15 Jul 1892
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1892
Page
1
The article notes Kansas cities where women outvote men and a council composed entirely of women. It cites large English language usage and sizable German and French speaking populations. It also mentions California moonrise curiosities and a Volhynian bishopric anniversary under Vladimir’s reign.
A New York fisherman recently pulled up a fish said to contain a lady's gold watch while another tale mentions a court ruling in Frankfurt and a royal move favoring Budapest as a capital. The item also notes a New York inventor calling herself an accountant, and various currency tender rules along with colonial politics and odd domestic anecdotes.
A week summary notes the senate passing a claim to lands at Point San Jose and approving payments to widows of Chief Justice Waite and Justices Miller and Bradley. House conferenced on post office and pension bills. census funding approved. Headlines include anti option bill intro, world’s fair debate, and a string of state races. Also reports violent incidents in Ohio and Missouri wind damage. Kansas prohibition nominees and other political moves.
Visible grain stocks on the 11th show Wheat 23,124,000 bushels, corn 7,083,000, oats 6,524,000, rye 237,000, barley 455,000. President, at governor request, orders federal troops to Idaho disputes. Canada adjusts canal tolls to avoid discrimination against US vessels. President signs pension and river and harbor bills.
Gov Pattison ordered about 000 Pennsylvania NATIONAL GUARD to Homestead to assist Sheriff McClewry in quelling riots there. The report also notes the death of actress Kate Castleton from peritonitis at Providence Rhode Island aged 41, a fire at Salamander Company barns in Woodbridge New Jersey with 27 horses burned, and the failure of McConnell Shiuwws leather merchants in Boston with liabilities near 500000. Nearby items include a new New York directory with city population claimed, the widow of a revolutionary soldier dying at Hirsch ture aged 92, and the Pennsylvania guard seizing Cauruemie malts at Lietesteael. A Saratoga Series opening featured President Pharpison delivering a nonderress and public reception, then a Washington-bound train. William Waldorf Astor of New York reportedly sale in London with ties to Verenata reciray cry. The athletic season ends as Boston wins the National Basketball League title with final standings led by Boston and Brooklyn, then Philadelphia and Cincinnati. A fatal train collision near Middletown New York kills George Walsh Cassie McCoy Frank and Mrs Frank.
Reports list Ed Carroll as Democratic nominee for Congress in Kansas's first district while noting Rivhand Tuomas’s death at 111 in Marion. Tornadoes flood Tennessee and Illinois, mines erupt in Idaho, and a mob lynching occurs in Kentucky alongside fires destroying stables and livestock.
A cascade of 19 killed and 40 injured on the Mont Blanc in Ouchy. floods in Japan destroy 1,000 homes, 600 bridges, and swamp 4,000 acres of rice. Fires annihilate half of Christiania and later one half of St John’s, Canada, with multi‑million losses. Ravachol guillotined in Paris. storms in Savoy kill 150. Mount Etna erupts. earthquakes of Sicily devastate Giarre. Diaz reelected in Mexico. Carnot signs Paris exhibition, and several naval and railway disasters are noted.
The senate approved a 4 million dollar World’s Columbian Exposition appropriation with a Sunday closing restriction. an amendment opposing intoxicant sales was rejected. Other items include a retaliation bill against Canada and conference reports on a diplomatic appropriation in the house. News notes report lynching of Julien Moseley in Arkansas, flood and fire damage across states, and several political and crime items.
Anticipated sympathy strike at Carnegie mills expands from Homestead to Lawrenceville and Beaver Falls with 3500 union workers, potentially 8000 involved. Militia occupy streets, guard depots, and patrols enforce order while dynamite found and removed. Union leaders deny knowledge of weapon sources. congressional inquiry into Pinkertons and compulsory arbitration advances.
A collection of brief humorous exchanges and quips from various newspapers plus a medical pun. Jests include a peace of mind remark and a parrot gag. A hospital patient jokes about locomotive tak-works leading to loco motor ataxia explainers.
A Spanish medical commission reports the Paris inquiry confirms Asiatic cholera. Spain orders frontier precautions with Montmartre cholera hospitals planned if needed. In France water supply considered, one death at Asnieres. In Russia cholera rises with new cases and deaths in Simbirsk and possible Moscow cases. Astrakhan becomes eastern cholera hub with 225 attacked and 102 deaths in a day.
A youth about 19 years old jumped from the Prospect Park area above Niagara Falls. He left a note to his family blaming a woman named Noble Menney and carried a Buffalo dressmaker ad on the reverse of the card. The body surfaced downstream and sank in an eddy.
Gen. W. P. Carlin with the Fourth Infantry guards Coward Alene Idaho appointing picket lines in Wards near, about 400 troops in Shoshone County rest. Miners return to Poorman Tiger Mammoth Custer Morning and Hunter mines. Coroner Sims calls jury over Frisco mine explosion deaths. Bridges to Mullen repaired and trains on time. Congress urged to investigate Cour d Alene troubles.
Rome reports Mount Etna erupts violently with lava rivers destroying villages and homes as craters remain active. One lava stream stands several yards deep, another crater ejects incandescent rocks, and third crater edges threaten collapse. Monrovia? Ala. notes Warrior River at 56 feet, rising. heavy rains flood plantations and risk lowland crops along Tombigbee.
A column notes Greenwich time alters, ancient Chinese weaving, a South American cat race, UK child insurance, Red Sea coloration by tiny organisms, and long canals begun by Peter the Great linking China to St Petersburg and Astrachan to St Petersburg.
The Dalton gang held up the Missouri Kansas & Texas passenger train No. 2 near Adair on Thursday night and stole about 46 000 from the Pacific Express safe. A posse, including J. W. Kennedy and two Indian policemen, challenged the robbers. Kennedy and the officers were wounded, and the attackers escaped with the loot. Four gang members had been captured nearby earlier this week, but the remaining robbers eluded pursuit.
The United States Senate approved the $5,000,000 World's Fair appropriation with a Sunday closure condition. A liquor prohibition amendment was struck down, while Gray and Pfeffer pushed strict Sunday closing rules and a national commission to enforce the first day of the week ban. Chicago World’s Fair officials generally deplore the clause yet may accept the funds. The Herald urges rejection of the conditional appropriation.
Ex Governor Newton Booth died suddenly at his Sacramento home on Thursday evening. Booth, elected CA governor in 1871, helped push anti monopoly reforms and later served as U.S. senator from March 1875. His career included campaigning to curb Chinese immigration and a 1873 revolt against railroad influence.
Secretary Foster notes Garfield lacked the facial memory of many peers after decades in Congress. Secretary Rush reduced cattle deaths at sea from cruelty in a $25,000,000 export trade. The Edwards Entomological Collection gains $95,000 from donors incl. the American Museum of Natural History. Galveston crews push to fund a Magruder monument as his grave lacks a marker. Dr. Walter Channing recalled telling Col. Higginson he never saw anyone afraid in his long career.
Cyrus W Field, famed for pioneering the first transatlantic telegraph cable, died Tuesday morning. Attending were David Dudley Field and family. the report notes he suffered exhaustion and an eventual peaceful death amid public scrutiny over his son Edward M. Field. Burial planned in StockbridgeMass. Field’s career spanned New York Newfoundland London Telegraph Co and Suez canal association.
Paris reports a terrible accident at St Gervais Les Bains Savoy where a landslip and detachment of the Biennassay glaciers buried Le Fayet and the village. Nearly 200 people died as rocks and ice swept through homes and the Arve river, with many bodies yet unrecovered. Also notes New York City population and Trow’s Directory for 1892.
The House committee on pensions moved to report a substitute bill amending the 1847 act. It extends pensions to those who served with proper military command in engagements, even if not regularly enlisted, and raises pensions from eight to twelve dollars per month.
The Mount Etna eruption intensifies with fierce crater fires and loud blasts. A severe earthquake Tuesday morning destroyed Giorre on the Sicilian coast, a town of about 19 000 residents. The nearby village Glarre, population 18 060, is reported wiped out.
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