23 Nov 1881
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1881
Page
1
A compact digest notes trials of notable figures, weather extremes in Colorado, mass exiles of Russian Jews, deadly industrial gas blast in Italy, Italian earthquake shocks, a ferry disaster in Troy New York with ten drowned, and a Geneva report claiming Elm village faces annihilation as a mountain summit shifts.
City inspector reports fifty additional tenement houses in New York are structurally unsafe and at risk of collapse after a deadly tenement house fall, prompting ongoing investigations and potential action to prevent further casualties.
Four hundred eighty four people died of cholera in Mecca over three days. Caravans of five thousand pilgrims departed on the sixth, and there are fears Egyptian troops at El Wadj cannot stop them from entering the town.
An explosion aboard the steamer Severn from Bristol to Glasgow tore away deck portions and killed nine. Separate report notes the German session opened in Berlin with Bis marck reading the throne speech, asserting confidence in peace prospects over the past decade.
A building blast in low water conditions caused a powerful explosion. Debris scattered up to a half mile in all directions, with damage reported across the site.
The remark scene centers on Sarah Bernhardt who accuses Colombier of not writing any lines in the book. She alleges a young man named Gehanfouden wrote it, paid 1000 francs monthly to chronicling her American travels, and vows to confront Colombier if he is indeed a man of impression.
Holden and White prize fighters were arrested after attempting to fight near the Pond International Tariff Convention held in Chicago. The event aimed to benefit public service and restoration of the National fisc.
The steamer Solway, not the Severn as reported, caught fire after a barrel of naphtha exploded near a stove in the steerage. Six dead and two fatally burned, with five missing after a night of stormy flames. Passengers and crew worked to fight the blaze and the vessel was towed to Kingstown harbor at dawn.
The State Department releases a comprehensive report on world cotton goods trade based on 46 consuls. Global raw cotton totals 3.5 billion bales with the US producing 2.77 billion. Britain, Germany, Russia and others share the manufactured output valued at 1.348 billion. Atlanta hosts a memorable November 15 during the International Cotton Exposition with Sherman’s Day and Mexican Veterans’ Day coinciding on the seventeenth anniversary of Atlanta’s burning, drawing twenty thousand attendees including notable ex Confederate leaders.
Dublin dispatch reports a historic surge at the Land Commission as over 12 000 applications pour in on the last day for November reductions. Courts sat past midnight while applicants from Ulster Galway Tipperary Cork Kerry and Wicklow flocked in, totaling more than 40 000 cases before the commission.
The Guiteau murder trial began in Washington before Judge Cox with a crowded courtroom. Guiteau acted as if performing, argued with his defense and threatened to conduct the case himself, while jurors were slowly seated and witnesses including Blaine were called.
An O14 swindler and ex army officer, Captain and Commissary of Subsistence, defrauded the Government of between 1 and 2 million dollars by duplicating vouchers for flour purchases at the Baltimore depot. He inflated entries from duplicates to show ten thousand barrels, then fled to Europe to avoid detection as his frauds grew evident. His name appears as Welles, previously Wells.
Jay Gould received a death threat claiming divine mandate to kill him unless he changed his money minded ways. A staged postal sting with 50 detectives and 50 carriers traced the mail to Colonel J Howard Welles, sixty, tall and well bred, who confessed after the envelope was produced. Welles vows to act if prosecuted and remains under guard.
A Missouri farmer in debt to Walt Perkins imagines a hopeful chain of trades to settle twenty five dollars. He envisions trading corn for oxen, then trading for an old mare, breeding mule colts, and using the first colt sold to pay Perkins.
Lampton voices a critique of methods used by others while noting personal inability to emulate them. The remark suggests a discrepancy between observed practices and feasible actions.
The remark notes a mellow apple that drops without shaking is too willing, signaling a playful rural proverb about readiness and yield.
Congress meets on December 5 as immigration totals reach 67929 in October. Indictments against Captain Howgate total 160000 dollars. Representative Manning predicts Lamar's re-election. various candidates seek Speakership. Postal service topics include Star Route prosecutions and Shackelford Post Office closure. Plans for faster NY–San Francisco mail service hover. President accepts MacVeagh resignation. McVeagh’s successor to be named. Guiteau defense disputes split opinions on insanity. Cannon’s Utah seat contested. Mormon issue looms in early Congress.
News items report the death of Grance Law a prominent New York capitalist. Other notes include Cincinnati planning a new Democratic paper with a 300000 dollar capital, and various political financial and crime updates across the United States.
Secretary of the Interior Kirkwood urges Congress to fund language instruction for Indian youth and to reduce reservation areas by concentrating Indians on four to five western reservations. He advocates shifting some tribes toward herd management on unsuitable farming lands and creating local government experiments to mimic county systems.
Commissioner Price calls for radical changes in Indian policy. He argues against feeding tribes on reservations and warns that non laboring bands provoke unrest. He urges War Department control of liquor on reserves and extends state criminal laws to Indian Reservations.
How to tell fresh eggs from bad ones by sink test buoyancy and shell appearance. A fresh egg shows a limey shell while stale eggs are glassy and smooth, and light shows clear and golden yolk for good eggs. The text adds shell adhesion when boiled and smell or taste cues for aged eggs. The final line notes the undertaking business as a dead certainty.
A new Greenback-Labor paper started at Bowling Green signals third-party organizing in northern Ohio. The report lists a flurry of local incidents from November including robberies, drownings, suicides, and severe illness across several counties, with focused notes on public figures and crime.
A tribute to a girl raised without parents who tends a large family and works from dawn to dusk. She manages the garden field and orchard, makes butter, and keeps the home and farm fertile. Her quiet service, virtue, and care for siblings are praised as brave and true.
The Cardiff Times opines that Kaiser Wilhelm is a ceremonial ruler while Bismarck governs Germany. It notes the Emperor’s warlike image, telegrams from 1870, and Moltke’s fighting, with Bismarck pulling strings and the Emperor wheeling him out for interviews.
A livery-stable encounter on Sixth Street ends with a young woman striking a boastful broker with her parasol. After a second blow she drives him toward a horse stall and beats him until exhausted, then walks away amid witnesses’ astonishment and praise.
The Vermont Courier lists advertising rates for legal and transient notices at $1 per line for first insertion and $0.50 per line for subsequent insertions. A yearly liberal reduction is offered, with business cards up to six lines priced at $64 per year.
In a stormy night at a remote inn a harsh host ferries a stranger and a narrator into a dinner and friendship. A magic crystal bell warns truth by ringing when deceit occurs, changing trust and jealousy into revelation and the wedding vow.
A rough old style notice posted on a split stick near Gunnison Colorado warns trespassers to stay off a claimed area described as protected by law. The message, signed by John Searle, asserts claimed rights and urges legal enforcement.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that a country surgeon cannot be expected to show the same level of skill and judgment as eminent city surgeons, shaping standard of care in rural practice.
A South Norwalk incident inspired by courtesy ends in a finder helper recovering a woman’s stolen aim after she nearly slips. The depot scene reveals a valise left behind, prompting a polite intervention. A separate note from Rockland reports a man paying for a so called cure and receiving a violet ink card reading Don't Drink.
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