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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1892
Page
6
The text argues that American cities lack distinctiveness without grand design, cites ancient roads and Carthaginian paving, and warns against clinging to tradition in advancing ideas. It discusses recreation versus work, progress through independent thinking, and the need for state control and expert oversight in forestry and land management.
Washington notes report Democrats increase House majority by one after unseating Andrew Stewart and seating Alexander K. Craig. Craig took oath. vote on minority resolution failed. conference on urgent deficiency bill approved. Treasury bought 100000 ounces of silver. Utah statehood and territorial bills heard. impeachment steps speculated for Judge Boarman.
Waintretoy Feb 29 Senate sat with absent President and President pro tem. Harris presided. A special message on Wichita and affiliated tribes in Oklahoma Territory was referred to Indian Affairs. Conference on Census Deficiency bill ordered. Hale Allison Cockrell named Senate conferees. Dolph reported against Sherman Chinese exclusion bill. Idaho election contest by Claggett postponed after two hours of questioning. time extended then adjourned.
Silver will hold its hearing in the House around March 2. The Bland Free Coinage bill is expected to pass by a large majority. In preliminary moves for postponement or an international bimetallic Congress, silver supporters will face tighter votes but still command a solid working majority. Britain has not yet officially agreed to any conference. Lincoln reports favorable shifts after talks with Salisbury. Foster hopes for progress after discussions with Goschen, but England may demand too much.
Washington February 21 Senators Washburn and Hatch have agreed on a new measure after a chairmanship discussion. The agreement follows a debate on invalidating the Washburn bill and outlines steps for committee review and potential passage.
Mrs. James Phelps a Christian Scientist died of starvation after refusing medical help. She lived at 184 Fourth Street and her body was sent to Keokuk Iowa for interment. Doctors say proper medical care would have saved her, but Christian Science treatment led to the death.
The annual Baron Hirsch trust meeting reports excellent affairs. At the Hebrew colony near Cape May eight hundred acres are partly planted with significant work on the remaining five thousand acres. Seventy five houses are built and a factory and hotel are under construction. The trust education program teaches six hundred Hebrew children in New York City plus students in the Normal Training School under the Hebrew Technical Institute of New York.
A Morning report details three starving children found by a policeman in a squalid condition. They were nearly frozen with burned feet while the father is stated as intoxicated and the mother missing since before. The trio includes a baby, and the case points to a troubling family situation in late February.
George D. Kelly a partner in Pierce Kelly & Co and a leading Shenandoah valley pig iron manufacturer, shot himself in the head at an empty car on a siding near Sharpsville after leaving the works in good spirits. He died instantly from the pistol bullet.
In St Louis Missouri on February 29 the Jacksonville Southeastern passenger train rear collided with the Mobile & Ohio eastbound train at the Mississippi river bridge. Both engines derailed and bridge traffic halted for hours. Mail Clerk Waite of the Mobile & Ohio train was slightly hurt. no others injured. Dense fog caused the wreck. In Arkansas on February 20, ex-Treasurer Woodruff faced a $150,000 suit from Attorney General Atkinson over the state treasury defalcation.
Rioting continues in Berlin with clashes between police and crowds in Kaiser Wilhelm Strasse. Police withdraw after injuries, leaders captured, government urged to take sterner measures. Also reports from London and Calcutta discuss currency stability and calls for international coinage or a gold standard. Copenhagen expected meeting of emperors to ease Franco Russian tensions amid the Danish golden wedding. A Kiel rail accident kills three soldiers and injuries many. Coal price basis proposed by President McLeod of the Philadelphia and Reading to split proceeds between operators and railroads.
Paris February 2 reports M. Loubet to form the Cabinet with M. Ribot, M. Freycinet, and M. Cavaignac among ministers. Bourgeois failed to form earlier. Constans position unsettled. Second item notes a deadly collision near Flamborough Street where two steamers Forest Queen and another sank, with all hands lost except the captain.
A man was ruled a fellow creature and sent from Peru Indiana on February 20 for murder. Breuning had been the principal witness against him in the case.
Representative Hawkins reports Coal Creek mining district miners are armed and nightly gunfire is common. He warns that if a miner is killed by soldiers a several thousand strong rally could massacre troops, calling the situation deplorable and unlikely to end without a compromise.
Torexa Kan Feb 20 Judge Botkin arrived from Arkalon and announced he would not sit as judge in the six men held for the murder of Sigsetd bee e nen mash. Relatives claim the decision bars future Springfield court appearances by the judge, tied to a saloon row dispute.
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