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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1881
Page
1
Mrs. President Garfield remains slowly recovering from a serious illness as reports indicate improvement. The brief update notes her condition and ongoing care.
Reports from Mexico claim ex president Grant will not receive concessions. A mass meeting in New York urged protest against the hanging of Hesesy Helfman in Russia and sent a cable to the Czar urging clemency.
Paisley, superintendent of the Coke Works at Uniontown Pennsylvania, was robbed by highwaymen of two thousand dollars. He had drawn the money to pay the operatives at the works when he was overhauled.
The General Assembly of the U. P. Church meeting in Pittsburg adopted a resolution urging Congress to abolish the internal mail service on the Sabbath and enforce stricter observance of the Lord's Day.
Bank failure in Fon du Lac hits over 300000 in losses. President B A Baker and cashier Burroughs are both implicated as the institution collapses under financial strain. Local authorities move to address the fallout and protect depositors.
Giese notes that window glass makers in Pitts[burg] are closing plants as demand declines. The article details factory shutdowns, job losses, and the broader impact on the local economy and workers.
A special from Atlanta reports a local epidemic forcing nearly all children from schools. The outbreak began with the death of Mr Perkins his wife and three children in thirty six hours as physicians split on diagnosis with eighteen listing scarlet fever and one yellow fever.
Commodore Nutt the dwarf has died. The attending physician refused to certify death, forcing Coroner Ellinger of New York City to conduct an autopsy for a burial permit. His body was then taken to New Hampshire.
Rev. J. N. Spear defended a local brewer named Lauer at a Reading Pennsylvania temperance gathering. Angry attendees seized the pastor by the collar and forcibly escorted him out. Spear issued a bitter letter and pledged to form a new organization.
Miss Frank B. M. Kendall died in Madison Indiana last week at age thirty five. She was cremated in Le Moyne Furnace Washington Pennsylvania. For twelve years she served as Principal of the Lower Seminary at Madison and was known as a forcible writer throughout the state.
Kewson Henry Villard Horace White Carl Schurz and E L Godkin buy the New York Evening Post for 650000 dollars not including the building. Carl Schurz immediately becomes editor and the paper will back the Garfield administration.
Henry Graft reportedly drank a quart of whisky in a North Side saloon before collapsing and dying as he turned to leave. The bar keeper has been arrested as a person of interest in the incident.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott died at Clufton Pennsylvania May 21 at 9 oclock after a rapid decline. He fell unconscious at 7 and remained so until death. Surrounded at the end by family members and several Pennsylvania Railroad officers.
In Cedar, Scott County two young men named Austin and Brannon resolved to settle their dispute by combat over a young woman. The clash reflects a perilous protest to passion and the era’s code of honor.
The report recalls the wreck and describes the rescue struggle on the river. It details R. G. Montgomery’s harrowing account of clinging to debris as families of many victims perished, and lists identified drowned including Willie Glass and Miss Cooper among numerous others.
At a given signal they fired five or six shots stepping six paces apart. Brannon was mortally wounded while Austin was arrested, escaped, and remains at large.
Mayor Means informs Cincinnati hotel keepers they must pay an annual tax between 25 and 1.00, a law long dormant that he intends to enforce. Hoteliers organize and plan to challenge the measure in court.
John Carmichael of Alexandria Virginia wrote a postal card to Senator Vance containing a crude remark about dog Mahone. He is summoned by a United States Commissioner to explain before a Grand Jury. A law forbids sending scurrilous matter through the mails.
Secretary Hunt orders Commander Cooper of the United States Steamer Alliance at Norfolk Virginia to prepare immediately for a cruise in search of the Jeannette. The expedition will venture between Greenland Iceland and the Norwegian coast, to Spitzbergen if possible, without endangering the vessel.
Postmaster General James says warrants will be issued and arrests made early in June as investigators pursue a vast star route fraud conspiracy. Efforts to prove the extent of theft and the recipients of misappropriated funds continue amid appeals to President Garfield against the investigation.
Census Bureau reports cereal production for 1879-80 with acres and bushels by crop. Buckwheat, barley, oats, corn, and other grains shown alongside 1869-70 figures, reflecting shifts in acreage and yield across years. Figures include Buckwheat 851,304 acres and 11,851,788 bushels. Barley 9,821,721 bushels. Oats 7,007,11? acres and 282,107,157 bushels. Corn and other grains listed with large totals.
Secretary Allen of the Omaha Board of Trade estimates Nebraska grain output for 1881 at 105000000 bushels if current outlook holds. This marks about a 30 percent rise from 1880. Wheat is put at 16000000 bushels, roughly 50 percent above last year. Over ten years the corn and wheat acreage gain is around 650 percent.
The Washington Monument stands at 190 feet with six feet added since August. Two courses of two feet each are laid daily. If progress continues, the height at season end may reach 250 feet, with final completion targeting 550 feet.
New York paper links Secretary Blaine to Star Route frauds as Postmaster General James and Attorney General McVeagh lead inquiry. They say no implicating evidence has been found yet and vow to pursue guilty parties with impartial justice.
The revolutionists publish a second utterance denouncing peasant misery deportations to Siberia and censorship. They accuse false counselors of sway over the Czar and urge a listening, unprejudiced approach to avoid further catastrophe.
Miss Frankie Watson found a bottle and dry paper on the shore claiming the steamer Alpena sank with all aboard near Lake Michigan. The note is the first direct evidence of the prior disaster, kept by Chicago businessman Mr. Goodrich, head of the line.
Four carrier pigeons owned by William Verrinder of Jersey City were released in Indianapolis on September 5. Three returned home, while Paris was presumed dead until arriving on May 23 in excellent condition. Private marks confirmed identity. Paris likely tried to reach Brussels before returning to Jersey City.
Prof Vennor forecasts June weather similar to 1879 with rain on the 1st 9th 10th 11th 15th 21st 27th 28th and a pattern of cloudy and clear days totaling about ten cloudy and eleven clear. Winds from the southeast. highs near 90 degrees and lows from 35 to 64 degrees across the month.
An explosion occurred at 9 PM in a cellar on Edmund Street in St Joseph Missouri. Fifteen barrels of Danforths fluid stored below a saloon and billiard room caused extensive damage and injuries as the building experienced a catastrophic blast.
A fire disaster killed a number of colored men and a white woman was reported at the scene. Five bodies were recovered and the building was demolished, with debris buried under flames. Water from the fire department failed to stop the blaze as thousands gathered and mourned. Hessy Hellman was reportedly hanged in Paris after torture, with claims of prolonged agonizing preparations and a delayed execution. Delicate unrest followed in St. Petersburg as troops were barred from leaving their barracks amid anticipated revolutionary activity.
Gen William Bolton of Norristown Pennsylvania, veteran of the 51st Pennsylvania Volunteers, was relieved of a Confederate bullet swallowed for seventeen years. The bullet, found after a coughing episode, entered near a prior Antietam wound and was rusty with sharp ridges weighing 273 grains Troy.
The excursion steamer Victoria traveling between London Ontario and Spring Lake sank in twelve feet of water on the night of the 24th with about six hundred passengers aboard. The disaster followed a sudden shift of passengers to one side causing the lower deck to flood and the upper structure to collapse. Rescue crews recovered up to 238 bodies and continued search efforts the next day. A citizens committee planned burial services and a public monument at the disaster site.
The New York Mail notes that men, though confident they will remain single, are often surprised into marriage by unforeseen emotional moments. A firm belief in celibacy can leave a man unguarded, and a single word or gesture can swiftly alter his fate.
The She relief fund for John Brown’s widow has raised enough to pay the farm mortgage and still leaves a bank balance. Contributions reach about $100 daily with a $10 gift noted from Mark Twain. The piece humorously wonders about a royal tour funded by the fund and reflects on charity and human nature.
A detailed description explains the imperial crown and empress coronet of Russia. The crown blends mitre and crown features with a cross of five diamonds atop an uncut ruby, resting on eleven large diamonds and pearls. The empress coronet is a vast diamond mass, with four large flawless stones and about sixteen to eighteen others, plus seventy to eighty more diamonds in reserve.
Quote from Figarg suggesting a cynical joke about letters to married women dated April 1. The sarcastic advice involves blaming the husband and laughing at him for being fooled. The text presents a provocative, historically framed remark linked to social mores.
A stark tale traces Ruth Holly’s doomed marriage to Edward Holly a brilliant writer whose wine habit corrodes his talent and squanders wealth. Their descent culminates in Ruth’s brutal death protecting him as a jealous crowd jeers below and a life of remorse ends in a distant grandfather’s gilded sorrow.
Legal and transient advertisements cost 31.00 per square ten lines for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. A yearly reduction applies to ads. Business cards up to six lines run 66.00 per year.
The village postmistress, aging and hard of hearing, recalls fifty years of letters and news passing through her hands. Her son notes the effort of reading postal cards and the duties of his mother as locals exchange tidbits while planning a sister’s visit. The dialogue reveals town chatter and a misread word factotum as they guess the meaning of a foreign term.
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