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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1883
Page
1
The notice lists rates for legal and transient ads at four dollars per square for ten lines on first insertion with fifty cents per extra insertion. A yearly reduction is offered, with business cards up to six lines priced at twenty six dollars per year.
The Post Office Department rules that paying for newspapers depends on contract law and being sent unsolicited papers does not create liability. Norfolk survivors seek to use Confederate battle flags at a reunion but Congress must authorize lending. Civil Service by states is set to streamline name certifications, and Goodrich Bush’s tax case offers a compromise to forfeit the distillery for $1,000, with trial urged if refused.
Washington dispatch reports arsenical poisoning cases among women counting Treasury greenbacks. Moisture from sponges used in counting brings out arsenic in the dye with serious results. Also notes resignations and appointments in federal departments and a bar license restoration.
Gaweblieg in Grain Denounerd testifies before the Labor Inquiry Committee in New York. He says nearly two thousand three thousand Produce Exchange members are gamblers and argues supply and demand laws do not apply to this speculation. He urges penal offenses for selling or buying up essential goods for speculation and asks Congress for action.
Mrs Bailey aged forty five and her sixteen year old daughter were found dead in a corn field near Monmouth. A note showed the mother killed herself with a razor after slaying her daughter who had been demented since birth. The mother had lately brooded over the daughter's condition and pressed to end both their lives.
Burglars entered the Gloucester Massachusetts postoffice on the night of the 1st broke open the safe and stole its contents. The loss includes 1459 in money 572 in postage stamps a book of postal notes Nos 105 to 500 inclusive and a large amount of stocks bonds and notes of various parties.
Contractor Henry McNichols was on a store job in Rogers Park on the 2d when the roof fell in trapping and killing McNichols Patrick McDonald and another workman.
A dispatch from the Indian Territory recounts inhuman treatment of an eighty year old Indian named Isoma. Four men demanded entry to his hut a few nights ago and the Indian refused, prompting the assault and robbery.
After forcing entry, assailants chased a man who fled through a window. He refused to reveal his stash and was tortured and shot seven times. The attackers plundered the hut and escaped with at least $5000, leaving no clues.
English middleweight champion Charles Mitchell and William Sheriff known as the Prussian fought under Marquis of Queensbury rules on Long Island. After seven rounds the referee declared a draw and all bets off, prompting dissatisfaction from spectators. Talks of another bout followed.
The Newsdealers Union from New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City paraded with bands on the night of the 24 to protest newspaper price reductions. They gathered at Cooper Union for a mass meeting attended by about 240 dealers. A resolution upheld no sales of the Herald for under three cents.
The New York Herald plans to set up its own news stands across the city to sell the Herald and other papers at the price printed on them, not the dealer dictated price. About five hundred staff will run the stands.
Wm. B. Bronson seventy Eliza sixty six and James E. Bronson were found guilty of manslaughter for causing the death of Carrie E. Gordon. Carrie sought medical aid on the eve of confinement after being abandoned by her husband. the family refused aid and locked her in a room until death.
New York dispatch reports more than five hundred letters mailed on the first for foreign destinations, prepaid with two cent stamps. It appears a portion of the public believes foreign postage is reduced, but the universal rate remains five cents per half ounce.
Judge Blodgett in Chicago ruled on habeas corpus for Willard C. Deming who enlisted as a minor and deserted four days later. The court held his enlistment was a civil contract void for a minor, not subject to ordinary military restraint, and ordered his discharge.
A Victoria colonist confirms Chinese smuggling is thriving with Victoria a rendezvous for migrants. He cites Treasury Agent findings and notes many Puget Sound saw mills employ Chinese, driving cross border smuggling into the United States.
Dr. Philip L. Jones a wealthy Brooklyn recluse aged over seventy was found dead in his bathroom on the 3d. He once practiced medicine but ceased after his wife’s death twenty years ago and never allowed entry to his home. He was believed to be worth over a million dollars.
Burglars blew open the Oskaloosa Iowa post office safe and stole $600 in coins and 17 registered letters. Three horses were taken, with one recovered. investigators deem the crime a professional job.
The Commissioners of Immigration at Philadelphia report 16 696 immigrants arriving from November 1 1882 to September 2 1883. Ten were sent back to Europe for unspecified reasons, described as improving overall eligibility. In March April and May 294 Irish tenants evicted and aided by the British Government were landed in Philadelphia.
The Supreme Lodge United Order of Honor closed its Indianapolis meeting on the 4th after amending the constitution and general laws and electing officers. President Thomas B. Boyd of Indiana. Vice-President P. Lt. Williamson of Ohio. Instructor H. M. Anderson of Ohio.
The National Association of Window Glass Workers, in a strike over pay cuts in Pittsburg Pennsylvania, forms a new combination with a capital of $100000 to enter glass manufacturing in opposition to their former employers.
Reports detail suicides by self infliction in Tennessee and Kansas involving factors of ill health and despair. A 22 year old Indiana woman hanged herself at a farm in Kansas leaving a life weary note. A Philadelphia merchant found with a gunshot wound and uncertain cause. A Georgia publisher also took his life, while a Connecticut farm hand was beaten to death by a man whose parents were attacked.
Fifteen thousand steel and iron workers in Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire strike against a 10 percent wage reduction. Employers argue competition from England and America forces either wage cuts or plant closures.
The Journal de St. Petersburg denies Russian military buildup on the Austrian and German frontiers claiming two corps are not dispersed between the Vistula and Bug. It asserts Russia seeks only to maintain peace and stability in the region.
In a Paris dispatch dated the 3d Tricou, France’s representative in China, reports no serious war preparations by China. He notes opposition to war in the southern provinces and the Empire council’s repudiation of such plans. China could muster about 20 000 troops with European arms for Tonquin service. Ferry favors neutralizing northern Tonquin provinces but refuses cession to China, per Tricou.
A Constantinople dispatch reports U S Minister Wallace and the Porte negotiating petroleum storage and tariff issues with growing mutual concessions. Wallace raises two new questions whose purposes are undisclosed.
Reports from St Petersburg note Nihilists circulate demands for government action to stop cruelty to prisoners especially women. In Leigh England a coal pit cage broke killing six miners. London bank secretary flees with about £40000. Canton China faces rising mob unrest and fear of foreign residents being killed if French fleet attacks.
A Bob-tail street car in Philadelphia was struck by a train on the Philadelphia and Reading line at twenty five miles per hour, splitting the car into kindling. Two passengers died and ten were severely injured as gates had not been erected at the crossing despite prior city orders.
A bold robber pointed a pistol at W1a. Loltzer, book-keeper for Mannering and Co., on Pearl Street, Cincinnati, and forced him to open the safe. An accomplice entered unexpectedly, the robber fired one shot, and fled after a long chase but was caught. Other notes include a Bellefontaine politician charged with robbing a saloon till, a farmer near Carey finding a long-missing skeleton, and a new East Leadville mining firm in Cincinnati with $2 million capital.
A Knickerbocker era Rhinebeck woman faced a complex marriage situation as her first husband, long at sea, returned to find she had remarried with sons. After a parley the trio agreed the wife would stay with the last husband, who departed amicably.
Mrs James Vaughan of Gentile Valley Idaho followed bear tracks into the Bear range and discovered her eighteen month old child curled asleep in weeds with the bear’s warm bed beside her. the bear had left when the search party approached.
A fragment recalls autumnal farewell as a telephone memory and the phrase goodbye echoes like a seasonal end. The line hints at nostalgia and a distant moment tied to voices and weathered voices.
The Detroit Post and Tribune critiques Maryland Democrats for clinging to outdated platforms and repeating 1876 and 1880 fraud claims. It argues their rhetoric ignores current issues, mocks their view of the Hayes administration, and portrays Republicans as steering the nation forward while Democrats dwell on past dangers.
The Republican party unites across states with reconciliations and calm resolve to oppose a Democratic foe. Pennsylvania’s voters turn away from a bogus reform governor and look for a strong fall showing. Massachusetts New York New Jersey forecast solid platforms and strong candidates. Maryland factions clash while the national Republican organization prepares for a winning fight.
A Nimrod from Roseburg Oregon fired at what he thought was wildlife while hunting in the mountains and killed his own brother who was drinking at a spring. The tragedy occurred when the shooter realized the figure was his sibling.
The Indianapolis Journal notes Democratic debate over candidates for next year. It argues the party will unlikely revive the 1876 Tilden Hendricks ticket, prefers a new leader such as McDonald Bayard Randall or Voorhees, and views the old ticket as memory rather than hope.
The platform denounces political corruption in Massachusetts and declares support for civil service reform a sound currency and reduced taxes. It endorses Arthur's administration, stresses education and temperance, and pledges reform at home to restore trust in state governance. It calls for decisive action rather than rhetoric.
The New Jersey Republicans declare their platform endorsing national party policies, civil service reform, protective tariffs for labor, economical state administration, equal taxation for corporations and individuals, anti-monopoly measures, fisheries protection, and full support for the convention’s candidate.
In 1853 Miss Mary Place Nesmith of Charleston DC belonged to a Lockport church choir. An electric choir allegedly struck the church, killing a singer and stunning others while Miss Place lost a gold chain three feet long. A physician later claimed the arm mark was the chain driven into her.
Siberian gold theft runs as a large, organized, underworld industry with secret agents, guards, and brokers. Miners earn scant wages, live in poor quarters, and mostly obtain vodka and provisions via a parallel market, while brokers launder and export stolen gold to Odessa Kiakhta and beyond. The Siberian Gazette cites annual gold worth about 10,000,000 roubles moving out of the country, depriving Russia of value.
The old manse near Concord Massachusetts remains as Hawthorne described it thirty years ago. It is gray, unpainted and snug inside with a window frame legend about Una Hawthorne watching a snowy winter day. Spirits of antiquity seem to rustle from garret to cellar as ghosts of writers arise. current owners are descendants of the originals.
The U.S. flagship Richmond hosted Li Hung Chang in Shanghai with honors and a drill. In return he sent a token of appreciation: twelve live sheep, two bullocks, 200 fowls, 1000 pounds of bananas and fruit, eight cases of English beer, and eight cases of claret.
The text notes Brazil supplying most US coffee yet not exporting $50,000 in annual returns. It mentions a Baltimore Orioles issue, a white monkey in Roosevelt Street, and claims about grave-robbing interests and Shinnecock Indian settlement decline on Long Island due to education and sanitation effects.
A fragment notes about forty Black people living among Indians in the Florida Everglades. The group is described as descendants of enslaved people who escaped before or during the Civil War.
A Sovurnern writer foresees strong water proof paper replacing boe ings furniture street cars and other swell prone items in damp climates. An exhibition in San Diego displays a twelve inch square piece of tanned sailor skin tattooed with a colorful crucifixion design.
Mn. Fawczrr notes an English capitalist who may have bought with tolerable judgment thirty years ago is probably wealthier than the landowner who paid the same price at the same time. The remark contrasts long-term value and property investment across an era.
Field observers note moderate duck flocks in good condition. The wholesale price ranges from forty to sixty cents per pair for gray and other ducks, while teal and wood ducks fetch twenty five to thirty cents per pair.
Railroad engineers must ensure air brakes and switches are in proper working order. The duty includes keeping air systems as reliable as other engine machinery to prevent incidents and collisions.
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes Mass fans dominated the event with natives taking nearly all honors. It remarks that Britishers were clumsy and the French too light, while Americans should embody a happy medium.
The text notes that shoppers see no relief from tax cuts, as manufacturers and dealers keep the benefit. It claims consumers must wait until the five and fifteen cent price order is dissolved, with prices retai led at odd cent amounts between these values.
The Philadelphia Press reports that on a low estimate American pleasure seekers in Europe have spent $2,521,000 since May 1, totaling a twelfth of last fiscal year’s export value and half again the 8 percent balance of trade for the first seven months of the current year.
A Frexon chemist states tobacco injures the nervous system and eyes, aids digestion only briefly, harms the throat and lungs, and attributes the weed habit to shifting preferences from cigars to pipes and cigarettes as evidence of addiction.
A renewed push for a new bankrupt law prompts talk of a January convention in Washington. Observers fear Congress may rush a flawed bill that could enable debtors to defraud creditors while seeking a quick path to wealth.
Former Western and Southern customers who came East in summer to buy goods for fall trade were big supporters of watering places. With new business methods and a surge of traveling salesmen, they now stay home or vacation nearer and more convenient locales.
A Brooklyn Eagle correspondent in Amsterdam notes that women perform many heavy tasks such as carrying burdens, drawing carts, and signaling at stations with a Flemish dog nearby. The piece questions whether men do manual labor, highlighting perceived inactivity of Dutch men.
Strakine notes a price reduction sweep among New York daily papers led by rivals like The Tribune and The Sun. He warns the aggressive rate cuts threaten reading quality and may drive readers to free offerings, comparing it to endless railroad and steamboat price battles.
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