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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1886
Page
6
The report notes Apmanpack Murray, once a Boston clergyman, has wed Frances M. Rivers of Montreal. It also mentions large American travel and residential counts in Paris, a sugar price drop due to overproduction, and a seven foot tall man described as possibly the tallest in America.
A wonderful activity in manufacturing industries is reported from the South. A number of great enterprises have been inaugurated in the last few months or are now under way.
The State Entomologist of New York warns potato bugs will roam widely next summer, threatening crops. Farmers face potential widespread infestation as pests spread across fields.
A large nine foot wing span eagle captured last spring near Binghamton New York was released recently. A brass tag on its leg shows the liberation date and offers cash prizes for its return.
Theopore Titton and Mrs Bullard, heirs to a fortune from Mrs Winslow s Soothing Syrup, are frequently seen riding together in Paris and are described as a handsome couple. Mrs Titton resides in a Protestant convent at Newark New Jersey.
Eighteen young women employed in the Hartford office have married subscribers on their line in the last three years. The pattern suggests a woman's voice, more than appearance, draws interest and leads to marriages among local subscribers.
A busy housewife endures a rough season as odors of spices and boiling fruit fill the home. She laments the night she let catsup scorch the best preserve kettle and the glaze burned away.
In Ottawa the Dominion Cabinet confirmed a four hundred dollar fine against the American schooner Marion Grimes. It censured Captain Quigley of the Terror for forcing the lowering of the American flag during the incident.
A witty quip from a fashion journal notes hair is worn on top of the head, not on the feet, turning a common assumption on its head and sparking amused speculation about style origins.
Workmen near Newark uncover a strong box with thirty thousand dollars in Kearney township bonds. Ten years earlier the town treasurer faced theft charges over twenty five thousand dollars, but claimed he redeemed stolen bonds. The find clarifies the case.
Fragmentary note mentions a British ship off the coast in 1814 and a potential five million dollar recovery. Claims of buried money aboard a wreck are stated with speculative figures and phrases that are difficult to verify.
The report notes a passing cycle of devastating storms in the North and West and earthquakes in the South with Set destruction. It states Texas and Louisiana suffer greater loss of life and property than South Carolina, with parishes hardest hit along the waves.
The De Vico comet, unseen since 1844, has returned. It will not be naked eye visible, but a powerful telescope may reveal it. Astronomical excursion plans note the comet sits about one hundred million miles from Earth with round trip tickets at a low price offering a 24 hour layover at one or two planets.
Pnor Williams states paper rails could cut costs to one third of steel rails and offer durability. The rails would be lighter, longer, and easier to lay, reducing wear on rolling stock. Durability determines the project’s success or failure.
Prov Woopwarp reports erosion estimates for Niagara Falls with figures from 1842 to 1874 noting 18 500 square feet worn away equal to 0 425 acres and 1875 to 1886 about 60 000 square feet. Contour length is 2 500 feet and one mile retreat would take 2 200 years. Minimum yearly erosion rates are given as 2 4 feet from 1842 to LASTS 2 0 feet from 1842 to 1886 and 2 58 feet from 1875 to 1886.
Secretary Manning attended a cabinet meeting. Cox seeks relief from Constantinople duties as he runs for Congress. Weekly business failures reach 198. sil ver certificate outputs projected. A series of political, labor, and social events unfold across states with earthquakes felt in the South, a St Louis Chicago baseball world series games and mob violence in Alabama.
Nominations for Congressmen listed by Democrats and Republicans across New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania with several renominations. Tornadoes of text cover explosions at an aqueduct in New York fights with Knights of Labor mass knitters near Troy mass fishing losses Gloucester ships and a drowning tunnel collapse in Millport Pa. Local court rulings about Togus liquor sales and New Haven anniversary noted amid various war fears and labor tensions.
Fragmentary report notes in Chicago that the Episcopal Church triennial council begins amid prohibition debate and license platform. It cites National Protective Association activity, Knights of Labor, and regional losses from accidents and fires, including a bus wreck in Fairdale and a freight-train crash near Fairfield. It mentions world series results with the St Louis team beating Chicago 4 to 1 and political nominations in Wisconsin, Arkansas, and Illinois. It also notes deaths and a Masons dispute over saloon-keeping and a Dayton veteran.
Report notes unusual volcanic activity in Ecuador on the 19th causing damage. It cites cholera outbreaks with 41 new cases and 17 deaths in Austro-Hungary on the 20th, 9,500 cases and 6,290 deaths in Japan between Sept 11 and 26, plus other regional disasters and warnings.
A collection of scattered reports from the era notes a Boston schooner John W Monson lost with ten crew. a Granville man burned in a fire. Farmington fire destroying dozens of structures. legal troubles including jail for contempt and election clerk intoxication. political nominations in Chicago and Pennsylvania. Shorthand resignations in Turkey. tremors of Farragrane shocks in Greece and Alabama. Sioux attack on Crow camp. financial frauds in Indianapolis and Chicago. St Louis Browns win world baseball title. forest fires near Great Barrington. a Syracuse double murder. a meteor over Atlanta. and a week’s US exchange surge ending at higher totals.
Ex Senator James G Blaine speaks at Pirrssman Pennsylvania praising protection for American industry and condemning Southern resistance to negro suffrage. He argues Reconstruction failed, cites Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and condemns Southern voting practices and political fraud.
National meeting forms Central Committee with bishops from Minnesota New York and Chicago and laymen from Baltimore New York Boston and Chicago The pledge commits members to respect women fight indecent language maintain purity law and spread the movement A temperance women convention follows in Minneapolis with Miss Frances Willard and 300 delegates and votes on reforms including suffrage and abolition of prison chain gangs
Report of a vast wild pigeon roost about twenty miles north in Going Shake district with millions of birds per night roosting in timbered land. Natives and travelers describe encampments, trapping, netting, and shipping of pigeons to major cities with prices paid for dead and live birds and Indians earning daily from the business.
Dispatches from Fort Apache Arizona dated October report the capture of what are believed to be all remaining members of Geronimo's band including Chief Mangus. The group, pursued since September 7, consists of Mangus two bucks three squaws and five children plus twenty nine mules and five ponies. Captured by Captain Cooper Tenth Cavalry Mangus said part of his band had been taken by Mexicans and never heard from again. Mangus and Geronimo parted ways last April when Geronimo offered surrender to General Crook.
The International Navigation Company bought the Inman Steamship Company for £205000, keeping operations under the Inman line name. Liabilities total £174,500 to secured creditors and £91,000 to unsecured creditors, with tradesmen’s bills at £49,300. Steamers valued at £108,000. unsecured creditors receive just over ten shillings per pound. Also a note on pink eye among Milwaukee horses.
John J Kerr a stock broker and former speaker shot and killed his brother W T Kerr after a custody dispute and alleged seduction. The elder Kerr had been wounded by his victim earlier and faced disgrace before his fatal act. The note adds New Haven celebrating its 100th anniversary of incorporation.
At Orteaco the Joint Committee on Education recommends extending the committee and urging church leaders to promote Christian schools. Rev Dr Goodwin presents marriage and divorce canons restricting underage marriage with parental consent, two witnesses, adultery as sole ground for dissolution, penalties for violations, and excommunication risks. The report is placed on the calendar.
Senator Butler after two months in Europe returns to Washington and says preparations for war are everywhere. He warns a terrible conflict is inevitable, comparing it to the Napoleonic wars and noting large, well armed armies in France and Germany with France seeking an alliance with Russia.
Anton Soukup a demented Bohemian set a house and barn on fire near Shueyville. Two women Novotny and Louvar were fatally wounded by an axe as they fought the flames. Neighbors extinguished the house fire, captured Soukup, and the barn burned with hogs, a horse, and hay. He is jailed in Sioux City amid threats to lynch the saloon keeper who supplied whisky.
An explosion at a varnish works in Curia co injures three men A P George Henry Peet and Henry Sobeck. George and Peet likely fatal while Sobeck may recover. Damage totals about 25 000 with fires spreading to nearby lumber yards causing 10 000 12 000 more loss. Loss insured.
In Vermonville Michigan three unknown men bound and gagged American Express agent W M Bale and robbed about 800 dollars from the open safe. In Chicago four men beat and robbed Martin Kennedy of about 200 dollars. No arrests reported. A Mansfield foundry fire caused 60000 dollars in loss with 18000 dollars insured.
Londpon Oct 28 The Governor of Canada har ordered merchants to stop supplying the British garrison at Quetta with corn and cattle and native laborers to avoid work in the British camp. The Hill tribes have refused to continue tribute to the Ameer.
Louisville October 28 The National Association for the Advancement of Women adjourned after electing officers including President Julia Ward Howe Secretary Ella C Latham Treasurer L T Walcott and one vice president and one director from each state.
Dr. Salmon reports in Washington that examination of four carcasses at Phoenix and Shufeldt distillery stables shows clear lesions of pleuro pneumonia. He traces contagion to cattle movement from 1884 and calls for urgent seizure and slaughter of all cattle in infected areas, urging Congress to act to save the national beef supply.
The St. Louis Browns beat the Chicago nine 4 to 0 in ten innings to win the world baseball championship. Clarkson pitched for Chicago and Carruthers for St. Louis in a tense pitchers' duel until the eighth. Errors and timely hitting by St. Louis tied the score, no runs in the ninth, Welch scoring the winning run in the tenth. About 12,000 spectators cheered as the Browns were paraded off the field, with the series expected to net roughly $14,000 for the champions.
An army officer reports Crow Taciitus defeated by Sioux two miles up the Little Horn river. Ten Crow killed. two Crow dead, three wounded. two Sioux dead on field. Sioux party escaped. Relations stem from raids and prior murders at Poplar River Agency. Detachments sent to pursue.
Texas editor A. K. Cutting, jailed in Mexico for alleged libel, reportedly seeks $50,000 damages from the Mexican government as his side of the case is submitted to the State Department.
President Cleveland names Daniel N. Lockwood as Attorney for the Northern district of New York and Lucius M. Lamar as Marshal for the Southern district of Georgia in late October action.
Indianapolis Oct 25 The Kingar & Co pork packing plant owners meet and consent to a ten hour workday with no wage raise. The move is seen as a first step toward broader adoption of the ten hour system across the city’s industries.
Mrs. Olive Thomas, eighty five, died from burns when her clothing ignited while boiling cider near Granville, Ohio. Neighbors arrived too late to save her.
A broad collection of snippets reports on diverse items from a $350 baby carriage order to a 1 442 990 francs Pasteur Institute total, large potato yields, impending French rifles costs, a New York secret society, cancer rumors about Joan Roach, and noteable curiosities such as a palindrome bakery sign and a 250‑pound pumpkin fed on milk. The items span people, places, finances, and oddities with no single developing story.
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