20 Mar 1893
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1893
Page
1
Classified advertisement listing W L Parsons and Loy & Perry agents offering farms on the Brunswick and Urbana roads, a Bay Ridge residence near Braddock, a Brunswicks road farm, and various properties for sale or rent. Includes hardware and estate notices, with prices, locations, and contact at the firms office in Frederick Maryland.
An implant meeting of the water works committee of the Board of Alder men will be held tonight where plans for an increased water supply will be suggested.
Washington March 3 Mrs Clara Barton president of the American National Red Cross accepts a gift of land on the Indiana border from Dr Joseph Gardner. The land protected by treaties to serve as a sanctuary and stockpile for emergencies, with Geneva treaty inscriptions and a goal to safeguard the Red Cross home across generations.
An account describes a near fatal incident during the German emperor's wedding where a lightning strike hit a power line, injuring two women in the control room. Major von Moltke relayed the news to the Kaiser who praised divine protection and ordered the two women cared for and excused from duty during the holidays.
A wealthy Mexican citizen Refugio Martinez and his wife were attacked by seven men who abducted their daughter. Lucis Salazar, a presumed lover, confessed after being traced to New Orleans and married the abducted woman the day after the kidnapping. The case drew police and detectives into a Mexico City–New Orleans pursuit.
Reports from Sari Spain claim a Mete archists victory with coverage of Paris political denials. In Rio Grande do Sul a Jules Ferry note was read at a great ball. Manchester cotton spinners offer to resume work if wages capped at 24 percent after a six month strike for 3 percent. Belgium Labor Party council vows general strike if universal suffrage rejected by parliament.
The piece cites marriages and social ties as moneymen leverage in French politics. It notes Ferry's marriage aided his bid for the presidency while contrasting other candidates and their spouses. References to Mme Challemel, Mme Reavier, and Gambetta era jealousies frame a portrait of salon politics.
A pastry shop fire in Saint Sebastian sparked by a keg of spirits killed twenty one people and left many more missing. Firefighters battled the blaze as residents crowded the streets amid the deadly incident and surrounding ruins.
Governor Werte signs forty two senate and house measures leaving about a hundred acts for future action. Key items include adjusting nominating petition thresholds, empowering health boards to destroy endangered animals and fund related costs, allowing cities to set past due tax interest, authorizing road bonds in Union County, exempting Greusen’s associations from taxation, letting electric utilities use country roads with owner consent, retiring disabled firemen on half pay, prohibiting sweating, appointing tax assessors in second class cities, regulating insurance company assessments, enabling special electors for boards, reverting counties to park land use, aligning National Guard with US militia tactics, electing three majors for a regiment, allowing county justices, authorizing county workhouses for short terms, funding the state labor bureau, freeing second class county boards to fill unexpired terms, and fixing railroad rates for peaches and small fruits.
Wilmington agencies welcomed a Phenix S F E Company No 4 committee led by J J Patterson chief engineer William J McKinney and G W Brest. The brief visit impressed Independent Hose Company and city firemen, promising a cordial June celebration and a return visit to Washington DC for the Volunteer Firemen's Association.
Hagerstown taixers discuss a proposed June trip to Frederick. Juniors and First Hose have accepted attendance with others to decide. Uniforms are being arranged for both groups, and drilling will begin for attendees. Some Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company members may send representatives to the State Firemen’s Association formation, with Antietams also likely to attend. Western Enterprise awaits action but expects representation. Juniors look to compete in the steam engine test and aim for a prize.
Last Friday around 2 AM freight engine No. 23 of the W M A R plunged into an embankment between Sabillasville and Blue Ridge Summit. The engine was wrecked with the pilot removed and other parts badly damaged. Moone was injured though the engineer escaped with a minor eye bruise. About thirty men work to clear earth and widen the track gap.
Real estate transfers include Samuel M. Birely and wife to Allen G. Fisher for 20 acres valued at 250 dollars and Charles W. Ross trustee to Thomas R. Jarboe for 187 acres valued at 9042 dollars. Samuel Zimmerman and wife to Red Spring Corner Band for a ground slot valued at 40 dollars. John W. Dunn and wife to Nash E. Cramer for a lot in Brunswick at 1 dollar. Local health notes report Gibson Smith, Liberty district registrar of voters, stricken with paralysis. Cisra Young of East Fourth street is ill with multiple diseases. Governor Brown improving and expected to be out by week’s end.
On last Friday afternoon Sean Bowers of Emmitsburg fell from a platform at Kerrigan's carriage shops and dislocated his right shoulder. Dr J Kay Wrigley provided surgical aid immediately.
In New York March 4 Charles Mitchell explains the Abingdon Baird gift funded his match with Corbett. He states the money was a voluntary gift and not a debt or obligation. Mitchell confirms Squire Abingdon offered ten thousand and more for future fights and notes public interest in a potential match with Fitzsimmons.
Obituary notes Captain Vanderbilt, brother of the late Commodore Coradus Vanderbilt, who commanded ships for nearly forty years between New York and eastern ports. He led ferries, served as president of the East Shore railroad line, and resided at his Staten Island home. Survived by wife Euphemia Marke Banta and three children Eden Abs Herman, Jacob H Vanderbilt Jr.
Pats March reports describe a brutal assault as attackers stormed a Catholic hall ejecting priests and congregants. Rioters smashed crucifixes, injured many, and furniture was destroyed before police arrived. Separate dispatches note further arrests and related local disturbances across states.
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