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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1892
Page
2
Gleders Euree publish a fragmentary editorial on character, education, and social reform. It argues self mastery, charity, and the need for compulsory education to curb poverty and vice while lamenting the moral influence of biographical and literary culture and the role of newspapers in sharing personal news.
Eighteen people died in a railway carriage fire near Braila in Wallachia. Other notes report Irish faction talks failing, Joseph Chamberlain elected Liberal Unionist leader in Commons, Sexton may replace McCarthy as Irish leader, Emin Pasha reports slave cruelties, Mrs Osborne remanded for jewel theft, London requests to US for free sugar denied, funeral attendance invited for Charles H Spurgeon, Eider steamer cargo landed, Sir Morel MacKenzie died in London, Gladstone outlines rural policy in manifesto.
The Hotel Royal in New York reports eleven bodies recovered with sixty more unaccounted for. Across the nation, headlines note mining unrest in Lehigh and Missouri politics as investigations, vendettas, and court rulings shape a turbulent year.
The House Agriculture Committee weighs Hatch’s anti option bill as cotton futures and short selling on boards of trade draw lively debate. Amid remonstrances from Chicago members the World’s Fair accounts face scrutiny by the Appropriations Committee while a Capsus Bureau attack begins. Senator Power of Montana suffers a stomach hemorrhage as other sessions address coinage and rule code finalization.
Wheat No 2 red in St Louis 453 and corn No 2 42 4s% Oats No 2 2493 Rye No 3 si mo h Butter Creamery 27 24 Eggs 23 Goats Chickens live per lb onions per bushel Potatoes per bushel Cattle Choica Steers 6 55 5 40 Hogs 3 90 3 05 Sheep natives 3 76 New York Wheat No 2 red 1.00 1.00 Corn No 2 71 75 Oats Mixed Western Cattle 5 40 5 05 Hogs 1 61 4 1 Chicago Wheat No 2 red 85 s y Corm No a GuN Oats 4 0 196 Cattle 20 5 40 Hogs 10a)
Frederick Fitesimmons awaits death in Pittsburg for murder of Detective Gilkinson and is reported to have cut his throat in a New Orleans jail after recapture. Captain Huggins reports ghost dancing in the Indian Territory bringing no trouble, but notes poor cattle for tribes. Sheriff McDowell at Vincennes thrashed a citizen for slandering his wife. Door Inland Prison mutiny quelled by police near Bonon. Five murders in Johnstown, Pa attributed to a single offender. Havenman pouches stolen en route from New York to Hoboken. Ill health drives banker Eden Bradley of Kansas City to self injure with morphine.
Representative Simpson of Kansas denounced a new reciprocity in the House as Democrats and Republicans divide extra employes. He touted a Kansas man who saved Pope’s army and Washington, arguing favoritism by party blocks and urging justice for nonpartisan merit. Applause followed as muttered calls urged action on the resolution.
A proposed bill dedicates funds to the safety and commerce along the Mississippi River, and to flood prevention. It contemplates a total appropriation of 16 million dollars with no more than 3.533 million allocated in any single year. The measure is referred to the Committee on Commerce.
February reports show free coinage supporters circulating a petition for the Rules Committee to set time for considering Coinage, Weights and Measures bills for free silver. Signatures expected around 100 to 150 with many Democratic Representatives on board, though several anti silver Democrats abstain.
The Democrats of the West plan a serious bid to repeal the McKinley sugar bounty provisions. Representative Scott of Illinois introduces a resolution for repeal and says a Democratic majority supports it, though cane and beet sugar districts may oppose. Other brief items note a state organizing effort in Wasmanon and a Census Bureau overhaul announced by President Harrison, plus a narrow escape involving General Palmer in Washington.
The president sent to the Senate nominations for Joseph McKenna of California as United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit and Rowland B. Mahany of New York as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Ecuador. In Wasainoros the Behring Sea joint commission opened at the State Department with confidential proceedings until a report is ready.
Mrs. Charlotte Nicoll Minton of Flushing seeks a divorce from J. McKim Minton editor at Illustrated American. The suit, filed in Parkston South Dakota, targets a prominent New York family with DeLaney Nicoll as New York City district attorney. Trial set before Judge Smith.
Veteran General Slocum argues pensions have grown from 85,986 in 1865 to 676,160 in 1891 and total payouts rising to 118,548,959, urging Congress to halt further expansion. He compares US pension practices to Britain France Germany Austria and Russia, warns against pension-claim agents exploiting veterans, and calls for fiscal restraint to protect the honored status of veterans. He cites historical pension trends and quotes observers on wool tariffs and protection.
A speech recalling Major McKinley and tariff policy argues that a revenue tariff would not create a political utopia but reduce tax burdens, lift industrial costs, and boost wages and employment. It criticizes ties between moneyed interests and government, urging open opportunity and fair distribution for enterprise and prosperity.
In a Roger Q. Mills speech quoted from the House, a Ohio congressman questions whether the foreign market or the home market is better, urging both. He cites 1820 to 1880 export shares, accuses thirty years of plunder and wealth concentration, and contrasts U S per capita exports with those of Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, Argentina, Switzerland, Uruguay, Belgium, Britain, and the Netherlands.
A historical analysis contrasts per capita wealth between agricultural and manufacturing states from 1860 to 1880. It notes rising wealth in manufacturing areas under tariff policies, while farm wealth lagged or declined. The data, drawn from A. M. Dockery's House speech, cites shifts in taxation and tariff impacts on farmer wealth and agricultural property values.
Fragmentary notes show Gullable Merchandise and Quay present at Wanamaker in Philadelphia. The Sunday school superintendent’s stance is dismissed by Republican strikers as irrelevant to Pennsylvania’s vote. Harrison and Blaine are referenced in uncertain terms amid party tensions.
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