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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1885
Page
1
In brief items, Parliament nervously watches internal machinations while New York faces mass unemployment. Ireland yields small tobacco pipes, Minnesota enacts a high license law and murder carries the death penalty. Reports cover empire pages, Elm plantings in Connecticut, and 1884 wheat exports with projections for year-end totals.
A Wisconsin jury awarded a woman one cent after a man kissed her without consent. The ruling is criticized as setting a trivial value on a kiss and implies a perilous precedent for public indiscretion. The writer bluntly suggests women defend against unwanted advances with a cowhide.
A doctor warns that wholesale use of smelling salts linked to fashionable smelling bottles will harm olfactory nerves. It may cause headaches sore throats and red noses. The critic says the smelling bottle must go.
After a fire destroyed letter boxes in Leek New York residents improvise with cans and produce as mail receptacles. J E Buttons bears a large button while others use coal pieces wood corn cob or hemlock knots to mark boxes. Mr Drake identifies mail by Mallard Duck head.
The notice lists rates for legal and transient advertisements at 61 per square ten lines for the first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. A liberal reduction is offered to advertisers by the year. Business cards up to six lines cost $6 per year.
Judge Robert Logan of Whiteside collapsed and died on the House stairs in Springfield while en route to the chamber. He had heart disease and could not endure excitement. The legislature delayed U.S. Senate balloting and set Whiteside County elections for March 21 to fill Logan’s seat.
In Ireland a possible royal welcome to the Prince of Wales triggers expected counter demonstrations. France agrees to expel certain German Socialists at Germany’s request. Paris dynamite reports appear dubious. British 1886 army estimate pegged at 17,820,700 pounds. Lydian Monarch foundered sighted in good shape with troops bound for Loudon. Eleven Irish tenants evicted in Limerick County amid riot controls. France to build Tonkin railroad. Haiphong reinforcements reach 5000. England warns France on contraband. French prepare to enforce. Three Hungarian earthquakes. Hugo’s eighty third birthday marked in France. Congo Conference ends. reports of Catholics slaughtered in China. French deputies hike flour duties. English School of Gunnery explosion kills three, maims several. American Admiral demands two Americans released at Tangier. Duke of Cumberland offered Brunswick throne if Hanover claim renounced. Khartoum slaughter confirmed by imprisoned nun. garrison and citizens total 2000 killed. Parliament debates motions to censure government.
In Mount Sterling Kentucky on February 25 crowds gathered as the condemned Ashland murderer William Neal was marched to a train bound for the execution scene after Lieutenant Governor Hindman refused a respite or commutation. Neal, shackled and resolute, told the crowd he is innocent and asked for forgiveness as reverends urged confession. He said he hopes to meet the townspeople in heaven and thanked Mount Sterling for its kindness.
New York reports two main items: a proposed Cleveland cabinet includes nine members led by Bayard Manning La mar Gar land Whit ney Endicott and Vilas with two New York places and rationale tied to East South ties and personal ties. Separately an account from Babylon Long Island describes a hunter wounded by a giant eagle, the bird captured after a struggle, and taken home alive awaiting further disposition.
Lieutenant-Governor Hindman grants a thirty day respite for William Neal in Frankfort, announced February 2.
In Washington on February 27 the two houses moved appropriation bills forward, reducing the risk of an extra session. The Senate has four bills left the sundry civil, river and harbor, general deficiency, and fortifications. The House only needs to pass the fortifications bill, with the military academy act already law.
In Havifax on February 27 the Nova Scotia Legislature heard Mr Power give notice to question Canada’s right to impose a flour duty. A subsequent resolution claimed union with Canada harmed Nova Scotia and urged appealing to the Imperial authorities for permission to withdraw from the Dominion.
Providence RI February 26 The Prohibition party convened to nominate a state ticket with strong platform against intoxicants. George H. Slade of Providence runs for Governor with William B. Franklin of Newport as Lieutenant Governor Edwin Metcalf Providence as Attorney General Frederick A. Warner Bristol as Secretary of State and John G. Perry South Kingston as Treasurer.
A Korti dispatch reports the Kamsin winds already blowing over Sudan in February. The hot blast brings blinding sand like needles. troops shelter face down, and cavalry horses suffer severe injuries requiring destruction. Expected to last about a month.
In Bern police raided suspected houses after a decision to expel anarchists from Switzerland. Wholesale arrests followed with ten notorious anarchists seized in the city.
The platform for the President’s oath and address rises on the Capitol steps, starting yesterday and to be finished tomorrow. It is the largest yet, level with the portico middle landing, extending about thirty feet, with a semi circular front and a three foot rail. A four by six by one foot high center plank will hold the President for the oath. The front is to be festooned and decorated.
A missionary organ reports that several hundred Catholics in Yun Nan were massacred on secret orders from the Chinese Viceroy, with the event tied to February 26 and mass violence across the region.
Geo Thompson G B Hewett and L E Clements were arrested in St Louis and sent to Springfield Missouri for examination before a U S Commissioner. They face charges of taking forty registered letters containing about $1500 from a postal car on the St Louis San Francisco Railroad at Pierce City Missouri.
February 25 report notes a high license liquor bill passed in the House and was supported by a Senate majority, yet it failed in the Senate at last. Surprised by the defeat, authorities say steps will be taken to revive the measure.
New York February 26 Judge Wilde ruled in the case of Justus Schwab the noted Socialist. He faces two charges inciting riot at a Socialist meeting about a month ago and resisting arrest by police. Schwab is held for trial in 2500 bail.
William Jackson Moore of Triadelphia Pennsylvania sought legal aid in Prirrssurnée. He alleges he was forcibly detained in a cellar for eleven years and his property defrauded. He escaped during his step-daughter and her husband’s absence, against whom charges are brought.
A nine person coasting party in PrrrssurGH suffered severe injuries when their sleigh collided with a wagon. Three girls and two boys were badly hurt in the crash witnessed near the town.
From this city an additional 70000 dollars was forwarded to the King of Spain for earthquake relief. The act signals ongoing support for victims and international aid coordination.
From Soudan February 25 reports say the Madir of Taka and the Shukria tribe routed the Hadendawah in an attack on friendly tribes aiding Kasala garrison. An estimated 3,600 Hadendawah were killed, among them Sheikh Moosa, worsening Kasala’s shortage of food and ammunition and raising surrender prospects if relief is delayed. The Weavers Loom a Ppina Riot. Philadelphia February 25 about five hundred striking weavers and supporters threatened scabs at Leedom's Mills Kensington. Police protected workers, but rioters hurled ice bricks and tin cans. Captain Quirk was cut, Officer Vetter knocked down. Four rioters were jailed. district remains tense with expected trouble tomorrow.
Burlington Vermont February 25 Mary A. Fletcher of this city who died yesterday leaves $200000 to the Mary Fletcher Hospital in her will.
Across February 23 to 27 the Senate and House advanced land and postal bills, afloat with appropriations for transportation of foreign mails, river and harbor projects, naval and civil budgets, and a silver dollar coinage guideline. The Oklahoma lands opening and pension actions dominated debate.
A fashionable Hartwell, Georgia youth adds a postscript asking the girl to give a negro boy a biscuit for carrying the note. She replies by sending biscuits until prepaid postage is covered. A cold wave follows between the couple and the C. O. D. youth.
Norwich Conn February 25 Webb and Roach bank defaulters pleaded guilty five years each in a federal case.
New York reports that the pedestrian Noremac completed a 100 day effort covering 5,100 miles. He finished tonight marking a remarkable endurance feat in long distance walking.
New York on February 25 reports that O'Donovan Rossa is drafting a manifesto and preparing an extensive lecture tour across multiple venues.
An Indian named Tsi-ung-cheung swam the Missouri River at Bis marck North Dakota with buckskin trousers and his left hand tied behind him. Temp well below freezing with ice forming. He completed the feat and won the bewitching daughter of a fellow scalper as his bride.
The document cites 83 779 or militia in the United States with 6 080 608 men available for military duties.
State capital dispatch reports several measures failing or advancing in the legislature. The Kohler Pipe Line bill fell in the Senate while a Cincinnati Hospital pest-house sale bill moved, and Cleveland borrowing authorization for Scott law deficit advanced. Senate and House actions across February 21 to 25 covered taxation, labor, insurance, and public debt with multiple bills introduced or passed.
Reports include Henry Jennings mangled by machinery in Akron. a Dayton Screwworks boiler explosion. a Nashville private residence dynamited. engineer Charles Papb Bock fatally run over in Youngstown. Ohio Supreme Court upholding savings and loan statute. suits over 1875 gasoline explosion. Norwalk resident Imm LAKE dies of heart disease. John R. McLean named receiver of Cincinnati and Eastern Railway. seven Cleveland boys arrested for safe blowing. Mrs LINTNER smothered by gas in Columbus. ex-Judge A G W CARTER dead. Cincinnati jobs report: twenty thousand unemployed. ALEX W. PAGGETT shoots himself in Springfield. Charity Sullivan frozen to death at Chambersburg. Prohibitionists in Springfield fielding a full ticket. W J CHAMBERLAIN notes frost damage to Ohio wheat and fruit. Gro W DANIELS swindler to penitentiary. Cincinnati Council approves Walnut Hills sewerage. seventeen Baptist converts immersed near New York pond. J osan Eiler killed by train in Bucyrus.
A National Republic editorial lambasts the Democratic majority in Congress as incompetent and divided. It argues Republican leadership would push bills, while Cleveland leaders lag, detailing failures in Ways and Means, Appropriations, Banking and Currency, Judiciary, and Foreign Affairs, and praises John H. Reagan for a redeeming railroad bill.
The Democratic President elect argues for frequent changes in the national administration, a view once popular with the party when Republicans held power. The piece notes Democrats may favor a liberal interpretation now that they will lead, while hinting that a change roughly every twenty-five years could seem frequent to them. A South American billiards game is described with eight by sixteen foot tables, balls of thirteen to sixteen ounces, and cues weighing two to three pounds.
A critical editorial argues the Democratic party trades influence for cabinet positions and offices. It cites Wisconsin Illinois Michigan and Vermont pledges to secure cabinet posts, warns this governance by favors undermines national welfare, and suggests venality pervades party strategy and leadership.
A Boston Journal quote notes a fifty-year life spends six years in sleep six in work two thousand days eating eight hundred walking five hundred days on recreation and amusement nearly nine years wasted. Colorado Springs boasts extreme temperature variation fifty percent chance to beat that with a seventy two degree swing in four hours.
A historical overview explains sweet potatoes are not true potatoes, their Convolvulus batatas lineage, and their use as a nutritious tuber crop. It describes warm climate growth, early spring hot beds, slips propagation, bed formation, cultivation, harvesting, and storage in potato houses with temperature control to prevent decay.
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