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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1894
Page
1
A compact fragment shows a proposal to Sak repeated many times and then thirteen. The text remains unclear but implies repeated romantic advance with an unusual final count. No clear event date or location is given.
A stream of curious notes covers unions in Caicaco boothlacks and Exotisa typists, a Prussian water resistant paper, cork pine matches, canary fanciers in Paris, long Swiss workdays, and taxes on cats. It also notes bicycle cars in France, czar’s trunks, cocoa leaf taxes in Peru, and Denmark’s altar gift to Kearney church, with many more marvels and figures.
President John McBride of the United Mine Workers says many northern and eastern miners will resume, with Indiana workers largely accepting the settlement while other Illinois and Ohio districts show mixed responses. In Indiana one third of delegates voted to work. Pennsylvania and Iowa show varying compliance as Ohio districts contemplate a Monday return.
The funeral for William Walter Phelps will be held at the Presbyterian church in Englewood after his remains lie in state at the family residence. Henry M. Booth of Auburn will officiate. Interment is planned for Simsbury Connecticut next Wednesday. Pallbearers include Wm. W. Bennett, Patrick O'Neil, A. T. Herrick, Wm. E. Bond, Thomas R. White, and Donald Mathewson.
Maprio reports Sultan Abdul Aziz proclaims amnesty for offenses against his father while warning of harsh penalties for resistance. He orders the swift execution of several Bedouins charged with robbing caravans.
Paris reports the Italian ambassador in Berlin will be replaced over strained ties with Emperor William after a quarrel with a relative of the emperor who is an official.
Mrs Martha Needle, a widow, arrested in Melbourne on a charge of attempting to poison lodger Juncken with arsenic. Preliminary inquiry suggests her husband, three children, and Juncken’s brother were killed by poison attributed to the prisoner.
Waswrverox on June 18 reports the dismissal of twenty Census Bureau employees effective the previous Saturday. The report notes the move as part of agency downsizing and lists no further details on the affected departments or subsequent hires.
A congressional sugar trust hearing features senators Gorman Camden and others denying stock speculation while probing ties to the sugar trust. Witnesses insist they had no pecuniary obligation or direct influence, as committee members debate directing the vice president to certify Havemeyer and Searles to the grand jury.
BrammnenaM Alabama June 19 A monster mass meeting drew over two thousand miners near Adamsville twelve miles west of here. They decide to continue the strike hold a July 4 meeting and vote for the entire populist ticket at the next election. Troop transport trains were ready but unused as guards tighten around mines after a trestle dynamiting by armed men.
June 19 Broughs reports the Peary auxiliary party will sail from Brooklyn. Members include Prof. William Libbey of the Geographer’s staff, Prof. T C of Chicago University, Dr. Axel Ohlin zoologist, Dr. H E Wetherill surgeon, H L Aideenae of the Brooklyn Standard Union, Emil Diebitsch civil engineer from Port Royal South Carolina.
In Bostos on June 19 Bob Fitzsimmons, world light heavy champion, felled Joe Choynski before police halted the bout. Five rounds were completed before the interruption, leaving the fight a disputed draw and both fighters claiming victory.
After a lengthy nine hour session the American Railway Union adjourned Monday without reaching a decision on the proposal to establish a new policy or institution amid continued fatigue and unresolved points of contention among delegates.
Washington dispatch details a weekslong anarchist plot led by Honore Jackson of Chicago to bomb the Capitol Treasury Building White House and other government sites. Authorities, alerted by informants, foiled the plan before action with trials of chemicals causing a deadly smoke and a cat dying from vapor exposure.
The Senate advanced the tariff bill on Monday moving through schedules M and N and reaching the free list by five fifteen. A key amendment by the finance committee to tax bituminous coal at forty cents per ton drew cross party opposition led by Senator Hill who pressed for free raw materials. Faulkner defended duty on coal as sound Democratic policy while Hill argued coal is a raw material like wool and warned against inconsistent free list moves. Senator Hoar cited stump rhetoric on free coal from New England campaigns.
Ex-Representative Thomas M. Bayne of Pittsburgh died at his Massachusetts Avenue home by shooting himself through the heart. Authorities note ill health and possible financial reverses as factors. Bayne was a well known Pennsylvania Republican and served on the Ways and Means Committee in the last Congress before leaving active politics.
A New York plan seeks to invite British statesman William Gladstone to visit America. Judge Ad dison Brown is a prime mover, with Chauncey M. Depew to mail the invitation. Signers include Charles Stewart Smith Seth Low Thomas Edison and university presidents. A circular will solicit preferred invitation forms.
In MINGHAM Alabama on June 19 armed strikers drove watchman from a Georgia and Pacific railroad bridge near Coalburg. They placed dynamite under the structure and exploded it, but improper placement caused little damage. A large striker meeting at Adamsville Monday raises fears of further trouble.
Com John W Easby U S N retired died aged 75 He served as inspector of government gunboats in the late war and later naval constructor During President Garfield s administration he was named chief of the bureau of construction and repair navy department with the relative rank of commodore
The visitors to the United States Naval Academy will urge major reforms. The course of instruction would extend to six years with a two year sea cruise. Four month practice cruises are recommended. Elementary subjects would be moved to the first year.
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