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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1890
Page
2
A notice advises careful handling of names in correspondence and emphasizes evidence of good faith in submissions. It warns that proper spellings may vary due to handwriting and typographic issues, urging accuracy and distinct signatures.
The First National Bank of Marion Indiana is authorized to begin business with capital of one hundred thousand dollars. Windom invites bids for exclusive fur seal hunting rights on St Paul and St George islands Alaska. The Alaska Commercial Company lease ends May 1.
A wall of short notes reports a sheriff sale of The Commercial Telegraph Company to John W Mackay and Edwin C Pratt for 115000. It covers wages for Rochester shoemakers, post office thefts, accidental shootings in Reading and Bethlehem, memorials for Henry Grady, deaths by gas and fires, pendings of court actions, and various mining and transport incidents across the U S with dates around December 26 27 1890 and references to Ohio Indiana Iowa and South Dakota events.
A man shot near Louisville, Kentucky, has died. A separate Chicago incident left John Hoos severely injured after being assaulted and robbed of $2,000 and cast into the river near Rush Street Bridge. he was saved and hospitalized with a skull fracture. Also, Louisville City Treasurer Henry Wolford died at age eighty three. The Kentucky railroad commission reports 232 additional miles, totaling 2,835 miles, with assessed value at 44,690,903 dollars. Will and Calvin Odell of Burnet County Texas were killed resisting arrest. James E. Kent of Cairo, Illinois, reportedly vanished with about 1,500 dollars. Otto Leuth was found guilty of murder in the first degree for Maggie Thompson’s death in Cleveland, sentence deferred. West Huffman, on trial for disturbing worship near Harrodsburg, attempted escape and fatally wounded Sheriff Dock Sherman. Muskegon lumberman Charles H. Hackley donated 15,000 dollars for a soldiers monument after giving 150,000 dollars for a public library.
In Charleroi Belgium upwards of 11000 workers are idle as strikes grow, all peaceful with no disturbances. Five Kingston Ontario convicts escape the penitentiary by overpowering guards, stealing a boat, and heading for the U United States. one had four months of a nine year term left. Zaalberg’s Leyden carpet works burned with heavy losses and workers left jobless. Influenza spreads rapidly in Paris area with many deaths. a third of the population ill. Mexico repeals a heavy tax on traveling salesmen. In Dechau near Munich three Catholic nuns jailed briefly for exploiting a pupil’s fear with pretended miracles. At Vancouver a sleighing accident kills four of six youths. two survive with serious injuries.
A Michigan farmer named Major murdered his wife, daughter, and granddaughter before hanging himself. Other late items note rail wrecks, mob killings, theater attack, a New Hampshire governor appeals for Prohibition enforcement, strikes, and various regional misfortunes.
Henry W. Grady, famed Southern editor and orator, has died. His career shaped regional journalism and public discourse, leaving a lasting impact on press and politics.
Henry W Grady, editor and Southern orator, died in Atlanta at 3 40 a m after typhoid pneumonia. Born May 17 1851 in Athens Georgia he rose from Rome Georgia editor to co editor of the Atlanta Constitution. His 1887 New England Society speech stunned listeners and revived Southern pride. He leaves a wife and two children.
Lancaster New Hampshire December 23 David H Beattie Sons sell Beattie Me township of 8500 acres to George Van Dyke Lancaster. Village on site includes custom house post office saw mill store and four dwellings. Price 70000 for realty and 30000 for personal property. Van Dyke owns 25000 acres timber land and leads Connecticut River Lumber Co. publication notes multiple regional business ties.
John M. McKee, teller at Toledo National Bank, was sentenced after being indicted with C H Vanhoesen for embezzling 75 900. The report notes mining gains in Britain with 10 000 more miners employed and 885 fatal accidents in a year, plus an English discovery that incandescent light fades delicate water color pigments after three years of exposure.
A Rexford, New Lexington veteran and a Milford Center casualty were among car accidents. Lima acquitted a murder co-defendant as Oph Hughes case unfolds. Piqua bakery robbery nets 670 dollars. Youngstown blast site fatality reports. Cleveland and Columbus tied to state governance, finances and public service actions.
Sufferers are told catarrh hay fever and catarrhal deafness are caused by living parasites in the nose and eustachian tubes. A simple home remedy is claimed to permanently cure in one to three applications every two weeks. Pamphlet costs three cents in stamps from A H Dixon & Son Toronto Canada. Terre Haute News notes the claim and remarks on invention.
A new book of attractive reading, filled with autographs receipts and rhymes, is issued and available through druggists or by two cent stamp. The St Jacobs Oil Calendar 1889 90 by Vogeler Baltimore offers Free Music with purchase. It claims strong ties to St Jacobs Oil and its popularity remains high. The San Francisco Alta notes a remark defining dervish in a separate aside about a fisherman.
In a bold claim the product’s ads guarantee cure for blood skin and scalp diseases and all scrofulous afflictions or money refunded. A $500 reward is offered for an incurable case of catarrh. The piece references a Niagara Falls dare as a depressing recent fact reported by the Norristown Herald.
An old newspaper fragment touts Oregon as a fertile region inviting immigration from Portland with praise of climate and crops. It includes ads for Dobbins Electric Soap and Carter's Little Liver Pills, plus opinion snippets from Boston papers and miscellaneous social satire about actors and married life.
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