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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1886
Page
2
In the year ending September the elevated railways of New York City carried 115 million passengers, up 54 million from the previous year. The gain highlights growing urban transit use and the expansion of elevated lines during the period.
A principal land office at Vancouver British Columbia sits in a hollow tree with a circumference of forty four feet. A table twenty seven feet long and four feet wide is carved from a solid board sourced from the same tree.
The latest advices from Europe say war is inevitable by next spring and pacific reports are deceptive. Hostile preparations continue in Austria, Russia, Germany and France.
In Georgia, one ballot question asked whether to maintain the railroad commission acting as a court of equity between the people and railroads. Returns indicate the public supported sustaining the commissioner system by a wide margin.
Edwin Booth the renowned actor reports a strong season with projections of about six hundred thousand dollars gross if trends hold through forty weeks. Chicago receipts for two weeks reached roughly forty one thousand dollars, with Booth's share estimated near a quarter million after expenses.
Two geologists working at a western peak connected with the Oregon electric marvel received severe shocks. The electric fluid entered them with needle like pricks and hair on end as their muscles twitched. They fled down the mountain with instruments in hand.
The Texas exports of cattle and agricultural produce for the year ending August 31 reached 91 million dollars. The state’s vast territory surpasses Austria Germany and France. Its remaining room for population growth suggests that Texas alone could support the entire U S population, with the rest of the nation open to settlement.
John Wannamaker of Philadelphia, after a Europe return, argues the German government operated system proves private railroad companies offer better service. He notes travelers complain about government delays and trains failing to run on time, while American express trains are often slow.
At St Louis eleventh annual convention delegates from assessment insurance secret societies presented figures from 1885. Members secured numbered 866585, total at close of 1885 1838180. Insurance in force reached 4108308743 dollars. assessments collected that year 27105488, death claims paid 25065917 on 13908 cases. Losses paid since organization stood at 148028022 dollars.
President Cleveland and Cabinet officers visit the Virginia State Fair at Richmond. A large crowd along the route and in Richmond cheers greet the party as Gov. Fitz Hugh Lee escorts the president to the fairgrounds. Cleveland urges unity and pride in American citizenship and national labor.
A crowded platform scene follows President Cleveland's remarks with brief cheers for Sec retaries Bayard Lindicott and others. The report notes personal ties to Winnie Davis and a later tragedy. Also covered are postmasters appointed and bills on bonds, floods relief, and various political nominations and court actions from Chicago to Des Moines and beyond.
Reports claim the czar's household is in turmoil as imagined threats rise. Alleged incidents include a czar shooting an adjutant in self defense and Count Routern killed while undressing in the palace. Other items note a fatal accident in Fredericksburgh and a Manchester politician committing suicide in his barn.
Oct 16 report from Johnson's Bayou La describes a devastating cyclone that wrecked Radford and Johnson's Bayou Cameron parish. It notes 200 deaths across Sabine Pass and adjoining communities, with 85 locals confirmed dead, 40 recovered, 45 in marshes, and 6,000 stock drowned as 127 missing. A steamer Emily P. evacuated about 60 survivors to Orange with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
The Rev. Dr. Mahlon Orris Gilbert, former rector of Christ Church, St. Paul, was consecrated as assistant bishop to Bishop Whipple of Minnesota at St James Church Chicago. Bishop Tuttle preached a unity sermon as Bishop Lee presided with other bishops in attendance.
A described consecration procedure by Bishop Coxe includes the oaths, certificates, and hands laid on the bishop elect, with the presiding bishop Alfred Lee overseeing the rites on the lath day of the year. The articles were answered, and the Holy Ghost was conferred as part of the episcopal installation.
Governor Caleb West urges Congress to assert federal authority over polygamy in Utah Territory. He calls for regular territorial sessions, stronger court presence, and a U.S. troop garrison to enforce unpopular laws and deter further plural marriages. He warns of potential violence and urges swift, concrete legislation.
A Chicago based platform outlines forming The National Protective Association with a national committee of one representative per state and a seven member executive group to run affairs. Officers named include President J M Atherton Kentucky and Vice President William Lamper St Louis. The resolutions praise temperance and morality while opposing prohibition as unconstitutional and impractical urging trade members to curb liquor abuse without closing businesses. The platform calls for non intervention in politics except when collective action is needed.
The Chicago packing house strike closes after 12 000 to 14 000 workers attend a mass meeting on the 17th. A ten hour return to work plan won near unanimously, with Knight of Labor delegate Barry informing Armour the strike is over. Packers plan to run full capacity and rehire former workers, with no conditions for non union staff. A winter wage schedule, effectively a 10 percent raise, starts soon though the usual change takes effect mid November.
Local readers react as Rev S H Hebbard former Universalist pastor declares conversion to orthodoxy. He explains in a tract titled Why I Cannot Remain a Universalist and is noted for extensive reading, with criticism aimed at his scholarly bent.
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