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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1894
Page
8
Olive Harper surveys new gown designs in black silk and velvet trims. She notes a princess cut with six long panels and velvety piping, drooping sleeves, and wide capes to slim the waist. Tea hats, ribbons, and novel fabric blends complete the season’s stylish options.
American delegates at the sanitation conference in Paris struggle to secure facilities to exclude undesirable immigrants framed as scientific. Other delegates suspect political aims and resent the proposals, limiting American progress at the talks.
A tagged stray rye loaf from German origins has wandered from Rondont through the Catskills visiting Pine Hill Stamford Roxbury and Kingston. Local residents and editors have added verses and labels while the loaf travels toward the Hudson River railroad with broad public curiosity. A museum offered 60 for the loaf but it continues its journey.
A 1600 pound bull escaped Frank Everts’s Rosehill herd and rampaged through Rogers Park and South Evanston during election day. Police fired more than 50 shots after a three hour chase in which Officer Michael Smith and Officers Houser Johnson and Rogers Park units confronted the beast. The animal was finally killed by gunfire near Davin Street and Sheridan Drive, ending the peril to crowds at the polling place.
A petrified female figure discovered in a Strasburg cave is thought to be Duchess Adelheid, aunt of Frederick Barbarossa. The marble like head and bust remained lifelike after exposure, with braided hair and folded hands above a coffin filled with quicklime. The artifact is attributed to artist Hasley Bauer.
John Carroll Jr of 125 Kilgour Street has built a 40 pound sheet iron flying machine capable of lifting 250 pounds. He tested it at night and flew about 40 feet high for a distance, hoping to travel at 640 miles per hour with future improvements. The device is described as borlike and propelled by rotary shuttles.
A confectioner suggests making an edible newspaper printed with chocolate ink as a way to boost journalism sales. The concept imagines readers consuming news after reading, with taste and reaction shaping future content. Also noted are comments on French royalist hopes and a suffragist emblem tied to an American flag.
Special correspondence from Hermosillo reports Yaqui Indians in northern Mexico blamed for raids along the Yaqui river valleys harming settlers and burning ranches. Mexican and American authorities deploy troops but face a feared, well organized force capable of retreat and regroupment. The piece links Yaquis with Apache history and notes massive costs to Mexico in attempts to subdue them.
Nicholas de Giers and Joseph Gourko lie near death in St Petersburg and Warsaw. Peter Wannowsky has returned to Russia a broken man after attempting to restore health on the Mediterranean coast. The three men shaped wartime and peace policies, guiding Russia through the Bismarck era and the Berlin congress, while their peers decline.
A Piedmont woman prays for comfort after her daughter’s death. While cleaning, coffee grounds on an unused saucer formed a perfect bust likeness of Jesus Christ, witnessed by photographer Mr. Allen and verified as unaltered. The scene, photographed and kept at the office for public viewing, is hailed as a remarkable coincidence and possible answer to prayer.
Harry Hardinot of Yorkville Mendocino county became lost while hunting on Wednesday. For three days and two nights he wandered in snow without food or shelter, growing deranged from cold and exhaustion. A search of 81 mountaineers failed to locate him until Friday when he reached the Rockpile ranch. He was taken home near Yorkville and is under medical care with fears for his recovery.
Correspondence Indépendent reports the funeral and cremation of Japan's top Buddhist priest. Tens of thousands attend. Devotees collect and preserve each washing water in bamboo vials, believing the drops grant saving elixir for believers’ burials and safe entry to paradise.
London observers note serious eye trouble for Mr Gladstone and suggest he may not speak in parliament again. He requires assistance to move and appears increasingly unable to recognize acquaintances, with his return to public life after an eye operation in June uncertain.
A column reports a circulating scandal alleging a Personal Purity society spied on twelve prominent lawmakers from both parties, triggering trepidation though public appetite for more revelations is low. It notes similar reactions to nude art licensing debates and related political satire in Glasgow and London papers.
In Brussels a high official and his wife, daughter of a late general, are amid a murder inquiry for poisoning relatives to collect life insurance. A brother of the accused woman died in Antwerp and a 20,000 dollar policy prompted an insurance probe. Four similar deaths in the same house were uncovered as bodies were exhumed and poison found. analyses await confirmation. The couple moves in elite circles and has kept calm as the case unfolds.
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