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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1885
Page
2
Reports place quake deaths in Serinagar at 87 with 100 wounded as aftershocks and damage raise concern in the Vale of Cashmere. Concurrently, European states clash over Ducal succession, Afghan frontier talks resume, and indictments target officials amid financial policy debates.
A sketch artist L Cass Corwine killed himself in Lincoln Illinois. A Peoria journalist beaten by a gambler target. Obits include George M Clark minstrel Felchville Vermont. England inquiry on American law and Earl of Lauderdale title. Beecher preaches evolution vs Bible inspiration. Grant’s doctors report throat cancer stable. Navy commander Lewis Clark dies in Key West. D R Whedon dies Atlantic Highlands. Rosecrans becomes Treasury Register. Walter Whipple commits suicide in New York. Reuter drowning at Streator. Jackson arrives as minister to Mexico. Helen Gougar assaults John Williams in Lafayette Indiana. Williams retaliates with a cane.
Financial and industrial notes report Cincinnati flour holdings totaling 49 241 barrels the strongest level in a decade. Illinois Fish Commission Secretary 8 P Bartlett finished distributing 1 201 000 totumac shad across the Illinois Rock and Kankakee rivers. Weekly U S futures total 197 with the South leading. Ex Gov Hale of New Hampshire has failed and Vermont property attached.
The re modeled McVicker's Theater in Chicago opens Monday June 29 presenting a new play by John C Freund of New York. The house boasts Edison lighting, a new ventilation system, and promises premier entertainment in a rebuilt, comfortable venue.
President Cleveland names Charles Ruthacon of Wilminton North Carolina and John Bixbee of New Haven Connecticut as customs collectors and others to internal revenue posts. William Welsh is named deputy third auditor, William Culingworth postmaster at Richmond Virginia, and Stephenson discharged from the pension bureau. New postmasters include Rakes Ouray Colorado Henderson Aledo Illinois Eastburn Fowler Iowa Mayberry Tru lingame Osage Mission Brant Kentucky and several others with resignations or commissions noted.
The report lists a series of judicial and civil service changes. In Michigan Martin V Meredith at East Saginaw faced suspension for fraud involving false rent vouchers and unaccounted subletting. Nebraska and Pennsylvania officials see resignations or term expirations, with commissions expiring for Kittle Van Pelt Norris and Wertz. South Carolina Texas and others note commissions expired or appointments to fill vacancies. The President named W W Rosecrans California as Register of the Treasury and Herbert F Deccher as Collector of Customs Puget Sound, with Archibald Skilman as Collector of Internal Revenue for Nevada. Baker P Lee named Collector of Customs Yorktown Virginia, Darius A Ogden named chief of division in Treasury Third Auditor’s Office. National Civil Service League affidavits allege postmasters soliciting political subscriptions. investigations to follow.
A Beaver Park reservoir burst near Longmont Colorado sending a 120 foot high water wall that washed away land without reporting any lives lost. Other disasters include a $60,000 storm in Atchison Kansas, drownings in Kenosha Wisconsin Chicago Illinois Lansing Michigan and Mendota Missouri, a runaway team in Erie Pennsylvania injuring five, fires in Buffalo and Danvers Center Massachusetts, a fatal lightning strike near Mendota, Missouri, flood events in Lagos Mexico water spout damage and Wisconsin storm damage with hail up to baseball size, plus major fires in Suffolk Virginia and casualties at the Eastern State Lunatic Asylum.
The report lists multiple violent incidents and arrests: Fin and Manse Rainsbarger executed for an attempted murder of Dr. Underwood. two other Rainsbagers jailed in Marshalltown for Enoch Johnson’s death. Nellie Albrecht and engineer George Baker involved in a Belleville shooting. Lewiston Postmaster Isaac Hibbs tied to a $30,000 money-order fraud. a San Francisco perjury trial in the Sharon divorce case. James McDaniel jailed for a San Antonio jail break. John Manning killed by a desperado in Tracy City. bank teller William T. Dorrance charged with $30,000 embezzlement. Charles Foss kills a merchant then commits suicide in New Techord. End notes reference other regional murders and conflicts.
A Khartoum witness claims the Mahdi demanded General Gordon’s head as a trophy but the plot failed. Other items note ex-mayor Richard Vaux appointed Philadelphia mint superintendent, Gladstone’s cabinet reshuffle, and a dramatic May fire loss of 8.75 million dollars. Reports cover swarms of locusts near Chattanooga, a New York police retirement, Ohio tax cases, and a deadly Mexican water spout near Lagos and Guanajuato flooding Pueblo and surrounding valleys.
Eyewitness reports a mob of about seventy five men stormed Eldora jail at 1 30 a m battering doors to seize Fin and Manse Rainsbarger the Johnson murder defendants. Fin was shot outside after a rushed escape and Manse lay dead in the street alongside his partner. The crowd departed quietly after the killings.
A trial over whisky selling ends with a shooting as Harris wounds Harris, Johnston shoots back, Preston fires on Johnston, and Jusney kills Preston. In Bonham Texas a mob hanged two brothers Sam and Eli Dyer from a tree limb.
The fragment notes plans for a New York floating skating rink. It mentions Horatio Seymour age five, cattle valued at eight million dollars in Dakota, a rail line between Washington and Mount Vernon, and a Texas envoy to Japan. It also references Ohio Republicans who served in the Union Army and other assorted items.
The Ohio Penitentiary Board sets parole rules requiring six months in first grade, written employment proof, and four affirmative votes to grant parole. Paroled inmates must report monthly, remain under board custody, and may be retaken for any reason to remain eligible for release by law.
James Lawrence writes Coverner Hoadly asserting the 1885 act does not apply to anyone under sentence of death at its passage. The opinion holds executions must occur at the county jail, with later hours possible by reprieve, and confinement to the penitentiary need only be completed before execution when delays occur.
A death and grave illness occurred at eight miles from Circleville in Walnut Township. Mr Samus Bowman his wife and their son Samal and granddaughter Floraais were dining when coffee tainted by poison caused immediate vomiting and convulsions among drinkers. Mr Bowman died. his wife is critically ill and not expected to survive.
Ohio Firemen’s Association meet set for Wapskoneta on July 22 and 23. A disreputable warrant case in Gallipolis involves Herder accused of attempting to abduct an orphan girl. In Cincinnati police court Lt Loy’s self defense killing of Henry Champlin sparks applause. James Mahaffey, Irish born, buried at Cambridge. funeral largest in years. age 82. Northwest farmer James Kileen committed to Dayton Insane Asylum. age about 22. Ohio livestock commission reports pleuro-pneumonia stamped out. disease outbreak since June last ends.
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