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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1889
Page
2
The column details a string of events from the week including the Frank Collom trial for fraud in Min nan inn New York grand jury dismissing charges against Nathaniel Niles bank president, and milk producers forming unions. It notes the Southern Exposition opening in Montgomery and other domestic incidents across states with fires wrecks and legal cases.
The Drexel Morgan firm noted subscriptions on the 25th totaling 100000 from Cornelius Vanderbilt, 100000 from New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, and 50000 from Wagner Palace Car Company in a major funding moment.
Tar Northern Pacific railroad directors have granted Secretary Samuel Wilkinson unlimited leave of absence on full salary after twenty two years in office. He is seventy three and ill. Priairre Ricorp, famed French surgeon once called the great American doctor, has died.
In Chicago on October 4 State's Attorney Longenecker opened the Cronin case detailing the Clan na Gael Triangle, its secrecy, embezzlement, and Cronin's fight against the Order. He traced steps from the defense to the murder at the Carlson cottage and mapped the plot from February through May with witness testimony to follow.
A montage of fatal accidents and crimes across the United States includes Thompson and Robinson crushed under a car near Irwin Pennsylvania with James Thompson dying from a back injury. Stoxen stabbed his son in Findlay Ohio while Miller recovers. Fire damages Selma Alabama property worth 300000 in 1870s style report. Governor Torabek appoints John Carlisle to Cincinnati Board of Public Affairs. A new oil rush near Fostoria Ohio. Ann Price, famed Forepaugh fat woman, dies in New York weighing 400 pounds. Crirrorn dies of burns in St Paul lodging house. Railway Brotherhood name change to Railroad Trainmen. Francis Roots buried in Connersville Indiana at age 97. Fire in Decatur Alabama damages two blocks with two-thirds insured. Prisoner Ellis Rupers claims innocence in murder case from St Clair County. Embezzlement charges against Jacob Cornwinorn, Northampton County executor. Old man Shepperd drowns near Kentucky river. Mirron Donnann named chief of division in Second Auditor’s office in Washington. New cruiser San Francisco launched. Princess Sophie of Prussia and Duke of Sparta coincidents in Athens. Cracker manufacturers form a national trust in Jackson Michigan. East Tennessee flooded with spurious silver coins centered near Chattanooga. In St Louis Donovan and Sargent hurt in wagon accident with fatal shots.
Reports from the South of England Telephone Company describe morning and evening services broadcast to subscribers at home and in town. Wires connected to Congrega tional churches enabled 16 locations to hear organ, choir, reading, sermon, and ambient sounds from the pulpit as distant worshippers participated.
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