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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1886
Page
2
Henry Warp Bercusr is poised to deliver forty lectures across Europe this summer, with a packed itinerary planned to share insights and knowledge with diverse audiences. The Van Wert Bulletin notes his role as editor and proprietor at Sumerset and Wyandt in Van Wert.
Report states that Prowment area farmers intend to substitute Chinese workers for negro labor on their plantations. A separate note mentions nearly $100,000 in wedding presents received at the White House in Washington.
Delaware peach growers fear a new worm will devastate the season as reports of crop failure spread. In the East, fashionables use silver tongs to eat grapes, while a shortened herring crop in the East prompts the Springfield Union to warn French sardines may become scarce and costly.
The new Congress will be the fiftieth and completes the century under the current constitution. The first Congress convened on March 4 1789, marking the start of constitutional governance.
A resident described seeing a sea serpent about twenty five feet long in the waters of Houghton's Lake, N Y, claiming the creature swam several yards from shore. The report, passed as a reliable citizen account, marks the summer season opening with a sensational observation.
Major E. B. Boynton of Newburgh, New York reports discovering official army orders from West Point during the revolution. The documents were found in possession of a Vermont family and are regarded as of great value.
A Michigan editor wagers his silk hat that Detroit will win the baseball pennant this year. The boast doubles as a flamboyant notice to readers, signaling confidence and provoking rivals.
Granrce I Leary of Seney syndicate fame, financially ruined by the Metropolitan Bank failure in New York a year ago, reappears as a daring Wall Street operator. He has made several lucky deals and is said to be a clear millionaire ahead after paying off his old debts.
The passage lists several hotel options for summer travel in New England. Quantabagcook Hotel Moose- Jucmaguntic House and Passamaquoddy Wescogmlnus Bentufrenga Mattuwamkeag Nampashement Hotels are noted as available accommodations.
Colonel Richard M. Hoe of New York, senior partner at R Hoe & Co. printing press makers and inventor of the rotary or lightning press, died suddenly in Florence, Italy, where he had gone abroad for rest and pleasure.
The International Typographical Union plans a five year birthday commemoration for George W. Childs and Anthony Drexel by soliciting contributions from every union printer to raise fifty thousand dollars for a permanent hall, following a ten thousand dollar initial donation to the union treasury in Philadelphia.
An Iowa man, who has kept a record of cyclones in the western states from 1883 to 1885, reports Iowa with 17, Illinois 50, Missouri 15, Mississippi 11, Wisconsin 39, Michigan 10, Texas 10, Indiana 14. Minnesota not given but believed near Indiana and Iowa.
The erection of an American hospital in the City of Mexico has now begun in earnest. Americans in and out of Mexico pledge to supply ample funds for the completion of the enterprise. The appeal notes humanity and the good name of the American people.
An invention enables meters on scales or steel yards to record the weight of goods wagons as they pass, even at full speed. Proper application promises accurate tallies of every wagon, producing reliable totals without slowing traffic.
Among the notable acts of the recent Canadian Parliament are prohibitions on oleomarrazine butter substitutes and similar products, fisheries protection provisions, the creation of an experimental farm, statute revision, widening the Franchise bill, and the establishment of a Government printing office.
A vivid portrait describes the Prince Imperial of Brazil visiting the United States. The young prince is noted for exceptionally blonde hair and brows, blue eyes, and a slender mustache. His father is the Duke of Saxe, a German.
Acting Second Comptroller McMahon ruled that volunteer soldiers mustered out with their regiment and paid off later should be regarded as in service until payment day. They are entitled to credit for that period in computing their bounty, keeping the unit together under discipline until discharge payment.
Senate actions include forfeiture of unearned Northern Pacific lands and repeal measures for Pre-emption Timber Culture and Desert Land acts. House debates Legislative Appropriation. totals cited near 391 million with receipts around 377 million. Other sessions cover military academy funds, pensions, postages, and executive appointments. Localer items note storms, fires, drownings, and political nominations across states.
During the week ended the 12th 511 889 silver dollars were issued from the mints up from 511 500 a year earlier. The President and his wife held their first official White House reception on the 15th. Grance H Wroster spoke to the Senate Agriculture Committee on oleomargarine noting cattle values rose by three dollars per head. Business activity was moderate, Treasury estimates next year receipts at about 333 million dollars, and seven day U S business failures totaled 179 up from 143.
A Kansas City man shot his wife then himself in New York on a wedding tour, with no stated motive. Two Anderson brothers aged thirteen and fifteen drowned near Indiana Pa. Vermont Republicans nominate Ormslee for governor at Montpelier. platform backs prohibition and civil service reform critiques. A New Haven packing-house is destroyed. debt imprisonment limit raised to six months in New York. Four years of blindness end as O B Matteson regains sight in Utica. A freight train collapse near Foxburg kills three, injures one. Maine Prohibition nominates Aaron Clark for governor. two Prohibition candidates named for Congress. Boston hosts Daniel Webster statue ceremony. Lynn hosts world ten-mile bicycle race won in 30:08. Irish Parliamentary Fund festival raises nearly $10,000 in Boston. New York signs bill making removal of an alleged criminal from state a felony without extradition.
Typhoid fever death of James S. Kirk of Chicago, born in Glasgow in 1818, a noted soap manufacturer who moved to Chicago in 1889. Also notes Michigan Democratic State convention planned for Grand Rapids on August 17 and Michigan semi centennial celebration with speeches, plus a fatal kerosene fire, two sun stroke deaths in Chicago, and a Minnesota railway rate cut to three cents per mile.
Forty people died and many wounded in a Santiago election riot. Colonel Campbell Walker chosen to contest Midlothian against Gladstone. Massacres of Christians reported in Annam. Managua destroyed by earthquake with ten thousand inhabitants buried under ashes. Nova Scotia secession gains near thirty of thirty eight votes. French expulsion proposals rejected in Senate. Gladstone leaves London for Scotland, cheered by forty thousand in Edinburgh. Appalling mortality among British troops at Assouan. Canada cabinet censures Fisheries Minister over rights concerns. bait sales allowed to American fishermen. Hungarian floods destroy fifty thousand acres of crops and two villages. Bogota skirmish results in officer and thirty soldiers killed. Cholera appears at Cadgora on the Po. Venice reports sixteen new daily cases.
Advices from St John s Newfoundland say the French brigantine Michael sank on the Great Banks with nine drowned. A separate item notes a conservative meeting in Islington ending in a riot and other global brief items include baseball standings and multiple local wind storms causing damage across Texas and Minnesota.
Washington June 16. A grand White House reception marked by lavish decorations and a massive turnout. President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland hosted about 2000 guests from Congress, the diplomatic corps, judiciary, and military, with many dignitaries attending including Senators Sherman and Conger, Representatives Carlisle, and figures like Douglass. The couple appeared in wedding attire, with Mrs. Cleveland in ivory satin, and the event closed after a late stroll through the rooms and a private collation.
Citizens of Michigan gathered in Lansing to mark the semi centennial admission to the Union. A national salute opened the day with sunrise, then speeches by Governor Alger, O K Grosvenor, Prof. Charles D Lawton, ex Governor Felch, and J Adams. Music, barbecue, and evening sessions followed in the capitol.
James S. Kirk, millionaire soap manufacturer and Chicago settler, died at 1:15 AM at his South Evanston home from typho malarial fever. Born in Glasgow in 1819 and raised in Montreal, he founded James S. Kirk & Co. in 1839. His business grew to vast wealth with 1883 sales of 60 million pounds of soap.
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons refused to recommend Milton Weston’s pardon after his Allegheny County manslaughter conviction. The petitions featured many signers and notable supporters, including Illinois Governor, Senators, Congressmen, and fourteen thousand Allegheny County residents.
The Webster Historical Society will unveil a statue of the great orator in Concorp New Hampshire on the morrow. Speakers include Sy ator Evarts General Butler Robert C Winthrop Congressman Bingham of Pennsylvania and Richard Olney of Boston.
In Haxifax Nova Scotia on June 16, observers report the Liberal local government or secession party securing a large majority. Government supporters claim twenty nine of the thirty eight seats.
Washington June 17 The Ways and Means Committee reports against restoring the 1867 wool tariff. The majority warns high duties harm all classes by driving wool from markets and raising clothing costs. The minority argues tariffs aid American labor, agriculture, and national strength, urging repeal of wool duties and reduction of woolen-manufacture duties. Also notes a severe Nicaragua earthquake and volcanic eruption with extensive destruction.
Moytreller Vermont June 17 The Republican State convention nominated Lieutenant Governor Ormsbee for governor on the first ballot. Levi K. Fuller was named for lieutenant governor, with C W Porter W H Dubois and RE H Powell renominated by acclamation. The platform backs Prohibition oleomargarine law railroad commissions and sympathizes with Gladstone and Parnell. Boston June 17 North American Turnerbund session favors shorter workdays for industrial laborers and a 14 year age limit in factories. They also seek abolition of the Senate and Presidency and endorse religious liberty. Public lands remain inalienable and usable only by agriculturists.
New York on June 17 reports Policeman Charles N. McKenzie, one of Tennyson’s six hundred at Balaklava, awarded a long list of medals for bravery. He is placed on the retired list with a $600 a year pension.
News arrives that Apaches captured Santos Salano in Oro Blanco canyon three miles south of here, tied him to a tree and hacked him to death with knives on Saturday.
The Daniel Webster statue, a gift from Benjamin Pierce Cheney of Boston, was dedicated at the New Hampshire State House Park with civic and military ceremonies. The 8 foot high, 2,000 pound statue by Thomas Ball stands on a Concord granite pedestal, featuring a life like late years portrait and a manuscript in the right hand. Bronze panels bear arms of New Hampshire and Massachusetts with inscriptions noting birthplace in Salisbury New Hampshire.
The article recounts the unveiling of a Daniel Webster statue in Concord New Hampshire presented by Benjamin Pierce Cheney. It describes the statue’s height seventeen feet one and a half inches the total cost twelve thousand dollars and mentions a ship to the United States after display in Munich. It notes speeches by Governor Currier President Cleveland's letter Reverend Dr Bartlett and an Ode to Daniel Webster with four thousand visitors and many dignitaries in attendance.
Lonnoy June 18 special dispatches report the French man of war Dives returned from the New Hebrides expedition. Troops landed and the French flag was raised over Sandwich and Malavolo islands while military posts were set for protection of French interests. France claimed possession as residents were notified.
In Foxtound Virginia on Wednesday night twenty Pittsburgh and Western freight cars plunged forty feet into Paint Creek after an axle broke. Engineer Sittig and brakemen Steffey and Kase died. fireman Geoughler survived but is badly injured. Conductor Kime escaped serious harm. Also noted, 109 inland water routes haul US mail for 879971 per year and eleven coastwise routes cost 66756.
Curiaco June 18 coroner's jury recommends holding Charles Reilly as a conspirator in the recent Canal street building fire No 733 that killed nine persons. The inquest identifies Reilly among others linked to the blaze and pending legal action.
A blaze at M. T. Antisell & Co. on Ells street damaged $200,000 in stock while WJ. Tleary & Co. lost $25,000 in furniture and stock. The building, owned by Mrs. Mark Hopkins, suffered $5,000 in damages. In Muncie Indiana, Benjamin Zellner, a wealthy farmer, died from bee stings after being attacked while working with bees.
Gladstone starts from London at eleven to begin the Midlothian tour. Thousands gather at depots from London to Edinburgh to bid him godspeed. He thanks the people for the extraordinary demonstration and urges focus on Ireland, asking for self management rights akin to colonies. Enormous crowds greet him at Carlisle Skipton Hawick and Edinburgh with bands and banners. 40 000 line the route to his hotel. He reports no ill effects and expresses gratitude for the reception.
The Morrison tariff measure failed 140 to 157 as the House, by a 17 vote margin, declined to take up the Morrison bill. Analysis shows 136 of 140 yeas were Democrats, with 4 Republicans. 122 of 157 nays were Republicans and 35 Democrats. One member absent.
In Muskcs on June 18 reports cite diet submissions to prove King Ludwig’s insanity. A decree sentences ministers to death and copies went to government members, another decree banishes ministers to America. Affidavits from thirty claim the king injured them with knives, china, and glass. a cabinet proposal with his valet as president is noted.
The Ohio Supreme Court sustains the Cincinnati Board of Public Works quo warranto challenge and confirms the legality of Governor Porsker's new Board of Public Affairs and the Republican reorganization of the State Senate. It also upholds the $50,000 state loan, congressional redistricting, and all acts of the Legislature.
The American Association of Nurserymen met the President at four o clock and received encouragement for tree lovers. Officers named for the year include C L Watrous of Town as president M A Hunt of Illinois as first vice president D Wilmot Scott of Illinois as secretary A R Whitney of Illinois as treasurer S D Willard of New York A B Pearsall of Kansas and Leo Veltz of Ohio on the executive committee.
In a Fortnightly Review excerpt a Pittsburgh scientist claims a breakthrough to cheap gas, asserting a future where gas costs three cents per thousand. The essay argues the blind are undervalued, urging society to recognize their intelligence and usefulness and to provide equal opportunities.
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