01 Nov 1890
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1890
Page
1
Fragmented notes recount a branded thief in Russia and a 102 year old Tyrin County resident honored in Oregon. The column passes through historical curiosities from the Black Hawk era, price specimens, and a note on General Fremont, with references to Maryland and Alabama events and a balloon journey near Birmingham.
The weekly report notes 2 761 receipt accounts totaling 1 01 054 430 and 2707 disbursement accounts totaling 1 104 879 680, with weekly exchanges at leading U S clearing houses at 85 614 811 against 1 327 007 317 last week. See a roundup of farm yields fires crimes and political notes across various states as the front posts season’s events.
A garbled wire of events reports high tides near Roumlout and Albany, a dispute over New York City remuneration, deaths in Williamsburgh and Philadelphia area, a Brooklyn World’s Championship game score, a Harvard hop, step and jump record, and a Pittsburgh locomotive engineers vote amid broad national unrest.
A chaotic report details drownings in Des Moines federal court actions against illegal liquor sales in Iowa. Severe storms ripple across Texas, Colorado, and Alabama with damag e and loss, including floods in Maryland and violent incidents in Arkansas and Mississippi.
A vast procession and high mass marked the 25th anniversary of Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan of Chicago. The day featured a 1000-strong prelate and priest contingent, a grand choir, and a torchlight parade with over 25 000 marchers and 100 bands through Chicago streets.
Foreign intelligence notes celebrate the birthday of Count von Moltke with grand display at Merlin. A severe Mediterranean storm wrecked ships. 700 emigrants reportedly perished near Cape St Vincent. In Ireland a moonlighting gang murdered a girl and her mother.
About five thousand Catholic children from Chicago parochial schools filled the Auditorium to honor Archbishop Feehan on his silver jubilee. Children spoke in English and sang national anthems representing Americans, Germans, French, Poles, Bohemians, Irish and Black communities while flags waved. Bishops clergy and civic leaders addressed the crowd before the Archbishop offered a benediction and reflected on Catholic unity across languages.
Treasury Department announces the Board of General Appraisers sustained the validity of the woolen and worsted classification of May 9, 1890. It held that when a quorum is present the House may record journal entries reflecting the presence, even if some members do not vote.
Captain W M Marshal in charge of the Hennepin canal reports to the Secretary of War with plans and estimates for the dam on Rock River. The work, funded by a $500000 appropriation, will begin in the spring and the department will soon issue formal proposals.
Indemnity lands in Eau Claire Wisconsin were found stripped of timber, rendering them valueless. Investigations target the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha railroad for alleged sales to lumbermen and timber theft valued at 81,000,000, with claims the railroad lacked proper title. Also notes Cuba seeks reciprocity talks with the United States and a local war veteran dies at 93 after Mexican and Civil War service.
Thomas Woolfolk, known as Tom Woolfolk, was hanged at 2 p.m. in Penny, Georgia, for the massacre of his wife, children, and other relatives. Witnesses crowded the hills as a minister prayed, then Woolfolk proclaimed his innocence in a dying statement. The gruesome scene detailed a brutal, multi-person murder in Wirb County near Macon, with Woolfolk's eventual confession of fault emerging only after his execution.
The Dutch Parliament votes 108 to 5 that King William III is incapable of governing due to health. The Council of State takes over legal power. Luxembourg's chamber is summoned as news spreads of the king’s imminent death and Princess Wilhelmina’s succession in a regency by the king’s widow.
In Prersuciag Pennsylvania on October 30 the Locomotive Engineers decided to remain independent and will not join a general federation with brakemen firemen conductors or other railway employees. The convention left the decision to its forty five divisions to act as they deem proper.
New York man Houghwaut Howe wed Miss Mary Butterworth the Ohio congressman’s daughter at the bedside as he lay near death. The ceremony occurred in his Metropolitan Room after a week of illness. Howe died hours later leaving a modest estate and no will. Gifts from President Harrison and others accompanied the brief union.
Creditors representing three fourths of Peters indebtedness met with D B Dewey of Chicago and A J Dovel at Grand Rarins Michigan. Assignee Henry of Detroit reported assets around 000 000 and liabilities 2 000 000. Peters claimed four years could pay all claims and realized 4 000 000 from assets with time to convert assets to cash. Secured creditors favored reasonable time to minimize unsecured losses.
A loaded coal train with thirty six cars derailed into the Hotel Brunswick area in Huntingdon Pennsylvania after a misaligned switch. Guests fled in night attire as property damage is estimated at $25,000 with several fatalities reported and several injured.
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