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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1888
Page
9
Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World provides a sweeping roundup of global developments. It highlights technological advances, political shifts, and cultural events with concise notes aimed at quick reader skimming and broad awareness.
Gov. calls up to three militia companies as West Virginia braces for a crackdown on the McCoy and Hatfield feud after a wave of deadly confrontations. The piece notes prior local impotence and a new federal style response to lawlessness.
The Nationalist MP for Clare, Mr Cox, was arrested in London after a long pursuit by the Irish police and is sent to Burns to await trial for sidrewing proclaimed league meetings. He was remanded without bail. A separate cable says an attempt was made to kill Louise Michel at Havre, with two shots fired and a head wound. Lucas narrowly escaped lynching as gendarmes intervened. An examiner notes the head wound is serious.
Mr Ix repairs a damp damaged frame by stuffing his muffler into a hole to block the cold wind. Donegal peasants arm and threaten to destroy bridges as troops move to Dunfanaghy to maintain peace. The trial of Patrick O'Brien Thomas Byrne and John Hayden ends with prison sentences and notices of appeal. The Cork mayor is summoned under the crimes act for assaulting a policeman. The prison doctor recommends hospital care for Wilfrid Blunt.
Mrs Clarissa Jackson of Delaware Township Hancock County becomes a grandmother at 25 after an 11 year marriage and births. George Clark, famed printer and former International Typographical Union president, dies in St Louis. Carlisle health improves and he travels with family to Fortress Monroe for ten days.
The Louisiana Republican State Convention nominates a full ticket led by Governor candidate H. C. Warmoth. Other items report Democratic and Republican maneuvering in federal races in Michigan and Washington, with uproar at the District of Columbia convention and New York's Democratic State Committee failing to choose a national committeeman. Julius S Grinnell emerges as a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Illinois.
The Pennsylvania Railroad sells 2000 mile mileage tickets at 2 cents per mile and 1000 mile books at 21 cents. Gregg & Company of Ithaca NY, a major farm implement maker with many US branches, failed. Sharon PA store Ro Deonean & Co closed on $9009 judgment. P Stebbins restaurant Mason City IA closed by Sheriff, liabilities $20000 assets $5000. Buffalo Rubber Co of Buffalo NY assigned with $55000 claims. Byron A Shotwell NY cigar manufacturer failed. Readings miners strike claims misstate, most Readying collieries short-handed. under 500 miners work in Behuylkill area, families face hunger and cold.
Extensive coal theft uncovered in Bainbridge Rosa County Ohio leads to arrests of fifteen prominent townspeople including the town marshal hotel keeper and a Presbyterian preacher. Detectives say half the town is implicated. Separate dispatch notes the U S Supreme Court decision in the Maxwell Preller murder case arising from a Missouri court ruling.
The article reports on a U S Supreme Court stay of execution affirming a death sentence, a New York gangster Whyos leader Dan Driscoll hanged, a masked robbery in Pennsylvania injuring Henry Merritt and looting 3000 dollars, and a murder in Los Angeles County tied to a farm sale with Fritz Anschlag and Antone Dyker under arrest.
A Paterson New Jersey blaze damaged property valued at 100000 dollars at the Rogers Locomotive Works. A British Columbia mining disaster at Wellington Collieries reported 31 white miners and 41 Chinese workers killed in an explosion, with rescue efforts and grim details of the blast’s devastation.
Rural Topics provides guidance for farmers and stock breeders with tips on crop care, poultry management, and household duties. The column aims to help readers improve yields, livestock health, and domestic efficiency through practical, seasonally relevant advice.
Corn cobs save for smoke houses and for browning hams and shoulders. Households use corn cob ashes for potash and correcting acidity. Much mineral content from corn goes into the cob, valuable for highly fed stock to balance stomach acidity.
The article advises feeding bean straw to sheep or milch cows, noting beans eaten by sheep aid use of waste feed. It also describes efficient stump grubbing: dig around, lever roots with the tree, twist to loosen roots, then plow and reseed.
A Chicago telegraph summarizes payments to Gen Butler Roger Pryor and J Randolph Tucker for anarchist work. Tucker returned $250 and renounced further claims. Pryor and Butler had received totals around 6000 and 4000 respectively, with debates over final family aid. Reports also cover Hatfield McCoy clashes in Pike and Logan counties, arms purchases, and Treasury remarks on British meat cattle imports. The Grant Monument Committee seeks design bids for a Gen Grant memorial with an estimated cost near 0,000.
A Kansas writer in the New York Weekly Witness advises on using soft soap mixed with water as a spring spray to deter borers. He recommends scrubbing the trees, mulching to keep roots moist, and watering in dry spells, plus using leaf or straw mulch for winter protection in strawberries to prevent freezing.
D. D. T. Moore urges prudent goals at year start. He stresses planning crops in winter to boost autumn harvests and warns against debt. A parable on mortgaging a barn teaches living within income, while notes on manure, poultry, and tools offer practical advice for farmers and households.
The excerpt advises gardeners to protect winter crops and ornamental plants in freezing conditions. It suggests lightly covering winter onions kale strawberries English ivy and pansies with evergreen boughs sedge sash or soil just before the ground freezes to minimize damage.
Massachusetts Ploughman urges farmers to plant trees yearly for fruit and ornament. Buy fresh stock from nearby sources, avoid long-exposed transplants, and prefer reputable growers to ensure true form and reliable fruit when trees mature.
A royal domain notice explains forest engineers can be hired at no cost to applicants from 1884. Landowners, occupiers, agricultural societies and districts may obtain aid in laying out forest culture, thinning, and planning. Applicants pay only board at five crowns per day and map or plan charges later.
A collection of practical tips on using mutton suet for healing lips and wounds, prepping lard-based salves, and care guidance for households. Includes instructions for wound care, soap suds cleanses, and simple kitchen remedies such as baked apples with butter and sugar.
A Rural New Yorker suggestion argues profitable East coast horse farming. Farmers pay $150 to $300 for mares and raise foals by April or May. The method uses box stalls, limited grain, oats, sweet hay, and occasional potatoes or carrots. A Schenectady case cites two coal black horses worth about $800.
A Western farmer explains a practical method for letting sheep on shares in Michigan. He outlines three arrangements, favors two thirds of wool and two thirds of lambs to the manager, and stresses keeping flocks well tended with losses settled by the flockmaster on his own terms.
A Prairie Farmer reader outlines winter egg production methods. A cheap straw-lined hen-house, a milk based warm mash, oats soaked in milk, and occasional scraps and lard cracklings feed hens for steady winter laying. He notes guarded housing during storms and pasture access on clear days, with eggs selling for 25 cents a dozen.
A recipe fragment describes Breakfast Gems batter with milk or water, egg, sugar, baking powder, flour, and icing. It adds a Lemon Pudding of eggs, sugar, butter, lemon juice, and zest baked in puff paste. Also outlines an oyster and potato cake fried like doughnuts with butter, salt, pepper, and cream.
A recipe lists two bowls chopped apples and one bowl chopped meat with suet, lemon rind and juice, molasses, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, raisins, currants, citron, cider, and sugar and salt to taste. The method combines fruit, suet, dried fruits, and spice with cider for a spiced pudding.
A Florida perfumery firm reports nineteen acres of tuberoses in Fairfield and San Mateo with plans to plant nearly two hundred more. The manager claims Florida uniquely suitable for tuberose cultivation in America and ahead of Southern France due to irrigation. He cites selling one acre for 2,000 dollars in one season, with planting costs lower than strawberries and fourfold income. Paris hospitals benefit from a 30,000 franc donation from a Paris concert. a metaphor notes the hole is made by a constant drop.
A Pittsburgh man vows to confess before April 27 to clear Robinson and Coughlin in the McMunn rescue and Hulligan murder case. Reports on Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias officers, Oxford postmaster appointment, Kansas Bank embezzlement case, accidental deaths, fires, train wrecks, and local civic updates across Ohio.
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