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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1892
Page
7
The Auditor of Public Accounts released a statement on Illinois banks. There are 110 banks with total resources and liabilities of 112,205,590.56 dollars and various figures for loans, cash, deposits, and capital stock.
A massive blast at the Douglas & Johnson powder house near Niagara Falls killed John Hoban, master mechanic, and badly burned William Weir and Sherman Dismuth. The blast shattered windows, toppled buildings, and sent debris up to a mile away while rescue crews searched rubble with fears of more casualties.
In Derrott Michigan on November 14 Judge Swan hear seven suits with Michigan Land & Lumber Co as complainant. The cases arise under the swamp land grant act of 1850 claiming 1.7 million acres. Secretary Vilas denied patent in 1888 and the state argues title passed to it. The proceeding targets lands including a city site and mills valued at about 250000 dollars.
Wallington Nov 14 Preparations are under way for the inauguration of Mr Cleveland on March 4. Democratic groups in large cities plan a notable event with Tammany Hall Harrity club Iroquois club and others sending reps to secure Washington accommodations. Estimates place marchers in the procession at about 50 000 to celebrate the party s return to power.
A humorous collage of quips and misheard lines spans football fans, a surgeon at a game, a spinster's wedding rumor, a waiter’s custard joke, fashion pocketbooks, and a traveler’s political speech in a ton of coal gas joke. The items read as brief gags from daily humor pages.
A fast freight on the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul line plowed into a standing local at Highland Center Iowa killing four aboard the caboose and injuring several others. The blaze consumed the caboose and several cars while witnesses described a heartrending scene and an unidentified passenger in disguise among the victims.
Franklin Pennsylvania November 11 A blaze destroyed the Sugar Creek county almshouse four miles north of the city. About 100 inmates were rescued amid freezing conditions as Oil City and Franklin firefighters struggled. The building valued at 200000 dollars and insured for 56000 dollars was deemed incendiary.
The piece extols Hostetter s Stomach Bitters as a remedy to rouse sluggish kidneys and prevent disease. It claims benefits for malaria rheumatic ailments vigor irregular bowels and liver and stomach issues. Also touts Hare s Honey of Horehound and Pike s Toothache Drops as cures.
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