25 Jan 1894
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1894
Page
1
A local advertisement promotes a new coal brand claiming quick ignition and suitability for household use. The offer highlights stock of the best Herd Coal qualities with delivery during snow, inviting public patronage and noting a Frederick Maryland address for coal sales and a separate druggist ad for cod liver oil products.
Frederick markets report updated prices from The News with figures for flour per barrel and bushel potatoes per barrel Timothy hay and mixed hay priced per ton. Specific values shown include Flour-Ezia 20.00 per barrel and Flour-Fealy and Flour-Fancy per barrel with Potatoes per bushel and Timothy Hay per ton.
New York stock trading was fairly active with no notable spillover effects in the sugar pool. Philadelphia grain and dairy markets show varied bids and prices for winter wheat, corn, oats, lard, and creams, with steady to firm movements. East Liberty live stock reports list prices for cattle, hogs, calves, and sheep. Prison riot news from Trousox, Georgia details Sheriff Hares being knocked unconscious and six prisoners escaping. Pennsylvania Agricultural Association holds annual meeting naming officers. A man in Brooklyn falls fourteen stories while working on a band project, dying upon impact.
In Jacksonville the Duval club won a court injunction to prevent Sheriff Broward from interfering with the Corbett versus Mitchell glove fight. Judge Call granted the injunction. crowds celebrated with a victory parade and band, while betting surged on Corbett and the arena fight proceeded as planned.
In Washington on January 25 the Ways and Means Committee leader urged a tax on incomes as fairer than taxing consumption. The discussion defended taxing earnings over consumption to fund the government, arguing wealth should bear its share and proposing a 2 percent levy on income over $4,000. Other dispatches report local updates from Bliss Robertson, Campbell’s fate, and various incidents including a revival floor collapse and Siberian prison conditions.
Fire at Boone county poor farm kills eight inmates and injures one survivor. Steward Holcomb blames unsafe furnace. building padded with cotton. Other items report American Protective Association delegates, Greensburg fire damages, murder insurance case in Racine, bank insolvency in Meadville, Sullivan sighting rumor, and two murders in Sligo and Milwaukee news.
News of the state reports a range of items from new church construction in Talbot county and a railroad books to be opened in Elkton to a slight earthquake felt in Annapolis and plans to reorganize county districts. Died: Nathaniel Clash of Centreville aged seventy. Daniel Valentine of Funkstown aged sixty four. Cadet discipline, road leagues, and railway projects feature alongside plant reopenings in Allegany county.
Cairo reports a sharp stand by the Khedive amid British pressure for an apology and a public decree praising troops. Lord Cromer and the Foreign Office press for a royal concession, while Abbas Pasha vows to resist to the utmost. England insists the Khedive stay on the throne. The Cairo population watches tensions rise as the dispute deepens.
The Senate defeated amendments to the iron schedule and kept iron ore on the free list. Debates on the income tax and internal revenue bill continued with Republicans aligning with income tax supporters to block anti tax efforts. The session also covered the Hawaiian annexation dispute, Bismarck’s Berlin visit, and various local concerns including a kidnapping case and a collision on the Jersey Central line.
A chaotic report details convicts escaping from a stockade near Coal Creek Tennessee with robberies and shootings as miners in the area aided the escape. Separately a deadly train attack near San Antonio, Texas kills passengers and injures others, while a Maryland court upholds Sabbath law against a circus case.
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