12 Dec 1883
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1883
Page
1
News epitome describes a violent riot in Wexford on the 3d where a mob attacked a theater hosting an evangelical service. Protestants faced window breakage and dress-torturing incidents as crowds paraded singing God Save Ireland and injuring several. Major Whittle of Chicago led the theater services.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue in Washington received a dispatch from Deputy Collector Bettis in Raleigh on the 4th reporting that while destroying an illicit distillery in Durham County he was shot in the head from an ambush, forced to flee and pursued by five men. Revenue Agent Kellogg was sent with an armed posse to the disturbance site to arrest the attackers.
Washington dispatch reports that despite strong lead as a possible Republican presidential candidate, Postmaster General Gresham may be removed from politics. Judge Drummond is expected to fill the vacancy, aligning with Gresham’s wish to quit political life and return to the bench.
The new House officers name appointments including Colonel David A. Roberts of West Virginia as Messenger and G. Ingram of Kentucky as Assistant Janitor. The Clerk of the House appoints W. A. Fields of Texas as Distributing Clerk. The Dayton Postmaster vacancy lists S. Ives of Tennessee and Garland of Arkansas. A steam vessel inspector cites misconduct by the chief engineer as cause of the Colra explosion in Buffalo. Senate swearing in notes faulty certificates and Locay land bounty bill promises varying acreages. Interior Secretary rejects Louisville town-site land entry though retains segregable portions for potential entry.
Cape Ray reports a powerful hurricane from the east-northeast last night causing unprecedented sea surges. The gale damaged vessels and crews are missing, with fears of multiple seamen lost.
A meeting of the principal mine-smelter owners of Colorado was held at Denver on the 3d to perfect an organization for the purpose of protecting the lead market. The gathering aimed to relieve current low prices by concerted action and hoped to reach a definite plan before adjournment.
B Harris, a stock-raiser and banker from Tom Green County, Texas, reported that twenty miles of fence had been cut and destroyed by fence-cutters. He said 10,000 posts and two carloads of wire were burned along with hay and other property.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad issues a circular warning factors and commission men nationwide to carefully examine advances on lading due to recent fraudulent bills of lading tied to defaulting railway agents. A Sherman Texas incident is noted. Also reported are the drownings of Minister Rev Robinson and school principal C H Cowans who fell through ice on Lake Pepin on the fourth. their bodies were not recovered.
Joseph Lohnstein, a Dallas cotton buyer, was arrested on forgery and swindling charges by the Texas Pacific Railroad. Authorities allege collusion with Easton, the road’s Sherman agent, with joint operations exceeding $125,000, a shock to Dallas business circles.
Lamon, held at Laconia New Hampshire, confesses to the murder of James Ruddy the god child, and slays Mrs Fordjhs. Investigators report a full admission detailing the crime and sequence of events.
In a drunken quarrel Samon killed Mrs Ford and hid the body at Ruddy's house. Fearing exposure he murdered the Ruddy family and planned to burn evidence. At Laconia on the sixth he pled guilty and was ordered jailed until March pending sentencing. He asserted complete honesty in his confession and readiness to face the penalty.
A double frame house on West Fifty Fourth Street New York known as Nig ger Row burned on the 3d. Hattie Mabel and Edgar Judson aged three two and one perished in the flames. The father was white and the mother colored. Many others had narrow escapes. Loss, 20000 dollars.
The governor vetoed all appropriation bills except the employee pay item, citing unfinished extra session business. The House promptly overrode the veto with a 165 to 25 vote to pass the appropriation bill.
The steamer Alaska from Liverpool to New York collided with and sank an unknown pilot-boat off Fire Island on the night of the 3d. A heavy fog hindered rescue efforts. The crew, believed to number fourteen or fifteen, were all lost.
An inmate at the Milwaukee Soldiers' Home was confined to an insane asylum despite being sane. After twelve days of confinement he was released and intends to sue for damages for false imprisonment.
The Chicago Supreme Court holds that the Criminal Code provision allowing recovery of gambling losses in a debt action is unconstitutional as it merges civil proceedings into criminal law. The decision cites the single subject rule and its impact on businessmen seeking recompense for losses from embezzling employees.
Lottie Yost, 18, daughter of Jacob Yost, living near Darlington Ohio, suddenly disappeared from home a few days ago. She is described as handsome and amiable. No motive or cause is known.
An explosion at the Youngstown Coke Company mines in Stamburg, four miles north of Greensburg Pa., on the 4th killed William Hann and seriously injured six others. Hann had entered with an open lamp when the blast occurred. Concussion blew doors and pillars, lifted cars from tracks, and extinguished lights for half a mile.
Patrick Moran age 51 and James McCoy 27 fought a hard glove prize contest at Ross Point near Allegheny City Pennsylvania on the 4th. The bout lasted 114 rounds in 1 hour 36 minutes with Moran declared winner and McCoy carried from the field after a severe beating. The purses stood at $500.
Carrie Adkins, once a Memphis boarding school pupil, is located in a Cincinnati buggy. She says she ran away with one of Haverly's Minstrels, who soon abandoned her. Her parents offered a large reward. her mother will visit Cincinnati to bring her home.
Fourteen inmates escaped from the county jail in Chattanooga Tennessee on the 5th by sawing through the wall with steel shanks from their shoes. The newly built jail cost thirty thousand dollars and was regarded as the most secure in the South. A posse of one hundred men pursued the convicts.
Faculty at Yale College face puzzling illness as typhoid and malarial fevers spread among students. Despite claims of perfect sewerage, two deaths are reported with one case contracted abroad. Many students are ill but expected to recover.
A drought grips Georgia with streams drying up as wells fail. Farmers report livestock deaths and mounting losses as water shortages threaten cattle, sheep, hogs, and other stock across numerous streams nationwide.
Five decades delegates from Kentucky Tennessee South Carolina Virginia Mississippi Colorado and Indiana attend a gathering led by Major Thomas J. Hudson Lamar Miss He urges creation of a national body to educate farmers about their interests and to press for the Commissioner of Agriculture to join the President’s Cabinet to monitor foreign relations affecting agriculture.
The Board of Managers of the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition adopted G. M. Jorgenson’s design from Meridian Mississippi for the main building. It measures 15,000 feet long by 900 feet wide with 1,000,398 square feet of floor space and a central music hall seating 12,000. The plan includes main offices telegraph newspaper department fire police hospital waiting rooms and life-saving apparatus.
The wife of J W Rose a wealthy Houston carriage maker tells the Grand Jury that her husband is actually Cornelius Krum former Kingston New York forgery convict from 1866. She alleges bigamy with a Kingston wife and two children. Rose remains missing.
Seven shocks of an earthquake were felt at Ravenden Springs Arkansas on the sixth lasting forty seconds. A loud noise accompanied the shocks and a violent jar of the earth moving from northwest to southwest. Glassware and crockery in houses were knocked down and shattered.
Solomon Wheeler of Chicago has deeded a valuable western city tract to the Episcopal Church and advanced 200000 dollars for a church and preparatory school. The design follows Oxford with a chapel and a library holding ten thousand volumes, forming a prominent feature of the structure.
Denver and nearby areas were struck by the heaviest snow storm on record on the 6th. Snow began at noon and lasted all night, followed by a gale that toppled telegraph poles and blocked streets. Communications failed and trains were delayed for hours, with no loss of life reported.
A large body of Shawane County residents organized an extensive forest search on the 6th for Tenie Matise, feared carried off by a bear. Bears are reported abundant and troublesome in the area, but officials believe the child may still be alive as crowds remain excited.
Howard B. Hinds, relative of police officials, attempted suicide at a New York saloon on the 4th. his wound likely fatal. F. H. Campbell, Louisville and Nashville depot agent at Paris, Tennessee, shot and killed Frank Williams after a feud over Williams quitting his clerking role. James McManus killed James Kelly in Union City, Pennsylvania, after an altercation. both men were prominent citizens.
Felix Von Kuh a sixteen year old son of the Railway Director and his elder brother shot himself in despondency over love for Frauline Thorsch the banker’s daughter who died last July leaving 15 000 000 florins. The incident follows reports of foreign reaction to President Arthur’s message with critics noting its colorless tone and calls for tariff reductions.
A Paris cablegram reports semi official plans for England Germany America Russia and France to protect their subjects and interests in China if France and China go to war. Lancaster weavers rise to ninety thousand in a wage strike while English miners delay action until January. Lowell may seek a public respite for O Donnell with Washington guidance. Foreigners in Canton are told war with France is inevitable as Chinese forces mass. A fire in Constantinople on the 6th destroys six hundred houses and religious buildings. a snow storm compounds homelessness with government aid underway.
The Virginia General Assembly met in Richmond on the fifth. Governor Cameron urges an investigation into the Danville riot with witness testimony to show Virginia as a state that prosecutes crime, regardless of the offender. A Senate resolution calls for Senator Mahone to resign, accompanied by a sharp preamble attacking him.
The Farmers Congress of the United States met in Louisville Kentucky marking a national assembly of agricultural leaders. Delegates gathered to discuss policy directions, crop prices, and agricultural support programs affecting farmers nationwide.
A Tribune letter from a Duluth passenger recounts the ill fated steamer Manistee breaking in two in a Southwest gale about twenty miles out. Only nine in a lifeboat survived after three days adrift with many freezing to death or dying of exhaustion. Captain McKay reportedly refused to leave his post. The wreck occurred off Eagle Harbor with no chance of saving the vessel.
A Pacific Coast Congressional meeting in Washington aimed to unify Senators Dolph Slater and Representatives George Rosecrans Sumner Glasscock Budd Heary Turley and UCaseddy to craft a unified bill fixing defects in the Chinese restriction act. A Dolph Cassidy Henry committee will draft the measure for simultaneous introduction and consider passports for Chinese immigrants used by US consuls.
John Flemming and Frank L Loring were found guilty on all counts in a Fund W frauds trial before Judge Blodgett. Flemming fled to Canada then was arrested in Bismarck, while Merriam is treated as a myth. Indictments covered fraudulent use of mails and obtaining money under false pretenses. Maximum penalty is $000 and possible imprisonment.
Albany December 7. The New York civil service commission concluded three days of sessions by adopting civil service rules under the 1883 act to regulate and improve the state service. The rules were submitted to the Governor and approved.
Louisville December 7 The Southern Exposition directors decide to hold another exposition in 1884. Dates will avoid conflict with the World's Exposition in New Orleans. An additional 250000 dollars will be raised to support the event.
The President of the Workingmen's Association of Lynn urges a national convention of the national workingman's party and the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President.
San Antonio dispatch says four Mexicans accused of murdering Domingo Fotomo near Fort Davis were seized from authorities and lynched, report states.
The column notes St Louis will be the style leader this winter with Paris shade called London smoke and a trend toward outdoor wear. It predicts St Louis may top fashion headlines next spring, possibly beating Pittsburgh. In Randolph New York a wife fined her husband ten dollars for wife beating after he was arrested, the wife paying the fine to spare his jail time. The Houston Post reports fans set fire to a Fort Worth theater by firing pistols in applause after a sensational play.
The December 3 to December 6 proceedings outline Senate and House organization. Credentials for Beck and others, roll calls for Speaker Carlisle, debates on seats, and routine adjournments mark the opening. Various bills and resolutions are introduced, including amendments to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, postal telegraph, and ballot counting reforms.
The Chicago Times notes Savannah relies on Fort Pulaski at the river mouth Fort Jackson four miles below the city and a new fort on Tybee Island. Old gun platforms are rotten but Pulaski remains the chief defense while Jackson forms the inner line. Earthen works are planned for Tybee to defend the island and river approach.
Joseph Hallock of Wood stock Valley Connecticut, a tanner and late election candidate for Representative, was defeated by a small margin. A black crape tied to his scales appeared next morning, he grew pale, and hours later was found dead in his barn. The New York Evening Post notes florists in New York City face extraordinary extravagance compared to diamond dealers.
A forger using the name C R Hodge of Philadelphia simulated a furniture firm gimmick in Massillon. He cashed a $1000 check drawn on First National Bank Fremont after staying at the local hotel and engaging the Massillon Bridge Company. Suspicions arose when a $1900 draft proved fake. he fled but was later captured at New Philadelphia with $800.
Widespread dull times hit Springfield with about one hundred store rooms moved to market but quickly filled, pushing overproduction and layoffs at St John Sewing Machine Works and Malleable Iron Works. News notes a dozen legal, criminal, and civic items, including pardons, accidents, and a sewerage dilemma, with figures like Armstrong and Grandin case, Katuny Shields captured, and Governor Foster granting clemency.
In a vitriolic address, Mr. Mahone as chairman of the Readjuster State Central Committee condemns Bourbon tactics in Virginia’s late election. He charges Bourbon leaders with pushing a white supremacist platform, inciting race fear, funding black buying and bullying, and orchestrating violence from Danville to Richmond to undermine Readjusters.
The Glermont Gourier lists legal and transient advertisements at ten lines per first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. Business cards are limited to six lines and priced at six dollars per year with liberal annual reductions.
A speech denounces foul tactics by Bourbons across Halifax and Pittsylvania counties, citing manipulated vote counts in Danville and alleged racial oppression. It argues for free ballots and good government, urging Readjuster supporters to persist in the fight against corruption and to denounce suspected perpetrators as upholding state and popular rights.
A Troy Times opinion piece decries Bourbon tactics in Virginia politics and the use of violence before elections. It condemns murder as a tool to secure Democratic power and urges citizens to condemn such acts and not remain silent. It links Southern Bourbon influence to national control, referencing Mahone, Danville, and the Mississippi plan.
The Pierre town records note the first marriage, birth and death in C T all occurring on the same day though not within the same family. This curious sequence is chronicled by the Francisco Chronicle.
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