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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1885
Page
1
A dense Senate and House agenda spans February discussions on the Inter State Commerce bill, river and harbor spending, and the trade dollar, with notices on grants, land reports, medals for the Washington Monument, and suspicions about coinage, plus various local notices and incidents.
A letter from the President and the grant of General Grant’s swords and testimonials are described before the House by Speaker Carlisle. Mrs. Grant and W H Vanderbilt present the items with a deed of trust and Vanderbilt letter. A curious petition in the Senate by Senator Sherman questions votes from several states and seeks inspection of charges of intimidation. The Democratic National Committee plans a March 2 Washington meeting. A bill grants General Thomas widow $2000 annually. A bipartisan Indian education commission is proposed to report next Congress. Dairies of the Greely polar expedition reveal discontent and a proposed execution by Lieutenant Greely.
Packer Colliery No 3 of Lehich Valley Coal Company in Shenandoah Pennsylvania with 500 workers resumes operations on the 3rd. Other notes include Grant’s improvement from throat soreness tied to smoking and Governor Hill signing a law banning improper use of Army of the Republic badges. General Sickels dies in Philadelphia from blood poisoning linked to dynamite fumes. Bates’ livery stables in Utica New York burn with seven horses lost and home damaged. Otto Wilkins of Meadville breaks 100 glass balls with six Spencer rifles.
A Cleveland clerk S G Harvey is bound over to federal court for stealing from registered letters after a 15-year career. In Portsmouth, Carter Page and John Jack exchanged pistol fire, leaving Page gravely wounded and Jack unhurt. A Burlington paper mill and nearby properties burned for about 50,000 dollars. North Carolina passes a pension bill for wounded ex Confederates. Seven woodchoppers near Dallas suffer poisoning from coffee contaminated with a centipede. Tobacco sales in Lynchburg show strong January demand. Oregon State Asylum head cites Nesmith’s mental state as unchanged and grim. Ohio official Henry Apthorp confirmed as Railroads and Telegraphs commissioner. Battle Lake, Minnesota nearly wiped out by fire. long obituary notes Rev Edmund Dyer dies at Dundee Michigan after a long temperance career. A group including mail carrier Alexander Jones and Mrs George Gibson is mentioned.
At the company annual meeting it was stated losses for the year reached about 3200,000 and a dividend was passed. The deficit stemmed from heavy early spring purchases in hope of a rise that did not occur. The coming year is seen as brighter with a steadily advancing market.
Obituary notices report the death of Pinkney H. Walter, Supreme Court judge for Illinois Fourth District, after brain injury from carbuncle. Other items describe deaths of Henry Kessler and Christian Pepper, major fires at Nashua mill and Baltimore pork-packing, and a boiler explosion in Montgomery. Port of New York imports valued at 5.83 million and a Senate resolution honoring European trophies for General Grant. House considers the Department of Agriculture and pension bills. river and harbor bill advances stalled by objections.
An afternoon Colorado Central train from Georgetown to Denver was blown off the track by a fierce wind, plunging down an embankment. Twenty passengers were aboard. two escaped injury. Many sustained serious wounds, including several internal injuries and broken bones. Wounded passengers were taken to nearby homes for care. In Vincennes a traveling theatrical company on a special train was wrecked on the Evansville Terre Haute line. the baggage car and parlor car were damaged but few injuries were reported.
A mob seized Audubon Iowa prisoners at four in the morning after a court move of venue. Hiram Ellerson Smyth and Wilson were dragged from cells and hanged, while Ellerson was hanged on the band stand. A second man named van was later reported lynched.
The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons opened in Albany on February 4 with a full election. James R. Morrison was named Grand High Priest. Richard H. Parker Deputy. J. Leavitt Lambert Grand Scribe. appointments included Herman Ruse Gross, Christopher Fox, and others. officers were installed by Past Grand High Priest Thomas E. Cassidy and the session focused on business before adjournment.
The Pardon Board refused clemency for L. Beach, the Altoona physician condemned for murdering his wife. Beach, deemed morally responsible though insane, will be hanged on the 12th. He attacked his wife with a knife after a quarrel, nearly severing her head, and confessed to his brother in law.
At each rise in the Ohio River large loads of coal move from Pittsburgh to points downstream. On the last rise ten million bushels were sent to Cincinnati, transportation cost 125000 dollars and the transit took a little over four days. The river option saved about 721000 pounds compared with rail. Pittsburgh Post.
An eighty year old Hartford man who smoked for sixty seven years kept a personal expense log and found that if he had invested the same sum every six months and earned compound interest he would now have two hundred thousand dollars in his account.
A New York Ledger remark ponders social double standards. It asks why bad taste in dress and conduct is harshly judged while crude language often goes unremarked, noting that a vulgar act can bar a man from gentility, yet vulgar speech skips sanction.
President James K. Polk stood beneath an umbrella as he delivered his inauguration address. The scene highlighted ceremonial weather considerations during the ceremony and showcased the era's public attention to the event.
London cabinet leaders, led by Mr. Gladstone, authorize General Wolseley to request unlimited reinforcements and matériel from England. The report notes General Buller’s warning of a bold Mahdist threat near Gubat and the need to relieve the small British force in Upper Egypt.
The New Haven Register reports a twelve year old girl in New Haven attempted poisoning with opium pills after her mother refused to buy a new cloak for church. She wandered the streets, collapsed from the narcotic, but recovered with medical care.
Mrs Eliza Thomas of Brooklyn stored about 265 in gold in a teapot for safekeeping. Her daughter discarded the teapot into an ash barrel while cleaning the pantry. Two Italian men later found the teapot and recovered the gold, returning it to Mrs Thomas.
The New York Sun reports there are thirty two miles of elevated railroad in the metropolis. The project reflects rapid urban growth and dominates streets alongside new transit developments.
The Daily Commercial Bulletin lists fires in January with losses of 10 000 dollars or more. There were 223 such fires totaling about 8.5 million dollars, roughly 31 million more than the nine year January average. Eleven fires each ranging 100 000 to 355 000 accounted for about one fifth of the month’s total fire waste.
The report lists leading college attendances with Harvard 1568, Columbia 1458, Oberlin 1458, Yale 1068, Technology 579, Cornell, Princeton, 505, Dartmouth 402, See 346, Amherst 334, Lehigh 307, Johns Hopkins 273, Williams 253, Brown 248. Also ten thousand British troops stationing in the Mediterranean for potential service in the Sudan, including eight regiments of line, thirteen batteries of artillery and five engineer companies. A Senate bill favors a pension of 2000 dollars yearly for General George H. Thomas's widow.
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