03 Mar 1887
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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1887
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Huron Fries Landing near Norwalk with unclear timing. No clear event, persons, or organizations readable beyond place names.
The Feb 22 23 21 sessions review petitions from Grand Army posts urging passage of the dependent pension bill. The Senate passes the Agricultural and Labor Department bill with weather service transfer to the new department. The House debates Post Office and foreign mail amendments, and adjourns after veil of votes. A Senate resolution honors late Senator Pike with eulogies.
The seismoscope at the United States signal office in Washington noted the France and Italy earthquake at 7 50 meridian time on February 23. Transmission velocity estimates approach 500 miles per hour. The document also notes fiscal year revenue figures for 1857 and 1887, and mentions acts indemnifying Chinese subjects for 1885 Powder Rock Springs violence, plus public building bills in Denver Huntsville and Houston. The President indicates he plans to avoid an extra congressional session.
The Secretary of State has sent to Berlin a silver vase presented by the President to Captain H. Bruns of the German steamship Weser. It honors Bruns for rescuing the captain and crew of the American schooner Aurora on March 3, 1886.
A sprawling 19th century chronicle notes multiple incidents: Englewood rector Rev. Charles W. Ward shot his wife and child then himself but the family survived. Troy dry goods firm Church & Phalen assigns with liabilities around 225000 to 250000. Maine adopts Eastern standard time for state business. National Law and Order League officers elected in Albany. A deadly fall from scaffolding at Bellefonte leaves five dead. Various legal, political, and industrial developments fill the page with names, places, and figures.
Two freight trains collided on a curve near Sabbona Illinois on the 22nd, wrecking both engines and killing nearly three stock cars as men jumped to safety. A Kentucky court sentenced Henry Dodson after a family mistreatment trial. The Indiana Supreme Court refused an injunction in the Smith Robertson lieutenant governor case, deferring to the General Assembly. State's Attorney Grinnell comments on a Haymarket suspicion as a Wabash chair car fire injures passengers. A Califormia cyclone near Oroville devastates rural area. Steubenville stove foundry suffers its sixth fire in twenty years. Poet Benjamin F. Taylor dies in Cleveland. Virginia calls an extra session for March. Trinidad coal mine cave-in kills three boys and injures a man.
St Johns dispatch reports a unanimous House vote banning bait sales to American and French fishermen. Canadian election returns show Government victories across Ontario Quebec New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with 99 Conservatives 79 Liberals and four Independents among 215 MPs. Also noted are the Great Mast ern sale at auction 130000, a Dublin trial discharge after a no verdict, a Belgium mine accident injuring 35 with three fatalities, a Victoria BC wreck report with 12 dead, and Rome earthquake tolls with Bajardo Diano Marino Bressano Diano Castello Castellano listed among casualties.
Cardinal Jacobini dies at the Vatican Rome as a minor earthquake shocks Charleston and Summerville South Carolina report no damage. Six boys aged twelve to fifteen die after being struck and mangled by a Lehigh Valley passenger train near Easton Pennsylvania. Robert Nelson nominated for Chicago mayor by United Labor party. Mining accident at Coal Bluff Mine Carbon Illinois leaves one boy killed and two seriously hurt. Senate passes multiple appropriation measures and confirms officers while House advances naval and territorial bills.
Rev. T DeWitt Talmage sermons on David feigning madness in Gath and the broader warning that the wise and brave often play the fool by clinging to worldly concerns, delaying salvation, and delaying repentance. He urges trusting God as pilot, abandoning “now” for “to-morrow,” and warns of eternal loss for those who neglect preparation for the next life.
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