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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1887
Page
2
Defiance County Express publication line shows printers and publishing company name with unclear OCR. The readable fragment confirms the local newsroom branding and publisher RS Express Publishing Company.
French official inquiry argues the German agent knowingly committed an offense after firing across the border. The German side cites incomplete inquiries and seeks limits on punishment while Belgian and French officials plan joint examination at the scene. The Nancy lessee, banker Lebigne, confirms the shooting occurred near the frontier and denies crossing it.
A Colmar prosecutor probes the shooting near Raon-Sur-Plaine on the Franco German frontier. Soldier Kaufmann fired after warning shots when twelve travelers moved toward France. Forest guard Linhof witnessed the event, and reports align with Kaufmanns account amid foreign affairs discussions between France and Germany.
The college of physicians and surgeons in New York opened its new building funded by the late William H. Vanderbilt who left half a million dollars. Notables present included Chauncy M. Depew, Professors Dwight and Welch, Columbia President Barnard, and Paris oculist M. Laudoli. President Dalton and Professor Draper led the ceremony. An anonymous St. Louis citizen donated 19000 to aid Presbyterians in endingowment for ministers widows and orphans, to be completed at the centennial assembly in Philadelphia next year.
The Massachusetts Republican State Convention nominated Oliver Ames for Governor, J Q A Brackett for Lieutenant Governor, Alan son W Beard for State Treasurer, Charles R Ladd for Auditor, and A J Waterman for Attorney General. The platform favors tariffs, veterans’ pensions, navy reconstruction, taxation cuts, silver coinage halt, liquor suppression, and a prohibitory amendment.
Assignments plague Richmond and Montreal firms with 69000 and 59009 liabilities while secretary Jairchild sees no alarm. Davenport of Boston faces 100000 debt from E Wheeler Co failure. Frost ruins 25 percent of Virginia tobacco crop. Philadelphia mint slows coinage as demand tops 70000. Pittsburgh glassmakers reach 5 percent wage increase. Seven thousand idle workers await regional recovery as factories resume.
Railroad executives decide that traveling theatrical companies do not count as families and are not eligible for family mileage tickets. The ruling excludes actors and performers from the fare policy accorded to family travelers.
Telegram reports a terrible accident at Valley Park station on the Missouri Pacific line. An excursion train was rear ended by express No 45 at 12 15 am, fire followed, depot burned, many killed, and the number of casualties unknown. A steamer T B Bim burnt near Memphis with loss of boat and cargo. Ottawa faces surrounding forest fires. widespread property destruction along railways.
Telegraphic reports describe extensive conflagations along the Ottawa River and into northern mining districts. Smoke blankets Pembroke, Western Ontario, and parts of Quebec for nearly four hundred miles, obstructing traffic and navigation across the area.
A vendetta in Bell County Kentucky leaves Howard Monroe dead after two bullets through a window struck him as he sat with Miss Edith Turner. Turner, the killers alleged, is the daughter of Jack Turner the slain desperado. A separate Albany New York swindle tale follows with Basil Cornett and J A Baker, who paid $700 for $10,000 in supposed treasury notes that turned out to be brick. Isaac Mullen in Jackson County Indiana poisoned himself with arsenic after his son faced a church disturbance trial.
Washington reports secretary Bayard struggles to find capable Fisheries Commission members. In Syracuse during the Democratic State Convention a dispatch notes the American yacht Volunteer beat the Scotch cutter Thistle by about 19 minutes in the 1887 America's Cup race. Crowds of around fifty thousand watched as the Volunteer led from start to finish over the 38 mile course amid noisy shore and vessel activity. The Illinois Supreme Court ruling on railroad condemnations is also noted.
A detailed telegraphed report from New York recounts the 1893 America's Cup race where the Volunteer defeats the Thistle. The Volunteer leads from the Narrows to Sandy Hook, wins by 19 minutes 23.44 seconds on corrected time, and finishes amid loud celebrations while the Thistle finishes later with cheers subdued.
More than one hundred convicts at the Knoxville Iron Company mines mutinied over hard tasks. Guards lost control as ventilation was shut, causing deadly air conditions. After two days the revolt collapsed. leaders were disciplined and several convicts, including three Black inmates, suffered mortal injuries.
The Republicans of New York nominate Colonel Frederick D. Grant for Secretary of State. The portrait presented shows Grant as about three years old and taller than his father, with light humor noting a lazy loaf of loaf.
The lesson outlines Scribes as copyists turned interpreters, notes on Galilee storms, and Jesus calming the sea. It links the eighth chapter of Matthew to miracles, lists sequence of events, and offers truth seeds on obedience and faith amid danger. It cites Mark Luke and Luke parallels and discusses the Son of Man title.
A Columbus area piece reports a found 21 year old man in Dunkinsville identified as a long lost Cincinnati child. It includes a deadly accident at Aving works, a dangerous collapse near Kenton, a paralyzed Springfield lawyer, a 104 year old Firelands resident, and multiple city issues from Cincinnati and Washington notices.
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