07 Mar 1891
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1891
Page
1
A jumble of anecdotes includes Joe Banks claiming to eat 120 eggs, a Czech prince seeking an American heiress in Nice, and Russia’s rumored large expenditures for a Columbian exhibition. Reports mention Deodoro da Fonseca, a New Jersey thief jailed for six months, and a rapid trial in Oconee Georgia where a thief paid $20.84 in minutes.
The eleventh report records the board's work over the year and cites the influenza epidemic as causing about five thousand deaths.
The Real Estate Record estimates 1 076 000 000 new buildings erected nationwide last year while the Philadelphia Press cites a value of 5242 000 000. Obituaries note Ges Gnant 63 Sherman 57 Han eveld 65 Mende 60 Logenn 60 Hooker 61 Pemberton 50 Ahres 55 and Gen Sherman 71 among others.
A report describes James WO Wann finishing eleven years of imprisonment for killing Miss Mary Means in Westmoreland County. He was arrested after leaving the penitentiary and jailed for trial for the killing of Miss Milen Means, the sister of the victim. The article also notes other sensational items including a strange case of a child lost in the mountains and the Memphis Commercial’s Milan investigation.
Fragmentary report describes coinage references with phrases like bronze pieces issued in PRGA context and annual fining of dissed bronze cents. Mentions lines, detritions, and remnant notes to present time with nickel pieces and typical cent counts.
Mexican forces trap six robbers at a plantation in Jalisco. In hand to hand fighting the bandit leader Demetrio Jaaregnui is cornered in the attic after four soldiers die and eleven are wounded. The battle ends with the bandits’ defeat and the leader killed.
Asia captain recalls a voyage from England to Montevideo with two pet doves. The male returned months later with a new mate after a gale separated them. Separately, a Mormon exodus from Utah to Chihuahua Mexico is planned with about 2,000 families moving this summer and a sixty-person colony to depart Provo in April.
The week records passage of bills in both chambers including pensions for Admiral Porter widow, Indian and land acts, postal and tariff measures, and a timber culture repeal. Notable deaths and accidents appear, with Kansas aliens land ban and Virginia oyster tragedy. End of Fifty first Congress marked by approvals and thanks to leaders.
The report lists grain stocks on the 2d with Wheat 28,250,008 bushels, corn 2,807,200 bushels, oats 2,048,020 bushels. It details public debt total at 1548,100,858 and cash in the treasury 605,520,063 with a treasury balance noted. It notes February changes and mentions the sixty anniversary observances for John Wesley.
February reports note mint erection push in Philadelphia and the 100th Washington birthday bill signing. Congress counts bills by session, with totals for the 51st and 50th Congresses, plus veto records and projected appropriations. Other items cover fires in Hermon and Adams, cremations of Emma Abbott and Henry Sack matters, Rhode Island Nationalist vote, and mining property sale in Colorado.
Foreign intelligence cites six pirates in Macao who were beheaded after looting a steamer. In London a statue honors John Wesley on his 100th death anniversary. A Russian train wreck near Morshank killed fifty. many injured. Governor Belanond faces unrest as 27 prominent families mourns in Yim death of Leonard Jerome in Brighton at age 60.
The Dominion parliamentary elections yield a Conservative led government with a reduced house majority likely not exceeding 15 seats. A flood doused ranches in Yolo County California causing about 1 million dollars in losses. A Port Huron murder suicide ends in tragedy. A Boston Tremont temple talk and West Florida illicit still raids accompany other 1891 events.
Washington reports a congress marked by three major measures the McKinley tariff bill the silver bill and the federal elections bill amid a mortuary tally of twelve members and three senators. It notes total appropriations near 1 billion dollars and lists laws passed including copyright land court timber and preemption acts the anti trust and anti lottery statutes and measures for pensions roads and trade.
Detroit March 5 William P. Wells a leading Michigan lawyer collapsed and died after finishing an argument in county court. He served as customs collector under Johnson chaired the American Bar Association general council and taught law at the University of Michigan. He was born 1831 in St Albans Vermont.
Lynch & Co. shoe store at 152 State Street in Chicago suffered a total gutted fire on Wednesday night with losses around 30,000, partially insured. De Muth & Co. shoe dealers next door incurred about 19,000 in damages, fully insured. Several firefighters were injured by a hot air explosion during the blaze.
Leonard W Jerome of New York father of Lady Randolph Churchill died at Brighton after a recent illness. He bore a noted career in finance racing and society, with four daughters including Lady Randolph Churchill and Mrs John Leslie. His life spanned Princeton Union College Wall Street and New York clubs.
L Frankenthal of St. Louis and Ernest Salinger of Philadelphia, students at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, were found dead in their room from self-inflicted shots using the same revolver. Notes imply a preconcerted suicide pact, with hypnotism and spiritualist readings cited as influences.
The ceremonies committee outlines a multi day program for the World’s Columbian Exposition opening with a signal gun on October 11 1802. 15000 troops guard the grounds as 5000 regulars and 10000 militia march in a vast military pageant. The dedication day features inaugural ode by an American poet with a large chorus and prominent participants. A major industrial parade and concerts follow, with a grand ball to close the week.
A mosaic of brief items notes 1881 census figures for British India showing 168 765 990 people, November cremations in Tokyo’s capital, Bombay acts banning betting on rainfall, a Swiss city offer on cremation or burial, Hungary's planned centennial celebrations, English winter seabirds and fowl scenes, and political agitation hints from a Japanese newspaper.
A period piece critiques a large firm selling Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription. The ad proclaims a money back guarantee if the medicines fail, charging $1.00 per bottle, asserting absolute, not indefinite, guarantees and arguing the buyer risks are on the seller if a cure is not achieved.
How does he feel He feels at times a gnawing voracious insatiable appetite wholly irrepressible unnatural and unhealthy August Flower the Remedy How does he feel He feels no desire to go to the table and a grumbling fault finding over nice about what is set before him when he is there August Flower the Remedy
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