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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1893
Page
1
Parsons real estate offers sale of a three story factory building with elevator on a 206 by 42 foot lot on East Street and East Second Street. Also offering 229000 in Fredericks Brock Works coupon bonds secured by first mortgage, paying 6 percent semiannually. For details contact the office.
One of the state’s finest stock farms for sale at 8 aachica 550 acres with 450 cultivated and rest timberland. Improvements include a 9 room frame house stables for 18 horses and other outbuildings. Also offers John & Williams country residence near Frederick with 6 acres, two-story mansion, modern amenities, and outbuildings. Call at THE NEWS OFFICE for particulars W T Delaplaine Special Representative Frederick Md.
Alba is ruined by fire in a town of fifty nine residents. Cesar Henni is executed in Bazelhurst Mississippi for the murder of Dr. J. C. Davis. War in Samoa appears inevitable as Malietoa orders troops forward. The Cunard steamer Servia sinks the A. P. McCallum with two drowned. A Cape Mar Point switchback wreck injures nine. General A. W. Campbell dies in Jackson Tennessee. A fruit train wreck near Carbon Hill kills a engineer and injures others. Peary plans using buars to move supplies across Greenland ice.
Spanish prarristers in Avila, Toledo, Valencia, Guadalajara and Huelva withdraw from cause lists causing undefended cases. Government proposes retrenchment and abolishing district criminal courts. Other regions may join, risking delays and legal trouble.
In Fall River Massachusetts on May 15 testimony centered on alleged quarrels between Emma Borden's sisters. Matron Regan described duty details and interactions with witnesses, while Eli Bence discussed prussic acid. Prosecutors pressed the link to the case, but defense urged the evidence be kept separate from the main charges.
Special dispatch reports boys hunting a ball found a hatchet near Lizzie Borden’s home barn. The discovery is described as important evidence in the Borden trial. Also dated notices of Imperial Potentate election in Cincinnati with surprise result.
At the World’s Fair the German building hosted speeches by Carl Schurz and Baron von Hollen den with a march to the Festival ball and English exercises. Indiana and Arkansas dedicated their buildings as state ceremonies included key exchanges with Governor Matthews and Governor Fishback. The Italian section opened in the Liberal Arts building with music and a mat dolin solo, while philanthropists gathered in the Art Institute to discuss hospital care and nurse training led by Dr. John S. Billings and others.
Philadelphia celebrates the Stars and Stripes anniversary with Betsy Ross house decorations and 4000 flags given to school children. parades and songs marking the flag’s adoption. Baltimore and New York hold flag day observances with buildings and city halls adorned.
A crate like craft appears off Newport harbor tied to a Viking reproduction vessel from Norway. The craft, 49 to 52 feet long and 15 to 16 feet beam, features two masts and resembles a Venetian gondola, built to join Columbian year festivities in the United States.
The Viking ship with square sail carrying 200 feet of canvas features a five foot high golden dragon on the prow and a red burgee with the name aloft. Crowds gather as the craft nears New York escorted by naval vessels while old mariners doubt its sea worthiness.
Washington dispatches report the Behring Sea arbitration nearing conclusion within ten days and a likely August decision, with Harlan Morgan and General Agent Foster remaining in Paris. Other items note a resize of Indian agents and land-office staff, and a death of Irish exile Dr Thomas Ansell in Washington.
Private reports from Corpus Christi say Colonel Elinu Ho Hojes, president of the Corpus Christi and South America Railway, was shot and severely wounded on Saturday in his Attics. The assailant Mare Dani is said to have fled. Ho Hojes survived the attempt and his secretary and superintendent in New York wired updates.
The Corriere di Napoli reports difficulties over the encyclical in the United States stirring controversy among American clergy. Papal delegate Mgr Satolli plans talks with Cardinal Gibbons to seek a conciliatory path and a method to bridge divergent views between sides.
Prince Bismarck, during an interview at Fredericksruh, advocates increasing Germany's military strength but not along government lines. He argues for boosting artillery over infantry or cavalry and says Germany can bear the added cost.
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