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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1892
Page
3
A sweeping wrap of late world and national news includes captures in Afghanistan, naval movements, palace politics, arrests, legislative debates, and public order incidents. It notes Russian captives, William’s yacht in races, Tangier rebels executed, and measures around the World’s Fair funding. Reports cover health, Congress adjournment, and various criminal and political developments across nations and states.
The packed House filled with spectators and dignitaries saw a heated debate on the no confidence motion. Gladstone and Chamberlain drew cheers as Conservative and Liberal voices clashed over home rule, with Sir William Vernon Harcourt named Chancellor of the Exchequer and ongoing petitions about Timothy Healy’s election amid bribery claims.
A Trebizond dispatch reports Aug 5 disturbances at Platana seven miles west of Trebizond as locals resist sanitary measures aimed at halting cholera. About fifteen hundred people were detained at the lazaretto at Platana amid concerns of outbreak. Meanwhile in Missouri, the South Eastern Railway and Steamship Association plans a meeting in Atlanta Wednesday to decide on dissolution.
A Vienna hatched plot to kill H W Frick links to Berk man and Emms Goldman. Austen Aaromstamm, resembling Berkmann, armed with revolver and dynamite, waited for favorable moment. Information from Vienna authorities via Vice Consul Eberhardt prompts New York police to alert Pittsburg. Guards increased at Carnegie buildings and Frick residence. Lovejoy warned he has until Aug 15. Anarchist threats target Carnegie officials. authorities say plans can be thwarted. Also: Pythian encampment in Kansas City, Aug 22, aims to house visitors with a baggage committee coordinating lodging and bedding for crowd.
New York August 13 The rumor of cholera in Soares and nearby villages proved unfounded. The illness is confirmed as dysentery in an aggravated form with about two dozen deaths over the past two weeks and under a half dozen sick, all convalescing.
Five men were killed and two injured when the west wall of a new tank at a gas factory collapsed in Hartford City Indiana. Foreman William Sawyer Charles Eppley and others were at work laying brick when the wall fell, leaving victims buried in rubble and the scene described as a mass of mangled bodies. Foreman Eppley expressed guilt over the accident amid the wreckage. In Michigan, Owosso, Prohibitionists reconvened to appoint officers and adopt the national platform, with John Russell nominated for governor and E L Brewer for secretary.
A report from Idaho describes the fatal incident involving William Fee who had traveled from Cairo, Til, in 1085. Two bears attacked, and an attempt to drive them away ended in tragedy, with his wife also injured.
Mesere R H Norton and Champ Clark contested the Democratic nomination in Missouri's Ninth District. The state Committee remanded the dispute and ordered precinct preliminaries statewide for August 20 to elect delegates to a nominating convention at St Charles on August 30. Returns from the primaries go directly to the state.
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