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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1887
Page
2
Man Wert Bulletin reports $28,000,000 yearly to keep ladies in silks, Joan Russert gathers material for a civil life of General Grant, and estimates the cow boy raid on Ute chief Colorow costs Colorado about $200,000.
After a pleasant vacation the oyster industry swells to nearly eight million visitors in New York on opening day. The melograph invention lets a pianist improvise and have the music recorded. Herman Stritcher of Reading Pa. holds a butterfly collection valued at $13,000, a sum he refused.
Mrs Putnam discovered twenty 100 pound bank notes scattered on a floor in an abandoned Boston house dating to the revolutionary era. The property had stood unoccupied for years before the find.
Record shows 1886 cigar production exceeded five billion units in the United States while 1884 surpassed one billion and 1880 reached about two billion, illustrating a rising industry trend across the decade.
Dr Mitton J Roserts of New York unveils an electric surgical saw claimed to amputate a leg in five seconds. The device is described as operable by electricity and designed for rapid operations, highlighting its potential impact on surgical practice.
Mr. Couman, the Commissioner of Agriculture, celebrates a sugar production breakthrough. A new sorghum process yields twelve hundred to fifteen hundred pounds of sugar per acre, boosting regional sugar output.
American astronomers who traveled to China to observe a total solar eclipse were poorly compensated for the voyage. The event was further obscured by dense clouds from start to finish, leaving the observers with a doubly eclipsed experience.
The twelve cent rate in Great Britain has operated for two years and gross revenue exceeds figures at double the rate. Messages increased by half and average word count rose noticeably. In New York State onion districts along the Wallkill River the crop exceeds six hundred thousand bushels but onion fly damage will cut it by half. The pest, imported, multiplies quickly in its grub form feeding on bulbs.
Seventeen year old Frank Roulins fatally stabbed nineteen year old Frank Whatt during a Sunday school dispute in Columbus Kansas. The motive arose from a quarrel about their mustaches with youths cherishing their budding facial hair next to their sweethearts.
A Michigan woman spent six months crafting an all white hand crocheted dress from common spool thread. The gown features flowered patterns and tightly stitched sleeves secured by lock crochet, using ten thousand yards of thread. Also notes William McDiarcy, claimed oldest living printer in the U S, born 1792 in Edinburgh, and Miss Rives of Buffalo who raced a bear at a mountain resort.
The London Telegraph notes China has had no bank failures in nine centuries. It recalls an old edict from the Hi lung era threatening heads of bank officials for failures, while citing large U.S. interest earnings and a dairy industry valued at about 500.9 million, with 21 million cows producing 7.35 million gallons of milk yearly. Corn is king, but the cow is queen.
An old report indicates a comet initially found by Divi at Brooks on August 25 is now identified as Olber's comet first observed on March 6. Calculations by Nicol and Bessell estimate its orbital period and perihelion timing, with Prof. Harkness from the Observatory offering further interpretation of its reappearance.
The president pardoned Thomas R. Knight John A. Brooks and Henry Patz convicted of murder in the western district of Arkansas. They were Indian police who killed a man during an attempted arrest. Other items note Porter's retirement prompt, fisheries talks with Bayard, rising breadstuffs exports, Illinois extradition request, Northern Pacific lands, yellow fever toll in Key West, and seven day business failures total 165.
A large number of Boston cigar makers were locked out on the 18th over apprentice hiring violating union rules. The issue is part of a broader 16th century pattern of labor tensions reflected in New York Republican convention returns, Gettysburg commemoration, mining and rail incidents, and various fires and political developments across several states. The report notes labor strife, accidents, and political maneuvering involving named firms, towns, and individuals.
A fire in a Dealsville Alabama cabin on the 12th killed four colored children. The report lists other items: Texas election tallies, trestle collapse near Mudfork mines injuring several, miners’ strike at Washington Indiana, oath of office for California’s Lieutenant Governor Waterman, deaths of notable figures, and various international incidents.
The trial of Fred Munehrath Jr. in Sioux City Iowa ended with a guilty verdict for murder with the penalty to be the penitentiary after a jury deliberation of about twenty hours. The week also recorded a drought breaking rain in Alabama and a series of other national events including fires floods and political commemorations.
Ottawa Sept 15 Justice Magruder announced the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the Cook County murder verdicts in the Haymarket case. August Spies Michael Schwab Samuel Fielden Albert Parsons Adolph Vischer George Engel Louis Lingg sentenced to death with execution set for November 11. Oscar W Neebe to fifteen years in penitentiary.
The Chicago trial of August Spies and seven others ended with the Supreme Court affirming their murder accessories verdict. The decision preserves the 1885 Haymarket bomb case and sets execution to be carried out by November 11, amidst anxious jailhouse reactions and widespread public interest.
The statement recounts arrests of August Spies Michael Schwab Samuel Fielden Oscar Neebe Adolph Fischer Louis Lingg and George Engel for murder and conspiracy in the Haymarket affair. It notes Parson s escape then surrender, suppression of Arbeiter Zeitung raids on anarchist dens, jury impaneled May 1 1887, indictments June 5, trial June 21, verdict August 20, sentence October 9 with hangings for six and 15 years for Neebe, and eventual Supreme Court arguments with Leonard Swett W P Black and Zeisler for the defense and Grinnell Hunt and Ingham for the state.
New York Socialists and Anarchists react to Illinois Supreme Court affirmation of the condemned Chicago anarchists. August Spies Parsons and Fielden spoke at Haymarket square before a dynamite blast triggered fatal police and crowd violence.
A budget of telegraph items notes M. Rouvier may resign as French premier. Other tidbits include Minneapolis mills output at 150100 barrels, Bismarck's organ urging heavy duties on imported fish, Fort Wayne canal feeder condemnation for water supply, and mob: Major Tomisies and Captain Schmidler arrested for commissariat frauds with Schmidler dying by his own hand in custody. A farm murder near St Paul by a tramp sheltering there leaves motive robbery and the killer at large.
Ex Governor Luke P Blackburn of Kentucky died at his Frankfort home after a month of illness from Brights disease and heart valve ossification. Born in 1818, he practiced medicine, served in the legislature, fought in the Civil War under Sterling Price, and was elected governor in 1879 by a large margin.
Disasters from recent gales on the banks report heavy losses among British and French crews. The St. Pierre sank with all sixteen aboard and fifty French codfishing seamen perished. About one hundred vessels were damaged, reducing the season’s catch and pushing prices up. A Boston bound ship from London arrived dismasted after losing ten seamen off Cape Pillaron.
The executive committee of the National Labor party, formed at the Trades Congress, proposes adult suffrage one vote per person, state payment of MPs, free education, land reform, poor law reform, free trade with county abolition, home rule and local reform, and religious equality implying abolition of the state church. It calls for 20,000 pounds for the first year campaign plus local labor funds.
Floods in Arizona cause extensive railroad destruction from the Colorado river to the Dragoon mountains west of Benson. A fifty foot washout on the Dragoon grade spans eight miles. Repairs between Benson and Tucson will take three weeks. costs not less than 200000 dollars. Sonora road suffers five miles of track and three bridges washed out. Tucson streets flood with perishable freight for the East market.
In Detroit on September 14 the National convention of German Brewers adopted resolutions condemning Powderly for opposing liquor, accusing the Knights of Labor of excluding liquor sellers and failing to aid brewers. They declared Brewers will ignore political parties and vote on issues affecting their interests as a unified group.
A 100 pound chunk of pure copper and smaller specimens were found by railway graders in Monroe Wisconsin. A company plans to prospect a likely vein, signaling valuable mineral potential in the area. Separately in Ellsworth Kansas engineers report a rock salt vein 165 feet thick and 96 percent pure with lime and manganese impurities, 705 feet below surface and suitable for table use when ground.
A Myted Wis dispatch reports Commander in Chief Fairchild will not seek another year in the Grand Army post, citing time demands and private interests. He offers no idea who may succeed him, despite veterans urging vindication and re-election. Four are killed and sixty-one injured in a Colorado train wreck near Lake Ivanhoe on the Aspen extension of Midland road.
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