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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1886
Page
5
The Kentucky Senate approved a bill prohibiting the sale of pistols and bowie knives, aiming to curb weapon access amid ongoing legislative debates.
Frorroa claims a rise of six thousand more Northern visitors than during the corresponding period last year. The statement highlights a strong tourism uptick and suggests improved regional appeal and travel activity.
The Connecticut Legislature appropriated 10000 dollars to build a monument honoring General Israel Putnam. The action marks a state effort to commemorate the Revolutionary War figure with a lasting tribute.
The piece notes Oscar Wilde to consider another trip to the United States while highlighting his marriage and adoption of societal norms, including attire deemed civilized, signaling shifting cultural expectations.
A mathematician recently calculated the earth’s weight as 5,855,000,000,000,000 tons. The surprising result reflects a playful use of his spare time and a curiosity about planetary mass.
Representatives of German newspapers in Ohio met in Columbus a few days ago and organized a German Press Association with a full set of officers.
The new rose called the American Beauty is a favorite with florists. They prize it highly and would pay two dollars to obtain a single blossom.
The general left no property of great intrinsic value, having always lived generously and spent his annual pay of seventy five hundred dollars, with no notable wealth in real or personal assets.
Rev. F. M. Hay Goop who preached Atlanta's first sermon and is now very aged plans to move to Arizona to answer a Baptist ministerial call in the Territory.
A Grarata farmer travels to Washington to press a treasury claim after his hogs devoured his wallet containing two hundred fifty dollars, a move that could complicate state finances.
Grandmother Van Ravest of New York City celebrated her 100th birthday with a merry party. She recalled when Broadway’s west side was fields of rye.
Carl Rosa wins decision in a Liverpool court allowing admission to a public amusements venue to be refused to individuals known to habitually talk during music. The ruling is hailed as a transferable legal principle.
The Boston Traveller notes a Stonington Connecticut pastor forced to saw and chop wood ring the church bell and build fires all winter while performing clerical duties threatens to resign unless the workload is lightened.
The Chicago Journal mocks the idea of a man with a pet hobby uniting with a chronic griever to rule the world by their odd beliefs. Such a notion would turn any sane plan into a preposterous lunacy.
James H. Paine a New York riser and Chicago Land Company figure, reportedly a millionaire among relatives, left only three hundred dollars in his rags upon death. The California Supreme Court ordered Frederick W. Sharon to replace William Sharon as defendant in the Althea Hill case and continue in Sharon's name. A Chicago fire survivor mourns lost possessions more than the home. A piano may suffer from prolonged water exposure. Philadelphia ministers accuse local confectioners of selling rock and rye in stick form to schoolchildren to aid saloon interests. Dr. Oscar C. De Wolf notes Chicago infant mortality and a ten million nursing bottle production in 1885, blaming maternal neglect. Germany, France, Belgium postal rates for newspapers and deliveries are outlined.
The New York publishing firm figure, wife of Fletcher Harper, recently died and was noted for founding Seashore Cottage at Long Branch to aid young working women with nominal costs. She also co-founded Harper Industrial School in Bowery with Mrs Joseph Harper, achieving strong results in industrial education for the poor.
Summary of Senate and House actions from Feb 23 to 26 including bills for Alaska administration quarantine station in San Francisco and a Grant monument appropriation. Also notes pensions for veterans, land grants, postal savings, Iowa and Idaho land issues, and a Detroit editor’s death.
In Washington the week ended the 20th saw 306980 standard silver dollars minted. A rumor about the Chinese Consul General urging Chinese to leave the US was denied. The House Post Offices and Post Roads committee completed its fiscal year 1887 appropriation bill at 54,526,588 dollars, up 125,598 from 1836. Clerks in government service formed a beneficial league offering two hundred dollars for disability or removal. The Territories committee reported adversely on Oklahoma statehood for Indian Territory. January trade figures show imports at 47,395,490 and exports at 57,959,562. Five-day period ended the 2th recorded 9. remaining failures, down from 214 previous week.
The passage notes the burial of John B. Gough in Boylston Massachusetts on the 24th. A Shamokin Pennsylvania mill fire killed two young daughters of a man named Lillie. A Steamburg Pennsylvania school for Indian children was set ablaze with teachers and students barely escaping. A relief fund for Mrs. Hancock reached 35000 dollars by the 25th. A Pittsburgh conference proposed sending a labor delegation to Washington to lobby tariff interests. Armed Hungarians from Bradford Pennsylvania disrupted coke region labor on the 25th. General Hazen sued the New York Times for 100000 dollars. A quarrel in New York City led to vitriol thrown at a wife. A severe 50 mph gale between Buffalo and New York on the 26th dropped temperatures by twenty degrees. A sister of the late Horatio Seymour reportedly injured on a Lake Shore car near Dunkirk. Storms unroofed structures and damaged Lochiel iron works in Harrisburg. A hermit Conrad Nagle was found dead near Womelsdorf. A bill passed in New York Senate ceding Grant cottage site. Pneumonia alarm rose around Huntingdon. Hungarian strikes in Connellsville coke region resumed or failed. A steamer Idlewild wrecked at Shippard Point with cargo valued at 125000 dollars lost. A blizzard affected New England on the 4th. First Congregational Church wrecked in Westfield. Boston poles down. Mount Washington storm with 14 mph winds and frigid temperatures. A sixteen car train carrying 168 tons of raw silk goods arrived in New York from San Francisco, worth 1500000 dollars.
The report notes General Crook leaving Tucson on the 28th to meet Geronimo in Mexico and negotiate terms for surrender of hostile Apaches. It also records Thomas R. Hudd winning Wisconsin’s Fifth District seat to replace the late Joseph Rankin in Congress and a Milwaukee wage dispute involving five shoe manufacturers and a striking employer.
A bullock escape at a French fair on the 3d killed three and injured 140. A Parliament fire in Ottawa destroyed marine and patent records with heavy losses. Saxony land sank twelve acres of barracks area creating a lake. three drowned. Bank of Australia failure liabilities reach £500000. Rev Hugh Stowell Brown dies in Liverpool. A Mezo Tur Hungary family massacre ends in suicide. Stockholm panic reported. 1857 parallel. Canadian Parliament debate on Sunday bar entry for nonhousehold members and stricter liquor penalties. Snow storms hit Canada. Father Point reports 25 inches of snow and ten feet drifts.
Kentucky representative and former Union colonel praised Southern pension votes and announced a bill to provide artificial limbs to needy Confederate soldiers. Rev Sam Jones began revival services in Chicago on the 28th. Clearinghouse exchanges report weekly totals of 10.58 million dollars, up 27.6 percent from last year. France marked Victor Hugo's birth anniversary in Paris with his grandchildren. Mrs Grant received 200000 dollars for her share of General Grant's autobiography. Northern Atlantic gale continued with severe conditions in New York. Garland pressed timber theft suits on school lands in Washington Territory. A Cobleskill man killed his wife in St Paul after she eloped with another. Snow storm raged in Eastern Maine. heavy drifts buried farmhouses. Wrecked steamer Idlewild gang recovered with all lost at sea. A man fell into Niagara Falls on a wager. Maxime Boyler died after sixteen shots of whisky in Boston. Moreno’s Italian bondage claim deemed false by consuls. Quebec snow storm suspends rail travel. Senate not in session. House debated Silver Coinage and Mexican Pension bills.
A major wind storm battered New York City and surrounding areas with speeds up to 84 mph, freezing temperatures, and widespread damage. Telegraph and telephone lines failed, elevated trains faced hazards, and debris blocked streets from Boston to New Brunswick. In New York, a woman was blown from a Lake Shore train near Erie and Dunkirk, while Massachusetts and New Hampshire reports included heavy snowfall and wrecked structures.
Senor Moreno told the House Labor Committee that the padrone system has held eighty thousand Italian workers in bondage since 1869. He named New York Philadelphia Baltimore Chicago Denver and San Francisco as padrone hubs and urged Congress to act, noting many padrones are fugitives from jail. He praised Italian laborers but called for abolition of the slave trade.
During a reunion of pioneer legislators in Des Moines John H Gear spoke then Judge James L Mitchell collapsed from apoplexy and died. Mitchell, 50, Nebraska judge, left a widow and three daughters. An immediate adjournment followed as physicians attended him.
New York reports the Kossuth, Marx & Co. liquidation left 47000 in jewelry missing from five safes. Sheriff Aarons seized worn assets, later forced reveals found emptiness despite injunctions. Custodian Shelley and assignee dispute access as creditors seek redress.
New York reports a Director-General Pratt letter alleging Mrs Barrios widow of the late Guatemala president funded disorder with 60000 dollars. It claims two Costa Rican flagged vessels near Honduras and Soto aiming at three republics presidency. Both deny wrongdoing and describe tensions and enmity with Bogran.
Cincinnati February 27 Mr Edison says the Indiana decision fixing annual telephone rates threatens patent rights. He argues such doctrine stifles invention and capital, compares to England where state controls halted electric light progress, and predicts U S Supreme Court will rule Indiana law unconstitutional.
Springfield reports Dr. Rauch, secretary of the Board of Health, outlines a comprehensive plan to defend against Asiatic cholera and other contagious diseases at Atlantic Gulf quarantines from the St Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. He stresses Illinois immigrant flow and calls for prompt, thorough preparedness and improved port surveillance.
From Washington the report notes the President has signed three bills in almost three months. Congress consumes about 3 million dollars yearly, yet only three laws have been enacted, with one being a perfunctory War claims bill. The record shows over 7,000 bills introduced in the House and Senate combined.
Socialist deputies in Paris propose a joint international labor movement with Britain and France inviting American and European workers to a September congress to push for shorter hours, better workshop sanitation, limits on woman and minor labor, and a total ban on children under fourteen in shops or factories.
The Fish Commission warns that Columbus swindlers have farmers pay one dollar for a book on fish culture and live carp. After payment, victims receive a public fish culture document and a carp application. The scam moves to Ohio congressmen, who forward the form to the Fish Commission as if from a constituent.
A Houston bank shut its doors after heavy withdrawals by its largest depositors. D. F. Smith was appointed receiver, with about 250000 dollars in deposits. The failure follows a citywide banking panic after the Houston City Bank collapse.
Consul-General Baker in Buenos Aires reports that mining experts say Patagonia holds an auriferous layer extending about forty miles along Cape Virgin north of Barancas del Condor with deposits equal to Brazil, California and Australia. Chileans on site earned about two hundred dollars monthly net.
Detroit on February 26 details a 120 year old Donald McLellan living in poverty. His only support comes from son in law William Allen a 76 year old Seminole War and Civil War veteran who cannot draw a pension due to lack of wounds. McLellan speaks Gaelic and never learned English.
In Shamokin Hill Pa two six year old twin girls Katie and Susie Lillie wandered into an upstairs room of a mill where a shaft was revolving. Their clothing caught in the machinery and they were thrown about for an hour before an older sister found them. Katie died and Susie, though living, faces a grave prognosis.
The National Welsh Convention in Pittsburgh organized the Welsh Land Association to establish Welsh colonies nationwide. A colony will be formed in Webster County West Virginia with ten thousand acres available. Shares cost 25 dollars each, with a 1000 dollar cap per member. Over 600 shares were sold on Wednesday and Thursday.
Washington reports the Cabinet discussed compensation for Chinese residents of Rock Springs Wyoming who suffered losses in last fall’s riots. It is likely the issue will be sent to Congress with a recommendation to reimburse the victims.
A February rumor from Monica claims King Ludwig plans to wed American widow Kramer Klett said to be worth 100 million dollars. No confirmation from royal circles is reported.
The Detroit Tribune argues Senators misuse charges to shield faulty officials and press the President to remove appointees. It cites a West Virginia case where charges led to McCormick's dismissal and McGraw's appointment, alleging Democratic secrecy and slander to protect prerogatives.
The Detroit Tribune reports President Cleveland faces growing attacks from Democratic papers over Garland and a Senate row over fiscal policy. Friction with advisers grows as officials note the White House life is harder than Buffalo’s sheriff’s residence.
A collage of editorials from multiple papers attacks Attorney General Garland and other Democratic figures over cabinet changes, alleged improprieties, and Pan-Electric stock ties. They urge public scrutiny of White House and Senate actions and criticize perceived secrecy and self enrichment in government.
Congressional focus returns to shipping as Mr. Dingley pushes a bill to remove fees for inland and coastal mail transport. The piece accuses the Postmaster-General of vetoing or subverting laws favoring American lines, citing a 400000 dollar subsidy law and urging Senate support while condemning executive disregard of Congress.
The piece criticizes the Democratic House for slow progress and failing to advance key legislation. It notes Senate actions on Indian reservations and other bills, cites numerous unaddressed appropriation measures, and questions the House rules and leadership, predicting further inefficiency.
A lengthy critique rails against a 1392 page descriptive catalogue of U S Government publications from 1774 to 1881. The piece accuses Congress of wasteful printing including speeches never delivered and costs millions. suggests requiring each Congress member to keep the volume on their desk to curb the waste and notes dissatisfaction with the current administration and civil service reforms.
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