25 Sep 1891
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1891
Page
1
A collage of notes covers weather warnings, racing prize growth, political slips, and unusual human interest items. Mentions 1880 prize money, long lists of names, a lighthouse keeper claim, a broken rope maker’s fate, tobacco farming in Lewiston, a drain tunnel in Leadville, and a Chicago telephone reunion.
Weekly U S financial exchanges show total time and money flows totaling 1 930 850 404 with weaker surge and 1 007 708 587 similar comparison to 1890 Visible grain supplies in the United States include wheat 40 014 bashels corn 9 449 835 bushels and oats 450 046 bushels Petition for pardon signed by Mrs Hankison and cabinet wives sent to Lincoln for Queen Victoria through Mrs Maybrick case. president grants pardon for Robert Sigel forging conviction.
The report lists several fatalities including ex congressman William L. Scott of Erie Pa dying in Newport Rhode Island from consumption at 63 with an estate valued at 20 million dollars. Others include a flood victim found in Johnstown Pa and drownings near Newburg New York. A stock firm in Wall Street failed for 3 million. Boston trade schools to open evenings for apprentices. Crowell Crowell died in Rahway New Jersey aged 74. he published Crowell's Pictorial, the first pictorial paper in the United States.
A varied collection of league batting percentages, including Chicago .612 and New York .565, plus scattered notes on disasters and incidents across the U.S. and Canada. Highlights include a wreck killing three men and 35 cattle, the St Clair river tunnel opening at Port Huron, a prairie fire death toll, lynching in Reno, and multiple local misfortunes in Illinois Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Reports recount a Chilean ex president’s suicide in Santiago, a deadly Belgian mine explosion, battles between revolutionists and troops near Mexico, a London bank robbery, Spain’s Consuegra hurricane, and a deadly train collision on the Russian frontier. Additional notes mention floods in England, attacks on a French mission in Guinea, and widespread cholera in Turkey.
A Spain express train between Burgos and Sansabuastian collided with a mixed passenger train killing twenty four and injuring many. Whole families died including a Victoria judge and his wife. Separately a boiler explosion at a sawmill near Tion estu killed three men. Other incidents include a Minneapolis elevator fire damage and several suicides and murders reported in various cities.
Reports describe boomer stampede at border towns near Tohee Langston and Kickapoo, as 8000 claimants rush into open lands before noon. The chaos includes revolver fire and horses, with injuries and detentions reported. broader coverage notes Hawaii tensions and a railway wreck with multiple casualties.
News from Newfoundland reports two J and W Stewart schooners, the Payslee under Capt. Johnane, and the Amazon under Capt. Noble, lost with all hands. Wreckage and several bodies washed ashore on Cape Breton, confirming the Camelia loss with Harvey, his wife, child, and nine sailors perished.
Gertrude Potter of Chicago had a secret marriage to F Leo Rust annulled by Judge Horton who faced criticism for a hearing held in secrecy. Potter then wed Julius Clarke Daniels of New York in a quiet ceremony at her father’s home. Daniels had previously used the name Julius Clark in a 1689 license.
The piece notes electric light powering about forty mines and rapid expansion of electric mining. It mentions electro photographic advances enabling distant views, telegraph work in South Africa speeding ahead of railroads, and the Atlantic cable’s high resistance slowing currents. It also mentions an electric railway to Mount Wilson and a legal note on a note payable sixty days after death.
The Tribune reports England Italy Germany and the United States plan a naval demonstration in Chinese waters with the Duke of Genoa to command the combined fleet. It also claims France and Russia would refrain from intervention, and notes the Genoa visit to England aims to confer with the British on the plan.
Allerton, hailed as king, trimmed the stallion record by three quarters of a second to 2 09 1 4 at 6 30 Saturday evening. Nelson’s 2 19 mile at Grand Rapids left him even with Allerton, but witnesses expect the Maine horse to drop further. Williams predicts a 2 07 run this year. Curiaco notes $5,000,000 in bonds to be issued for the Columbian exposition remains fully subscribed, with bond handling to the finance committee pending next executive meeting.
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