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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1886
Page
6
A wet authenticated case of leprosy has been discovered in North Carolina. Barnum's elephant Alice, former Jumbo companion, has safely landed in New York. Francis Merry has pinned over three thousand blue ribbons on temperance converts at Tiffin Qa.
Reports claim recent rich placer gold discoveries near the Crow Creek headwaters. The note mentions exploration activity and potential mining interest in the region.
Chartes B Tuayer of Hartford Connecticut began a long bicycle journey to the Pacific carrying his supplies in a knapsack on his back. He plans to cover many states and report his progress as he travels westward.
Daniel Anxonp of Macon Georgia hid seven hundred dollars near his home in a hole. The flood recently overtook the location and carried away his savings.
The Supreme Court ruled the existing voter registration law unconstitutional, forcing Orecon to stage this year’s State election without a registration process. The decision alters how ballots will be prepared and may affect turnout and eligibility procedures.
A Pennsylvanian woman writes to several Congressmen requesting donations and promising to purchase a "Congressional machine" for use in sewing, signaling a push to secure a specially branded sewing device.
Enthusiastic Irish-Americans will send Mr. Gladstone two large albums containing the editorial opinions from the newspapers in this country on the Premier's scheme for a Dublin Parliament.
It is definitely settled that Francis Scott Key who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner will receive a fifteen thousand dollar monument in Baltimore funded by the State of Maryland and erected locally.
Recalled fact notes a deadly wind-storm sequence starting April 22, 1883, affecting the South and West and causing the loss of two to three hundred lives. The passage emphasizes the widespread destruction from that initial day.
Philadelphia presses a five-cent streetcar fare cut while Chicago already has five cents and seeks three cents. Denver residents advocate free streetcar rides.
Among the freaks of the Minnesota cyclone a crushed grave stone was landed in Sauk Rapids after being carried across the Mississippi. A fifteen hundred pound safe moved four hundred feet. Ireland reports rising starvation deaths while Mayo shopkeepers deny credit to priests. Senator Justin Morrill of Vermont turns 76, with thirty-one years in Congress, as Senator Sherman of Ohio began in 1855.
A Swiss society forms to promote good nature and politeness under all circumstances, with tests to prove resilience such as enduring toothache, neuralgia, or a foot stomp in a streetcar. The Treasury Secretary rules that German weeklys bound into books must pay duties despite prior free-list claims. Salt Lake Tribune reports Utah polygamy convictions in eighteen months and many others under indictment, with many out of the country or in hiding nearby.
Davis, owner of the Canada side museum, testified profits in the last five years averaged 15 316 64 dollars annually. Table Rock property brought in 12 077 dollars yearly, underscoring huge earnings in the dispute.
Prof Lewis Swift writes to the Rochester Democrat describing Barnard's comet near its May 24 peak about twenty degrees north of the Pleiades and Fabry's comet on April 30 about four degrees east of that future position. He calls the dual display a unique spectacle unlikely to be repeated.
The report notes an early tornado season with a fatality at St. Cloud Sauk Rapids and Rice's Station in Minnesota raising fears it will rival 1884. Past years show 111 lives lost in 1885, 675 in February and March 1884, and 509 in 1883, with storms often in spring rather than hot months.
News from Trispar and Transpar with multiple bills advancing in the Senate and House. Logan reintroduces army efficiency measures. bills address retirements, public appointments, district salaries, Indian affairs, and education studies. River and Harbor bill activity continues amid pension and relief actions.
Secretary of the Treasury issued a call on the 20th for three percent bonds amounting to 10 000 40 maturing June 1. The House Foreign Affairs Committee chair was instructed to report favorably a $147 748 indemnity for Chinaman losses at Rock Springs Wy. The Labor Committee hearings in Washington covered Knights of Labor grievances and Jay Gould's testimony on arbitration and strikes. US labor probes, arbitration views, and a Cleveland message on capital relations also appear amid weekly business failure tallies.
Nationwide labor unrest erupts in New York as streetcar workers, sugar refinery staff, and other unions strike or threaten action. The Bartholdi pedestal work nears completion with a September inauguration. A Remingtons firm becomes a receiver, a Pa home fire fatally harms children, and a Philadelphia case ends in a double tragedy. Vermont GOP set for June convention. Arthur's illness worsens amid speculation. A Philadelphia man fatally shoots his wife before suicide.
Five Indian Territory murderers were spared hanging and sent to life in prison while a domestic named Lena Roth was sentenced to death. In Little Rock Arkansas a deputy sheriff, beaten by strikers guarding Iron Mountain property, received a $500 check from Jay Gould. A prairie fire near Lyons Dakota Territory on the 2nd killed Mrs. Dollingey and her mother.
The Montreal flood on the 20th forced 7,422 families or about 30,000 people from their residences. In Mandalay rebels set fire to parts of the capital, destroying treasury and post office buildings and causing heavy damage in several districts. A physician sent to Paris by Austria recommends Pasteur’s hydrophobia treatment to physicians.
A tornado swept Killeen Texas on the 25th destroying buildings and vegetation, killing one and injuring several. Other reports note Sam Jones revival in Columbus Mississippi ending with 500 conversions, major stock exchanges showing weekly totals, Easter services nationwide, a deadly snow slide near Silverton Colorado, and various disasters including a Sauk Rapids cyclone damage, a fatal oil lamp explosion in Chicago, and fires and floods across multiple states.
President Cleveland urges Congress to create a three member Federal Labor Commission to arbitrate disputes between labor and capital, integrate it with the Bureau of Labor, and extend its powers to investigate causes of disputes. The goal is peaceful settlement of tensions affecting commerce, with careful limits under the Constitution and lessons from state railroad commissions.
New York report states the second volume of General Grant's memoirs is postponed again with publishers not expecting release before May 10. The new edition adds about 100 pages beyond the first volume.
Washington April 21 The House committee on labor troubles opened hearings with T W Powderly denying the Missouri Pacific strike stemmed from Hall’s discharge and blaming low wages long hours and company stores for redress delays. He outlined Knights of Labor aims to peaceful arbitration and protection of workers.
In Quebec, rumors of a $70,000 defalcation alarm the province. The embezzler, Gale, ran the department thirty years and died in Philadelphia after absconding. He confessed on his death bed that he misappropriated funds in the past three years and lost them in stock speculation. The estate will repay only $10,000 to the government.
Exports show continued gold flow from Wall Street with the steamship Labrador carrying 1,865,000 to Havre for France. Paris negotiates a 200.9 million loan, 120 million to cancel prior debts and the rest to cover floating obligations. The gold movement from New York may continue for weeks.
A portion of Libby Prison buildings in Ricamont Virginia collapsed last evening due to overburdened floors. The three tenements housed by the Southern Fertilizing Company included a fertilizer storage area. Estimated damage to stock and building could reach 100000 dollars.
Charles Mitchell aged eighty three father of actress Maggie Mitchell died in Troy New York on April 22. The death ends a long life marked by ties to the stage and to his famous daughter. The report notes his age and his role as Maggi Mitchell's father, reflecting on the family connection to the theater.
A dam at Mountaintop Lake near East Lee Massachusetts failed before six. A raging torrent six feet deep swept through East Lee and downstream damaging mills, barns, bridges, and homes. Eight people are confirmed dead with more feared missing, and property losses exceed 200000 dollars with road repair costs around 20000 dollars. The disaster halted local industry and left many unemployed as towns assess the toll.
Washington and Buffalo chatter grows over an impending marriage between President Grover Cleveland and Miss Frankie Folsom of Buffalo. Reports say the ceremony could occur at the White House in June, with Albany as a retirement home possibility.
A Mandalay dispatch describes fires set by fifty followers of Prince Myingzaing on the Burmese New Year, burning hundreds of houses and destroying key buildings including the treasury and post office. One third of the walled city ruined. troops captured several incendiaries and clashes occurred outside the city injuring and killing multiple followers. English apothecary Mr Devine was killed.
Sparka from a passing locomotive set fire to woods in the Blue mountains near Reapina and Tamaqua. The blaze covers about twenty five square miles and may grow as large as the destructive fires two years ago that forced the entire population to fight the flames.
Lincoln Neb April 21 The executive committee of the Irish National League of America commends Mr Gladstone for his Ireland measures and urges all branches to organize citizen meetings to obtain resolutions endorsing the cause and Mr Gladstone s efforts and to secure similar sympathy resolutions from state legislatures and other bodies
Washington Hatchet describes a Tokio crafted two-room miniature house exhibited in New York. The model includes a tatami floor, rice paper window, woven bamboo ceiling, lacquered accents, and a tea room with sliding silk doors. Notable features are cushions instead of chairs, kneeling hosts for guests, and scarce lacquer ware now prized and returning from Paris and New York to Japan.
A Parisian millionaire M Lang commissions an ultra lavish bed with bells a waking candle a coffee aroma and a musical box to coax a sleeper awake. If needed a mechanical lift deposits the sleeper on the floor while a Levezvous card appears. A West wedding serenade caps the tale.
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