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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1889
Page
2
Dr. Agnew contends that a healthy woman could end her life within about a year by horseback riding. The remark links exercise to fatal outcomes, highlighting concerns about dangerous health behavior.
Berva A. Lockwood forecasts a woman will be inaugurated as President twenty five years from now. The remark suggests a push for female leadership within the era's political climate.
General Harney's passing leaves Colonel Hannibal Day as the senior living officer of record. Day began service as a cadet in 1819 and now leads the army in years of service.
Mrs. Percy, wife of the Standard captain from Bath, Maine, is now making her twelfth voyage around Cape Horn aboard her husband’s ship.
The Brooklyn Bridge marked six years since opening. About 21,396,935 pedestrians and 125,138,594 vehicle passengers crossed. Total receipts reached 4,287,497 dollars and 90 cents.
The article recalls bull pen cat and quoits as wholesome summer pastimes less rough than modern baseball. It notes these games provided plenty of fun for boys of the century and suggests reintroducing them as healthful activities.
Miss Susanna M Dunklee of Newton Mass becomes the United States first woman to serve as bank treasurer. With a clerk she handles about $500000 in money annually and in fifteen years only twice accepted counterfeit bills both tens.
Louis C. Tiffany completes the largest mosaic glass panel in the country for Yale Library New Haven. The window, a gift from the late Simeon B. Chittenden, spans 23 feet 4 inches in width and 5 feet 3 inches in height, standing 9 feet above the floor between three other windows.
Washington received LL.D. degrees from Harvard in 1776 Yale in 1781 Penn and Brown in 1791. In 1788 a unanimous vote made him chancellor of the College of William and Mary, a post he held with pride until his death.
Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of the Grand Old Man and president of Wennham College Cambridge, argues that advancing women's intellectual powers will not hinder their domestic duties.
In Birmingham Alabama Judge Greene sentenced Minnie Moses twenty five to death for highway robbery and attempted murder of an old woman peddler. The jury verdict imposed death though the victim did not die and is alive running a business in the city.
Reports say older residents recall rare fruit thefts in their youth, but the pace has quickened. In Farmingdale New Jersey a thrifty orchard was entirely removed in one night, yet the thief followed the trail to a distant farm where the trees were found intact and cared for.
In 1849 Allen Hawks of Cherry Creek New York left his family for the California gold fields. His wife died and his children either died or married. Mrs. Joseph Brand of Kingsbury Indiana, Hawks surviving heir, learned he was dying in California and seeking an heir to a fortune of 100000. Brand departed for California.
The article notes Russia has expanded military preparations across the country on a scale unseen in seven years. The military party believes peace may hold until year’s end, while watching the Triple Alliance closely and suggesting commanders have been designated for potential war service.
French scientist M UngeRer claims perfumes have therapeutic value and scented air protects against pulmonary diseases. He notes La Grasse, famed for fragrance distilleries, reports rare phthisis due to aromatic vapors.
In 1888 sixty warships were launched worldwide with over a hundred more under construction. England led with fifteen launches and twenty eight building, France nine launches and fifteen laid down, Germany six launches and four more under way, while the United States afloat six ships and began six more keels. The report praises U S progress in naval construction.
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars met in Chicago. It is the largest international temperance body with over 750,000 members, 10,114 local lodges, and over one hundred grand lodges governing countries and territories.
The President appointed Samuel J. Ruby of Iowa as Consul at Belfast Ireland. Adjutant-General Drum retired from active service at sixty four. Orson W Chapman of New York named Solicitor General and John B Cotton of Maine as Assistant Attorney General. Arlington monument to General Philip Sheridan unveiled with music and flowers. U.S. business failures total 215 for the week ending last Sunday, down from 229 prior week.
On the 27th Cornelius Donnelly of Water Town N Y attempted to frighten a four month bride into giving up her property by pretending to hang himself. Mrs Julia Ward Howe celebrated her 70th birthday in Boston receiving gifts from leading authors and reformers. Rhode Island legislature met in Newport on the 28th and chose Republican officers after no statewide election. New York Presbyterian General Assembly condemned liquor traffic while not endorsing prohibition or high license. Connecticut passed the secret ballot act. John Hammond former congressman and Civil War colonel died at his Crown Point NY home on the 28th. First National Bank of Sharon Pa remained closed due to a time lock set for 48 hours. Bertha Schreyer shot and fatally wounded in New York on the 11th by John Berker who then killed himself. Decoration Day observed nationwide with President Harrison attending Brooklyn ceremonies. A terrible catastrophe near Johnstown Pa on the 30th as a reservoir failed, estimated two thousand dead and millions in property loss. Frederick Army Co dry goods brokers of New York failed, liabilities 550000, assets 25 percent.
Major figures die including Colonel W H Chilton former commercial editor of the Louisville Courier Journal. Crimes claim deaths from arson murder and suicide across Michigan Indiana Illinois and Missouri. A cyclone at Clements Kan destroys homes and seven die. Nine more incidents include bank failure fraud indictments and counterfeit operations.
A wash of rain and storms hit Marshall Missouri on the 30th, washing out bridges and culverts with damage around 50000 dollars. A Baltimore gas suffocation killed a couple. Tornadoes near Martinsburg West Virginia damaged homes and killed several. Michigan snow, Chicago police monument dedication, Humboldt mine collapse, Guthrie iron discovery, and various local tragedies and fires are noted. A hurricane leveled Washington County Maryland on the 31st along the Potomac.
Reports detail police uncovering assassination societies in Russia and Europe searches. A Havana oil explosion kills a mother and two daughters and a boy. Yakato Akita fire destroys over a thousand houses, leaving thousands homeless. Bavaria sinks with eight aboard near Kingston. A New South Wales hurricane disrupts rail and floods. A Vienna duel wounds Prince Alois Schwarzenberg. France endures severe storms. Beaver Line’s Lake Ontario reported sunk with all aboard. Earthquake shocks hit Channel Islands. Huezulta floods drown livestock and destroy crops. London bookseller Witperiey jailed for Zola novels. Aix la Chapelle coal miners resume under a two month truce.
Late details on the calamity across Pennsylvania and beyond recount the South Fork dam collapse near Johnstown. The catastrophe floods Johnstown and surrounding towns, with massive loss of life estimated at twelve thousand and widespread property destruction.
A sweeping account describes Johnstown's disaster as the most severe calamity in U.S. history, detailing the catastrophe's human toll and vast destruction. Local authorities,救? נפ? (Note: ensure no stray characters)
Thousands are dead or missing as the South Fork reservoir dam breaks sending a 20 foot flood down the Conemaugh. Johnstown, Conemaugh, South Fork, Mineral Point and nearby towns are destroyed. bridges, mills and homes swept away. relief efforts mounted by federal, state and local authorities.
W. J. McGarigle walked into Judge Shepard's court and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob the county, paying a $1,000 fine and securing a new trial. He had escaped two years earlier after a bath-breaking escape from custody and fled to Canada before returning to face charges alongside Ed McDonald, whose case was also unsettled.
G and Wormer & Sons, machinery dealers with branches in Chicago St Louis and Detroit, have assigned. Chicago liabilities reach 57000 with assets 12140 while Detroit shows liabilities around 125000 and assets near 50000. Attorney George W Moore cites mismanagement at Chicago and St Louis as the cause.
Dispatches report tremors not only in the Channel Islands on Thursday but also in the Isle of Wight and numerous mainland towns in England and France. Places named include Portsmouth Havant Cherbourg Havre Rouen Granville and Caen with no damage recorded.
A heavy house sign on East Fourteenth Street toppled, showering bricks and coping fragments onto four children gathering wood. One child suffered a fractured skull while the others sustained severe scalp wounds.
Henry A. Coleman was hanged in the Portsmouth rail yard Friday afternoon for the September murder of James Grant, a Norfolk County dairyman. About 200 people witnessed the execution.
A large box of flowers addressed to George H. Thomas Post G A R received in Indianapolis. The arrangement from the Executive Mansion and sent by President Harrison was for grave decoration of fallen soldiers.
Dispatches from Oklahoma report rich iron mines near Guthrie with ore said to be fine and about 65 percent iron. A shaft will be sunk at once for a thorough examination of the deposit.
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