News of the Week from the October 19 1883 Defiance County Express
News highlights from Washington and New York era reflect deaths and political shifts, naval retirements, court cases, fires, and industrial disruptions. Notable items include Surgeon General Crances H. Crane's death, Folger bond calls, changes in army command, Koreans' White House audience, and a Utica canning factory fire. Local incidents cover pleuropneumonia misreads, a Quaker banquet, Derby era rail accidents, and courtroom actions in New York.
Multiple events sweep Midwest and South on the 10th
Reports from Clinton Louisiana show jailers seized and disarmed as prisoners escaped. in Kentucky a man named Humphrey Critten sen killed George Hutchinson in a woman related quarrel. The Saloon-keepers Convention rolls toward Milwaukee with Wisconsin towns ready to send delegates. a Milwaukee Road stock wreck near Janesville kills cattle and hogs. Arcadia Wisconsin sues livestock losses from a cyclone. Pensacola physicians declare no yellow fever. Rice mills in New Orleans plan half-time with night work halted after overproduction. Secret Service nets counterfeiters in Grand Forks. San Francisco and Moorhead report earthquakes and deadly threshing accidents. Huntsville lynching and Cumminsville race violence, plus political resignations and Ohio election results. Coroner notes, railroad collisions, notable deaths, and Knights Templar officers announced.
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Georgetown
Humphrey Crittensen
George Hutchinson
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Milwaukee & St.Paul
Janesville
Wis
Arcadia
Pensacola
New Orleans
Secret Service
Charles Chambers
Walters
James McGovern
Grand Forks
Dakota
McGovern
Bank of Montreal
San Francisco
Northruff
Moorhead
Turnegro
Huntsville
Ala
Cumminsville
Harry Winters
Secretary of the Interior
Dayton
Ohio
George Hoadly
John G. Warwick
Supreme Court
Martin D. Follett
Selwyn N. Owen
John W. Cruikshank
James Lawrence
Emil Kiesewetter
Peter Brady
Leroy D. Brown
Board of Public Works
John P. Martin
Coroxen
Tarpas
New Indian
Genoa
Neb
Carlisle
Hampton
Epward Kencapy
McCorkle
Shelbyville
Inds
Chicago & Northwestern
Hanover Junction
J. Lawrence Sutra
Louisville
William Webb
Teegarden
Plymouthy Imd
St. Louis
Passenger cars burned after track incident near Deux Rivières
Reports detail three Canada Pacific passenger cars derailed and burned near Deux Rivières on the 10th due to a baggage car axle break. Nearly two hundred passengers were aboard. several injuries reported though not life threatening. Also notes disputed French victory at Bacninh, Nihilist arrests in Warsaw, and other international items.
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Canada Pacific Railway
Deux Rivieres
Canada
Bacninh
Suh
Yannan
Maria Institute
Warsaw
Russia
Czarina
Black Flags
Annam
Rene
Port Au Prince
Lor Long
Princess Louise
England
James ‘Young
Philadelphia
London
Ont
la Estrella
Teruel
Spain
Naples
Italy
Agram
Zagorie
Irkutsk
E. R. Cook
Prohibition vote margins and regional updates reveal split results
Ohio totals reach 711 791 with prohibition adjusting to 820 454 and a near 70 000 lead against the ban. News notes cite Episcopal consecration of Rev. Knickerbocker as Indiana Bishop, a Pittsburgh congress deemed a failure with 26 delegates, and multiple local incidents including deaths, train collisions, and legal actions involving General Hickenlooper and the New Journal reporters.
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Ohio
Menlo Park
Alonzo Robb
General Hickenlooper
Cincinnati
van Hamm
John G. Thompson
New Journal
Thompson
Second Amendment Election in Ohio
Report from election day noting both parties’ lack of firm results. Democratic and Republican HQs show no reliable figures as late returns approach 300,000 votes. Supporters claim passage may carry amendment. skeptics doubt it will pass.
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T Democratic
Death of Colonel Barnabas Burns in Mansfield Ohio
Colonel Barnabas Burns died Friday evening at his Mansfield residence after a lingering illness. Born in Fayette County Pennsylvania on June 9, 181?, he moved to Ashland County in 1820 and to Mansfield in 1838. A lawyer, he served as Deputy Clerk, Ohio State Senator, Presidential Elector, officer in the 56th O V I during the Civil War, and held posts including Constitutional Convention member and trustee of the Ohio Soldiers' Orphans' Home. He was a Democrat and later appointed by President Arthur to inspect the Northern Pacific Railroad, with a long public service record.
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Crantes H. Cnaxe
United States Army
Washington
Senate
Anthony
Customs and Internal Revenue
Folger
Ith
Apsina L. Cossy
Arkansas
Garland
Iris
John M. Schofield
Division of
Hancock
Sheridan
Srenerang Folger
Port Townsend
W. T
Tae
Corean
White House
Frelinghuysen
San Francisco
Mnet
Mason
Guiteau
Manfield
Barnabas Burns
Burns
Fayette County
Burns Fa
Ashland County
Mansfield
Thomas W. Bartley
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Ohio Senate
Ohio
Ohio Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home
Arthur
Northern Pacific Railroad
Important Decision in a Railroad Case oKPeMoUTH
In Maine vs Boston & Maine Railroad a U S Circuit Court judge rules that a citizen suit from Maine cannot be moved to the circuit court and that state charters require state control. acts of a corporation are done by it as a whole and damages in Massachusetts bind the corporation there. Also notes Philadelphia mendicancy suppression yard and a tramp printer of seventy three years.
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Okpemouth
Nome Vere
Maine
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
Lowell
United States
Circuit Court
Massachusetts
The Crops Frost Impact on U S Farm Yields
The 10th of September frosts damaged crops across many states, with the Northwest most affected. State averages fall to 78 overall. Michigan Wisconsin Ohio New York see notable drops. Wheat oats and corn yields are projected with regional variations. potatoes seed leaf crops remain weaker in some areas.
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Michigan
Wisconsin
Ohto
New York
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Ssanpely
Northern Kentucky
Issouri
Pennsylvani
Michiren
Ohio
Drouth
Atlantic Seaboard
Mie
Minnesota
California
Missouri
Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Kias
Ouro Valley
Adduth
Nebrisih
Anid Sas
Virginia
Maryland
Terrible Southwest railroad wreck at Lemont Station
A Southwest road passenger train collided with an engine at the furnace siding near Lemont Station north of Uniontown. The crash killed and injured multiple passengers as the car fire burned quickly. Mrs. Knox of Connellsville was severely injured along with two children. A separate Jerome Park race swindle and other unrelated items are mentioned in scattered notes.
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Portlance
Uniontown
Lemont Station
Mose
Marie
Cashier Knox
Connellsville
Diverse Bits From A Burst Of 19th Century Notes
Alfred Townsend writes a novel The Entailed HatHarper s have accepted A famous London minister has two Baptist priest sons Bartholomew Tarney of Bath Steuben County NY marks his hundredth birthday by walking three miles Miss Maud Banks daughter of General Banks tours the season Mr WC Howells studied in He loves vernacular fourier ideas Mr Walker colored lawyer to Charlestown bench is a Roman Catholic Dr Mary Walker receives 2000 from an eccentric Massachusetts man John Metley printed deity without capitalization a critic called him mr John morley The first New York Sun newsboy was Barney Williams Justice Gray rode 300 miles this summer Julius Nathan of NYSE renames himself Julius Newton to avoid questions about kinship to the Nathan family
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Harpers
London
Bartholomew Tarney
Bath
Steuben County
New York
Maud Banks
N. P. Banks
Turopé
W. D- Howells
Boston Post
Mary Walker
Lndianapolis
John Métley
John Morley
New York Sun
Berns Flaherty
Barney Williams
Justice Gray
United States Supreme Court
Chicago Journal
Julius Nathan
New York Stock Exchange
Iulius Newton
Nathan
Benjamin Nathan
Humorous Fragments From Old Wit's Corners
A collage of quips and puns from era newspapers. Jests touch on phrases and misprints, a tramp and steak, Captain Webb, hot water for dyspepsia, masquerade flirting, light costs in legal fees, schoolroom puns, and a professor’s vanity.
Death of a Baby Orang Outang at Arch Street Museum
Sad death of seven month old orang outang Kittie at the Arch street museum. Reports say illness followed arrival and abusive handling by a sibling. Post mortem revealed a large developed brain and an abscess near the tongue suspected as cause.
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Kittie
Arch Street
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