21 May 1884
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1884
Page
1
In Kry May 15 Judge Richard Reid, former appellate district candidate, shot himself in Judge Brock’s law office after a severe headache and mental distress. He left a note saying Mad Forgive me dear wife and love to the boy, discovered on a desk.
In Cincinnati on May 16 a Common Pleas case concerns the estate of William H Woods and his wife lost with the steamer Asis. Survivors D A Finkis and Christy Ann Morrison recall their peril and later marriage. Insurance details and codicil affect a $44,000 dispute with E S Wayne administrator.
A camp train carrying laborers and a westbound iron ore freight on the Baltimore and Ohio line near Connellsville collided. Fifteen died, twelve roasted alive, and eleven were seriously injured as wreckage burned.
New York May 14 The Stock Exchange panic proves disastrous since 1873 with Metropolitan Bank suspended and six brokers' firms failing. Values fall tens of millions while money climbs to three percent. Only Hatch & Foote and O M Bogart & Co are large brokers affected. compared with 1869 disasters, this panic is milder but leaves lasting impact.
The Pa pachoag mill in Worcester owned by George Compton and run by Joseph Sargeant Jr burned to the ground. It produced woolen yarns. Loss about 150000 dollars with 112000 dollars insured. Eighteen to twenty workers injured leaping from the building. several may die as more bodies feared in the ruins.
In Wasmindox on May 14 the Senate heard a heated exchange. Van Wyck severely criticizes Blair for an action in the committee and Blair retorts that Van Wyck is mistaken or a falsifier. The President repeatedly calls Blair to order.
Curran May 15. W Bogan Cash, famed fugitive murderer of Marshal Richards, was killed this morning while resisting arrest by a posse led by Deputy Sheriff King. One posse member was slightly wounded. one associate of Cash was seriously wounded.
Laxcastar O May 14 Samuel Detrow of Dumontsville in this county hanged himself in his dooryard last night. Neighbors found him around midnight. He was described as having a religious temperament.
The Emperor accepted Bismarck’s resignation from the Presidency of the Cabinet and named Boetticher as his successor. Richards Muckle of the Philadelphia Ledger is reported to become U.S. Minister to Berlin. In Cairo, secret emissaries will seek contact with General Gordon via alternate routes as Khartoum relief forces move forward. Stadt Theater in Vienna burned, roof collapse and chandeliers fall, several injured. cause linked to painters’ carelessness.
Reports of Senate and House actions from May 13 to 16, 1884 include grants of General Grant to the retired list with full rank, pensions proposals, river and bridge construction authorizations, Alaska and Dakota governance bills, and discussions on treasury measures. The record notes adjournments, committee work, and presidential boundary (US-Mexico) funding recommendations.
The Secretary of the Treasury says the department will redeem bonds due June 20 1884 with interest to presentation. Treasury assets total 428 310 918 including gold and silver holdings and currency. Comptroller notes banks are unusually strong with large reserves and says a general panic is unlikely, unlike 1873.
Wash Hindon May 16 Several Representatives from the Pacific Coast have received inquiries about redemption of trade dollars and possible legislation this session. Most replies doubt success due to Senate opposition and some say redemption will not exceed bullion value. Speculators unload holdings while hostility to the scheme grows. Silver advocates note government payment at 100 cents seems unfair while bullion owners fetch market weight value.
The Farmer's Review notes reports from 700 points across Ohio Indiana Michigan Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota Dakota Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri. Illinois Indiana Ohio and Michigan show dismal winter wheat prospects, while Kansas reports a very promising crop. With Kansas Nebraska reserves to themselves, old corn receipts look unchanged and not likely to rise.
At the annual meeting of the Board of Fire Underwriters thirty five companies represented. President Hold reported property destruction by fire over 100 million dollars. He urged legal measures to curb risk. Premium rates rose. The Incendiarism Committee showed 149 431 dollars in rewards from 124 companies, nine rewards paid and ten convictions made. Fire insurance capital totaled 80 544 653 dollars.
St Louis report says Frank McGinnis weighmaster for Missouri Pacific Railway and partner J B White were arrested for defrauding the railroad with false weights. McGinnis allegedly underweighed cars by 10 000 pounds and split the difference with shippers. White reportedly confessed and implicated others including a major lumber firm that saved about 7000 dollars in freight over nine months. Both men released on 2500 dollar bonds.
Frank Ward, a peddler, was murdered after dining with Polk at a Center Point area home on April 12. Kuykendill and two Polk brothers were arrested. Kuykendill confessed. Ward's friends planned vengeance but Howard County citizens intercepted the convoy and hanged all three suspects without a trial.
A child of F. B. Ward of Alegheny City died after a clerk at Louis Seitz's drug store in PriTstpure Pennsylvania gave morphine instead of calomel. The clerk fainted upon learning of the death, and doctors fear the shock may prove fatal to him as well.
A high pressure boiler exploded in the Pennsylvania Railroad machine shops at Awat Toona Penn. this afternoon blowing fireman Hayden O'Hara to pieces. Another fireman is still missing and nine or ten workers were injured. The cause remains a mystery.
London May 16. Queen Victoria negotiates buying the Villa Nevada at Cannes where Prince Leopold died. She plans to convert the property into a convent and chapel in his memory.
May 16 Janesville reports a heavy frost across the region damaging fruit and crops in low lands with water freezing in many spots. Local farms suffer early season losses as temperatures dipped.
Yesterday morning in Cincinnati Harry Clark a painter fell from a sixth story building to the pavement. His legs and arm were broken and his neck crushed by a breaking ladder hook. The accident occurred when the hook supporting the ladder failed.
Washington on May 16 reports the cost of printing the recent tariff debates in the Congressional Record is estimated to exceed ten thousand dollars.
A treaty was signed at the State Department by Siamese Envoy Prince Nares Varariddhi and Secretary Frelinghuysen regulating liquor traffic in Siam when conducted by American citizens.
Charles O Conor died yesterday afternoon after a clear minded final exclamation My God He died as the tale ends and the remains sail today for New York This is the first tidings of their fate
A Berks County woman endures a grim sequence tied to her birthday as her sister died on the date two years ago, her youngest daughter perished last year, and this year her eldest daughter also died on the same date, as reported by the Philadelphia Press.
Dr Cyrus Edson of the New York Sanitary Bureau seized 1000 pounds of spoiled cocoanuts at the C Gardiner cannery and sent them to the offal dock. Gardiner planned candy cakes for sale to school children at one cent each. A postmaster in Nutt New Mexico sent Washington a resignation note as the town declines.
The Reichstag approved a bill regulating the manufacture sale and use of Deetaneeda and adjourned until June 1 amid ongoing debates. The record notes a fatal shooting tied to the unrest, with details limited by incomplete text.
A South Carolina man asserts a chalk mark around a barrel of sugar as a cure for ante in a claim rejected by the Patent Office. He protests the decision, angered by the patent denial reported by the Washington Star.
A man on Whitehall accosts a store dummy in a comic, drunken tirade. He claims the figure is his old friend and mocks its clothes, then reels into a police embrace as bystanders watch the scene unfold.
The Cleveland Leader notes sugar is a universal article of food and a body fuel but warns excess harms health and appetite. It mentions sugar mites in brown sugar and lists sources for fat, heat, muscle, brain, and nerves, including fats, grains, meat, dairy, eggs, fish, and produce.
The Blue Book shows British and United States officials discussing cattle disease. Reports say foot and mouth disease is not native to America and outbreaks nationwide stem from cattle cargoes imported from England, per the Chicago Witness.
Abbreviated fragment notes Capg¢l branding interviewers as intellectual mosquitoes, reflecting a critical, satirical take on press questions and reporters.
In Ashland two men Grorch Horn and William Gibbons await execution for murder of Henry Williams after a morphine dose saved by medical aid. A flagman on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad near Alliance is fatally injured after sleeping on the track. Cincinnati plans replacement of the Tyler-Davidson Fountain freestone with Quincy granite. Buckeye sprouts planted at the State House come from a tree in Cass Township 1801. The Gilbert Station theft netted $60 and a watch. A Hollander, Joan Hoek, dies from injuries at Brush Electric works. Accidents, drownings, and a 105 year old parade of life feature in Ohio notices.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections released a report on Copiah County outlining a conspiracy by young Democrats to drive opponents from the polls, with killings and passive state officers aiding the events. The panel urges federal action to protect voting rights under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and calls for further investigations into Mississippi elections and possible removal of representatives tied to crime or denial of suffrage.
The piece argues Republicans will likely win the next president with growing confidence and unity, while Democrats face waning prospects. It notes a sharp shift from two years ago when Arthur’s presidency left the party fractured and the opposition hopeful, now reversed into demoralization for Democrats and bold optimism for Republicans.
The two year shift in politics is credited to President Arthur's conservative and dignified leadership. The National Republican praises his balanced appointments and impartial recognition of Republican elements. It says his policy healed dissension, earned public respect, and made Republican success possible.
In the Burlington Hawkeye critique, five months into the current session, the Democratic majority bears responsibility for stalled legislation. The Senate is waiting on the House to catch up, with hundreds of measures pending. Critics decry wasted economy rhetoric and urge prompt passage of appropriation bills to keep government moving.
The Detroit Post and Tribune notes how the Democratic party punishes deviation, citing Henry Watterson as a target for allegedly misreading revenue reform and tariff reform pledges. It recalls Pendleton’s Civil Service Reform misreadings and warns that party leadership demands discipline and conformity in presidential year politics.
Two colonies of ants lived near each other until a conflict arose. Neither side admitted fault and one colony hired an elephant to destroy the rival’s house. The elephant slashed and trampled both colonies, leaving them in dust. Detriot Free Press notes a moral: hire carefully and keep your own dog tied.
The Clermont Courier lists rates for advertising and legal notices. First insertion priced per square with ten lines, fifty cents for each additional insertion. A yearly liberal reduction applies to advertising. Business cards limited to six lines cost six dollars per year.
A chalk mark around sugar level is noted as a cure for anta. India consumed 94 008 tons of petroleum last year, Japan 56 000 and China 82 000 tons. Montrosa threatens secession as claims are unmet by the Dominion Government. Ourwa, a prolific writer, produced about twenty five novels in twenty years. Last year dead letter office received 4 440 822 mail pieces with cash and checks totaling 1 639 000 dollars.
Washington D C appropriated $18 000 for tree planting this year. There are now 52 growing trees along the streets of Washington.
Harvard and Columbia College offer courses for youth outside formal classrooms. Amherst College plans a new library building described as convenient and elegant. The library houses 43 000 volumes with an annual book purchase budget of 4500 dollars.
The German government forbids transit of early fruits and vegetables from France citing the aim to prevent phylloxera importation. This action imposes controls on cross border food shipments amid agricultural pest concerns.
A white rat owned by a Porta Mouth man escaped its cage and lifted a $5 bill from the sleeping owner. The recovered note showed extensive destruction, offering little detail about the incident.
A watch maker named Case from Franklin Pennsylvania has crafted a perfect working locomotive measuring six and a quarter inches in length and weighing a few pounds. The tiny engine will be shown at the New Orleans Exhibition.
A new reading of English law makes a poor man liable to jail for plucking a roadside daffodil. The rule bans any wild flower plucking that could be mistaken for garden or hothouse varieties, tightening penalties for common foragers.
The estate of Daniel Webster in Marshfield Massachusetts is advertised for sale. The former home was burned years ago and replaced by a more modern and beautiful house while the law office remains as it was.
In proportion to population the United States has nearly three times as many doctors as England and nearly four times as many as France yet the public in this country remains sturdy and resilient.
English stock journals lament that the best breeding horses are being bought by Germans, Russians and Americans. England receives a few Kentucky bloods as a partial return, but will increasingly source sires from this and other nations.
A Baltimore American note remarks that Paris is embracing edible adornments for hats with vegetables like cabbages and spring onions. It suggests artistic choices dominate and such veg themed headpieces could become social statements.
The article notes a quarter of a million dollars raised in New York for General Grant is held in trust for him. It states his New York house and Long Branch cottage are legally his wife’s property, so Grant is not impoverished by the Marine National Bank and Grant & Ward failures.
The Pocahontas Virginia mine disaster in March killed 112 men. Officials blame coal dust on the floors mixed with blasting gunpowder, noting the dust ignites quickly and can cause a sudden, violent explosion.
A young man walking home with two young women in Bath Maine admitted he could not say no. One of the girls seized the remark and proposed to him after the other was dropped at her door, and he accepted.
Pere Moranod died at Megève in Upper Savoy leaving fifteen children sixty five grandchildren and thirty one great grandchildren. Reportedly the government proposes awarding a medal to the family due to depopulation concerns in France.
Dr. Almond argues that covering the head outdoors and uncovering indoors injures health by making people draught sensitive and prone to colds. He says boys with heads covered outside gain more ventilation indoors than those who go bareheaded when at play.
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