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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1887
Page
2
Global News Budget Highlights Fresh Intelligence
A digest of foreign and domestic events covers political shifts, labor updates, and notable personal points. The report compiles fresh intelligence from diverse regions, signaling evolving tensions and economic indicators.
Wales faces tithe riots as forces move north
Military units moved to north Wales to quell tithe riots stirred by clerical enforcement of tithes. Disestablishment pressures grow amid Welsh dissent, prompting parliamentary scrutiny of the unrest and potential political shifts.
Evictions at Bodyke and other European notes in weekly events
In weekly events, Irish retaliation fears are noted alongside Bodyke evictions where sheriff’s men faced boiling water and arrests. Berlin reports a positive prognosis for Crown Prince after a medical review. Vernome endures deadly earthquakes while rail and shipping probes challenge fair freight rates affecting Minnesota towns and workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parnell
Mr. Parnell
Gladstone
Bodyke
Ireland
Fiiday
O'Haloran
MacKenzie
Berlin
Virchow
London
Crystal Palace
St Petersburg
Vernome
Turkestan
Notable Deaths and Honors Across Nations
Deaths include Judge William Murray of the New York Supreme Bench and ex Governor Chauncey Cleveland of Connecticut. Patrons Vanderbilt Astor and D Willis James each subscribe 100000 to fund a great Episcopal cathedral in New York. Lansdowne expected to become a duke amid jubilee honors. Rev E Walpole Warren joins Holy Trinity Church New York City son of Samuel Warren author of Ten Thousand a Year. Naval Academy class leaders Stocker Hibbs Snow. Major John H Ewing, uncle of James G Blaine, dies at 9 in Washington Pa. President travels to White House. breakfast with Governor Hill. Mrs Cleveland leaves Albany for Kingsford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Murray
Supreme Bench of
New York
Chauncey F. Cleveland
Connecticut
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J. J. Astor
D. Willis James
London
Lansdowne
E. Walpole Warren
Holy Trinity Church
New York City
Stephen Tyng
Warren
Samuel Warren
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Robert Stocker
Minnesota
Frank W. Hibbs
Elliott Snow
Utah Territory
John H. Ewing
James G. Blaine
Washington, Pa
Washington
Whites House
Governor Hill
Albany
N. Y
Prohibition Meeting at Cooper Union and State Elections
A large Prohibition mass meeting at Cooper Union New York chaired by General Clinton B Fisk adopted resolutions against liquor and the Ives pool bill and expressed labor sympathy. Massachusetts defeated a constitutional prohibitory amendment 139 to 74. Iowa GOP fixed August 24 Des Moines convention. New Hampshire elected Thompson Carter and Clark for state offices. Pennsylvania Republicans set August 17 Harrisburg state convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooper Union
New York
Clinton B. Fisk
Massachusetts
Iowa
Republican State Central Committee
Des Moines
New Hampshire
A. B. Thompson
Concord
Solon A. Carter
John B. Clark
Manchester
Pennnsylvania
Harrisburg
Syndicate buys Oregon Pacific bonds to finish Yaquina Bay line
A New York syndicate subscribes for unissued 6 percent mortgage gold bonds of the Oregon Pacific Railroad, securing completion of the line from Yaquina Harbor to Boise City. Land patent limits in Nebraska halt further grants north of the line, caping at 200,000 acres beyond entitlement. Weekly rail and trade notes cite mixed outlooks, labor troubles, iron output declines, and improving crop prospects with ample money supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Oregon Pacific Railroad
Yaquima Harbor
Oregon
Boise City
Idaho
Sparks
Nebraska
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad
Land Office
United States
Canada
Rh G, Dun & Co
Pittsburgh
Fisher
Chicago
Rapid
Yilds
Railroad directors elected and stock increase approved
A Vansantvoord and George C. Magonan were chosen directors of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad to succeed Alexander Mitchell and Julius Wadsworth. A $10,000,000 capital stock increase was recommended to fund extensions and the Chicago and Evanston Railroad purchase. The Baltimore and Ohio gains a through airline from the seaboard to St. Louis after purchasing Vandalia and other roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Vansantvoord
George C. Magonan
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Alexander Mitchell
Julius Wadsworth
Chicago and
Evanston
Vandalia
Baltimore and Ohio
Seaboard
St. Louis
Sutton protests interstate law change harming clipper lines
Woodriff Sutton of New York protests to the Interstate Commerce Commission against suspending the long and short haul clause in favor of transcontinental railroad roads. Sutton & Co. operates clipper transportation and claims the railroads wage war on them by forcing shippers to enter into terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suttdh
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Reuben Daily
Indiana
Washington
Indianapolis Sentinel
Minnesota Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Interstate Commission
Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Farmington
Northfield
Faribault
Owatonna Boards of Trade
Minnesota Business Men's Association
Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
St Paul
Minneapolis
Stillwater
Menomonee
Chippewa Falls
Eau Claire
St. Paul
Mississippi River
Woodriff Sutton
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Clauss
Sutton & Co
Fires and accidents dot Chester and Pennsylvanian towns
A locomotive boiler exploded in Chester killing one and injuring a dozen. A passenger train near Pownal Station, Vermont, suffered serious injuries to seven. Nanticoke suffered $100,000 in flood damage with extensive ruin. A German bark Elsa, sailing from Wilmington to London, sank after a probable collision in the Channel. crew unconfirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Pownal Station
Phillips
Boston
California
Nanticoke
Evan Morris
Morris
Pennsylvania Railroad
Elsa
Wilmington
N. C
London
Dungeness
Fifty Years A Queen Victoria Jubilee Reflections In London
The article traces Victoria's life from birth in 1819 to her long reign and Jubilee era. It details her family, coronation, marriages, children, Balmoral solitude, Windsor routines, and the royal household. It notes her early education, public devotion, and Highland ties shaping the monarch's character.
Balmoral and Scone Life Reflect Royal Fondness
The passage recalls the Queen and the Prince Consort enjoying twelve years at Balmoral and Sandringham, mingling with people, guiding welfare, and worshiping in plain parish churches. It notes Balmoral life after sorrow preserves traditions of happier times and consecrates the surrounding spots with sweet associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hebrides
Grampians
Prince Consort
Balmoral
Ohio crop and stock report notes June 1 1887 state outlook
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture reports June 1 1887 crop and stock conditions from about one thousand township correspondents. Harvest expected at 30 400 000 bushels vs 28 400 000 in May. vs seven year average 36 670 000, short by 6 270 000. Weather brings rust on some wheat. oats and meadows improved. May fruit prospects drop about fifty points for apples and cherries. peaches and pears about half a crop. Knapp Bros fish ponds near Painesville feature a ten foot hair covered serpentine creature sighting, vouched for by Henry Knapp. A child burned at a Harner farm after a threshing accident. Anarchists reported in Columbus. dynamite device found on Ashtabula and Pittsburgh line. Several factory and local incidents noted including a monk church case in Dayton, a monument fund tax suit in Cincinnati, pardons and suicides, storms, and a preacher elected president of Hiram College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Jacob Harner
Xenia
Harner
Columbus
Miami Powder Company
Dayton
Cincinnati
Wm. Henry Harrison
Emanuel Cover
Summit County
Edward Parker
Lebanon
Lewis Williams
Robert Gray
Seneca County
Bloomville
Adams County
Peabody Institute
Harvard University
Simon Levy
Lemuel Teasdale
Batavia
John W. Neal
Bladensburg
William Reed
Cara
St. Paris
William H. Woolery
Bethany College
Hiram College
Hiram
Crime and violence report from 1860s era notes multiple incidents
A miscellaneous crime roundup lists Hawkins Corley’s February arrest for robbing Logan County Arkansas of 11000, Bauer shooting Bogenschener and Zoll before killing himself, Apache band killings in Southern Arizona, John Fields killing his family then himself, Frederick Hermann killing his child and harming his wife before dying, two Mansfield suspects in a daylight assault with mob justice, Mob Meadows in Christian County Missouri killed, marking the forty third murder since the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkins Corley
Logan County
Arkansas
Fort Smith
Cincinnati
Fred Bauer
Paulina Bogenschener
Zoll
John H. Fields
Helena
Frederick Hermann
Pittsburg
Mansfield (Law
W. L. Washington
Levi Abraham
Christian County
Missouri
Ozark
Union notes and memorial bid mark Buffalo session
In Buffalo the International Typographical Union re elected D P Boyer of New York as chief organizer. A resolution to abolish the post was sent to a committee, which reported against it. The convention backed New York Union No 6 in protesting a Knights of Labor denunciation of the New York Aux. Next year’s meeting will be in Kansas City. The Grant Monument Assn chaired by ex Gov Cornell invites designs for a Riverside Park tomb monument with a jury of eminent architects. A Kentucky pony hanged itself at A A Delong’s near Lexington. June farm returns show wheat area down nearly 2 percent with Kansas down 22 percent and Dakota up 24 percent. total wheat area about 37 million acres. Adj Gen Gray of the Grand Army of the Republic pushes a dependent pension bill to Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North
Wales
Havemeyer
Green Point
Long Island
William M. Maloney
Reading
Doodle Board of Aldermen
New York
Canada
Jake” Sharp
Paris
Grevy
M. Louvier
M. Clemenceau
Gen. Boulanger
The
Republic
Miss Minster Jones
Pittsburgh
W. Q. Gresham
Alfred M. Fuller
United States Army
Chicago
Albert Brooks
Juniata
Mich
Denver
Boston
California
Kane County
Geneva
Ill
Suez Canal
New Hebrides
Pennsylvania
Toronto Biruck
Alsace-Lorraine
Metz
Gen. Houlanger
Alsace
Pascoe
International Typographical Union
P’ascoe
Tarkistan
United States
WinitAy
Buffalo
D. P. Boyer
New York Union
Knights of Labor
Department of Agriculture
Kannas
Mississippi River
Northern Pacific Railroad
Dakota
Gray
Grand Army of the Republic
National Pension Committee
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Louie
Pete Merenewt
Detroit
Rene A
Cattlan
Indianavolia
Baly
Financial and Industrial
National Railway Commission
Britain
Robert P. Porter
Duke of Albany
Victoria Alexandria
Great Britain and Ireland
India
Duke of Kent
Louisa Victoria
Saxeburg
Kensington Palace
England
United Kingdom
Victoria
William IV
Westminster Abbey
Prince Albert of
Saxe- Coburg Gotha
Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa
Albert Edward, Prince of
Leopold George Albert
Beatrice Mary Victoria
Privy Council
Scotland
Windsor Castle
Windsor
William the Conqueror
Edward III
William of Wykeham
Geoffrey Wyatville
Frogmore
Queen Charlotte
Queen Victoria
Duchess of Kent
Dors
Crarthie
Aberdeenshire
Dee
Beatrice
Prince Battenbury
Prince and Princess of Wales
Royal Household
Board of Green Cloth
Occa
Highlands
Edinburgh
Birnam
Aberfeld
Taymouth
Breadalbane
Blair
Athol
Tulloch
Marshalsea
Buckingham Palace
London Royal Residence
George V
William
Walter Scott
Prince Albert Victor
Sandringham Palace
Ohio State News
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