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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1890
Page
2
Al Joy of Cyr is identified by the Portland Press as the shortest man and lives in the shortest town in the United States. The note appears amid a column of varied curiosities from the Pan Wert Bulletin, including mining output and dress reforms.
Crauncry M. Derew was approached by a middle-aged woman who, charmed by his urbanity, kissed him as she rose to leave. A reporter asked if such behavior was common, and Derew replied that it is one of the regular rules of the office.
A collection of about one thousand items from the Johnstown flood is to be auctioned to fund a monument to the flood’s unknown dead. A tiny shoe and a red stocking, wrapped in a linen handkerchief, were found in a dead man’s breast pocket.
A Paris salon sighting describes Tnropons Tiron as stout with white hair and a leisured gaze. The text notes Cravates or Croate soldiers wore a neckband as a protective amulet, tracing how superstition influenced seventeenth century fashion to the later cravat or scarf among gentlemen and, later, ladies.
Mrs. William G. Cuparr of New York founded the first woman’s exchange twelve years ago. In the first year it paid $2,000 in remunerations to women for their handiwork sold. Now about 100 exchanges exist in various cities, and not less than $1,000,200 has been paid for work over the twelve years.
A passerby views a passenger train and learns its cash value ranges from $75,000 to $120,000. The ordinary express typically totals $83,000 to $90,000. Components include engine and tender $10,500 baggage car $1,000 postal car 82,000 smoking car $5,000 two passenger cars $10,000 each three palace cars $15,000 each totaling $83,000.
A railroad will run from Alexandria to the base of the great pyramid and an elevator will carry visitors to its summit. Plans also include fast sailing excursion steamers on the Nile. All Orient sights will be accessible to travelers who carry time-cards, even near pyramids or on the Sea of Galilee.
Waterbury Connecticut reports a remarkable act of fairness as two coal firms consolidate, slash price to 5.25 and refund the difference to winter customers who had coal preordered at the higher rate. Names of the firms are not known.
A Boston inventor creates a hard ink that survives the molding process. Paper with the ink is placed in a mold, iron is melted in, then removed to reveal the writing impressed into the iron. The idea arose after an accidental handbill fell into the mold and left a faint imprint.
A meteor struck a wagon bed near Oregon Beni Ky injuring a passenger as onlookers inspected an eight foot rock. Fea the king’s dog died at Madrid confirming royal affection. A census taker on Kiawah Island found a black colony of about 150 English speaking, literate enslaved people led by mulatto Quash Stephens, with his wife overseeing education.
The Senate moved toward closing debate on the tariff bill by September 8 and considered the sundry civil appropriation conference report. In the House a post election fraud bill faced filibuster and a dispute between Beckwith and Wilson. Later sessions noted tariff discussion, lard and relief bills, and passage of a large Southern war claims bill and 72 private pension acts. Cairo Illinois named port of delivery.
United States grain in store on the 25th includes wheat 18 289 447 bushels and corn 9 493 312 bushels. Net pig iron production for the first six months of 1890 was 4 615 887 tons, up 754 653 tons from the last half of 1889. An order directed the flagship Charleston to Honduras to protect American interests in Hawaii. Business failures for the week ended the 29th numbered 189, down from 192 a week earlier and 211 a year ago.
Mr. Powpery told a mass meeting in New York on the 26th that the battle would go on and that the strikers would win. An electric car crash in Boston on the 27th killed five women. Salvador set a record at Monmouth Park on the 28th by running a mile in 1 minute 35 and 2 tenths seconds. James G. Blaine spoke at a Republican mass meeting in Waterville on the 29th about reciprocity and tariff policy. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s birthday was celebrated in Boston on the 29th. Gustav Wilson was wounded at the Battle of Metz in 1570. A bullet was removed at Hartford on the 29th.
Reports from Carbondale Washington state to Raleigh North Carolina describe a grave incident as Mrs Mary Wilson and her infant die under a falling tree. A North Carolina state convention endorses the Harrison administration and federal election bill. Idaho Democrats nominate Benjamin Wilson for governor. Frederick Davis is hanged in Birmingham for his wife’s murder. A national farmers congress opens in Council Bluffs with 35 states present. Wind and rain at East Union claim several houses and drown several individuals. Wisconsin Democrats nominate Peck for governor and Jonas for lieutenant governor. Congress nominations follow in multiple districts across states, with platforms favoring tariff reform free coinage and ballot secrecy. A national horticulturists organization forms in Chicago with officers named Emery Watrous Beatty. The South reports the largest cotton crop ever, with crop value around 500 million dollars. Illinois man William Crawford kills and wounds himself over a love tragedy. Ohio Indiana Nebraska and Missouri hold conventions nominating various state and supreme court candidates. The Greenback and Union Labor parties plan a September convention in Indianapolis. Nebraska nominates a state ticket led by Plaine for governor. Missouri Republicans nominate judges and officials and Congress nominations continue across states.
The piece lists Republican and Democrat ticket nominations in Michigan Ohio Indiana South Dakota Florida and other states, naming candidates for governor lieutenant governor secretary of state treasurer auditor general land officer superintendent of public instruction and supreme court judge. It notes Farmers national congress resolutions, a Chicago railway strike end, hangings in Ohio, a horse record in Iowa, a national encampment election, murders and a windstorm causing damage in Michigan.
A pre mature explosion during maneuvers at Louga Russia killed eleven soldiers. On the 26th Tokay Hungary suffered heavy fire with thirteen dead. A fierce storm at Trieste Austria on the 27th caused extensive loss of life and property as Adriatic wrecks followed. Cuban sugar production rose to 665393 tons on the 27th, up 102920 from last season. San Salvador reports a peace protocol signed. On the 29th many Chinese arrived at Victoria BC seeking to smuggle into the U S. The Welland Canal annual report shows grain transit rising from 42000 tons in 1880 to 213000 tons in 1859.
Summary of late 19th century actions: a 50,000 dollar site appropriation bill for Sheboygan Wisconsin and tariff bill deliberations in the Senate. House passes labor, alien contract, convict labor, and public supply measures. reports of multiple disasters and political moves including arrests and nominations.
Chauncey M. Depew arriving home from London states New York Central strike is dead and buried. He questions state arbitrators authority to bind the railroad and predicts Knights of Labor weakened, while unions gain strength. He cites difficulty of negotiating with Knights officials and notes a tailor ordering a strike among glass blowers. Depew will sail for New York on the Teutonic Wednesday.
Wasumerox Sept 1 Clarkson ends his service after joining in 1889 at the President and party’s urging. He plans to lead the Hudson Pneumatic Railway Company. Possible successors named include Michener Payne Filley Irwin Jessenden Morrow Fowler. During his term he appointed 26,675 fourth class postmasters and opened 5,660 new post offices. 2,217 presidential appointments occurred with 400 unchanged. New offices totaled 14,57 in New England through 8,009 in the South, marking the era’s broad restructurings.
Census bulletin reports 286 street railroads totaling about 8151 miles in 56 cities. mileage rose from 1659 in 1880 to 8151 by 1889, with power types including animal electric cable and steam. Leading cities Philadelphia Boston Chicago New York Brooklyn listed for line lengths and double-track figures.
Nearly all window glass furnaces across New Jersey will go into blast today as the industry restarts after the summer. The outlook for the season is very good with strong production expected.
Advice on orchard care covers removing suckers and draining excess water to protect fruit, selecting market varieties for sale, and growing home favorites. It describes plum cureum jarning, peach bore control with washing and scraping, and a Vermonr correspondent's method using ashes, lye, and soap to kill caterpillars.
A severe cyclone struck Coldwater Michigan late Thursday night, featuring two funnel clouds, intense lightning, rain, and hail. A three story wooden building of the Coldwater Road-Cart Company was leveled, with losses around 10000 dollars. A large windmill near the depot was toppled, a brick wheelbarrow factory roof torn away, and orchards stripped as hailstones the size of hen eggs fell. The storm's path was about 120 rods wide, leaving widespread damage and many sparrows killed.
The Farmers National Congress closed in St Louis with Missouri chosen to host the 1891 session. Debated resolutions call for limited national taxation, anti futures laws, free mail reports for state boards, low tariff, expanded waterways, elected US Senators, free silver coinage, ten year patent limits, and strong state funding for exhibitions at the Columbian Exposition. The goldenrod is adopted as the national floral emblem.
The Census Bureau issued a bulletin on county finances directed by T Campbell Copeland. Readings cover 1880 to 1890, noting gross county debt rising from 125.6 million to 145.7 million and 2 728 counties in 1890. Western states show debt growth. Indiana leads in resources with 2.84 million while Illinois reports 1.13 million. Some northern Illinois counties have no debt.
In Guatemala on August 30 General Martin Barrundia, an imperial revolutionist, was captured aboard a passing American steamer after Port Captain and officers demanded surrender. Barrundia opened fire and was killed, his body taken to the Port Captain’s office. A separate report from St Louis details Miss Saunders, 21, who swallowed a fragment of window glass as a child and recently had it removed from a vein after years of intermittent pain.
San Francisco reports Yokohama advices showing cholera sweeping Japan at a swift pace. By August 6 nearly 6,000 cases and about 4,000 deaths across the nation, Nagasaki center, with Yokohama and Tokyo infected. Food scarcity and rice famine blamed amid poor government response.
Otto Leuth the Cleveland boy murderer and John alias Broecky Smith were hanged at the Ohio Penitentiary after their crimes, while Elmer Sharkey and Isaac Smith were reprieved. Leuth confessed and forgave enemies, died in seventeen minutes at 12 05 a. m. Smith followed at 12 40 a. m. Both gave final statements and prayers as the trap sprung.
New York report states William A Wilson of Thirty-eighth Street and Second Avenue faces about twenty five mechanics liens across four large building projects. All properties are mortgaged with building loans totaling over $200,000. Samuel B Tucker a silk dealer at 415 Broadway signs to Daniel S Tucker with $6,000 preferences amid about $50,000 liabilities.
Letters from Captain Gaither report French and Eversole leaders of the Perry County feud and their 26 followers jailed at Hazard with four still free. Both leaders, while confined, agree to compromise.
Curiaco reports the Stock Yards Switchmen's strike is off and Alton yard trouble resolved to satisfy both company and workers. All roads, including Lake Shore and Coal Going Up, are moving normally again. In New York on Aug 30 delegates from leading anthracite companies agreed to raise coal prices by ten to fifteen cents per ton starting September 1 and cap output at 3,250,000 tons. In Woopsheap, an aeronaut, Milton Redin, died after a trapeze rope broke and he fell from about 1,000 feet.
City National Bank in Hastings Nebraska has closed its doors due to poor loan quality. The failure followed the county treasurer withdrawing a $25,000 deposit, triggering the collapse event.
In a August 28 letter from P. M. Arthur chief engineer of the Locomotive Engineers to R. H. Holman of the Third Avenue elevated road, Arthur outlines the Brotherhood stance on the Central strike, argues Powderly misrepresented events, and defends neutral, self contained action by engineers while criticizing calls for broader union involvement. He recounts failed Cleveland meeting attempts and asserts accessibility of leaders, insists on non interference with other labor groups, and defends members who took roles on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line.
Baltimore Aug 28 The Manufacturers' Record reviews South crop prospects noting the largest cotton crop yet and reduced farmer debt. Over five years cotton output rises from 6.5 million to 8 million bales with crop values near 500 million dollars. Total Southern agricultural value approaches 3.5 billion, led by cotton and corn. Bankers report best outlook since the war as other staples also gain.
Aug. 28. The boiler of a locomotive on a freight train on the New York Pennsylvania Ohio railroad exploded six miles east of Mansfield O. Engineer Albert Graham of Galien and Fireman Joseph Murphy of Urbana were killed and mangled. Fire spread to oil cars and fifteen were destroyed.
Heavy rains Tuesday afternoon caused severe flooding in Noble County Ohio. At East Union the east fork of Duck Creek washed away several houses and a bridge hit a dwelling. Deeply flooded, Rev. Stephen W. Archer Dias Kirkbride and others with family members were drowned and their bodies not yet recovered. Creeks Rose two and a half feet with many bridges gone and roads and cornlands ruined.
Dunuth Aug 28 Timoty Healy speaking at a league meeting warned that the Emerald Isle faces starvation next winter due to the potato blight. He said tenants who paid rent and let families starve were worse than assassins and urged appealing to Irish in America and Australia for aid, withhold receipts from those who paid rent in the last year.
A fierce hurricane struck Lexinatron Kentucky around 4 30 pm Tuesday tearing through a mile and a half north of town. Elijah Cropper's residence and barn were ruined as hundreds of trees toppled and crops suffered extensive damage. Water tanks fences and trees collapsed at town edge. Estimated damage starts at ten thousand dollars locally.
Washington Aug 28 The House adjourned amid a heated clash over the ger bill as filibusters sought to delay a vote. A scheme to break quorum by 20 members sparked a fierce exchange between Cannon and McAdoo. A blow was struck amid shouting and near-royal disorder before order was restored with the roll called. The journal was approved and absentees were pursued by the sergeant-at-arms.
An elderly man leaped from a moving express near PuiInapecruta killing him. his daughter followed and was seriously injured. Papers on the body identify him as Stephen Beck of St. Clair County IL en route to Hamburg Germany. No reason given. Heirs to 9 million in Ireland reported to Mrs. A L Stevenson of Dunvalle IA and her brother.
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