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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1887
Page
3
A compact notice desk item from Defiance County summarizes fresh intelligence and local updates. It notes political events and labor notes alongside foreign and domestic news highlights from the civilized world.
Military force moved to north Wales to quell tithe riots amid opposition to the Established Church and tithes. A refinery fire at Green Point, Long Island, causes about 1 million dollars in losses with one employee missing.
United Ireland advocates patience while condemning retaliation as undermining decades of effort. Bodyke evictions continue with clashes as sheriff’s posse confronts halloran family. arrests follow and law is asserted. Berlin doctors report Crown Prince recovery near certain after throat growth exam. Ver Nome devastates Turkestan quake casualties reach 120 killed, 225 injured. Ver Nome residents flee as shocks persist. Pacific freight rates and rail merger push threaten clipper-line rivals. Reuben Daily named Washington stenographer to commission. Minnesota boards charge unequal millstuffs rates against several cities, hurting local mills and jobs.
Deaths of Judge William Murray and ex Governor Chauncey F. Cleveland announced. Vanderbilt Astor and D Willis James each subscribe 100000 for a great New York Episcopal cathedral fund. Lansdowne named to be Duke in Jubilee honors distribution. Rev E Walpole Warren of London accepts call to Holy Trinity Church New York City. Naval Academy’s top grads Stocker Hibbs Snow. Major John H Ewing dies at age 9. President arrives in Washington and meets Hill. Mrs Cleveland leaves Albany.
A Prohibition mass meeting at Cooper Union in New York was largely attended with General Clinton B. Fisk as chairman. Massachusetts defeated a constitutional prohibitory amendment 159 to 74. The Iowa Republican State Central Committee set the August 24 convention in Des Moines. New Hampshire elected Thompson as Secretary of State Carter as State Treasurer and Clark as State Printer. Pennsylvania Republicans schedule their Harrisburg convention for August 17.
A New York syndicate subscribes to unissued 6 percent mortgage gold bonds of the Oregon Pacific Railroad to complete the line from Yaquina Harbor Oregon to Boise City Idaho. Land patents to Nebraska lands owned by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad are capped at 200000 acres above entitlement. The week sees 173 commercial failures in US and Canada, with strike impacts and iron output down while prices ease. Wheat prospects remain favorable, money liquidity strong, and Northwestern activity driven by rapid railway construction.
Vansantvoord and Magoun chosen as directors to succeed Mitchell and Wadsworth. A 10 million dollar increase in capital stock is recommended to finance extensions and the Chicago and Evanston Railroad purchase. The Vandalia purchase and other acquisitions give the Baltimore and Ohio a through air line from the seaboard to St. Louis.
Woodriff Sutton of New York protests to the Interstate Commerce Commission against suspending the long and short haul clause benefiting transcontinental railroad lines. Sutton & Co. operates clipper transportation and claims the transcontinental roads wage war on them by forcing shippers into certain terms.
A locomotive boiler explosion in Chester killed one and injured twelve. A passenger train near Pownal Station, Vermont, suffered a serious accident with seven injured. The Phillips excursion from Boston to California carried on. Nanticoke endured $100,000 in property damage from record rains that flooded streets, homes, and mines. The Channel salvage of the German bark Elsa after a collision left the crew unknown.
A London correspondent reflects on Queen Victoria's long reign as Jubilee talk dominates life. The article traces Victoria's birth at Kensington, ascent to the throne in 1837, marriage to Prince Albert, and nine children. It details Balmoral and Windsor households, royal finances, and the queen’s Highland pleasures shaping a public and private life.
The passage recalls the Queen and the Prince Consort at Sandringham and Balmoral for twelve years, noting their informal access to the people, simple parish worship, and unpretentious companionship. It portrays Balmoral life as upholding traditions of happier times after the sovereign’s sorrow.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture releases June 1 1887 crop and stock estimates based on nearly 1000 township correspondents. The 1887 harvest is projected at 30 400 000 bushels versus May 28 400 000 and seven year average 36 670 000. Wheat 74 percent rye 84 oats 98 tobacco 82 and other crops show varied conditions. Weather rust threatens wheat. oats and meadows improve. Knapp Bros pond tale and local accidents, fires, and a church property case in Dayton are noted along with several arrests and notable deaths.
Reports indict a Logan County official Hawkins Corley for robbing the county treasury of 11000. In Cincinnati Fred Bauer killed Paulina Bogenscheuer and a Mrs. Zell then killed himself. Apache violence and farm family murders recur in the Southwest. a Kentucky farmer killed his wife and two sons before self harm. A Mansfield dispatch notes two men assaulted young women. one mob victim hanged, another escaped. In Missouri Mob Meadows, Christian County, a man was murdered in the woods. Christian County records its forty third postwar murder.
The International Typographical Union in Buffalo re elected D. P. Boyer of New York as chief organizer. A resolution abolishing the office was referred to a committee, which reported adversely. A protest against denouncing the New York Sun drawn from a Knights of Labor clique sparked strong opposition. Next year’s convention will be in Kansas City. The Grant Monument Association invited designs for a memorial at Riverside Park tomb, with a jury of eminent architects selecting the winner. A Shetland pony hanged itself at A. A. Delong’s near Lexington, and wheat reports show declines in winter wheat acreage, slight state changes, and Dakota gains in spring wheat. Adjutant General Gray pushes a dependent pension bill through the Grand Army of the Republic for next Congress.
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