18 Sep 1891
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1891
Page
1
Distant notes place Oak Park near Vindicator in a world of cables and census figures. The article touches London’s 4.6 million, Berlin 1.57 million, St. Petersburg 1 million, and Vermont born residents abroad. It mentions ocean telegraph speed, Queen Victoria’s carriage springs, and aging issues, with global trade data and US competition warnings.
Week ended the 12th shows aggregate exchanges at 81,007,708,587, down from the prior week. Visible grain stock on the 14th lists corn 21,935,841 bushels and oats 8,280,709. Census bulletin notes malt liquor consumption rise since 1879. Exports in August include breadstuffs valued at 28,858,510 and beef and hog products at 7,002,050. President and family returned to Washington. First sixteen days of September pensions paid to old soldiers amount to 5,555,000.
Fine destroyed the Delaware Iron works at Newcastle with 800 workers displaced. Loss put at 200000 dollars. Nine Salisbury Pennsylvania workmen fell 50 feet from a scaffold. four killed and others gravely injured. A New York Central special train 4364 miles to Buffalo in 4 hours 40 minutes shatters long distance speed records. George Bailey Loring ex minister of Portugal died at Salem Massachusetts aged 64. A yacht collision near Blazen Island. Henry Priritte and Walter Dodd of Orange New Jersey drowned. The Spring Garden bank leaders sentenced to ten years in prison. Fire at Fulton and Nassau streets New York caused 500000 dollars in damage. Massachusetts Republicans nominate Charles St Allen for governor with a platform on civil rights and free silver. Pennsylvania People’s Party organized at Greensburg demanding national bank abolition and direct presidential election. Public figures and companies across the country face embezzlement, wrecks, and disasters from coast to coast.
A series of calamities and deaths are reported including a Trieste mine collapse burying 52 workers with 20 dead found, rival editors En Tare and Everett Moore killed in a Sulphur Springs street duel, and Miss May Adams murdered by J. W. Montgomery before he killed himself in Woodland California. Other items note Lorenz Abrenarano of the Forty seventh Congress dying in Chicago at age 78, Francis Hendricks named collector of the port of New York, a fire in AT lastings causing losses of $100,000, and a cyclone in Nicaragua injuring many. Also reported are a mine cave-in at Alta, Nevada killing five, a train crash near Vinton, Iowa killing two, and a wreck of the schooner Panania near the Sandwich Islands with loss of life.
Desperate scenes unfold across provinces from Almeria to Ciudad Real as floods wreck towns, wipe crops, and kill hundreds. Citizens beg for bread while authorities mobilize relief funds. the death toll climbs with hundreds missing and towns flooded.
A dispatch from Algeciras reports the third Mediterranean collision this week off the west Gibraltar bay. Two vessels, one Greek and one Italian, sank after severe damage. sixty five lives are missing.
The 1888 New York Democratic gathering adopted the presiding plan report and platform, nominates Roswell P. Flower for governor with Alfred C Chapin as a presenter, and lists officers including Sheehan as lieutenant governor and Dinforth as treasurer. A second state convention in Boston backs Charles I. Allen for governor with Henry Cabot Lodge as chair and delegates choosing a slate including Hale, Olin, Marden, Pillsbury, and Kimball.
The Balmaceda escape rumor spreads from Washington to San Francisco as officials deny knowledge of his flight. It is unlikely the ex-president is aboard the United States vessel, though he would be protected if found on a U.S. warship.
Missouri Kansas and Texas south bound express car robbed near Leliaetta Oklahoma at 9 30 pm Tuesday. Robbers seized 2560 chest, emptied it, and took the entire amount totaling over 82500. Train officials menaced with pistols during the heist.
Reports from Consuegra describe an immense flood that submerged the town, wrecking streets and buildings. Water rose to eighteen feet in St John the Baptist church, with property losses estimated at $2.5 million. Survivors recount rapid rise, mass evacuations, roofs used for escape, and widespread death amid extensive debris.
Acting Secretary Spaulding ordered the Detroit collector to return to Canada a Chinaman deemed unlawfully in the United States after Judge Swan ruled the man must be sent back. The decision questions the meaning whence he came under the 1888 law and could widen loopholes for entrants from Canada and British Columbia.
Passengers aboard a night Oakland to Sacramento Pullman train wake to find three cars ransacked. Thieves likely boarded between water stops, stealing wallets watches and jewelry while conductors and porters were overwhelmed. total losses estimated at 3500 dollars with every sleeper except the Sepo affected.
Letters from Jiddah dated August 24 report unprecedented cholera among Mecca pilgrims with about 11 000 deaths in the season. Reports from Aleppo note 950 deaths June to mid August and widespread outbreaks across Asiatic Turkey with quarantines and disinfection in huts. Washington announces new silver coin provisions and a local Iowa case describes an architectural suit over a promissory note drafted by a wealthy retiree for a housekeeper.
Reports from Tien-Tain and Paris state foreign ministers press China for safeguards after attacks on foreigners in Ichang and Yangtze Kiang regions. Britain and other powers consider naval demonstration and joint action with coordinated governance to protect foreign interests in interior China.
Chicago officials fear a European war would badly hurt the 1893 World’s Fair. Directors and staff expect few European or Asian exhibits and dangerous transportation risks, though they doubt the war would cancel or delay the event. The likelihood of war before the fair’s opening is considered high by many officials.
From Somerset Kentucky a mob seized Sheriff McCargue’s jailers keys, took the Gilliland brothers from custody, and hanged them near a ravine west of town. The crowd, likely from Whitely and Laurel counties, claimed the men were innocent and offered no confession.
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