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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1890
Page
2
Burravo Buys Naples Historic House Once Linked to King Bomba
Burravo has acquired a historic Naples residence that was previously owned and inhabited by King Bomba, reflecting a growing interest in European heritage among notable buyers. The purchase adds a storied royal connection to Naples real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burravo
Naples
Bomba
Harvard Fund Surges Past Seven Million Raised
Captain W. E. Hooper, Harvard University treasurer, reports the institution's fund now exceeds 7 million dollars and has grown by about 1 million in the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Hooper
Harvard University
Treasury buys bonds to retire debt promising taxpayer savings
The Treasury Department reports purchases totaling 311,918,668.94 dollars of bonds for retirement, claiming taxpayers save 66,764,118.25 dollars. The course suggested is to buy bonds, though a universal adoption is seen as unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Baby state nicknames list for four states
North Dakota the Flickertail State South Dakota the Swinge Cat State Washington the Chinook State Montana the Stubbed Toe State this set of pet names appears in a historical note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota
South Dakota
Washington
Montana
Local Execution Echoes Friday Fate of Noted Man
A man in a Southern state faced execution after a life marked by a sequence of Friday events. Born, married, presented twins, and the crime all date to Fridays, culminating in his hanging, though his name was not Friday.
Lottery Company Offers to Pay Louisiana for 25 Year Privilege
The Louisiana Lottery Company offers to pay the State of Louisiana 12 500 000 dollars for a 25 year license to operate and asks the Legislature to submit the proposal to a public vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana Lottery Company
State of
Louisiana
Washington fortunes and subscriptions urged now
The statement that Vice-President Morton reads more newspapers than any other man in Washington explains much of the intelligence behind his large fortune. Now, would-be millionaires, now is the time to subscribe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morton
Washington
Language speakers worldwide rise in English numbers
Experts estimate 60 million speak German, 45 million speak French, and 120 million speak English. The English language has grown far faster globally over the last fifty years than the other languages.
Thief Trapped in Lynn Shaft After Noon Clothing Heist
A thief sneaked into a Lynn shoe factory room at noonday to steal clothing. He was caught in a shaft and spun at ninety revolutions per minute for fifteen minutes before discovery. Upon release he appeared unsettled but offered no explanation and was let go.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Enoch Arden Tale Ends Happily At Sea Return
A South Carolina man vanished over two years ago and was shipwrecked on Terra del Fuego. He returns to find his wife and their dog faithful and joyful, delivering a cheerful happy ending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Terra del Fuego
Dog
Man Hines Ends Squat Claim After Turbulent Arkansas Struggle
James Hines took a squat claim in Arkansas and endured three years of conflict. He was warned off, resisted eviction, and faced 33 gunshots, four wounds, two arson fires on his cabin, his wife’s death driven by her own action, and his son fleeing before Hines hanged himself, ending the episode.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Hines
Arkansas
Eye testing reveals surprises in first glasses fitting
The article notes that seven of ten show stronger sight in one eye, two of five have misaligned eyes, nearly half are color blind to some extent, and only one in fifteen eyes are normal in all respects.
Photographer claims colored image from lightning flash exposure
An English photographer says he captured a photograph showing natural colors by accident during a blinding lightning flash. He notes a friend once obtained a colored plate under similar conditions and believes electricity may affect color photography.
Cats Enter Year at Moston Home for Aged and Indigent
The annual report shows 261 cats admitted last year at the Moston Home for Aged and Indigent Cats. Of these, 171 were sent in for treatment by owners, 90 were received for lack of visible means of support. There were 35 deaths, the largest share due to la grippe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moston
Ats
la Grippe
The Shoshone Medicine Man’s July Flood Prediction
The Shoshone prophet forecasts a second No ah flood in July that will wipe out pale faces. He has sent runners to warn tribes as mountains in the West would bear Indian wigwams for Independence Day. If the season passes without inundation, the seer should be warned to move his scalplock far away.
Mill Manager Blames Footwear For Lost Work Time
Eastern mill managers claim that girls lose 50 seconds each time they retie hoe-strings, three times daily, totaling 800 seconds per worker per day. With 409 workers this wastes 43,800,000 seconds yearly, worth about $948,172 at average wages, prompting orders for button shoes or gaiters or discharge.
Boston shoppers boast peculiar habits in market tales
A Boston woman claims cultured shoppers never bring purchases home. A friend recalls sending tape and tape-needle by mail. They discuss pepper orders causing delivery jams and oddities of afternoon shopping rituals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Dbui
Purifying the Air with Water in 19th Century Homes
Freser cold water is a powerful absorbent of gases. A bowl of water under a sick-room bed, changed often, purifies the air. Open water vessels in rooms help cleanse the air in London aldermen’s chamber. Water standing in a closed room becomes unfit to drink. Such experiments are not costly. Restless sleep is often eased by placing an open water vessel near the head of the bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Congressional actions span bills on pensions and sovereignty
The records from April 21 to April 25 show the Senate approving a naval review at New York harbor and advancing reforms for military retirements, banking, and territorial Oklahoma. House actions include disability pensions for war veterans and public-land transfers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
New York
United States
Oklahoma
Tursday
Mitchell
Ore
House
Arizona
South Dakota
Washington
Louisiama
Gladstone
Mich
Wisconsin
Louisiana
Washington reports wheat and corn stocks and revenue rise
In the United States on the 21st wheat stocks stood at 24 513 272 bushels and corn at 17 855 506. For the first nine months of the year ending June 30 1890 internal revenue collections totaled 100 945 226 dollars, up 487 604 779 from the prior year. Nine day US business failures numbered 218, up from 214. year to date total failures reached 4 005 versus 4 245 in 1889. President Harrison signed the world’s fair bill on the 25th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Harrison
Inauguration marks NH Senate chief as acting governor
Davin A. Taggart, president of the New Hampshire Senate, inaugurated to perform gubernatorial duties due to Governor Goodell illness. First such substitution since 1784, as Massachusetts moves to biennial state officer elections. Pennsylvania GOP sets Harrisburg convention for June 25. Treacherous fires claim lives in Slaterville and Newcastle mills. Rochester blaze inflicts devastating loss. silk works explosion in Catasauqua kills and injures. Reading Railroad furnace restarts after seven years. Altoona brewer shoots wife and kills self.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davin A. Taggart
New Hampshire Senate
Goodell
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
D. S. Gallagher
Slaterville
N. Y
Egbert Williamson
Prohibitionists
Maine
Portland
Etna
Newcastle
Rochester
John G. Wagner
Union Silk Works
Catasauqua
Temple
Reading Railroad Company
Daniel Reittman
Altoona
Tragic violence and labor unrest marked a period eventful day
Reports from Hesperia Michigan describe the murder suicide of Thomas Nelson who killed 14 year old Anna Nelson before taking his own life. Other items note beneficial rains in the Dakotas and Minnesota, church disbandment in Randolph Ohio, a carpenter strike settlement in Indianapolis, ongoing Chicago strike, Bayou Sara levee breaches and Louisiana distress, an Arkansas killing, a Point Pleasant fire, a fatal drowning of John Bodenmiller, Iowa Republican convention planning, and the death of 110 year old William Reynolds in Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hesperia
Mich
Thomas Nelson
Anna Nelson
Dakotas
Minnesota
Congregational
Randolph
Meriam
Indianapolis
Chicago
Bayou Sara
Point Coupee
Henry Owens
Dallas County
Ark
Point Pleasant
W. Va
John Bodenmiller
Labor Signal
Iowa Republican Central Committee
Des Moines
Sioux City
William ReyNoips
Pine Hill
Floods and quakes hit multiple states with heavy losses
Reports on the 23rd and 24th describe floods in the South causing an estimated 27 million dollars in losses. Earthquake shocks in California, tornadoes and fires in Mississippi, Texas, and Indiana inflict deaths and widespread destruction. Legislative actions in Ohio and political nominations in Oregon and Indiana are noted amid continuing disaster aftermaths.
Steamer Bilboa Lost in North Sea Drowning Fifteen Crew
A North Sea disaster reports the steamer Bilboa lost on the 21st with fifteen crew drowned. Other items note a murder sentence in St. Albans Quebec, a Russian factory labor bill, suicides by five sisters near Moscow, a farmer drowning three children in Ontario, a Belleville house fire killing William Arthurs and his wife, a Bismarck remark on class conflict, and a Sydney boat race winner Peter Kemp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Sea
Bilboa
Randolph Dubois
St. Albans
Que
Council of the Empire of Russia
Moscow
Damovieroff
Prince Bismarck
Friedrichsruhe
Sydney
Peter Kemp
Neil Matterson
Various Baseball Standings and World News Items
Weekly baseball percentages from the Players League and National League are listed for several teams. Other items recount Adelina Patti leaving New York for Wales, the Trinity River flood in North Texas, Giovanni Succi ending a 40 day fast in London, Garfield visits at the White House, Yorkville tornado damage, New York mayoral bribery charges, Grant tomb roses, a Baltimore hailstorm, flood drownings in Mississippi, and Senate and House actions including Sioux land sale bills and a veto by President Harrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Players’ League
Buffalo
Boston
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
New York
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicago
Adelina Parti
Wales
Trinity
North
Texas
Dallas
Giovanni Succi
Royal Aquarium
London
James A. Garfield
J. Stanley Brown
White House
Garfield
Joan J. O'Brien
Yorkville
Ark
Grant
Ulysses
General Grant
Riverside Park
Baltimore
Rolling Fork
Miss
United States
Senate
South Dakota
A. H. Emery
Ogden
U. T
Harrison
Bismarck on May Day and the Socialist Challenge
The ex chancellor argues for non interference unless laws are broken and warns against overreaction. He says labor has progressed, guilds are an aristocracy, and the fight between labor and capital will continue. He urges firm, not lenient, government to secure peace and predicts little May Day trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freiprieusruur
Prince Bismarck
Berlin
Germany
Shevitch Forgiven Returns to Russia
Sergius Shevitch, editor of the New York Volks-Zeitung and long exile for opposing the Czar, has been forgiven and will return home. His confiscated estates will be restored and he will resume his former social position after years in Hoboken with his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Hoboken
Two Young Ladies Die In Lima Runaway Crash
A group of youths returning from a pleasure trip in Lima Ohio were overturned against a bridge abutment by a runaway team. Minnie and Gertie Pierce died while Ella Hawkins Will Hawkins and Clif Church sustained likely fatal injuries. In Iowa City the Iowa State University board elected Carroll Wright of Des Moines to replace his brother Thomas Wright who moved to Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
California
Sacramento
Kyle
Tex
Greenwood
Miss
Tur Republicans
Indiana
Henry A. Johnson
Congress
Ohio
San Francisco
Rouin
Pointe Coupee Parish
Louisiana
N. E. Paine
State Insane Hospital
Westboro
Mass
Oregon
Portland
Brazil
Ind
Ben Corbery
Cora Brubach
Michael Lane
Paine & Co
Northern Pacific Junction
Minn
Qainesville
Lima
Minnie
Gertie Pierce
Ella
Will Hawkins
Clif Church
Thomas Hatchard
Milwaukee
West
Texas
Here
Iowa City
Board of Regents of
The
Iowa State University
Carroll C. Wright
Des Moines
Thomas 8. Wright
Chicago
Women’s Club Convention Elects New Officers
The New York convention elected Charlotte Emerson Brown of Orange New Jersey as President and May Wright Sewell of Indianapolis Indiana as Vice President. Jenny June Crely was Recording Secretary May Temple Knoxville Tennessee Corresponding Secretary Phoebe Hearst California became Treasurer. A separate incident at Paine and Co lumber yard Northern Pacific Junction Minnesota caused a $100000 loss with $20000 insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Club
New York
Convention of
Women’s Clubs
Charlotte Emerson Brown
Orange
N. J
May Wright Sewell
Indianapolis
Ind
J. Crely
Jenny June
May B. Temple
Knoxville
Tennn
Phoebe Hearst
Senator Hearst
California
Paine & Co
Northern Pacific Junction
Minn
Labor unrest grows as strikes surge nationwide
Bradstreet reports labor troubles worsening with more strikes and idle workers across cities. Chicago centers the crisis with 5 000 carpenters and 20 000 allied workers idle, plus 2 000 brick-makers seeking shorter hours and higher pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradstreet
New York
Byar
Chicago
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Sharon
Portland
Ore
Indianapolis
Ind
New York City
Joliet
Connellsville
Cleveland
Boston
Milwaukee
Birmingham
Ala
Lancaster
Wheeling
Louisville
Phiadelphia
President Signs World’s Fair Bill into Law
The president approves the measure creating commissioners at large for the World’s Fair and Cabinet notes. Senator Cullom agrees, plans to notify governors within thirty days to name two commissioners each for appointment. Chauncey Depew, A. T. Goshorn, and ex Governor McCormick are among those discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasningeron
Benjamin Harrison
State Department
Cullom
Illinois
New England
New York
Central States
Northwest
South
Pacific States
Chauncey Depew
A. T. Goshorn
Cincinnati
McCormick
Blaine
National Commission
Cloud Burst Deluges Gainesville Texas Streets
Gainesville Texas faces a four hour cloud burst that floods streets several feet deep with three foot water in many areas. A creek breaches its banks sweeping away small homes while the fire department aids rescue efforts and trains are halted by washouts. A woman dies in a man’s arms as he carries her from her waterlogged home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesville
Tex
Pacian City
Atchafalaya
Te Morgan
Othe
New Orleans
Point Coupee
Dan Kingman
United States Engineer Corps
Kingman
Moyganza Levee
Waskington
Proctor
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Arkansas
Quartermasters and Subsistence Department
Dallas
Texas
Trinity River
Flanders Heights
Oakcliff
Cochran Street
Ward Street
Indian Territory
Gulf
Marshall
Kilene
Trinity
Bltimore
Baltimore
Little Rock
Ark
Woodruff County
Yorkville
Cotton Plant
C. D. York & Co
Explosion at Delavan drug store kills two and injures two
An explosion in H. R. Dean's drug store in Delavan Wisconsin Thursday afternoon wrecked the building, sent the store roof skyward, shattered windows blocks away, and toppled the schoolhouse cupola. Two men inside were rescued badly hurt and two perished in the flames. Identified victims include H. R. Doane and an unnamed man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delavan
Wis
H. R. Dean
H. R. Doane
Lebanon to Get Natural Gas Piped From Sheridan
Eastern capitalists arranged contracts in Lebanon Indiana to supply natural gas from Sheridan fifteen miles away. The project will be built within ninety days at a cost of 125000 dollars with home capital providing half the funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
Ind
Sheridan
Home Capital
Forger and Embezzler jailed in Latem Massachusetts
George B. Ives former assistant district attorney was imprisoned in Latem on forgery charges amounting to 20000 dollars. He also embezzled funds from the Blaney estate and his wife totaling about 70000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Latem
Mass
George B. Ives
Blaney
Sny Levee Case Moves to Answer Within Ninety Days
In Springfield on April 26 judges Gresham and Allen overruled the demurrer in the Sny levee case in the U.S. Circuit Court and ordered the defendants to answer within ninety days. The Palms executors request for a receiver for the levee district was refused.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sny
Browning of Two Lumbermen In Cauumen Michigan
Twelve lumbermen paddling a canoe on the Other river were capsized Friday evening. Ten reached shore while Charles Sebaught and Louis Lecon dress were drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browning
Cauumen
Mich
Charles Sebaught
Louis Lecondress
Destructive floods strain Bayou Sara region and beyond
Reports from Bayou Sara and Pointe Coupee describe rising floods from the Atchafalaya and Morganza crevasses. The Dacotah relief steamer evacuates thousands of cattle and people as levees fail and entire plantations drown, with widespread loss and uncertain fatalities across multiple parishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bayou San
Thorah
B. Sara
Bayou Sara
Epardy
Pointe Coupee
Allendale
Dacotah
Luke
Grand Bay
Old River
Bayou Sata
New Orleans
United States
Douglas
Point Pleasant
Tens Parish
Pot Pleasant
The Clayton Murder Reveals Target Misidentification
Arkansas Governor Eagle holds information that the Clayton homicide was meant for Powell Clayton rather than John M. Clayton. A Washington dispatch notes the assassin aimed at avenging a relative killed during Powell Clayton’s governorship, with details to be reviewed by the congressional committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
John M. Clayton
Powell
St. Louis
Washington
Eagle
Congressional Investigating Committee
Powell Clayton
Mob Attacks Jewish Quarter in Galician Town. 11 Killed
A mob of about 4000 people attacked the Jewish quarter at Baila Galicia forty three miles southwest of Cracow wrecking dwellings and shops. Troops dispersed the rioters but 11 were killed and many injured in the violence recorded in Vienna on April 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Baila
Galicia
Cracow
Two Youths In Brazin Shootings Alarm Town
Brazin Indiana on April 25 reports 13 year old Ben Corbery shot 11 year old Cora Brubach after the girl told a teacher of misconduct. Nearby, in Crawlorp Nebraska, 5 o clock death follows a work accident involving William Nee. Timothy Spring is under arrest as police investigate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aprillington
Missouri
Bri
William Nee
Timothy Spring
Nee
Woman Burned in Ontario Home Fire Fatal Husband Injured
A woman named Jane Arthurs died in a dwelling fire in Belleville Ontario. Her husband William was severely burned and is expected to die from injuries. Both were elderly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Belleville
Ontario
Jane Arthurs
William
Thirteen Victims In Flooded Delta Parish
Flood reports from Sharkey County and Point Coupee detail drowning and property loss as streams swell. Officials in Louisiana and nearby states coordinate relief while Trinity river floods threaten Dallas and surrounding towns with wide damage and multiple counties affected.
Choice Recipes With Simple Yet Tasty Dishes
A set of home kitchen guidelines for preparing macaroni with cream sauce and cheese topping, buttered lettuce with vinegar and butter, roasted sweetbreads with vegetables and gravy, and a bright orange tart with bread or cake base and egg yolk filling.
Beginning of Earth Creation Narrated by Charles Crofton
A narrative from St. Nicholas by Taresa C. Crofton describes Earth forming from a fiery gaseous mass ejected from the sun. It explains cooling, crust formation, rain, and the emergence of land from Nova Scotia to Alaska, with Europe dotted by patches under dark vapors before life and sunlight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rod
Nova’ Scotia
Alaska
Europe
Taresa C. Crofton
St. Nicholas
Two Curious Relics of English Stamps for America
Two original stamps engraved in England for use in the American colonies under the 1765 Stamp Act have been acquired by the National Museum. The half-penny and penny stamps, un canceled, came through the Ellis family and banking firm in Britain before being donated by John A. Brill of Philadelphia. They will be framed with illustrations to explain how the Stamp Act helped spur the American Revolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Museum
England
Grenville
Rockingham
Welbore Ellis
Great Britain
Welbore Ellis, Jr
Walker, Maltby, Everett & Ellis
Ellis
E. J. Walker
Newcastle on-Tyne
John A. Brill
Philadelphia
Boston Herald
Also Mentioned on This Page
Avantit
John A. Arnold & CO
Foreign Intelligence
Bismarck
Clayton
Democratic
Gon
R. A. Congress
Sylveste
Gove
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