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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1894
Page
7
General Marketa from Chicago to Milwaukee show May trading for futures and cash, including cattle shipments, shipper quotations, and currency rates. Prices span corn, wheat, oats, fats, and feeds, with government bonds and foreign exchange quoted, plus regional grain and livestock bids across Wisconsin, Indiana, and Nebraska markets.
A scattered, garbled late news patch reports strikes, riots, disease, and disasters across the U S. It notes coke region violence in Pennsylvania, a Hawaiian minister wedding in Michigan, a Toronto riot involving Queen's Own, a Minneapolis steamer sinking with wheat cargo, and various political and legal shuffles including tax seizures and bonds losses.
General George N. Denes and a convoy from Indian counties in Cheyenne country are reported amid military actions. Wildfires, bomb explosions at Petersburg, Va, and railroad troop deployments mark a tense time with several deaths and fires at agency buildings.
A Milwaukee hotel blaze ends in a catastrophic rooftop collapse. Nine workers die as flames trap rescuers and onlookers, bodies buried under debris and embers. Survivors suffer burn and orthopedic injuries while the city grapples with the disaster.
The report covers naval slip suitability, Senate clashes on policy, and Tillman inquiry, plus stock and currency signals. Gompers protests a Chinese treaty, rail investigations continue, and the Kearsarge wreck salvage seeks relic recovery. Departments discuss tax, wheat supply, and postmaster expirations while retirement bills for judges gain momentum.
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