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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1892
Page
2
A collage of brief items includes cholera epidemics in Lanark, salaries of ministers in the United States, odd inventions in Switzerland and paper churches in Brussels. It surveys fashion, crime rates among Russian women, soap money in Mexico, women doctors earnings, Nile soil, a Kansas City garment service, and 1890 U S census figures showing female to male ratios and foreign-born counts.
United States week summarized with $1 126 against prior 66 150 041. Failures total 146 versus 176 prior and 187 last year. Postmaster general orders letter box deployment for doorstep mail. Porter resigns as minister to Italy. New Hampshire Republicans nominating convention near Concord. Blaine urges tariff reciprocity currency as campaign issues. Cholera cases rise aboard ships, fatalities noted. Deaths include Francis Kernan and Joan Wuiriikr. A Philadelphia factory burns. Convicts, murders, and accidents punctuate the week.
George Dixon boxed eight rounds to KO Jack Skelly in New Orleans and claimed the featherweight championship along with $17,500 in stake and purse money. News items report political nominations in North Dakota and Montana, a Spokane execution, a mine explosion in Missouri, a Missouri suicide, a Port Deposit fire, a San Francisco tobacco firm insolvency, a Georgia double murder, a St Louis shooting, a Kentucky circus attack, and a large lumber yard fire in Ohio with heavy losses.
Naxcy flasks set a world trotting mark of 2 07 for a mile in St Paul while James J Corbett defeated John L Sullivan in New Orleans to claim the world championship in the twenty first round. A deadly fire in Lexington burns Mrs. William Iarclay and child, and a Missouri Pacific train robbery near Sheffield yields 5000 dollars.
The seven days ending the 6th saw 15,000 cholera deaths in Russia and western Europe, with total epidemic fatalities estimated at 250,000 since it began. The report also notes other major calamities and events across the country.
Fire Island was purchased by New York for quarantine use provoking fierce local opposition in Islip and Babylon. A town board of health, backed by deputy constables, dispatched to the island to block passenger landings from the Normannia amid threats and demonstrations. Gov Flower's purchase price is $210,000 with a $50,000 down payment. Meanwhile the Normannia refugees on the Cepheus faced threats and delay as armed deputies patrolled Fire Island's shore. Several children fell ill on the island and were moved to Swinburne Island. one death reported.
In society circles a drawn out value estimate places jewels at 1.5 million pounds while Thames housekeeping reaches new luxuriance. A German firm introduces waterproor cellulose paper for cloths and book backs. Social indicators appear in Greenland ribbon color denoting a wearer’s status. A Hudson country wedding featured a Virginia reel on the lawn with bride groom bridesmaids and ushers. The Meth E church census shows communicants rising from 1,707,000 in 1880 to 2,229,281 in 1800, signaling rapid church growth. Davorr supports women writers and notes that women often express what men cannot in words.
Dense fog and alleged carelessness of the freight engineer cause a collision on the Fitchburg line near West Cambridge after a switch to a branch. Nine people die and thirty eight injured as a steam and lumber laden freight crashes into a rear passenger car. Officials blame signals and rule violations, with an official inquiry expected to assign responsibility.
The Kite arrived from North Greenland on August 24 bringing the Peary relief expedition in good health including Lieut and Mrs Peary. One casualty is reported Mr Voorhoof, believed lost to a crevasse incident. Peary planned inland ice travel of 1500 miles with Astruph. Flora fauna ethnology collections made at McCormick Bay.
Cucaco September 12 Jule Johnson a typhoid fever patient at the Presbyte rian hospital committed suicide by leaping from a third story window at 8 a m He survived only a few moments due to the injuries.
A Brooklyn actress named Brown spelled Lroughne Gren, Nathan Krupaun called the hero of Winchester is postmaster at Ogden Utah, President Gomrers of the American Federation of Labor receives over 100 letters daily and owns a large waste basket. Mrs Cona E Thomas of Hanover PA visiting Liberty IN is 30, 35 inches tall, 36 inches waist and weighs 50 pounds, still a child in all actions. A Sussex correspondent cites brides swearing to love and cherish over obey. A new Methodist Episcopal church rises at Glasgow MT, 207 miles away.
A Friday night tornado leveled the Indiana pulp works in Marion Grant county, killing Howard Green and Samuel Pond and injuring Lawrence Thorn and Fred Tulley. The main building and a 200 foot wing were destroyed, with $15,000 in damage. Two other workers escaped unharmed.
The body of John Greenleaf Whittier lay in state from 10 am to 2 pm in Amesbury Massachusetts with thousands viewing. A Quaker funeral followed at 2:30 in the garden behind his home and interment was at Friends cemetery. Notables including Oliver Wendell Holmes and Frederick Douglass sent sympathy as city officials and many organizations attended. Public buildings were draped in mourning and flags were half mast.
Special trains depart Dearborn Station September 17 and 18 for Washington D C via the Monon Route and Chesapeake and Ohio. Tickets honored on return from Richmond through Lynchburg and Appomattox. limited Washington to Richmond via Potomac and Old Point Comfort. Visit battlefields at Virginia sites with no extra cost. circulars and maps available from I d Keun C PAL 2338 Clark St Chicago Ills. A political note closes with a quoted quip about Chicago.
Senator Kenna of West Virginia passionate amateur photographer with a planned studio in his Washington residence. Mrs. Gen Custer funded a girl’s education from readings last winter after her husband died. Mrs Hannan Tanmax of Brockton was born the day Washington retired, having lived under every presidency. Maj J W Powell of US Geological Survey recalled studying books as a boy driving ox teams to market. A clergyman noted the Prayer book has one office for those at sea.
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