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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1887
Page
1
A compact recap of the week’s notable events across politics, business, industry, and civil life. Highlights include notable fires, accidents, crimes, and personal crises reported by telegraph and local sources.
Amrk Green tied to Luella Nabbitt case was taken from Delphi jail and lynched near Walnut Grove after insisting on innocence. Telegrams report other national items including political moves, bank indictments, and notable deaths across the U S.
Paris dispatch reports the French government will arrest General Louulanger for thirty days to extend inquiry into his conduct and decide if he should be deprived of command. The piece notes worsening Franco German Russian tensions and clashes between police and Trafalgar Square demonstrators in London.
A letter from Katkoit was intercepted and sent to Emperor William who informed the Czar. The imperial favorite was disgraced as a consequence of the disclosure.
The president drew crowds in Nashville Chattanooga and Atlanta amid cheers and rain. He rebuked critics of ordinary people, praised Georgia and its expositions, and urged progress. A Black mob led to the lynching of Dan Cunningham suspect. a pancake incident in St Louis drew fines. Supreme Court set habeas corpus cases for November second Monday.
John F Henry and Henry E Brown wholesale druggists of New York assign. HL Webster & Co insolvent with assets 831000 liabilities 735000. Charles S Bryce failed stock 118000 loans 115000. Knights of Labor at Minneapolis adjourns after two weeks. parade colors restricted. Powderly dispute and dues rule changes debated. liquor sale ban at picnics upheld. Augusta augur trust forming with 15 million bonds. Havemeyer family to lead. Philadelphia Shoe-Makers strike 5000 workers, 24 factories closed.
A four story parish schoolhouse under construction at 443 East 115th Street in New York collapsed burying twenty one workers with four confirmed dead and many injured including Father Kirner. Other incidents include a Pittsburgh hotel and theater blast from natural gas with multiple injuries, a derrick collapse in Louisville killing one and injuring another, a shipwreck feared after the Rebecca Nickerson sailing from Provincetown is lost in the September hurricane with a nineteen man crew.
Attorney General Ayers and other Virginia state officers were ordered held by a United States Marshal under Chief Justice Waite. Counsel moved for bail pending further argument on the issue. A Wheeling dispatch reports Roane County men Jake Coon and Robert Duff implicated in Rev. Thomas F. Ryan murder were lynched, and George Duff Jr. was also killed by vigilantes.
Reports include a Quebec boarding-house fire with three burned boarders. Secretary Lamar expected to fill the Supreme Court vacancy after his Interior report. U.S. cotton output estimated at 6.55 million bales. land disposal laws eyed for reform. Sisters of Charity withdraw from teaching exams amid vigorous scrutiny. Letters condemn 33rd Ward School’s priest principal appointment. Detroit defeats St Louis 9-2 in baseball. eight games played, Detroit six wins. Civil Service Commissioner Edgerton defends scope of government clerks’ state associations. public sentiment not to be inflamed. Detroit also beats St Louis 4-2 in Philadelphia rematch.
Philadelphia authorities and prominent citizens gathered as the bronze equestrian statue of General George Gordon Meade was unveiled in Fairmount Park. A large parade from Broad and Spring Garden preceded the ceremony. Sculptor Calder created the heroic figure mounted on a 20 foot granite pedestal, showing Meade saluting with hat in hand.
A Chicago jail scene centers on the families of seven condemned anarchists. Wives and children, including Johanna Fischer and Emma Schwab, endure grief while visitors and jail officials note the deep, steady devotion of the women and the burdens of impending pain.
Detroit holds seven victories to two defeats in the nine games played as the world series shapes the pennant race. The piece profiles leaders, executive duties of A G Spalding, and notes changes and sentiments from Captain Anson and Ed Williamson. It also lists season stats for Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and other clubs.
The North China Herald reproduces two Sino advertisements. One a mother's plea to her runaway son from Son-cho, threatening dire fate if he does not return. The other a husband seeking his wife who fled with a tea-house acquaintance, offering a reward of $20 for information.
A Dallas youth tells a joke about misusing a telephone to cancel a sociable date. He claims a serious accident while a crowd laughs as he reveals torn pants from the Rio Grande to Red River, believing the receiver could see his display. The tale ends with the couple never meeting again, The Colonel.
A Belgian recounts a tale of Napoleon facing successive threats from Russians Austrians and Belgians. The emperor drums cuirassiers to the front each time only to see new adversaries appear. Ends with a Parisians band joke about absence in battle.
A Boston Sunday school teacher prompts children to consider rewards for good conduct. A bright boy with an actor father answers in charming mispronunciation that he will get "det talled before de turtain" before the curtain, a humor echo from the Boston Budget.
A collage of extracts touches on Jonathan Edwards as a premier American metaphysician with Yale lineage, a new zinc chloride paper toughening method, and a lyrical vignette of summer scenes. It concludes with Dryden on truth guiding understanding.
Great Serpent Mound in Adams County nears completion of park plans as excavations yield ten well preserved skeletons sent to Peabody Institute. Fort Hill in Highland County eyed for preservation. A shooting accident at Hebron wounds two young men. a Cincinnati east end blaze destroys seven acres, six million feet of lumber and twenty two buildings. Ledger notes deaths and accidents across Ohio including gas fire tragedy in Toledo and a railroad brakeman killed near the New York Pennsylvania and Ohio line.
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