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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1892
Page
2
The New Jersey court of chancery ruled oysters are personal property, not real estate. The Gazette notes varied world and science tidbits, including inventions, inventions in electricity, and a curiosity-filled mix of anecdotes from politics to racing.
Grain supplies listed for Wheat, Corn, Oats, Rye, Barley. Immigration suspended unless as cabin passengers. William Potter appointed minister to Italy. US Supreme Court removes appeal as remedy for DC convicts. October beef and hog exports total $0,714,016. dairy $829,016. November reports: corn 600,000,000 bushels. wheat 500,000,000. Knights of Labor reports 60,614 in receipts and 59,749 in expenditures. 865.87 balance. Peary plans another North Pole attempt. National Academy behind a present project. Prohibition vote totals: 827,850 for, 249,045 against.
A sweeping broadcast lists multiple grim events: disperadoes attack two Swedes near Hartford. a New Jersey burglary robs over $35,000. Emerson’s widow Lilian dies at 90 in Concord. hangings in Slaven jail yard for murder. a labor suit dismissed in Albany. a Reading road engine explosion kills five in Pa. and notable decedents include Adams Express head John Hoey and 108-year-old Humphrey Smith in Buffalo. Also reported are historic dinners, a 106-year-old Bay Ridge death, memorial restorations in Haverhill, and regional court and political notes.
The record notes Henry L. Owens profiting through false pretenses yet deemed innocent after eighteen months in a Wisconsin prison. A lynching occurred in Oxford North Carolina, while Gladstone Minnesota suffered a $500000 plow works loss by fire. A Nebraska firm Robinson & Stokes announced insolvency with assets $200000 liabilities $100000. Georgia Supreme Court rules telegraph messages may not be delivered on Sundays. Indiana governor vote totals list Matthews leading with a 6979 plurality. Milwaukee stores Koeh Loeber face $100000 fire loss. Outlaws Gronek Hanks and Mike Brown killed by regulators in Fremont County Wyoming with four more deaths nearby. A Dallas plantation reports a cotton harvester trial cleaner than hand picking. William Kidwell, Civil and Mexican War veteran, dies at Noblesville Indiana at age 86.
A sprawling bulletin describes Alabama's legislature meeting in Montgomery and notes deaths including Yale's Edward McCready Sr and a South Carolina bar member in Charleston. It reports a Grand Army encampment planned for Indianapolis, labor strikes over Sherman memorial, a cyclone wrecking Red Bud, Illinois, vandals defacing veterans’ tombs in Martinsville, Indiana, and multiple train and wreck incidents across the country.
A broad cyclone season reports eight four buildings destroyed and several deaths across multiple Illinois towns including Red Bad near New Palestine and Denham Arkansas. Notable casualties include Willie Kopp ten and Mrs Kopp among others while Red Bad’s 1500 residents face extensive damage and power loss. Separate reports note fatalities in New Palestine and Fayetteville along with property losses across Adams, St Clair, Washington and Clinton counties.
President Harrison outlines in cabinet set piece the coming message stressing reduced powers for a smoother transition to the party in power. He hints at repealing the Sherman silver law, advancing a non-partisan elections commission, and a national quarantine to curb cholera while restricting immigration more than now. He aims to balance public works funding with revenue, and address sugar tax effects.
New York Nov 19 The conference of United States archbishops ended after three days with a compromise on parochial schools. The resolution directs that children not in Catholic schools receive instruction through Sunday schools and other days of the week, under clergy supervision with lay teachers and, where possible, religious teaching orders.
Mechanics and day laborers at Homestead voted to apply for their old positions after a Friday meeting. The Carnegie steel plant offices saw a scramble for reemployment as 600 Frick supervision attended. Many were hired but vacancies remained, while Amalgamated members planned to continue independent action. Also reported, Mommer & Co fitted to August Wedgin with liabilities over 100000 dollars and Europe creditors predominant.
The text lists historical notes: first cast iron plow in 1797, circular saw by Bentham in 1790, backgammon by Palamedes around 1224, alphabet brought to Greece from Phoenicia 1493 years before Christ, preserves by doctors around 1550, crossbow ban in Europe in 1186, peach from Persia and apricot from Syria, mentions 200 B C refers to peach, hoopskirts in Spain circa 1630 with edict to reduce size, riots ensue and edict abandoned.
Senate inquiry into Homestead methods heard Captain Foley of Pinkerton say 400 rifles and 2000 revolvers were on hand with orders to use arms only for self defense. He admitted disobeying orders to arm with Winchesters to save lives at Pittsburgh and on barges. Pinkerton men testified later about firing first and about sworn deputies, while critics labeled the agency as untrustworthy and accused of inciting strikes. The session also noted union concerns and Remingtons $10000 souvenir coin bid for the world’s fair.
The passage surveys Barbara Frietenin and Mrs. E D E N Southworth spelling the Atlantic Monthly debut. M Renan and Tennyson avoided private life in print. only Shakespeare Burns Milton Wordsworth homes preserved. Somersby Rectory suggested as an additional Tennyson birthplace. Tennyson seen as many poetical labels from luxury to classicism.
The Brooklyn Life quote contrasts old notions of temporary relief with Syrup of Figs claiming a permanent fix for habitual constipation. Aimed at well informed readers, the passage touts lasting benefits over laxatives that act briefly and harm the system, highlighting a domestic exchange about income.
A Danville Breeze ad offers rock island playing cards at ten cents in stamps to Sebastian, Genl Ticket and Pass, Aut. C., KR L P Ry, Chicago. Cards praised as the best and worth five times their cost. Send money order or postal note for five packs prepaid by express. Also promotes coal sale related “coup contracts.”
A large handsome Map of the United States, mounted for office or home use, issued by the Burlington Route. Copies mailed to any address on receipt of twelve cents postage by P. B. Eustis, Gen's Pass. Agent, C., B. & Q. R., Chicago, IL. A quirky closing line about cucumbers follows.
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