09 Jan 1884
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1884
Page
1
The Commission on Navy yards notes the decline of the U S mercantile marine from 2,546,237 tons in 1860 to 1,852,810 tons, dropping America to third in foreign trade. It says the nation has lost its carrying power and lacks a single fighting ship flying its flag on the seas.
The December debt reduction is estimated at about 12 million dollars. Over the past year the debt decreased by 110 million dollars. Since January 1, 1883 the decline in national bank notes totals 12,168,526 dollars.
The Solicitor of the Treasury was notified about legal questions tied to the wreck of the British frigate Hussar in East River New York near Port Morris. Hussar sank in 1730 carrying nearly £1,000,000 for British troops and seventy American prisoners chained to the gun. The Navy, customs and debt figures are cited along with December debt reduction and current cash and liability totals.
Winfield Heisler of Heisler McBride and Co. suffered a fractured skull after a nitro glycerine copper kettle exploded. The weaponized kettle, once used to hold nitro glycerine, contained remaining explosive in its handle hollow and detonated when placed over the fire.
A Grand Trunk collision near Montreal on the 2d involved a freight train without orders and a coach carrying Boland Iron Works workers. Nineteen dead, seven more later, many fatally injured, and some burned as the car caught fire. The freight conductor was arrested. Separately, a sleeper and two coaches fell fifteen feet on the Illinois Central at Barnum, killing one and injuring several. At Napoleon Wabash crossing a wagon wrecked, two men killed and a third likely to die.
Mrs Wesley Simmons and her two daughters rode a Rock Island sleeper near Joliet Illinois when Grace aged four vanished from her berth. Conductor later found Grace in the third car ahead. she woke crying for her mother as officials solved the mystery of her crossing between cars.
A Summerton scene ends in tragedy as a mother leaves four children aged two to eleven alone. A fire in the home spread from a careless fire, trapping the youngsters inside. Neighbors found the doors blocked, and the building burned while only charred remains were recovered.
Edward Keys of Unity New Hampshire died recently and left the town school districts twelve thousand dollars. His remaining estate, aside from forty five dollars willed to his daughter, passes to the schools.
In Denver on the 2d Slade of the John L. Sullivan Combination clashed with local celebrities before the Arcade saloon. All were intoxicated and no serious injuries occurred. An officer intervened but was overwhelmed. others intervened and all were jailed. Sullivan chased a revolver from the American House but proprietor Smith drove him out.
James Williams alias O Brien, a prisoner at Ottumwa Illinois, escaped by shooting dead the jail turnkey on the 2nd. Williams, a noted desperado, remains at large as investigators scramble to determine how he obtained the revolver. French Constitution Revision aims to modify Life Senator and voting methods with support from the Party of Right.
In Biddeford Maine marks of violence spur murder doubts after a doctor reports two unnamed men guiding him to a house on Franklin Street. A young woman lay fatally wounded and a man sustained a severe facial cut as the physician was blindfolded and locked in before being released.
Prof. Lewis Swift director of Warner Observatory Rochester N Y reports the Pons comet now displays a double tail with angles of seven and three degrees as it nears the sun. He notes red sunsets arise from extraterrestrial matter in the atmosphere refracting red sunlight, not from volcanoes or earthquakes.
Rev Samuel Andrews was shot and killed while en route to a religious appointment beyond Fort Smith in the Choctaw Nation. The incident is attributed to unknown assailants.
Rev. Horace Worden aged seventy a renowned home missionary in Quincy Ill who spent his life aiding prisoners was knocked down and robbed at his gate by footpads. Suspected are ex convict beneficiaries of his charity.
While Henry James and wife were away at neighbors in Plummersville Ark a fire consumed their house and contents. One child was roasted to death and another fatally burned in the blaze.
The Maryland Legislature met in Annapolis on the 2d. The Senate blocked Hudson of Somerset County from taking the oath, ruling him ineligible as a clergyman at the time of his election. The issue was referred to a committee.
The steamer Carrier was sunk at the head of Hurricane Island three miles below Owensboro Kentucky on the 30th. In dense fog she stove in forty feet of hull while swinging. One deck hand and two deck passengers drowned. The vessel is a total loss.
John McCarthy Scully, renowned Nationalist and key Fenian organizer in America, dies in New York from heart disease after months of ill health. His death is linked to intense literary work and his role in founding Fenian groups and leading the Land League in New York.
Miss Fannie Nutter died at Kanawha Falls West Virginia on the 30th after her dress caught fire while trying to pass an open blaze. She ran toward a creek but could not reach it and was burned to death.
Ernst Dix died in Bloomington Illinois after five weeks of suffering from trichinosis. He was one of six who ate raw pork sausage. Adam Gull, owner of the meat bag, died a week earlier. Two others remain in critical condition.
O. E. Stewart feared cattle thief long sought in Nebraska Wyoming was arrested days ago at Hot Springs Ark by K. K. Boswell of the Stock Growers’ Association secret department and taken to Deadwood where an indictment awaits. He is said to be last of Doc Middleton gang broken up by Judge Lynch. Died on roof during Thorndike mill fire. C Wilson agent died of heart attack on roof. Loss estimated at 50000 dollars.
A series of suicide and homicide reports across several states detail deaths by laudanum overdose in Michigan, suicide by gun in Georgia, self-hanging in West Virginia, and a son murder in Ohio. Additional cases include a Tennessee official's suicide amid family outrage and a Kentucky man hanging amid legal turmoil.
E H Kobbe, an exchange clerk for Bamford Bros New York, forged and diverted 100 to his own use. He and accomplice J R Vanarsdale were tracked by detectives. Kobbe confessed gains of 100000 and later recovered 20000 in government bonds from a dry cistern in New York, with more found in Brooklyn.
Leavenworth Kansas January 3 John Byrne appeared before U S Commissioners and accused himself of collusion to defraud the government of $100 while a member of the 9th Infantry in 1869. His final account listed $82 clothing money, raised to $1 by the company clerk. He wishes to confess and seek a pardon. case likely to go to the President.
A man claiming Clan na Gael membership outlined an elaborate plot to kidnap Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of England during a stay in St Louis. The plan involved chloroforming him in bed and holding him as a hostage for Irish prisoners' release, but a hotel watchman thwarted the scheme.
An explosion of fire damp at the Oxford Colliery of the D L and W Company injures four men, with one fatally. The blast tore out hoisting and air shaft linings, cutting off contact with fourteen miners. Within an hour rescuers found all alive. John Hopkins John Jones and William Morgan were seriously burned. Cause unknown.
In Montreal on January 3 the St Lawrence rose about three feet, flooding lower city areas. Mill Street factories halted operations and shops flooded, leaving about six hundred mechanics out of work until waters recede.
Five workers at Bailey's nail works refuse to continue after the company demands they pay two helpers from their earnings. The stoppage halts production and 200 men are left unemployed in Harrissure on January 3.
The aggregate fire loss for 1883 reached 103000000 with 196 fires exceeding 100000. The record shows 11000000 in losses, making 1883 the heaviest year since 1871 and 1872, the Chicago and Boston fires.
John Kilstrom died after drinking beer at Pat Sheehy's saloon in Ithaca on January 3. Fred Hoffman also drank there and lies in a comatose state with no hope of recovery.
Avtoona Pa January 3 The twenty year lease of the Pullman Palace Car Company to the Pennsylvania Company expires shortly and the latter is making arrangements to construct elegant cars for its own use.
Neilson Poe former Chief Judge of the Orphans Court died after a months long illness at age seventy six. He was a cousin of the renowned writer Edgar Allan Poe.
London reports a sharp earthquake shock at Salyckli in Asia Minor yesterday causing property damage but no loss of life. The tremor is part of a broader seismic pattern in the region with no further casualties reported at this time.
Lampasas Texas January 3 The stage line mail coach was robbed this evening near Santerfell by three unmasked men. The amount secured is unknown.
The sale of Marie Colambier's volume Sarah Barnum has been prohibited by authorities amid significant bad blood between the renowned tradgedienne and her rival.
The Treasury purchased 445000 ounces of silver for the Philadelphia and New Orleans Mints. December coinage amounted to 5480041 dollars with 2354170 dollars from standard dollars.
A Long Island man acted as both plaintiff and defendant in a suit claiming an estate owed him money as executor. He and Race won, but the judge condemned the conduct as intolerable, removed the estate from him, and expelled him from the court.
A correspondent notes a strange Pacific custom where many children on the island carry sleeping infants on their backs as they play. The speeding youngsters cause the infant’s head to wave in the breeze, illustrating a bustling, baby-filled scene.
The State Penitentiary at Auburn is installing an electronic alarm system like hotel panels. If a inmate attempts to scale the wall, an annunciator bell sounds and the system prints the number of the station indicating the breach.
New York January 4 Henry Villard resigns the presidency of the Northern Pacific and assigns his Madison Square palace, a Dobbs Ferry residence, and other real estate to E Endicott Jr and Horace White for creditors. The move aims to secure 300000 owed to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company as Villard's fortune collapses from extensive loans and holdings.
Denver Colorado January 4 Last night a strange wedding occurred in this city. The bride was fourteen years old white and the bridegroom a black negro. The ceremony was performed by a white Methodist preacher Hodges. The bride's mother fled from Canada years ago with her daughter and later married a negro named Harris with whom she had three children. It is reported the girl was forced into the marriage and the neighborhood is excited.
In Druxke Center Pennsylvania a gas explosion ignited a blaze at J. W. Garver’s dwelling around noon leaving four children aged one to six dead. Mrs Garver was away. Thomas McHale recovered the bodies from the ruins. Parents are utterly grief stricken.
In MonTreal on January 4 sixteen Notre Dame de Lourdes convent boarders and three sisters fell dangerously ill after a meat pie dinner. Doctors attribute tainted meat condemned by the civic inspector to blame, with two in dire condition and others recovering.
Judge Smith ruled the Illinois Legislature damages provision for gambling losses unconstitutional in the Mary Learned vs Francis Tiernan case. The decision declares the act unconstitutional as it combines two subjects, reviving the old law's weaknesses and affecting house owners where money was lost to gambling.
The Minnesota report notes temperatures turning brutal with 30 below at noon the coldest for 25 years in Minneapo lis, 42 below at Brainard, and 30 below at Fond du Lac. Overnight lows ranged from 80 to 16 below in the area as January 4 begins.
The steamer Wisconsin failed to reach Grand Haven after departing Wednesday evening. After forty hours of brutal gale and extreme cold, the vessel returned to Milwaukee at noon covered in ice three inches thick. The captain says no prior gale compares with this ordeal.
Albert E. Kent of San Francisco, Yale College class of 1853, who last year gave 50000 for a chemical laboratory, has increased the gift by 25000. The donation days earlier were noted at New Haven Cr January 4.
Three young sisters in New York were received into the Jewish synagogue. The girls, converts from Christianity, come from a family in which their father is an Irish Catholic.
The Union City Flouring Mills owned by H. L. Church & Sons burned in Erie on January 4 causing about 25000 dollars in loss with 10000 dollars insured.
Right Cool. RockFrorp Illinois reports the coldest day in forty years with a daytime high at 25 degrees below zero and a low of 32 degrees below at 8 p.m. Residents faced harsh weather and continuing subzero conditions.
The Atheneum reveals a new work by Queen Victoria titled More Leaves from a Journal of Life in the Highlands 1862 to 1882. Copies have already been given to several privileged recipients.
A Philadelphia man, found wandering with his throat cut, was brought to a hospital where surgeons called him a beautiful case. They sewed wounds, fitted equipment to force air, and inserted a rubber tube to feed him. He remained alive and his case was described as unparalleled in surgical history.
The Princess Louise returns to country life at Dornden where she helps with domestic tasks, oversees meals, and assists in stables and garden. After dinner she joins a billiards game, showcasing her busy German wife persona and general usefulness.
The Times notes the city morgue supplies about two hundred corpses annually to the university’s dissecting tables, highlighting the ongoing flow of cadavers to medical study.
A Springfield chemist analyzes canned peaches tied to a Pierce family poisoning scare. Other items cover a Fayette County rail trestle project, reform school transfers forrobbery convicts, Cincinnati river flooding, a massive observatory dome being built in Cleveland, a Cincinnati man fined for snow clearance, theft at a Youngstown slaughterhouse, a Munich girl’s return to Europe, a fire-related injury in Hebron, railroad obstructions charges in Norwalk, a murdered horse trader found in Cincinnati, a child burned by a grate, a stove explosion in Franklin, liquor law debate in Columbus, amputation case near West Jefferson, miners injured in Gore, a new Morrow jail, a Geauga County schoolyard brawl, several deaths and injuries on area rail lines, and the Ohio State Library listing 30,000 volumes.
The piece argues Democrats face a choice after electing Carlisle as Speaker. It claims Southern interests bias the party, risking insincerity and electoral defeat if it cannot propose concrete measures, especially on tariffs and reform. It contends Republicans aim to force clear positions and voters will judge.
A critique of postwar Southern Democrats, describing a late but bountiful political harvest of crime and intimidation. The piece links past murders of Black voters to current intra party violence and argues for lawful punishment by juries and judges in Democratic states.
The Chicago Tribune argues Southern Democrats push for a paid restitution for emancipated slaves as a reward for loyalty, claiming Georgia and Texas push to finance slaveholder compensation with surplus government funds. It forecasts many Carlton-led congressmen and a broad push to wipe surplus by rewarding former slaveowners, challenging northern Republicans.
A fragment from Carlisle Pennsylvania notes a fourteen year old student who smoked a pack and faced unspecified consequences, with unclear references to Pittsburgh and Potts. The readable text is garbled but indicates youth involvement with smoking and a local response.
Legal and transient advertisements priced per square for first insertion and a half per each additional. A liberal annual reduction offered. Business cards limited to six insertions for eight dollars per year.
A collage of odd facts from patent waters to hog feeding tricks, ice velocipedes, camphor matinees, and literary notices. It mentions Warriner losing early poems, Paris rainfall linked sewer gas, and a riddle about Beautiful Snow.
An English writer advises laying hens should be liberally supplied with crushed bones and warm, sturdy food to ensure all necessary nutrients for egg production when nature does not provide. The guidance reflects period beliefs on poultry husbandry and nutrition.
The present House of Representatives at Wisconsin assembled with many bald members noted. Forest of Missouri is said to be the youngest, and Wait of Connecticut the oldest.
Readable text notes large icicles hanging from eaves pose danger as they could fall and strike someone. It suggests not climbing to remove them but emphasizes they should be looked after and monitored.
A Canadian sportsman argues hunting deer with hounds is superior as the quarry is either captured or escapes unharmed, while still hunting wounds and lets deer die slowly. Market hunters favor still hunting for higher takedowns. The piece also notes crowding at Westminster Abbey and grim obituaries. It closes with a grim note on rising insanity in the United States and shifting native alien ratios.
A New York dentist notes most cavities begin before age twenty, especially with fast habits, and rare new cavities after thirty. Regular watchful care and fillings can let teeth last a lifetime. amalgam fillings are often more durable than gold.
The Brooklyn Hagia notes a record age case Mrs Jessie McGee of Woodford Illinois who died in poverty though her father was a Ohio congressman and she once was a belle in the national capital. The reflection compares aging with Dr Johnson’s fear of outliving reason and loved ones.
The San Francisco Bulletin argues that overall trade with China disadvantages the United States. It cites very low Chinese wages and limited domestic purchasing power as reasons for a heavy U S balance of trade deficit. It notes a small rich class and a marginal middle class cannot support large American consumption.
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