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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1889
Page
2
Dr Talmage preaches that streets reveal human toil and need urging readers to notice poverty hunger and bereavement in cities. He calls for Christian charity across classes, condemns pretension and indifference, and urges action to rescue the wandering poor and await the heavenly city beyond the streets.
A moral guide from Our Young Folks' Monthly urging unyielding honesty in all dealings. It argues against craft and deceit, cites a foreign merchant pressuring a relative to misstate weights, and stresses that trust and straight talk should govern both business and private life.
The piece argues gambling is not merely intemperance but a sin rooted in covetousness. It asserts gambling awakens a base passion condemned by divine law and equates bets on games, stocks, or commodities with theft by profiting from another’s loss. A sermon-like reflection from Churchman notes the moral danger behind all wagers.
An 1889 Sunday School lesson details Saul and Jonathan’s deaths at Gilboa, Philistine victory, their bodies treated with indignity, and Jabesh Gilead rescue. It contrasts earthly fortune with eternal justice, stressing probation, divine aids, personal responsibility, and the call to endure for reward.
BisMarick, Gnapstons, and Russeau Lace personages are sketched with quirks. Lace, bashful at meals and frugal, shares a fortune near 50 million. Scott fears horses despite stock-farm wealth. Emperor William clads up to salute, and Von Bulow’s Beethoven tale shows ceremonial oddity.
A Grant monument was unveiled at Fort Leavenworth Kan with civic and military honors. Thousands attended from Kansas Missouri and Nebraska as ceremonies featured Brigadier General Wesley Merritt and remarks by Senator Ingalls General Blair and Rev Henry Swift. The bronze statue stands nine feet high on a granite pedestal with panels detailing Grants battles and a Wilderness scene.
Louisville fire on September 16 at Bamberger Bloom and Co. wholesale dry goods caused a roof collapse, killing six firemen and injuring others as the blaze spread to nearby hotels. Losses reach about 750000 tied to a six story structure valued at 75000, with insurance to cover most.
Walter J. Campbell a young swimming teacher from Youngstown New York swam the Niagara whirlpool rapids in a cork jacket Sunday starting at 2 2 o clock with a dog for company. He rode in a small boat from the Maid of the Mist landing until the current forced him to unship oars. He clung to the boat until Battery's elevator, was swept ashore where the life preserver kept him afloat. In the second circuit a log struck his head but he surfaced unhurt. He was rescued at 3 40 and says he would not attempt the feat again. Campbell will be 21 in October and is the youngest Niagara hero.
Reno memorial unveiled at Antietam on the ground where General Reno fell. Colonel S H S Goddard presided, ex-staff members placed the unveiling, and General O B Wilcox delivered the oration. The granite monument stands nine feet tall with Reno on its second base and a Ninth Army Corps badge on the front.
New York reports oyster planters suffered a two million dollar loss as a large portion of beds in Oyster bay Jamaica bay and surrounding areas were ruined by last week’s storm. Restorateurs face scarcity of oysters as supply from New York collapses affecting Philadelphia and other markets. Captain Mortola and five sailors drowned when the Bark Caterina R was abandoned after sinking near Pensacola. Three people drowned in Valley Falls floodwaters as heavy rain swelled the Delaware River.
President Harrison received James W. Tanner’s resignation citing irreconcilable differences with the Interior Department over Pension Bureau administration. Reports tie the move to pressure from Grand Army figures and political maneuvering, with potential successors named in Chicago and Washington.
Walsatnpton Sept 18 1880 Commissioner Tanner resigns as Pensions Commissioner after policy disputes with the Interior Secretary. President Harrison accepts the resignation and notes no reflection on Tanner’s integrity. Office to stay vacant for weeks. speculation connects names like Warner and other officials to the post, while Noble and Bussey deny personal feuds.
A Lafayette special reports a brutal murder near the Abbeville road where Rosemond Cormier and his 15 year old daughter Rosalie were found mutilated in a roadside cabin. The attackers were a band of regulators who had whipped Cormier and told him to leave about two months earlier.
Ira Paine, famed American marksman, died Tuesday morning at the Hotel du Bresal in Rue Bermere after a bowel strangulation illness that began Saturday night. He suffered forty two hours of intense pain before passing away in Terre Haute. Louis Superior, a Russian tailor, hanged himself after extorting money from his wife when she refused to give him ten cents.
Kinney of Somers Kenosha County shot with a pitchfork after a knife attack by one tramp during a clash at his barn. Kinney, unarmed, fought off the assailants and wounded the knife man fatally with the fork. No arrests reported. A second item notes Lulu Island B C windstorm uprooting trees with no lives lost but several homes destroyed.
A young Louisa County woman preparing for marriage was robbed of $2000, including $2800 in cash entrusted by her fiancé to hold until the wedding. The incident occurred recently in the Ricamonp area, with authorities investigating.
Carranoona Tenn September 13 There is no change in the reunion dates for the Army of the Cumberland to be held in this city Wednesday and Thursday September 18 and 19. A grand barbecue for old soldiers of both armies will be given at Chickamauga battlefield on Friday September 20.
New York reports a looming tin famine due to the London dock yard strike with no tin afloat between London and New York. Prices are expected to rise as bull interests push to advance costs.
In Findlay Ohio an employee of the Findlay Iron and Steel Company rolling mill, James Derrell, was killed Thursday morning when a piece of red-hot iron passed through the roller and struck his leg and back. Over three feet of red-hot iron traversed his body. In Marsually Illinois Fortytive cows have died in recent weeks labeled Texas cattle fever by State Veterinary Surgeon Caswell.
Dr George Mallet of Brooklyn City recounts a near fatal scorpion bite endured while traveling by mule toward Mexican mining camps. An evening encounter with hostile guides and locals led to severe pain, vertigo, vomiting, and numbness spreading from the bitten finger through the limbs. Quick recovery followed after hot water, rubbing, and rest, with lingering numbness in the left index finger and forearm. He credits the incident to a scorpion bite and notes he is now well, reporting no further trouble. N Y World.
J W Clark of Missouri Agricultural College explains that base sprouts form from adventitious buds at the collar under ground. Cutting near the ground multiplies sprouts. removing soil to six to eight inches depth and cutting shoots flush to the trunk prevents regrowth. Pulling shoots can work as well. recover soil after removal.
The excerpt cites Sir David Brewster arguing the sun could be a habitable world despite long held beliefs. It notes a physician once labeled such ideas insane, then credits Sir William Herschel for treating them as plausible from solar observations. The passage ends with aphorisms from period newspapers.
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