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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1895
Page
3
The article notes gold shipments to Europe by New York houses totaling 5,000,000 dollars and mentions a private foreign deposit of 75,000,000 dollars as Abdul Hamid’s reserve for a crisis, seen as a sop for a sultan out of power.
The Cuban war damaged our flour trade but the loss is offset partly by new business in mules. Two thousand mules were shipped from this country recently to Cuba.
Boards of investigation concur that hard tack and bacon form the best army ration. Paired with coffee, these foods enable one hundred men to bag an army that has survived a week on chemical lozenges.
Kerr Hanpie, the English socialist agitator, has returned home after a three month tour in the country. He may have met working men here but imparted no knowledge we couldn't have managed without.
Reports from Australia indicate Mark Twain is drawing strong crowds for his lectures, promising substantial financial returns. The American author is praised for his wit and storytelling, with audiences delivering enthusiastic reception and favorable reviews abroad.
About 140000 women in Boston have had the right to vote for school officers since 1886. In that year they cast 878 votes, and the number in 1864 was only 8733. It has remained for the men of the state of Lucy Stone to clearly indicate that few of them desire to use the ballot they have or to extend it.
The text notes annual lightning fatalities around 225 and property losses of about 1.55 million dollars. It adds a roughly one in 190,000 risk of death per season, while warning that the sight of a thundercloud still raises fear as forked flashes circle the area.
The text argues that the dual standard of morality would exist if women advocate it and men who do wrong are not punished. It suggests that once men are held to the same standard as women, the dual standard will appear and be enforced.
A Pittsburgh paper defends river traffic noting loaded barges in port awaiting higher water equal 1,445 railway trains of thirty cars each and predicting 1,800 steamers of thousand capacity will depart for southern and western ports in the coming season.
M Avexa NDER Duttas died in France recently and requested a quiet funeral with art and military honors or speeches at the grave. He wished to be dressed in his loose flannel working clothes and to lie in the bed where he died until burial time.
St Louis plans to introduce two railway postal cars soon. The cars will operate on multiple lines, collecting and delivering mail en route. Each car functions as a post office, stamping letters and delivering to the nearest carrier station along the route.
The state department proposed to Mrs. Waller’s family that waiving indemnity could win Mr. Waller’s release from a French prison where he is slowly dying. The remark sparks debate on guilt versus innocence and potential French cupidity versus rightful indemnity.
The report notes sixteen cargoes cleared from San Francisco in the past month with twelve more in loading. Five ships and seven charters are involved in the wheat trade with Australia, including three ships to be loaded with grain for the voyage. The shipments illustrate substantial grain movement from the United States to Australia and South Asia amid ongoing wheat trade activity.
A group of Washington friends of Mrs John T Waller widow of the former consul in Madagascar plan a benefit in the city. Waller has no funds or resources for immediate needs and the effort aims to raise relief.
Brooklyn man Magwan Aarcesinorsy, 35, killed his two children by locking them in a large box and suffocating them with gas before dying by his own hand. On the 25th Sherman Armour was arrested in Everett, Washington, for a Gaines Mill Virginia post office robbery and admitted his identity. A Yung S year old child of Frank Owens near Chalmers Indiana lost a hand to a dynamite blast. A head collision on the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe near Shoemaker Nebraska left two engines destroyed, two killed, two fatally injured, and many more hurt. Hager Haywarp, to be hanged in Minneapolis for murder, confessed on the 26th. Rev. Junius Friese opened a saloon in Flecken. as pastor he earned $700 yearly. New Orleans grand jury indicted councilmen Adem, Lord and J T Callahan for bribery. A cave-in at Brewster New York’s Tilly Foster mine on the 29th killed eleven men.
On the 20th at Lancaster C, William Bloom appeared before Justice Brown on a complaint by his wife accusing him of assault. Bloom allegedly threw an inkstand at the justice, drove him from the room, and then struck him with a rock, causing injuries considered probably fatal.
Treasury officials report the Chinese theater at the exposition lost money and twenty three Chinese women went to San Francisco. Union county Tennessee revenue officers seized a still, twenty people, and 1000 gallons of whisky. a church deacon led the operation. Palma Majorca explosion leaves eighty dead and many unidentified. The Turkish sultan agrees to double foreign guardships in the Bosporus. World skating championship to be held in St Petersburg with next year planned for Montreal. Griswold & Gillett sell 10000 tons of English steel rails in the US under the Wilson tariff. Weekly failures to May 29 show US 270, Canada 47. Sing Sing inmates sing and shout with permission on Thanksgiving. Shanghai reports no foreign railway concessions. China will keep rail building under state control. Texas Lifting moves from New York to Dallas. The Coronet yacht, after a midwinter Atlantic race, is outfitted for a Japan coast eclipse viewing trip on August 1.
Weekly telegrams report declines across key figures with reserve losses 981 650 and loans 2 682 800 while deposits drop 4 582 600 and circulation rises 5 600 plus smaller items. News notes include Colorado Midland wage cuts 333 per cent, Donohue Kelly bank case, diplomatic transport to Portugal, sea cruiser sale, explorer Donaldson Sura in London, Rus sian floods killing 500, Canadian Knights of Labor secession, and Christian Endeavorers prayer event.
Illinois state news reports Chicago's dire finances under Mayor Swift, with blocked comptroller doors, $5,000,000 in debts, and calls for immediate cash. Debates over tax dodgers and civic action follow. Also covered are the torture murder case linked to Pacer Smith, Bloomington golden anniversary, Eastern Illinois normal bid overruns, Joliet penitentiary feast, blizzard impacts, accidental rabbit hunting death, and other local incidents.
A collage of Illinois notices reports hunting prohibitions, deaths, accidents, and local crimes. Mrs. DeLong died after a fire injury in Sumner, others killed by train and disease, plus town fortunes, burglaries, marriages, robberies, and a rail wreck near Colusa station.
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