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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1891
Page
2
A sprawling OCR fragment mixes economics and foreign affairs with science and fiction. It mentions Yankee grain shortages, California crops, pearling on the Caribbean coast, and U S and British industrial figures. It also notes royal succession talk, railway car data, opium dens in India, and a sparrow bounty program in Chicago as preparations for an exhibition.
Illinois Grangers elected officers J M Thompson Joliet secretary Thomas Heady Dunlap treasurer George Hall Girard lecturer Oliver Wilson Putnam county steward J E Seiler Wabash assistant steward EE Caldwell Mason county chaplain H Wells Sangamon county gate keeper H Humphrey Fulton county pompoms Elijah Iles Sangamon county flora I G Chapman La Salle cereals Laura Giller Greene county lady assistant Eva O'Hair executive committee J H Van Arsdale Peorin county Resolutions favored rail pass bans property taxation reforms arbitration direct senate election female suffrage and free delivery mileage. Michigan grangers opposed independent political action subtreasury free coinage and favored farm mail delivery and Secretary Rusk's policy. Wisconsin grange session reported 4000 members across 50 granges with S C Carr master and warrants. election of W Churchill J H Haviland E G Ponce and others.
Wells Fargo express agent forced to yield safe keys as masked men grab about 100 dollars and a watch in Shingle Springs California. Sheriff’s posse hunts the hills for the culprits amid scattered robberies in Arkansas and elsewhere reported from the same day.
Washington reports official disclosure of the reciprocity plan with Germany. It provides continued free sugar import for Germany and reduced duties on American exports including wheat, rye, oats, corn, butter, pork, beef, and flour. The pact, sent to the German Reichstag December 7, was approved and will take effect February 1.
Washington December 11 new congressional directory shows that nearly half the house members or 143 are new men. Maine is the only state with more than one returning representative. Ohio leads in new members with fifteen followed by Indiana with eighteen and Illinois eight. Only four Illinois incumbents were born in the state.
A string of calamities reports homes blown down near Glendale and Verdi. Mrs Brown perished in a fire sparked by a toppled ramp. Meanwhile storms flood ports, burn newspaper offices, and drown crews as ships wreck and villages hit by gales and infernos.
Senate opened with oath for Jones Dubois and Call and received Census Bureau report. House organized with Crisp elected speaker and officers sworn in. measures included numerous bills and resolutions. Express train kills two women and child near Chicago. Louisville fire fatalities and property losses. Kansas farm losses. Wisconsin damages suit. Illinois murder verdict in Gillham case.
Important gold discoveries near Golden Colorado. fourties horses burned in Ishpeming Michigan. Robert Ruston and wife killed by a train in Erskine Indiana. Red Key Indiana business area destroyed by fire. Cork Ireland storm devastates south. Kansas City man robbed in Cameron Missouri. Pinos Altos New Mexico fire with heavy losses. treasury gold $191,125,587 up nearly $14m since June. Various global notes include volcanic island near Pantellaris, Italy. Ardmore Illinois fire, Seattle factory blaze, and other incidents. Coroner finds self inflicted death at Vinton Indiana. Havana storms and property losses. hop crop and dairy notes. rail passes suit against New England line. Woman's Alliance assets and membership. Blasting accident near Weeping Water Nebraska. Pittsburgh furnace accident. notable deaths and corporate news. New York financial failures. and other miscellaneous items.
Treasury report details for year ended June 30, 1881, showing revenues of 458,544,293.03 and expenditures of 491,304,470.46, producing a surplus of 37,239,768.57 after additional deposits and adjustments. Notes include per-capita money in circulation, gold return, mint output of 110,547,875 pieces, and shifts in tariff policy affecting revenues and prices.
A dramatic state supreme court action returned a murder case to the circuit court after Henry Suber confessed to killing Thornton Nance, leading to a stay of executions for ten defendants. The report also covers other crime notes, scientific items, and curiosities from the era.
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