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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1887
Page
2
Fresh intelligence from civil society covers foreign and domestic affairs. Political events and labor notes are highlighted with concise briefs and regional updates. Local notices and personality items are included to round out the paper’s community focus.
A garbled dispatch bundle reports a masked mob abducting and hailing Charles Goleman in Kentucky, a German prince killed beside a theater man, a Chinese bank charter, and railroad accidents. It mentions a Massachusetts Republican convention and an engine wreck near Salida. The text weaves crime, travel and political notes with scattered proper names.
A chaotic set of reports includes prosecutions in County Cork against John Mandeville and Conan for incendiary utterances, Willan O’Tiernen to be tried with Mandeville, and Pranzin’s execution before a vast onlookership. Also noted is the death of Reverend William Logan Harris of New York, once a long-time Methodist leader, after heart disease worsened since a Liverpool visit.
An assignment is reported at Philadelphia by coal magnates Robert Hare Powell and Co and Powell Sons Co, with liabilities estimated. The piece notes failed payments by Charles Peonsek & Co, and discusses coinage figures for August including gold and silver totals and small denomination coins.
Reports of Soniah Terrill being executed at 2 90 am Friday morning in the penitentiary follow a detailed account of his crime and the public reaction. The article notes his murder conviction for the killing of Charles Pho and mentions related legal proceedings and political convention news from Allentown and Des Moines.
Fragmentary notes refer to plans for ranching and the Dome of the Balers and Ohio Express, involvement of the United States Expo Company, and activity tied to the Rio Grande border. A separate Denver dispatch mentions Governor Adams, General Crook, and proposed government protection units, with unclear fate for Horace back and Indiana United States.
A New York World extract reviews Agvation Don Kellys provocation that Francis Bacon authored Shakespearean works. The piece argues against Shakspeare as author, proposing Bacon as the true writer, and outlines Donnelly's cipher theory, its political and literary implications, and biographical context for key figures cited.
The text outlines syndicate interests including Brows, Shipley & Co and Drexel Morgan with winners in New York and London to manage property under Cassatt as Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It states work on trunk lines from Staten Island to Philadelphia and New York will halt while a $10,004,000 raise pays overdue floating debt. Outside ventures are to be abandoned, with Western Union possibly abandoning telegraph lines.
Reports detail multiple disasters including a Chatsworth blast blamed on Timothy Cognitte gecko, a Montreal Herald building fire and plant losses, Boyd Manufacturing mill burns at Lovama Ohio with $100 000 damage, a freight train derail near Caton injuring two trainmen likely to die, and a series of fatal and nonfatal injuries from a balloon ascent accident at Menor county Fair.
The Charlestown Star reports Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, nearly escaped when prison bars were sawn through his cell window. A guard noted bars yielding and two bars falling, revealing a careful, almost noiseless preparation.
The article details Hardy Richardson and the Detroit Club forming a core group, part of the famed Big Four once bought from Buffalo. It notes the shift in the 1887 pennant race and mentions players and lineups shaping Detroit's standings.
The Dakota couple months into existence ends its run as a distinctive humor paper. Publisher Samuel and humorist Fred H. Car ruth announce suspension and refund balance to subscribers while Clover shifts to printing and bookbinding. Car ruth moves to a New York and Chicago syndicate association.
A monthly debt statement reports a decrease of nearly five million dollars in August. The recapitulation lists principal totals in cents omitted and notes a figure around 849 million dollars. The document outlines overall debt changes and key totals for the period.
A chaotic transcript notes Tanner and the President at a Thursday dinner of the Bullet Club commemorating a vote. The remarks mention pension benefits and discipline, with references to Cleveland, St. Louis, and threats to silence dissenting voices within the group.
Logan County fights a drive for royalties amid scattered reports of wells sunk with iron rods, a Mecklenberg native death, green county sheep losses, crop yields in Miami Valley, a clerical misattribution at Mansfield, a boiler explosion fatality, a Findlay iron works move, and various local crimes and accidents across Ohio counties.
A fragmented report recalls a grand banquet linked to the American Legion of Honor and a debated testing of pensions. It mentions a Kansas polling scene with color coded tickets and a reminiscence of a red ticket matching a dress, amid unclear figures and reflections on voting.
A dramatic U.S. court action targets the so called Napoleon of Finance, alleging he and partners manipulated Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton stock worth $9,000,000. The piece chronicles his rise from a $10 weekly bellboy to a banking figure amid speculation, twenty years in New York, and comparisons to Jay Gould.
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