14 Feb 1891
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1891
Page
1
A garbled reading lists odd statements on Ananias and Four Trusts, odd customs, a Kansas family with twenty six unmarried children, misreported oil stock, Chauncey Depew nicknames, a Chinese superstition, a misbehaving teacher, coat of arms talk, a Boston benefactor, a ship captain’s boast, and inflated census figures with stray biographical curiosities.
Reports from the Senate and House cover budget steps and amendments to sundry civil and naval bills. Noted are pay scales for officials, a bridge project over the St Louis River, land title prohibitions, and prohibition moves. Also included are disasters, robberies, and political shifts across multiple states and territories.
Fragmented 19th century prose presents a jumble of topics from a baroda maharajah pet artifact to eviction figures in New York and Brooklyn. It mentions a lavish weave of diamonds, a Mohammediin lady, and references to U S cities, with scattered notes on cabinet officers and memorials. The text is garbled and partially nonsensical.
A note on Cornell University Ithaca New York describing a student group called the Mock Congress with an eB speaker and committees resembling the U S House of Representatives. Members represent states and parties with debates and votes. a president appoints a cable department and sends messages. similar organizations may emerge in New York. The piece also mentions cremation topics and a very old Phoebe tree in marapoora Burgah with leaves collected as relics.
Damages totaled 350000 in Ashland from unknown causes. Eleven prisoners were whipped and two pilloried in Newcastle jail. Mecudourh, longtime Pittsburgh railway president, died at Allegheny City home aged 63. An explosion at Wyoming Pa mine killed two and fatally injured five. Steamship Simon Dutheis valued at 500000 arrived from Matanzas. Crab sank near New York with thirteen men lost.
A sanitized OCR fragment reports numerous calamities including deaths, arson, explosions, and harsh weather across Louisville Akron Fredericksburg Leopolis Helena and Judapondinee. The text mentions elderly residents killed and missing persons amid blizzards and fires, with references to local saloons and a newspaper editor found frozen in a field.
Pieces of the damaged ship Chiswick report a sand bank grounding off Cardina st Nuzuirg with loss of life among the crew. The sea disaster follows a string of political and social upheavals as reports detail treason charges, labor strikes, and unrest across North America.
William O'Brien and Dillon announce they will return to England to serve their prison terms after acknowledging a failed effort to settle the Irish Parliamentary party split. They condemn conflicting pressures and pledge to await judgment of their constituents after serving sentence.
Chicago February 13 United States officials arrested George Gibson secretary of the Whisky Trust on charges of conspiring to destroy the Shufeldt distillery and other targets outside the trust. He was seized at the Grand Pacific Hotel and a dynamite device and contract papers were found. The plan would have caused massive explosions, deaths, and property damage. Gibson lived in Peoria and is described as wealthy. the trust controls about 85 million dollars.
In Yarauette Mangrerre Michigan a boarding house brawl ended with the murder of Michael Smith and serious injury to Michael Sella as Valentny Nowak and son plus other Poles attacked them with pick-handles after going upstairs to quell the disturbance. The Thanemore loss: British steamer Thanemore sailed from Baltimore November 26. No word since. wreckage sighted near Chesapeake Bay leads owners to declare the vessel lost with 34 crew and 548 cattle aboard.
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