Record-Setting Tulare Tree Cut for Tulare Opaty
A redwood specimen measuring twenty eight and a half feet in diameter was recently felled in Tulare opaty, marking a remarkable forestry event.
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1889
Page
6
A redwood specimen measuring twenty eight and a half feet in diameter was recently felled in Tulare opaty, marking a remarkable forestry event.
Toe Shah of Pelesta notes the Duchess of Marlboro as the most handsome woman in England, adding that she is American.
A charter is granted for Liberia's first railroad, extending about 656 miles. The project marks a major transport milestone for the country, promising a long-distance line to connect key regions and boost commerce.
Burro Bit writes to a Colorado friend that he has received marriage proposals from twenty seven wealthy Parisiennes. The note highlights social interest and Burro Bit’s marital prospects as Parisian society figures report.
Rev. De. Epward Everitt Hare recalls that as college students he and a friend took the first daguerreotype ever made in Boston, marking an early moment in the city’s photographic history.
For the first time since 1859 Georgia has grown enough corn to meet internal needs and will show a surplus of about one million bushels available for sale.
In Fremont Ohio a plan to establish a new school honors the late Mrs Lucy Webb Hayes wife of former President Hayes The proposed institution would be named Lucy Webb Hayes Seminary and focus on local educational goals.
Observers note a surge in stenographers from about a dozen in 1840 to around forty thousand today, with New York City housing three thousand. The rapid growth reflects expanding administrative and legal services across the nation.
Boston paper reports physician poll on ice water use. Responses vary from good if not excessive to very beneficial with several non committal opinions.
The article notes two dynamo exhibits at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial and now reports $510,000,000 invested as capital in the electric light industry.
Pennsylvania troop monuments at Gettysburg will be dedicated on September 11 and 12 with a veteran reunion promised on those dates.
A PictssuraH detective went out for a day's duck shooting and fired on a flock of birds. An hour later he was taken into custody by a rural constable for destroying a farmer's tame ducks.
A valuable horse belonging to a farmer at Trowley near Faversham England died after a viper about eighteen inches long was found inside its stomach. It is supposed the reptile was swallowed while drinking at a pond.
A Jersey City widow says she has refused at least a hundred proposals since her husband's death. She has arranged and erected a tombstone at her anticipated burial site and recently decorated her prospective grave with flowers on a Sunday.
M Corrroxne deposits with the Paris Academy a sealed communication describing a machine called tel ephoto. It claims to transmit luminous vibrations to visualize objects hundreds or thousands of miles away despite intervening obstacles.
A Boston watchmaker faced a rare task of assembling two watches costing $2,500 each. Each case is pure gold and houses 400-piece movements. The larger dial includes four subsidiary dials: lunar phase diagram, monthly dial, day of month, and day of week.
Paris hosted a banquet in the Palais d Industrie for 15000 provincial mayors and other attendees including 2000 Senators journalists and town councilors. The feast included 6900 pounds of fish 3400 pounds of beef 600 ducks 1200 geese with 600 gallons of soup and 125 sauces. Waiters numbered 1009 and 40 butlers served 80000 plates and 15000 bottles of claret along with pomace and champagne assortments.
Three London firms, of diamond brokers, reportedly dominate current diamond output from South African fields. They aim to push prices higher, a fact the newspaper notes as historically evident. Many young men are targeted by jewelers, and engagement is portrayed as a trap to secure control.
Mrs Mannie Hili captains a steamer on the Columbia River with her husband as engineer and pilot. He obeys her steering calls while they navigate life together. They reside in Portland when ashore and are said to own property worth about twenty five thousand dollars.
Mr Stown editor of the New York Journal of Commerce lives on Franklin avenue Brooklyn and cultivates roses with about 2700 cut in a day while leaving as many behind. He supplies friends and hospitals with them and estimates he has given away millions though never selling any. He claims to be the first to grow acclimental roses outdoors.
The Internal Revenue Department says 2 997 distilleries ran with output nearly 50 000 gallons daily above last year. Treasury reports show 20 000 000 silver dollars remain unrepresented by silver certificates. National bank notes retire at 3 million dollars monthly with silver certificates issued similarly. Seed leaf tobacco yields are fair nationwide and cotton crop prospects are the largest yet. A counterfeit two dollar silver certificate surfaced in the West. U S business failures totaled 190 in the seven days to the 23rd.
A collection of 19th century incidents reports on a West Seventh Street fire in New York City killing nine and injuring three, a large lumber fire in Tonawanda, Pa oil discovery anniversary in Titusville, a large Liabilities and assets figure for Wauregan Woolen, a cyclone in Maine, an Allegheny oil refinery blast with two deaths, a Horace Seaver obituary, Johns town street cleanup funds exhausted, a lost British petroleum laden bark Onaway, a race fleet voyage to Queens Town, an Erie Lakeshore yard oil tank explosion, debt relief in New Hampshire, a national league formation, the Auburn prison release and rearrest, Arabs denied landing in New York, four murderers executed at Tombs, and a Forepaugh circus train wreck near Potsdam.
A wide survey of events from Grantsburg Wisconsin to Indiana Illinois and beyond recounts a water spout washing out bridges in Wisconsin, a patent sale for a dish washer in Illinois, a long drought record death in Indiana, bogus coins in Grand Forks and flood relief in West Virginia. Other items include a train wreck attempt near Rome City Indiana, a politician’s wife eloping with a priest, a Duluth hill-town dam burst, record tobacco sale in Louisville, Minnesota freight washouts with fatalities, and public notes on suffrage and political campaigns across states. The President’s arrival in Indianapolis and a dentist’s death in Savannah close the round-up of notable happenings.
At Anaconda on the 22d the Montana State Republican convention nominated T. G. Power for Governor, J. B. Richards for Lieutenant Governor, and T. H. Carter for Congress. The report also notes various political and violent events across the nation on the same date.
A boiler burst on a Shanghai steamer killing thirty. In London a editor fatally shot his wife and child then died by suicide. Edward Conroy, US Consul at Porto Rico, died aged about eighty. A storm struck Paris and Eiffel Tower was struck by lightning with no damage. Ireland’s Mr. BatfourR accused by Hon. Timothy Healy of inciting vice and famine. Austrian storms killed people and damaged property. London death sentence for Mrs Mayprick commuted to life imprisonment. Queen toured Wales after leaving London. Simmons & Buron failed in Fredericktown with liabilities over $1 million. Parnell reportedly to tour America for health. Mexico City cotton manufacturers form a US-cotton buying cartel. Madrid officials resign over $20 million fraud. Gooperham & Worris sold a Toronto distillery for $6 million to a British syndicate. Cholera rages around Bagdad and Russarah with military cordons ordered.
Advices of the 24th report widespread flood damage in China with many houses submerged in Chefoo region and a huge death toll. In the United States on the 24th fires destroy business blocks in Columbus Ohio and packing-house in Kansas City Kansas with heavy losses. other incidents include shipwrecks, drownings, and a large wave of July immigrants at Castle Garden.
In Indianapolis on August 23 President Harrison attended the corner stone ceremony for Indiana’s soldiers and sailors monument. A crowd of about 40,000 filled Circle Park as the 104 foot scaffold rose, flags and lights glowed, and a procession of 8,000 moved to the site for the stone laying and remarks by Governor Hovey, General M D Manson, General John Coburn, and President Harrison.
The article details the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Monument project begun after 1870s meetings, securing funding, design approval from Bruno Schmitz, and construction milestones. It notes a 268 foot height, 192 foot footprint, light gray limestone, bronze doors, and a dedication to Indiana's silent victors with a total cost near 250000 dollars.
A celebratory excursion on the Knoxville Cumberland Gap and Louisville line derailed at Flat Gap Creek twenty-two miles from Knoxville. Three men died Judge George Andrews S T Powers and Alexander Reeder. Forty one were injured including Alexander A Arthur Isham Young John T Hearn and others. The crash halted aid for hours amid rain and chaos. Intense local shock followed the disaster.
London August 23 The Home Secretary Matthews commuted Mrs Maybrick’s execution sentence to life in penal servitude after medical testimony questioned the death linkage. No further appeal will be entertained. Papers laud the decision as a proper discharge of duty and reflect public satisfaction.
The 1910 apple crop is down in the great apple belt with 65 percent of a full crop in New England New York and Michigan. New York fruit is about half normal at 45 percent. Ohio and Illinois crops are not in good condition as well.
Erastus Wiman claims the North American Salt Company will rebound after its stock offering failed to float three weeks ago. He says the setback does not mean abandonment and that the enterprise will soon be on its feet with assured success.
Pennsylvania weather service statisticians calculate that if all summer rain in the state were gathered in one spot it would form a lake about 1,000 miles square and 35 feet deep. They report that during the Johns town flood over three days nearly 7,000,000,000 tons of water poured onto Northern Pennsylvania mountains.
Jacob Miller, a wealthy Canton and Akron magnate tied to Aultman firms and Akron iron works, died of paralysis Thursday at age to be confirmed. His life was insured for $135,000.
Four condemned murderers Patrick Packenham Jack Lew is James Nolan and Ferdinand Carolin were hanged at the Tombs in New York City on two paired scaffolds. The sequence included last rites, priestly consolations, and graphic details of the executions with differing reactions from the condemned.
Washington August 24 reports that the Chippewa Indian Commission may open about 3,000,000 acres in Minnesota. The commission can relinquish parts of Red Lake and White Earth reservations to allocate lands to Indians, totaling an estimated 2,250,000 acres. President must approve the agreement before it becomes operative.
Coroner Donovan testified as the Wright examination closed. The defense waived examination and Charles Wright was remanded without bail until November term. A strong effort will seek a venue change.
Cholera in virulent form spreading in Bagdad and Bassarah. Both cities ordered quarantined with troops surrounding each to enforce the measure.
Elf King a pacing horse with a 2 25 private record dropped dead near the judges stand after winning the first heat of a Sabina Ohio race. Owned by R. L and P. A. Goodpaster of Mt. Sterling Kentucky, the animal valued at 10000 dollars, suspected aconite poisoning.
Fire at Hoag's flouring mill in Manchester Iowa destroyed the mill and the electric light plant. The blaze caused about 30000 dollars in losses, with no insurance on the structures. Authorities suspect arson.
Acting Secretary Blaine reports Legitime accepted terms and embarked on a French ship. Hippolyte’s forces entered Port au Prince with no disorder reported. Galena sails to Port au Prince to protect American interests as the Haitian conflict winds down. The uprising began with President Salomon’s flight and ended with Legitime’s presidency after a costly struggle.
Carlisle D Graham completed a perilous barrel journey from Maid of the Mist to the devil's rapids and the great whirlpool, emerging uninjured despite a waterlogged barrel. Spectators numbered over two thousand as the craft reached Lewiston at 5 20 p m. If uninjured, Graham plans to attempt the Horseshoe falls today and himself next Sunday.
Ed Hessman of Cincinnati and Bertha Eliff were found near the city limits with throats cut. Hessman survived and told how, after a three year affair, a quarrel at Kissell's resort led him to stab Eliff and then cut his own throat. Eliff was a dressmaker with a good reputation.
Denver reports two more kerosene related deaths this month as two women die from burns including Mrs Dulmadge mother of the city fire marshal and Mrs Jeff Orr wife of a prominent Durango businessman when kerosene ignites and explodes during stove lighting.
Henry Goodman stabbed D. J. Sharp to death in a Buckeye Kentucky courtroom during a civil suit involving Goodman’s sister Miss Goodman. Sharp allegedly insulted the sister and moved toward her. Goodman stood and fatally stabbed him, then fled the scene.
Forest fires sweep near Sirrea City Colorado on Aug 26 with dozens aiding. A man died, his remains found burned. Fire spreads northward toward Young America Mining Company. Town-wide alarm and anxiety mount as volunteers battle the blaze.
A large number of letters were stolen from the mails between Madison and Milwaukee, with bank letters especially taken. It is believed large sums of money and valuable papers were carried off, and United States detectives search for the thieves.
Joseph E. Russell a 16 year old from Ludlow Kentucky leapt from the Cincinnati Southern railroad bridge into the Ohio River a distance of 101 feet. The stunt was the result of a wager and he suffered no injuries.
In Providence RI on Aug 6, the Spring Lake reservoir near Fishville burst, flooding a Pawtuxet valley area. Three people, Mrs Greene Tew age 60, Mrs Hawkins age 90, and Mrs Tew's seven year old son, were drowned in a woodland strip as floodwater swept through.
Reports from San Francisco dated Aug 26 describe the Yellow River breach at Shan Tung July 22 flooding wide areas to twelve feet, washing away houses and drowning many. ten districts submerged and more feared. Japan’s Kumamoto quake on July 28 kills eighteen, wounds nineteen, demolishes fifty-two dwellings, with fifty-three aftershocks observed by July 4. many residents sleep outside.
Governor Waterman presses for dismissal of charges against Justice Stephen J. Field in Sacramento. Attorney General Johnson writes Stockton district attorney White that no evidence implicates Field in Judge Terry's shooting and urges dismissal while leaving future action possible if new evidence arises.
Henry Shaw, aged 90, English born benefactor of St Louis, died peacefully at his home with sister Mrs Julius Morriss present. He built the world famous botanical gardens and Tower Grove Park, left an estate valued at about 2.5 million, and likely to benefit the city through bequests. His will may favor Episcopal charitable institutions.
A severe storm tore through Totrpo O about 5 pm Saturday wrecking the circus tent. The crowd panicked as ropes snapped and canvas collapsed. a girl broke her leg, others assaulted by debris, with women fainting and carried away.
Mount Gilead Ohio August 26 The Mount Gilead National Bank closed as directors met. At two o clock it was announced cashier R P Holliday was about twenty five thousand dollars short in his accounts. Bank examiner Sullivan is to investigate.
A structure housing miners supplies at Streator burned Saturday night. Firefighters battled the blaze to prevent spread as the building was consumed by flames and officials began assessing damage and losses.
In Kansas City on Saturday evening Miss Mamie L. Burlew was run over and killed with her body described as cut to pieces. R T Hinde, recorder of deeds for Jackson County, fell while grappling with a car and was badly cut about the head. he remained unconscious and his life was despaired of.
James Tunny died in Boston at age 103. He emigrated from Ireland sixty one years ago. His wife survives him.
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