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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1890
Page
4
A collage of curiosities and light items from The Marren Mail and nearby papers. Vignettes include an astonished view of glass turning colors, social quips, and a curious fortune of city population trivia, plus jokes, recipes, and short anecdotes from Florida to New England.
The United States Consul reports a remarkable iron church to be built at San Sebastian Manila. Designed by Senor Genero Palacios y Guerra, it features two tall front steeples, hollow fluted columns, and double plate iron walls with a 30 inch space between. About fifteen hundred tons of iron comprise the structure, aiming to be earthquake proof and imitate stone interiors.
A Chicago Tribune column observes a crowded North Side car where two men joke about weather and luck, with one admitting indifference to the census. The piece closes with a quip contrasting marriage with the honeymoon period of discovering unity.
Senate completed tariff bill consideration with amendments on sugar duties and free tin plate after 1896. Other items include river and harbor appropriations, a tariff commission, reciprocity measures, and a $1.25 per gallon tax proposal. House actions cover pensions, districting plans, and election contest debates amid filibusters.
The Niagara tunnel contract was signed late Friday afternoon in Niagara Falls New York. Citizens celebrate on the streets this evening after four years of anxious anticipation.
In Wausau Wisconsin on September 18 a Milwaukee and St Paul brakeman named Gus Dunbay 40, described as a half-breed, was run over on his first day on the road. Both legs were severed in the accident Friday morning, cutting short his new employment.
Kansas City express on Missouri Pacific derailed by a faulty switch near Glencoe forty miles west of St Louis. Twenty passengers hurt, six seriously, with E L Norton and Mrs Norton among the injured. A relief train evacuated the wounded and they were taken to hospital or home.
Helens Montana September reports Robert Ray Hamilton a New York lawyer once famed for notoriety is dead after a hunting trip. Green Norvin Green's son identified Hamilton near Snake River noting a five day hunt prior and locating horse and dog nearby.
The Journal of Finance reveals a project to provide Chicago with a vast elevated terminal system. The Chicago Elevated Terminal Rail road Company will coordinate an immense central station near Twelfth and State streets serving both passenger and freight trains with hydraulic car handling.
On the Black Hills line between Piedmont and Lead City a pine tree felled by fire from a passing engine struck the last coach of a Mason excursion train. Two people were killed and seven injured among about 200 passengers and families aboard the two coaches and flat cars. The accident occurred near Elk Creek, twenty five miles from Deadwood, on a Saturday morning excursion.
East St. Louis Illinois September 15 explosion of switch engine No 9 boiler kills engineer Barrett and fireman Doughenay. boiler fragment weighs a ton lands 300 yards away wrecks cars and splits a tree. cause undetermined. Noise heard a mile off.
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