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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1885
Page
6
Tax colored residents of Philadelphia buy land for an industrial school for colored children at a cost of 100000 dollars. The piece contrasts terms used for dynamite dabblers by American Canadian and English presses.
Postal notes total about two million a month and will rise by 40 percent, handled by thirty five workers and counted daily. An Albany incubator has produced 4 000 chickens since October with about 125 dozen eggs used weekly. Chicks at one and a half pounds go to market. Hugo works editions from Paris will cost 2 500 000 francs with 40 small quarto volumes and 250 etchings plus 2 500 copper plate vignettes.
Sir Thomas Grampstone, eldest brother to the Prime Minister of England, is a major landholder with 45 000 acres in Kincardineshire though many farms yield little income. He holds over 3 000 acres of arable land in thirteen farms. William Barry, a young Irishman who sought his fortune in London, is linked as the hero of Mr Black's Shandon Bells. his lone book Moorland and Stream showed great promise but his early death blighted it.
The Current reports rapid growth in Kansas City and a four million dollar rise in Indianapolis wholesale trade in 1884. Duluth shines with retail activity aided by the Northern Pacific Railroad, while Frederick Douglass deflects resignation questions and jokes about retirement.
Western theological seminary students debated if a printed prayer slip with a reversed meaning being read aloud counts as uttered or written. After a long discussion they ended in a tie vote. The Current notes shifting European power dynamics and Spain’s memory in Berlin’s shadow.
Railway superintendents as a class are as intelligent men as live, gays the Current. Those of America are as sincerely attached to the principles of liberty as is the humblest section hand. It is not probable, therefore, that a scheme of black-listing will be adopted.
The excerpt describes a California State Prison cell murder attempt by a surgeon deterred by guards, a plan to extract a leg bullet from wartime, and reports on Pittsburgh gas wells where a 3000 pound drill machine was hurled aloft. It notes irregular pressure, leakage risks, and gas layers deep in sandstone affecting household use.
Professor Simon Newcomb has used the Washington monument to measure light velocity, claiming unprecedented accuracy and an error not exceeding one four hundred millionth of a second. He believes this and other uses may render the monument useful and thus a fit tribute to Washington.
The report to the Legislature lists marriages 27133 births 65066 deaths 24364 divorces 1739 paupers 24110 and costs of pauperism 858106. It notes 2443 naturalizations 178 reform school sends and 9000 prisoners with 116618 in confinement costs. Banks total 430 with 4303086926 capital and structures erected 27502 costing 18173660. Fire losses 2112865 flood 1125571 liquor manufactured 13868893 cigars and tobacco 4824017.
The article contends taxpayers, facing exploitation by indolent officials, should back the expense of safeguarding society. It cites Michigan as an example where the law requires public funding to maintain civic order and security.
The text cites militia funding disputes in Illinois and Michigan, then shifts to an English resident in Paris suing for 20000 francs after hair loss blamed on a contagious scalp disease from a hairdresser’s brush. A doctor confirms infection, but treatments fail and baldness results.
A prisoner describes freeing a pet blackbird from his cage, learning liberty is valued over captivity. Vermont Senator Justin S. Manning nears 75 with a record of long service in Congress. Elsie Coolley, five, saves Will Monk, 14, from drowning by pulling him from the water after he fell from a wharf.
A sleigh party of nine from Oak Harbor collided with a Lake Shore express near Port Clinton. Four killed, several injured. survivors describe a chaotic scene with two women dying this afternoon. Convict William Russell, forbind with prior theft, was also noted in a jail transfer scene.
In Lownden County Georgia a funeral for Craw Duncan spirals into farce as the corpse allegedly sits up in the coffin during burial rites. Witnesses report singing through the night and the coffin lid flying off as the dead man curses, leaving mourners convinced he remains alive.
In a United States Court five murderers Mason Holcomb William Phillips Fred O Ray William Meadows and William Dickson were sentenced to hang on April 17. Ray and Meadows claim innocence while Phillips says he never killed a man. Meadows a 16 year old may seek commutation. All are white except Jackson the sole Black convict.
Dr L B Allen and W J Wellbourne, brothers in law, quarreled after condolence visits. They exchanged shots. Allen died within hours from a heart wound. Wellbourne fled after a rival shot left unclear injuries. Search efforts by officers and a posse continue.
A Joliet special reports Sheriff Newton of Kerndall County arriving at Joliet with four prisoners from Kerndall awaiting prison sentences. The account opens with a wretched proceeding describing one legless convict and another man missing an arm.
The New York presence of Senator Gorman and meetings with Democrats boost cabinet rumors. Evarts as Senator reshapes the cabinet outlook, making Bayard or Garland hard to spare. The GOP would gain strength with Evarts Edmunds and Sherman on constitutional issues. Gorman cautions that the president elect has no fixed cabinet plan yet and may change it multiple times before March 4.
On the Niobrara passenger car yesterday morning a baby was born to Mrs. T Hanlon traveling from Helena Montana to New York. The mother and child were later moved to a sleeper on the Pennsylvania route at Union Depot. Telegrams reported mother and baby well and improving.
O'Donovan Rossa was shot by a slender woman in black with steel glasses near the Stewart Building in Chambers Street. He survived with a back wound as the assailant was arrested by City Marshal James McAuley after firing multiple shots.
Henry Katenhausen, 60, killed his wife Maria, 45, with a hatchet in their Durand home after frequent fights. He buried her in a cellar, later confessed, and attempted suicide with suspenders and a scarf before hanging himself with a jacket tied to a grate. The crime occurred while the couple’s children were at Sunday school.
In Buffalo, Robert A. Wallace of Harvey and Wallace died about eight years ago. His children, four, and a widow received shares under law when no will existed. After the widow’s death a new will surfaced, and during a search exhumation revealed the original will sewn between Wallace’s vest and shirt in his coffin.
An Indiana post office awoke to chaos when a large gray eagle flew out of a mail bag and fluttered through the room. The bird, from the West and likely captured by route agents, was recaptured and caged. Postmaster Lewis called it a fine specimen and a proud addition to the collection.
The Washington dispatch reports the Patent Office annual figures with receipts of 1 075 799 dollars and expenditures of 970 580 dollars leaving a patent fund balance of 2 781 695 dollars. It notes 20 297 patents and designs issued along with 116 reissued patents 1 021 trademarks and 513 labels registered. 12 301 patents expired and 2 839 patents withheld for non payment of final fee. Of issued patents 19 018 went to U S citizens and 1 284 to foreigners.
Vienna newspapers refuse Reichsrat print. Journalists protest by snubbing sessions. Indignant members write complaints only when accompanied by cash at advertising rate.
A London cablegram reports the first midnight bulletin of the shooting of Rossa g. The news triggers wild street excitement with crowds gathering at corners and resorts. Patrons celebrate at bars as congratulations and hurrahs spread, and the assailant is hailed as a heroine by some.
A mix of short notes reports Victor Huco turning 83 in Massachusetts cites 23 cities in the state. The Sultan of Turkey praised as a good amateur pianist. New York City records nearly 12000 marriages in the year. A Florida woman runs a saw mill in Tuckertown. A child dies in Eye England from fright caused by a masked boy.
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