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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1885
Page
1
Correspondents in the Kelley Case report letters and diplomatic actions on Kelley’s Vienna posting objections. Other items cover a proposed Department of Labor, a mercantile navy tally, liquor traffic investigation plans, antipurporty court findings, and ongoing congressional rules debates.
Des Moines reports Iowa city officials endorse local-option DIL with repeal opposed as 60 percent rise in saloons in twenty towns under Prohibitory law. A late resolution for immediate repeal fails. Also covers a suicide in Dusugue, a drowning near Phillipsburg Lake, and Indianapolis appeal for a Hendricks monument.
Benjamin Louth Sr of its city sells his patent rights to a syndicate for 300 dollars per day for sixteen years. The notice mentions a sale tied to a process for luring old steel rails into natl Plas. A second item references the loss of his wife in Muwauxee Wisconsin with a Pee Se.
A Georgia Pacific and East Tennessee passenger collision near Austell, fifteen miles from Atlanta, at a water tank caused thirteen deaths and many injuries. Victims include Bernard Peyton, Nathan Stanley, K Hale, J Willeren, Jake and Mary Kanka, J W Holton, Wright and Cor tle Wright, and others from Alabama, Texas, and Georgia. The crash followed a schedule mix up as trains met after a delayed Georgia Pacific train halted at the water tank.
Noted ex senator and Confederate General Robert Toombs dies at six o'clock in Washington Georgia after a long illness. The funeral will be held today. his wife was buried at the family ground and will be laid beside him in Washington burying ground. Toombs, born in Wilkes County, Georgia, July 21 1821, served in Congress and the Senate before joining the Confederacy and acting as provisional secretary of state.
New York Dec. 16 Estimating Vanderbilt estate at 40 million the will divides the eight children’s shares among cash bonds and residences. Cornelia receives 58.8 million including principal at 30, Webb youngest daughter 5.65 million at 30, others listed with varying sums and trusts. Chauncey Depew and Henry Anderson named executors.
The Central Labor Union stirs protest by blacklisting patrons who stay at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. General Butler has abandoned the hotel after decades of visits as part of the dispute over non union printers and the hotel’s hiring practices. The union’s campaign aims to ruin blacklisted individuals socially commercially and politically.
Dec 17 reports hundreds of cigar makers from the East will depart for San Francisco in coming weeks to displace Chinese labor in San Francisco factories. First groups leave New York December 26 at six p m with marches through Utica and other cities. Chinese manufacturers resist while wages in San Francisco run higher at eight dollars mold work and twelve dollars hand work, versus Chicago at seven and eight three.
New Orleans reports a remarkable sugar season closing with abundant crops and favorable weather. No days lost to bad weather as roads stayed good and harvesters worked steadily. Frost arrived at an ideal time, boosting sugar yield to 3000 to 4000 pounds per tolas, marking a high output.
A gas explosion at the Mill Creek mine near Wilesbeaehke injures twenty, with one death and three critical after extraction. A cage accident at Sangamon Mine near Spangeiely injures one fatally and three others seriously. Also reported are union trustees chosen at Stony Soldiers' Home and a Cochin China mission tally detailing priests catechists and church burnings.
A Michigan family of four perished in a house fire amid chaotic scenes of smoke and collapse. An insane mother in Wyoming cremated herself and four children, while a Plymouth tenement fire left twelve bodies burned beyond recognition and several victims injured or missing. Detroits family perished in their Woodmors residence as flames consumed the structure.
From Ireland to Ohio and India the day’s notes span political maneuvering and votes. In Ireland Lord Salisbury likely to resist resignation as Gladstone aims to push a concession bill. Ohio tally shows Foraker and Kennedy leads. Burmese massacre tied to political intrigue. A New Jersey court fines Onderdonk for adulterated eggs.
Andrew record was cited in Patnatos Ms stating officials know this scheme has stolen fewer than five hundred horses in the past. Authorities in the city describe the activity as part of a widespread equine theft operation, with several western states implicated.
A sudden rise in the Embarrass River near Ouxey causes the drowning of twenty cattle belonging to farmer Jacob Lewis. In Martroon a new water works costly at 75000 dollars will yield an inexhaustible lake fifty feet deep, with city rent of 5000 dollars annually. In Naguviile, Tennessee, an Exodus of colored people moves toward Arkansas due to crop failures and high rents, with hundreds planning future relocation. A brief note on the First Southern Forestry congress in Florida.
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