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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1886
Page
2
California thermometers register 100 to 105 degrees daily as an astronomer rebuts the green cheese claim, arguing the moon appears on fire due to atmospheric effects and light diffraction. The debate frames a quirky science moment amid heat records.
In Eastern Oregon the deep snow among the mountains prevents travel for teams as heavy snow blocks roads and trails, leaving scheduled games uncertain and travel impossible for players and officials.
A bill before the Massachusetts Legislature would impose a five dollar minimum fine on eligible voters who do not cast a ballot. The measure seeks to increase turnout and enforcement of voting participation.
The Louisiana Legislature passed a measure setting a ten hour workday but excluding farm labor from the rule. The bill creates a standard work period for most jobs while allowing agricultural workers to follow different arrangements. Legislative supporters cite productivity gains. opponents warn of inequities for rural laborers.
Ferdinanpy Warp has been found incompetent as a book keeper at Sing Sing and assigned to printing duties.
Over a hundred works from the past century place the millennium’s start between 1866 and 1890. This scholarly range reflects differing interpretations of historical timelines and calendar fixes used by researchers and writers.
Quintne now sells at a lower price than ever in the United States as the German product has fallen fifty three cents per ounce.
A seasoned store clerk recalls the season when a fashionable lady with everything pulls down counter-irritants, yet makes no purchases. The remark frames the era’s trend in consumer flirtation with style over substance.
In the late storm in South Carolina vast livestock losses overwhelmed farms as rivers rose thirty feet within thirty hours, highlighting unprecedented flood damage and agricultural devastation across affected counties.
The Str Rocer TichBorne, famed Tichborne claimant, reached New York from Europe a few days ago and plans to deliver lectures in the United States. He intends to tour and speak on his controversial claim.
A newly written book asserts that Radama II, King of Madagascar, first discovered inoculation as a preventive against disease. The claim frames the king as an early innovator in medical defense, tying Malagasy history to early vaccine-like ideas.
The Louisville and Nashville road has within a few days expended $450,000 in moving one rail of its thirteen thousand miles of track three inches nearer to its companion.
The Canadian Pacific Company plans to buy two railways and build a short branch to shorten the Montreal to Halifax route by 250 miles, signaling a major expansion and faster service between the Atlantic and central Canada.
A coachman scored a hit against Commodore Vanderbilt's granddaughter. The remark suggests coachmen should have no wages but be satisfied with perquisites, reflecting the era's views on labor and class.
Cnacey M. Derry, president of the New York Central, said in a recent interview he believed trains would soon cover the Chicago to New York route in sixteen hours, signaling a major speed advance for the railroad.
A beautiful young woman in New Orleans was gagged and bound to a table by her hair during a frightening burglary. The incident highlights the curious claim that short hair might offer safety, though she remains unharmed and shaken by the event.
In Boston seven one hundred dollar silver certificates were scattered in a boarding house by servants. The cook burned one in blissful ignorance of its value, another was found pasted in the window of a grocery store.
Borror Covaunry of the Watertown Times is bitten by a mad dog yet refuses to seek Pasteur treatment in Paris. He instead writes an editorial stating that if hydrophobia strikes, his physician will provide complete and accurate reports of the case for science.
The first circus arrives in the Black Hills area delighting boys and girls in the wilderness as painted wagons fascinate them like the first steamboat. Admission proves costly at two dollars per ticket inside the canvas.
One of the last official acts of the President prior to his marriage pardons Bh F Bigelow the former teller of the National Bank of the Republic of Washington. Three years earlier he was sentenced to five years in prison. During imprisonment his wife died leaving seven children in the care of their grandparents.
The United States land jury in Seattle convicts several men for participating in Chinese riots and reports a treasonous nationwide group named The Red American International Workingmen's Association. The New York Victnne notes seasonal voice shifts of boys, from declaiming a piece in class to shouting Go ROW at baseball grounds.
In War ren New Hampshire a placer gold mine uses pipe and hose to wash bank dirt into a sluice-way spanning miles though on a small scale. The works are complete and washing has begun with dirt yielding small particles of fine free gold. Operators hope for a profitable venture.
A digest of Senate and House actions from June including Logan and Morrill bills, appropriations debates, and the push to legalize national trades unions. Reports cover Edwin Stanton, naval expansion, land forfeiture, anti polygamy moves, a murder case plea, and conventions across states with nominations and flood and storm impacts.
From Washington dispatches a note that F H Winston United States Minister to Persia resigned and was accepted. Frederick Ellison United States Consul at Ascension Paraguay also resigned. General Miles said thirty six days of pursuing hostile Apaches with no rest until capture and thirteen Indians killed. Industrial improvement noted though hours concessions shrink. 209 business failures in seven days for US and Canada.
Axtsey of Nashville was chosen president at the Pittsburgh meeting of the International Typographical Union. Noted political shifts include Auericu’s re-election to the U.S. Senate by Rhode Island’s Legislature, and Maine’s GOP nominating Dingley Mulliken and Bontelle for Congress. Other items report a Stamford woolen mill fire, counterfeit arrests in New York, and various local political moves.
Arousal on the date of the Michigan Greenback State convention at Grand Rapids. Eight-hour system declared a failure by Chicago furniture workers who would return to old hours. Rawley Springs Virginia fire nearly wiped out, Baltimore House the only resort standing. loss around 1500000. Arkansas River flood widespread with great damage to crops. Marshall NorthGeorgia flood wrecked houses and crops after water spout June 6. Wheat harvest active in Southern Illinois Missouri and Kentucky. St Louis master builders vote to discontinue eight-hour plan May 1. workers threaten strike. Oregon results favor Herman for Congress and A. Peanover for Governor with large majorities. H. D. Davis of Knights of Labor found guilty for blocking railroad track, sentenced to two years.
A cascade of reports from Florence to Belfast to Tarawera outlines sudden deaths, cholera surges, riots, and disasters. Colonels dies in Florence, Belfast attacks injure Catholics, corean famine claims five hundred dead, Montreal fire destroys Ward D. Yule factory for 140000, cholera rages in Venice, Tarawera eruptions, accidental burns in St John New Brunswick, insanity in Bavaria, and martial law in Ulster. Also volcanic devastation and a French bill to expel princes.
A river sailing accident at West Bergen New Jersey drowns a wife and child along with Laura Keefer. A volcanic eruption in New Zealand claims over one hundred natives and ten English lives. The International Typographical Union meets in Pittsburgh and plans Buffalo for the next gathering. Over two hundred American grocers begin a yearlong European tour. A Crookston Minnesota windstorm wrecks multiple buildings and injures eight. Parliament dissolution set for the 24th. Bishop Hesoxinxes dies in Providence. Clearinghouse totals show a drop from the prior week. Ireland policy in Midlothian manifesto questions coercion versus self-governance. National League standings list Detroit leading. A lamp accident in New York burns an elderly couple. Pondicherry wrecks at Valparaiso with thirteen crew dead. A Hunter Dakota windstorm destroys a farmhouse, killing one. Senate passes Army Appropriation and Ute removal bill. House advances pension bills.
Washinctox June 8 Press reports that Fred I Winston United States Minister to Persia has resigned. His brief letter cites embarrassed Chicago business affairs from prolonged absence. Assistant Secretary Porter had earlier granted leave. the resignation was accepted by telegraph and a new minister resident will be appointed.
London June 8 reports the Government’s defeat by 80 on the Home Rule bill’s second reading with 2311 for and 841 against. Gladstone moved adjournment. Parliament erupted in cheers and jeers as Parnellites and Chamberlain clashed, Goschen and Parnell spoke on sovereignty, and Gladstone defended a federation path while warning of Irish education and taxation issues.
The House Judiciary Committee report on the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy bill argues for revoking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints charter and the Emigration Fund Company. It condemns related acts as unconstitutional favors to one religion, urges judicial handling of property, and upholds constitutional religious liberty.
Belfast reports renewed Orange riots with mobs wrecking taverns and clashing with police. Buckshot fired, several rioters wounded, six men and two women killed, four more dying. Troops and extra police deployed. intimidation and factory tensions rise in Tyrone and Lurgan.
Port Huron report says Flora Ralph, separated from husband two years, drove with a wagon carrying their three year old. After beating the child with a buggy whip, she pushed it under the moving wheels. The skull was crushed and the mangled body dumped on the wagon. County financed burial after both parents refused responsibility.
The Basel Swiss consul reports to the State Department that Swiss authorities fear the growing number of Mormon converts, especially women, educated in mission schools. Missionaries have taught hundreds in Basel and surrounding areas, prompting Swiss officials to ask if breaking up schools and expelling Mormon emissaries would be considered unfriendly by the United States.
The northbound Northeast ern railroad passenger train from Cuanieston plunged through the Santee river trestle between Str. Stephen's station and the Santee river bridge after leaving at noon yesterday. Six passengers were killed and several injured. cause not yet known, suspected rail fastening on changing gauge.
Pirrseercu Virginia June convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers focused on committee work. The committee on the Good of the Order will unanimously recommend rejecting the proposition to join the Knights of Labor.
A Buddensick wall toppled on One Hundred and Fourteenth Street collapsing yesterday afternoon. Three workmen James Cavanagh Edwin Kelly and John Bigger died and a fourth was injured.
Alfred Long, charged with murdering and robbing A. J. McBride and wife and burning their bodies in their home, was lynched about five miles from Lexington, North Carolina, on a Sunday after making a full confession of guilt.
The Army debates bloodhounds to pursue Apaches. Light flying columns would carry spare horses and several hounds in pack saddles to trail by night and day, supposedly driving Indians to bay. The plan has earned approval from veteran officers.
A sudden late May flood in a tributary of Clark's Fork swept away a house, drowning a wife, two sons, and a daughter. Mrs. Armstrong's body was found 25 miles from the scene. Mr. Armstrong and the daughter were located in the valley, one in a tree top and the other amid high rocks, evidence the flood flooded the valley.
In Munich on June 11 the medical opinion states King Ludwig is unfit to govern. Prince Luitpold, the king’s uncle, proclaims regency and orders the Bavarian diet to convene on the 15th. Count Holstein, sent by the ministry to seek regency approval, was arrested entering Hohenschwangau Castle.
Belfast riot scenes reflect fierce mobs attacking Catholics, with police and troops clashing near Bowes Hill barracks and York street. Fire, looting, and gunfire leave several wounded as 1,600 constables and 250 soldiers secure the city under martial law and coroner probes.
Gladstone issues a manifesto to Midlothian electors outlining two clear plans for Ireland and imperial governance. He defends coercion as failing, contrasts Government and Salisbury approaches, and urges electors to choose reform and domestic self-government for Ireland while preserving the union. He condemns religious bigotry and calls for responsible leadership.
The article notes an improved general industrial scene with still many workers on strike at multiple factories. Of 200000 who gained shorter hours with pay a month ago, Bradstreet reports under 140000 retain benefits, about half in Chicago and one sixth in Cincinnati and New York. Competition from ten hour workers erodes remaining gains.
Tirrin O June 12 A brave engineer named Fred Sloat of the Indiana Bloomington and Western railroad near here hours ago rescued a child playing on the tracks two miles south of town. He reversed the lever and pushed the child into a ditch as the freight engine roared by. The train halted and the child lay unconscious with minor wounds to the chin and neck.
Mrs Samuel TL Vining of this city has learned from Secretary Bayard that she will receive from the United States Treasury $1,000,000 under the French Spoliation statute as ordered by the Court of Claims. Also notes sketches by telegraph expert Alexander Glen may aid military applications. lightning flash duration historically debated by Wheatstone and others.
A Clyde New York sportsman shot a muskrat and waded into the water to retrieve it. He unknowingly entered a pickerel spawning ground and was attacked by many large males, escaping unharmed. A Brooklyn lawyer later defended a woman accused of obtaining money by false pretenses and then employed her, only to have her drink his liquor and plunder his home.
Philadelphia serves as a culinary education center for African Americans with about five thousand colored cooks annually supplying seaside hotels.
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