05 Jul 1882
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1882
Page
1
The Clermont Courier lists pricing for legal and transient advertisements at one dollar per square (ten lines) for the first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion with a yearly reduction offered.
A summary of events from St. Louis trials for gambling to waterfront labor disputes in New York and Philadelphia. Beecher endorses worker causes. a brutal dog attack ends fatally for three and injures others. a Virginia and New Mexico rash of violence follows gambling arrests. severe weather hits Iowa and Minnesota. extensive hurricane damage reported. political conventions nominate candidates. a Cincinnati murder suicide case shocks. and international tensions rise as Egypt, Turkey, and Cuban labor issues draw attention.
The Senate passed bills to grant condemned cannon to several cities including Vincennes and Danville. A House bill establishing a uniform bankruptcy system was debated with Hoar advocating a Lowell-like substitute. The House discussed tax cuts, with a July adjournment resolution and changes to tobacco, alcohol, and cigarette taxation. The Senate Pension Committee supported pensions for widows of Generals Custer and French, and a bill to amend the act donating public lands was noted.
The June 19 appendix quotes Charles Guiteau writing to President Arthur about habeas corpus denial and a hoped pardon, asking for respite until January for a Supreme Court hearing. Dr. Hicks and Rev. Dr. Hicks are named, with Guiteau seeking a personal examination of a poem he wrote.
Azginus B. Stern a Chicago wife murderer is sentenced to twelve years. Toledo Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad files articles of consolidation with a capital of three million dollars. officers in Youngstown Ohio. Malley boys and Blanche Douglass acquitted in New Haven for Jennie Cramer murder. Smallpox alarm grows in Minnesota and Indian Territory. Louisiana debt settlement constitutional amendment to be voted in November. bondholders may draw two percent interest if the amendment fails. Senate signs temporary expenditures resolution through July 20. Illinois Representative Hawk dies. joint committee to escort his remains. House adjourns in respect. funeral arrangements named. memorials and pallbearers appointed.
Amid a throng at the Washington jail Guiteau faces execution with calm pledge to God. Dr Hicks recounts his last hours, the crowd, and the death watch as the drop ends his life at 12 40 p m with prayers and a final cry of glory hallelujah.
A Prussian officer recalls General Winterfield directing two condemned soldiers to decide by dice which would die. After a series of rolls showing repeated aces and fours, the captain concluded Providence would save them. The men were spared and lived to serve Prussia again.
The Navy Department releases excerpts from De Long’s diary as engineer Melville recounts the doomed search for De Long and his party. The notes detail a harsh circumpolar march, shelter in a bluff hut, rationing of dog meat and alcohol, relentless cold, frostbite, camp deaths including Erickson, Alexy, Lee, Kaack, Iverson, Dresden, Boyd, Gartz, and finally the narrator and companions. Steps are planned to move remains to the United States.
A roundup from Canton to Cleveland and Columbus reports deaths by whisky and heat, lightning, and drowning. a fatal scaffold collapse near Canton injures two. multiple suicides and a murder trial verdict of not guilty. Also notes a mass meeting for women’s suffrage in Columbus and a tidal wave at Cleveland affecting shipping.
Reports show Northern corn yields richer oil and starch while Southern corn yields more minerals and albumin. Providence expands gold watch case manufacture with high demand. New engines and cotton-based building materials are explored, including a Scotch professor’s critique of lilies and floor coverings from Jersey City inventors. A Florida orange region study and a low pressure ice-making method are mentioned.
A collage of snatches from old papers covering oddball anecdotes and quips. Tales range from eel pie advocacy by a newspaper to a Detroit boy beating measles and mumps, with satirical comments on health, labor, waiters, and church life.
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