, launched Everybody's Mission, built missions in rough areas after the 1871 fire, and later organized multiple missions and schools. His growth spanned sixteen years turning his name into a household word and expanding into many enterprises. Also noted are theater and stage items and a testimonial about Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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