10 Jul 1891
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1891
Page
1
A Pennsylvanian bets to eat six hundred erp at one sitting. He offers a fifty dollar bonus and promises to raise the money for the feat by public subscription in communities that wake to the challenge.
A historical report notes the spread of a prolific daisy across the Richmond vicinity and the Vite battlefield area as seeds were allegedly carried in bales of hay brought by Union soldiers in Virginia. The investigation points to the west of Richmond as the primary origin of the bloom.
A New York organized company with capital of 1 000 000 plans a vast 112 000 acre farm in Florida described as the world's largest farm. The project aims to grow food for New York City and features a soil likened to the Nile valley. The farm lies between the Indian San Sebastian and St John rivers and drains into the St John. investors are from New York and the South.
The registrar general reports a population decrease of about five thousand in ten years, signaling no growth for Kap Mand. The city shows mixed effects with middle classes prospering while workers benefit, but voters lists appear reduced, prompting protests and accusations of a mistake.
A census bulletin shows weekly exchange activity at leading clearing houses totaling 81,020 with a 34,473 rise. Failures fell 13.5 percent year over year. Education stats note public school enrollment rising to 13,522,721 in 1890. Grain, sugar, and other commodities figures accompany a scatter of disasters, executions, and accidents across the United States with multiple named places and persons.
A chaotic survey reports a collision at Ravenna Ohio killing and injuring many, boat drownings in Roseville and Gladesburg, a tornado or storm devastations in Texas and California, balloon accident fatalities, a racially charged murder in Sumter Alabama, famine threats in India, and royal nuptials in Windsor. Also noted are a collapsed penitentiary, barbed wire trust, and various shipping and weather calamities worldwide. These items reflect a broad, hurried bulletin of tragedies and events.
Emigrant landings in New York reach 405 004 with Germany leading followed by Italy and others. A man near Monrovia Indiana found a ten pound gold ore. A Texan farmer was struck by lightning killing his wife and three daughters. Nebraska Republicans to meet in Lincoln. lumber yard fire in Jennings Michigan caused heavy losses. Lynching of Jim Barneys in Beebe Arkansas is reported. Accidents include two deaths near Osney Illinois and Fort Wayne Indiana. A tooth extraction restored sight for Baird Ryas. Burns statue unveiled in Ayr Scotland. Violent deaths include mob beatings near Olmsted North Lake. Democratic state convention planned in Harrisburg. Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor held national convention in Minneapolis. Religious statistics show denominational memberships and growth.
The article recounts the 1900 executions of Slocum, Smiler, Wood, and Jugiro by electric chair at Auburn. It describes the procedure, the repeated 20 second shocks, and the observers noting burns and apparent but uncertain revivals. Autopsies began with Slocum, detailing brain and heart damage from the current.
A blaze at Merriwether and Co. warehouse in Clarksville Tenn Tuesday night consumed 1,500 hogsheads of tobacco and Capers stable with 22 mules. About 800 of 1,800 hogsheads stored were saved. Warehouse value 16,000 with 10,000 insurance. tobacco 150,000 insured. total loss estimated at 18,000 for stable and 4,000 for insurance on stable. Also two miners suffocated at Homestake mine White Oaks New Mexico Tuesday.
The ten tenth annual international convention of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor commences in Minneapolis with 12,000 attending evening sessions. President Clark opens the assembly as Rev Dr Tiffany presides, while reports show rapid growth in societies worldwide and across Canada and the United States.
The article lists formal gun salutes for different ranks and offices. A consular general accredited to the United States receives nine guns, ministers thirteen, a lieutenant general fifteen, the general in chief seventeen, foreign governors seventeen, the US president twenty one, and a national salute equals one gun per state in the union.
A party led by Assistant Engineer Swain travels from El Rio toward Alamo Mucho along the old stage route. They observe channels 4 to 60 feet deep and 30 to 60 feet wide, with a 4 mph current, feeding a broad, northward stream that could flood the desert. The Southern Pacific Company monitors whether to redirect or block the water to prevent a permanent lake formation.
Reports from Lafayette Parish and Baton Rouge Louisiana describe extensive cyclone damage. Homes blown down, farms ruined, hundreds of structures destroyed, and crops wiped out. Jackson Mississippi and Baton Rouge report deaths including a Negro woman and child, with $300,000 in city losses and uninsured penitentiary property around $50,000.
J H Phillipston and his son were killed when an incoming passenger train struck them as they crossed the Big Four tracks at Newport Illinois across the river. Mrs Phillipston stood nearby as the tragedy occurred Tuesday afternoon. The father attempted to shield his son driving them apart as the train passed and both were fatally struck.
An organization in Des Moines Iowa has filed articles to form a savings company. The venture plans weekly deposits from subscribers and will function as a savings bank to fund travel and expenses for those visiting the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1898.
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