Marin County Tocsin, 23 January 1892
The pope has the grip.
Cardinal Simeoni died in Rome Jan 14 of the grip.
Enormous damage has been done by floods in Spain.
Albert Victor, heir of the prince of Wales, died of the grip Jan. 14, aged 28. He was a rather light-headed dandy and credited with being slightly less immoral than his father.
In the recent anti-Jewish riots in the governments of Pensa and Saratoff, Russia, several hundred Jews were wounded, ninety houses destroyed and 2000 Jewish families reduced to beggary. The police made no attempt to interfere with the rioters. The Jews are being similarly treated in other Russian towns.
A plague of frogs, following in the wake of one of locusts, is devastating Bolivia.
The Greatest Travelers.
In point of actual distance covered, the greatest traveler in the world is said to be Chief Engineer Sewell of the White Star fleet, who is well known in this city. While in charge of the engine department of the vessels of that line, notably the Britannic, Mr. Sewell completed 132 round trips between Liverpool and New York, traveling the enormous distance of 818,400 nautical or 941,000 standard miles, nearly four times the distance between the earth and the moon. This is said to be only about two-thirds of the distance traversed by Mr. Sewell since he became a seagoing engineer.Chief Engineer Kitchen, who was in charge of the Adriatic’s engine for sixteen years, but who now superintends the Britannic’s, boasts a similar record. He has made 154 round trips between Liverpool and New York and has traveled over 954,800 nautical miles, or 1,100,000 standard English miles. — N. Y. Herald.
Can any man be faithful in much that is faithless in a little?
“Jack the Slasher,” who has cut twenty drunken men in the throat and neck lately in New York, has been caught in the act. His name is Henry G. Dowd and he has been in an insane asylum.
A monument to the hanged anarchists will be unveiled at Chicago during the world’s fair.
Mrs. Mary Simpson of Chicago, a dressmaker, committed suicide Jan. 16 by walking out on the ice on the lake, removing her clothing, lying down entirely nude on the ice and freezing to death.