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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1887
Page
2
The Defiance Express and Express Publishing Company items appear in Defiance Ohio records. The fragment notes the Defiance Co Express and mentions Defiance 610 and the publishing firm.
Intelligence by electric wire from every quarter of the civilized world. Concise summaries of important happenings across nations, markets, and events, gathered for quick reader insight.
A telegraph report claims imminent violent conflict on a Cherokee reservation, but officials declare the alert false in every detail. Other items note a yellow fever epidemic forecast in Tampa, Crows in Montana, and various crimes and political notes across the nation.
An Atlantic Dynamite Works blast near McCainsville New Jersey killed four men and left three missing in a packing house. A Market Street grocery blast in St Louis killed six. In Philadelphia, the American Woman's Suffrage Association reports progress and plans to press state legislatures for municipal voting rights. W D Foulke of Indiana elected president with George F Hoar and George William Curtis among vice presidents.
The Tax Chief of the Wice Department of St Louis believes the recent explosion in the city, which killed eight, was caused by dynamite or giant powder rather than gas. A tax jury inspecting the wreck of the ill-fated propeller Vernon found a body on a raft in Lake Michigan and recommended action regarding life preservers.
Injuries and deaths reported after a Charleston area camp meeting riot where whisky fueled a brawl using razors pistols and poles leaving one man dead six mortally wounded and about twenty five bruised. Charles Brownfield killed his wife and baby then hanged himself leaving a handwritten confession.
Government offered fourteen million dollars in bonds for sinking fund with eight million already purchased by Sept. 28. Sharon-Hill case heads to the U S Supreme Court on appeal from Judge Sawyer. A bomb hoax involving Chief Justice Waite is traced to Sherburne G. Hopkins and Arthur D. Sperry. confession says vial held ink and a small amount of powder only.
The Irish editor William O'Brien of United Ireland has had his three month imprisonment upheld after a Cork Mitchellstown court appeal was refused. An ensuing clash with police outside the court led to arrests and a dramatic call for his release as 2,000 spectators gathered. O'Brien was later moved to Tullamore jail without incident.
Crow Agency M T reports Sword Bearer communes with spirits in the Big Horn Mountains and that God resides with a Chinaman a white man and an Indian to restart the world after the war. Six troops are stationed at the agency as Indians arrive mainly as squaws and children under Gen Ruger orders. An estate of £5 5 000 is probated for Eli Bo Wardburne with most assets to his children. Commercial Cable Company increases capital stock from 4 000 000 to 6 000 000.
News from Chicago reports August Spies, Fielden, Schwab and others preparing to seek executive clemency after a ruling by the Supreme Court. George Francis Train hastily telegraphed a dramatic expatriation farewell to Canada, while Dr. M W Sauter of the Ethical Culture Society offers Chicago remarks.
The article notes leaders drawing a brief executive clemency petition seeking commuting sentences of condemned men, with about twenty signatures including Judge Tuley ex judge Booth Julius Rosenfeldt and Alder man Manierre. Police say they are prepared for potential unrest while warning threats may be exaggerated. Gun stores report brisk revolver sales amid turmoil. A Germania Assembly Room crowd supports harsher action against the condemned. A Homestead related confession is questioned by police, while Lingg remains a key target for commutation efforts and allied pressure continues.
The Swedish singer Jenny Lind Gopschmipt died quietly at her home near London on November 2. Born in Stockholm on October 6, 1821, she rose from a child prodigy to prima donna of the Stockholm opera, later performing in Paris Berlin and London and touring the United States with P T Barnum. She married Otto Goldschmidt in Boston in 1852 and mainly retired from stage after marriage, living in Germany and later England.
The Supreme Court refused a writ of error in the anarchist cases, delivering a detailed opinion by Chief Justice Waite. The decision reviewed the Illinois statute on juror impartiality, the voir dire process for Denker and Sanford, and the admissibility of a letter from Johann Most as it related to Spies, noting state and federal constitutional questions and precedent.
At Chicago on November 3, news from Washington that the Supreme Court refused the writ of error sparked a tense scene around the jail. Officials and inmates showed little outward emotion, though prisoners’ visitors, including Lingg’s partner and Spies’s mother, faced palpable distress as the decision loomed. An atmosphere of quiet strain hovered as guards relayed the ruling.
Prison officials and police tighten security after news from Washington. The Grand Jury orders eleven prisoners released and plans for further discharges to reduce inmate numbers before the November 1 execution. Captain Schanck orders guards at the water works and around the jail fearing anarchist demonstrations and possible arson or dynamite attacks.
A New York dispatch reports anarchists enraged by the Supreme Court decision threaten violence across cities. A faction named Anarchists Avengers Society claims 8000 to 10000 members sworn to butcher opponents. They forewarn outbreaks and urge hatred of government, with fears echoed of Russia’s reign of terror.
Louis Neebe, brother of Oscar Neebe the Chicago anarchist, visited his convict sibling at Joliet prison to share news of the doomed seven. Overcome with emotion, Louis wept copiously during the visit on November 3 in Jouret, Illinois.
George Francis Train, reacting to Washington news sealing Chicago's seven condemned anarchists, cried aloud and vowed to quit the United States forever. He plans to move to Toronto, Canada, as the dramatic remark spread through Oman4, Nebraska, on November 3.
The London Standard notes Swiss landslips threaten villages on the edge of avalanches of snow and earth. It recalls events such as the 1806 Goidau valley destruction, the 1555 Tiber debris flood in St Stefano, and the 161% Plurs collapse, where entire towns vanished and inhabitants perished amid rockfalls and floods.
A Nebraska State Journal poem observes the man in the moon grinning at foolish earthly antics. It riffs on revelers, a balloon ride, a gun desk scene, and a marriage plea, urging readers to smile and snicker at life’s quirks.
In a 17th century tone a judge fines a witness ten dollars for contempt after the witness forgets his Winchester rifle. The fragment hints at legal theater and critiques of authority amid historical allusions to European education and classical scholars.
A boiler blast in the japanning room of I N Tapliff’s carriage factory in Cleveland killed Alfred Steinbrook and a Bohemian worker and seriously injured several others. The accident followed chemical mixing for paint as flames spread through the japanning room while workers searched for the dead and injured.
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