11 Jul 1895
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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1895
Page
1
The Webkly Call notes Spain may end the Cuban uprising but current prospects look grim. Passport data show more Americans traveling to Europe than in recent years, signaling renewed prosperity. In Chicago an association forms a street scavenger service, aiming to curb municipal waste and curb corruption in street cleaning funding.
A bronze casting honors Lincoln's Gettysburg address noted for a two to three minute delivery. The piece positions the speech as a landmark oratorical work and a guiding lesson for American citizens.
The division of Irish home rulers into three factions will heighten clashes among themselves more than with the Tories, likely yielding Irish seats to the latter. The inability of Irish to maintain a modus vivendi within their own country is cited as the core cause of the province's ills.
The German account against Nicaragua stands at 750000 dollars and may be pressed aggressively as in the English case. The demands are tied to the United States canal concession, illustrating perceived European diplomacy's crookedness and presumption.
Harvard university's catalogue lists 10 335 graduates across departments with 10 179 alive. Dr William H Furness of Philadelphia is senior alumnus and sole survivor of the class of 1820 while Dr William Li Russell of 1826 is the oldest living graduate.
Dubineo the last rebellion in Cuba, to suppress which Spain sent over 212,000 men, the price of sugar was nearly seven cents a pound, while the price now is less than two cents a pound. The price of leaf tobacco has correspondingly declined one-half. Cuba already has in sight a deficit of $4,000,000 for the year 1895, and it is impossible to see how Spain can redeem the situation with bayonets.
The article notes the Lick refractor, a 36 inch instrument, once seen as a major event in astronomy, being overshadowed by the Yerkes telescope at Cambridge Massachusetts. The 41.5 inch device, soon mounted at Lake Geneva Wisconsin, is expected to draw worldwide astronomical attention as a leading site for future discoveries.
England mourns one of her greatest men a scientist whose life work expanded human knowledge His fame rests on vertebrate and invertebrate anatomy publications yet his intellect embraced all sciences His Darwinian advocacy boosted his reputation World reacts to loss of a towering figure in science.
In Los Angeles an heir receives 4,000,000 francs from Italy while Dr Theobald Sirs takes a Harvard chair. Willuts L. Moore becomes weather chief famed for accuracy. Leland Stanford heirs plan Europe jewel sale to fund Palo Alto university. UK speech at Wick links 1812 war end to US Britain peace motive. Several notable benefactions and appointments unfold as federal and local interests cohere.
Late telegraphs claim Queen Lilioukalani and followers seek a marriage alliance with a Japanese count to overthrow the Hawaiian republic. Japanese residents number 30,000 on the island. High finance notes show New York banks reporting loan gains and declines in reserves, specie, and deposits in the week to the 6th. Supreme Court Kansas rules against Mary E Lease in board of charities case, effecting her removal. Rio Janeiro rumor of army navy conspiracy. A gasoline explosion kills Mrs Gunnwalk and her husband. Mrs Ayres fatally shocked. New York police close saloons on Sunday. sale of liquor observed. British Parliament prorogued to July 24 with dissolution and new elections. At Gray Gables, Cleveland’s wife gives birth to a girl. Pacific rolling mill raises wages 10 percent. Banks exceed 25 percent reserve by $42,173,700.
John Meyer of the Illinois House died at Freeport from nervous exhaustion after a chronic illness. His death impacts an upcoming extra legislative session. Funeral held at the Meyers’ home with clergy present. Survived by widow and daughter Daisy. Other obituaries and local items follow.
A massive prelude to July 8 shows Chicago struck by a wind and rain storm with dust, flying debris, and hundreds of flags torn from Siegel Cooper and Rothschilds. The yacht Idler capsized near Rogers Park. Newcomb and Parks survived. Dozens injured by falling poles. reports of drownings circulate as roofs collapse and a railroad tower is wrecked.
A terrific cyclone moved through this section around 8 PM near Covington Tennessee and later hit Ping Bluff Arkansas and Memph is Tenn wrecking several houses and downing wires though no deaths reported by midnight heavy rains followed the wind with towns reporting extensive damage and structural destruction.
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