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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1884
Page
4
Reports list British grant of 2.5 million to Gen Wolseley for Soudan operations amid multiple international incidents. Ephemeral items include a Syrian blaze in Zeitoun, German army reviews, Cairo and London diplomacy, cholera tolls in Italy, and political nominations across the United States and Ireland.
The Memphis Avalanche editor F T Nichols died of paralysis while visiting Davenport with family. James W Nesmith, ex Senator from Oregon, placed in an insane asylum in Oregon. Nellie Hubbard wife of a New Haven coachman, divorced former suitor, marries Clark Smedley of New Haven. Ella Larrabee, 20, convicted of burglary in Brooklyn, receives a three and a half year penitentiary sentence. Connecticut farmer Daniel Shagree seeks marriage after her imprisonment. Illinois Woman Suffrage Association selects Mary F Holmen of Galva as President. Emerson McColm of Muncie recovers fully from a gun explosion injury. Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad President Alexander Mitchell denies resignation rumors. Attorney Charles R Ford, disbarred in Detroit, found in Indianapolis with a small cigar store. life insurance of 3000 dollars suspected. Commodore Thomas S Fillebrown, Brooklyn navy yard commander, dies of heart disease.
Reports detail Day Bros & Co and Burdett & Pond failures with large liabilities, Beckford assign ment in Cincinnati, and Stirring Shawnee miners killing cattle for food. Notes include export import gap of 77 million, steel prices rising to 27 50, St Louis Malleable Iron Co assign ment, mixed trade signals, weekly and nine month failures, dry goods imports up, pig iron reform responses, several assignments, cattle sale in Boston, and Missouri Pacific workers discharged. The Steve Molders Union in Pittsburgh proceeds with a 10 percent wage concession for Brediey & Co and a related committee setup.
A Washington hotel proprietor says he has hosted thirty to forty English tourists daily for weeks, linking the influx to European cholera fears. Meanwhile 2,700 tons of flour and large exports were shipped from San Francisco to China amid war concerns with France. The San Pablo carried 1,000 tons of flour.
Reports include a series of murders lynchings and arrests from New York to Kansas with additional incidents in Ohio Illinois Texas and Pennsylvania. Notable items: a woman shoots an unwanted suitor in Kinzua. two sisters charged with murdering their brother near Ottawa Kansas. a man kills his wife then commits suicide in Cleveland. a Santa Fe freight wreck causes major loss. a mob lynches four prisoners in Brookhaven Mississippi. a New York engineer dies by suicide. crimes in Brooklyn Dallas Jerseyville Union City and more.
Treasury reports Lieutenant Lutz of the revenue steamer Corwin seized the German schooner Adele during seal hunting near St Paul Island Alaska. Vessel and portion of crew sent to San Francisco for further proceedings. Also notes a Newfoundland-like chain of local incidents, fires in Lachine and Natrona, a cyclonic event near Towanda, and various public debt and postal service updates.
A string of calamities includes Abel, Smith & Co. glass works fire in Pittsburgh and Robinson, Rea & Co. machine shop losses of 200000 dollars. Fire in Ponset, Massachusetts hits A T Stearns Lumber, 210000 dollars. Syracuse flour mill 20000 dollars and twelve houses burn at St Anne Quebec. Grand Trunk derail near Pickering injures twelve. Other disasters include deaths from storms in Colorado and New York, boiler explosions, and rail accidents with substantial fatalities and damages.
Market listings show corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, and oats prices across Chicago Indianapolis and New York. Beef cuts and pork values appear with ranges from wholesale to choice grades, alongside dairy and egg figures.
New York crowds of about fifteen thousand filled Fifth Avenue from Twenty sixth to Twenty ninth street to cheer Blaine at a grand demonstration. He praised New York as a commercial metropolis and thanked supporters before moving on to Philadelphia after a late-night train stop in Newark and Trenton.
The Democratic meeting in Hamilton attracts an immense crowd, estimated 25 000 to 40 000, with Hendricks as the main speaker. Other speakers include Thurman Hoadly and Durbin Ward. Regrets arrive from Gov. Cleveland and Senator Payne. Hendricks rebuts a Vallandigham Club claim and calls for a change in administration amid strong enthusiasm.
Boston dispatch notes John B. Gough disavows politics as he urges an uncompromising Prohibition stance. He condemns liquor traffic, appeals for protection of widows and orphans, and says he will vote for the Prohibitory candidate if alive to the first Tuesday in November.
Gen. Logan received an ovation in Youngstown as fifty thousand people from Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania attended. A sixty mile radius of Blaine and Logan clubs joined the event. A noon parade showcased local industries with ten thousand in line, the two hour procession ending at the fair grounds where Logan spoke to about 20,000. He then addressed audiences in Alliance Akron and Canton with Gen. Noyes and Private Dalzell present.
The People's Party held its first ratification gathering in Lowell with Gen. Butler delivering a speech on tariff reform and supporting American labor. Boston dispatch reports Lynn hosted a campaign kickoff with Butler and Grady at Music Hall and Coliseum remarks urging a switch to the Peoples party for a few years.
Denver dispatch reports Belford dismissed rumors of an independent bid for Congress backed by the Greenback party. He only sought Democratic documents to compare with Republican positions, not to attack his party.
George O. Jones resigns as Chairman of the Greenback State Committee of New York saying the campaign aims to trap honest workers into a scheme to defeat Cleveland. His departure leaves the Butler party without organization in rural counties statewide.
In Denison Texas workmen struck rock while digging a well on Thomas Ellis premises. Ellis, an experienced miner, declared the rock gold bearing and a metallurgist extracted 40 cents worth of pure gold from a sample. A stock company plans to sink a shaft and develop the ledge as property prices rise.
A miscellany reports James Lyon Chips having thirty children in Panola Georgia Boston’s 254th birthday celebrated, Louisville Exposition lit by 5400 lamps, President Arthur enjoying country fairs, Mar Dowbroski in Milwaukee worth 40000, Bishop Simpson estate valued 93083, Blaine book fourth edition 50000 copies, Minister Williams notes Uruguay no business failures in 2.5 years, South American states preparing exhibits for New Orleans Exposition, Australian county paying bounty on 25840 dozen sparrow eggs, Edison liquid battery ahead of metals, English buyers purchase 16000 square miles in Mexico for 1 million, Spain loses playwright Garcia Gutierres author of Verdi’s I Trovatore.
Vast Democratic gathering in Columbus and surrounding towns celebrates Bayard speech at Comstock's Opera House with Gov. Hendricks and Cleveland letter read. Procession spans High Street with torches. supporters urge reform and honest administration.
Gen. Butler spoke at the Grafton County fair with Moody Merrill introducing him in the absence of the President. He warned that voters must think for themselves and denounced corruption while praising the Republican record and cautioning against revolution or excess.
A morning crowd greeted Gen. Logan Gen. Torrence and W D Kelley in Wheeling. Washington and Jefferson College seniors were presented to Logan who spoke for over an hour at the State Fair grounds. A larger evening procession was reviewed by Logan and Torrence as fireworks lit the night. Kelley spoke on tariff at the Opera House.
Washington dispatch reports rising anger as 200 foreign workers from New York arrive to build the boundary sewer under Thomas McCann's contract valued at 300 000 to 400 000 dollars. Local colored laborers claim they earn 1.50 dollars daily while newcomers are paid 0.75 to 0.90 dollars, prompting threats of trouble near Gull's woods outside city limits.
Betting on the political outcome grows among brokers with wagers near a thousand dollars. A Blaine supporter and others place large bets on Cleveland or Blaine as the election approaches.
The Prohibitionists in Ohio announce an aid to the Democracy featuring speakers including Mrs Viola E Lunsford of Kansas Mrs Mary A Woodbridge of Ravenna and John B Finch of Nebraska Ex Gov St John the Prohibition candidate for President will tour Ohio delivering four speeches in Springfield Delaware Oberlin and other Republican strongholds and will distribute temperance literature.
Gen Butler plans fifty speeches in New York while John Kelly declines Tammany mayoral bid. Nebraska anti Blaine ticket blends four parties. Independent organization active in Massachusetts against regular Democrats. Prohibitionists in Iowa ally with Republicans and won't field a state ticket. California Republicans favored to win most House seats. all six incumbents now Democrats. McCain bets Cleveland carries New York and Vermont backs Blaine.
In a Pall Mall Gazette London Letter Labouchere defends the press against interviewer intrusion and photo features. He recalls a club discussion on modern journalism and cites a two column advertisement incident as an example of perceived threats to press dignity.
A Rockford Courier correspondent portrays Aspinwall with about 12 000 residents, three quarters canal workers, a melting pot of world communities and bustling petty traders. The piece notes constant jostling, diverse merchants, and tensions when women manage shops, highlighting a chaotic foreign enclave in the colonized port.
Citing pale emaciation hacking cough night sweats and blood spitting a warning urges immediate action for consumption in early stages. The advertisement claims Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery can cure with testimony from thousands and directs readers to druggists.
A patron asks for mineral water as he chains the bottle to default trust. The barkeeper explains the water is charged with acid, not a social favor, while a humorous aside notes a man neglecting health, with a quip about a busy mechanic.
The Mason and Hamlin Organ and Piano Company releases a new 46 page 4to catalogue for 1884 85 with illustrations of all organ styles and detailed construction notes. It notes world acclaim at industrial exhibitions, price ranges from 22 to 1000 dollars, and guarantees thirty years of experience behind the instruments. The catalogue, sent free on request from Boston New York or Chicago, reflects reed instrument market growth over twenty five years.
An advertisement touts the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot offering 600 rooms at a total cost of one million dollars, now from $1 per day with European plan, elevator, and restaurant. It claims families can live better for less than at any first class hotel in the city and notes transport via horse cabs and elevated railroad to depots. Also appears an endorsement for Ely's Cream Balm as hay fever relief by W H Haskins of Marshfield Vermont.
Young Men Read This The Vortate Belt Co of Marshall Michigan offers to send their ELECTRO Vot Tab Belt and other electric appliances on trial for thirty days to men afflicted with nervous debility loss of vitality and manhood and related ailments. Complete restoration to health vigor and manhood guaranteed. No risk as thirty days trial allowed. Write for illustrated pamphlet free The Secret of Life.
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