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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1883
Page
1
News from Washington notes a $2.6 million surplus in Post Office receipts, anticipated cheaper rates with possible ounce weight increases, and sweeping reforms in military staffing and desertion controls. It also covers silver purchases, land disposals, West Point praise, and paymaster deficits.
The East notes a merger of Standard Oil Company and Tide Water Pipe Line likely to raise kerosene costs. It reports a New York shooting gallery accident where Jennie Mitchell wounded her lover, and a Lebanon Pennsylvania collision that killed engineer John St. Clair. Also covered are Mint October coinage, a fatal croquet-ejected death in Woodbury, German support for the Democratic ticket, and various legal and crime items.
Matthew Donnelly was shot in the forehead on the 2d by coal cart driver George Hardwick who tried to enter the house while Donnelly attempted to stop him. Hardwick also fired at Donnelly’s wife, missing, and escaped.
A large group of Toledo leading citizens met on the 27th to organize a fund for General Steedman’s family and to plan a memory monument. The item lists multiple other 19th century incidents across Kentucky, South Carolina, Nevada, Illinois, Georgia, and Ohio, with fires, thefts, accidents, and notable deaths reported in brief.
The St Francis sank in Lachine rapids near Montreal leaving fifty passengers landed on an island for the night. A London Fair Trade League conference urged a moderate import duty on foreign wheat to boost British colonial trade. The Holyhead collided with Alhambra near Holyhead, both ships went down, thirteen of Alhambra’s crew and three of Holyhead’s drowned. Five thousand dollars in Dominion notes stolen from Canada’s government. Jane Hunter lost off Newfoundland with heavy crew fatalities. Spain’s Prime Minister says Cuba slave stocks will be abolished and slave holder patronage ended. Paris notes Challemel Lacour resigned after implying England pressed China against France. A $500 reward offered for London explosion suspects. Some injured report ruptured tympanic membranes from dynamite blast. Orleans Princes claim to throne talk deemed false. Cook Tarr of Flesherton arrested for poisoning wife with strychnine just before marriage, life insured.
A violent clash in Danville Virginia left Walter Holland dead with a head wound and Thomas Seward shot. Five Black individuals were killed and several injured as whites and Blacks fought over political tensions. In separate reports, a Grand Rapids lumberman failed, Hungarian laborers were jailed for rioting in Gibraltar Pennsylvania, and other incidents including a car train hijacking near Danville Indiana and a Wabash line theft occurred.
General W T Sherman retires from active duty and transfers command of the U S Army to Lieutenant General Philip H Sheridan on November 1 1883 in Washington D C. Secretary of War Roger B Lincoln approves aides de camp assignments and Sherman departs to his home in St Louis. Sheridan receives widespread congratulatory messages nationwide.
In Philadelphia a man named John Huber faces trial after his father-in-law Jacob J. Plunker testified Huber confessed guilt. Plunker, who accused Huber of attempting to ruin him, was found dead in his bed after fainting and reading an attack on himself in a city paper.
A Garfield Colorado fire destroyed the town after a Sperry Brothers store with 600 pounds of giant powder exploded. Buildings posts and hotels were swept away with total loss estimated at 50 000 dollars with one fatality and many injured. The blaze left most residents homeless and without winter supplies.
A 1200 pound dynamite blast at Brooks' Tunnels on the Baltimore and Ohio line 85 miles from Pittsburgh kills five men instantly. The explosion shattered trees and telegraph poles, disintegrated bodies, and sent shock waves as far as Ursina and Summitville. Roving workers nearby report the blast but the railroad sustained no damage.
President Chester A. Arthur proclaims November 29 as a day of National Thanksgiving. He cites health, harvests, peace, progress in learning and civil liberty, and calls citizens to worship and thank God for blessings and protection. Secretary Frederick T. Frelinghuysen authenticates the proclamation.
A cyclone swept through Catahoula and Tensas parishes damaging plantations. James Bowman’s site lost three houses and three Bowman's children were missing. D D Miller’s highland plantation lost a house and a church was overturned. Several injuries reported at multiple sites including Tim Davis and family.
SCRANTON Pa Oct 30 An explosion of fire damp from the Pennsylvania Coal Company shaft No 7 near Pittston traps thirty men inside five are badly burned and one is dead Thomas and James Gallagher brothers die burned to a crisp. Six others seriously burned and three may die from after damp while thirty-five men occupy the affected section and the rest escape via the mule-way.
Kan Gi Shanks known as Crow Dog escaped after being granted an un attended visit from Deadwood where he awaited execution for the murder of Spotted Tail. The case is before the U S Supreme Court arguing treaty jurisdiction means he was not amenable to white man laws.
In Allegheny City at Kiefer and Stiefel’s tannery a deep well used for a water project claimed three lives. Christ Dickson descended first and fainted from foul air. Ferdinand Schrader and Charles Schultz followed and also perished. Solomon Bam berger and Rhinehart Remsen were lowered to assist but were harmed. they were revived with restoratives. Dickson died unmarried while Schrader, Schultz, and the others faced injuries.
Judge Hoffman found two Chinese Government certificates in error as not fully aligning with the law. One involved a man claiming cigar manufacturing status, which the court found inconsistent with Congress text on merchants. The other concerned a seventeen year old bearer seeking to manage a mercantile firm, leaving his classification unsettled and the decision deferred.
Dr Leonard Stegnijer, commissioned by the Smithsonian, arrived on the St Paul from the Arctic with an excellent specimen of the northern manatic or sea cow. He asserts the skeleton matches Steller’s living animal from 1741 and believes this is the only one in the country. He also has seventeen skulls of the same species.
Akron reports State Mine Inspector Roy examined coal specimens claimed from 400 feet deep at Clinton County. He says the hole is stuffed, no coal found, and the pieces are too large for drill-cut coal. He doubts any bituminous coal exists at that depth. State Geologist Orton expected to visit. coal men unsettled.
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