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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1890
Page
6
An association of Philadelphia house wives will abolish kitchens in their homes and start a cooperative central cooking house to prepare meals collectively.
Over the last nine months 7 667 miles of railway have been consolidated with other companies and ceased to represent the firms that previously controlled them.
Treasury officials will not act on new currency designs until next spring though the bill authorizing changes has become law. The agency cannot yet allocate time to review or approve updated models and designs.
A Boston resident known in the South End traveled to Germany where he died. He weighed three hundred fifty pounds in life. After cremation his six ounce remains were placed in an envelope and mailed to his family in Boston.
The New York Tribune records show wide public interest in the Fresh Air Fund. Last year 1,225 contributors supported 11,193 boys and girls, with total contributions of 24514 dollars.
Mrs Lena Smith of Columbus Ohio, distraught after her sixteen year old son's recent execution, writes a furious letter to the Governor cursing the murderers and lamenting her suffering. Her mental state is described as unsettled following the event.
The University of Pennsylvania plans a scientific exploring and dredging voyage to the Bahamas and Caribbean waters aboard the fifty one ton yacht Whitevap. Representatives from Columbia College Park Davis Co Detroit and the Missouri Botanical Gardens St Louis join a seven or eight man scientific corps.
Three nails of the true cross were discovered in the collapsed Zurich theater ruins. They lay in a small ivory casket with a parchment manuscript and were bricked into a sub-structure cavity. Believed hidden by monks during the Reformation.
Deacon Marvin an early Buckfield settler rode to Betty Lee’s home with a sheepskin for a sad die and asked her to marry him claiming the Lord sent him. Betty replied simply The Lord's will be done as she came forward.
A 75 year old woman on Monhegan Island has never seen a car telephone or electric light and has spent her life on the island away from the mainland. Sheep and cows are kept there but horses are not used.
The text foresees rapid Chinese rail development revolutionizing China and Africa. It argues new transport methods will transform customs and daily life across Asia and Africa, with Western civilization exerting unparalleled influence as the continent opens to modernization.
Over the last year settlers claimed about nineteen million acres in the United States, nearly thirty thousand square miles of productive soil. The Chicago Tribune notes this expansion rivals Scotland in scale, underscoring a growing perception of the nation as vast and prosperous.
An Austrian inventor introduces a piano shaped case housing six violins two violas and two violoncellos. Connected to a keyboard the ensemble can be played like a piano by any pianist. The device promises a dramatic increase in noise and becomes a compact music store in one instrument.
A. L. Bancroft of San Francisco conceives a method to name and number roads lanes and by-ways in sparsely populated districts. The system would let travelers reach isolated dwellings as easily as urban addresses. The note highlights California contributions as the world gains valuable innovations.
T B Harnep of Camden hosted a dinner for the aged poet Walt Whitman who says he publishes his own books and has done so since Leaves of Grass. He notes few newspapers ignored his early work but now receives many requests with proper honorariums. He adds he writes only when the spirit moves him and he is half a Quaker, choosing a light within.
A 51 year old widow in Grayson County Texas has married nine times. Her first four husbands died while serving in the Confederate army. One husband was sent to prison for fifteen years and another died, while a husband was killed in a saw mill accident. She reportedly has eleven of her own children.
In the United States grain in store on the 20th totals 18,607,246 bushels of wheat and 8,259,409 bushels of corn. The Wage Workers' Political Alliance petitions Harrison to nominate Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Associate Justice. Treasury official A. B. Mullett dies by suicide. Dumont reports 34 steamship accidents with 234 lives lost, noting steam travel safest. Multiple legal, tax, and postal figures are given with year totals and increases. A six million seed-distribution effort by Congress is noted. Baseballs, rail crashes, and local tragedies fill the docket with various deaths, births, and milestones across several states.
The Labor party of Connecticut nominated Henry C. Baldwin for governor. Reports note Dr. John F. Boynton of Syracuse, adviser to Agassiz, has died. US Express orders block lottery transactions with Louisiana Lottery. In Forest City a husband sold his wife for $115. Philadelphia mayor cites census errors and proposes a police count. Long Island City mayor Gleason jailed and fined for assaulting a reporter. Cornell trustees boost Sage gift to 200000 for philosophy. gifts exceed 1,000,000. A storm and yacht disaster off Fall River leaves six dead. Major General Stark statue unveiled at Concord. Atlantic storms damage shipping. Mrs. Adam Wachter survives 225 days. A duel with crow-bars leaves two injured in New York. Fire at Leighton’s factory and East Pepperell losses reach 300000.
West and South items report the Annie Young burned off Lexington near Port Huron. nine crewmen drowned trying to escape in vans. Other briefs note a World Series tie with Brooklyn and Louisville, arrests for counterfeiting in Ada Ohio, and multiple local tragedies and population figures.
Foreign intelligence notes the death of Captain Richard Francis Burton in London. It also reports locomotive arrivals at Jaffa for a Jerusalem railway, a sea race result won by Teutonic over City of New York, and a massacre of seven dervishes by Egyptian cavalry. Additional items cover unrest in Russia, Gladstone’s Liberal forecast, a Berlin family tragedy, and a Canton powder mill explosion killing and injuring many.
A standpipe containing 280000 gallons of water at Temple Texas burst flooding the town with houses barns and fences swept away in the flood. Immense damage reported. Also noted are deaths including Wisconsin Governor Nosse in Williamsburgh New York and a rise in the Hudson River with widespread destruction of brick near Rondout and Albany.
Festivities in Germany marked Count von Moltke’s 90th birthday with a torchlight procession in Berlin attended by about 20 000 people. Autographs, addresses, and congratulations from emperors and chiefs followed, with a banquet in Potsdam and a formal review by military and royal figures. The biography traces Moltke’s rise from Danish service to Prussia and his role in the wars that shaped Germany.
Great damage from the highest Hudson tide in forty years floods Ronport New York on October 27. Brickyards suffer heavy losses with millions of brick submerged from Roseton to Albany and in Kingston district. Fires in kilns were extinguished and green kilns toppled with brick washed away.
In Pirripurau Pennsylvania on October 27 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers elected officers at a Saturday session. T. S. Ingraham was named First Grand Engineer and D. Everett Second Grand Engineer. Ash Kennedy of Winnipeg became Third Grand Engineer, a new office. Grand Chief Engineer Arthur was not up for election, having been re elected last convention.
The War Department fixes the rebellion period for retirement benefits as beginning April 15 1861 and ending May 1 1865. The initial volunteer call defined the start, while Congress in 1584 established the final date.
A Sunday blaze in Mobile Alabama consumed five cotton warehouses, a shingle mill, three compresses, steamboats, railway cars, oil mill and other facilities. losses exceed 650000 dollars with 5630 bales of cotton burned and no lives lost though firemen suffered heat and smoke.
A 280000 gallon standpipe burst in Temple Texas on Sunday morning flooding the town. Boiled steel sections, scaffolding, houses, barns and debris floated away as residents watched. O T Rigdon’s home was crushed and burned after a lamp caused a blaze. Rigdon was seriously burned and unlikely to recover.
Butler G. Noble former Wisconsin war governor died in Williamsburgh on October 27 from injuries after a fall at his home. Born 1816 in Geneva New York he moved to Wisconsin at forty and served as lieutenant governor before succeeding Governor Randall He raised regiments for the Civil War and later moved to Brooklyn.
Secretary of the Interior appoints Charles M. Dale of Mattoon Illinois J Clifford Richardson of St Louis Missouri and Rockwell J Flint of Menominee Wisconsin to the Crow Indian commission in Montana under the 1890 act with ten dollars a day plus expenses appointed October 27 1890 era Washington dispatch
L L Polk national president addresses County Alliance in Columbus Ohio. He toured Kansas Nebraska Missouri Iowa Illinois noting Alliances formed in 35 states with 34 000 lodges and about 2 000 000 members. He predicts adding 500 000 members in the coming year.
In New York on Oct 27 the 124th anniversary of the John Street Methodist Church was celebrated. The oldest Methodist church in America held an engaging program with speeches by ex Senator Warner Miller and ex Postmaster General Thomas L. James.
Bancor Maine October 27 Charles I Pickering sheriff of Lincoln County was found dead in the woods near a lumber camp after going in search of witnesses He was said to have become lost and died from exposure
Paris Texas Oct 27 news reports a bill passed by the Choctaw Council lower house depriving all Choctaw citizens who take the oath to become U S citizens of the right to vote hold office or sit on juries in the nation.
Dr. David W. Knowles his wife and son George were tried in Litchfield and received prison terms. The father and mother got ten years each while George received seven years for the September 1 shooting of John J. Waters at Lanesville.
Five witnesses testified in CrawfordsviLLe Indiana as the Pettit case progressed. They described Mrs Pettit's convulsions and noted the alleged oil administration by Rev Pettit before her death. Witnesses reported Pettit's cold reaction after her passing and discussed rushing medical consultation and remarriage plans.
Croswell announces a shocking Thumb murder. William Snader of Adams Corners was found shot and beaten in his barnyard. His son was arrested in Bad Axe awaiting the next court term. Authorities say greed over inheritance spurred the killing of a father of nine.
Osakasa and Kewaunee County report two domestic killings. William killed his wife and died by suicide in Osakasa, both over fifty and leaving eight children. Albert Ludermeyer shot his young wife near Casco and then killed himself, after a quarrel over winter potatoes.
M E Billings the Waverly attorney convicted of murder and sentenced to life was released on his own recognizance after a habeas corpus hearing in Independence Iowa. Judge Ney set bail at 5000 dollars for a November 3 appearance in Waterloo, pending Supreme Court reversal of the lower court. The case likely will be dismissed, leaving Billings virtually free. Bremer County costs reach 18000 dollars.
Findlay Ohio reports Buckeye oil prices drop as Standard Oil says future payments will be thirty cents per barrel, down seven and a half cents in three weeks. Producers fear price suppression and potential shutdowns insaning hundreds of jobs and thousands of dollars daily losses.
The Secretary of the Interior signed certificates for 15000 each for agricultural and mechanical colleges in multiple states. Funds come from the August 30 1890 act for the current fiscal year, benefiting Indiana Kansas Ohio New Jersey Michigan New York Pennsylvania Massachusetts Delaware Mississippi Tennessee Texas Virginia Colorado Illinois Maryland Minnesota Oregon Wisconsin New Hampshire Alabama Idaho North Dakota and New Mexico Territory.
Ashland Wisconsin reporting the sale of pine timber from Lac Count Oreilles Lac du Flambeau and Bad River reservations on November 10. About 50 million feet valued at roughly 1.50 per thousand will fund relief for needy Indians on the reservations.
Catholic church in Mattoon Illinois costing about forty thousand dollars was gutted by fire on Wednesday evening. Insurance covered ten thousand dollars.
In Stamford on October 23, farmers report heavy rabbit damage to grain prompting widespread use of strychnine. Drug gists note a steady demand for the poison as farmers seek to protect crops from the pests.
On Wednesday Egyptian cavalry attacked a group of about one hundred dervishes riding cattle near Suakim. Seven dervishes were killed, with several wounded and taken prisoner in the encounter.
Henry W. Sage increased his philanthropy at the Cornell University trustees meeting by adding 200000 dollars to the prior 60000 dollar gift for a new philosophy department. The president's report outlined the donation and its intended impact.
Elmira C. Taylor of Wilton Connecticut was found starving after giving $15,000 worth of property to her niece Esther White who left her to die in the city.
A Cincinnati Southern freight No. 22 north bound and passenger No. 5 south bound collided in a tunnel near Sloan's Valley Kentucky. Six persons died and several were injured. In Alabama a Kansas City Memphis Birmingham passenger train, missing a conductor, backed into an outgoing freight train killing two and wounding twenty. Other accidents occurred near Armourdale Kansas and Chickamauga Station Tennessee with fatalities and injuries.
Michael Brazell a 76 year old Desplaines resident and Northwestern Railway baggage man was killed by three tramps in his barn on Desplaines Avenue. Witness William Havens saw three men flee toward the railroad after Brazell was found with severe head injuries and knife wounds. The robbers allegedly took 400 in cash and 1500 in notes as investigators and vigilante groups scour the area.
The Sixth Auditor of the Treasury reports postal revenues for the last fiscal year at $60,882,097, up $4,705,486 from the prior year. Despite higher business, the deficit was $5,048,619, slightly below the previous year's $5,201,286. Stamps sold totaled $57,651,724, up $4,698,622, and money orders plus postal notes moved $261,993,794, yielding a net government revenue of $824,220.
Joseph Rubsam of Rubsam & Herrman, prominent Staten Island brewer, died suddenly from apoplexy at his home on Boyd Hill Stapleton late Tuesday night. He was 58. His fortune is estimated between two and three million dollars. He is survived by his wife and one daughter.
Sam Rhinehart famed circus clown and head of the Rhinehart family died in Columbus Ohio on Wednesday night after a long career and wide public recognition.
Paris on October 23 reports Baroness Alphonse Rothschild robbed during a journey of jewelry worth 60000 francs. Police efforts to recover the stolen items and catch the thieves have so far failed. Nelson lowers mile and half mile records at a campripar meet in Campripar Crry Indiana.
The Jeannette Monument honoring U S navy officers and men who perished in the Jeannette Arctic expedition will be unveiled at the Naval Academy in Annapolis on October 30. Assistant Secretary Soley of the Navy will deliver the address.
Providence Rhode Island October 23 Jerome Sweet was found guilty in the common pleas court of murdering his wife by saturating her body with kerosene and setting it afire. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
A Spokane Falls Statesman report recounts a tall gaunt prospector known as Death on the Trail or Proctor. He survived a deadly massacre in the Upper Kootenai country after his party was ambushed by Indians and assailants, with the killer’s identity tied to the ominous carved phrase Death on the Trail.
Vienna lecturer Professor Nothnagel described lightning’s impact on the nervous system citing a twenty year old patient from Styria. He reported loss of consciousness, speech and sight disturbances, and long lasting personality changes, noting entry and exit effects and praising metallotherapy with magnets. He advised calm care and cool water for recent strikes and contrasted with electric treatment.
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