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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1886
Page
2
Denine reports February 12 279 Northerners visited Jacksonville Florida. Ohio natural gas fields show strong flow at Piqua. Immigration from Ireland in 1885 reached 64 420, down from 76 048 the previous year.
The Rhode Island House of Representatives votes to submit the woman suffrage constitutional amendment to a public referendum. In Michigan peach growers report buds survived cold weather and expect a strong fruit yield this year. Russia convenes scientists and engineers to expand Caspian petroleum fields and boost export trade.
A city survey in Deming New Mexico finds no marriageable women or girls in town sparking concern among young men about prospects for courtship and stability.
Cholera has appeared in Italy signaling another anxious year in Europe and heightened port surveillance in America. The message urges Americans to stay home and focus on domestic affairs amid the outbreak.
Yale professors estimate Fabry’s comet will approach Earth to about 15 million miles around May 15 and Barnard’s at 35 million miles around June 1. Both comets reach greatest brilliancy near May 1 and should be plainly visible without aid.
Fias were hung at half mast at the Southern Soldiers' Home in Richmond Virginia to mourn the death of Old Sorrel Stonewall Jacksons famed war horse. The animal was thirty two years old and the last surviving horse of the Confederate army.
Miss Amelia Snyder of Buffalo sues a local hairdresser for 2500 claiming bleaching ruined her hair turning it red and then causing hair loss. She says the condition left her a fright and cost her a marriage offer.
An international incident was avoided after it was learned the man who approached shooting De Blowitz, Paris correspondent of the London lines, was firing at cats. The text notes the misfire could have been avoided with an orthodox boot-jack.
In a written request from twenty workers at a Philadelphia packing house the crew demands eight hour days and four dollars weekly. They warn they will not work unless their terms are met and imply potential trouble if denied. Patsy Shea and the others sign the notice.
Rhode Island residents will vote on April 7 to decide two proposed amendments. One grants voting rights to soldiers and sailors of foreign birth who served in the late war without property qualifications, the other bans the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the state.
The renownedFrench investigator Pasteur suffers severe overwork, has already endured a dangerous paralytic stroke, and another is feared. A lifetime of ceaseless investigation has left him mentally and physically unable to enjoy the honors accumulating around him.
Frep Praistrep says he and Ross will attempt to row the Niagara rapids next summer. He is confident of success and notes they have been guaranteed twenty five hundred dollars for the feat, better than frontier work at thirteen dollars a month.
The British Admiral instructs commanders in the Chinese station to repaint ships gray instead of white after testing black and white. Gray is described as the most enduring and least conspicuous color, now used on most Chinese men-of-war.
Jorms Wilson was convicted in Norristown Pennsylvania for the January 1984 murder of Anthony Daly. The case drew national attention as the victim’s body was dismembered and dumped in Wissahickon Creek. Police had mistaken the remains for Fred Stahl the missing Philadelphia butcher before Wilson surrendered to Chicago police last September.
The Maine snowstorm locked locomotives and froze tracks, forcing Wood to keep tires up as four hundred cords of farmer timber were moved near a station in four days. A widowed innkeeper ran an improvised hotel and earned 375 dollars in the same period.
Mr Castle a teacher near Georgetown Missouri is jailed after an incident with Mrs Hubbard whom he boarded. Court testimony says he tickled her under the chin and kissed her five times as the charade prompted by a belief a new Missouri law may punish such acts more gravely. Mrs Hubbard urges the matter be pursued in court.
The week reports Senate and House actions on official papers in removal cases, pensions and laws affecting the army widow Hancock and a National livestock highway. Also moves to extend post delivery, exclude preemption, and finance the Fourth of July claims.
In Chicago the Supreme Court ruled the Mackin Gallagher conspiracy crime an infamous offense and required presentment or indictment by grand jury. Mackin faces five years in state prison for perjury, with only possible escape by pardon.
A fall in Pottsville Pennsylvania killed three men and badly injured five others. The steamship Rapidan was declared lost with its twenty two crew. Divers recovered a diamonds cache from the wrecked Oregon off Fire Island. Rioting and strikes unfolded in Reynoldsville and McKeesport while a large fire destroyed Gilbert Starch Works in Buffalo. A woman, Mrs Henry Franke, and others perished in separate incidents amid ongoing national troubles.
A garbled OCR fragment reports on political meetings, an attempted vote, and injuries in a railroad dispute. It references Geary Keen, a Missouri locale, a death of Aunt Mes, a sermon in Corydon Indiana, and mentions several named individuals and places with unclear context.
Reports say over twenty thousand Jews left Russian Poland for the United States in the past year. Emperor William’s eighty ninth birthday was celebrated across Berlin and Germany. Cholera reportedly vanished from Tonquin. France and Madagascar clashed in fresh hostilities. Japan sent five billion dollars to New York for the Grant monument fund. A Canadian Court of Appeals ruling in Montreal found a deal and change to be gambling. A ship named Studson Bay foundered near the Cape of Good Hope with fifteen crew lost. Panama Canal seen as likely to be completed in 158. Belgium faces widespread labor strikes led by anarchists. Liege civic guards called to arms. A London justice deemed American divorces invalid in England. Rev. Thomas R. Wexen, longtime pastor at Little Rock, Ark., dies in Hamilton Ont. Bismarck warns in the Reichstag against obstruction to national progress.
The report lists violent events and damages: five rioters shot near Charleroi during clashes with Belgian troops, looting causing $2.5 million damage in Charleroi, gas works threatened, thousands idle from gas factory looting valued at 1,000,000. Kansas City stable fire kills one and 38 horses. heavy snow in the West. stock-exchange totals and weekly comparisons. arbitration on Western railway troubles. Knights of Labor orders. tobacco cessation by Joxen and Sam Small. Marseau stable fire and firefighters injured. Prominent leaders and officials ill. Brainerd rail shops destroyed by fire. Congress and Senate actions on coinage and prayer debates.
In New York and St Louis meetings between Jay Gould and T V Powderly yield orders to resume work on the Southwestern system and submit disputes to seven member arbitration. Knights of Labor pledge to return to duty while Missouri Pacific and related lines discuss settlement terms and future arbitration.
The Knights of Labor executive board rejects Chairman Irons of St. Louis claiming no authority to extend the strike nationwide. Powderly's circular urges restraint, arbitration, and no new member influx while warning against political use of the order and calls for patience and investigation before further action.
The House discussed the Silver question after a chaplain prayer described as incendiary. Representatives Grosvenor and James clashed over printing the prayer, while Culberson Hatzell Taylor favored free coinage and Long Dorgan opposed it.
The Philadelphia typesetting contest ended March 29 with Duguid of Cincinnati winning first prize and McCann of New York second. Duguid set a new record, 6.635 cms in three hours, amid a field of eight contestants across 33 hours.
A coal mine fire at Roan Iron Company in Rockford continues to grow as fire damp and collapsing slate force evacuation. The blaze extends to four drifts with a strong draft. seven firemen wounded as miners seal vents to smother flames along the mountain slopes.
A major blaze swept Lower Black Rock near Buffalo yesterday damaging the North Buffalo flouring mills at the west end by the elevator well. Losses include Jacob Schoelkopt and Gilbert starch works with insured sums totaling around $280,000 and about $150,000 in damage to small houses and stores. The Gilbert starch works produced 620 bushels daily and employed 250 men. the fire's origin remains unknown.
Congressmen Burleigh says ex-President Arthur, ill but improving, may sail for Europe this summer after weather settles. He notes Arthur could be a candidate to replace Warner Miller and that Arthur’s friends will press his claims if a deadlock arises.
Corunna New York reports Western New York apple growers hold about 60 000 barrels of choice fruit unsold due to weak prices in New York and Chicago wholesale markets. Lyons alone stores 20 000 barrels awaiting buyers.
Typhoid fever rages through the Columbus Ohio penitentiary with inmates succumbing to illness. Express companies decline to handle the bodies for burial or return to their homes, delaying funeral arrangements for families.
Mob attempts to derail a Missouri Pacific freight train in St Louis are checked by police after fierce clashes with strikers. A second engine hauls the freight to Kirkwood under guard as city officials and unions push for an end to the disruption.
Chicago reports the death of A N Kellogg at Thomasville Georgia aged fifty four president of the A N Kellogg Newspaper Company He pioneered the auxiliary publishing business and built a company with offices in Chicago St Louis Cleveland Kansas City Columbus New York and cinema He leaves a widow and two daughters.
An entire family was killed at Arboledos in Santander. Victims include Car delon Marciales, Facunda Ortega and her children Camila twelve Valeria ten Ricardo eight Cayetano five Virginia two and an infant. Six men including Antonio Mirabar Francisco Marciales Miguel Flores Pantaleon Roses and a deaf mute man were arrested. They face court martial. Other revolting crimes by the same fugitives are revealed.
A Kentucky mob seized three alleged assailants near Auburn after a reported attempted assault on Miss Cora Day. Despite posse custody, the men were strung up to a tree amid strong local sentiment, with no one daring to intervene.
Springfield March 25 From the circular report of the State Board of Agriculture the 1885 corn crop exceeded 1884 by 23 365 636 bushels totaling over 230 000 000 bushels. Other crops declined except buckwheat beans castor beans tobacco sorghum and sweet potatoes. Hog and cattle numbers up while sheep and wool down. Winter wheat seed for 1886 down 15 percent and rye down 10 percent.
Washington March 23 The first annual report of Carroll D Wright Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor urges that falling prices and machinery driven over production have depressed industry while immigration worsens the consuming power. Wright says prosperity is slowly returning and calls for policy measures to curb speculation in food and regulate tariffs currency immigration and labor contracts to raise wages and industrial education nationwide.
Dana Nebraska March 23 Burt County tragedy ends when a crowd sets fire to a barn where Allen Wright the killer of two men and wounding several others had held off about two hundred armed men for over forty hours. He dies in the blaze his body riddled with bullets and burned limbs. His remains buried in a corn field.
In Holmes County at Tella Lake on a Saturday three intruders bound Mrs. Mary Schlander and a resident, tortured them for their hidden cash, stealing 1800 dollars from the widow and 100 from the man. A Tehula posse pursued, two thieves were captured after a woods chase, one killed and the other mortally wounded, with H B Jones severely injured.
Boston reports Holmes and Lowell plan an ocean voyage within three weeks likely on the Catalonia, Holmes's first extended overseas trip in decades, with a fall return anticipated. London notes petroleum finds in Upper Egypt spark an oil fever and push for Soudan reoccupation as exploration widens along the Red Sea coast.
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