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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1891
Page
4
The plan to settle the presidency by retiring Dalzell and Robinson and placing a third man has failed. Robinson vows victory and Dalzell insists on a convention vote. The fight remains fierce and square, with leaders distrusting the compromise move and fearing spoiling the contest rather than resolving it.
A Kansas report questions the claim that an Alliance judge elected without legal training defies the Supreme Court by ruling against mortgage foreclosures. The piece cautions against trusting Eastern press reports and notes frequent sensational, partisan distortion in Kansas farm alliance coverage.
Montreal dispatch notes Adolphe Mercier possible open support for Canadian independence. It argues French Canadian priorities in Quebec favor state autonomy, Catholic funding, language education, and alignment with French interests over annexation to the United States.
Fragmentary text hints at a broader discussion where mixed influences challenge Canadian sentiment toward a nearly nominal British su- relationship. The excerpt implies uncertainty about alignment with Britain amid shifting political factors.
A financial special notes a flood of new industrial and mercantile firms forming as NJ corporations to sell shares to investors. It critiques the shift from individuals to corporate forms, warns against stock manipulation, and questions whether promised eight percent dividends can be sustained over time.
The piece argues that New York District Attorney Nicoll is correct to plan a test prosecution of a newspaper for publishing reports on electric executions. It claims this enforcement helps repeal the law as unconstitutional and that attacks on the DA are misdirected. The public should support the move as a defense of press liberty.
The Ohio Democratic platform favors a graded income tax but draws sharp criticism as a class tax and a burden on prosperity. Critics question return accuracy, noting income secrecy and dodging incentives, while the tariff dispute dominates, aligning Eastern editors with protectionists. Consul General Newbons reportedly gathered photographs of about a dozen thousand individuals.
The column surveys sensational events from Minnesota cannibalism to Russian peasant flogging and tax issues. It jokes about flogging machines, the pork market, and hash debates sparked by Miss Ewing at Chautauqua. It also notes Grover Francis Trais claiming to have coined the word crank.
The Philadelphia Inquirer praises Mr. Robinson for opposing mushroom clubs while noting his support for League and Pennsylvania constitutional positions. The piece comments on loans to Philadelphia judges, urging that judges avoid loans from custodians of public funds. It also ponders potential interventions by David Bennett Hill or Grover Cleveland in Ohio politics.
The note says Tr Quay resigns from the National Committee but does not imply he will quit Pennsylvania politics. It warns against assuming Matthew Stanley will withdraw from state affairs and cautions that Ms McCreery’s mint commission appointment should not reflect Colonel’s preference for juleps.
The writer mockingly warns Sam Small against grandiose financial schemes in religious circles, suggesting Small aims high but would fail on a retail scale. The Rev J Wesley Hill is cited as a source skeptical of Small’s Napoleonic finance ambitions.
A collage of brief notes on notable figures and events. Presce Bismarck and wife illness in Berlin. Premier Mercien of Quebec welcomed home to Montreal. poet James Whitcomb Riley planning a London edition. Evita Wheeler Wilcox starts political career abroad. Devan and Depew associates noted for workload. William Wurt nock in Brooklyn eyed yachts. Gladstone’s modest literary earnings cited. Phillips Brooks’ life story discussed. Joseph Sitwater now farm foreman on Warm Spring reservation. Hannibal Hamlin’s wartime record and postwar memory referenced.
Police Captain William Stewart and August Bodenhagen plan a two week pleasure trip to Baltimore and Washington plus battlefield visits. B A Winternitz, a New Castle lawyer, went to Atlantic City. Several other locals are listed as travelers or guests at noted hotels and shows.
Essay notes that the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg travels to Madame Tussaud's in London, presenting a grim chamber of horrors with thumb-screws and racks. It contrasts medieval torture with modern humanity, praising abolition of such cruelties and celebrating progress toward peaceful thought and medical advances.
The New York Sun quotes Senator Ingalls of Kaneas asserting Washington as the intellectual capital of the United States, while Henry Watterson of Kentucky deems Boston supreme. The exchange highlights rival views on centers of national ideas.
A New York World reminiscence recounts how Senator West left Kentucky for Missouri after a late night poker game aboard a river vessel. The boat drifted 40 miles after the mooring was cut, shocking Owensboro and ending Wests early local newspaper career. The Mayor vowed to shoot the boat cutter on sight, and West later moved to Missouri.
Chicago Herald notes Bishop Coxe derides women bicycling as immodest but argues such norms draw from Asia and ancient Greece, not America. The piece argues modern wholeness for women favors health, strength, and independence over restrictive etiquette.
G W Delamater former Pennsylvania governor candidate visits Portland as a guest of George W Staver. He will preach at Taylor Street Church tomorrow morning and evening and continues rest from his political loss while in Meadville based banker plans. He praises Portland's prosperity and asks few political questions.
A writer recalls two years ago in Switzerland where lizards living in a sunny garden wall gathered to watch as a man played a small musical box. The lizards showed unusual attention, peering from crevices and later venturing onto the wall ledge to lie still and listen, eyes bright, a lazy wink of enjoyment.
William Walker a Scotch merchant author and reformer died in Glasgow. He wrote Christianized Commerce and Black Robe Lyrics and supported temperance. Colonel George M. Chambers a Jacksonville pioneer and first pork packer died aged many years. Mrs Marsena B. Peck of East Greenwich left 20000 for a free cemetery and bequests to local churches. Obituaries note Crystal age 111 and other long-lived individuals with brief career highlights.
A Fort Monroe correspondent recalls summer pleasures at Old Point Comfort. Two Washington society girls perform in the surf while engineers rescue children on tracks. Days include meals, fort visits, guard drills, ballroom evenings, boardwalks, and writing by moonlight.
A dramatic railroad rescue tale describes a locomotive engineer leaping from the cab to grab a child on the track just as a fast train nears. Despite breaking his arm and buckling several cars, the daring act averts a catastrophic accident according to the account.
A live tarantula arrived in a Chicago fruit house from Brazil and attacked an Italian laborer when the bunch moved. The spider leapt inside a cracker box as workers recall finding multiple tarantulas and boa constrictors in the fruit shipments over the years. A prior tarantula bite left a worker with a severed arm, and the merchant notes several dangerous specimens among imported fruit.
Mrs Mollie Hughes of Cameraville Idaho is described as gradually turning to solid bone. The condition began with a single finger in Canon Rapids, later amputated, and has progressed to the arms and face over five years with the body expected to become a rigid skeleton.
A French exhibition in Moscow features a waffle stand where Russian observers note the workers resemble Finnish peasants rather than admired French beauty. Managers were asked for comment but offered no clear explanation, claiming the stand was purposely selected to be homely as the exhibit gains attention.
The fragment discusses fears about bringing skilled workers and the burden of replacing them with new labor. It mentions homely women as a solution to avoid trouble and the burden of training new hands. The tone implies wartime labor anxieties and gendered expectations.
A fur dealer, Mr Kahn, reported a young woman named Miss Charlotte Nichols riding into Empire City Coos Bay with a rifle and a bear carcass lashed to her horse. The bear was shot after the animal charged the rifle. Nichols, described as a skilled hunter, had planned a country visit and bought skinning materials.
G W Elder and crew of five sail Montauk toward Fire Island when a gust capsizes the craft near Bay Shore. Elder dives thrice to reach Mrs Elder trapped in the cabin, finally lifting her to the keel where air space above the hull allows brief breathing until rescue. Gerald Stuyvesant endures the harrowing ordeal.
Senator Quay is praised as a bold strategist and fearless leader. He faces a pivotal 1855 bid for State Treasurer, risking retirement or defeat to secure power. The piece anticipates a major intra party clash within Pennsylvania's 30 year ruling party over the demand for better politics.
The Washington Star notes an incident in Pennsylvania where two colored men ran a blacksmith shop, then suspended operations after lawful closure. observers were amused by a conspicuously posted notice.
President Harrison spent a very quiet day in Carr May New Jersey. He avoided church but walked on the beach and watched the waves. Mrs Harrison and Lt and Mrs Parker attended St Johns Episcopal Church. Colonel Crooks, White House disbursing clerk, arrived. Cardinal Gibbons officiated mass at St Marys Cathedral at 9 oclock.
A humorously encoded remark recalls gender and age inference from military shoulder straps. The speaker suggests a man from West Point indicates a girl may be around eighty, while a major or colonel implies she could still be in her teens.
The Chicago Tribune comments that Chief Justice Fuller’s mustache, though mocked by some, would not hinder a future presidential bid and argues it is more shapely and suited to a statesman image than Grover Cleveland’s.
In a July scene the speaker notes heat and dancing imps as they crawl from grass and flowers. Imps fall on the speaker and wake them, while breezes and distant birds provide a hazy backbeat. Love appears as a cool fantasy that turns toward duty in a faded New York Herald voice.
A collage of oddities and facts: petrified bodies in an Indiana graveyard. an ex-policeman’s remark on bald heads. English sanitation drops consumption deaths. a Michigan Central car replaces 300 workers. a Georgian editor’s ironies. Missouri outsprinting Kentucky in stock. honey yields slump. Rome and Paris catacombs counts. Thessaly horsemen myths. Death Valley aviaries and rare mammals. Mississippi voting duties risk disfranchisement. Frankfurt exhibition insured at 3.5 million marks. Parisian baptism error leads to conscription notice. Bank of England notes stats. San Francisco Chinatown decline due to Seattle trade and exclusion laws. eye care tip with coin trick. Honest Hans Sachs praised. licorice extract cures bitter tastes. Roman Britain tools exhibit at Silchester show near current designs.
A fragment inspired by Shakespearean wordplay contrasts Faith, Hope, and Charity with a rustic setting. The verse critiques belief and virtue through playful misdirections, invoking old maidens and a mother’s care in a light, theatrical tone.
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