29 Apr 1892
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1892
Page
1
Oak Park Vindicator columns recount stray facts from around the world, noting stars, politicians, bankers, and domestic curiosities. It surveys crimes, legal cases, and international topics with a mix of humor and commentary, including Queen Victoria era notes and Swiss execution history, plus economic and naval details.
A pasted digest covers April 88 to April 27 events in Washington and states. It notes senate and house actions on Chinese exclusion, silver coinage, naval and army appropriations, and a monument bill. It lists party nominations in Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and Nebraska, a St. Paul bank closure, and the Beaver Dam drowning incident.
For the year ending March 31 1862 US exports exceed one billion dollars at 1 000 284 506 while imports total 837 058 530 Additionally a national silver convention is set for May 20 and 27 in Washington and other items cover arbitration costs grain supplies naval appointments and other dated notes on events and figures from the period.
A jumble of violent incidents and political shifts is reported. Sixteen horses perish in an attack at Saar Vicuytsea, a farm collapses into chaos. Multiple deaths include a wife shot by her husband in Dennison Ohio and George Moore’s murder suicides. Louisiana returns from a recent treason context with Foster as an anticentary gubernatorial candidate. A Bryant & Stratton founder Henry J. Bryant dies at 68. A colored woman dies in New Orleans aged about Lod years. Three men die in Fairmont West Virginia.
A storm sinks the French sloop Mess inaches Fluvales with thirty soldiers and its captain drowning in the Clairhue river. In Paris Ravachol ally Very killed in a dynamite blast. many injured. Canada reports a cyclone in Hastings county Ontario. Rio yellow fever rising. English divorce bill defeated in Parliament. Ravachour and Simon convicted for Paris dynamite crimes. William Astor dies in Paris of heart failure, estate valued at £60,000,001. Winnipeg endures heavy snow, trains halted, seven drown in freshwaters near Berlin. British Parliament pursues western war finance bill.
A jumble of brief items covers diplomatic funding debates in Congress, a nomination for secretary of state, and judicial picks. Other notes report fires destroying business districts in Ohio and Mississippi, lynchings in Tennessee, and railroad or theater incidents. National conventions touch on pensions, tariffs, and party platforms in New York and Missouri.
Riverside Park hosted 4000 attendees for the Grant monument cornerstone with 3000 G A R veterans. President Harrison and Gen Horace Porter spoke. Chauncey Depew delivered an oration urging civic unity and heroism while a time capsule and flag were sealed in the stone.
An advertorial piece promotes Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a mild effective cure for Sick Headaches bilious attacks and disorders of the liver stomach and bowels. The copy stresses natural action gentle thorough relief and a satisfaction guarantee with money back policy.
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