13 Mar 1894
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1894
Page
1
Frederick real estate listing highlights farms for rent and sale, mortgages for investment, and rental collection services. Offers include a 150 to 200 acre farm, a 60 acre farm near Mechanicstown with outbuildings, and two first class mortgages at 5 percent. Also notes on coal supply and delivery.
Quiet steady stock market with few sharp advances and little overall change. Closing bids list West Shore 0S WY Central 108g Lake Erie & W 15g Del. & Hudson 1sy. Philadelphia markets show mixed commodity prices and wheat lower. Live stock: beef and calves weak. pork and lard varied. A separate note reports a defendant acquitted in a poisoning case at Down Patrick.
In a Washington breach of promise trial Judge Bradley feuded with attorneys as Congressman Breckinridge and partners clashed in a fray. Miss Pollard was carried sobbing from the courtroom after testimony on her 1888 birth. Fourteen fashionably dressed women were barred from the room amid court turmoil.
Reports from Whalabarre Pennsylvania on March 5 detail the recovery of thirteen buried men from a cavern collapse at Gaylord wine works. Bodies were brought to the surface, crushed beyond recognition, later identified only by support, with survivors contradicting starvation as the cause. Other items note Liberal leaders discussing Gladstone and Home Rule, Libby Prison hero Major Rose retired, and various local legal and public notices.
Long strike at the Pennsylvania Steel company plant in REabine Pennsylvania ends after workers accept a 5 percent wage cut. The stoppage had lasted since August and involved 16 laborers at the works.
Desperate armed clashes erupt in Exto Oklahoma as factions Moore and Gregg battle for control of city records and funds. Reports describe brutal beatings, fusillades, and vigilant guards around camps, with threats of further bloodshed and arrests.
Miss Jennie Blizzard, 15 or 20, daughter of Samuel Blizzard, suffered mental breakdown after grip. At Westminster station she attempted to leap onto the 1 12 p.m. Baltimore train, resisted by several bystanders, then was returned home with her mother and sister and taken into care.
A Westminster meteorological record notes unusually pleasant March weather lacking any severe conditions in twenty five years. Local trades paint Court Street property for Mr Young the barber and Mr Harry Schmidt the tobacconist. Mr Adams of West Patrick Street plans a haying shed for a house behind his property. Aston Davis brings a silk worm in its cocoon from his farm. Dandelions appear as spring poet awakens pot.
An authoritative BicLure's Magazine article in April will detail Dr. Parkhurst and his notable battle against official protection of vice and crime in New York City. It will be illustrated with several portraits of Dr Parkhurst.
Ex Governor and Mrs Carroll plan an Easter Monday ball in Washington to greet Miss Horsey of Frederick county and Miss O’Donnell. In local news, 77 year old Mr Walker near New London shot and killed a wild goose feeding on Mrs Downey’s farm wheat on Saturday.
Joshua Summer qualified for district No 16 and Samuel Bussard for district No 1s as road supervisor. The report notes rumors about a ship's fate at Port Trips and that the Allaa line vessel had not been detained, with officials of President Hippolyte involved.
Report states quarantine at West Penn Hospital has been raised. Some patients are ready to leave as decontamination of areas finishes and clothes are sterilized. Officials say further reductions will occur in stages as units are cleared.
Reports from Rio Janeiro state the Brazilian rebellion offers surrender terms after Admiral de Gama and four torpedo boats join the harbor fleet. Government forces under Fort St John and battleships prepare to attack, with 25 000 loyal troops and 700 rebel sailors ready for final action.
Fifteen young women join the Salvation Army Auxiliary league at Vassar College with leadership from Ballingtast Booth and Edith Marhail. G. R. Kend adds to the executive staff as others are expected to join.
Debs and the American federation face clashes as a miners’ city strike action meets resistance from authorities. In Paterson Paterson a flax spinnery worker mob attacks non-strikers with mantles sticks and stones leaving one man with a broken jaw during a confrontation at a probable mass picket.
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