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Van Wert Weekly Bulletin

Location

Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 28, 1887

Page

6

Santa Fe irrigation plan fuels territorial connotes

Han Wert Sulletin reports a new connotation at Santa Fe New Mexico aimed at irrigating the choicest fruit and farm lands in the Territory. The article mentions currency values from ten thousand dollars, notes never reaching a hundred thousand, and notes the policy never issued. It notes two Springfield Ohio women in critical condition from face powder use with a warning about skin beautifiers. Natick Massachusetts residents vote to erect a monument to their late Vice-President Henry Wilson.

Santa Fe N. M Springfield Natick, Mass Henry Wilson

Patents and inventions cost the United States millions

It is estimated that the discoveries, inventions and compounds patented each year in the United States never amount to anything and cost about £3,000,000.

United States

Duchess of Cumberland Recovers Sanity in Vienna Asylum

A paventer of the King of Denmark, the Duchess of Cumberland, long in an Vienna insane asylum, has regained reason. The season’s notable failures include extensive breweries, once thought to secure enormous profits and near bankruptcy proof.

Denmark Duchess of Cumberland Vienna

Rail tonnage trends show 1886 to 1887 increase

Railroads moved 482 million tons in 1886. Projections estimate 545 million tons for this year, indicating a rise of 63 million tons. The figures reflect growing freight activity across the network.

Western Union Telegraph Company Reports Surplus

The Western Union Telegraph Company handled 47,394,530 messages in the last year and posted a surplus of 2,692,352 dollars. The figures reflect a strong year for the telegraph business and indicate solid profitability.

Western Union Telegraph Company

Italian murderer Vincentio Juliano shows mercy to family

Vincentio Juliano, jailed killer in Newark New Jersey, secretly saves most of his prison meals for his starving wife and children. When jail officials learned of his act they doubled his food allowance to support his family.

Vincenzio Juliano Newark N. J

Proparty Rev George R Rogers longest serving minister

Proparty Rev. George R. Rogers of Brooks Station Kentucky, at ninety six, is the oldest active minister in the United States and still rides twenty six miles by horse to Louisville. He served in the War of 1812 and receives a pension for that service. A Tucson report claims a grand jury in Arizona uncovered an organized band of cattle thieves linked to prominent residents stealing cattle from the San Carlos Reservation over the past year.

Proparty George R. Rogers Brooks Station United States Louisville Tucson A. T Southwest United States Grand Jury San Carlos Reservation

Man Killed by Express Train Chase

Leroy Brown, elderly resident of Homer New York, was playing with a kitten near a railroad when the feline scampered across the tracks. He pursued the kitten and was struck by an express train, hurled fifty feet onto an embankment. He died instantly from a broken neck.

Leroy Brown Homer N. Y Mr. Brown

Balloon voyage ends with tree-top landing at Narragansett Park

Mrs Ezra 8 Allen ascended alone in a balloon from the Narragansett Park state fair grounds. She reached about three miles high and battled air currents and a whirlwind. Threatened, she released the explosion cord and descended a mile and a half. The balloon landed safely in a tree top breaking the fall.

Ezra Allen Narragansett Park Providence

Vegetarian Doctor Promotes Meat-Free Regimen

Dr J Hanky Lovett of Philadelphia argues vegetarianism cures intemperance. He claims flesh eating men crave alcohol, while a diet centered on vegetables will neutralize the urge. He asserts a man eating four pounds of macaroni daily will not become a drunkard.

J. Hanky Lovett Philadelphia

Otto Bet dies, Comanche chief honored in death

Otto Bet, a renowned Comanche chief, died in Indian Territory after a ceremonial death. Minutes before passing, he was dressed in a war costume with red paint and a war bonnet. Five wives then cut their faces, wounded themselves, and burned possessions in mourning.

Otto Bet Indian Territory

Boiling Well Reported Near Harter Georgia

A well near Harter in Columbia County Georgia is described as a marvel of first magnitude. It reportedly boils constantly with a buzzing sound like a swarm of bees. A torch lowered into the well found no gas. The well was dug about a year ago and has boiled only in recent weeks, continuing to boil since.

Harter Columbia County Augusta Omaha Herald

Mrs Gramen's Wild West Adventure Ends With Escape

Mrs Xavier Gramen of Brooklyn recounts her trek into the wild West with a cowboy and her capture by a band of snake Indians during a buffalo hunt. After breaking her leg in a fall, the tribe's medicine man set the fracture and the chief offered to take her as a wife, but she escaped and found her way back to camp.

Xavier Gramen Brooklyn

Golden wedding for Mr and Mrs Peren Vanporen near Springfield

Mr and Mrs Peren Vanporen near Springfield Illinois celebrated their golden anniversary. Mrs Vandoren, born in Ireland, recalled a perilous Atlantic voyage when a storm doomed the ship’s stores. Starvation loomed as passengers drew lots for death. she prayed for five minutes before a rescue boat appeared.

News of the Week from Washington and Beyond

The report notes Hugh Johnson of Detroit elected president of Tur National Carriage Builders session in Washington. On the 21st Third Assistant Festmaster-General Harris allowed using envelopes bearing business cards for third class mail. Seven day tally shows 172 U.S. business failures, down from 182 prior week. Supreme Court heard an application for writ of error and stay in the Chicago Anarchists’ case.

Washington Tur National Carriage Builders Hugh Johnson Detroit St. Louis United States Supreme Court Cleago Anarchists

Multiple 19th century incidents span fires deaths and sports

A chronicle notes drownings at Foxburg and Jamestown fires at Lake View and Peabody deaths in Massachusetts. Baseball world championship games record Detroit leads St Louis with scores 3 1 and 9 2, then 4 2. cholera cases aboard Britannia. loss of schooner Rebecca Nickerson. blue mountains forest fire. Syracuse millinery and hardware losses. Kilpatrick funeral. National Rubber Company failure. gas explosions in Pittsburgh. cautious labor strikes in Philadelphia. Walker dress trimming company failure. shipper and merchant interests push for American flag ships. US sues Trinity Church trustees over contract labor.

Foxburg IL Neville Tre Kent Lake View Jamestown N. Y James O'Connell Peabody Mass James Mary Duanes Dickens New York London Philadelphia Detroit St. Louis New York Graphic Britannia Marseilles Naples Herman Babson Gloucester Grand Banks St Pierre Boston St Louis Jacob Stelzius Barbara Stelzius Ronk’s Station Fairmount Park Meade Liverpool Salt Lake City Rebecca Nickerson Provincetown Blue Mountains Carlisle Syracuse Barney, Lambley & Co George C. Young & Bros Everson & Co Kilpatrick Little Cemetery West Point National Rubber Company of Providence S. 1 Pittsburgh Albemarle Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company Western Union Telegraph Company Henry Shaffner Jalappa William Walker Woopman, Trut & Co Portland American Shipping and Industrial League Senator Frye Nelson Dingley Maine Treasury United States Trustees of Trinity Church E. Walpole Warren

FIfty Bank indictments and assorted 19th events in 1900s item

On the 19th a U S grand jury at Cincinnati returned seventy indictments in Fidelity Bank cases targeting E L Harper Benjamin E Hopkins Ammi Baldwin and Miss Jose Holmes Harper's secretary Art Velwein Also on the 19th fourteen business houses with the post office burned in Wichita the stockyards were destroyed by fire and a large storm leveled sugar cane in Morgan City Louisiana The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers held its 24th annual convention in Chicago with speeches by Mayor Roche Governor Oglesby and Grand Chief Engineer Arthur A Kentucky man G C Flora began a 50 day quest to eat one hundred quail The Western railroads agreed to a two cent per mile rate on two thousand mile tickets while retaining two and one half cents on thousand mile fares A fire and storm damaged New Orleans area homes fences and streets The Knights of Labor adjourned in Minneapolis on the 19th A fire company failure occurred in Cleveland with a 15000 loss A two train collision near Career's DC killed a engineer and a woman and injured ten Prosperous Nebraska farmer Robert Gore was sentenced to fourteen years for a murder committed twenty years earlier The national printers convention adjourned in Chicago without resolving the nine hour strike Likely two thousand Baltimore and Ohio telegraph workers faced discharge rumor denied by Green The Louisiana Sixth district Republicans nominated Judge John Voist for Congress.

United States Grand Jury Fidelity Bank Cincinnati E. L. Harper Benjamin E. Hopkins Ammi Baldwin Jose Holmes Harper Art Velwein Fine Wichita Kan Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Chicago Roche Oglesby Arthur America G. C. Flora Campbelleville Morgan City New Orleans Louisiana General Assembly Kniphts of Labor Minneapolis Excelsior Refiring Company Cleveland Career Chicao United States Juper Jamieson John Voist Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Norgiy. Green

Reports From The 20th And 21st In 19th Century News

The dispatch cites multiple events including the death of Coronel H A Montgomery of the Memphis Jockey Club after the second race, large crop estimates for wheat in Michigan, a major incendiary fire in Marinette Wisconsin causing 350000 in losses, a train crash at St Albans West Virginia injuring 26, two major factory fires in San Francisco with 200000 and 50000 losses, Detroit sweeping baseball games to win the world series, a fatal fire near Fond du Lac burning ten horses, a violent outlaw vigilante clash on the Arkansas River leaving about eight dead on each side, the death of Nate Fredericks of Findlay Ohio and his children from paris green, a public hanging in Tallulah Louisiana, Tampa yellow fever aid appeal, Georgia Legislature adjournment with no measures adopted, Alpha Oil Company assignment in Detroit, heavy snow in Michigan, Louisiana Democratic State convention planned for January 10, Dakota land entry figures and population, and the death of Daniel Prxe of Paw Paw Illinois at age 101.

Coronel H. A. MontGomery Memphis Jocky Club Michigan Marinette Wis Chesapeake & Ohio St. Albans W. Va Fulton Iron-Works California San Francisco Washington St. Louis Detroit Baltimore Detroits St. Louis Browns Fond du Lac Bud Trainer Robert Henderson North Fork Arkansas River Indian Territory Nate Fredericks Findlay, O Tallulah Andrew Fleming Demp Benyon Tampa Fla Georgia Tar Alpha Oil Company Standard Oil Monopoly Bessemer Mich Hale’s Corners Muskegon Wisconsin Louisana Baton Rouge Church Dakota Danie Prxe Paw Paw

Illegally Banked Leipsic Firm Fails and World News Roundup

Foreign intelligence reports the Leipsic Discount Company, a Leipsic banking house with capital of 9 million marks, failed on the 18th. Other items note parliamentary reform views on Ireland, a disastrous Hankow fire with 1,000 dead and 2,000,000 taels lost, and conflicts and accidents across Britain, Italy, and Australia.

Notable events and deaths crop up on the 22d

Obituary notices mark the death of Etran B WasHorse in Chicago aged seventy one, a former congressman and secretary of state. A mural of Lincoln is unveiled in Lincoln Park. Fires devastate Murrayville and a St Louis boot factory. A gale sinks vessels on the lakes. Stagecoach attack near Redding and a mayor shot in Maxwell. Snowstorms hit Illinois Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota. National GOP plans for a December convention. Mary steam launch explosion kills two. Amer Groex lynched in Delphi. Clearing-house totals rise 3.8 percent from prior year.

Etran B. WasHourse Chicago Congress President Grant France Murrayville Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Park Lincoln Lakes Superior Michigan Francis Munory St. Louis Woolman, Todd & Co Washington Ketab Bucharea Central Asia Roppers Redding Cal Y.J. Henderson Adin Cal J. O. Peexce Maxwell Perry Ackers Erie Illinois Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota Sanam Kuornex Grandma Klinek Princeville Lbs Jones National Republican Committee New York Mary Amer Groex Luella Mabbitt Delphi Ind United States

Supreme Court hears writ of error in Anarchists case

Crowds fill the Supreme Court basement as General Pryor and counsel seek a writ of error to review Illinois verdicts. Justice Harlan orders open session for early action, with focus on due process and juror impartiality claims. Pryor argues coercive self‑incrimination and hidden letters from police violated rights. court to print record pages for Monday submission.

Supreme Court Washington Chicago United States Supreme Court Capitol John Randolph Tucker Pryor B. F. Butler Captain Black Justice Harlan Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court of State of Ilinois Harlan General Pryor Cook County Cour Ilnwis

Elihu Washburne Dies in Chicago After Congestion

Elihu B Washburne died at 4 PM Saturday at his son Hempstead 72 Maple Street Chicago from heart and lung congestion after a brain congestion episode on September 21 He leaves five children Hempstead William Pitt Mrs William Bishop Mrs Fowler and FE B Washburne Jr His career spanned farmer to diplomat with roles in Congress Grant era Secretary of State and Minister to France He helped shape policies and national projects and died in Chicago in 1886

Chicago Elihu B. Washburne Chicaco Hempstead Maple Street Washburne MacArthur Mr. Washburne William Pitt Livermore Falls William Bishop Bridgeport Conn Fowler Denver Col FE. B. Washburne, Jr Kingston N. Y Livermore Oxford County Elghu Kent Hill Seminary John Otis Congress Otis Cambridge Law School Galena Baltimore Henry Cliy Colonel Baker Thomas Campbell Abraham Lincoln Treasury Georgia Banks George Smith & Co General Grant Grant United States Andrew Johnson France Paris Darboy Hayes London

Open Rebellion Dissenting Knights of Labor Push Reorganization

Dissenting Knights of Labor delegates from the Minneapolis convention have held meetings in Chicago since then to protest the Knights Executive Board. They issue a circular listing twenty charges including personal gain from office, fiscal extravagance, and arbitrary suppression of opposition, urging reform and independence.

Knights of Labor Curiaco Minneapolis Chicago

Republicans plan National Committee meeting on convention site

Pittsourney Oct 24 The Chronicle Geegraph reports Chairman B F Jones calls for the National Republican Committee to meet at the Arlington Hotel Washington at 10 30 a m to fix the date and place of the next National Republican convention. Chicago is favored for central location and accommodations.

Pittsourney The Chronicle Geegraph B. F. Jones National Republican Committee Arlington Hotel Washington Jones New York Saratoga Philadelphia Baltimore Chicago St. Louis

Wealthy Detroit man offers land to Haymarket officers' families

A Free Press dispatch from East Sagina reports Charles H. Plummer, a wealthy limberman of Detroit, offers forty acres of farmland to each family of the Chicago Haymarket riot police officers who were killed, with the condition they relocate and live there, plus lumber to build a house.

Detroit Mich East Sagina Charles H. Plummer Haymarket Square Chicago

Elevator Destroyed at St. Pauls Minn

The Pioneer Press reports from Park River North Dakota that Cargill Brothers elevator burned yesterday destroying 40 000 bushels of wheat with losses of 18 000 dollars fully insured. Austin Texas organizes a great capital celebration in May 1858 for the new capitol costing 8 000 000 acres of land second only to Washington. Mrs John R Tanner wife of the state treasurer dies in New York City after medical treatment.

St. Paun Minn Pioneer Press Park River C. T Cargil Brothers Texas Austin Tex Washington Spu IncheLp, Tl John R. Tanner New York City

Amer Green Lynching After Abduction Murder Charge

A mob of about 180 men seized Amer Green at Logansport and hanged him near Walnut Grove seven miles east after breaking jail doors. Governor Gray condemned the mob and demanded punishment for the lynchers while Green maintained his innocence and claimed Luella Mabbitt was alive in Fort Worth. Authorities questioned the Fort Worth report and Gray’s letter sparked indignation in Deput, Ind.

Ind Amer Green Luella Mabbitt Carroll County Cass County Young America Green Deer Creek Walnut Grove Nob D Green Mabbit Luella Samuel Pana Fort Worth Tex Hebron Indianapolis Gray N. W. van Gundy Delphi Logansport Indiana Samuel Payne Luella Malbitt Payne van Gundy Govenor

Grover's Return Acknowledges Busy Presidential Schedule

The presidential party arrives in Washington at 6:40 AM to a quiet depot, then proceeds to the White House and Oak View. President Cleveland plans to begin drafting the annual message, review executive reports, and address pressing national matters including the Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha indemnity lands dispute and key cabinet vacancies.

WashingTon Cleveland Colonel Lamont White House Vilas Dr Bryant Mr. Bissell New York Buffalo Oak View Executive Department Congress Sparks Lama Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha Railroad Company Sparss

Maxwell Shooting Tragedy Ends in Double Homicide and Suicide

On a Saturday in Maxwell Indiana Perry Ackers shot Mayor J O French at his office, killing him within an hour. He then shot meat market owner T B Schmetzer in the neck, wounded. sought J W Maxwell but was unseen. He aimed at J M Shoop but did not fire and killed himself at Mason Hall.

Maxwell Perry Ackers J. O. French Mr. French Ackers T. B. Schmetzer J. W. Maxwell J. M. Shoop Masonic Hall

Explosion at Sessions Works Kills Three in Connecticut

In Watterbury Connecticut on Oct 24 an oven explosion at J. H. Sessions and Sons works caused a fire. After flames were controlled three bodies were recovered from the ruins and two more persons were seriously injured.

Merchandise exports for September reach 355 million

Exports and imports data from New York shows merchandise exports for September at 355,281,768 versus 61,060,042 for September 1886. Last month’s exports totaled 56,000,735, up slightly from 54,983 in September 1886.

New York

Tragedy in Topeka: Mayor Fatally Shoots Relative in Parkerville

In Parkerville Morris County on Friday morning Dr H T Day mayor shot and killed D B Hopkins in the street amid claimed self defense after Hopkins moved as if drawing a revolver. No weapon was found on the body. Day is in custody. Also reported the death of Waldemar Adolph Thisted Danish poet novelist aged 73.

Kansas Topeka Kan H. T. Day Parkerville Morris County Hopkins Day Waldemar Adolph Thisted

General Greely Calls for Carrier Pigeons and Weather Upgrades

Washington Oct 19 General A W Greely Chief Signal Officer advocates replacing old signaling with improved methods and trained instructors at Ports Leavenworth Monroe and Riley He proposes carrier pigeons to carry intelligence from vessels to Key West and notes limits on city specific forecasts due to telegraph timing He aims to better warn Northwest about cold waves and supply big centers with special predictions Record shows weather wind and temperature prediction success around 74 75 percent and 69 1 percent for wind with a general 73 9 percent He notes 76 6 percent of cold wave signals verified and urges renewed West Indian service to track hurricanes He envisions early display of signals to indicate storm force direction and center approach He also proposes a river and rainfall station system to predict long ahead floods and ends with a plea to organize the corps including officers professors and clerical staff.

Miles Leavenworth Monroe Riley Havana Windward Islands Key West Northwest Greely

General Meade Bronze Unveiled in Fairmount Park

A grand ceremony in Fairmount Park Philadelphia unveiled a bronze equestrian statue of General Meade. Ex Attorney General Brewster presented the statue, while General John Gibbon delivered the oration. Artist Alexander Milne Caldwell created the work costing $25,000, depicting Meade in uniform with a returned salute atop a thirteen foot horse.

Gettysburg Fairmount Park Philadelphia Prinaperputa General Meade Brewster George H. Baker Park Commissioners John Gibbon United States Army Alexander Milne Caldwell Schuylkill River Laurel Hill Cemetery

Postal Finances Indicate Revenue Rise For Year

Washington reports fiscal statistics suggest the post office deficit for the year 1887 will not exceed 5.5 million dollars, down from nearly 7 million the prior year. If the deficit drops to about 3.5 million, revenues may have risen far beyond earlier department expectations.

Washington Post Office

Vigilantes lynch Eureka detective in Ryan murder case

News from Charleston W V describes Dan Cunningham linked as instigator in the Rev Mr Ryan robbery and murder in Roane and Jackson counties. Seven men reportedly participated and four named suspects Coon George Duff Jr Bob Duff and Drake were disposed of by vigilantes with Cunningham killed Monday.

West Virginia Mr. Ryan Charleston W. Va Dan Cuunningham Eureka Roane Jackson Coon George Duff, Jr Bob Duff Drake

Woman fined for pancake toss at fair in St Louis

In police court Mrs Annie Lachs was fined 50 dollars for throwing a pancake into Mrs Cleveland’s lap when the presidential party visited the fair grounds. She claimed no disrespect, saying it was playful mischief, but the court disagreed. The report recalls other humorous era vignettes from Harper's Bazar and local humor items.

St. Louis Annie Lachs Cleveland

Quotable Bits From 19th Century Readers

A collage of pithy quotes from papers like Burlington Free Press and Philadelphia Telegraph. The items sweep from humor about neighbors and lawyers to thoughts on integrity, patience, color, and fate. Notable names include Buster Courier, N. O. Picayune, Boston Courier, Philadelphia Call, and Burdette, with oblique jests on manners and lawyering.

Peddlers of Corea Trade Items From Hair to Sparrows

In this St Louis Globe-Democrat description, Corean peddlers arrive with bundles from sleeves and on backs, selling copper bowls, horsehair, and coins on silk threads. curios include inlaid metal boxes, bronze disks, and embroidered garments depicting cranes, tigers, and dragons, reflecting cross regional tastes and fashions.

Corea China Collee Japan St. Louis Globe-Democrat

Canada Lumber Exports Reaching 25 to 30 Million Annually

Canada averages twenty five to thirty million dollars in lumber exports each year with about one third destined for the United States.

Canada United States

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