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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1881
Page
3
Reports from Washington reveal factions clashing over party reorganization, patience in New York Democratic factions, and speculation on Senate alignments. Obituaries note Mrs. Saran Johnston of Piqua at 102, while discussions on polygamy reform and the Utah delegation dominate public discourse.
Washington reports the Cabinet debated Whitaker the colored cadet. The President ordered a court martial at West Point on January 18 under General Miles. Evarts and Schurz urged dismissal while the President seeks to allow clearance of innocence.
A series of incidents reports death from exposure in Plainfield New Jersey an Albany capital building on quicksand fears a broken rail near Rhinebeck injuring two and burning mail bags. A bank employee in Fall River fled with seven thousand five hundred dollars. The Troy editor jailed for libel over prize dog fighting. Nantucket gains citizen O Conor preparing a law treatise. New York Mount and Central Park Art Gallery fire caused one hundred twenty five thousand dollars in losses. A Boston stage Lane Leacur meeting drew over thirty eight thousand Irish participants. Massachusetts cattle disease claims no harm from calf shipments westward per Dr Lyman. Keene Newport Rhode Island home burns. Journalist Epes Sargent dies in Boston. Atlantic City Windsor and Dullmore House hotels burned.
A Cincinnati bishop urges parish division and bans round dances while outlining marriage rites. A Texas jury clears Abe Rothschild of Bessie Moore murder. A Wisconsin physician used a warm iron on a pneumonia patient. victim dies. Anthony Deiters of Wheeling dies. noted for Napoleonic wounds and Prussian Masonry. Two tramps die from kiln gas near Richmond, two others survive. Charleston reports Agriculture Commissioner LeDuc planning an experimental tea farm near Summerville. Detroit bookkeeper H. D. Wright dies by morphine after engagement ends. Union Pacific emigrant train wreck near Lodge Pole injures five. New Orleans fire causes 254,009 loss. Isadore Levy under suspicion for repeat losses. David H. Jerome sworn in as Governor of Michigan. Thompson Hotel blaze strangles wife and infant. Buford plow works burns at Rock Island. loss 200,000. Chicago grain receipts 165,594,682 bushels in 1880. shipments 153,070,460. lumber 1,555,487,000 feet. hogs 7,055,229. Alpena disaster coroner finds ship unseaworthy and fault with life-safety gear. Goodrich Transportation liable for damages.
Five Krump family members in Montclair New Jersey died from diphtheria as fetid gases filled sleeping quarters. Other items note winter in the South with cold waves, Florida orange crops damaged by frost, and skating in Southwestern Texas. Legislative shifts in Tennessee and battles over Speakership are reported alongside a farmer’s death by roast beef choking in Iowa and ethnic tensions in Berlin and Ireland.
Merchants across the country report extensive clipping and boring of silver coins, with losses reaching ten percent per hundred dollars. Some railways fear organized gangs, and a proposed law to criminalize passing mutilated coins is discussed. In the meantime, dealers could curb clipping by refusing damaged pieces. gold coins stay safer due to negotiability. The piece cites N. Y. Zines.
The text argues that brain energy is spent during wakefulness and restored by sleep. It warns that insufficient sleep leads to insanity and cites historical examples of death from deprivation. It urges enforcing early bedtimes and waking on self-arising mornings to restore natural sleep, then advises each person must determine their own sleep needs guided by nature.
A local notice seeks 5000 stave bolts to be delivered to the Mark Center Mill with cash payment offered. Interested parties are instructed to apply at the office.
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