24 Dec 1884
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1884
Page
1
The Clermont Honkier lists Charles W. Peg from HairsTooor as editor with a weekly publication schedule. Terms show 1.50 per year in advance and a 2 dollar penalty if not paid within the year.
The Clermont Worker outlines legal and transient advertisements priced at one dollar per square for the first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. A yearly reduction applies. Business cards up to six lines are offered for six dollars per year.
A kaleidoscope of notes from politics to scandal. Miss Lucy Stone hints at a future woman president. Milan’s iron workers face mass layoffs. A Cuban lighthouse story and a Paris tube telegraph advance. A Boston mayor-elect born outside New England and a Maine author of a popular hymn. A bear trap accident near Eramosa and a houseful of oddities across continents.
A fire at the Catholic Male Orphan Asylum on St Marks and Albany avenues Brooklyn destroys the three story blue stone building housing 78 orphans. Sister Mary Josephine saved by Fireman McGroarty while others fled. several injuries reported, including a boy who fell from a ladder and eight year old John McGrath who jumped. By nightfall the building and grounds across a full block were burned, valued at 200000 dollars with unknown lives lost.
The United States would build and own the canal with Nicaragua, protect its territory, choose routes and ports, use Lake Nicaragua waters, and allow a two and a half mile strip of U S territory along the route. Nicaragua would receive one third of revenue after expenses, and the U S two thirds. The U S would loan four million dollars to Nicaragua to develop railway telegraph and navigation systems.
In Hall County Georgia two Illicit distillers led by Anderson Grant were killed in a nighttime skirmish with Internal Revenue raiders near Bark Camp twelve miles from Gainesville. Deputy Marshal Gaston and Agent Lofland survived. Alf Prater aided and was a cousin of a raid informant. Moonshiners fired on the posse and a mule was killed. both Grant and Prater died, while all revenue men escaped. The incident follows long-standing hostility to Revenue officers amid fears Cleveland’s election signals an end to the Revenue system.
Vienna reports unsettled markets after the disappearance of Lucius Jauner director of the Securities Department at the Lower Austrian Discount. A deficit of 059,960 florins is found, about $1,000,900. Reward of 2,000 florins offered for Jauner. Suspect Heinrich Kuffiler broker arrested for possible complicity.
In Crowfoot Crossing on the Canadian Pacific Railroad a remarkable coal seam fourteen feet thick was found by experienced workers. The seam lies 185 feet underground and several boxes of anthracite coal have reached Winnipeg, described as excellent specimens. Authorities believe the new fields may rival Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphia committee of the Councils votes 13 to 3 to report favorably on sending the Liberty Bell to New Orleans. It authorizes the Commissioner of Markets and City Property to remove the bell and directs the joint committee to attend the fair and deliver the bell to New Orleans authorities.
A Geneva telegram reports Marion Mc Farland of near Macon was bitten by a dog feared to be mad three weeks earlier. He showed little illness until Sunday, then suffered convulsions and died yesterday after two days of agonizing hydrophobia symptoms.
H T Price of a Green County farm shows a coat crafted in 1838 by Andy Johnson who later became U S president. The artifact is slated for exhibition at the New Orleans Exposition.
Obscene literature circulated by Cincinnati bill posters distributing ads for a Chicago quack doctor led to arrests of employees. The incident occurred in Cincinnati on December 18 as authorities moved to curb obscene material in public listings and advertisements.
In St. Louis on December 18 Francis White sides, a black man, attacked a white man at Eighth and Spruce streets and tried to rob him. A desperate encounter followed and the assailant was shot in the abdomen, dying. The white victim escaped and is not yet located. The assailant was described as a hard case.
An explosion at a Philadelphia works of a company on December 18 killed a supervisor and a worker named George, with reports noting fatalities among the labor staff and injuries to others.
Washington dispatch notes the sought after diplomatic and consular posts under President Cleveland. Salaries vary by posting from 17 500 to 2000 dollars annually, with many posts risking near starvation for lower paid assignments.
Sanitary Bureau inspectors found poisonous dyes used in coloring candy at thirteen of sixty four factories. Officers seized the unfit candy and dumped it on West Thirty eighth Street, revealing carbolic acid had been sprinkled to deter street urchins. Small dealers complained while most offered little resistance.
Sanpy Hook New Jersey December 17 The Haskell Multicharge gun on the forty third round fired 152 rounds total water 116 pounds velocity of shot 1801 feet per second elevation eight and a half degrees range 6500 yards muzzle energy 8400 foot tons This was the most powerful shot yet fired from this gun and far surpasses any gun of the same caliber worldwide.
A thermomet er along the Canadian Pacific shows temperatures from 30 degrees below zero and descending. In Portland Oregon a fierce snow storm paralyses the Willamette Valley with KH Railroad traffic suspended. Moses Solomon, a commercial traveler for Bessinger & Co., was found dead in the snow near Albany, succumbing to exposure.
At Charleston today the jury convicted the prisoner in the Chapman murder case and sentenced him to death. Chapman killed Nicholas Hubbart at Wumboldt in this county on August 17, 1884. Hubbart was a well to do bachelor farmer. The motive was robbery.
GREENSBURG Pa December 18 This morning Mrs Markle widow of General W H Markle committed death by own action by taking laudanum Mrs Markle had been an invalid for years.
Edward and Frank Root arrived in Erie with three bears and a deer. After wounding the deer, they followed its trail to the kill site where they ate lunch. The bears, drawn by the blood, attacked the pair in the woods, turning a hunting trip into a perilous encounter.
Reverend R. T. Jon, pastor of Park Baptist Church in Ithaca, a notable figure in the Independent movement, was arrested on a charge of illegal voting in Ithaca New York on December 18.
The Brooklyn Eagle reports a fire at St John’s Home for Children in New York. Twelve bodies recovered by 8 am, many charred beyond identification, with nine boys and two adults found in debris. Sisters hesitate to comment as missing children count rises and rescue work continues.
An anonymous letter to Sanitary headquarters reported a graveyard of moldering skulls and bones in the loft of 11 West Third Street. Investigations confirmed the site was filled with skeletons. Police sent the bones to the morgue while pursuing the true origin amid rumors.
A blaze at the Lapeer County Poor-house destroyed the building and stock, leaving 37 inmates in night clothes to flee. Insane inmate Bertha Rockwell perished in the fire while another woman frozen after fleeing two miles through deep snow. The temperature was below zero and losses exceed $6,000 as inmates are dispersed to local farmers.
Adrian Hitt who walked 4147 miles from New York to San Francisco in ninety eight days starts return trip from Mitchell Indiana to New York on a 4000 dollar wager to reach New York by January 12. He reports a perilous Colorado leg due to wild yeasts and carries twenty pounds of luggage to stay on task.
At Plummer's planing mill in Jackson Mississippi a boiler explosion at three pm killed Alfred Keyport and Fred Miller. Four others were severely injured and may die. The mill is wrecked and nearby houses damaged as debris shattered windows and blew a flue through a house a hundred yards away. The blast shook the city for miles.
At Bridgeport on December 19 an explosion in a small building in the yard of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company killed Peter Burns, an employee, blowing the building to splinters. It is believed Burns dropped a pan of fulminate or stepped on a piece. Two plumbers left the building two minutes before the blast.
New York December 19 reports Bradstreet data showing over 316000 fewer factory workers than normal in states north of the Ohio River and east of the Missouri. It is claimed nearly 15000 are in io.
A powerful Anglo Dutch company signed a contract to cut fifteen million metres of the canal on the Culebra section at under eight francs per metre. Work to be completed within two years. A large force of Europeans will be hired for the project.
Mitchell D T December 19 A residence fire at J F Lucas home in Mitchell resulted in the death of his three year old son who was left in a cradle as Mrs Lucas went out and locked the door The cause of the blaze is not known and investigators pursue the origin of the fire.
New York on December 1 reports 305 failures in the United States to Bradstreet's for the week, down from 316 the previous week and compared with 280, 236, and 145 in corresponding weeks of 1883, 1852, and 1881.
HWUNTINGTON Pa December 19 William Clark and Russell Rohland were killed tonight when their hand car collided with a freight train near the area. Both men were identified as local workers. authorities investigate the fatal railroad accident and notify families.
Reports from Vienna describe nihilists attempting to wreck the Czar’s train en route to St. Petersburg. A San Francisco Call item states California immigrants arrive at about sixteen hundred weekly, settling south for fruit and wine culture and wealth, while poorer settlers move north to agricultural areas. Albany Journal notes a New York insane asylum houses a 24 year old woman worth 4 to 5 million dollars who is violently ill and restrained to prevent self harm. Uranium ore from the Black Hills is shipped to Germany.
Senate reports adverse on a G A R petition seeking halfpay recovery for 1862 to 1865 due to money depreciation. Dakota bill advances, creating a southern state and northern territory Lincoln. House moves on postal and inter state commerce measures, with amendments on railroad segregation and tickets. Sitings include tariff and pension actions and a December session cadence through December 19.
The sheriff closed Tur Miller Company shops at Canton and Crestline on judgments totaling 510000. Cincinnati overland line request denied. Mary Milligan found frozen in Newark ice, likely due to fits. Dresden Junction arson attempt on Trun way Hotel. Cecil man Herbert Crawford killed by falling tree. Atwater woman Williamson Carter struck by train and killed. Hamilton County shows 400 of 1400 penitence inmates from area. Numerous deaths and accidents prominent across state including executions, divorces, and unusual court rulings. Bequests of Reuben Springer total 1250000 plus residuary estate. Eleven more incidents in Bellefontaine, Deersville, Uhrichsville, Cincinnati, and beyond.
Vienna reports Janner the embezzler of nearly a million dollars shot himself at Kierling village near Vienna. Only twenty four florins were found on his body in the aftermath.
New York reports Ferdinand Ward's collection of paintings brought near twenty thousand dollars, marking a robust sale. The event emphasizes Ward's valued artworks and market demand in a December market snapshot.
A New York widower had a portrait of his late wife retouched to show older age to match his years. The practice, done with tenderness, has been repeated again, updating the dress to 1884 fashion. Also notes a society shoes price and Dutch royal wealth, plus a birdSleep claim.
The Augusta address by Blaine is labeled aggressive and true by supporters, provoking a chorus of Democratic outcry. The piece contrasts Northern resolve with Southern resistance, arguing that the Solid South demands continued change and that the Democratic party bears responsibility for past and present tensions.
The Corners meeting led by Nasby calls for 187 additional offices to share among 237 Democrats and factions around Cleveland Reform. A Deacon argues for rewards beyond offices, while Bascom demands liquor supply and credit, and plans include a new Custom House and Slack Water project with large staff. The speech hints at employing workers, including Italian laborers, and securing contracts this winter to satisfy party loyalty.
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