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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1892
Page
5
A garbled 19th century news brief recounts varied items from science and industry to culture. It notes French novel rights for Docteur Pascal, a World’s Fair issue, African and American trade topics, Icelandic governance, and a curious clock with city time displays.
The Western Blizzard report details a two day storm along the Union Pacific with snow up to 18 feet in places and five foot drifts on the level near Laramie. Rotary plows clear lines as west bound trains are halted. Conductor Roberta survived a 150 foot plunge in Granite Canyon. many cattle and horses perish across northern Colorado and Wyoming. a man is found dead near Greely. Multiple wrecks and fatalities follow from Falcon to El Moro, with Engineer Leeman seriously injured and a brakeman fatally crushed. An Australian miner dies in Central City.
The Homestead military presence ends after ninety five days with troops marching to Munhall Station for a special train. Gen Wylie says no further trouble is anticipated but troops remain on standby. Sheriff McCleary increases deputies to thirty amid post crisis calm.
The funeral of Lord Tennyson drew a vast gathering of eminent figures at Westminster Abbey. The service featured flower tributes from Queen Victoria and Mrs Gladstone, music including Crossing the Bar and The Silent Voices, and a procession to the Browning grave. Avalanches of floral tokens and a solemn benediction closed the rites.
A roundup of brief items: resignations and deaths include A Whitfield ex first assistant postmaster general. Linus B Comins ex congressman died in Boston aged 63. John Leary and Frank Harris killed in a train fight. Phil Young lynched after shooting a white man in Va. Charles Coon named for Congress while NY Republicans nominate others. Disasters report fires destroying Bluford Illinois and Hill City South Dakota, San Francisco fire, New York rail crash injuring forty. Other notes cover a comet sighting, zinc find near Hillsboro New Mexico, a safe robbery in Roswell South Dakota, a counterfeit five dollar bill in circulation, and various local misfortunes and political moves.
Charles Robsein & Co. piano and general musical merchandise dealers in Detroit have assigned to Herman C. Ralph. Seabilities are $100,000, but Robsein asserts the arrangement will allow payment of all debts dollar for dollar and protects both weak and strong creditors. The move follows concerns over business stability.
Ex-Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh writes to Julie W Carter of the Massachusetts Reform club announcing support for Grover Cleveland in the current campaign. He criticizes the McKinley tariff and force bill, warns of taxation and corruption, and urges honest money policies while praising Democratic positions on tariffs and immigration. A Brooklyn parish anecdote contrasts clergy with a Baptist minister in a brief tale.
A collage of household tips on flavors and cleaning play alongside brief European royal gossip. Notes advise on meat seasoning and salt use, oilcloth care, carpet cleaning, and avoiding water on grease spots, then pivot to snippets about the dowager marchioness of Huntly botanizing and Victoria’s maids of honor, with a mention of the Austrian emperor’s approval.
The Weekly Review of Trade reports overall favorable indications with rising imports and steady demand in several cities including Boston Philadelphia and Baltimore. A freight train collision near New London Conn kills four race horse handlers and injures one. another cable car collision in Kansas City leaves four dead. Other items include Buenos Aires presidential oath Oct 16 and New York society leader Charles Lown Der Cottenet killed while hunting.
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