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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1884
Page
1
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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