27 Mar 1892
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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1892
Page
1
Fragmented OCR文本 discusses Anglo American tensions, parliamentary debates, and the role of government in enforcing trade and labor regulations. It references Britain and the United States, naval policy, and potential economic measures amid broader imperial concerns.
A early morning accident at Homestead Steel Works Pa killed four workers and injured five others. Names linked to the incident include AWT 08 MoQUIRA, Wylde, and Wylde is married. Injured include Thomas Harding John Shields James Baird Yrnak Abel Tob awlun. A metal cover burst from a converter, trapping and burning workers. W S Abbot, company chairman, called it the first major accident at the works.
A long fragment discusses surveys and development in the Virginias, noting drilling at Luawig or Moouer’s well in Pole Hillow and production figures. Mentions incorporation filings for a grocery company, and a murder case in Rextoed with trial progress. Also references a shooting near Sparkeet and legislative telegrams from Wheeling.
Calmest reporting from Pa and Chicago describes Walt Whitman’s death at 60 p.m. in Camden after a sinking spell. The poet’s remains will be placed in Hurleigh cemetery tomb. Separate dispatches from Chicago detail indictments of Aldermen Bowler and Michaelson over real estate and switching track schemes, with City Board of Education inquiries and witness Jones collapsing briefly during testimony.
Henry W. Oliver, president of several dock companies, reports his name was forged to authorize a paper act in Painesville. He alleges the Pennsylvania and Lake Erie Dock Company has no payable bills and ample treasury funds while a draft intended for payrolls was deposited in a local savings and loan. He warns stockholders about potential losses tied to the forged document.
A violent quarrel over a land claim erupted yesterday in a Whiter Territory Presbyterian social church. A young man named Spence attacked farmer McArthur with a knife. several restrained him while women fled. Spence was dragged from the building to the barracks, McArthur injured but not fatally.
Reports from March 27 note Northern Pacific President Thea F. Oakes in town after inspecting lines tied to the Great Northern Pacific coast extension. He doubts completion before November 1 but foresees a twelve month window, while cautioning promoters to avoid inflating Pacific securities.
George Mowbray recounts brutal treatment of workers on Adirondack and Saratoga roads. White laborers and dozens of Trailans were housed in a shanty where three Black men were burned alive as guards forced labor. Guards fired as the escape attempt unfolded. two Black men killed and several wounded. About a thousand Black workers from Alabama had recently been brought in for forced toil.
Caracas dispatch reports a three day march threat and a political standoff between President Palacio’s government and the opposition over the reform of the constitution extending presidential terms. Congress is in deadlock as Senators and Deputies fail to meet, leaving the presidency unresolved while the Bank of Caracas has lent about 700,000 pounds sterling to fund national forces preparing for possible revolt.
William Miller of Miles City Montana is approached on Broadway by two strangers claiming familiarity and attempting a swindle. He recognizes the ruse and warns others as the pair move on toward his hotel, while a second, unrelated local report describes a destructive fire in Philadelphia damaging J Bromley & Son's carpet works causing extensive losses.
The Rules Committee will adopt and bring the rule to a vote to bring the silver bill to the floor. Antisliver Democrats fight to defeat the rule but Republicans leaning toward supporting or abstaining may push a square vote on free coinage. Key figures Reed Dingey Burrows Henderson Hopkins and others show split Western and Eastern Republican stances on the issue.
Ex-Mayor Wm. R. Grace writes a lengthy New York letter urging acceptance of Cleveland in the Chicago convention. He argues party unity requires compromise to calm northern anti machine sentiment and boost the Democratic cause next fall, praising Cleveland as a unifying figure among conservative Northerners.
Mary Yosto, a Polish resident on Bingham Street South Side, charged her lover Mike Miniski with breaking their marriage plan after she paid for his passage to the United States. Miniski is jailed awaiting a hearing before Alderman King as she seeks enforcement of their promised union.
The New York weekly bank statement shows increases in specie and circulation, with excess reserves totaling 18 007 405 under the 2 percent rule. Paris cabmen threaten a strike, while the French Chamber adds a death penalty clause to a dynamite bill and the La Touraine makes a record Atlantic crossing. An earthquake alarm unsettles residents as houses rocked violently. Pittsburg defeats Allegheny 3 to 1 at Exposition Park. Speaker Crisp comments on potential silver imports rules due Tuesday.
The Emperor plans immediate prorogation of the Reichstag with a long interim and Prussia to be nominally closed until October. Reichstag factions debate clerical policy and Caprivi's fate while the Emperor returns to Berlin amid cheering crowds. A separate scandal in America ends with the arrest of W. Whitney after a mock marriage incident involving a cavalry private and a German clergyman. Whitney’s alleged $25,000 income and the reported ball denial are noted.
Irish and German press describe police dispersing anarchist crowds in G town and arresting a suspect linked to a boulevard assassination attempt. A Russian anarchist leader Prince Kraputka is named amid interviews predicting social revolution as authorities promise forceful action. Reports also note imperial tensions over Russia and a London inquest on a high profile theft with over one thousand dollars stolen from a residence.
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