31 Oct 1883
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1883
Page
1
Public sale notices are issued under the 1883 act declaring Montgomery County lands mineral land to be sold January 31, 1884, with Huntsville District land set for February 14, 1834. Pension Claim Agents face suspension for alleged dishonest practices.
N. W. Fitzgerald & Co. of Washington and other agents face suspensions from Pension Bureau practice. Allegations include illegal fees, improper pension claims for rebel soldiers, interference with a Special Examiner, assault, and fraud attempts via improper communications to pensioners. Frank Smith of Baltimore is debarred for interfering with a Special Examiner. J W Flenner of Washington is suspended for sending fraud intent messages to pensioners.
Coronel Cassy reports to the Secretary of State that a monument over Thomas Jefferson’s grave is completed the adjacent lots repaired and a sturdy fence erected. The Army lists Colonel J D Bingham and Major James Gillis reassigned to new posts. Postmaster General Gresham moves to curb lottery mailings targeting Louisiana lottery patrons. Governor Proctor Knorr and Kentuckians present President Arthur with a jeweled fishing rod linked to his Louisville visit.
A mass meeting of colored people in Cincinnati on the 22d approved a resolution praising the Constitution and laws while trusting white citizens to justice. They express belief that as races grow wiser, prejudice will fade and equal civil rights will prevail. The report also notes a deadly rail accident near Port Edwards, New York, and other items on immigration, lynching, and a Charley Ross case clue.
San Francisco attorney W. W. Nelson representing Miss Hill filed in Superior Court a $125,000 slander suit against Senator Sharon. The charges of adultery had been dismissed on the 20th.
An explosion on the 23d at the Kingston Pennsylvania squib factory caused a fire. Nine girls were inside. five died from burns and the remaining four suffered serious injuries.
Morton G. Clark and Charles W. Stone were arrested in Jamaica Vermont charged with counterfeiting. They are said to belong to a group of twenty three young men who have counterfeit rings operating for months. A full counterfeiting outfit and numerous spurious coins were seized.
A Louisville and Nashville train derailed a few miles east of St Louis on the 93d due to a broken rail. About sixty passengers were affected as cars left the track and were jolted by the impact. Rescue teams investigated the scene and assisted injured travelers.
Robert Morrison of Pittsburg files libel suit against the Commercial Gazette claiming $100,000 in damages. Morrison, an international claim agent, alleges an article in the Gazette implying he left for parts unknown and took unearned fees and clients' papers, harming his reputation.
Prominent St Louis citizens from all parties organized a Law and Order League on February 23 following the Philadelphia Citizens Committee model. The group aims to secure good local government and combat corrupt political rings, with an emergency fund of three thousand dollars raised.
The heirs of Samson H. Morgan sue at Clarksville to recover 300,000 acres along the Red River spanning thirteen counties. They allege the lands were sold by an administrator who never qualified or gave bond, though the tracts have been extensively improved.
Dr G F Taylor sues the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad Company of New York for damages after trains passed by a house he rented for hospital use before the railroad was built. The jury awarded the plaintiff $20,000 on the 24th.
Three children of Mr. Ingus, aged twelve the eldest girl, drowned after ice broke over a pond in Elkham Manitoba on the 24th. The girl skated on the ice and fell in, and her two younger brothers perished trying to rescue her before their mother on the shore.
The Baltimore mayor and city council election on the 24th produced a win for the regular Democratic ticket led by General F C Latrobe. The fusion ticket headed by J Monroe Heiskell, reform Democrat and current city fire marshal, trailed. Democrats hold a two vote City Council majority.
Boston citizens subscribed two hundred fifty thousand dollars to establish The William Barton Rogers Fund at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The fund’s income will be used solely for MIT’s support and operation.
The General Convention in Philadelphia heard the Committee on the State of the Church report 48 dioceses 15 missionary jurisdictions 67 bishops 2500 clergy 3000 parishes and over 353000 communicants across the United States.
At Kanawha Falls West Virginia two boys ages eight and ten played with pistols snapping them at each other. A pistol in Blake’s hand fired striking Wilson in the head and killing him instantly.
Postal authorities seize several bundles of unstamped letters from Hong Kong brought by self-appointed Chinese mail agents on the 2th. Officials note a drop in Chinese correspondence and say a watch led to the discovery of the defrauding scheme.
A Mexican man implicated in a quartet of dance hall killings near Garner Colorado was captured by armed citizens. A rope tied to a saddle horn and the horse driven to run dragged the suspect over rocks until he died. He claimed he and others were hired to commit the murders.
Three hundred children have died from diphtheria near Greensboro North Carolina in recent weeks. Alarm prompted a quarantine by nearby counties as the disease proved fatal in four of every five cases.
Sullivan, counsel for the defense, cabled from London that O Donnell has a good chance of acquittal but needs funds to secure South African witnesses. The Treasurer in Chicago immediately sent two thousand dollars to the defense fund.
Advices from Austin Texas state Postoffice Inspector General Edgarton found evidence that Inspector P Foster’s five year conduct involved falsifying vouchers for a large sum and other irregular corrupt practices. At the Universalists Washington convention session February 2 a resolution proposed educating women for ministry alongside men. a long debate ensued and the matter was ruled out of order but will be revisited next meeting.
New York inventor Mr P. B. Delaney claims a telegraphic device lets six operators send six messages simultaneously on one wire. Some messages travel in one direction while others go the opposite way, potentially tripling wire capacity compared with a quadruplex system.
Mary Rose Berlear filed suit in Philadelphia against the sisters of the Order of St Francis to recover 1800 dollars deposited with the order in money and goods upon her admission eighteen years ago and 1500 dollars representing six years' salary as a needle woman. She was dismissed recently as not suited to reside in a religious house.
Reports from New York Leadville and Ohio describe a mother in New York attempting to kill her child and herself amid likely death, a miner in Leadville killing another miner after a wife remark, and a German carpenter in New Philadelphia murdering his wife and three children before suicide. A decomposed pair of unknown Americans are found on the Mexican side near Eagle Pass with no leads. A St Louis livery stable owner, William Stratman, hanged himself over financial losses.
Advices from Yun Nan confirm the report that Chinese aid the Black Flags in Anam where 3000 armed rebels gather aside from garrisons at Bac Ninh and Sontay. The Viceroy of Canton protests foreigners in streets. 10000 troops near Canton await possible upheaval. Tonquin tensions rise as French may attack Bac Ninh risking war with China.
The Yellow Book from Paris recounts France China troubles and the peace negotiations. It states China demands the entire northern Annant region and French evacuation of it, leaving France only the southern provinces.
A Thesme dispatch warns that hundreds of quake survivors face death from fever and exposure unless immediate relief arrives. Officials say aid so far has been scant and emphasize the need for clothing blankets medicines and materials to build temporary shelter.
Hong Kong correspondent notes uncertainty over Tonquin position as Chinese forces on the Yunnan frontier total about nine thousand with modern arms. He predicts France may soon drive Chinese from Tonquin, though true fighting may erupt once the frontier is reached, potentially forcing a compromise or French move toward Pekin.
A Paris dispatch on the 22nd notes the death of Mrs John Russell Young wife of the Chinese minister. Canadian detectives uncover a plot against Lord Lansdowne. Port au Prince massacre toll rises with fifteen hundred dead and four million dollars in property lost. The Marquis of Lansdowne sworn Governor of the Dominion. A Vienna dispatch says Tsar grants reforms count Tolstoi and count Katjoff tasked with a constitution. Nihilists demand amnesty freedom of the press and public meetings with harsh threats if ignored.
De Lesseps spoke before five Academies in Paris on the civilizing mission of great projects that connect nations. He urged open maritime canals and roads regardless of conflicts to unite economies and interests worldwide.
In Washington Lincoln Hall hosted a large colored gathering led by Prof J M Gregory with Frederick Douglass and R G Ingersoll denouncing the Supreme Court ruling. Cincinnati Zion Church and Indianapolis gatherings followed, urging party support and equal protection while praising or defending the decision as advancing law and civil rights.
A Caldwell Glens Falls and Fort Edward passenger train derailed crossing a canal feeder bridge near Fort Edward New York. The crash killed Dallas Crippen and two others while injuring twenty one including the conductor J Jenkins and engineer Edward Deal. Rescue crews battled wreckage and searched for missing under the wood bridge as the cause was blamed on weak bridge supports.
In Burke County Georgia near McBean Church a Sunday quarrel escalated after a prior Saturday baseball ground dispute between Syms and Rogers. Thomas B. Syms and his sons Frank and Thomas were shot by F B, J M and Warren Rogers and Rufus McNorrell and John T Cox. Thomas B Syms died from five gunshot wounds. Frank and Tom Syms were mortally wounded. John Rogers was shot in the face by a friend. The Syms family were unarmed and all involved were well-to-do farmers.
The President will draft his congressional message at the Soldiers' Home and is likely to stay there through November. He prefers this location to the Executive Mansion and has settled in with the latest household conveniences. Mornings focus on the message, delaying his arrival to the office until the afternoon.
Complete official returns show Hoadly with a 12,529 governor margin. Judicial Leager carries 66,829 in favor and 525,361 against regulation. Prohibition repeal fails by 93,174. Schumacher Pro totals 8,361 and Jenkins Greenback 2,785.
The October crop report based on six hundred townships shows wheat threshed 606,222 acres producing 6,060,449 bushels. oats 135,104 acres yielding 4,412,035 bushels. corn condition at 76 percent versus Oct 1. frost damage 26 percent. potatoes 103, apples 24, grapes 54. drought reduced late potato average. final estimates for wheat and oats rely on threshing machine returns.
Reports recount a fatal saloon quarrel in Cincinnati involving John Henson and George Wells, Wells severely injured, and a Summit County merchant’s daughter burned to death after a stove incident. A Cincinnati boiler explosion injures nine with one death, plus a new home for sick children by Joseph Longworth. An investigator in Licking County arrests a collector over pension overcharges.
At a luncheon with the Falkenwood Club in Niagara Falls Chief Justice Coleridge learned that Sir Walter Raleigh was a United States Senator. An orator quoted Raleigh from the Senate, remarking the shallows murmur while the deeps are dumb and Coleridge praised the quoter for citing Raleigh as a senator.
Mrs. Thomas Cooch of Pottsville Pa died after severe burns from clothing catching fire. She dictated that her daughter’s wedding be held by her bedside, and the solemn ceremony occurred as she requested two hours before death.
An Antic line falters as Russian writers Yukovsky Lomonossoff Griboyc hoff Dostoiyevsky Pissemskyskoiffithese are cited in a humorous note from the Chicago Inter Ocean about fame and national pride.
The New York Democratic press portrays a factional struggle over Buffalo reforms and Tammany, praising internal purification while warning of continued corruption. The piece critiques rhetoric, notes Kelly and his followers, and argues reformist zeal clashes with political reality in the city.
The Boomerang jokes that the Brooks comet matches the 1812 sighting with hair, red eye, and nucleus likeness. It says the sky detectives prove the link, and imagines a transformed future world with familiar figures and a sly nod to Samuel, hinting at political satire.
Fashion commentators warn that diamonds have lost novelty with rising supply and mainstream use. They caution buyers to seek unique designs and consider alternative gemstones or metals for lasting style.
A long, satirical column links Grandfather Smallweed of Bleak House to a political scare around 1884. The piece sketches his Grey Stone residence near Yonkers, his feeble but volatile intellect, and a rumored telephone-to-telegraph taunt from S L Tilden. It notes Democratic anxiety over the revived ghost and its potential impact on party prospects.
The National Republican view argues Ohio shows growing Republican strength despite temperance currents and factionalism. It predicts a united front against Democratic platform in 1884, with internal rifts fading as voters seek decisive leadership and a broad coalition.
Tobacco stems from North Carolina factories are shipped to Germany to be manufactured into snuff for German peasants, highlighting postwar trade flows and political economic links between the two regions.
The Clermont Courier lists advertising rates for legal and transient notices at six per square ten lines for first insertion with fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. A yearly liberal reduction applies to advertising. Business cards up to six lines priced at six dollars annually.
Geological survey declares the maximum depth of the whirlpool rapids to be seventy five feet. General Butler notes tobacco may soon lose its tax as a necessity rivaling tea and coffee. Telephone lines connect Jacksonville Florida and Charleston South Carolina spanning two hundred eighty two miles. Governor Butler delivers a sharp rebuke to Boston intellectual ladies by obtaining from the Attorney General the viewpoint that a woman is not a person.
An Evanston Illinois clergyman writes to a friend that after officiating at several marriages he will now marry himself, revealing his plans to "show his hand and give himself away."
The census estimates total United States wealth near 50 000 000 000 dollars, about five hundred times the rumored fortune of W H Vanderbilt.
New Orleans doctors warn that rising illness stems from drinking cistern water drawn from near the slime of cistern bottoms. They urge officials to address contamination and public health risk amid persistent water woes.
State elections set for November 6 in Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota Nebraska New Jersey New York and Pennsylvania Connecticut Mississippi and Virginia will elect members of their legislatures.
Germany’s long war on American pork appears to backfire with a trichinosis outbreak in a German province. About two hundred people suffer after exposure in an area where only German hogs were raised.
The Philadelphia Ledger explains cities balk at funding costly durable projects. It says taxpayers today cannot afford to benefit posterity a hundred or a thousand years hence.
In the first nine months of this year New York City expended 48,067,223 on building projects. Of this total 13,081,700 funded French and English flats and 153,858,000 went into first class dwellings.
While crossing a dry gulf in Western Wyoming President Arthur and companions saw a char coal message over a vacant cabin door. The sign read Only nine miles to water and twenty miles from wood No grub in the house God bless our home.
The Chesapeake Bay oyster beds are failing. Proposals include excluding foreign dredging boats, promoting oyster bedding, establishing a summer closed season, protecting spawning activity, and limiting summer cannery operations near rivers.
A personal friend of Robi. G. Inger soll calls the champion unbeliever a dangerous talker. He says he loves the man yet fears his tongue and would rather pay than meet him in a hotel lobby, noting the use of personalities as strawmen to puncture with epigrams.
“Little Eva Brirton” traveled the country for years seeking subscribers to a monthly paper called The Hurricane of Charleston S C. She was arrested in New Orleans for swindling, having collected thirty thousand subscriptions at fifty cents each for a paper that never existed.
Mr Buarne signs with publishers for 75,000 dollars cash down and fifteen cents per volume. Advance orders total 100,000 copies, with expectations of 300,000 sales. Potential earnings reach about 120,000 dollars, exceeding typical author royalties.
Fashion decrees in street prom enade the larger and fatter the lady the smaller the dog she carries. A pale thin woman may bear a Newfoundland or bloodhound, but the leader must wear the smallest canine, the weaker and sorer eyed the better.
Practical use shows crude petroleum oils vaporized as the most economical clean fuel for iron and steel manufacture. The simple vaporizer, about the size of a flour barrel, feeds through a 1.5 inch pipe to power several engines and furnaces and reduction machines.
A new public memorial project in England honors William Murdock, credited with early gas innovations and the first practical steam locomotive and steam engine components. The article notes his lack of national recognition and mentions his near Auchin- region origins.
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