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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1884
Page
2
Senate debates and passes measures including Yellow stone Park expansion and a post office lease plan. House actions cover Naval Appropriation, tariff concerns, and a new quorum bill for the Supreme Court. News notes include rail disputes, a Maine railroad wreck, and oblique references to Guiteau attorney statements and various local incidents.
The sixteenth annual Woman's Suffrage Convention began in Washington with delegates from twenty states. Susan B. Anthony presided as the assembly promised several days of sessions.
The East reports gas deaths in Reading Pennsylvania with one dead and another near death. John O'Brien wins New York County Republican Committee chair. Curtis postpones Wendell Phillips eulogy to April 18. James Crawford found guilty of embezzling railroad tickets in Philadelphia. Mickey Smith convicted of first degree murder in Johnstown. Hayden Company brass works sold to Western syndicate. Andrew Moreland killed in Pittsburgh by fall on Diamond Street. Independent Republicans meet in New York City to discuss expansion and general Barlow presiding.
The Texas and Pacific Railway shows an income of 2,040,000 with expenditures including interest totaling 2,214,000. The report details the year’s financial position amid other regional news across Iowa Ohio Kentucky and surrounding areas.
The Cork corporation will host a public funeral for Jerome Collins of the Jeannette expedition. Remains are to be interred in Cork before transport to the United States. Also notes drownings after a collision near Gibraltar and other international incidents.
Summarizes diverse items: steamships Servin and Baltic carried gold and silver coins to Europe. Mrs Elizabeth Lewis and daughter found dead from gas in New Haven. City Marshal John T. Vandoren shot in Clinton County Ohio. Mexican Central Railroad completed from Mexico City to the Rio Grande. Massachusetts Democratic State Convention set for Worcester. Philadelphia Common Pleas refuses Carrie Kilgore bar admission. Galveston Cotton Exchange urges against silver coinage. fatal blast at Cornwall furnaces Reading. Wabash collision near Kansas City injures none fatally. Civil Service Reform Commission moves to end four-year federal terms. foot and mouth disease hits Woodson County cattle. House and Senate activity notes on tariffs and ship purchase bills.
The Ways and Means Committee signals probable approval of Representative Potter’s plan to refund the bonded debt at two and a half percent. It would convert three percent bonds into two and a half percent notes, reduce note circulation tax, and stabilize banking while lowering total interest. The measure aims to keep the debt at a uniform two and a half percent and would prompt banks to exchange threes for fours and four and a half percents under certain conditions. A copyright bill by Senator Sherman to protect newspaper content for eight hours is also introduced.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee organized at the Arlington Hotel in Washington on March 5 with Senator Pendleton presiding. Thirty states and territories are represented. 31 members attended. a slate of executive and sub committees was formed to handle financing and campaign documents. The lineup includes Senators Garland Kenna and Gorman and Representatives Paige Rosecrans Stockslager Stevens Murphy. The committee favors tariff reform while remaining diverse in party stance. List of campaign members by state and representative follows.
The Ohio Legislature discusses section changes on estate transfer rights, juror eligibility after expressing opinions, and districting. Bills address a soldiers memorial, taxation lists, state penitentiaries, liquor tax, eight hour law, and more. The House and Senate consider amendments to Revised Statutes, court appointments, and appropriations across March 5 to March 7 sessions.
United States local inspectors determine the wreck caused by a fatal mis judgment in backing engines after the City of Columbus struck rocks. Captain S E Wright held the pilot duties illegally and his license as master and pilot is revoked. Glaucus officers who sighted the wreck face no penalty for not approaching.
George Baer newly elected County Auditor of Wilkes-Barre Pa suddenly died at home while reading to his wife a congratulatory note on his election. He faced strong opposition during the canvass but died in moments of joy.
Andrew J Carnegie, head of the great iron company, plans a mansion on Cumberland Island near Fernandina Florida. The island is noted as Light-Horse Harry Lee's burial place and features forests with wild deer, described as surpassing any private park in England.
John Wells a prominent Benton County farmer was confronted by two gunmen at his home near Windsor after they demanded money. When Wells tried to retreat to his sitting room the assailants shot him dead and fled the scene.
A Birmingham gentleman is in possession of a watch described as Alabama gold and valued at 275, per the Albany Journal.
Carrie Wilcox of Bradford renounces her religion to marry. Susan Fenimore Cooper educates a hundred orphans in Cooperstown. Mrs Joseph Cook lectures on The Temples and Tombs of Hindustan with stereopticon views. Henry Ward Beecher's new lecture The Circuit of the Continent details his 1860s 1860 mile trip and 75 engagements. Extra Billy Smith writes of life. Marion Langdon noted as New York's beauty. Bishop Pierce recalls a long pastoral career and early leadership of a female college in Macon.
A catalog of light quotes and jokes from various papers. It features puns about lunatic asylums, letters from freshmen, marriage quips, and playful exchanges about chickens teeth and electricity. It also includes a humor vignette about triplets and a man who dies of fog but looks toward sunshine.
The essay traces the development of monastic cells, arguing that private retreat was rare in English Carthusian houses. It notes Henry II’s foundation of Witham and cites the Carthusian discipline as strict and solitary, with few monasteries offering personal space or retirement.
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