23 May 1883
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1883
Page
1
Advertising notes state rates for legal and transient ads at $1 per square for the first insertion and 50 cents for each additional insertion. A yearly liberal reduction is offered. Business cards up to six lines can be inserted for $6 per year.
The article reports a Department inquiry into Deputy U S Marshals who drew pay for incidental expenses never incurred and notes the South as a region where this practice was common. It also mentions administrative changes, including James F. Meline becoming Chief Clerk of the U S Treasurer's Office after Chas Lyman's resignation.
The Glasgow to Carlisle mail train collided with a Carlisle bound train on the night of the 14th. Seven people were killed and several injured. In Dublin, Joe Brady was executed for Cavendish and Burke murder the same morning with about ten thousand gathered outside the jail, Brady remaining composed and silent. Nearly all Dublin tradesmen received a circular titled An Analysis of the Special Juries.
A roundup from the period reports gamblers and lottery dealers in New York pleading guilty to loitering and facing minor prison terms. Federal district realignments may shrink Internal Revenue Districts to ninety one by July. A powerful cyclone path hits Racine Wisconsin demolishing thirty five houses and killing four. Northern Illinois and Chicago suffer wind damage. The Tennessee Episcopal Diocese plans a division pending convention approval. The steamer Granite State burned in Long Island Sound with five lives lost and a passenger drowned. Minister Bingham’s Japan post resignation looms. a Mississippi duel ends with Brame killing Byrd. Jerk Dunn is cleared of murder in Chicago. Lupya Pinkham dies in Lynn after vast ad spend. Curley hanged for Phenix Park murders in Kilmainham Jail. A Beebe Arkansas farmer dies in a lightning storm with his son injured.
Cincinnati invalid Annie McClorey fatally burned after a lamp overturned in her home. In Jackson County, John Wesley Jackson hanged for the September 30, 1882 murder of Mr Hull. A railroad bridge worker, Hues McGinnis, died after a fall near Columbus. Julia Schaeffer survived a suicide attempt amid domestic abuse claims. Ohio patents issued include electric locomotive headlights and lamp improvements. Several poisoning Pie incidents in Cleveland prompt investigations. Local ordinances target Sunday baseball. a switchman Fred Munz killed at Lake Shore Railroad. Mahler of Cleveland dies by suicide after job loss. Wesley Chapel in Columbus suffers fire damage. Irish National League forms in Cincinnati. other national notes on lakes tides and Democratic party critiques.
Charlee Bucholz of New Haven Connecticut outpaced John Deitter in a March April penny contest. Bucholz collected 16475 pennies while Deitter gathered 16314. Deitter forfeited four kegs of lager two boxes of Sante and a supper for seventy five friends.
The Khedive of Egypt has voluntarily given up 15000 annually from his civil list to fund indemnity claims. Despite this, he retains 735000 for himself and 600000 for his family, keeping substantial wealth and public poverty in Egypt.
The National Republican argues the Democratic party faces disintegration over tariff policy. It cites Lamar Voorhees Bayard Randall McDonald and other leaders, noting sharp contradictions between protectionist and free trade positions. It predicts the party will split and fail to handle the crucial issue.
Harper's Weekly surveys the long record of Democratic shifts on tariff policy from 1860 to 1884. It argues the party seeks power rather than principle, with Speaker likely guiding the 1884 platform. It warns free trade risks a party collapse unless Civil-service Reform joins the tariff revision effort.
A Vienna company has been formed to conduct general window washing including scrubbing house fronts vestibules mirrors and show cases. With proper guarantees such an enterprise could be profitable in a large city.
A Birkenhead employer discharged every Irish worker in his service after alleged outrages attributed to that nationality. The move reflects wartime tension and ethnic hostilities impacting employment and community relations.
A movement among New York and Pennsylvania Republicans aims to heal party divisions and reorganize on a harmonious platform for the next national campaign. The effort notes both states' population, past defeats due to internal strife, and urges imitation of New York’s pacifying example to prevent Democratic gains.
A New York Herald analysis details the Beauregard tornado and West Point gale in Mississippi, noting typical formation from gulf warm air and northwest cold air. It argues local observers could provide hours of warning via telegraphic tornado alerts to save lives across Ohio and Lower Missouri valleys.
A Rochester Union report reveals the Albumen Paper Company on Water Street uses eggs daily in making albumen paper for photographs. The process includes separating whites from yolks, with yolks sent to tanneries for dressing kid and morocco leathers. The plant seals and utilizes large amounts of eggs seasonally from February to December, supplying about 50 000 dozen eggs yearly.
A trial scene depicts a defendant declaring he will turn State's evidence to name his own suspect in a saddle theft. The judge questions the premise as the man admits he stole the saddle and exits. Also noted: the Duke of Albany's daughter Alice Mar Victoria Augusta Pauline was baptized with ten godparents and is a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Over three months thieves hit post offices barns and stores across upper county towns. They stole wolf robes from the Versailles mill stable and plundered Taftville Norwich and Baltic sites including a hotel and a saloon. Sheriff’s posse captured leaders William Russell John Nolan and Thomas Nevin after locating loot in a Taftville cave and a remote woods hideout. The raid sequence pointed to a coordinated gang planning further robberies with a Westward route mapped in Nolan's handwriting.
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