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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1896
Page
3
Full paid stock yields 7 percent yearly. Apply to Barber Johnson, sole agent Frederick, Md.
A second floor fire at a ten story building on East Thirty-third Street caused $5000 damage and forced the evacuation of the adjacent New York Polyclinic from its patients, including many awaiting surgery. Firefighters faced collapsing walls as the blaze spread to No 209 and No 207, with residents scrambling to safety and police forcibly clearing the stairs and street.
A reader from Cleveland credits Dr Ball's Cough Syrup with curing a cold that developed into pneumonia like cough and chest pain after one and two bottle use. The ad claims the syrup costs 25 cents and urges customers to take only Ball's.
The article outlines a Russo-Chinese treaty creating a railway trust to extend from Het-Lung-Uhiaus to the eastern frontier of Kirtu in Manchuria. It details capital, guarantees by the Resisn government, and shared control terms with nominal Chinese appointment and Russian practical authority. The arrangement envisions eventual Russian master of the project within decades.
Boston witnesses a threatened citywide transit strike end after the Motormen Conductors union supreme council declares off the strike. 120 conductors and motormen are discharged in Charlestown with more in other divisions as a blacklist reportedly forms. President Young says the strike is ended for now though some may resume if others ignore the ultimatum.
A proposed electric road from Allentown to Butztown Pa is announced. Other items note a bank robbery pardon for Philip Sf Scheic, a prison escape after jailer fare incident in Columbia S C, Horatio G Parker of Boston declared insane after embezzlement allegations, Robert Bowling convicted of second degree murder near North Baltimore, a $84 000 verdict in Pittsburg involving Mia Dunning's affections, and Chicago Democrats inviting President Cleveland and senior officials to a Jackeva day dinner.
A sermon-like meditation extols a spiritual cavalry to hasten evangelization, likening believers to mounted troops and the printing press as rapid redeemers. It urges urgency, cites historical battles, and envisions a future where 21 million church members drive a worldwide revival through bold, unmounted action and organized evangelism.
Warlike tensions flare in Routt County as cattlemen and sheep owners mobilize along the Snake River. About 350 men in two camps, armed and under military rule, plan guarding boundaries and possible cross-border action. Reports say Griff and Jack Edwards hire many to confront stockmen. Brown's Park cattle claim severe depredation by sheep. Christmas events and other items follow in dispatches from Denver and beyond.
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