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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1891
Page
7
A court decision upholds the principal question in a dispute involving agricultural board funds and penalties. The ruling favors one party in the financial contention over the stipulated proportion of money.
Fragmented dispatches cover political shifts in Europe and the Americas, naval visits to Havana and Nyack, fire losses in Canada and Michigan, railway collisions in France, and a quake felt in Evansville. The reports mention Blaine’s health, Behring Sea sealing warnings, and global religious and cultural events with varied impact on public life.
Notices report the sudden death of Aneel L. Crocker in Chicago and Samuel D. Sands in Baltimore, both described as prominent figures. Other items note drownings near Pittsburgh, a Philadelphia mill strike, a tree lightning tragedy in Warren, a madhouse confinement in Trenton, insurgent gains in Chile, and forest fires near Sonora. Additional briefs cover labor law debates, Mont Blanc observatory donors, New York retrenchment, Canadian Marine disputes, Panama isthmus dispatches, wreck of the Utopia, and recovered bodies from a Gibraltar wreck.
Grain and provisions prices rise and fall across markets in Kansas City and Chicago with notes on flour, wheat, corn, oats, rye, butter, eggs, pork, lard, and cattle. Key figures include No. 2 cash wheat at 87? and corn around 59 to 60 cents, cattle and hogs mixed, and eggs and dairy steady to weak.
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