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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1891
Page
3
An advertisement showcases coats and overcoats in varied sizes and shapes offered at prices of five, ten, twenty two and a half. The copy emphasizes affordability and variety for shoppers seeking diverse outerwear choices.
A fragmented item lists BT Eldridge at No 34 West Patrick Street Frederick. The brief appears to be a property or address reference with no additional context or actions indicated.
The Orphans Court appoints P. M. West as executor of Ann M. McGuli estate and Carrie E. Damer as executrix of Elizabeth Rhodes estate. The final account of R. C. Cochran as administrator of Reuben F. Cochran estate is settled. Court orders sale of personal property in Samuel Wiceman and Jeremiah Fox estates.
A garden plum tree owned by Mrs G Buckey on West South Street bears an estimated four bushels of yellow plums. The German seed planted six years ago yields a verdant sight with leaves nearly obscured by fruit. Also noted are real estate transfers in Frederick City including Frederick City Manufacturing and Development Co to John Hendrickson and David Lowenstein to Johan Johnson for properties in Lowenstein's addition.
The Frederick College closing exercises will be held in the evening with a program described as interesting. Admission is by ticket due to limited hall seating.
The article reports sightings of revolution leaders in transit, notes Balmaceda’s terror tactics in Valparaiso and Santiago, and describes soldiers punishing workers with tacks and pins. It says insurgents lack arms, with 10,000 more needed, and mentions Dom Pedro Monett aboard City of Para seeking U S recognition.
A dynamite explosion on the Darby road near Lesserville buries McLaughlin under rock and dust. Police and coroner say the death was accidental after a quarry accident while workers were handling dynamite. Jake Polker survived by fleeing the storm with his hands covering his face. investigation continues.
Bishop Howell B. Price of Nazareth Methodist Episcopal church died of heart disease at his Van Buren Street home in Casupex New Jersey. A consecrated bishop of the Nazarenes in Canada for twelve years, he preached last Sunday in Dorlestown. overexertion is suspected. Governor Abbott attended a Homoeopathic convention banquet in Boston. Venturesome sailors turned back from Crescent Beach to England due to weather stress.
In Washington Pennsylvania three boys died after a raft rope broke at Doak's park pond. John McKeown aged 10 and L Barry Shoulus aged 10 were brothers, Walter Jones aged 1d was a neighbor. Jones and one Shoulus boy attempted rescue but perished. McKeown was the son of the late AlcKeown, the oil magnate, and the Shoulus boys were his grandsons. Jones was the son of a local Methodist church elder. Bodies recovered.
Reports from Ne Insult to Mexico describe Mexico protesting a Port-au-Prince raid on four political refugees by forces under President Hippolyte. New Haven Railroad officials face trial for heating cars by afoves as jury completes. Sea Isle City opens with celebrations for new railroad. Fort Worth Texas reports a shooting death with nails used as a weapon in a domestic incident.
June 23 report states the governor signed enabling legislation to select a site for a new State asylum for the chronic insane with a $500,000 appropriation. A commission is named to choose the site and oversee the hospital, including Dr. John Corwen Warren, Wharton Barker of Philadelphia, Hon. John B. Shrm of Monroe County, Hon. John A. Reynolds of Bedford, and Henry AML. Dechert.
Two 15 year old boys drown in WaAssineios yesterday. Charles Davis slipped from a steamboat gangway while carrying a milk can and vanished before his mother on the wharf. Roger Connell, a colored boy, went beyond his depth while swimming and lost his life.
In Reading First Baptist church an amount of 20 500 was subscribed toward building a new church likely costing about twice that amount as work proceeds this year. In Lapepo Texas on June 23 the Peer Jess Athletic club of Laredo offers a 20 000 purse for a Sullivan Slevin fight to a finish.
The Ohio pardon court meets to consider nearly a hundred clemency requests. Notable applicants include Libbie Garrabrant who poisoned her husband and William Haddock a state prison foreman seeking release after a five year term. Other contenders include Horace Van West and Horace Van Nest amid broad debate over mercy for current inmates.
June 20. Frederick Ellets returned home drunk with a large butcher knife intent on harming his wife. She fled to John Connors’ house where Ellets pursued and forced entry. Connors struggled as neighbors intervened. Ellets was overpowered, beaten by three men, and dragged away in a bloodied wheelbarrow toward the jail.
GeoRGETOWN June 23. While John Lambden drove to Cokesbury church a tornado struck. A tree fell on his team killing the horse and breaking the young man’s thigh, his carriage demolished. Carriages overturned, roads blocked by fallen trees, and bridges washed away. No further details available.
Jonathan Oliphant, reputedly the state’s oldest continuously serving bank cashier, died at his residence after a long illness on June 23. He was the first cashier of the Burlington County National Bank in Medford and served until recently when age forced his resignation.
Funeral arrangements for ex Senator McDonald in Indianapolis on June 23 are completed. The services will be held tomorrow at his residence and the burial is set for Crown Hill. The service will be public.
Detectives with hounds arrived at Spring Lake to chase fugitive bank president Marsh. The dogs will be fed loose if tracking proves possible, as authorities press the pursuit.
Pars Jan 23. Rioting erupted in Bordeaux Monday night as strikers seized tram cars and burned ticket offices. Aguitai Hussars charged the rioters, repeatedly dispersing them.
The body of Count Reinhold Abraham Lewenkaupt, nephew of ex Secretary Bayard, was disinterred and sent to New York, then to be shipped to Stockholm.
Dr H C Mc Gonegal who faced appeal over a conviction for causing the death of Annie Goodwin the cigarette girl was freed on $3,000 bail. Comte de Laanay recalled as Belgian ambassador to Berlin. Weather fair warmer with southwest winds.
Twenty four hundred thirty immigrants landed at the barge office yesterday including Italians. A murder in Tottenham road London was found with a foreign woman Mme Ashton dead and a suspected French killer. Separately the Frenthy No 1 murder trial in New York opens today. Lord Denman gave notice to reject the Irish land purchase bill on second reading. The International Machinists Union of America forms after a New York convention.
A Welsh tin plate works announces a ten week stoppage starting Monday. Officials say many skilled workers will emigrate to the United States seeking tin plate employment, with over 25,000 affected. The move follows failed appeals to reconsider production cuts amid continental trade pressures.
The governor vetoed several appropriations including 74,000 for a hospital at Hochotor and 73,000 for Gynecean hospital in Philadelphia, disapproved 25,000 and 300 for Lackawanna hospital, and withheld 39,000 for Western Pennsylvania hospital. Several grants to charities and a 190 paid to counties for chronic insane care were also vetoed or withheld.
Race programs from Gloucester New Jersey and Chicago list multiple races with horse names, jockeys, and finishing order. Notable entries include Hydra and Kitty Clover in turf events, and Bankstone with Bil Barnes in a 644 furlong dash, with times and placements across each card.
The president did not accept the invitation from homeopathic doctors to their Atlantic City banquet last night and left for Washington this morning. A strike cost the state $25,029.22 in expenses for the coke riots, certified by the adjutant general.
Closing quotations show dullness across exchanges with the North American company slipping. Prices generally eased to fractional declines as the day ended, with bids and offers listed for Lehigh Valley, Reading, and Pennsylvania markets, and mixed activity in wheat, corn, rye, oats, beef, pork, and lard futures.
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