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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1892
Page
1
The column surveys diverse topics from Maine timber and Canadian immigration to fruit prices, cremation trends in France, acrostics in Boston library tablets, and Atlantic coast fishing tales. It highlights Maine spruce pillars for a Chicago building, a sea lion companion to a fisherman, and American archival document auction disputes.
The Republican National Convention met in Minneapolis for its first day with J Sloat Fassett chosen as temporary chairman. The session opened with prayer by Rev Dr Brush of the University of South Dakota and included calls for party unity and a celebration of the party’s aims ahead of selecting a presidential nominee.
The Ninth National Republican Convention in Minneapolis nominates Benjamin Harrison for president and Jacob Whitelaw Reid for vice president after unanimous ballots. Speeches celebrate tariff protection and party unity, with Harrison praising past gains and Blaine reacting calmly to the result.
Senate reports include bills to enforce immigration and contract labor laws and the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill. The Senate passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill and considered the pension deficiency bill. ANew Mexico and Arizona statehood and other measures moved forward as adjournment neared. House actions featured New Mexico and Arizona statehood bills, a pedestal appropriation for Gen. Sherman, weather bureau funding, and the urgent deficiency bill. Also noted were public notices of eulogies for Senator Wilson and various court and pension actions.
A coal pit explosion near Mies bach Switzerland killed nineteen miners. Jesse James aide Bob Ford was shot dead at Creede Colorado by Deputy Sheriff Kelly. Belmont Michigan flood casualties followed a cloudburst. Rustler king Jack Bliss killed near Arland Wyoming by Deputy Sheriff Irey and posse. Kansas City registered 98 degrees in shade with three sunstruck fatally. Moscow Pennsylvania tornado destroyed many buildings but no lives lost. Two cars wrecked near Atlanta Georgia on new Chattahoochee line. three men killed, two fatally injured. Trade volume up seven percent from last year. German master dyer Gunther murdered his three children. Tobe Cook hanged in Tex jail for murder. Fred Wethy flogged in Pavilion New York for domestic abuse. Wheat acreage 99.9 percent of last year. Mexican exile Pablo Perea dies in Phoenix at 91. Guernsey Osborne defaulter to extent of $20000. Fire destroyed Macklem Slater malt house Niagra Falls. four firemen injured, two fatally. Platte Valley Bank Central City Nebraska closes doors. cashier Starrett lost $50000 buying corn. Cornell freshmen beat Columbia freshmen in Ithaca two mile race. Time 10:56 for Cornell and 11:24 for Columbia.
Curvetana C June 10 reports from northern Ohio show a severe storm causing over a dozen lightning deaths and widespread damage. Wayne county cloudburst wrecked crops and flooded farms while Wooster and Fitchville saw unroofed houses and uprooted trees. Ellsworth church and outbuildings burned or demolished as oil fields suffered damaged derricks and struck tanks.
Reports from Orizaba Vera Cruz state government troops defeated a marauder band at Tocuila May 30 with seventeen bandits killed and none of the troops wounded. The pursuing force seeks remaining members. Also noted: lightning killed a farmer’s wife beside a burning house near Mascouran Illinois.
A derelict tale recalls a Denver area boy counting coins and old checker pieces, with an elder describing 1850s westward camps near the Platte. Indians traded for deer meat and checkers became improvised currency, a living museum of a forgotten frontier. The piece closes with a health column on proper sitting posture from Ladies' Home Journal.
A collage of curious items from New York media and public life. Highlights include a vegetable toad tale, a multi trunk maple near Central Park, bootblacking underprice economics, and a siege narrative at Fort Ninety-Six. It notes a push in New York to donate the World’s Fair building to Chicago’s Sons of New York and early 20th century civic projects by women in multiple counties.
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