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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1884
Page
2
The Ohio Senate and House failed to act due to missing quorums across sessions from March 31 to April 4. Bills introduced or passed covered penitentiary reforms, militia extradition, mining labor rules, married women's contracts, school text book publication, burial provisions for veterans, ditch contracts, liquor taxes, and general tax and probate updates. Governor nominate confirmations also occurred.
Senate and House proceedings through April 4 include resolutions on land claims in New Zealand, education bills, land office efficiency, and currency acts. Reports mention Grant’s visit, levee protection funding, and pension measures. Also noted are state elections, colonization, railroad land deeds, and assorted public notices, crimes, and industry updates across the United States.
Advices from Matamoros report Apache squaws indicate Charley McComas was killed by his captors. The note accompanies other items: Washington monument to reach 500 feet by August 1, Civil Service exam in Memphis April 29, Cmdr Corry to lead Alert for Greeley relief, and political moves on women’s suffrage and postal telegraph debates. Also noted are fees of Col. George Butts in star route cases totaling 59,532 with most collected.
Three young women at James Brooks residence near Laporte Pennsylvania were thrown from a porch on the 31st alt. Miss Carrie Mitchell died of injuries and Ida Brooks and Mary Haskins suffered broken limbs. The life of Ida Brooks was then despaired of. Separately the schooner Minnesota wrecked off Gloucester Massachusetts with five drowned. New York fish exhibit features a one year old white fish bred in confinement by the United States Fish Commission.
Private banker Grace Krovuskor of Richland Center Wisconsin is assigned liabilities of sixty nine thousand dollars and assets totaling one hundred thousand. Died John Duantes D Hopers former congressman of Carrollton Illinois. Cuban expedition with General Agnew leaves Key West as revenue cutter Dix pursues. California banker Jonay Parrott dies in San Francisco. Newcastle Kentucky postmaster J F Randall absconds owing eight hundred dollars. Mob hangs Frank Exwrott in York County North Carolina. another mob hangs Edward McCullogh in Dallas Texas for murder. Alabama & Great Southern wreck near Chattanooga. fireman Brown killed. Colored youth industrial school planned near Jacksonville Florida. Cornell Alumni Trustees named Wandwater Foraker Halsey. Lebanon Valley Road workers crash two trucks injuring several. Tennessee Supreme Court limits juror relativity. Livingston Montana to form Mining Bureau. John W Gibson in Fairview Kentucky to be lynched if captured. Wool Growers Convention dates shifted to May 19 Chicago. Cincinnati riot death toll at fifty-one. Steamer Rebecca Everingham burned on Chattahoochee River. fourteen lives lost. Ohio tax liquor bill passes Senate 19 13. Barbed wire price up ten percent in Chicago meeting.
Epucxp Yates editor of the London World receives four months for libeling Earl Louisdale with a judgment stayed on appeal. A Madrid tax editor is sentenced to eight years for an offensive caricature of King Alfonso. Porfirio Diaz promotes clubs across Mexico as Domination efforts rise.
The Turboiler tug Peter Smith of Cleveland exploded near Vermilion Ohio on the morning of the 6th. Captain Smith of Buffalo and engineers Perew and Rancore of Cleveland died. Seven aboard. four survivors reached two lighters and safety. Debris left of the vessel.
Tauirax April 5 nine men reached land from 140 aboard the steamer Daniel Steinmann while Captain Schoonhoven and five crew survived. The ship from Antwerp bound for Halifax and New York struck near Sambro in fog, breaking up off White Horse Shoal. Rescue efforts were hampered by rough seas and thick fog as tugs divers and wrecking schooners prepared to search for bodies and cargo.
In Judge Johnston's court the first sentences since the riot were imposed. Belle Osborne, colored, sentenced to seven years for shooting with intent to kill after pleading. Prosecutor urged a harsher stance, but sentence stood. John Murrah pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received five years.
Ottawa issued orders to stop landing Chinese in Canada, impacting Pacific coast relations. The measure aims to curb underground Chinese passage into the United States, where smugglers had carried thousands across the border since Congress passed the prohibitory law.
Seven Hungarians walking along the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad at Dunmore yesterday afternoon were struck by a train. Four died and two were badly hurt as they tried to cross tracks to escape a coal train, failing to hear an approaching train behind them. One man had an arm torn from its socket. The victims were on their way to Scranton to find work.
Reverend William H Pauling of Lawrenceville Chester County Pennsylvania died after being struck by a fast express train Saturday evening a short distance above Limerick station. The incident occurred near the rail line and authorities reported his death yesterday.
The government paid the final installment of the Arlington purchase money to General G W Custis Lee, Lee's second son, indicating Arlington was the last entailed property in the United States.
The Denver Tribune notes the effort to staff Arizona schools with teachers from the East faces attrition as educators are drawn away by the lure of lonely mining settlements.
Several Native Americans from the Cattaraugus Reservation haul wagon loads of sassafras roots to Buffalo to sell at profitable prices, drawing attention to the local timber and herb trade.
A Texas rancher who raises goats for meat argues that kid steaks are more debated than venison. He asserts tenderness and flavor can rival traditional deer meat.
A May 3 cyclone in Muske and Columbus regions kills four in Oakville and James Sander nearby, injures many, and devastates a sawmill and warehouse. In Pittsburgh and Monongahela Valley towns like Homestead and Reynoldsburgh wind damage includes Oliver & Roberts wire mill wrecked, several injuries, and houses demolished.
The items cover Dr. Mary Walker and Modjeska debates on gender, Mrs. Frederick H. Prince receiving $100,000 wedding gifts, Mrs. Hannah Simon celebrating a 99th birthday with a ten minute waltz, Vinnie Ream modeling a baby sculpture, a 60th wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Potter, Rev. Asa Ballard’s 50 years as secretary, and other cultural notes.
A mob hanged Frank Elliott, a colored man accused of assault, near York jail after a court appearance. In Dallas, Gaston County, Edwin McCullough, also colored, was seized from the jail and hanged after fatally shooting Thomas Wilson. About fifty men took part in both outbreaks. identities were not known.
A collage of quips and vignettes from humor sections, including tales of penny-pinching, vigilante tales in Arizona, courting mishaps, and a Crockett anecdote. The piece stitches light social jokes, domestic foibles, and old-time newspaper humor across several cities and periods.
A Philadelphia Call quip notes the nickname Collar Button fits a boy because he slips out in the evening and his father can never find him. The exchange highlights humor about naming a child based on a mischievous habit.
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