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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1890
Page
1
A long miscellany from Senate and House sessions covers educational law costs, prison conditions, rail and postal topics, the Nipsic wreck relief, tariffs, and local scientific progress. It notes ship life boats requirements, Auburn and Sing Sing inmate idleness, and a plan for a Niagara power transmission to New York.
Noted misidentification case from Chicago leads to inquiry into John B. Kelly who was returned from St Louis for identification in the Cronin murder. Mrs Conklin and Frank Scanlan urged similarities in voices and gestures but could not fix him as the killer.
Reports from Washington describe the twentysecond annual National Woman Suffragist Association convention opening in Lincoln Music Hall with speeches by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others. Resolutions urged no alliance with parties, and church reforms to honor women while pushing voting rights.
Des Moines reports the Iowa House elected John T. Hamilton Democrat speaker after a five week stalemate. A compromise gave Democrats the speaker role and Republicans key committee chairmanships with minor offices split. In a joint session the governor and lieutenant governor results were read, Horace Boies and A N Payneer declared elected. News also covers Japan coast storms, four Kingston Ont. children die in a fire, a Maryland or West Virginia storm, Chicago stockyard sale to English buyers, and other brief notices.
The report lists assorted brief items including mad dog bites in Minneapolis, coal field acquisitions by Jay Gould, a village fire in Black River New York, and 271 weekly business failures. It notes a new non-partisan WCTU in Chicago, a Toledo fire costing 150000 dollars, crop conditions in several states, a Mississippi treasurer’s shortfall, and legislative adjournments in Montana and South Dakota.
Between 500 and 600 delegates including about 20 percent women attended the Prohibition State convention at Tomlinson Hall in Ispra, Indiana. T. E. Ballard of Evansville was chosen president. the platform urged abolition of trusts, tax exemptions for necessities, salary cuts for county officers, and a general service pension bill. The state ticket named Augustus Bradley for Governor, Abraham Huntsinger for Auditor, Jonathan E. Bran 800 for Treasurer, L. M. Crist for Superintendent, J. L. Haines for Attorney General, S. J. North for Supreme Court Clerk, and Charles L. Jessup for another post.
Report from H. H. Sheets, Kingsbury County chairman of the state relief committee, states hundreds of settlers in South Dakota lack food due to drought. Counties including Miner, Beadle, Clark, Jerauld and Spink suffer harvest failures. 500000 to 600000 bushels of seed wheat needed before seeding. State and county governments cannot aid. private and public subscriptions urged.
Foxprayr Feb. 20 reports the independent oil syndicate plans a $50,000,000 capital backing pipelines and refineries in Findlay Lima Cygnet Delphos and Upper Sandusky. Members hail from Milwaukee Chicago and Pittsburgh and expect oil prices to rise to a fair level. Mammoth venture signals major regional industrial growth.
Articles discuss past House speakers including Colfax Blaine Keifer and Reed, note scandals and rulings affecting politics, report fires destroying records in Helena and public notices, plus varied international and domestic political commentary and incidents from February.
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