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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1897
Page
2
Weather Bureau report from Winnemucca Station dated September 27 1897 shows 21 hours ending 9:09 PM with mean barometer 29.70 inches maximum 76 degrees minimum 45 mean 66 degrees and prevailing wind from the west. No precipitation in 24 hours. Temperature kept at 28.49 degrees.
A York Dispatch excerpt mocks Republican claims of improving times by noting more workers are striking today than in 1893 and 1894, arguing the supposed upturn is not noticed by many while labor disputes continue.
The Napoleon tobacco company workers were informed of a twenty percent wage reduction due to higher material costs from the Dingley bill. The strike followed, and a smokestack scene from last November shows inaction akin to Hanna posters about Bryan. Massachusetts Democrats convened in Boston to nominate statewide candidates and endorsed the Chicago platform.
Two men in Korea were caught counterfeiting copper cent pieces and were sentenced to hang by local courts. The article questions public reaction to counterfeiting a dollar. Henry George was unanimously nominated for mayor of Greater Newark Monday by the United Democracy, a coalition of free silver Bryan clubs. If Tammany adopts the Chicago platform, George may decline to run.
In Baltimore a husband who struck his wife with a lamp faced police court the next morning and appeared surprised to learn she did not press light against him.
Charles Holly a teamater faced a lethal blast when the rear wagon carrying nitric acid and giant powder caught fire five miles beyond Desert Springs. He uncoupled the flame damaged wagon, escaped on the front team, and watched the rear wagon explode behind him as flames and nitric acid bottles shattered with cannonading noise.
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