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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1883
Page
3
A district teacher confronts a boy and girl in a stylized scene of schoolyard flirtation and punishment. The rod looms as doctrine clashes with temptation. Mary Ann weeps and childlike notions of justice collide with strict discipline. Devon Away frames the mood as a moral drama.
A veteran narrator recalls delayed mail, Oswald Hamilton's death, and debts that threaten a friend's estate. He falls for Josepha, daughter of the late Oswald, stirs a plan with Reginald Travers, and years pass as Josépha moves between governess and heiress. In the end, by a sunset confession, they pledge themselves and a future at Hamilton Place.
Dr J G Wood discusses insects and clarifies misconceptions such as spiders not being insects. He explains external skeletons, segment count, wings, breathing tubes, and eye numbers like the butterfly with 36 000 eyes. He notes insect development from egg to larva to adult and cites adaptations inspiring mechanical inventions.
A collage of humorous clippings from Oil City Derrick Hartford Post Burlington Hawkeye and Texas Siftings features misplacements misquotes and jokes about clerks bees clover sheep and skim milk. The items mock everyday puns and social quirks across several towns and papers.
The Piute Indians hold a winter feast in the Humboldt and Carson valleys preparing a boiling kettle banquet. They toss in fish, ducks, rodents, berries and nuts with heads and entrails, cooking for hours as they travel toward towns and camps. The feast aims to stock fat for the cold months ahead and is described as crytaseoeh.
Cairo dispatch reports El Mahdi forces totaling about 300,000 destroyed Hicks Pasha's Egyptian troops after three days of fighting near Khartoum. An European artist is said to be the sole survivor. Earlier notes claim Hicks Pasha planned to move 10,000 men to El Obeid with 8,000 more to maintain a line of communication.
Joseph Poole was found guilty of the murder of John Kenney after a trial marked by evidence from witness William Lamie and testimonies at the lodging house. Poole admitted Fenian ties and proclaimed support for Irish independence, while denying the actual killing. he faces execution on December 18.
Pinnapecrira Nov 20 Mayor King discharged City Detective Thomas Whiteman and District Special Officers Thomas Alexander and Thomas Bye after a corruption charge publicized by the Press. Whiteman allegedly induced a weak minded German boy to steal a horse and wagon to trap a horse thief, but the boy was instead jailed by Alexander and Bye for six years. Whiteman is accused of taking money from the boy’s father and seeking rewards from a farmers’ association. The probe questions whether city officers may accept presents or rewards.
A column of brief items mentions Mrs. Tom Thumb's stance on marriage, Judge Albion W. Tourgee's lecture title The Mission of the Dude, Old Testament revision plans, and Brick Pomeroy’s newspaper enterprise. It recalls Townsend's fifty-year stump speaking history, John G. Whittier’s poetic reticence, Dr. Isaac Bartlett's lifelong bread-and-milk diet, a $1,000 Yates-to-Tennyson joke, Bancroft's routine, and London Times praise of American literary culture. A Clarksville Sentinel note lists four elderly boys aged 70 to 84 at a depot workbench.
A gruesome murder scene seven miles southwest of Jackson shows four people dead from revolver shots. Victims include Jacob D. Crouch, his daughter, her husband Henry White, and visitor Moses Pally from Transfer Pennsylvania. A local boy and a white maid survived. Investigators note possible single assailant. Crouch was wealthy, with Texas connections and substantial property. Police seek motive tied to money rumored from Crouch’s son Byron in Texas.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette reports Charles Niehaus won the commission for the Garfield statue in Washington and the bronze portrait for Cincinnati. No. 3 model shows Garfield in dignified repose with a scroll. it narrowly edged a more dynamic pose. Niehaus will sculpt in Italy, casting in the United States.
William G. Harrison, aged eighty two, prominent Marylander and former president of the B. and O. Railroad Company, died in Baltimore. He helped secure a five million dollar city loan for the railroad, led the Baltimore Fire Insurance Company and the Union Railroad Company, and served multiple terms in the Legislature. He also ran for Congress during the Know Nothing era against Henry Winter Davis. He had built a large fortune through long years in commerce.
Slaughtering of eleven sick or disabled cattle found in an abattoir near the southern city limits. An employee, Charles Hoene, was arrested and officers pursue George Byers, the proprietor. Also notes Wheeling Virginia gas vein search ended and cotton farming in Southern California a failure.
A charred pilot-house fragment, timber scraps, and pails mark the missing steamer Manistee which sailed from Bayfield for Ontonagon with fifty souls aboard. Hovering questions remain whether she sank in a gale or burned, with dispatches from Hancock noting it is believed she foundered with all on board. Officers and crew totaled about twenty five plus passengers. the Leopold & Austrian line owned her. The vessel, built in Cleveland and rebuilt multiple times, was valued at $25,000 and insured for $20,000.
The Committee of Forty in Danville reports its impartial review of the riot on the 3rd, with 37 witnesses examined. It concludes blacks were the aggressors while election day remained quiet and fair, and notes circulars promised free voting rights without intimidation.
Toronto readers react to Le Verite article alleging a French policy by Chapleau and Senecal to annex Quebec and expand ties with France. It claims the Globe and Mail correspondence shows treasonous intent and collusion with Chicago and St Paul press to damage Canada.
The Canadian Cattle Lloyds seek incorporation with power to insure livestock shipped from Canadian ports to Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, or the United States, and vice versa, against sea perils and other risks, with broader aims for cross‑border coverage.
A Milwaukee jury verdict holds contractor C. E. Newton of Jamesville guilty of gross negligence for improperly repairing a pier and design faults by Supervising Architect Jones of Madison and Consulting Architect H. C Koch of Milwaukee, contributing to the building collapse on November 8. The Citizens' Convention at Boston had nominated General A. P. Martin for mayor.
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