Comet Speed Reported at 968000 Miles Per Hour
The latest comet is traveling at the rate of 968000 miles an hour. Bees are said to be cheaper and more plentiful this year than at any time since 1860.
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1886
Page
2
The latest comet is traveling at the rate of 968000 miles an hour. Bees are said to be cheaper and more plentiful this year than at any time since 1860.
Chinese residents expelled from Tacoma Washington have filed claims against the city seeking 75000 dollars. The action names the city and cites the disputed expulsion as the basis for the request.
A New York physician reports a successful treatment of Jackjaw the first such recovery on record. The case marks a historic medical breakthrough, with the healer credited for the decisive intervention and patient improvement.
Extreme temperatures halt operations in the Cargo Mouchacho range of Southern California until autumn. Local crews suspend activities as heat reaches hazardous levels, delaying projects and affecting schedules across the region.
Cyclone insurance companies are being organized amid skepticism about the need to insure a cyclone. The article notes the unusual premise and questions why anyone would seek coverage for such a natural disaster.
A gentleman who recently met ex-President Arthur at his New London retreat recalls the discussion focused on fishing. The remark highlights a casual, private exchange about a favorite pastime during a political figure’s retirement residence visit.
The largest North American lake, Lake Michigan, extends about 300 miles in length and 108 miles at its widest. It has a mean depth near 690 feet and an elevation of about 506 feet, covering roughly 25,000 square miles.
Ice-dealers in New York raised their minutes by twenty five percent as last winter’s frosts hit crops hard. The move reflects supply tightness and higher costs in the cold season.
A cigar shaped raft of logs valued at 35000 dollars is to be towed from St John to New York by a regular ocean steamer. Customs duties on the timber amount to 8000 dollars.
Dr C H F Peters of the Litchfield Observatory at Hamilton College Utica New York reports discovery of a new minor planet of eleventh magnitude designated as asteroid 259 in the asteroid group.
A recently prominent London Ontario solicitor visits the United States for an unspecified stay and takes $20,000 belonging to others, leaving many clients in a delicate financial predicament.
Dr Gating to showcase a fifty pound riot suppression gun in Washington. The devise can fire up to one thousand shots per minute and is intended for police patrol wagons. The display aims to demonstrate a portable heavy weapon for crowd control.
Reports say the penitentiary houses a notable inmate 2 Mrs Victor who poisoning her brother in Cleveland. State authorities discuss capital punishment debates with governors and officials amid ongoing legal proceedings and appeals.
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Local reports indicate unusually high penalties are imposed on the town of Pigiron for weekly rates. Officials say the demand is restricted, and strong measures are being taken to enforce compliance, with recent fines noted as part of ongoing enforcement efforts.
The Povomar Society plans a August meeting in San Francisco with Colonel S M Taylor as orator and Fred Emerson Brooks as poet. Generals Sheridan, Sherman, Logan, Locke, McMahon and King, plus a large Eastern delegation, have promised to attend with events on August 2 and 4.
The first of the new aqueduct tunnels near New York was cut through the morning prior. The juncture point lies 180 feet below the surface with shafts 3,940 feet apart. The tunnel is 14 feet in diameter and the alignments meet within 1 inch at the circumference. The total length now worked reaches fifteen miles.
A new telegraph instrument named the Sensophone derives its name from delivering messages to the finger by touch rather than by ear as in the Sounder. The device mirrors the Sounder otherwise and offers silent operation with the option to write notes with one hand while receiving on the other.
In response to petitions from business leaders across many cities the Postmaster-General amended postal laws to permit mailing liquids within the United States and territories that are not prone to explosion or ignition by shock. The change includes soft soaps, pastes, salves, ointments, and similar consistencies under safety conditions protecting other mail matter.
Tut Budlulo Courier notes the first year of a free Niagara era shows success as wealthy visitors remain, yet a growing crowd of moderate income sightseers joins the hotels. The falls, once restricted by a closed corporation, are now accessible to thousands paying the actual trip cost, expanding the audience for the spectacle.
News of the Week from July includes Senate debate on the River and Harbor bill, Republican editors urging an investigation of Senator Payne’s election, and House actions on internal revenue provisions and cigar bond requirements. July 13 to 16 reports cover pensions, elections, disasters, and a busy Congress.
Washington reports drought driven June wheat losses totaling about eleven million bushels for spring and winter varieties. Cleveland pardons bank president Porter Lee. ex Governor Trompsex becomes Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. US Canada fire losses through June reach 53.9 million dollars, up from last year. Cleveland nominates Turpie for US Attorney Indiana. Postmaster General adds 453 money order offices. Extradition treaty with England signed. dynamite miscreants to be surrendered. Civil service warnings issued to office-holders. Laird of Nebraska accused Cobb of Indiana in a blow causing blood. Banking and securities chatter. seven days of failures total 103, vs 159 prior week.
Reports from across the Northeast and beyond include the drowning of Justin Matthews eleven, Albert Matthews fifteen, and Rufus Allen eighteen in Highland Lake, Bridgeton Maine. Natural gas found at five hundred feet near Nean Worsville, New York, and a baby whale killed at Durham New Hampshire. Lockout affects 54 tanneries and shops in Peabody Salem Idaho. Prohibitionists nominate Joseph Wentworth for New Hampshire governor at Concord. Lightning damage across Western New York and Erie County tallies losses near one hundred thousand dollars. Rev Isaac Bevan D D dies aged seventy five near Scranton. Newark storms cost about one hundred thousand in damages. Forepaugh circus train wreck at Wasselborough Maine injures several, kills twenty five horses. Edward Z C Judson, “Nep Bentinn,” dies aged sixty four in Stamford New York.
The ore arrived in Chicago on the Mth en route to New York. Record rains flood Cape Fear area in North Carolina for the 14th causing extensive crop loss and evacuations. Lightning killed four women on a Clovis ranch near Penn Texas during a severe storm. Chicago anarchists trial jury completed on the 15th after three weeks. National Association of Commercial Tray executives hold annual convention.
Foreign intelligence details riots in Belfast between Protestants and Catholics on the 13th injuring many, cholera cases and deaths reported in Italian cities, a fire in Koden Poland destroying 100 houses, Knights of Pythias parades in Toronto, Haiti’s president re-elected, Mexican elections favor government, Bavarian memorial planned, London Telegraph on coalition limits, Peru monetary shift proposal, a deadly St Petersburg shell blast, and Greek crops damaged by storms.
Weekly market totals from twenty six leading clearing houses show cash and stocks at 816 405 177 this week against 706 637408 prior week, up 2.7 percent from 1885. Rev Sam Jonas spoke to ten thousand at a Maryville camp meeting. A $500000 lumber-yard fire struck Knapp Stout in St Louis. Cholera reports from Italy through the 11th show Brindisi and Fontana with several dozen cases and dozens of deaths. disease rapidly abating. Kansas Sixth district Republicans nominate E J Turner for Congress. British election returns show Gladstone 1 206 854 and Unionists 1 386 085 with a likely 115 member majority. Major league standings list Detroit leading with 46 wins, 18 losses. Chicago 43 15. New York 30 19. Philadelphia 34 20. Boston 22 55. St Louis 20 40. Kansas City 13 40. Washington 4 44. Drowning of two men near Memphis after skiff capsizes. President nominates S Davis Page as Assistant Treasurer for Philadelphia. Missouri Greenbackers name H F Fellows for Congress. William Haney hanged by mob in Paulding for Crosby murder. Albany bi-centennial celebration begins. A cave with thirteen petrified bodies found near Akron Indiana. Drought in Kansas and Indian Territory persists, prairie fires widespread. British warship Goshawk crew drown in boat capsize. Cleomargarine bill discussed in Senate. Fortification Appropriation bill debated in House.
The Chicago case before Judge Gary features Felix C. Buschek’s map of Haymarket and nearby Socialistic saloons, the renowned Revenge circular, and testimony from Godfield Waller about armed groups, bomb training, and planned attacks. The trial adjourned amid details of the defendants’ Lehr and Wehr Verein numbers and bomb distribution.
In Chicago on July 19 the Anarchists trial hears Watler describe the proposed plan to bomb police and shoot from lines, Engel and Fischer present, and witnesses discuss the Haymarket context. Schrader testifies about Lehr und Wehr drills and the May 4 event, with officials noting witness manipulation allegations and Fielden’s alleged gunfire.
A. B. Thomson, fugitive ex cashier of the Provident Savings Bank in St. Louis, confesses defalcation in a letter to Vice-President Swain. He fixes the bank’s loss at 68054 dollars, says debtors compelled him to take bank money, and pleads for a chance to regain honor elsewhere. He offsets his thefts against a 30000 dollar official bond and 15000 dollars in his safe.
In New York a group of 5 000 dress and cloak makers across 60 to 70 firms plan a wage recovery strike. They began by striking 200 workers at Meyer Janasen Vo, a major firm, after wage reductions reduced earnings from 15 to 18 dollars weekly to 7 to 10 dollars.
Benz Ramage a Union coal works merchant eleven miles down the river on the Ohio side was killed when his store was blown to atoms by dynamite placed beneath it. Henry Campbell, a former partner, was arrested on suspicion of the crime.
An upright boiler exploded in a Wellsville Ohio boiler shop owned by Joseph Fassett Saturday morning. The blast injured no workers, but two small children who were nearby were crushed by debris and scalded to death.
Washington July 16 Three Privileges and Elections reports on the Payne case push contrasting paths. Two urge discharging the committee and closing the matter. a third argues for Senate inquiry citing possible bribery and public interest while arguing that Ohio law should pursue indictments.
Fears mount that troubles along the Rio Grande may widen. Troops ordered to Nuevo Laredo to curb a Tamaulipas outbreak. Volunteers arm in Sabinos area as bandit activity grows near Agua Laguna. Civilians flee toward Texas. Coahuila forces mobilized. three dead at Vera and Lt. Col. Echuretta wounded.
The Dundy County Bank of Benkelman Nebraska failed yesterday. President Belzer fled to Canada with about $100,000 in funds and securities after transferring his property to his wife. Propriety owners were McCarty and Beltzer. the bank had capital of 10,000 and assets estimated between 5,000 and 40,000. Many homesteaders rsquo livelihoods were affected as they may lose their claims.
Nashville dispatch reports the Dade coal mine mutineers surrender after two days of thirst and starvation. The convicts return to work in Coal City Ga as authorities say prudent management averted bloodshed in one of the most remarkable strikes on record.
From Tima Peru on July 16 via Galveston. A plan to adopt the American gold dollar as the common standard, valuing the silver dollar at eighty cents gold for under a quarter eagle, with a congressional review likely. Louis Hicks, a government detective, was found dead on a Wyandotte Kansas rail line. cause of death unknown.
Reports from Illinois Ohio Michigan Pennsylvania and North Carolina describe hail wind and flood damage. Crops in Champaign Tolono and Condit areas ruined. numerous homes barns and windows damaged. fatalities include Mrs Spearhaun in Corry Pennsylvania. Ohio and Michigan towns report unroofed buildings and destroyed orchards. Cape Fear floods devastate crops in North Carolina.
President Cleveland issues an executive order warning all General Government officeholders to avoid using official positions to influence political movements. The order stresses officials are public servants, not masters, and condemns coercive or partisan manipulation of primaries and conventions while allowing lawful political participation.
Washington July 15 The House passed a joint resolution directing the payment of interest bearing bonds with treasury surplus exceeding 100 million dollars the excess to be applied in monthly sums of at least 10 million to debt service. Vote 207 to 67 with listed nays.
Chief Bushyhead of the Cherokee Nation in Washington received Grand Master Powderly's letter denying Knights of Labor petitions to open Oklahoma Territory. Powderly says petitions were not presented to the Knights' Executive Board and no steps will injure Cherokee lands.
Fire swept the mill yard of I R Wagar at Fisk Creek near Stanton yesterday destroying 5 million feet of lumber 4 million shingles and tramways plus outbuildings. The mill and Wetherwax mill were saved by wind. Boarding house Evans De Young store and several houses burned. Loss placed at 80000 with fire spreading to the woods south of town.
Hugh M. Brooks alias W H Lennox Maxwell, convicted of the Preller murder, was sentenced yesterday to death by hanging on August 27. He received the verdict without change of expression, appearing careworn and paler, yet not wholly given up hope of a possible appeal. An appeal was granted and a stay of execution ordered until October 2.
Advices from Washington report General Solomon has been reelected president of Hayti. The move follows political shifts in the Caribbean nation as Solomon resumes executive leadership amid ongoing governance changes.
Scott City Kansas cor respondent describes Western Kansas once called Great American Desert. He notes rapid immigration, rival boom towns, and many centers with City or Center names. Describes flat land, shallow wells, mirages, prairie schooners, and hardy settlers, with cattle losses in winter and local education effort.
Burdette parodies Adirondack camping in Brooklyn Eagle style, praising nature while humorously detailing the pest nuisance of midges. The piece playfully advises not to carry a gun, noting guides will handle shooting and suggesting remedies like camphor and pennyroyal to ward off midges.
The biography of John Lannon who arrived from Ireland with his mother and later ran a store in Alexandria during the Civil War era. At sixteen he managed stock when the owner fled, grew the business, saved six thousand dollars, and by old age built the opera house and the town’s largest wharf, becoming a respected figure.
The Lowell Courier quotes a sentimental line from Alice Stone Blackwell as the New Orleans Vines-Democrat notes lilacs bloom briefly each year. The verse laments the short flowering season and ties it to affectionate memory.
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