Norwalk and Huron Update Keeps Tabs on Local Events
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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1887
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text shows Norwalk and Huron regions referenced with times and numbers suggesting schedules or standings. No coherent event or names are readable to confirm a single clear item.
Senate and House proceedings cover credentials of Barwell and Davis, river and harbor bills, and a federal fishing rights bill. Debates on woman suffrage fail, naval expansion bills move, and a constitutional amendment on senatorial elections is noted. Public notices include Indiana land and railroad actions and a Washington County suffrage claim investigation. House passes river and harbor and Florida Indian war costs. Senate approves Indian lands allotment and agricultural experiments.
The report notes silver dollar circulation decline and total outstanding on January 1, 1887. It records post office receipts and expenditures for the quarter ending September 30, 1856, plus a contrast with 1885. It announces a new five dollar silver certificate with Grant vignette, revenue figures for six months, December 1886 versus 1885 totals, and actions by Knights of Labor, treasury appointments, a Senate rejection of a recorder nomination, sundry civil appropriations, and a suffrage association push for a Sixteenth Amendment confirming women's right to vote.
The Union National Bank of Duluth Minnesota is authorized to begin business with a capital of 500000 dollars.
Long jury selection marked the start of the ONeill trial as the third indicted Alderman from the 1884 doodle board case. The rest of the page notes include a schooner fine remitted in Canada, Harvard finances, a Plymouth Pa fire, editor John M. Laird’s death, wage hikes at National Tube Works, and various local incidents across the northeast.
A Missouri Pacific train near Fort Scott Kansas exploded, destroying 15 freight cars and a magazine car, with one brakeman killed and glass damage in town. Judge N L Chaffee of Ohio died. bills on soldiers' wives in Michigan and soldiers' home admission.
Director Thorne of the Cordoiva Observatory reports a January 18 comet seen in the southern sky linked to Melbourne's anticipated sighting. Cardinal Caverat of Lyons dies at eighty one. Brisbane endures a severe cyclone with floods and twenty foot water in streets. Reports also note rebel and French clashes in Tonkin, Home Rule debate moves, mining strikes in Scotland, cholera anxiety in Chile, and a tight Liverpool election result. The Bermuda schooner C Graham found ashore in Nova Scotia with loss of all aboard.
A full plan for the YMCA building in Cincinnati outlines a six floor complex with Elm street entrance, a 690 seat public hall, gymnasium, classrooms, clubs, and rental spaces. The facility aims to house two thousand members, with $15000 pledged and total cost projected at $100900.
Societies for dress reform have been established in Sweden Norway Denmark and Finland. They plan to work along similar lines to the English Rational Dress Society and, as far as possible, in collaboration with it. A young woman was poisoned by arsenic on her bonnet birds during a rain storm but she is now out of danger.
A Washington letter discusses likely appointments to the Inter State Commerce Commission under the new act. Senators Van Wyck Morrison Conger are named for seats amid a three Democrats two Republicans board. The President may delay final selection until after Congress adjourns.
A £500 fund is raised by southern Sumner County residents to prosecute soldiers of Troop L Fifth United States Cavalry for firing on farmers gathering wood in the Indian Territory. Two horses were killed and farmers subjected to rough treatment after arrest while being expelled from Indian lands. Local leaders Peters and Perkins seek congressional attention to border harshness over trespassing enforcement.
The Star reports Governor Ross vetoed a Republican backed bid to unseat a Democrat in the New Mexico Senate after Democrats walked out. The Territorial secretary did not swear in the rival, who was later sworn by the Senate president. Ross refuses to recognize the body as constituted with only six votes. Rumor says he may seize military control and seek federal instruction.
Gregory Montana faces a siege as miners hold four Gregory Mining Co stockholders A J Seligman H W Child E W Bach and Thomas Westall after suspending operations over two months of back pay. Seligman and Child released to seek wage payment. two others remain captive while miners remain peaceful.
Rumor claims Secretary Manning and United States Treasurer Jordan will resign to run a new three million dollar bank in New York. Manning would be president and Jordan cashier and managing director, with stock already placed among New York and Philadelphia capitalists. Denials issued by both officials deny the reports.
A Washington report says 800 to 1,200 people attended a ball at the Chinese legation Tuesday night, though only 400 invitations were sent. Self invited guests caused a vulgar scramble at the refreshment table and behaved as if starved, prompting the Washington Critic to liken the scene to hogs at a trough.
An inquest in Baltimore examined a trunk brought from New York by Adams Express. Dr. N G Keble reported the post mortem found no definite cause of death, suggesting possible poison or lung congestion with putrefaction. The missing head might hold the key. the jury returned an unknown cause verdict.
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