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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1895
Page
1
A Paris report says researchers have extracted a cancer cure from dog blood. If proven, the breakthrough could impact treatments, while humor suggests rivals may be jealous of Fido's medical promise beyond loyalty.
The piece states pauperism has fallen to three in ten in Britain and suggests shipping the three to the United States. It notes corn exports rising with over 1,000,000 bushels shipped to Europe in the week ending May 2. It comments on France resuming hostility toward Germany, and says Western rains improve agriculture and political issues face the country.
The landing of an armed British force on Nicaraguan soil to enforce a London fixed claim is condemned as an insult and menace to every small nation in the Americas. Critics say England’s longstanding blundering in American affairs persists.
A report claiming the insurrection was near collapse is contradicted by news that 20,000 Spanish soldiers have been dispatched for service in Cuba. Havana has long been a center for misinformation since the disturbance began.
Paris shows one divorce per thirteen marriages while Berlin reports one per seventeen. Chicago lacks stats but casual business observation suggests about one marriage per eleven divorces there.
The author argues it is tolerably safe to expect no war between Russia and Japan. France and Germany will not aid Russia actively, and Russia, though bluffing, likely will not attack Japan alone at present.
Discussion notes that New Zealand, praised for government perfection, has wide reforms and a rising income tax scale where the wealthy pay proportionally more. It claims constitutional challenges are harder to mount there than in other places.
The text describes a launch custom in another country involving a bottle of wine broken on the prow and contrasts it with a Japanese rite where a cage of birds is released as the ship moves, symbolizing widespread commerce and freedom of travel across the compass.
The American pays far more for fire insurance than the French, German, and English, with premiums far above other Europeans. U.S. fire insurance outlays total about $400 million annually while the French mitigate losses with roughly $25,800 in premiums by fireproofing their buildings.
Statistician Henry Gannett calculates national wealth at 1880 value 43.642 billion dollars or 870 dollars per person and 1890 value 62.6 billion dollars or about 1000 dollars per person, noting wealth exceeds that of other nations. He then shows distribution with 5 percent owning a large share, including 20 percent of the country worth from 100000 to 1000000 dollars, and 87 percent held by the largest group.
An American obituary notes engineer Louis S. Parisian born in Lynn Massachusetts in 1825 who aided the Russian fleet after Crimea while dispatches discuss Justice Jackson on tax law and political shifts. Other items include deaths in Indiana and New Hampshire, diplomatic notes, criminal cases, a staged murder trial, and various crime and industry reports from London to Michigan and Cuba.
On the 10th four Tren dwellings burned in Fayette City Pennsylvania after attempting to start a stove with carbon oil. The Imperial Varnish Works plant at Akron Ohio burned, loss about 35000 dollars. On the same day four men died in a coal dust explosion in a Sopris Colorado mine, likely from flames in a connected fire shaft. Morning of the 11th an explosion presumed from natural gas wrecked a Chicago lodging house at No 10 Sherman Street, front blown out and several occupants killed or seriously injured.
Telegram summaries report Russian troop reinforcements to the far east amid Japan's occupation of Port Arthur and Japan's gains in the Liao Tung Formosa and Pescadores area. A Spanish influx into Santiago de Cuba shows growing insurrection. US banking data reveal sizable reserve and loan increases while Meade faces potential censure. Riverside tube works raises wages for 2,200 workers. New York banks exceed reserve requirements as a German anti revolution bill is rejected. City of Pekin arrives in San Francisco. ex-President Seerye di Amherst dies in Amherst, Mississippi.
In a tense Senate session Mr. Cooper refused to reveal last year’s gross business receipts. A 19 to 19 tie gave President Gill the deciding vote against excusing him. The sergeant at arms was directed to custody him, but Cooper later walked free and left for Chicago.
Illinois weather bulletin notes a dry week with high temperatures and scant rainfall except in western central and northern areas which had heavy showers relieving drought. Northern counties report excellent growth in wheat rye oats corn clover and grasses while southern and east central areas show slower vegetation, need for rain, and numerous noxious insects including chinch bugs and cut worms. Corn planting is well advanced statewide. fruit setting is heavy and strawberries likely to ripen soon in southern counties.
A letter from the Cook County alms hospital undertaker in Dunning reports Dwight Hitchcock has died. He was Arcola’s first mayor and first president of the Illinois Midlands Railroad Co. A number of citizens request his remains be sent for burial locally.
Chicago faces a alleged theft of around $1,000,000 via stuffed pay-rolls. Commissioner Kent and Mayor Swift hold multiple meetings with State’s Attorney Kern who urges presenting the cases to a special grand jury of prominent businessmen. Also noted is a June 1893 collision near Mateson involving an Illinois Central train and a Big Four passenger train, with all damages totaling $63,000 settled by Illinois Central.
A 14 year old blind boy Weldon disappeared while swimming at the Big Four pond in Centrali a and was drowned in 15 feet of water. He and another boy were at the pond when cramps or drowning occurred.
Springfield reports outline the Illinois legislature advancing multiple measures. Bills for a Western hospital for the insane and a state normal school are moved to third reading, with site bounds defined for the latter. Garnishment limits are debated, then postponed. A train robbery capital offense bill fails amid railroad opposition concerns. Additional appropriations for Lovejoy monument, the national guard, and a western hospital are approved, while revenue reform is pursued.
The tax plan imposes 2 percent on income over 4000 for individuals. Married men with higher incomes may seek to evade tax by gifting bonds and mortgages to their wives. After the wife earns income from these securities she may return them to the husband once the tax is repealed.
An eccentric Greenwood resident testifies in a case about a one thousand dollar perpetual trust. The elderly witness describes his late father as litigious, noting the father’s “one” lawsuit since death and a joke about not finding a lawyer.
A doctor notes a severe mal de mer episode caused by the soprano in the next room singing high C's. The sick man agrees the flare up stems from continued vocal practice.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a beggar claiming to have lost his leg and a gentleman feigning ignorance, ending mid sentence with a reference to Monroe and a cryptic title.
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