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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1881
Page
1
News of the Week notes plans to place Philadelphia telegraph wires underground. It also mentions a horse race at Ascot where Iroquois defeated Leon in the St James Palace stakes. Other items cover a Quebec fire, the Brooklyn Bridge cost, a strike among London telegraph operators, Albany deadlock, and a British ministerial appointment.
Several thousand workmen go on strike in Stockholm and a riot is feared. Recent fires across Sweden are suspected to be incendiary in origin.
Authorities report a planned consolidation of the city iron interests in St Louis with total capital anticipated at 7 million dollars. The move is described as comprehensive, potentially shaping the local iron market and related industries.
Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture reports two thirds of a wheat crop, a good tobacco yield, and probable corn crop failure. Also notes Italian parliamentary votes on suffrage and a failed statue bombing attempt in St. Germain surrounding Thiers statue.
Sixty thousand Jews are expected to migrate to Spain following the government’s decision to permit Jews expelled from Russia to settle there. The move, reported amid international concern, outlines a large assisted flow of migrants seeking refuge and new residence.
Silas M. Waite of Brattleboro Vermont, bank president, was convicted of making false returns under the National Banking Act and sentenced to six years in prison.
Intelligence from Constantinople reports about 100 people killed and 60 injured in the recent quake that devastated several villages in the Pashalic of Van Armenia.
A Bremen dispatch reports surging German emigration to America, with steamship lines facing utmost difficulty in providing transportation due to overwhelming demand.
Orlando Greenfield, convicted for the Buffalo wife murder, has been sentenced to death for the fifth time with execution set for August 5. This marks his fifth trial and finding of guilt and a hanging sentence.
Thirty three convicts were being moved from St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary to Kingston Ontario when five broke free by removing handcuffs and escaping through a car window. The rest of the prisoners protested with a mutinous mood.
A court martial at Kieff convicted Nihilists, sentencing two to death and eight to penal servitude or exile to Siberia. The Emperor commuted the two death sentences to life penal servitude. Among the accused were four women.
In Elizabeth New York a man named Magie asked Miss Fannie Walker to marry him. She declined and Magie drew a revolver and fired twice. He wounded her but she did not die. He then killed himself.
Lorillard's Iroquois won the Prince of Wales stake at Ascot with Geologist second and Great Carle third among seven runners. Iroquois is remembered as the Derby winner, and The London Times notes the Derby winner never before won the Prince of Wales stakes.
The London Ontario Victoria disaster verdict finds the captain overburdened, the manager understaffed, and the government inspector criticized for lack of care. The ruling cites shared responsibility among all three parties.
A new Nihilist paper claims the Czar’s assassins were mistreated before execution. It asserts Rousakoff spoke of the mistreatment on his way to the scaffold.
A Berlin correspondent reports the plan to found a German University in a Western state of America is taking practical form. Several banking houses have offered sympathy and cooperation to leaders in Frankfort.
Ten men on a river barge attempted to board a skiff when it capsized on the Ohio River at Cincinnati. Six men drowned. only three could swim and, with one other survivor, saved themselves. The swift current swept the others under the barges.
Illinois Department of Agriculture reports the wheat harvest will come much later than usual due to widespread damage from chinch bugs armyworms and unfavorable weather. Difficult conditions suggest more discouraging crop reports before harvest.
A Peking dispatch reports the youthful emperor suffering a smallpox attack for twenty two days and in critical condition. Court physicians express little hope for recovery while the Western Empress is expected to recover. Over one hundred nurses have been employed to feed him.
Postmaster General James has cut off during the past fifteen days useless Star Routes, trimming federal mail costs and narrowing inconsistent service. The move targets routes deemed inefficient, affecting small towns and regional mail distribution plans nationwide.
Poem reminisces on days past at a spring where youth gathered. It contrasts a vanished schoolhouse and dry brook with lingering moss at the old stair. The verse recalls daisies, sunshine, and the joyous shade of youth as time moves on.
In 1842 Paris and New Orleans mingle in a lore filled with Creole talk and a legendary diamond sack. A French clerk recalls crossing oceans, joining Joaquin the diamond smuggler, and surviving a perilous diamond voyage to Brazil before returning to France with a plan to search for the hidden sack while pondering love, wealth, and fate.
Ohio newspapers report a string of deaths and accidents across towns. Toledo man William Avufderheide, 23, commits suicide. Millersburg 90 year old Thompson Shannon dies. Columbus contractor William Wrxa fatally injured after a fall. Fremont mayor Vannes dies. Lancaster farmer Ben Bramen suicides. Caldwell resident Ben Leonard under arrest for pension fraud. Tiffin worker Joseph Clevidence killed by lightning. Dayton suit against Wolf Brothers over Sunday sales upheld. New Philadelphia crowd discusses rolling mill removal. numerous other accidents and storms reported from Zanesville to Cambridge with injuries and property damage.
The statement cites an estimated first fiscal year saving of $1,500,000 and notes a $200,000 amount for a separate item. It also claims a $300,000 reduction in contracts for postal cards envelopes and related items compared with last year.
Last week saw more than 4000 immigrants arriving in Baltimore. They mainly head to the West, processed by special trains on the B and O Line. At one point eight special trains carried over fifty cars between Baltimore and Chicago.
The Bishop of Ross states that Skibbereen riots have been greatly exaggerated by press coverage. He refuses to blame the Land League for the disturbances, warning that continued evictions will prevent peace in any part of the region.
From Sofia comes a telegram from the Zanecoff party to Gladstone urging England to aid their liberty threatened by dictatorship. They issue a proclamation to electors declaring the country in danger and demanding votes for men equal to the emergency to preserve liberties.
The Inman steamship Queen of Rome was launched at Glasgow from Barrow Shipbuilding Company's yard. She is the largest steamship afloat after the Great Eastern and is hoped to be the fastest transatlantic steamer. The owners aim for a seven day voyage from Queenstown to New York.
No 4 bonded warehouse and No 5 free warehouse on Furnace street Brooklyn owned by E Pierre Pont burned last week, causing about 450000 dollars in losses. Patrick Morrison, an employer, perished in the blaze. Thirteen engines aided by tugs and a ferryboat fought the fire but could not prevent extensive destruction.
Andrew D. Robeson, nephew of ex Secretary Robeson of New Jersey, was killed by a lightning strike near Hunnewell Kansas on the 11th. He had just returned from Hunnewell to his farm and was unsaddling his horse in the barn. His clothes were torn from his body, his watch chain melted, his face and body torn, and his horse died at once along with damage to one end of the barn.
Colonel R. G. Ingersoll and Colonel B. T. Grafton own half of the Ivanhoe mine in the Black Range District New Mexico. A recent strike by Gillette reveals an eighty seven foot shaft with a twelve foot pay streak averaging 80 to the ton in silver and gold. Ingersoll calls it the finest ore body found. the mine is bonded and no stock is for sale.
The department notes spring wheat plantings fell to 86 per cent of 1880 sown area, though condition remains as good as last year. Winter wheat nationwide at 76 per cent, with Michigan Indiana Illinois hit by chinch bugs and Hessian fly. California shows low condition due to cold and drought.
The Comptroller of the Currency reports Treasury papers for 5 percent bonds held by 720 banks totaling 103 million 493 thousand 350 dollars, 65 million 910 thousand 600 dollars未 received, with 222 withdrawals totaling 52 million 79 thousand 500 dollars. All 6 percent bonds totaling 45 million dollars have been received except four.
During the lunar eclipse on the 11th, Jno Taylor a Black man who had assaulted a white woman was taken from Greensborough jail by about 200 masked men. They tore down the jail fence and doors, overpowered guards, and unlocked his shackles before forcing him into a waiting buggy and riding off. Seven miles south of Reidsville in Rockingham County he was killed in a swift, quiet execution not widely known at Greensborough until after it occurred.
The Greenback Labor Convention held in Columbus, Ohio, nominated a full state ticket led by John Seitz of Seneca County for governor. The platform calls for abolition of National Banks, equal protection of labor and capital, regulation of railroad and telegraph rates, broad property taxation, graduated income tax, no suffrage restrictions, no army or militia expansion, and a vote by the people on an amendment to prohibit intoxicating beverages.
Philadelphia dispatch notes a committee of clergy and laymen, appointed by Bishop Potter, reviewed Rev. Crowley of New York who was found guilty of starving and punishing children. The panel suggests his penitentiary sentence may have been unwarranted and questions secular press condemnation, implying potential reinstatement.
The article notes that authorities weigh whether condemnation was warranted, with critics labeling the action a clear case of hounding. It highlights concerns over how the case was pursued and the implications for due process.
The Tarana struck the east coast between Port Chalmers and Dunedin, calm seas turned deadly as heavy surf and lack of life-saving gear doomed many. One lifeboat wrecked, others failed to aid, and the vessel settled on rocks, washing crew and passengers into the sea. By Saturday dawn, most women and children were lost, many bodies ashore and buried along the coast.
A Paris cablegram reports Foxhall, J. R. Keene's colt, winning the grand prize in the Paris race ahead of Tristan and Albion. The event drew massive crowds, with dignitaries including President Grevy and ex Queen Isabella in attendance. Foxhall, bred in Kentucky by A. J. Alexander, had prior showings at Newcastle and Epsom, and its victory followed a tight finish near the end.
A severe cyclone on the 12th hit portions of Iowa and Kansas causing widespread destruction. Houses were blown away near Rising Run and Guthrie County, with deaths including Erickson and his infant, and multiple injuries. In Kansas, Sumner and Sedgwick Counties suffered heavy damage, one two story house was overturned, and many crops ruined as the storm moved from Mulvane toward Olivet and Belle Plain with further fatalities and extensive property loss.
A witty remark contrasts flinging pills with swallowing them to endure pain. It suggests those who discard medicine avoid pain but may face death later, while those who take medicinal relief will endure distress again, labeled as a quip from Andrews' Queen.
Legal and transient advertisements cost 1.00 per square for first insertion with ten lines, 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly readers receive liberal reductions. Business cards up to six lines priced at 6.00 per year.
The passage outlines five-act dramatic structure with a murder or marriage as focal points. It explains the progression from initial events to obstacles and final resolution, and ends with a joke about sending for a near doctor when a man is very sick.
A wealthy man recalls his happiest moment living simply with his wife in a June evening. He recounts early wealth, a cottage near the city, and a loving dinner at home that felt like heaven. He now has wealth and status but cherishes that memory over all.
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