22 Jan 1897
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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1897
Page
1
The weekly note says Vienna’s oldest woman died at 113. She drank and ate as she pleased and admitted she left the house only twice in her life. A humorous contrast appears with Boston arrests for drunkenness, averaging 80 to 90 daily, plus unarrested drinkers, painting a staggering city scene.
Tom Lowiz of Texas, aged 26, can accept the ban amid a tale of 16 wives, no divorces, and 19 acknowledged children over eight years. Mexico’s Bazar Restaurant draws ire as a name that reminds patrons of unwanted purchases and lacking change.
Queen Victoria ranks junior to the pope and European rulers while Gladstone leads Europe in prominence. The Cuba conflict centers on liberty and self-government as reforms signal possible full success if the fight endures.
Bills to authorize traveling libraries in several states are being discussed. The idea mirrors New York programs already in operation, which have proven popular and inexpensive to maintain, suggesting no state should be without such libraries.
The Cuban war is said to bring benefits by encouraging better methods of tobacco culture in Florida and other southern states, as the ill wind may spur agricultural advancement.
A report on Pope Leo XIII's health notes that several powers have expressed preferences for the papal succession. France Belgium and Portugal back Cardinal Parochi, vicar general, while Spain Austria and Russia support Cardinal Vannutelli, prefect of the Congregation for the Index.
Over four years Massachusetts spent 450000 curbing the gypsy moth and now faces 200000 yearly costs for five more years. Critics call the program a rank fraud, arguing it began with the premise that residents would be ruined unless the state attacked this one insect.
An eastern school superintendent urged that reputable newspapers be valued in education. He said history, both current and ancient, should be taught in public schools to keep pupils in touch with prevailing influences and tendencies.
A Boston blind physician once hailed for X ray feats is shown to have once seen well enough to pilot pupils in an asylum era. The officer’s testimony undermines his birth blindness claim and unsettles a strand of contemporary psychology. A separate letter from the Princess of Cara Man Chimay warns American women against marrying foreign nobles for empty titles as wealth-driven aristocracy persists.
American diggers uncover a buried Babylonian city predating biblical chronology. They find a large altar with two massive vases and a square tower foundation, implying an ancient form of worship. The find suggests human religious temples existed earlier than previously dated.
The Senate took up a constitutional amendment proposal on presidential term limits and a joint resolution on recognizing new governments. The House defeated the Pacific Railroad refunding bill and spent time on the military academy appropriation and committee call measures. Later sessions covered postmaster term fixes, eight hour law issues, and free homesteads. oleomargarine bills faced narrow defeats and later passage with amendments. Pension bills, including Gen. Gibbon’s widow, progressed with a night session and routine calendar work.
On the 14th Senor Gonzales Quesada denied Cuban talks with Olney and De Lome. Also on the 14th Rt. Rev. Wm. Ball Jones died in Wales. European financiers view Wolcott’s visit as currency sentiment test. Comptroller Eckels went to Chicago to sign the first dividend checks after the Illinois bank failure. Treasury directs not to place Whit ney and McCormick portraits on new silver certificates. Madrid dispatch notes Julio Sanguilly may be pardoned. On the 15th Sir Travers Twiss died in London. British officials report intact survivors after a mass execution attempt in Benin territory.
The final paper in the Durrant murder case was filed in the California Supreme Court clerk's office on the 11th, with no further proceedings possible until the court's decision, likely next summer. On the 12th a explosion at the Columbia Powder Co. tank-house between Sheusetown and Shanopin, Pa., killed proprietor Mr Stickney and his two daughters, fatally injuring Mr P B McKinkey and seriously injuring Walter Crane.
Reports describe an eighteen-person massacre in Regla near Havana ordered by Maj. Fondeviella without trial as suspected revolution sympathizers. Other items note a Chicago laboratory explosion causing 3500 in damage, arrests for $5000 in thefts, a shipwreck near Cape Virgen, a mail misuse ban in Chicago, famine prospects in India, and political moves on Cuba annexation and a U.S. purchase bill.
Tri senate not in session on the 18th. In the house two or three private bills passed and one authorizing a bridge across the Columbia river in Washington. The house heard eulogies for ex-Speaker Charles I Crisp. Emigrants from Missouri to Oklahoma were robbed by seven outlaws in the Creek reservation on the 17th, led by George Taylor. Governments of six countries plan an international conference in Rome to discuss bubonic plague from India. Cleveland residents witness a midwinter electrical storm on the 17th. St Louis railways carried over 112 million passengers last year, up from 1895. London Times reports Czarina illness and lack of heir. Buckner Orphans’ Home near Dallas burned, 13 children perished, 3 injured. Epwor Prxcy, actor, died by inhaling gas in Newark. French decree blocks linen rag imports from India due to plague.
A bill by Senator Bogardus to create a five member board of pardons with terms up to five years, appointed by the governor, and a permanent secretary with a $1500 salary. The board would review pardons and commutations, with governor action contingent on the board’s recommendation, and limited mileage expense. Soldiers clash with police at Springfield during inaugural events. several arrests and minor injuries reported. Cantrell and Gahan resign from the Illinois railroad and warehouse commission. the panel denies a 3-cent mile rate for passenger transport, preserving the current 3-cent rate for now.
The Chicago council passed a high hat ordinance allowing small bonnets in places of amusement. Women remove hats on entry and settle in, signaling a new era of courtesy. Also reported: McLean County farmers hold two day institute at the courthouse with broad attendance and discussions on newspapers and women’s ballot. State Treasurer bond approved. Rockford warship padding plant planned. death notices for Moses F. Osborne and Joseph H Snyder.
The United States files an amended petition in the circuit court against the Cast Iron Pipe Trust, listing central state manufacturers from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi. The government accuses the defendants of violating a restraining order on interstate shipments without bonds, detailing free and pay territory pricing and a $1,400,000 annual bonus pool. Judge Clark will hear the dissolution application January 25.
In Carpaco on January 14 Mrs Esther Poole 60 was found dead from coal and gas asphyxiation in her flat at 1708 Milwaukee Avenue. Her son James Poole once gained notoriety for his ties to the Berry detective agency in the killing of Frank White on the West Side months ago and died last night from the same cause. Poole had been separated from his family for years.
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