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Defiance County Express

Location

Defiance, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jan 03, 1884

Page

2

Financial and political brief from national happenings

Government plans to issue Treasury notes without legal tender to replace fading bank notes. House appropriations debates recess work on pension fortifications consular and military bills. Silver dollars at $415 500 for week ended 23. Secretary Fouler healthy. General Rosecrans’s wife died. Emigration group forms to help blacks acquire 160 acres each with aid. Internal revenue down from prior year. spirits up. tobacco taxes down. Gambling ban proposed for army officials. Morrison to appoint Talbott as Ways and Means clerk. Sheridan tarps a possible Charley McComas band in Chiricahua territory. Creek Nation delegation to Washington over Creek troubles. Idaho Treasurer Irwin declines salary for quarter ended. Chinese naturalization debate. voting rights for nativity. Sleigh accident in Rocktown. Suicide at Greenwood Cemetery. Grantie slip and minor injuries. Pennsylvania labor protests growing. New York assignment schedules 343 in 1883. Mrs Chamberlain dies after insane jump. Dizer Co closes factory. 400 out of work. Free Thinkers Convention opens with Burnham and Remburg.

Buckner Committee On Banking and Currency Congress Treasury House Committee On Appropriations Fouler Rosecrans Washington South West Internal Revenue Army Morrison Henry Talbott, Jr Illinois Ways and Means Sheridan Pope Fort Leavenworth Charley McComas San Carlos Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ispaheche Joan N. Irwin Idaho Territory United States Rocktown James Smith Henry Green Mary Krohner New York John Thoma Greenwood Cemetery Girardsville Grant Pennsylvania Chamberlain John Chamberlain New York State Oswego N. Y Dizer & Co East Weymouth Mass Free Thinkers Salamanca Rev. Burnham Michigan John E. Remburg Kansas Henry Mooness Philadelphia Kensington New Shamokin Sunbury & Lewisburg Sunbury Nutt Pittsburgh Young Nutt A. D. Smith & Co Providence R. I Elizabeth N. J Fred Pence Ep Mullen Frank Long Bradford Duck Creek Marietta Ohio Harrisburg Daniel Mackey Sallie Mackey Mackay Guilford John Goulding Joan H. Diex Delanco Marttha Staves Moriah Carter Williams

Train wrecks and murders dominate the 26th reports

Across Pennsylvania and nearby states a series of calamities and crimes unfold. Henry Mooness, ex policeman of Philadelphia, convicted of 1871 Kensington Bank robbery. a New Shamon Sunbury & Lewisburg train wreck at a trestle near Sunbury. freight wrecks in Elizabeth and Columbus Junction. multiple murders and assaults including Mackay in Harrisburg and Posey in Yazoo City. severe mine and weather disasters with deaths and injuries. notable bequests to Cincinnati Art Museum and College of Music.

Charles Harvey Petersburg Ind Henry Custin, Jr William McCarrery New Orleans Bud Renaud Pratt Birmingham Montana Joseph Phelan Paris Ark Gray Ilinois Pettit Jean Creek Olive Gunter Chatham Church Moncure N. C Chippewa Falls Wis George N. Ayres Rutland Yazoo City Miss John T. Posey Williams & Posey John James Posey James John Posey Carrot Posey Jasper Nicholls Buck H. C. Gillett Fritz Hallder Reuben R. Springer Cincinnati Art Museum Mills College of Music Virginius Mine Ouray Col Montrose Cumberland Basin Onray Boss Hardis Creek Louisa Court House Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad Columbus Junction Iowa Mark Fisher Coal Creek Tex

Ancient turmoil and protests thread through foreign news

Reports from Harbor Grace show an Orangemen procession attacked by a mob on the 26th with three killed and several wounded. Coroner Dr. Beatty of Lamberton died during an inquest on Mrs. Gibbs murdered earlier. Plantyn survivors rescued at Oporto after a fatal voyage. sixty on board perished. Barracks and railway explosives incidents surface in Ireland. Courbet urged by France to press Hong Hoa, Bacninh campaign. Trades Congress in Toronto calls for prohibition of Chinese labor imports.

Harbor Grace N. F Beatty Lamberton Canada Gibbs New York Antwerp Oporto Portugal London Berkenhead Barrack Street Stabane County Tyrone Ireland Great Western Railway Axminster Admiral Courbet Dominion

Ohio State liquor dealers form state organization and oppose Scott law

The Ohio State Convention of Liquor Dealers met in Columbus on the 28th to form a central committee of fifteen to oversee auxiliaries and legislation. They adopted resolutions declaring the Scott law unconstitutional and harmful to merchants, urging the Legislature to enact a lawful replacement.

Ohio Columbus

Ohio Liquor Dealers Call for Repeal of Scott Law

The State Convention of Liquor Dealers at Columbus adjourned after forming a state organization with a 15 member central committee. They urged the next Legislature to repeal the Scott law, deeming it unconstitutional and unjust to Ohio liquor traders.

Columbus

Lockport Congressman Proposes Niagara River Bridge

Congressman Stevens of Lockport introduces a bill in the House to authorize a new bridge across the Niagara River likely at Lewiston or Youngstown. A Canadian Parliament bill is planned. The Grand Trunk backs the scheme and may fund a cantilever bridge to link with the Attica and Lockport line and with the Rome Watertown Ogdensburg system.

Lockport N. Y Stevens New Lockport, Attica & Youngstown Railroad Niagara River Lewiston Youngstown Grand Trunk Attica Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg

Epidemic Smallpox Strikes Assumption Parish

Advices from Assumption Parish Louisiana report a smallpox outbreak taking an epidemic form in several localities. Many deaths have occurred, including the prominent Mrs. Jane Acosta known for piety and benevolence. Entire families are isolated as authorities combat spread.

Little Rock Ark Assumption Parish Louisiana Jane Acosta

State Land Board Faces Bid Conspiracy Concerns

The State Land Board in Texas grapples with school lands bids due next Tuesday. Reportedly, on the last day, speculators occupied county surveyors offices, parcelled land at minimum prices, and planned to outbid farmers or settlers for key tracts, risking many sales being canceled.

Auvstm Tex State Land Board

Witness Murdered in Ottawa Testimony Case

Warren Swarth, a key witness in a $200,000 case, was found dead in Ottawa Illinois with his head crushed. Police say two strangers shadowed him before he was killed and his body placed under railroad wheels to hide the crime.

Ottawa Warren Swarth Rock Island Railway

Floating Theater Gladiator Planned on New York River

A New York incorporation proposes a $250000 floating theater to visit river and coast towns with first class performances. A stock company will be employed aboard year round. The vessel, built on the catamaran principle, will be called the Gladiator.

New York N. Y. Sun

Man suits himself as executor in bid to sue estate

A Long Island man acted as both plaintiff and defendant in court claiming an estate he was executor owed him money. The judge ruled the conduct intolerable, removed the estate from his control, and dismissed him from the case.

Long Island Brooklyn Eagle

Burdened Play in Japan Kids Carry On Back

A correspondent notes the custom of Japanese children carrying younger siblings on their backs. Scores of children play with babies on their backs as they run at high speed, the infant's head seen waving in the breeze while napping.

House Committees Named in Heated Washington Session

The full roll of House committees was announced with members across Elections, Ways and Means, Appropriations, Judiciary, Banking and Currency, Coinage, Weights and Measures, Commerce, Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, Military, Naval, Post Offices, Railways and Canals, Public Lands, Indian Affairs, Territories, Manufactures, Mines and Mining, Levees, Militia, Claims, Expenditures, Patents, Education, Invalid Pensions, Pensions, State, Treasury, Labor, War Claims, Revision of Laws, Public Buildings and Grounds, Pacific Railroads, and more with numerous lawmakers named for each panel.

Washington House Messrs Turner Georgia Davis Missouri Converse Cooke Bennett Lowrey Elliott Robertson Kentucky Adams New York Ranney Pettibone Miller Pennsylvania Valentine Hepburn Iowa Hart Ways and Means Morrison Mills Blount Blackburn Hew Herbert Hurd Jones Arkansas Kelley Kasson McKinley Ohio Hiscock Russell Randall Forney Ellis Holman Hancock Townshend Hutchins Follett Barnes Keifer Cannon Ryan Calkins Horr Washburn Tucker Hammond Culbertson Texas Moulton Broadhead Dorsheimer Collins Seney Reed Maine E. B. Taylor McCord Reergan Clary Dunn Seymour Glasscock Woodward Boyle Barksdale O’neill Illnois Woodworth Long Stewart Vermont Peters Rivers and Harbors Willis Blanchard Alabama Gibson Rankin Breckenridge Murphy Sumner Houseman Henderson Illinois Bayne Robinson Chace Stone Burleigh Hatch Aiken Dibell Williams Beach Green Winans Weller Patton Cullen Wilson White Minnesota Ochiltree Hovey Stephenson Raymond Dakota Curtin Belmont Deuster Clement Cox North Carolina G. D. Wise Virginia Lamb Indiana Rice Wait Ketcham Phelps Hitt Rosecrans Slocum Dibrell Morgan Walford Nichols Murray Duncan Steele Lyman Laird Cutelreon Magennis Montana Morse Talbott Buchanan Eaton Ballentyne McAdoo Harmer Thomas Goff, Jr Bout Michigan Cobb Seales Oates Shaw Lewis Henley van Eaton Bedford Straight Anderson Bayson Brents Washington Territory Welborn Greaves Stevens Peel Pearce Finerty Skinner North of Carolina Smith George Perkins Nelson Oury Arizona Evans South Carolina Prior Arnot Hardeman Lankan Alexander Carleton Foran J. D. Taylor Kellogg Johnson Lawrence Struble Post Wyoming Territory Bagley J. D. Wise Mitchell Caldwell Crisp Braver New Jersey Mackey Ellwood Campbell Warner Tennessee Cassidy Wood Breitung O’ Hara Singiser Idaho Mississippi River King Wisconsin Hanley J. S. Wise Whiting Militia Muller Covington Strait Morley Hewit Davidson Houck Massachusetts Justice Springer Hemphill van Alstine Fyar Bowen Wilkins Spriggs Summers Weaver Post Office Department Morgan, Talbott Milliken Morrill Matson le Fever Budd Lovering Bay of State Department Borga Worthington Barr Price Treasury Department Hewitt Potter Connolly Lacey Libbey Haynes Hopkins James District of Columbia Barbour Geddes Howe Tulley Rogers Ferrell Everhart Rowell McMillan Hill Clay Ward Brown Spooner McComas Stockslayer Young Debble Reese Weple Brainard Holton Kean, Jr Pacific Railroads Capell Throckmorton Thompson, Jr Jordan Millard Durnham Hanback

Endorsement Meeting Backs Arthur Plan For Utah Council

A large gathering of Democrats and Republicans in Salt Lake City endorsed President Arthur’s recommendation for a Utah legislative council and Governor Murray’s good government agenda. Leaders spoke in support and strong resolutions passed urging Congress to enact the President’s proposed laws. A reception for Governor Murray is planned on his return from the East.

Salt Lake U. T Arthur Legislative Council Utah Murray Congress

The Country's Crops Report From 1883 Estimates

The 1883 crop estimates show 400 million bushels of corn if gathered with quality concerns. Potatoes remain strong and oats are lush. Wheat tops 400 million bushels and cotton around 6 million bales, with follow up studies planned post harvest.

Washington J. R. Dodge Agricultural Department Parallel Forty Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Dakota Ohio Indiana Ilinois Iowa Nebraska Illinois

Riots Kill Four In Harbor Grace N F Violence Spreads

Meager dispatches report four deaths in Harbor Grace riots yesterday including Darmandy Mercer Jeans and Callahan with eight mortally wounded and up to twenty more injured. Over 1,000 armed men gather from Conception Bay as Carbonear crowds threaten further clashes.

Boston Harbor Grace N. F St. Johns Darmandy Mercer Jeans Callahan Doyle Carbonear Conception Bay Halifax

Bloody Affray in Allendale Leaves Two Dead

A Christmas street fight in Allendale South Carolina left two dead and five wounded. John Hudlett marshal and his relatives clashed with Frank Weaver Aley Middleton, injuring Evan Strange Tom Hudlett and others. Afterward a second melee near town ended with Evan Strange and Tom Hudlett killed.

Allendale S. C John Hudlett John Tom Evan Joyce Strange Frank Weaver Aley Middleton Gus Allen Strange Evan Strange Tom Hudlett Hudletts O’bryans

Bishop Warren Marries Elizabeth in Denver Ceremony

Bishop Warren of the Methodist Episcopal Church Southern District wed Elizabeth the millionaire cattle owner in Evans Chapel. Four hundred elites attended from Maine to California. Bishop Simpson and Drs Moore and Cranston officiated with Governor Grant Senators Hill and Bowen and other state officials present.

Denver Col Bishop Warren Methodist Episcopal Church Southern District Elizabeth Evans Chapel Maine California Simpson Moore Cranston Grant Hill and Bowen Bedford

Boy swallows fare in Boston horse car prank

In a Boston horse car a boy suddenly acted distressed then recovered. The conductor asked for fare and the boy explained his action by saying he swallowed the money and asked to charge it to his papa.

Boston Boston Transcript

Red lizard exhibited then burned in Catemaco plaza

In Catemaco Vera Cruz a fisherman netted a remarkable red lizard nearly thirty feet long with an ear like an elephant. The creature was shown for three days before residents burned it on the public plaza.

Catemaco

Amos R Eno Receives 2 Million in Rent from Fifth Avenue Hotel

The 80 year old Amos R Eno earned two million dollars in rents from the Fifth Avenue New York Hotel property since its construction years ago. Eno rose from poverty to become a successful dry goods jobber.

Amos R. Eno Fifth Avenue New York Mr. Eno Sun

Woman hunter claims record in West Virginia

Mrs. Annie Cutlip of Webster County near Addison has reportedly killed twelve bears twenty seven deer and fourteen wild turkeys during her lifetime challenging any rival to best her frontier hunting tally and drawing a remark from the Chicago Times.

Annie Cutlip Addison Webster County W. Va Chicago Times

Notable 19th Century Obscurities and Anecdotes Across Newspapers

A collage of brief items: Arthur Schofield estate earmarks 50000 for the Boston Public Library despite a will flaw. Farm poet Will Carleton valued at 150900, with a quip about avoiding the poor house. Congressman George A Post, age 29, noted as the youngest in Congress. Asa Barker of Lynn, a suicide linked to a Barker concert era. Washington Irving quip on daughters education. A Rochester wedding displayed in a shop window as advertising, with many gifts. Joseph Swift’s Philadelphia fortune and legacies including to Mary Thorne and Horace Browne. John Hay testifies Lincoln wrote his Gettysburg Address largely solo.

Boston Public Library Arthur Schofield Boston Herald Will Carleton Chicago Journal George A. Post Congress Pennsylvania Philadelphia Press Asa Barker Lynn Mass Barker Boston Post Washington Irving James Converse Chili N. Y Mary Chatterton Rochester N. ¥. Post Joseph Swift Philadelphia Mary Charles K. Thorne, Jr Horace G. Browne Thorne John Hay President Lincoln J. Lincoln Washington Gettysburg Chicago Herald

Between Bonemians and a Breakfast Request

A room meeting prompt leads to a playful breakfast invitation in a Boston Tran script. Other quips include a blind man guided home in fog, a Venus statue loan joke, an elevator seen as a telephone, a London pawn broker at 1 am, and bragging about shooting through a sieve until buckshot holes are blocked.

Boston Transcript Squire Smith Harper's Bazar Gom Gom Paris Boston Sofys Boston Post London Austin Sporting Texas Sistings

The Vegetarian's Stumbling Block

A Saturday Review critique argues that milk forces vegetarians to rely on cows and calves, leading to animal killing which contradicts anti cruelty aims. The piece contends milk makes vegetarianism incoherent and urges rejecting milk to preserve the movement's ethics.

Saturday Review

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