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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1882
Page
1
Army worm remedy recommended as a sure solution using Paris green and lime. The item surveys various reports from around the world, noting damages, battles, and political events, with a focus on notable incidents and reforms. Names, dates, and places are included to reflect the breadth of weekly news items.
Dispatches report fighting has begun between Zululand chiefs. Dabuko, brother of Cetawayo, with a large army, defeated chiefs Usibepan and Oham in a late engagement.
Four cowboys were killed on the border of the Indian Territory in a fight with the Indians. Dispatebes state that Mexican soldiers took twenty-seven Apache prisoners into a field and shot them dead. Irish Lads for Canadas Cardinal Manning has just shipped forty destitute Catholic boys from Liverpool for Can-
Seventy five people in Adrian Michigan were poisoned over two days after consuming a cheese brand. Microscopic tests revealed unrecognized parasites in the product. No fatalities reported. Separately, Obey Owens, a receiving teller at the Third National Bank in St Louis, was arrested for embezzling $150 000 from bank funds over several years.
Reports on crop conditions across Ohio Indiana and Kentucky show favorable prospects for wheat and potatoes while the corn crop looks weak due to cool wet weather and excessive rain. Strong entities include Ohio Indiana Kentucky wheat potatoes and corn.
Orrin A. Herbruck and Lewis Thomas of Canton Ohio fell from a trapeze during a circus performance in Cazenovia New York. Herbruck was killed outright and Thomas sustained probably fatal injuries.
The proposed programme for the new Egyptian Ministry includes general amnesty save for rioters. Relations with foreign powers to be conducted solely through the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
George C Miln, former Unity Church Chicago pastor who described himself as agnostic, becomes editor of the Chicago Alliance succeeding Professor Swing An artesian well reaching 266 feet at St Bernard near Qin donedi is drilled for manufacturing purposes and remains in development
Harvest yields in Kansas exceed prior estimates with wheat 25 to 40 bushels per acre and corn thriving amid record acreage. Reports describe three teen suicides in Danville over work hardship, a murder suicide in Hamilton Ontario, and a Sitka arrival of revenue steamer crew. An editor in Cleveland is fined for technical assault after a trial over accusations against Bishop Gilmour and his daughter.
In Charlotte North Carolina the wife of William Wade confronted her husband and Clarinda Huskly at neighbor George Deans house. She hurled stones from a window and Dean returned with a musket firing on her. She died from twenty five gunshot wounds as Wade and Dean were arrested and Huskly fled.
In the Senate on the 17th Hoar reported a substitute for a president duties bill and recommitted it. Conger pressed a House bill regulating passengers by sea to protect immigrants and enforce sanitary rules. it passed. A joint resolution reappropriating 375,000 to Southern mail contractors passed with amendments. House actions included pensions, immigration tax, pleuro-pneumonia eradiation, and a U S fisheries display fund.
The Senate received a Utah admission application and referred it while the House and Senate debated relief measures and monuments. A measure to reduce internal revenue taxes was advanced in the House, with White supporting lower tobacco duties and Morrison arguing for higher taxes on spirits and tobacco. Hatch backed an amendment to let farmers sell their own produce without licenses. The committees rose and the House adjourned.
Nilsson has engaged for a series of concerts in this country. The text notes other varied items including weather, labor, crime and political matters, reflecting a broad 19th century news digest.
Des Moines June 2 report lists total deaths at sixty four with many missing and 120 wounded in Grinnell Malcolm and other towns. Tornado path traced from Boone County to Mount Pleasant and Ames with widespread destruction, 1.5 thousand homeless, Grinnell property uninsured at over 400000, town college losses 75000, and a call for million-dollar aid nationwide.
A German wine merchant found selling adulterated wine has his stock condemned to destruction. About 4,000 casks were stored in his cellars and officials emptied the wine into Offenburg’s main gutter for twenty hours. Crowds gathered to scoop up the flowing wine, and police were forced to intervene to halt the unauthorized disposal.
The Louisville Courier-Journal questions Kentucky's boast of fairest women, fastest horses, and finest whisky by noting the state’s many and prolonged school commencements alongside its comparatively low education levels.
A room within Francklyncott Elberon where President Garfield died is closed and heavily draped. The chamber is gated and will remain so, preserving the somber scene described in contemporary reports.
A collection of brief, humorous anecdotes and observations from various papers. Topics range from superstition about lightning to daily life mishaps and social quirks. The tone is light, with quips about oysters health, a gruff doctor, a baseball fever in Buffalo, and a Sunday dog in a Troy factory. The piece includes exchanges about a latch-key amid busy social schedules and a four-year-old's kindergarten protest.
Reports on an Indiana inventor patenting a straw-stacking machine and notes on leather making from clippings. It discusses auditory localization errors, lead poisoning risks from filling burrs, deadly oleander parts, and oleander poisoning incidents. Also mentions meteoric iron properties, California windbreaks with coastal tree rows, and celestial chart adjustments due to equinoctial precession.
Legal and transient advertisements priced at 1 dollar per square for the first insertion and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Annual liberal reductions apply. Business cards up to six lines are inserted for 6 dollars per year.
Dudley Warner recounts a Palermo ruinous crypt tour of the Cappuccini convent. He describes subterranean corridors lined with coffins and mummies, desiccated corpses dressed in finery, and child figures in ornate clothing. He questions mortality and humanity as the sight provokes a mix of horror and disbelief.
Mr George Lane Fox of the Royal United Service Institution argues electricity will advance more in the near future. He cites Crystal Palace exhibits showing rapid progress and predicts incandescent lamps will replace arc lighting as costs drop and safety improves. He notes low tension supply reduces life risk and fire danger rests on carelessness.
The Pope has bestowed the golden rose on American General Sherman’s wife, a historic religious emblem granted for centuries. Mrs Sherman once collected Peter's Pence for the Pope, totaling $60,000, as reported by the New York Post.
The report notes that SAS ian hemp belts are about 10 percent stronger than Russian hemp belts, while cotton belts require about half the strain to match hemp belt strength, indicating comparative durability differences between materials.
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