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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1890
Page
2
A reported electric brake trial in England halted a car at 30 miles per hour within 200 feet. The item also notes brief names in Europe, a peculiar inheritance case, a lead poisoning report, and a famine described in the Soudan with cannibalism among natives.
General Middleton, once commander of the Canadian militia censured by Parliament for a questionable fur transfer involving a Manitoba citizen during the Riel rebellion, has resigned his post.
QurEN VictoriA has completed fifty three years on the throne and now stands as the longest reigning English monarch aside from Henry III, with George TIL’s sixty-year reign excluded due to regencies.
At Mount Hope Ontario Joel Smith raised the U S flag over his home on the Fourth. Neighbors demanded its removal and when refused shot the flag to shreds, distributing pieces to the crowd. A second flag was raised and met with the same response.
John H. Lester of Henry County poor-house asserts he is 123 years old and three times wounded in the revolutionary war. He says he fought under Jackson in 1812 and knew Washington, was acquainted with Lafayette.
The Tur Photographic Society of Geneva tested whether long married life makes couples look alike and found married pairs more similar than siblings. Other items note Grover Cleveland Westinghouse's marble Lenox cottage costs over 500000 and an Hungarian land dispute settled after centuries, now submerged under a lake for two centuries.
A magazine article soberly discusses the theory that the sun is cooling and the earth growing colder, predicting an eventual freeze of humanity. The piece notes the current iceless winter and high mercury levels, joking that the theory would need a patent ice machine to prevent spoiling.
A Philadelphia dentist pulls a front tooth after finding a rubber band wrapped around the root. The band, linked to a child’s accidental play, had remained unnoticed for a month, causing the tooth to decay and fall out.
IpA Lewis, custodian of Lime Rock lighthouse, has saved 80 lives and receives 750 dollars yearly plus two tons of coal from the government. Her father’s illness led to her lifelong post. She holds a Treasury gold medal, three Rhode Island silver medals, a Massachusetts Humane Society medal, and a New York Life-Saving Association medal as prized honors.
A new chief commissioner of the London police is praised as a distinguished military officer and famed British Army sportsman. His hunter fame spans India, where a jungle encounter cost him his left arm, echoing a predecessor maimed in India during a boar hunt. Also noted is Edison’s Paris expo signing device enabling distant checks by stylus imprint on paper and a receiving cylinder reproducing signatures on chemical paper.
The report covers Senate actions on the silver bill and Wyoming admission, House votes, and a July 9 wind storm at Plattsburgh New York and other tragic weather events. It notes deaths including General Clinton Fisk and multiple accidents and fires across the nation with political nominations and proxy events.
The Navy Department on the 10th ordered two war vessels to Central America to safeguard Americans if war erupts between Salvador and Guatemala. The President approved Wyoming's statehood act that afternoon. US business failures for the week ended the 1ltle totaled 197, up from 178 prior. January 1 to date failures reached 5,702, down from 6,255 a year earlier.
The Louisiana lottery bill passed the House on the 8th by a 68 to 31 vote despite the governor's veto. Other items include National Educational Association session opening in St Paul and a council closing meetings, a deadly railway collision at Sibley Arkansas killing four and injuring nine, and an Arkansas GOP convention backing the Union Labor ticket led by Rev. N B Vizer for governor.
Reports from Osaka cite fifty nine drownings during a new sailing vessel launch. A cyclone in Arabia on the 9th killed over seven hundred and caused extensive property losses. Dr Peters, a German explorer, reached the African interior coast. Argentina issued 100 million in paper money to ease finances. A fire at Kirin, Japan, destroyed one fifth of the city with three million dollars in losses and ten lives. Bermuda-Canada cable completed. Armenian peasants burned by Turkish officials for unpaid taxes. Fort de France in Martinique nearly destroyed by fire with many lives lost. In Maidan and Wassilkervo Russia, fires killed seven people each and destroyed hundreds of homes. Spain reports a decreasing cholera epidemic on the 11th.
In Congress on the 12th the shipping measures passed and the tariff bill was taken up as unfinished business. The House approved the compromise silver bill by 122 to 90. A National Division Sons of Temperance petition favored the original package bill. Reports say 30 died in the Tioga steamer explosion in Chicago. fires in Philadelphia lumber yard and Carey Bros wallpaper factory caused $600,000 loss.
A great institution forms with the University of Chicago charter. Trustees named include John D Rockefeller Nelson Blake Marshall Field Fred T Gates Francis E Hinckley and Thomas W Goodspeed. The charter outlines aims to provide higher education for all in equal terms and to establish colleges academies and professional departments within a single university to offer degrees diplomas and instruction across arts sciences law medicine technology and more. The board will have twenty one trustees serving varying terms with two thirds Baptist church members. Location fixed in Chicago.
Chicago reports 117 sun stroke deaths last week out of 582 total, with 8 percent fatalities. New York records 100 degrees and 17 prostrations, one death. Boston and Illinois towns report extreme heat, with multiple deaths and prostrations. farms and workers suffer as drought looms.
Three thousand locked-out cloak-makers marched through Manhattan on July 9 in a stark display of poverty. The crowded procession, watched by cheering spectators, served as a powerful appeal for aid and charitable action amid extreme destitution.
A Cross Mountain vein six miles from Tin Cup yields ten feet of ore with four feet free gold quartz and assays from 440 dollars to twenty thousand dollars per ton. The mine value estimates range from 560 thousand to 187 million dollars as thousands rush to the camp. Also reports the death of actor Thomas L. Moxley known as Master Floyd who originated the Topsy role in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
In the third race at Washington Park on Tuesday a rider named Abbas fell when his horse No vetto stumbled near the three quarter post. Abbas died about an hour later from his injuries.
Dispatches report a deadly blast at the La Esperanza silver mine in Padusa Hidalgo on Sunday night. Nine men were seriously injured and two killed with several others dying afterward. It is feared two more may not recover.
In Day's Gap Alabama on a Sunday Dr John Monroe killed his four children and then took his own life. Authorities say he appeared insane on religious matters. The incident shocked local residents and authorities investigated possible motives and mental state.
Details from June 22 fire in Fort de France Martinique describe rapid spread from Rue Blenac to Grande Rue and Rue St Louis. The cathedral and palace burned, dynamite used to slow the blaze, 12 bodies recovered, 15 soldiers hospitalized, 75 percent of town destroyed. British West Indies islands provide aid.
Washington reports that New York City is likely to show a smaller official population than the supervisors’ estimate of 1,700,000. Chicago and Philadelphia near 1,100,000, Brooklyn 800,000, St. Louis 448,000, Boston 437,000, Baltimore 483,000. Buffalo may outpace San Francisco for ninth. total U.S. population expected near 66,000,000 with counting finishing about September 1 after beginning over two weeks ago.
Griffin Ga July 11 A fatal race riot occurred at Starrs mill pond in Fayette County at 8 oclock Thursday afternoon Four negroes were killed and six wounded two of whom are reported dying Eight whites were shot but it is thought only one of them fatally making eighteen in all killed and wounded A darky selling wine on the occasion quarreled with a white man over wine purchase and the dispute escalated into the deadly outbreak.
A Southern Central special train struck a carriage at a grade crossing two miles north of Owego at about 6 PM. Five women were aboard the carriage. three, Mrs Cleveland widow of ex Sheriff Cleveland, Mrs James Shay, and Mrs Avery Whitmarsh, died instantly. Mrs Thomas Beahan and Mrs Harvey Van Duser were drawn into the locomotive pilot and dragged some distance.
Aurora Illinois July 11 M M Rawlin an early settler living four miles east of the city fell from a hay loft twenty five feet Wednesday evening fatally injuring him He was mayor of Aurora in 1861 and 1862 and for many years served as supervisor A separate dispatch from San Francisco July 11 reports a great Kirin Japan fire destroying one fifth of the city and causing two to three million dollars in losses It spread along the river burning timber rafts with hundreds of people onboard.
President signs act admitting Wyoming as a state, marking its entry into the Union. The Territory, organized July 2, 1888, spans about 100,000 square miles with east to west expanse of 36 miles and north to south 27 miles, rising from 3,500 to 14,000 feet in elevation amid mountain ranges, valleys, plains, and expanding plateaus.
A historical overview describes Wyoming s geographic features and resources including Yellowstone National Park and vast grazing lands. It notes a population of 60 000 to 75 000 whites, peaceful Indians on reservations, stock raising as a leading industry, and rich mineral deposits with coal, iron, copper, and oil fields. It mentions agriculture yields, rail connections, education, water power, and Cheyenne as capital.
St Louis July 11 notes Benjamin W Lewis once bankrupted on Black Friday February 27 1885 after wheat collapse he now owns a Tin Cup Colorado mine valued at about 187000000 for 1000 feet preliminary reports suggest if the vein holds one week he will possess immense wealth Lewis had been ruined by 5 000 000 bushels of wheat and lost his fortune in mining ventures before striking wealth in Tin Cup Colorado.
In Cincinnati on July 11, the Proctor and Gamble soap works were capitalized at 6.5 million dollars in a historic deal. Morehead Irwin & Co. and two New York banks will broker 3.5 million in stock offered to the public. the remaining 8 million will stay with Proctor and Gamble for five years control. A second note mentions Heligoland to be administered by a special imperial commissary under Home office authority.
A government office states that the region's status remains undecided as rulers weigh its integration with Germany or Prussia. Officials emphasize the decision will determine political alignment, governance, and administrative control pending formal resolution.
July 11 Cincinnati reports say the Globe warehouses owned by Brooks Waterfield Co were destroyed with contents. Loss estimated at 130000 with 1000 hogsheads of tobacco valued at 125000 in the burning building. Tobacco in the larger warehouse damaged by water about 5000.
A violent blast aboard the Tioga, a large steam freighter tied to a Chicago dock, killed fifteen sailors and wounded nine as 150 barrels of oil ignited. Firefighters battled flames while the vessel sank to the river bottom, with recoveries of four more bodies and one colored roustabout found among the dead.
General Clinton B. Fisk died at 175 West Fifty-eighth Street New York at 10 30 am aged 61 after illness from la grippe. He was born December 5 1838 in York Livington County New York and rose from merchant to banker then served as Colonel in the Thirty third Missouri Infantry. He directed Freedmen's Bureau work in Kentucky and Tennessee and supported Fisk University and several colleges. A longtime Prohibitionist he ran for New Jersey governor in 1886 and for President in 1888 with John A Brooks, noted for benefactions and speaking ability.
The capital Seoul is occupied by U S Marines under Admiral Belknap after their Swatara crew landed at Shemulp o. Commander McGowan and aides Denny and Le Geldre meet the Korean king who seeks protection, with the Swatara offshore flying the stars and stripes. Anxious naval circles foresee potential fighting to exit if internal trouble worsens.
Two deadly railroad wrecks in the South claim eight lives. At Sibley Arkansas near Memphis a Memphis and Little Rock passenger train collided with a Kansas City freight car. Four killed and a dozen injured, all victims identified as African American. At Clearcreek near Louisville and Nashville a collision between passenger and freight trains left four engineers and firemen dead and ten passengers injured, caused by the passenger train failing to follow orders.
The census office plans a rough count of the nation's population by August 1 as the basis for congressional reapportionment. The may be an unprecedented achievement if completed on time. The official rough count of St Louis reaches 448,124, about 12,000 above local estimates, while Baltimore stands at 433,689, up from 332,313 in 1880.
Reports from Bombay dated July 10 describe a cyclone in Muscat with about 700 feared dead. Floods from rising rivers wrecked buildings and devastated vegetation as terror-stricken residents fled the tempest. The brief dispatch notes widespread destruction and loss of life.
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