27 Jul 1893
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1893
Page
1
A real estate agent advertises a brick dwelling on West Patrick Street with 10 rooms and a large yard near the Bend, priced to sell. Also offered is a 238 acre Limestone Ferry area farm 2 miles west of Harper's Ferry, with church and school access nearby. inquiries through the agent's office.
Agent advertises a warehouse with frontage on a main route and an elegant country residence near Frederick on the National Pike. The property must be sold in 60 days at a low figure with easy terms, offering both sale and rental options and inviting visits to the office for details.
Reported baseball results from yesterday across the National League include New York Philadelphia Boston Cincinnati and Louisville games with varied outcomes. Multiple doubleheaders are noted including first and second games in Philadelphia and a rain postponement in Cincinnati. Ohio Valley and Pennsylvania minor leagues list results in Scranton Reading Altoona Harrisburg Johnstown York and Erie with scores and locations.
Yale professor Edward T McLaughlin dies while Secretary Carlisle suffers rheumatism. Brokers H L Nicholas Co and J B Dumont fail. Choctaws nine execution postponed from August 4 to September. Jordan and Olsen drown in Chicago lake. Harry Wright of the Philadelphia club to marry in fall. Charles B Jordan dies of Brights disease. Leo and Cio Mendoza trapeze artists fall twenty feet in Chicago theater. Belcher killings disrupt Pix[e] County.
Fragmentary dispatches describe an attempted rescue of three imprisoned readers accused of mob activity in an Arkansas jail. Dozens of assailants clashed with jail officials on the first night. one attacker was shot in the leg.
Paris reports a French fleet blockade of Siamese coast with gunboats pushing up the Menam river. Siamese forts and gunboats exchanged fire. Inconstante rammed and sank a Siamese gunboat. Bangkok broadcasts indicate British gunboat protection and rising regional tensions as France expands influence in the Gulf of Siam.
The Honolulu question heats up as the provisional government drafts a new treaty to urge U S action while challenges to Hawaiian sovereignty emerge. In Desven, M J Lawrence and cashier F C Schrader are jailed on grand larceny charges tied to a bank failure and a deposit from Sophie Casey.
W A Dunlop part owner of The Commercial Gazette and a millionaire tinware maker shot three orchard thieves trespassing on his property. Thomas Kelly was wounded in the right thigh near the groin, John Kelly in the right leg, and John Conlin in both legs. Dunlop was arrested after posting 5 000 bail.
A wife and two young daughters were killed in a daylight fire set by George Smans in a ramshackle Knoxville incline tenement. The husband fled to a neighbor in panic and was later arrested as investigators found two bloodied hammers and a burned bed with a charred child beneath it. A second item notes a larceny case at the World’s Fair involving H B Nerwitz and family. Also reports on Behring Sea tribunal comments by Judge Phelps.
In Hancock and Tyreen streets a strange cave of pomming struck the neighborhood. About twenty seven people were taken ill, three in serious condition, after drinking milk from Frank Moyer dairy. Tariff reprisals against Russia discussed by the bundesrat with an anticipated 50 percent duty increase.
Liberia celebrated its forty seventh independence anniversary by dedicating a pavilion at the fair’s Agricultural Building. Built without imported attachments, the exhibit features native ropes and tree trunks, ivory decorations, skins, coffee stacks, and war and domestic implements. The Armour Institute and Chicago University have shown interest in securing the collection, and paid admissions yesterday totaled BLO.
Denver citizens mob the jail to take Italian saloon keeper Arata after he murdered Lightfoot. Arata is hanged from a tree by a 15,000-strong crowd despite sheriff resistance. The incident marks a rare, violent frontier-era lynching in the city.
Empress of Juda reports the massacre of Swedish missionaries Rev Mr Wilkholm and Rev Mr Johansen in Sungpe on July 1. The pair, living with three Chinese servants, were killed after a mob surrounded their home and pelted them with stones. Bodies desecrated and looted, servants survived to tell the tale. Famine reports reach Ningpo from Shana province as nefarious acts persist amid a starving populace. A five day quarantine is ordered for ships from Naples.
Closing quotations from Philadelphia and New York show a volatile session with sharp declines driving the market toward a panicky tone. Grains and livestock traded unevenly as wheat and corn moved with quiet Western markets and live stock prices edged lower for hogs and sheep.
July 27 New York reports a broad stock decline on fears after the Erie railroad placed in receivership. Nicholas and Co failures, Dumont suspension, and bank loan calls spurred widespread liquidations. Money rate spiked to 2 percent annual. daily volume 440,000 shares amid sharp downdrafts in Evansville and Terre Haute.
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