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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1893
Page
7
Disjointed OCR yields scattered notes on cabinet ancestry debates rail crossings in Massachusetts city plans in Florida and new rail mileage data. Mentions Myre Clark Gaines estate values, Brook court cases, and political room discussions in Washington with references to Tallahassee and St Clairsville.
A historical sketch accompanies portraits of the new president and vice president, outlining their backgrounds and the cabinet. It notes birth and education details, mentioning Grove and Ireland and their early life.
Reports indicate President Harrison will return to his legal career and begin lecturing on law at the Leland Stanford University in California. He has accepted an offer from Stanford and will begin touring a full course on international and constitutional law, with potential pay around 15000 dollars annually.
Princess Kaiulani niece of Hawaii’s deposed Queen Liliuokalani arrives in New York with guardians and companions. An 18 year old beauty vows to seek her crown, appealing to Americans to honor Hawaii and oppose annexation. Guardians say they will travel to Boston then Washington to press her case before President Cleveland.
Summary of crimes and executions across cities with details of hangings in Pittsfield Massachusetts Birmingham Alabama and San Diego County California along with political news from Washington and Chicago and local incidents including a college fire and notable deaths.
A miscellany of brief notes: a fire near Austin destroys property. Pope Leo’s 53rd birth anniversary in Rome. ship collisions in the English Channel with thirteen drowned. Anna Robleski in Michigan marks her 105th birthday. a major fire at Constable Hook leaves seven buildings burning and fifty families homeless. a $70,000,000 sole leather trust said formed at Buffalo NJ. Erastus Ramey dies by drinking lye. Boyle Davis advertised for sale in Mexican border town. Alfred P. Robinson, Delaware chief justice, dies suddenly. Richard J. Oglesby Jr named West Point cadet-at-large. diphtheria affects the Hammaker family. bullfight tragedy in Linares. copper kettle poison in Mascoutah IL. stock cars pass through Dubuque IA en route west. Harry Kelly acquitted in Galesburg IL murder case. Rev. Henry L Hammond, 78, Congregational leader, dies. Carlisle Indian Industrial School commencement draws large crowd. Frank H A Jenkins shoots wife and himself. Baton Rouge editors duel in Texas. Greek immigrant Hetherington shoots Miss Klaus and shoots himself. state warden William Chamberlain appointed. Associated Press organization in Chicago with Melville Stone named general manager. Congress-related signing of a corporate act. Marksville LA cyclone aftermath. Washington Legislature bans cigarettes and cigarette papers. Henry M. Goodwin, long-time Rockford pastor and Olivet College professor, dies in Williamstown MA.
A tornado struck a Mobile & Ohio railroad station area north of Marion Mississippi at 10 pm on a Friday. Homes were unroofed and wrecked, freight cars scattered, and several lives lost including Mrs Meader and her child near the station. Victims, injuries, and a fatality of a nearby Black man were reported amid widespread damage.
Washington and various capitals report on the Fifty-Second Congress actions. Key items include the pension appropriation bill at 16.5 million dollars, sundry civil conference reports, and posts office and naval and agricultural bills. Public debt, receipts, and expenditures for February are outlined with changes in gold and silver balances. Six villages in Guatemala were flooded by Campidan Valley, Panama.
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