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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1890
Page
2
Three men in the Oregon State prison reportedly cut off a hand each to avoid work. They are confined in solitary cells, creating a stark image of punishment and hardship inside the facility.
Mrs Sweeny of Coatesville Pennsylvania died of joy after learning she would receive an $8000 pension she had waited ten years to obtain. The long wait and emotional relief marked the unusual death in this small community.
Joan Warren a veteran newspaper seller on the Derby railroad between New Haven and Birmingham Conn is in his eighty second year and is cutting his third set of teeth reflecting his long life and steady work.
Joan B. Parshall, a compositor at the Delhi New York Gazette, recently prepared three golden wedding notices. Fifty years ago he drafted marriage notices for the same couples, a remarkable coincidence in the local record.
The Nebraska Supreme Court held that railroads must construct and maintain suitable crossings over public highways regardless of whether the highways were laid out after the rails were built. The decision enforces ongoing duty to ensure safe, proper crossings across the state.
Mr. A. J. Drexen plans a Philadelphia industrial institute with a $500000 building cost and $1000000 endowment. The campus will be a splendid affair and provide accommodations for two thousand to twenty five thousand pupils.
An ancient settlement spanning about four acres was uncovered on the Ohio riverbank near Parkersburg West Virginia. The site reveals extensive pottery fragments along with ashes and pieces of animal and human bones embedded in the earth.
A Berlin professor estimates a fifteen car train would convey the food a man eats from birth to age 70. Cuauncry Derew notes about a hundred named Wall Street fortunes in wartime becoming life insurance agents, with seventy five percent of banquet attendees formerly famous traders.
A weekly recap notes no Senate session on Tuesday May 6. In the House Boutelle introduced a bill to shield interstate liquor laws from a Supreme Court ruling, adding a clause to the interstate commerce act. Other items include public farm proposals, tariff debates, pension bills, flag protection, and various local calamities and court actions across several states.
Washington reports the funeral ceremonies for Kentucky Senator Beck were held in the Senate chamber on the sixth. Miss Litzy Rosecrans wed Governor Joseph Toole of Montana in Washington on the seventh. U S business failures totaled 209 in the week ending the ninth, down from 211 prior. Speaker Reep predicted adjournment by July 4. Railroads under construction since January 1, 1890 reach 1100 miles, with 944 new roads incorporated.
A man named Cromack fatally shot his 18 year old daughter on the 6th at Foxboro Massachusetts and then killed himself. The same day 3,500 workers were affected by a major fire at Tur Singer Sewing Machine Company in Elizabeth New Jersey causing $3 million in losses. A British steamer was reported lost after sailing from Philadelphia March 23 bound for Copenhagen. Other items include a failed capital punishment bill in New York State Senate, pardons for five convicts in Dannemora, a Philadelphia real estate agent's disappearance, and a series of fires and accidents across several states.
A Boston Baptist Union receives a $5000 bequest from unknown siblings and hints at disputes over wills. Reports on Sing Sing prison inmates driven to madness by confinement. New York Senate passes a libel bill shifting blame to authors. A Cleveland drummer encounters a sharp female customer who orders steam fixtures, sparking disbelief.
General John Stark, famed hero of Bennington, is set to receive a monument if a $50,000 appropriation passes Congress. The memorial would be built in Manchester New Hampshire where the revolutionary commander died, complementing the existing Bennington Vermont monument honoring his deeds.
A Tennessee Republic party remark highlights the editor’s hard life and a 1812 naval remembrance features Admiral Sir Provo Wallis, the lone survivor of the Shannon Chesapeake clash. Wallis, born April 12 1791 in Halifax Nova Scotia, is cited as the Chesapeake’s captor.
The report recounts multiple tragic deaths from gas and hydrophobia incidents in Illinois and Nebraska including a 12 year old girl in Alliance Ohio, a Fairfield couple, and a Lake Villa pair. It also notes hotel gas fatalities in Chicago, election roles for the World’s Fair directors, a Springfield state GOP meeting June 24, and the Chicago marriage of Theodore Thomas to Rose Fay.
Reports from the week cover a deadly fire at Longue Pointe lunatic asylum near Montreal destroying the building and killing about fifty to one hundred fifty inmates. Other items note Emperor William’s peace stance in the Reichstag, Buenos Aires customs frauds, James Nasmyth’s death in London, Havana drought and cattle losses, lightning at the Paris Eiffel Tower, and Italian parliamentary dispute over control of charitable institutions.
The US Senate passed the army appropriation and 135 pension bills on the tenth. A bill to ease interstate rates for travelers was introduced in the House, while tariff debate continued. Crain & Co of Topeka failed for 120000 dollars. Violent winds struck Northern Missouri and Wisconsin towns. fatalities and major damages reported. Ellicottville disaster, Dubuque wind damage, Greenville flooding, Willet's Point warehouse blaze at one million in loss. Cedar Valley cyclone killed four, Oxford Club stables fire killed thirty horses, Akron cyclone damaged numerous homes, Winton powder mill explosion, Oil City cyclone fatal, Carlisle firm failed for 150000. Baseball Players' League and National League standings listed.
A string of destructive storms and tornadoes hit Akron and towns across Missouri Iowa Pennsylvania and Kansas on May 12. In Akron seventy five buildings damaged and nineteen dwellings wrecked with dozens injured but no deaths. Other storms caused fatalities including two children in Terre Haute and multiple deaths in Franklin and Cedar Valley.
May 7 report from Longue Pointe Quebec details a devastating blaze that consumed the Longue Pointe Lunatic Asylum ten miles from Montreal. About 1,300 inmates were present and only an estimated fifty fatalities, with many patients escaping as firemen fought a hopeless battle amid collapsing walls and blazing debris. Sisters in charge and rescuers risked their lives to save others as the outbreak destroyed the facility and stained the St Lawrence skyline with flames.
Spring sanitation should cover the house out-buildings and surroundings. Maintain whitewash as a deodorizer and disinfectant, and consider a swill barrel as a sink drain, emptied daily onto garden soil. Keep barns, sheds, and manure areas clean to prevent tainted air and milk quality. Ensure cellar drains work properly to avoid sewer gas entering the home.
Hon C F Clarkson, veteran journalist and agricultural editor for the State Register, died at 12 15 AM in Dubuque Iowa. Born in Maine 1810 he moved to Indiana in 1820, settled in Grundy County Iowa in 1855, served in the State Senate in 1863, and spent most of his life in newspapers. He was father to Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson and R P Clarkson of the State Register.
Lamar Colorado May 7 J S Harriman continues his 65 day walk from Wabash Indiana toward San Francisco. He is 1498 miles from the start and 320 miles ahead of schedule after covering 150 miles in a day and a half since Dodge City. He expects to travel via La Junta and Trinidad.
Rev. Joseph Cummings D D LL D president of Northwestern University Evanston died at his Chicago Avenue home yesterday morning of fatty degeneration of the heart. He was a longtime educator and church leader whose career spanned Wesleyan Harvard Genesee College and Wesleyan University before leading Northwestern since 1881. He leaves a wife and two adopted daughters. College exercises suspended for his funeral.
Pittspurea Va May 8 Within two weeks Pittsburgh will be the center of a labor drive by about 75000 coal miners under the American Federation of Labor as a second step toward eight hour days. The movement, long brewing, has miners in Pennsylvania Ohio West Virginia Indiana and Illinois, with 15000 in western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. William Martin AFL vice president said the miners move follows the carpenters and joiners eight hour success and the operators fear business disruption if hours are shortened.
Reports from Longue Point Quebec confirm a second blaze at the island asylum laundry. Firefighters contained the flames but hundreds remain missing amid claims of maniac arson. Officials say 150 dead, with 1,780 inmates originally housed rather than 1,300. Convents and refuges fill with anxious relatives as details unfold.
Fire in Scranton Pennsylvania on Wednesday night destroyed the Scranton carriage works Ross Brooks screen works and the Finch iron works boiler and pattern shops. It consumed twelve George Cooper dwellings and Dee E Robinson’s brewery. At least forty homes were wiped out leaving 150 people homeless with losses pegged from 200000 to 800000 dollars.
Pitrspurcu Pa May 8 First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson and his wife traveled to Des Moines Ia after a telegram announced his father’s death in New York May 8 He said he will leave the postal service on July 1 next and that a successor has not yet been named. New York May 8 It has been discovered that shipping man William H Guion is a defaulter to 30000 The bonds stolen by Guion formed part of 150000 in securities deposited with the British American Assurance Company of Toronto for foreign insurers operating in this state.
Uriea New York May 9 A large portion of the Chenango County buildings at Preston burned Wednesday night destroying the asylum pauper house and idiot ward. Nine inmates were killed by the flames and others escaped into the woods as deputies and the sheriff searched the area. Keeper E E Mainwaring reported the idiot department was a mass of flame with inmates locked in cells. The insane asylum will be moved to Utica.
A freight train of twenty one cattle cars on the Southern Kansas railroad near Wellington, Kansas, exploded its boiler on a trestle, killing engineer William H. Macks and fireman Amola Meigs. The locomotive plunged, six cattle cars telescoped into a ditch, and about 125 cattle were killed. Parts of the engine were found up to 600 feet away.
President nominates George W. Steele to govern Oklahoma Territory with Robert Martin as Secretary. Supreme Court officials include B Green Chief Justice Abraham J. Seay and John G. Clark as Associate Justices. Warren S. Lurry named U.S. Marshal Horace Speed and Horace Speed also listed as United States Attorney for Oklahoma.
In Port land Oregon on May 9 two McDonald sisters aged 9 and 12 were playing near the railroad bridge approach when a passing train spooked them. They leaped into the river to flee and were drowned.
Lynn Massachusetts May 9 seven year old Robert McCann dies after pushing his sister from a railroad crossing as a train strikes them in the night. The tragedy underscores dangers at tracks in urban areas.
Funeral services for the late Andrew Shuman were held yesterday in Evanston with a large attendance. The interment took place at Rose Hill Cemetery.
Washington May 9 The ing board appointed to investigate plan to tunnel the river at Det declared the project feasible on memo n ds that it be undertaken Secretary of War has transmitted report to the House of Representatives The cost will be about 3500.01 The President's Summer Washington May 9 Press J W rison contemplates passing at the coming summer at Deen the same cottage he and his occupied last season
A Youth's Companion reprint urges care to avoid injuries and mishaps from everyday carelessness. It cites instances of leaving objects like pins, carbolic acid, tacks, or clothing on stairs and furniture, and notes consequences from minor to serious, including a teacher’s spinal concussion and a child’s poisoning.
The article reviews Campbell's errors in The Pleasures of Hope and Gertrude of Wyoming including animals out of place and exotic flora in northern regions. It recounts how corrections were sought but not fully adopted and notes a later revelation about Brandt the Mohawk, leading to penance in notes and limited textual changes.
The London Telegraph recounts Caroline Pichler's memoirs about Empress Maria Theresa. The cold tolerance and open windows at court are described, with scenes of wind blowing snow onto writing paper, and the Empress drinking lemonade after sunlit processions while hair is brushed.
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