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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1886
Page
2
The Marquis of Ailesbury is dead at age seven. Reports from Sophia claim a Russo Ottoman alliance, with Russia supporting Bulgaria and ratifying the Dar danelles. Other items note railway and railway projects, political reorganizations, and financial matters across continents.
A series of brief items records pensions for Daniel W. Stout and a future monthly allowance, the death of John McCulloch in Dayton Indiana, a Rangoon cablegram on Genral MacPherson, honorary membership for Professor Wiggins of Otawa, and Canadian signal service orders to resign. It notes President Cleveland at the Richmond State fair, top British officers in Burmah succession, a Meagher statue meeting in Waterford Ireland, executors of Samuel J. Tilden served in NY, Cleveland’s $109 relief for Sabine Pass and Huntington’s $1,009 for the Southern Pacific, plus Galveston ladies sending 175 clothing boxes.
President appoints Dabney H Maury as Envoy to Colombia but Senate delays action. Yearly gains include 3,482 post offices opened and 1,12 closed. Nominated congressmen sail from New York and Connecticut districts. Chicago liquor advocates form The National Protective Association opposing prohibition. Vermont senator Edmunds reelected. Flood survivors face terrible suffering at Sabine Pass and Johnson's Bayou. Bus crash near Fairfield kills five. Irish leader John Fitzgerald injured. Fires destroy Troy dry goods house and Grand Ledge mills. fishing vessel losses rise to 200,000 along Wicklow coast. Earthquakes rock multiple Southern cities. Charleston reports shocks and rumbling but no damage recorded.
Logging firms at Eau Claire report heavy contracts with the Indians on the Upper Chippewa as their reservation yields seventy dwellings and eighty acres per male for timber. The Pennsylvania Road will ship 16 million tons of coal this year, up from 14 million last year, while Baremore and Co. of New York assigns with $86 680 in preferences.
Surrounding towns declare a shotgun quarantine against Biloxi Mississippi amid suspected yellow fever. Cases estimate from forty to 295 with deaths from five to thirty. Also notes stamps counterfeit concerns debunked by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Police indict Joseph Sharp Richmond president and ex president Fohay of the Broadway Railroad for bribing Aldermen with 5000 and 79000 dollars respectively. A woodsman claims Ashland tankrobbers carried large coin after driving them twenty miles toward Eau Claire Wisconsin. A Pembroke Ontario murder case reports a German killer arrested after a mother and children escaped a burning shanty. Moloney confesses receiving doodle money tied to the Broadway scandal and distributing 320000 to each bribery participant.
The report lists a web of alleged boodle connections with ex Alderman McCabe arraigned on suspicion of insanity and a court ordered test. A mob hanged three black men in Pickens County Alabama after arrest. In Wisconsin a jury acquitted W W Hazeltine for murder on insanity grounds. George Holland Jr. was sent to Sing Sing after pleading guilty to $250 embezzlement. In Carbon Wyoming John S Kerr shot his younger brother over a family dispute, the fratricide drawing public sympathy.
A Bethesda farm reports an infected herd of twenty cows with two deaths by the state veterinarian. Chicago Judge Prendergast faces 50 days in jail for contempt. A Maine fire devastates Farmington with 33 homes lost and $300,000 damage. Pension office official pleads guilty. Secretary Bayard notes Cox resignation. Sheriff Rowan in Philadelphia under constraint for brain disease.
In Chicago a Pinkerton escortting 160 men protected a yard workers train when a crowd at Halsted street attacked with rocks and gunfire. Terence Begley died from a abdominal wound after being shot near Emerald avenue, as witnesses described a volley from the guards. Police detained 123 Pinkerton men for identification while city officials feared riots if more shooters were found.
A concise history of the 1879 stock yards strike in Chicago, tracing the rise of the Butchers Union, packers resistance led by Armour and partners, the mass layoff of nonunion men, militia and police actions, a violent crackdown, and the eventual collapse of the union. The piece contrasts with the earlier 1870s conflict and notes lasting shifts in labor organization at the yards.
Two youths Richart D. Labes and Gey Savers testified and the six men were locked up for judicial inquiry. Hill and Andrews, named by the boys, denied any shooting. The remaining Pinkerton men were released.
Chicago Daily News and Inter Ocean condemn yesterday’s police crowd control incident as unjustified and dangerous. Editors urge that only lawfully constituted authorities may wield force and warn that violence by private armed groups risks civil war and mob rule. Pinkerton’s credibility is damaged by the events.
Washington special details Gen. Miles for the surrender of Geronimo and the Apache bands. It covers agreements and assurances given, the pursuit through Arizona and Sonora, feasibility of peace, and the harsh toll of the campaign on troops and tribes. The piece places Miles’s policy to remove hostile Indians from the region and argues the war’s long history.
Washington dispatch: General Miles notes detachment under Captain Cooper captured Mangus and his party at Fort Apache, including Mangus two men three squaws five children twenty nine mules and five ponies. The pursuit stretched through Chiricahua Mexico and New Mexico since September 7. The War Department reports Mangus band split from Geronimo’s group last April during surrender talks.
The piece lauds McVicker's Theatre as the pioneer and leading dramatic temple in Chicago. It notes rapid growth in the city’s theater scene, praising McVicker's for pure, high quality drama and its manager’s strict admission standards and upright reputation.
The Richmond assembly of the Knights of Labor approves resolutions on government purchasing of telegraph systems, endorses labor libraries and colored apprentices equality, and contemplates a committee for relations with the Patrons of Husbandry. It also approves anti convict labor, opposes Chinese contract labor, and sets pay for top officers while planning future education and a Philadelphia home for Uriah Stevens’s family.
Describes intricate jewelry pieces inspired by flowers and nature. Includes petal, diamond dewdrops, enamel work, and settings in gold. Mentions garters, brooches, fringe pieces, and an array of gems like sapphires rubies and emeralds. Highlights delicate filigree, fine tinting, and botanical designs.
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