25 Feb 1892
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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1892
Page
1
Dalton Roller Mill Co offers the Ohio full roller process with new mill capacity of 60 barrels per day. Holler claimed to be guaranteed superior to others and every sack warranted. Custom exchange available.
In Suwarn Feb 16 sessions the senate nursed bills on pensions and salaries for retired officials, with a plan to postpone the inceme tax. The Dubois Claggett election dispute was debated as Mitchell presented competing resolutions. The house adjourned after defeating a Russia relief measure.
Gilbert E Griffin a long time officer in the United States post office department since 1837 died at Kingston Ontario on the 19th He introduced the money order and railway mail system in the United States He was 70 years old The president issued a proclamation prohibiting seal killing in the Bering Sea Internal revenue receipts for the first seven months of the fiscal year ending June 30 1892 were 88700004 up 1299110 from the prior year
Two youths James Martin and Frank Farrell aged around 16 drowned at Sandy Lake Creek near Reynoldsville Pennsylvania on the 18th. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters will demand an eight hour day on May 1 with strikes where not granted. Three Edgar Thomson steel works workers in Braddock Pennsylvania were fatally injured by molten converter contents on the 18th. Wolves reported in West Seneca suburb of Buffalo appearing at night and retreating to woods a mile away. Mr Blaine’s withdrawal letter is unconditional and he will not accept the presidential nomination, though Mrs Blaine and Emmons urged otherwise. New Jersey Supreme Court affirms Clifton Jockey Club officials' conviction for operating a race track at Passaic, sentencing them to one year in jail and $300 fines. ruling ends legal racing in New Jersey.
An epidemic of diphtheria has quarantined Macksburg Ohio home to 500 people. Schools closed and no public gatherings or street activity allowed as several deaths are reported.
A mob captured Ed Coy on the 20th near Texarkana Arkansas tied him to a tree and burned him alive. The atrocity drew about 5000 witnesses while Coy maintained his innocence to the end. The report appears amid a broader 19th century news roundup.
The Democratic state convention at Albany instructs its delegates to cast ballots for Senator Hill at Chicago. An anti-Hill faction plans a May 31 convention to choose delegates. Also notes a Nicaragua perpetual charter for a Louisiana lottery and related moves and losses from a North Atlantic gale and other events.
At Altany New York on February 22 the Democratic state committee met amid contests in three districts. The protest against an early convention was admitted but then laid on the table. Gen Daniel E Sickles was chosen as permanent chairman and the delegation backed Senator Hill for the national ticket. A separate antHill conference organized in Union Hall to oppose the early convention.
Brandt, while working on Batchelor mountain, unearthed a cavern with silver ore averaging 810,000 per ton. The chamber, 50 by 200 feet, promises vast riches and drew crowds to the cliff-dweller claim. A syndicate offered $100,000 cash, but Brandt refused.
A group of congressmen toured Jackson Park on February 23 to inspect the world fair buildings. They viewed the enclosure from the women's building roof and toured the grounds, half wonder struck by the scale. The visit concluded with a banquet at the Grand Pacific.
In Piedmont West Virginia on Sunday night Charles and Robert Ross two colored men assaulted Henry Green a colored man in a Methodist church Green used a knife wounding Charles Ross in the abdomen killing him Green died within half an hour Ross sister rushed to aid and was knocked down her skull fractured point of death and exact details remain under investigation
A Panama cable reports Nicaragua grants the Louisiana lottery a perpetual charter. Upon expiration Morris and associates will move headquarters to Nicaragua and continue operations. The lottery will pay $100000 annually for a monopoly.
Daniel T. McInerney, a messenger for the American Express Company, was shot three times during a train robbery near Lyons New York. After a chaotic pursuit involving a masked robber aboard a two car express, he was found wounded but alive. Perry, wanted for a Utica express robbery, was captured by police near Blue Cut after hijacking a farmer's horse and sleigh. A $1,000 reward is offered.
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