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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1887
Page
6
The report notes heavy tax payer presence among natives in the Sandwich Islands and states Alabama requires locomotive engineers to hold a state certificate proving color blindness. It also mentions a Fronipa woman sewing a bed quilt of sixteen thousand pieces, each smaller than a thumb nail.
Camp Merrima resident JoHan Allen of Maine attended his eight hundred and seventy third camp meeting and is noted as being ninety two years old. Paris editor M Nagret was sentenced to two months in prison and fined two hundred francs for unfairly wounding M Menyeille in a duel.
The St Johns Guild Floating Hospital of New York receives three thousand babies a week. Twenty five cents, says the Herald, put in the right place, will save an infants life. Davin Tutray, of Fremont, Ohio, rests his claim to fame on drinking a full gallon of buttermilk in seven minutes to win an accordion valued at three dollars.
Timothy Nolan of Indianapolis a laboring man aged fifty eight has become insane by brooding over the loss of all his savings deposited in Fletcher and Sharpe's Bank when it failed.
The President plans to leave Washington at the end of September for a tour including St. Louis Kansas City Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Milwaukee Nashville and Atlanta.
Fashionable people in England discard envelopes and return to folding letters, addressing on the back and sealing with wax, a reversal of modern mail conventions. This curious trend suggests civilization sometimes regresses as fashion dictates method.
A historic vignette describes a ten year old boy at the Krupp iron works begging a bread piece from a workman to quiet his hunger as the German Emperor points to the location.
Mrs Mary Casey of Ohio widow of Revolutionary War veteran John Casey will receive a five thousand dollar pension from the Government. The pension will bring the number of Revolutionary widows on the rolls to two, the other being Mrs Abigail Tilton of New Hampshire.
A report claims Robert Bonner, publisher of the New York Ledger, secretly carried a twenty thousand dollar life insurance on the late Sylvanus Cobb Jr to benefit his family. The details mention Cobb was unaware of the policy through Mr Cobb.
A physician cites a five year record of ninety three deaths aligning with the outgoing tide except four accidental deaths. Boston hosts a reunion of colored Union veterans with resolutions praising wartime service and urging improved conditions in the South. Commander in Chief Fairchild reports a free cottage grant offer for Grant’s Mount McGregor home. Montana’s rise is described as welcoming to industrious pioneers and a transformed future.
George DremMond known as Lord Drummond died penniless in a New York hospital after supporting his wife and child. Disowned in Europe for marrying below his class he refused to abandon his wife and chose poverty over perceived dishonor, dying of consumption.
Henn von Lape renowned for cultivating rare grape species at Geisenheim celebrates his seventieth birthday. He receives many letters including one from Prince Bismarck praising his unfettered devotion to horticulture and the value of gardening over politics.
A new manufacture in New York uses a process that treats iron surfaces with sequential heated air and coal gas acids. The method first forms red oxide of iron then converts it to black magnetic oxide, making the metal rust resistant in air and water. Applied to waterpipes and architectural work, it claims highly satisfactory results.
In July losses in the United States and Canada totaled 14,026,500 dollars, double the twelve year July average. For the first seven months, losses reached 76,928,100, versus 63,900,000 in 1886. The U S Land Office announced 21,000 acres of the Sioux City and St Paul grant to be opened Sept 12, while settlers’ rights remain protected. Silver coinage cost 25,349,274 for 43,266,831 dollars minted. Nine people in Washington were fined for street swearing. The Agriculture Department cited a drought reducing corn by seven points. spring wheat poor, oats near average, barley steady. Potatoes down 20 percent of expected yield. fruit and hay crops poor.
The East notes a fatal train strike near Deposit New York the Lock Haven killing of Culby and wife by robbers at Newark leather firm decisions to hire only non union workers rioting miners near Wilkes Barre injuring many including fatalities Russell Knevals son of a law partner dies from cigarette use in New York The American Agricultural Association session opens at Columbia College a parachute jump at Rockaway Beach and a New York Greenback Labor Party state convention in Albany A Boston secret society The Brotherhood forms with ballot fighting aims A Concord New Hampshire fire destroys factory and nine dwellings The New York Firemen restrict membership by race Douglass returns to New York The Henry Ives brokers assign New York liabilities The Pittsburgh Masonic Hall fire causes over 1 000 000 loss Farmers drought losses exceed 30 000 000 and a Beecher monument fund reaches 25 000 in Brooklyn
Reports from Cheboygan Michigan to Cedar Rapids Iowa describe raging forest fires burning hundreds of acres, destroying grain and timber and threatening towns. Across Illinois Wisconsin and Minnesota fires spread with thousands fighting blazes and major property losses.
The summary notes rain ending forest fires in Northern Michigan and drought relief across Madison Cedar Rapids Des Moines and Iowa. Fatalities include Mrs Sands and Mr Joyce near Madison and three men in Ishpeming mine shaft collapse. A major Toledo Peoria Western derailment near Chatsworth Illinois leaves 118 dead and about 300 injured. Tornado hits Renville Minnesota. shipwrecks and railway incidents also reported with wide regional impact.
Forty three deaths from cholera in Italy and ninety eight new cases in the past day. A Dublin fire destroyed property valued at five hundred thousand dollars. O'Donsett's mills near Brigden Ontario damaged by brush fires to one hundred fifty nine thousand dollars. A Waxholm fort shell killed nineteen men and wounded others including three officers. Canadian officials seek a broader extradition treaty with the United States.
The report tallies 83 killed near Chatsworth with 76 identified, 129 injured and over 420 total killed or wounded. Ex Senator Sargent dies in San Francisco. Clearing houses report weekly exchanges. cholera deaths rise. a Round Lake camp sermon draws ten thousand. A tornado in Lee County causes major damage and a church and other structures are destroyed in St Paul. Sixty people poisoned in Pittsburgh. attempted train wreck near Nebraska City. Five youths die in a lake near Chicago. Bulgaria’s Ferdinand takes oath. Massachusetts Democrats set Worcester convention. Toronto boat race winner Teamer. A jail release in Virginia. gang murders in Servia. Bishop Perry elected in Nova Scotia. NL week results list Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Warrington, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis.
Seventy five killed and three hundred injured when a two engine train of the Toledo Peoria Western plunged from a culvert near Chatsworth Illinois. Survivors describe scenes of fire, debris, and frantic rescues as rescuers worked through the night.
A Chicago prairie blaze near Eighty-ninth and Halsted destroyed the Wever wagon works at Eighty first and Wallace, Auburn school, a two story flat, and four cottages. Fire spread from a cottage on Halsted to the school and flat, with total losses estimated at many thousands. Firefighters fought the wind driven flames as a peat burning district burned elsewhere along the line.
Report from San Francisco dated August 11 states the Honolulu government is in full control by early August. Most nominees for nobles and representatives are American born or of American parentage. The government refuses to recognize King and royal household debts unless cleared by the King's chamberlain. A son-in-law of the late Premier Gibson is arrested for forgery.
The free delivery system is ordered to be established in Janesville Wisconsin with service to commence in October. The announcement notes delivery will start in the upcoming season and signals a new municipal service expansion.
Snetpyville Indiana August 11 John W Barnes sixty a wealthy farmer seven miles east shot himself in his barn yesterday morning He recently bought a $20 000 farm provoking objections from his children and it is believed to have driven his despondency
Pittspuren Pa August 11 The imports of iron and steel to the United States in the year ending July 1 totaled 1 524 604 cross tons the largest on record except for the fiscal year ending July 1 1880.
Rain across Iowa Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota and the Northwest ends drought fears and aids corn, pastures, and crops. Reports note heavy showers Aug 11 improving conditions and easing forest fire danger while Carolina rice crops suffer losses along the Savannah river. Government crop report sketches mixed yields with overall declines in corn and potatoes and a very poor fruit year.
In Reproro Indiana a switch-engine returning from a water-tank dashed into Rector's Cut and a baby sat on the track. Brakeman John Wiltler crawled onto the front and grabbed the child as the engine slid by, saving the infant amid cheers from residents.
The Times reports Ives and Stayner resigned from the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton board on condition that Cincinnati bankers provide the loan funds to cover their debts. Ives stands to gain a personal fortune between two and five million dollars. Both men stay on the directorate, aided by many friends on the board, while creditors in New York and Boston threaten actions to block the deal.
Paymaster Daniel N. Bush of the US Army is suspended for carelessness after a March Wyoming robbery where $7,700 was stolen. A court inquiry cites negligence by Major Bush as the cause, prompting his removal from duty. The report notes the investigation's finding and the disciplinary action.
Aug 13 reports from Pronia Illinois list 89 dead with nearly 100 feared. coroner and State Board of Railway Commissioners investigate. Witnesses include the surviving engineer and fireman while theories point to train wrecking or incendiary arson as motives.
Dun & Co reports drought ministries cut farm income with losses projected over 35 million for farmers and an 800 million aggregate loss. Rain improved some crops but Northwest markets face higher real estate influenced prices and tightened credit amid widespread business failures across the United States and Canada.
Reports from Denver describe White River Utes under renegade Chief Colorwa at Meeker threatening settlers. A brush with Garfield County sheriff over two indicted men left an Indian dead. The Governor was asked for aid as War Department attention focused on the outbreak.
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