Evening star., 1942-06-28
Fifty Years Ago
in The Star

Fifty years ago. the two jor political
parties having held their conventions
and nom mated
Prohibition Porty their candidates,
Conxent;on the Proh h i b ton
Party followed suit
at Cincinnati. In a dispatch from there,
The Star of June %, 1892, said in part:
The big Music Hall was gay with faunt-
Ing banners, national flags, coats of arms
Of the several States palms and flowers
and prohibition inscriptions when the
delegates of the sixth annual convention
of the Prohibition Party, more prompt
than the delegates to the older political
parties. began to fill up the hall this
morning It was 1890 am. when
the proceedings commenced by the play
ing Of America on the immense organ,
aided by bugle band on the stage"
Still another minor party. the Peoples
Party, were due to enter the lists. Repre-
sentative Breckenridge of
The Peoples Arkansas on the same
p,rtv date told a Star repre-
SSIlIdllNc. IL lS
to estimate the force of this movement.
I do not think it will be potential in the
South. = But in the West conditions
are different. I think there is no
man who can make reasonable calcu-
lation at this time as to what may hap
pen in the silver States of the West"
AS expected, these minor parties polled
Democratic victory of Cleveland in
November
Bankruptcy of the Worlds Columbian
Exposition Commission was announced
in The Star of June %,
money 1892: Bankruptcy has at
r,.,,kJ. last reached the Worlds
Columbian C m m S sion.
Every cent of the appropriation has been
exhausted and Secretary Dickinson has
not enough money left to buy postage
stamp. = Last night the last postage
stamp in Secretary Dickinson's Office was
put on letter to Secretary Foster in
forming him of the condition of the
national commissions finances" Fortu-
nately postage then was 2 cents, instead
of g. otherwise the commission would
have gone in the red. However, the fair
was held the following year, and was
huge success.
There was bad wreck on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at Harrisburg. In dis
patch from the Pennsylvania
koiIrood capital, The Star of June 25,
W,.ok 1892, reported: LAS the train
rolled into Harrisburg it was
stopped few minutes to allow
some shifting in the yards. The
train had but started when the second
section dashed around the sharp curve
a few yards away. Then came horrible
grinding and crushing sound and imme-
diately after the groans and Shrieks Of
the injured and dying passengers. 1t
was an awful moment and the only
wonder is that so many escaped from the
terrible wreck 1t was but few minutes
until the industrial establishments in
South Harrisburg supplied an army of
willing men, who did all in their power
to rescue the imprisoned men, women
and children and alleviate their suffer-
ing The total number dead at
o'clock this morning was 10.
Things are going to be lively in the
Bering Sea this season." chronicled The
Star Of June %, 1892
Pirofes IN fhe prediction which
Berino Sea? would be more than
apt right now. Then,
as now, warships were in that area,
firing on the enemy, though the enemy
was hardly as formidable so years ago.
1t consisted Of daring band of seal
poachers, engaged in defying the inter-
national sealing agreement by taking
seals in restricted waters.
From Paris came regular Phillips
Oppenheim tale involving an American
Military Attache. According
StoIen to The Star of June Is, 1892:
pi.,. "The clerk in the Navy De-
partment, who was arrested
yesterday charged with conveying docu-
ments relative to the French defenses to
Germany and italy, is named Grenier.
He declareA that Capt. Henry D. Borup
of thu ofJlnAncA dAnartment of the