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The Clermont Courier

Location

Batavia, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 14, 1884

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31 50 Per Year in Advance Fee Note

The fragment indicates a subscription price of 31.50 per year payable in advance with a penalty or note about currency and a missing percentage or amount if unpaid within the year.

Lost Fortunes and Six to Ten Million in Debts Unveiled

New York May 8 The Grant Ward and Fish firm faces liabilities estimated between 6 000 000 and 10 000 000 as deeds of assignment detail their financial dealings with the bank and Mr Fish The transfers include 300 000 by A S Grant jr to his father in law and 285 000 for Ferd Ward to buy Booth s Theater site while stock exchange scrutiny grows over Marine Bank s reserve and solvency concerns raised by depositors and The World of Friday.

New York Grant & Ward Messrs Grant, Ward Fish Marine National Bank A. S. Grant Jerome B. Chaffee Seventy-third Street Sixty-third Street Ferdinand Ward W. S. Warren Booth’s The Stock Exchange Marine Bank

Forest Congress Adopts Resolution on Forest Preservation

Washin cropped May 7 The American Forestry Congress met at the agricultural building with Commissioner Loring in the chair A paper by G W Miller of Illinois summarized questions before the convention Senators Miller of New York and Sawyer of Wisconsin spoke on forest preservation focusing on white pine The Congress approved a resolution praising New York State for protecting lumber at the Hudson and Mohawk headwaters and urged similar action nationwide It also recommended state forestry stations and commissions and urged Federal aid for forest care and development

Washincrox American Forestry Congress Agricultural Building Loring G. W. Miller Illinois Miller New York Sawyer Wisconsin Hudson Mohawk

Fifty ninth annual meeting of the American Tract Society

New York May 7 The fifty ninth annual meeting of the American Tract Society was held today. Sixty three missionaries visited 155 225 families while 24 619 Protestants did not attend evangelical preaching and 7 433 had no word of God. They addressed 4 614 religious meetings and circulated 133 463 volumes. Donations and legacies totaled 102 869 dollars, with other sources bringing total receipts to 357 470 dollars. Expenditures, including a mortgage reduction of 20 000 dollars, were 354 082 dollars.

New York The American Tract Society

Curious Freaks of a Crazy Man

Horace Choate of Boston representing Mutual Provident Association arrived in Ear, Pennsylvania in a crazy state after smashing Lake Shore train car windows. He was jailed after being boisterous, despite wealth, saying he has no friends and does not want any. He was en route to Adrian, Michigan for business. his friends were notified.

Ear, Pa Horace Choate Boston Mutual Provident Association of Boston Lake Shore Adrian, Mich

German explosives bill seeks police permit for production

Berlin daily report on a Bundesrath committee draft proposing that making selling importing or possessing explosives require police authorization. It also criminalizes illegal use or possession of explosives and public incitement to anarchy by speech placard or pamphlet with penalties of penal servitude or death if loss of life ensues.

Berlin Bundesrath

Rail crash near Decatur injures dozens on Wabash line

A broken rail ten miles south of Decatur Illinois on the St. Louis Division of the Wabash Road caused a passenger coach and two sleepers to derail into a ditch. About thirty passengers were injured, with twelve unable to continue, taken to Decatur for care provided by the railroad company.

St. Louis Decatur

Remains of Prof Samuel D Gross Taken for Cremation

The body of Prof Samuel D. Gross of Philadelphia is moved to Washington Pennsylvania for cremation as per his wishes in the crematory built by the late Dr Le Moyne. A separate report notes the steamer City of Portland wrecked on rocks at Owl's Head Maine while ferrying passengers between Portland and St Johns New Brunswick. All aboard were saved.

Philadelphia Samuel D. Gross Washington, Pa le Moyne Port Laxnd City of Portland Portland St. Johns N. B Owl’s Head Coast of Maine

Death by own action at Moxcre Sonp May 7

Wesley Rees, twenty, living near here, hanged himself from a tree using a buggy line tied to a limb. The line broke after the act. Excitement from reading dime novels and other literature is noted as a contributing factor.

Moxcre Wesley Rees

Dynamite Blast Kills Ten at Noble Factory

Ten women were killed and two more injured when dynamite exploded at Noble's factory in Ayrshire, authorities report a tragic accident with numerous casualties and a large rescue response underway.

Steamship Florida sinks with heavy loss near Quebec

Farther Point May 7 The steamship Titania from Glasgow reports 135 dead or missing from the State of Florida after a collision with the bark Ponema near New York. Of 167 aboard only 44 survived. survivors landed at Quebec as Titania ferried a few rescued souls.

Point Quebec Titania Glasgow State of Florida QuresBrc New York Ponema Chatham N. B Hetburn Theresa Christiana Louisa Cardiff

Wreck of State of Florida survivors recount chaotic boarding

At Montreal a crowd gathered at the wharf to watch the State of Florida wreck survivors be rescued from the Litania disaster. Passenger James D. Bennett recalls a chaotic collision with Ponema, a crew member dying in the boat, and captain’s late, inadequate response leaving many passengers without proper lifeboat access. He cites unsafe boats and cut lines as factors in the high death toll. The captain of the City of Rome allegedly failed to assist, despite being nearby as the ship sank within minutes.

Montreal State of Florida James D. Bennett Bennett Rome

Pennsylvania Murder Near Tidioute

A Tidioute special reports that George Jenne shot and killed William Ellis on Jenne’s premises during a dispute over a log chain. Ellis cursed Jenne, who then fired a shotgun into Ellis’s left breast, killing him instantly. Jenne surrendered and was jailed.

Pennsylvania George Jenne Wm. Ellis Jenne Ellis

Congress May Adjourn July 1

In Washington on May 8 the Democratic side debated adjournment timing. The Ways and Means Committee reportedly fixed July 1 as the target date, while several veteran members doubt any adjournment before August 1.

Congress WasHincTon House Ways and Means Committee

Legacy to a Dog in O'Connor Estate Adjudicated

In Philadelphia on May 7 Judge Ashman filed an adjudication of the account for Henry T. Coleman, administrator of Father Richard O'Connor’s estate. Among legacies listed, ten dollars weekly were set for the housekeeper who cared for the dog Sport. Judah P. Benjamin Dead in London at Paris address. Benjamin, once an attorney and ex Confederate Government member, died after years of declining health following a fall from a tramcar.

Philadelphia Ashman The Orphan’s Court Henry T. Coleman Richard O’connor Judah P. Benjamin London Mr. Benjamin Jena Paris

Advance in Prices of Barbed Wire Declared

A large meeting of barbed wire manufacturers in St. Louis presided by J. B. Oliver of Pittsburg decided to raise wire prices by a quarter of a cent because of higher raw material costs.

St. Louis J. B. Oliver Pittsburg

Cashier Missing at Fort Erie Defaulter Suspected

BurFraLo May 8. Joshua Phillips a Fort Erie Canada cashier for the Grand Trunk Railroad Company for years is missing. He is believed to be a defaulter.

BurFraLo Joshua Phillips Fort Erie Canada Grand Trunk Railroad Company

Giant 30 Foot Gun Cast for Government in Boston

In Boston on May 7 a 30 foot long gun weighing 212000 pounds and costing 28000 dollars was cast at the Boston Iron Works for the Government yesterday.

Boston Boston Iron Works

Martin Luther Statue Unveiling Planned in Washington

In Washington on May 8 the Memorial Lutheran Church announces the bronze Martin Luther statue recently received from Europe will be unveiled on May 21. A forger in Toronto is found dead in bed as officers came to arrest him after he failed to appear in court.

Martin Luther Washindon Europe Memorial Lutheran Church Toronto Lewis

Nihilist Prisoners Threaten Self Harm in Trial

During Tuesday’s trial of the Black Bank nihilists Dubetzki and his daughter they stabbed themselves. The father died and the daughter was left in critical condition. Also reported is the death of John F. Slater in Nonwich Connecticut who had donated $1,000,000 for education in the South.

Sr. Prererssure Black Bank Dubetzki John F. Slater Nonwich Conn John,f. Slater South

Two Men Die In Missouri Pacific Shop Explosion

A massive boiler blast at Parsons Kansas Missouri Pacific shops injures and kills two workers, wrecks No. 43 engine and a nearby stand, and damages the round-house amounting to about 35,000 dollars. Injured include Mike Mickenney and A Snow. others are bruised or missing. Slattery and Lamonte, both in their teens, are identified among the dead.

Parsons Kan Missouri Pacific Railroad Michaels Slattery Lafayette Lamonte Slattery Lamonte Mike Mickenney A. Snow George Tiff Geneva Ohio James Bly Terloo Round House

Brutal assault at Oliver's wire mill ends in potential murder

In PirrsBuRG on May 9 a German wire puller Fred Hogan and Hungarian assistant Simon Rice worked at a wire machine. A tangled wire angered Hogan who attacked Rice with a hammer striking him multiple times. Rice's skull was crushed and death expected. Hogan was arrested.

Pirrsburg Oliver Fred Hogan Simon Rice Hogan Rice

Shocking Murder For Robbery In Nebtaska City

The body of Thomas Leonard an Englishman thirty years old was found in a deep cut near the river in Nebtaska City Mississippi. His head was crushed and his face disfigured. Robbery is suspected. A certificate from his company commander of the Eighth Regiment of the British Army was found on him. A five hundred dollar reward is offered for the arrest of the murderers.

Nebtaska City Mes Thomas Leonard Eighth Regiment

A Female Miser Drops Dead in Philadelphia

In Philadelphia at Fourth and Arch streets Mary A. Jones, 40, died of heart disease in a spare room. Though seen as a miser, she pleaded poverty. A bank book showed $5,300 credit and two $100 bills found between its pages. She was said to hold large deposits with a private banker.

Philadelphia Mary A. Jones Fourth and Arch

Satt Sage Utah executes murder convict chooses shooting

Fred Hopt, alias Welcome, condemned for murder after three trials, is sentenced to death by shooting on June 13. He chose shooting, while his attorney filed notice of appeal. A stay could provoke lynching. the murder occurred four years ago and the case has cost the Territory.

Northwestern Crop Prospects Report Across Midwest Regions

Minneapolis May 9 Tribune specials and railroad reports from 33 Minnesota counties 12 in Dakota and 14 in Iowa indicate much improved crop prospects over last year. Seeding is complete and most grain is up with increased acreage especially in oats and barley. Corn planting begins in southern Minnesota and Iowa and will spread statewide next week.

Northwestern Minneapolis, Minn Tribune Minnesota Dakota Iowa

The Hissing of Gladstone at Health Exhibition

The Times reports Gladstone was hissed and groaned at the Health Exhibition in London. Discontent has grown since government policy in Egypt appeared nerveless and has been worsened by the treatment of Gordon.

Gladstone London the Times Egypt Gordon

Faraday Lays Cable Mines Then Heads to Cape Ann

Haifax reports the Faraday dropped the shore end of the cable at Cause Thursday and laid seventy mines at sea. The ship then connected with the shore end and began returning toward Cape Ann, with plans to pass the cable to that destination within the week.

Haifax Faraday Cause Cape Ann

Tragic Norphine Overdose After Domestic Upset in San Pablo

In San Pablo California a young husband Dr F Gardiner recently married took thirty grains of norphine last night. His wife swallowed a dozen grains of digitalis. The wife survived but the husband died. Domestic infelicity.

San Francisco F. Gardiner San Pablo Cal

Business Failures of the Week Reported

New York on May 9 reports seven day business failures by R R. Dun and Co. show 158 in the United States and 33 in Canada. The list includes varied industries as recorded by the firm.

New York Rr.“ G. Dun & Co United States Canada Tobi

Lightning strikes schoolhouse injuring two children in Reading

Reading, Pa May 9 A school house was damaged and two children injured by lightning at Rothrocksville. A Norwich Conn youth Mussell pretended to stab his friend Dennis Coughlin, but the weapon mishap left Coughlin seriously hurt with a stab wound near the heart. New Orleans women earn forty eight dollars monthly by keeping books and buying a home for themselves and mother. A Canadian official accepting money from a contractor is called simony. in the States the term perquisite applies. Northern Nebraska may become a premier bluegrass region and Eatonton Ga has had the same postmaster for forty nine years.

Reading Rothrocksville Norwich Conn Mussell Dennis Coughlin Coughlin Coughlan New Haven Register New Orleans

Senate Debates Public Building at Detroit and Shipping Bills

In the fifty-eighth Congress May 6 and 7 the Senate moves to limit Detroit public building costs to 900000, with further business on coinage, bills of lading, and a shipping bill. The House discusses tariff changes and monitors memorials and orders for the Marshall statue ceremony.

Washington Senate West Detroit Senate Committee On Bayard Cockrell Committee On Commerce Mye Mesers Riddleberger Harris Potomac River Frye Sherman Marshall Apse House Edmonds Hovuse E Broadhead Committee On Judiciary Stewart Foreign Ff South Central America Mexico United States Rosecrans Committee On Military Affairs Home House Perkins Indian Affairs Southern Kansas Railroad Company Woodward Library Mary Cutcheon Michigan Dibble Eat Ferry Willis Fitz John Porter Keifer Messers. Miller New York Plumb Houser Washington Monument Buckner Banking and Currency National Bankin Association House Calender Clardy Missouri River Commission Dorgan Patents Dolph Port Oxford Pacific Coast van Wyck Secretary of the Treasury Northern Pacific Congress Indiana Alaska Louisville Board of Trade Francis P. Blair Follett Committee On Appropriations District of Columbia Secretary of War Mississippi Valley

Gordon orders four executions for treachery in Khartoum

Advices from Khartoum report General Gordon has had four men shot for treachery while provisions run low. Offers to bribe natives for Gordon’s safety are refused as he declines escape on such terms. The material reads like a compact late 19th century dispatch with mixed local gossip and notices from Philadelphia and Geneva.

Cairo Khartoum Gordon

Serious accidents and crimes hit Ohio leaders and towns

A string of severe incidents from Ohio covers Hon. George H. Washburn suffering a deep leg wound from a heavy paper cutter knife sliding off a slanted table, engineer Richard Henderson breaking an arm, an escaped insane inmate David Phillips returning to Columbus, and a fraud-tinged widow Myra Hastings pursuing estate suits. Also deadly injuries from a brakeman’s death, barn crane collapses, and a College Hill home fire. plus crop outlooks and gas-boring progress.

George H. Washburn Elyria Republican Columbus Insane Asylum David Phillips Fostoria Columbus Phillips Bowling Green Pillars Myra Hastings Leonard Case Cleveland John Webber N. Y Youngstown Amos Mechlin James Franklin Jesse Growden Milton Lanes Lima Samuel F. Cary Cedar Avenue College Hill Rockwell Lawrence Keene Township Coshocton Christian Seifried Horton Pomeroy Isl Ohio United States Department Ohio Department Correau Ceeea Vinton County Ashford Paston Nelsonville W. D. Lee Bucyrus James Hannah Lloyd’s Stone George Barker Will Shaffer Harry Phillips Bains Thomas Urbana Barrett John Remsnider Caledonia Remsnider Minnit Milton Paulin Middleport Cincinnati Joseph Starkey Zanesville Joan Hoodsley Storrs Station Hamilton County Joan Goon Morgantown Mahoning County TuHer Columbiana Frank Ross Canton W. B. Davis Brewster Coal Company Akron Hester E. Nevis S. QO. Calvin Palmyra Portage County

Virginia Recruits Liberal Coalition to Republican Party

The Richmond Whig reports the Liberal Coalition of Virginia, formed in 1879 and renamed the Republican party of Virginia, aligning with Republican President, Senate, and National Committee. It claims mass Republican support, condemns Bourbonism, and vows to nominate and elect the next GOP ticket, asserting the South has broken from Democratic and Bourbon rule.

Boros Party Virginia Sprint Bourm National Republican Party Eee Republican Party of Republican Administration Republican Senate Republican National Committee Bourbon Democracy Dawson Conman Free Schools United States Washington Republican Masses Taney Chicago Willey Grant South Richmond Whig

Dana to Nominate Snickers for President in Retaliation

A caller asks Mr. Dana to help ruin Snickers publicly and bury him in oblivion while Dana agrees to nominate him for President as vengeance. The piece notes a Treasury report revealing 29 million in small change currency in the U S Treasury amid related chatter.

United States

Democrats Reconsider Tariff As 1884 Campaign Looms

Two years ago Democrats anticipated a strong House majority. Now they are divided over tariff strategy, with Bayard favoring Morrison bill popularity and Tilden urging tariff emphasis. The piece critiques past platform concessions, notes souring morale, and mocks optimistic letters from Chicago on Providence and the party’s future.

Chicago Bayard Morrison Tilden Congress Cox Chicago Letters Jeff Davis Providence Faith Lhachange

Democracy in Louisiana A New Orleans election turmoil noted

The Detroit paper cites violence and ballot box stuffing in New Orleans during the Louisiana state election. Officials were expelled from polling rooms as ballots were allegedly filled for the regular Democratic faction. The City and Governor faced inaction while counts were delayed, with claims of eight to ten thousand stuffed Democratic tickets. A broader pattern feared for November is warned. Also Paris reports the death of Amie Leonie Baronne Daumesnil at ninety two, mentioning her Bank of France lineage and her husband General Daumesnil.

New Orleans Louisiana Ager Deg Istrar South Detroit Post and Tribune Paris Amie Leonie Baronne Daumesnil Garat Bank of France Despierre Daumesnil Vincennes Lutzen Chicago Tribune

No Swinging Signs and Steps in City Plan

An Eastern city paper notes upcoming restrictions including banning swinging signs telegra phs suck stexteapestan Pease locks hitching posts projecting door steps and yawning gellar ways as part of street design measures.

Milwaukee Sentinel

Advertising rates for legal and transient notices

Advertising rates listed for legal and transient notices at one dollar per square for the first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. A yearly reduction offered. Business cards up to six lines available for six dollars per year.

De monetization of silver coinage in England

Report notes from England claim Hottano authorizes demonetization of twenty five million florins worth of silver as monetary conditions improve. The action would remove a significant portion of silver in circulation, while UK parcels post shows poor performance with eight months of operation yielding £155,000 receipts against £340,000 forecast.

Hottano England Postal Service

Oldest Jaffrey resident Latty Hemainewar dies at 94

Mrs Latty B Hemainewar the oldest inhabitant of Jaffrey Massachusetts died recently in her ninety fourth year leaving six daughters thirty eight grandchildren ninety great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren

Unknown Hyprorxosta Affects Australian Dog Imports

The article notes Hyprorxosta as unknown among Australian dogs, suggesting this ignorance helps explain why New South Wales and other colonies ban importing dogs from Europe and America.

Hyprorxosta Australia New South Wales Europe America

Reverend Hickmott Imports Walnuts to Scatter Free

The Rev. J. W. Hickmott of St. Joseph Missouri has imported large quantities of red filberts and kept calnuts and English walnuts to scatter free through Missouri. He expects to be thanked by the boys and girls of many generations yet to live.

J. W. Hickmott St. Joseph Missouri

Analysis of Krakatoa ash by Dr Reusch

Dr Reusch analyzes Krakatoa volcanic ash and finds main components as ordinary pumice stone. Fragments range from microscopic powder to more than one millimeter in length.

Reusch Krakatoa

New York Jury Duty Pool Narrowed by Exemptions

Among 182 581 registered voters in New York only 15 450 can be held for service. Exemptions include 30 000 for physical disability and 70 000 for lack of property. Other exemptions cover firemen militiamen and related cases.

New York

Prize ring won by Philadelphia baby in Zarate challenge

A Philadelphia infant claimed the diamond ring offered by Lucia Zarate the Mexican midget to any baby over one day old whose finger it would fit. The winner was twenty one days old at the time of claim while Zarate is twenty one years old.

Philadelphia Lucia Zarate

Navy Asked to Rescue Rainier Crew in South Pacific

A request to the Secretary of the Navy asks for a naval vessel to reach and rescue the shipwrecked crew of the Rainier, from Bath, Massachusetts, lost January 5. Survivors are marooned on a remote island in the Asrael group, about three thousand miles from the mainland.

Secretary of the Navy Bath Mass Rainier South Pacific Asrael

Paris Cobweb Bonnet with Metallic Netting and Insect Adornments

A Paris fashion note describes a cobweb bonnet using fine metallic netting over silk, adorned with fixed flies on the wire as if walking into a parlor. Front displays lace rolls or a bow with a butterfly resting, while a dinner for Arctic expedition officers features a bill of fare in French.

Paris

Chicago Packers Sail for Europe to Open Bremen Pork Plant

Two packers from Chicago plan a Bremen pork-packing house using native hogs since American imports are unavailable. If successful, similar German establishments may follow in other cities. In Lawrence Massachusetts a pupil’s excuse for tardiness reveals his aunt’s death after a pulpit’s house call. The family were at work in the mill.

Chicago Europe Bremen Germany Lawrence Mass

Burials at Sea and Dynamic Explosions Reported

A Scotch gentleman dies of consumption aboard a steamer near New York and is buried at sea, prompting a World remark on shipboard body handling. Elsewhere in Greenville two dynamite charges are fired from a twelve pounder cannon, one across New York bay and the other falling short. Also listed are counts of American tree varieties and a plan for a national woods collection at the New York Museum of Natural History with logs being prepared in the central peninsular shipyard.

New York Greenville New York Bay United States

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