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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1887
Page
2
Defiance County publication in Defiance Ohio details an Express Publishing Company listing or notice. The brief item conveys a standard newspaper notice format mentioning the publisher and location without additional results or dates.
A concise digest covers international developments and domestic affairs, highlighting political events, labor updates, and notable personal notes. The roundup notes shifts in policy, election activity, and economic indicators, with emphasis on key players and timelines.
Six men face indictment at Woodstock West Virginia for abducting Senator Riddleberger from jail and the surrendering deputy sheriff is also charged. Riddleberger plans to return to jail soon to finish the sentence as he recovers from pain.
The Irish National League has been proclaimed under the coercion act. Premier Salisbury announced it in the House of Lords and Mr Balfour in the Commons. Documents were removed from Dublin headquarters. Chamberlain and T W Russell left the Unionist party in protest. Irish nationalists on both sides of the Atlantic denounce the move but foresee limited impact on home rule.
Official returns show Buckner Democrat with a 17 015 plurality over Bradley Rop in Kentucky. Jay Gould is a grandfather as George Gould presents his wife with a son. Colonel Lamont says the President will go direct to St Louis for Veiled Prophet's Day then to Chicago arriving Oct 4. Mrs Ogle of Newburgh N Y has died leaving ten children. Professor Spencer F Baird of the United States Fish Commission died at Wood's Hall Mass aged 4 years. Alvan Clark the astronomer and telescope builder died in Cambridge Mass aged 84.
Reports say a dynamite blast failed to seriously damage a bridge at Ennis Ireland and Crusbeen town hall was fired into with no injuries. The piece also notes English Tory disappointment after Northwich results and a Russian protest over Prince Ferdinand in Constantinople.
The Chicago jewelry house N Matson and Co fails with liabilities around 200000 dollars. Indiana faces growing treasury strain as the last State funds are exhausted and 200000 dollars may be needed for current expenses. counties may be asked to lend voluntarily. Dun and Co notes crop prospects drive the economy. corn damage overestimated, wheat near 450 million bushels, cotton under early projections, and 161 business failures regionally. Flood and Mackay losses from the California wheat scheme estimated at 8 million dollars.
The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention in Harrisburg nominates William H. Hart for Treasurer and Henry W. Williams for Supreme Judge with a platform backing the state government, protective tariffs, immigration limits, expert bounties, and a dependent pension bill. The Nebraska Prohibition Convention in Lincoln nominates A. O. Abbott for Supreme Bench and two Regents, endorsing statutory prohibition and anti license laws. A Syracuse report notes the United Labor Party Platform fix and a full State ticket led by Henry George for Secretary of State with a slate including Wilder, Cum mings, Feeley, and Sweet.
A fall of an elevator in G. Sidenberg & Co. on Mercer Street New York killed one woman injured a man and multiple girls. Coroner jury in Pontiac reviews foreman Timothy Coughlin for neglect causing bridge fires and disobedience of orders. Notes multiple rail accidents include a Baltimore and Ohio freight wreck near Ellicott City with seventeen cars and four deaths and a Pennsylvania express wreck at Bayard Ohio due to rails.
Dispatches describe a devastating Nebraska storm in Republican City blowing down a nearly finished brick school and killing two carpenters with eight buried. casualties include four injured, two gravely. Also reports City of Montreal fire at sea with missing boat and presumed drownings, and cannons misfired at a Illinois reunion injuring spectators amid a Barnegat collision where a schooner sinks and a captain’s wife and daughter die.
The trial of the two Youngs and Green Mannin in Morehead Kentucky ended with a not guilty verdict amid claims of a farcical proceeding. News from Indianapolis reports the White Caps regulators terrorizing southwestern Kentucky, forcing residents to seek governor protection. Citizens fear testifying as outlaws plunder farms and threaten officials, with county officers unwilling to prosecute.
A telegram from Au Sable reports Ernest Schoeltze and family sold into slavery after sailing from Carlsbad. They endured eighteen months in the interior, then escaped to Campeachy before further capture and harsh labor. Additional items: Stanford’s answer in a California case. Grand Army aid grants. Venezuela’s Blanco in New York seeks US arbitration. American Bar Association closes at Saratoga with Wright elected president.
Survivors recall the Chatsworth wreck with vivid scenes of smashed cars and crushed bodies. One hotel keeper credits a timber saving his life by pinning him and shielding his family, while others describe mangled faces and a mother holding a dying infant. Officials and bystanders struggled to aid victims as rain fell and looting occurred amid the disaster.
Across all sides officials are blamed for the accident with claims that inspection was neglected despite a train of unusual length and weight about to cross. The public argues the track and supports required more careful scrutiny given hundreds of souls would ride the line. The company faced charges of heedlessness in allowing a fully loaded train to run.
Thomas Trimm, a Chicago commercial traveler, recounts being trapped for hours after a coal box collapse in a fifth coach. He details darkness, flames, trapped bodies, pleas for water, and the selfish scramble for survival, yet notes he was only lightly hurt and eventually saved.
Mr. Church recounts scenes from the Chatsworth wreck with still attached bodies, pinned labels, and a Chicago drummer killed after missing his stop. He describes mashed couches forming a monument, a hotel keeper named Murphy surviving and rescuing his wife, baby, and an old woman amid the wreckage.
Survivor accounts describe a deadly train wreck near Cuba Illinois with Mr Murphy and his wife among the few saved. Mrs Welch endured hours trapped after the chair car collapsed trapping passengers. The crash killed many as the front cars telescoped and fire lit the wreckage.
A survivor recalls witnessing a gruesome crash scene with three women dead in a car and a severely injured boy. He describes finding a woman with twisted legs, blood on his sleeves, and the grim realization of a crushed head as he tried to help.
Mrs. Charles Carlton of Oneida, a survivor, testifies to robberies after the calamity. In adds, vandals cut off fingers to steal rings and stripped bodies under cover of darkness. Corpse thefts victimize H. D. Gould reports catching one thief. Names and losses include J. D. McFadden, Liza Deal, Mrs Potthoff, F. D. Weinette, Capt. Dalle’s wife, and the Zimmerman family.
An injured young man from Macomb, Macoupin County, shot himself in the forehead after a wreck on a sleeper car. A witness from Lacon, Illinois, describes aiding the victim and hearing a pistol shot as a woman screamed nearby.
The account describes rescuers pulling bodies from cars after a collision. One car held twenty nine dead, another car and its occupants were crushed yet uninjured due to light contents. Ellenville’s Mr Divine details the chaotic scene as passengers rush to aid the wounded and evacuate as fire threatens.
Mrs C A Dewey and her Canton toddler escaped a wreck uninjured though the child was found beneath a heavy timber. Blood stains on his clothes were the only signs of the accident, while others noted the situation with surprise.
A body of 25 to 30 masked men rode into Leon Iowa and abducted James Reynolds from the county jail. They hung him from a bridge west of town after failing to extract a confession. The mob then rode away, leaving Reynolds dead.
Representatives of the Ohio Soldiers' Monument Commission and the Battlefield Memorial Association have fixed the placement of nineteen Ohio memorials on the Gettysburg battlefield. They will be dedicated September 14 and are to be on the line of the commission’s avenue near Tarrytown road with ground graded for a refined appearance. Monuments will show regimental flanks and markers mark detachments. The Ohio regiments lost include 107th, 211 killed. 75th, 186 wounded. 25th, 184. 82d, 181. 73d, 145. 8th, 102. 61st, 54. 55th, 49. 29th, 38. 4th, 31. 5th, 18. 7th, 18. 66th, 17.
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