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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1895
Page
1
Lord Salisbury argues England was an American power before the United States. A naval affairs work in progress questions credit to wooden ships. Lord Dunraven explains Valkyrie versus Defender as a racing verdict. Missouri might learn from diverse sermons as white Baptists hear colored divines.
The piece argues Britain is pressuring various nations, including Colombia, with naval power to back private claims. It notes a year of large crop harvests and a surge of British ultimatums, from China to Venezuela, and warns European powers may act against the Monroe Doctrine while carving up Africa and South America.
Mrs Rites of Tennessee reaches a hundred years with two grown children aged seventy one and seventy three still unmarried. The elderly matriarch may be praised for her long apron-string influence while Gertrude Vanderbilt reportedly weds a rich Mr Taylor. Marl borough’s titled cousin marries an English duke, though the Taylor fortune stands at twenty million versus Marl borough’s entailed estate.
New England railway managers blend aesthetics with practicality by distributing modest sums in station agent tin prizes to encourage tidy attractive stations. The expenditure is small compared with the charming results and cultivated flowers at depots.
Market quotations now place Kaffir gold mine value at about 1.5 billion dollars, far exceeding the late 19th century high for the South Sea bubble. Observers warn that a Kaffir collapse could be equally ruinous, with prudent financiers seeking shelter.
The St Louis exposition ends its twelfth forty day season with over 500000 attendees. It claims to be the only long running exposition in the country to avoid using its reserve fund and is nearly debt free.
The gunboats Nashville and Wilmington, built at Newport News, are designed for river and ocean operations with a shallow draft of nine feet. They surpass Civil War river craft in capability and may perform bravely and effectively if they measure up to expectations.
Gen Joan W Fosris tells a Spanish newspaper in Washington that if Spain fails to end the Cuba insurrection by next spring the island may be lost. He warns recognition of Cubans as belligerents by the United States could follow as Americans wake to Spain recognizing the Confederacy eight weeks after Fort Sumter was fixed on.
Kerr CraAin, third assistant postmaster general, reports fiscal year totals showing postal revenues of 76,988,128 and expenditures of 86,790,172, an excess of 9,807,044. The roundup includes court reversals, fires, accidents, and notable deaths as part of daily news briefs.
Robert L. O Brien of Massachusetts, once Mr Cleveland’s stenographer and principal executive clerk on White House records, resigns to take the Washington correspondence post for the Boston Evening Transcript. Mrs Repecca A Gran am aged 103 dies at Grimestown Alabama after long residence. funeral attended by four widowed daughters, 50 grandchildren, 100 great grandchildren, eight great great grandchildren. Weekly New York banks report: reserves up 1 309 525 loans down 1 827 500 specie up 1 299 800, legal tenders down 308 000 deposits down 1 270 900 circulation down 90 800. Vanderbilt heiress marriage portion set at 10 000 000 for life income to future duchess. principal passes to issue with Duke of Marlborough on death. Johnny Drives, eight, Pittsburgh boy, dies from slate pencil wound to heart. twin brother killed two years earlier in similar manner. A Cologne native eyewitness to Trebizond massacre says about 600 Armenians killed, five Turks. Armenian settlements burned or shot. Joupne Baker of Indianapolis federal court sentences former Indianapolis Cabinet Co. president Francis A. Coffin to eight years for aiding wrecking of the Indianapolis National Bank. Spanish gunboat Caridad sinks off Cardinas Cuba. crew escape by boats. New York banks report excess reserves of 16 689 700 above 25 percent rule.
The quarterly meeting of Illinois Public Charities notes six thousand six hundred ninety inmates across twelve institutions with total expenses of about two hundred seventy two thousand dollars. Per capita costs run high at the deaf and dumb, blind, and juvenile homes, and tax rates for 1895 are set at 52 cents on the dollar with deductions for delinquency. Governor Altgeld orders a December 17 election for a new supreme court justice in the Sixth Judicial District, with counties listed. Deaths include Dr Flenner and Jerman Tice, among others. a Heyworth fire causes significant losses. several local incidents and a large Lancaster Church of Christ meeting are reported. A Chicago to New York rail time record is noted, plus miscellaneous crime and social items.
Washington dispatch reports the United States will not consider Lord Salisbury’s hint of a British alliance to build the Nicaraguan canal and enforce the Monroe doctrine. Britain would claim possession of Venezuela territory and jointly own the canal, with enforcement of interests by naval force if the US rejects.
The Newfoundland supreme court discharged a writ of prohibition in the Collins smuggling case allowing an appeal after a magistrate sentenced Collins to six months. Twelve saloon licenses were suspended as seizures of smuggled goods at Burin rise, and a new Burin ring is suspected. A Whitewayite assembly member is reportedly among the arrested.
Paris report states United States ambassador James B. Eustis III is gravely ill with bronchial trouble and his doctor forbids travel to Ireland or attendance at his wife’s funeral. Mrs. Eustis died suddenly as her son and daughter stayed with her. Paris officials and Americans express deep regret and sympathy for the Eustis family.
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