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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1889
Page
2
Notice to correspondents outlines required submission practices for the paper. It emphasizes using the author's name, writing on one side of the page, and ensuring names and dates are clear. Prop names are hard to decipher due to sloppy handwriting.
General news notes point to appointments and reports across the federal government. Green B Baum Jr is named assistant chief clerk of the Pension Bureau while several U S officials receive new posts including Marshals and Attornies for districts in Iowa and Texas and Kentucky collector of internal revenue Thomas Clay McDowell. Expenditure and trade figures show exports at 798 million and imports at 765 million for year ending 1889.
The Leona arrived at New York with eight seamen rescued from the Florida coast after the schooner Mul ford wreck. Notables include Abraham Greenthal “General” Greenthal dies in New York at 63, Charles H. Wells editor of Dixie dies at Saranac Lake, and Edward Cunningham wounded in Milton Massachusetts. Also reports on Baldwinsville fire, Bangor area wages rise, murders, bank failure, and various regional incidents across the U S and Canada.
A prominent state senator died recently in Goldsboro North Carolina. Elsewhere the schooner C B Church left Baltimore October 19 with coal for Boston and is now listed as lost by its owners. Captain J T Gallagher and his wife and four year old son were aboard.
A Vienna report notes the strike in mother of pearl button factories spreading with 4,000 workers out. Fire destroys San Salvador national palace and archives. Stanley reaches Mpwapwa with European expedition members. Brazilian Parliament to elect president in December. Malietoa reinstated in Samoa amid rejoicing. proclamations recognize him as king. Talmage party in Athens. corner stone in Brooklyn from Mars Hill. Montreal bailiff Bolduc absconds with defalcation in thousands. Berlin banks syndicate plans 10 million marks pre emption and a 40 million marks lottery with 80 million in prizes.
The Abbott plurality for New Jersey governor stands at 14258. A Philadelphia wholesale grocery, Jan ney & Andrews, 121 and 128 Market Street, burned with water damage to neighboring buildings, total loss about 250000 dollars. A Montana boiler test explosion killed John Madison and endangered Thomas Johnson and A L Crockett. The Montana Legislature convened in two bodies. A new steamer Grizaba launched at Chester for the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co with Pan American delegates present. Prussian authorities deny Redemptorist settlement at Boppard. A lynching of Bland for assault in Virginia. a two year old burned to death in Missouri from boiling lard. John N Shoenberger of Pittsburgh leaves a million for charity. Jeff Davis supporters form a company to syndicate wild land in Arkansas to pay a debt. An Ohio convict masquerading as Miller linked to old Kansas figure Bender. Electric headlights to be used on Pennsylvania Railroad divisions west of Pittsburgh. Pine City Minnesota: William Booker kills William Coombs and his wife. Two British airships ordered to Rio. Trenton Day celebration planned for December 26 by Sons of the Revolution. C C Barry offers prize for Princeton senior poem. Greenport New York to host National Canoe Association contests. Rich Michigan gold find reported. W H McNrat shoots his father in self defense in Tennessee. Timothy McCarthy killed by live electric wire in Providence Rhode Island.
Details from Chicago hearings show defense and state quarreling over alibi witnesses for O Sullivan and Coughlin in Dr Cronin murder probe. Witnesses discuss May 4 5 dates and the mysterious white horse linked to livery orders and police notes.
A broad statewide digest reports fatalities from mine accidents and a switch-engine incident, poisonings, and suicides. It notes Governor Foraker appointing Wm. G. Sibley as State Librarian and Campbell naming Claude Meeker and Colonel Mort Hawkins to key posts. Also covered are trials, factory openings, oil finds near Akron, and updates from state institutions including the Blind, Girls Industrial Home, and Boys' Industrial School with budget figures and inmate counts. Other items include local deaths, accidents, and a major Knowles pottery explosion due to a natural gas blast.
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