03 Dec 1889
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Newspaper
Monmouth Review
Location
Monmouth, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1889
Page
1
The report outlines the annual activities of the Interior and Navy departments, detailing policy implementations, project progress, budget allocations, and personnel changes. Highlights include conservation initiatives, shipbuilding programs, and administrative reorganizations affecting staffing and operations.
Washington dispatch reviews Secretary Noble's annual interior report. It details 70,141 agricultural patents for the year ending June 20, 1889, with a June surge under new methods, notes swamp land grants, and outlines pension projections and Indian policy. The Navy report by Secretary Tracy contrasts U S strength with major powers, urges a larger future fleet, and recommends reserves and yard improvements. Windom plans cut bank depositories to free funds for bonds.
A wide composite report notes unresolved Boston fire victims. a Maine woman drowns skating. Hayti grants amnesty to political offenders. Patti Nordica and Albani travel aboard Teutonic to America. Other items include a Glasgow singer, a Cleveland shipyard death, Spanish royal threats, a Missouri plant fire, a Michigan disappearance, bank robbery, Berlin murders, a boy killed by his brother, a miner strike, Callaghan suit dismissed, Indiana pension address, a WV court ruling, Independence university funding, a Chicago fire scare, a Burlington dog quarrel turning deadly, a Long Branch bulkhead proposal, a Utah editor's murder, and a California train wreck with deaths and injuries.
Torrxa Kansas December 3 A mortgage for 150000000 payable in 100 years at 5 percent interest was filed here Saturday. The Union Trust Company of New York holds the mortgage on the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company and auxiliary lines. Lisbon December 3 Dom Pedro and party left St Vincent for Lisbon where Republicans plan a monster demonstration. Military instructed to suppress the movement. Two Miners Killed at Salisbury Mine Isure M Inc Michigan December 3 Louis Lafontaine and Sivent Johnson carpenters were crushed by heavy timber as they lifted it. A Fatal Leap Suspension Driver New York December 1 George Seltz delirium tremens jumped 150 feet into the river and died.
A severe blaze at a Minneapolis location caused extensive damage and left numerous victims. Authorities report multiple injuries and missing persons as crews battle flames and evacuate surrounding buildings. Detailed casualty figures and the fire's cause are not yet released.
Ten people died and property losses reached about 300000 as a Minneapolis Tribune building fire trapped workers on the seventh floor and the flames raced through the eight story structure. Several bodies were identified including Milton Pickett James Igoe Walter Miles Edward Olsen and others. The tragedy prompted criticism of fire escapes and calls for investigations while Vermilion South Dakota mourned Dr Olsen a university president.
Washington dispatch reports President and Mrs Harrison will leave Friday or Saturday for Chicago to attend the opening Monday night. Vice President Morton and Mrs Morton, Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson and Mrs Clarkson, Attorney General Miller and Mrs Miller, and one or two Cabinet members with their wives will accompany the President on the Western trip.
The Navassa case jury finds George Key guilty of first degree murder while Moses Williams alias Dakota is acquitted and sixteen others remain undecided. Key has appealed. Henry Jones and Cesar Fisher face trial for Fales murder on December 10.
City Marshal Honeycutt reports the capture of three more Santa Fe train robbers in Oklahoma City, I T. This brings the total in custody to twelve. He believes the correct men are captured with enough evidence to convict the entire gang.
The new congress holds its opening session amid limited agenda progress as lawmakers return to Washington. Leaders pledge swift action on key bills while committees prepare to begin formal consideration.
Washington dispatch reports the Democratic caucus crowded the House galleries guiding the nomination of old officers, Reed elected Speaker by 166 to 154 with Carlisle and Cummings also listed. Reed vows impartial duty. Senate lights calm as new states present credentials and adjourns.
Stanley writing from Mikessi reports his party well and enjoying comforts sent by Major Wissmann but laments two years and eleven months without news as mail was lost. He will reach Zanzibar by Thursday December 5 and notes receipt of Acting Consul General Smith's letter. Fatal collision decades later in Boston area leaves multiple deaths. New Orleans breweries sale finalized to British syndicate for about 3.5 million. Illinois Patrons of Husbandry to hold eighteenth annual session in Springfield December 10 at St Nicholas Hotel and Senate chamber.
Chicago December 3 Judge Wing opened by stressing the dangers of circumstantial evidence in the Cronin murder case. Witnesses Lowenstein brothers testified the two pen knives found with Dan Coughlin matched knives they had seen with him before May 4. Wing questioned Nieman and Hylands testimonies and attacked perjury claims while defending Coughlin’s alibi and challenging identifications by Mertes and Dinan’s horse as unreliable.
The Gustave Gross bakery at Seec ond and Huntingdon streets burned around 3 a.m. Mrs Gross and all four children perished, their bodies recovered amid the ruins while Mr Gross escaped half dressed. The report also notes diplomatic snubs in Haiti and a shipwreck with nineteen drowned, plus Charles H. Turner elected to Congress in New York.
Grain and provisions markets in Chicago show mixed yet steady demand with winter and spring patent flour, wheat and corn prices fluctuating within narrow ranges. Cattle and hog futures open strong, then ease. beef, pork, and lard listed with cash and forward quotes, while dairy and poultry items appear in brief price notes.
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