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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1886
Page
3
Defiance Co Ohio publisher D T Elmer noted in the Defiance County Express masthead. The terse entry identifies Elmer as the paper’s publisher in the local newspaper record.
Cable reports from Shanghai describe widespread Christian persecution in Se-Chuen and Cochin China with killings and destruction of property. Also noted are battles in Eastern Ronmelia at Radomir, Barcelona mason strikes with gunpowder injuries, and Prince Alexander's triumphant Sofia return with mass and political changes.
Obituaries report brevet Major General George H. Gordon dies in Framingham Massachusetts and General B F Cheatham passes in Nashville. Various political items include Thomas Manning as new Mexico minister and congress nominations from Georgia Missouri Mississippi Alabama and Texas. A Greenbacker gathering in Indianapolis discusses an industrial party proposal and a Cincinnati convention planned for February 22 1887. Victoria Morosini Schilling allegedly deserts her coachman husband. Mrs Emma Molloy survives a river plunge.
The article details public debt figures with bonds, certificates, and reserves, including interest rates and net cash in the Treasury. It notes a debt decrease for the month, and lists cash held for debt reduction and reserve funds. Additional items report Iron Cliff Furnace shutdown, Boston shoe dealers suspending, a St. Louis brewing contest, New York plumbers locked out, and recent business failures in the US and Canada.
Republican leaders in Indianapolis unveiled their 1912 slate with R. S Robertson for Lieutenant Governor and Charles L Griffin for Secretary of State, joined by Bruce Carr Auditor J. A. Lempke Treasurer L. T. Michener Attorney General Byron Elliott Supreme Judge W L Noble Clerk W L Noble Superintendent 5 U La Follette. The platform backs protection enforcement of civil service laws labor statistics bureau and local option liquor measures to let locals restrict traffic and seek compensation.
An English company has gained possession of an ancient concession for a railroad from Tuxpan to Mexico City and plans to invest at least 25 million dollars. Canadian customs authorities are urged to strictly enforce laws on coastal trade to suppress unregistered American vessels. Anarchist A R Parsons contests the verdict and predicts an appeal to the Supreme Court. Louisiana Board of Health closes Biloxi Mississippi to outsiders. trains avoid Beauvoir amid yellow fever fears. The Washington Monument remains intact after an earthquake but reportedly lost four inches in height over the years.
The report details a major Charleston earthquake and aftershocks, widespread damage to churches schools jails and property, evacuations and tent shelters, calls for federal aid and a national loan, and sympathetic messages from the Queen. It notes fatalities and numerous injuries along the Southern Atlantic coast and credits other disaster losses.
A Williamsport Pennsylvania telegraph report describes a blaze at a shanty housing over twenty Hungarian laborers on the Williamsport and North Branch Railroad. A stove overturned during sleep sparked the fire. sixteen men on the second floor perished with seven escaping. Firefighters recovered the charred remains, and survivors were too panicked to aid their companions.
Arrests target Supervisors Larkins Carroll and Galla gher on a conspiracy to defraud Kings County residents. Three Black men lynched near McNutt Lake in Le Flore County Mississippi after alleged assault on young women. James Simpson and Patterson Bell hanged in Marion Arkansas for the January murder of Lee Goldsmith. A. L. Perkins, San Francisco book-keeper for J. N. Pew, jailed for embezzling seventy one thousand dollars lost at gambling.
Public notice that Prince Alexander plans to abdicate Bulgaria with a regency to follow. Army officers threaten to detain him and reject a Russian envoy. A kerosene explosion in Jersey City damages five Pullman cars, the Northern freight depot, and freight valued near 200000 dollars.
The Inter-State Fair will take place in Fort Wayne Indiana from September 14 to 17. Premiums in livestock are large and exhibits exceed expectations while the balloon race promises to draw big crowds. Evening entertainment includes a first class troupe at the Masonic Temple, making Fort Wayne a prime visit during the week.
A Charleston disaster leaves the city in ruins with fifty to sixty dead or missing. Two thirds of homes uninhabitable and public buildings damaged. fires, rail and telegraph lines destroyed, spirits of residents tested as dawn brings guarded hope. Summerville and surrounding areas suffer heavy impacts.
A Charleston News and Courier observer recounts the Wednesday night quake in vivid detail. Describes roaring subterranean force, collapsing buildings, dust clouds, and panicked streets from Broad Street to Marion Square.Notes shocks felt across the South and major damages in Columbia and Augusta.
A New York telegram reports Mr. Thomas R. Taltavall of the Associated Press, who has spent years in Spain and Portugal, predicted an earthquake. He cites sky appearance and prolonged dry leaden mornings as signals, noting Spain’s dry dawns often precede tremors.
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