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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1885
Page
1
President Cleveland orders a reduced clerical force at the Executive Mansion with four employees notified their services won’t be required after the 15th. The group includes Henry C. Morton J S Bolway W R Duke and O L Judd plus various government actions and local incidents reported across the same span.
Charles A King of the Orleans County National Bank died by suicide in Albion after a shooting. McClellan residence fire in NYC damages 2000 pounds. Jennie A Perry wins 10000 from Johnson Sheppard stage line for injuries in 1883. Union Trust Co forecloses Rochester & Pittsburgh RR judgment. Western Nail Assn stamps 2 25 for nails. trade bright. Brackett pleads not guilty to bribe indictment. Chalker case same. Bunko man Johnny Norton dies in NY after fleecing Adams. Windsor NY fire devastates village. 5 blocks destroyed. insurance light. no fire dept. Buffalo revival grows with 74 converts at Delaware Ave Methodist. Philadelphia Women Medical College grants 22 MD degrees to women. Salvation Army Austin departs with funds. relief sought. Massachusetts Senate passes late liquor ban. House moves poll tax abolition and Supreme Judicial Court Justices retirement. Springfield art store fire causes 50000 loss. entire stock damaged. Hugh McDevitt, teen rail worker, awarded 15000 damages after earlier amputation. Olean NY fire destroys ten buildings. 30000 loss. Francis Herman dies after fit while driving. once linked to Charley Ross case.
A fire in Michigan last April caused $90,000 loss and a later blaze on the 10th cost $300,000 with $30,000 insurance. Louisiana holds a May military drill in New Orleans with $6,000 in prizes and medals from the Exposition. Mrs. W. B. Manney near Medford Wisconsin bore four girls on the 10th, each weighing 3 pounds. General Foote arrives in San Francisco aboard City of New York from Yokohama. Dakota’s Legislature passes Woman Suffrage bills in both chambers. A Texas cyclone derails a northbound freight near Van Alstyne, five cars thrown off. no injuries. William Casey of New Orleans dies of mouth cancer linked to Havana cigars. California Legislature adjourns sine die. Baltimore hosts public sale of Alderney cows with prices $55 to $135. Bradford murder trial ends in Bloomington with 27-year sentence. Lynch mob hangs Charles Latham, Frank Freeman, and Almus Young in Union City for Montgomery murder. Freeman confesses. Ohio Archeological Association reorganized in Columbus with Thurman as trustee. Oklahoma boomers council at Arkansas City to await Washington advice. twenty posse arrests. Fatal blasting near Wichita kills Dan Downey, Pat Swan, Tom McCoy. Georgia funds 8,455 new bonds to retire maturing bonds at five percent thirty-year term.
In recent days about 200 people were arrested for Nihilism across St Petersburg and major Russian cities, including several Poles and some Siberian returnees. A Kingston dispatch reports a Buffalo letter claiming 35,000 Fenians there plan a Canada raid. Renowned Maynooth College president Rev Dr Walsh named Archbishop of Dublin.
The funeral of Sergeant Thomas Plunkett of the Twenty first Massachusetts Regiment, long employed at the Massachusetts State House, drew a large crowd in Worcester on the seventh with Governor Robinson and staff, legislators, President Pillsbury, and G A R officers in attendance. Five thousand viewed the remains. AvpusBon Days, Philadelphia Daily News editor, died on the Sith of Bright's disease. Fire in Pulaski, Tennessee, destroyed four business houses, about $40,000 loss, with Monroe Belazee among the victims. Thirteen more fires in Nebraskas New Holland burned fifteen businesses, including the post office, with losses around $30,000. Secretary Lamar and Attorney General Garland ordered government horses and carriages disposed of at public sale. Charles W. McConner of the Buffalo Courier died after typhoid. Banking data showed mixed changes and excess reserves. Joseph Mueller of Detroit learned of a $120,000 inheritance from his Munich-born father. The Cleveland Herald merged with the Dain Dealer, forming the Cleveland Leader and Morning Herald. the Plain Dealer to publish both morning and evening editions.
Washington reports the second weekly cabinet meeting moved from Friday to Thursday with all members present. topics included appointments and the Oklahoma matter. The White House hosted a public reception in the East Room after the session. Key moves include civil service pledges by Secretary Bayard, possible appointment of E. H. Butler as Government Printer, and Moorish antimony mine tender near Tangier with bids due by June 5. Democratic caucus finalized minority representation for Forty-ninth Congress committees with Cockrell delivering the list to Cameron for Senate action.
Reports from San Juan Dent Sur and San Salvador indicate active war preparations across Nicaragua Costa Rica and Guatemala as governments resist Barrios attempts to unite the states into one republic. Costa Rican forces mobilize while Guatemala contemplates responses and a possible friendly settlement. In Brazil Parliament opens with the Emperor praising foreign relations and urging gradual abolition of slavery to balance expenditures.
General Grant slept well and worked on his book after a calm night. A cancer specialist named W E Brown, claiming a successful record, sought admittance but refused to disclose his treatment method, citing past cures and stating he would depart to North Adams, Massachusetts.
At three o'clock yesterday morning a gas explosion sparked a fire in Smith & Dunn's drug store in Clean, New York, destroying eleven business places and dwellings. Principal losses included T Higgins & Son, D R Collins, and Smith & Dunn. Loss estimated at 35,000 dollars with partial insurance. Firefighters could not access Acme Refinery pumps due to refusal to connect.
Mackin and Gallagher received two years in prison and a $5000 fine each for election conspiracy. A ten day stay of execution was granted, pending appeal to Judge Gresham. Gleason’s motion for a new trial was continued in his counsel’s absence.
The March sessions show sparse attendance in both Senate and House with quick proceedings. Key actions include amendments to mechanics lien law, bonds for a soldiers monument, relief for a former county treasurer, forestry board establishment, boiler regulation, and school desegregation measures, plus multiple local bills and a large deficiency appropriation.
A tramp alerted a passenger train when a broken rail appeared on the line. Nearly frozen, he was hailed aboard by grateful passengers who formed a purse for him and provided a new suit. The railroad vice president on board presented him a gold watch and $25, and offered a good job if he will work for the line.
The North Carolina Legislature passed a law prohibiting importation and sale of obscene pictures or literature with AVY penalties of fine and imprisonment. The act will bar several illustrated papers and cities have already forbidden exposure or sale, marking the first such law in the state.
George Sommers, a young man residing near Albany Indiana, reportedly never closes his eyes during sleep. This unusual habit was noted in a local item from the Indianapolis Journal.
London reports an agreement between the Government and Russian officials to pause advances in Afghanistan during negotiations on the Russo Afghan frontier. Gladstone says the understanding is temporary and lacks a fixed term, prompting Conservative laughter. Other items note Irish neutrality during the Prince of Wales visit, plus various international diplomatic and military developments.
The National Temperance Convention met at Expo Music Hall with a large audience. Jes Stearns of New York presided and speakers included George W. Bain of Kentucky Luther Benson of Indiana and others. The following day the Women’s Christian Temperance Union gathered at the same venue with an even larger crowd. Frances E. Willard of Illinois Mary Lathrop of Michigan and ex Governor St John spoke.
Baltimore dispatch reports the death in London of Sir Curtis M. Lampson, an intimate Peabody associate and original Peabody Fund trustee for London’s poor. He hosted Mr Peabody at his home when Peabody died there in 1869. Born in Vermont in 1806, he became a British subject in 1848 and helped oversee London cable and railway ventures. His daughter is married to poet Lockyer.
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