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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1884
Page
18
Senate and House proceedings span petitions for women suffrage and cooperative villages, debates on naval gifts and Mississippi River improvements, plus executive sessions. Reports include stock convention memorials, pleuro pneumonia bills, and measures to regulate intoxicating liquors.
December 1883 breadstuffs exports valued at 12.94 million, year total 172.69 million for 1883. Pension bill favored for Mexican, Creek Seminole, and Blackhawk war survivors. Secretary Chandler reports 92 naval vessels on register in November 1885 with total costs near 82 million after repairs. Senate rejects Mexico treaty 39-20.
A resident of Fall River Massachusetts saw a blaze in the Stickney residence on the night of the sixteenth. Charles P Stickney and his wife perished. Mrs Stickney burned to death while Mr Stickney was fatally burned trying to save her. Naptha had been used to saturate carpet and ignite. In Haywardville a sled accident killed James O Leary and injured others. A Pittsburgh glass workers meeting accepted a capitalists offer to build factories with stock buy in. Anos D Lockwoon, leading cotton manufacturer, died at Providence Rhode Island on the sixteenth.
A west bound Texas Pacific passenger train derailed near Weatherford on the 15th due to a broken rail. About thirty people were injured, some severely, with no immediate fatalities reported.
Reports from St Petersburg mention a cipher letter found with a Nihilist in London linking to Irish malcontents. A Wales colliery cage tragedy killed ten men and a boy. A London fire damaged the S W Silver publishing house with heavy losses. Plans for a Trieste to New York steam line begin Feb 1. Sissi the brigand was killed in Sardinia. Vatican Prussia talks progress. Chamberlain pledges equal rights for Irishmen. A German Reichstag committee will oversee Herr Lasker’s funeral in Berlin. General Gordon may resign to return from the Congo. A Lancashire & Yorkshire official, Daniel Asqguira, has absconded. Baron St Loranz dies in Monaco. Dublin farmers plow Parnell estate.
Senate not in session on the 19th. The House debated the Fitz-John Porter bill without a vote before adjourning to the 21st. City of Columbus passenger list shows eighty-one aboard with ninety seven dead. Garfield Memorial Church in Washington dedicated on the 20th. Joseph McCreapy, eighteen, arrested in Boston for attempting to pass a bad check. A boiler explosion at Brink & Elkins mill killed two and injured four. William H. Guron made an assignment in New York with liabilities around two million. Leroy Donovan, alias Jobs Lap, hanged in Rawlins for murder. Leipsic fire destroyed much of the business district. Ershire Church Toronto burned but all escaped. Mineola Texas fined. thirteen stores lost for over forty-one thousand dollars. In Ouray Colorado a lynching occurred against murder suspects. New York banking data show increased loans and deposits with excess reserves amid rising totals.
A Boston dispatch details the wreck of the City of Columbus ashore near Devil's Bridge Gayhead with about 119 missing and 23 saved. Captain S E Wright and crew aided by the Revenue Cutter Dexter, with survivors identified and noted. The ship, built 1878, carried 81 passengers and 45 crew, valued at $300,000 with $250,000 insured.
Mary Matthews, adopted from the Denver Catholic Orphans Home, died after alleged abuse by foster parents Mike Cuddike and his wife and her brother John Carroll near Ouray. Coroner exhumed the body revealing skull fracture multiple wounds and freezing of limbs. The suspects were arrested as talk of lynching spread.
Cyrus Grow, about forty, fell ill at home and suffered violent spasms and frothing at the mouth after claiming hydrophobia from a bite eighteen years earlier. He overpowered several men, leaped from a second story window, and slashed his throat and wrists before police and volunteers restrained him and took him to the almshouse.
A Virginia Legislature bill proposes repealing the law that imposes political disability on citizens who duel. Supporters argue repeal would please Virginians and ease restrictions framed against murderers, noting the current climate where killing may invite trouble.
The North German Gazette reports new treaties between Germany and Corea concluded on November 26 1883. They grant Germany more favorable commerce and navigation terms, matching privileges Germany already enjoys with China and Japan.
The Ohio Senate and House established standing committees covering topics from Agriculture to Universities and Colleges. Lieutenant Governor elect John G. Warwick took the oath of office, and a bill to protect civil and legal rights was introduced.
In Gloversville New York a midnight elopement ends tragically as a wealthy manufacturer pursues the couple after the groom dumps the groomed lover in the snow. The father retrieves his daughter and returns home while the bridegroom wanders back alone through snow and darkness.
The Tribune argues the right to exclude a race risks denying entry to immigrants, noting that many assisted newcomers may be mentally deficient or likely to pass on weakness. It warns this element makes the policy dangerous and urges careful consideration.
A Wellsville Bradford passenger train struck a flow of waste oil on the Bradford Bordell and Kinzua line. The engine and cars were consumed in flames as oil coated the track for hundreds of yards. Dozens injured, three women dead, and an inquest opened with a relief train on scene. President Carter and surgeons assisted the injured. Names of the dead and injured include Mrs T C Fair, Miss Katie Moran, and Professor Faught among many others.
In an interview Dennis O Connor treasurer of the Chicago O Donnell defense fund says Patrick Ford has nearly $50,000 from supporters while Alexander Sullivan puts the total defense cost at about $12,500. O Connor adds Irish supporters await Ford's word on the balance and proposes any surplus go to O Donnell s widow and heirs.
A civil engineer, acting for leading capitalists, estimates a fifteen acre island in Lake Michigan opposite the city will cost one million dollars. Plans include a crib breakwater built from dredged sand and a spacious hotel with ornamental grounds.
Bellefontaine Ohio January 15 Seth Mc Bride a well known farmer shot a large gray wolf Monday night after it had killed one of his sheep. The wolf had slaughtered over a hundred sheep in recent weeks tearing holes in their sides and eating leaf fat and kidneys.
The Secretary of the Treasury accepted the New York Central Railroad Company offer of 65000 in compromise for liabilities of the Hudson River Railroad Company totaling 100000 before the two firms consolidated.
The Pennsylvania Iron Works in Manchester Pennsylvania reopened at lowered wages. The wage cuts are tied to the prices paid to puddlers in nearby locations and reflect market conditions affecting the plant’s labor costs.
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