Chips From the News Log
March 28, 1889Gen Rufus R. Dawes, of Marietta, is named for Governor.
Dayton now registers 15,610, an increase of 5,610 since 1881.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has recovered her health but her mind is gone.
Barnum has presented the skeleton of Jumbo to the N. Y. Museum of Natural History.
In Rio Janeiro 2,000 persons are dying each month from yellow fever and other fatal diseases.
On the 23d Mrs. Nellie Grant Satoris and her two children sailed for England on the Servia.
The American pilgrims left Rome Monday morning for Naples, and will sail thence to Alexandria this evening.
J. B. Unthank, President of Friends College at Wilmington, has been compelled to resign because of ill health.
CAN’T DO WITHOUT IT. Bill Nye writes to the New York World, “I must have my finger bowl or I sicken and fade away.
A late flood has swept away the Verrugas bridge on the Oroya railway in Peru. It was 108 feet high and cost 400,000 soles.
The output of silver ore at Leadville this year is estimated at 400,00 to 450,00 tons, valued at from $15,000,000 to $16,000,000.
Ex-President Cleveland and his three ex-Secretaries, Bayard, Vilas and Dickenson, reached Havana on the 23d, and were pleasantly received.
Jus. Mercher’s 4 year old daughter had both feet crushed off by an electric car last Saturday night in Dayton and died from here injuries next morning.
The incorporators of the new Merchants’ Building and Loan Association are to meet this evening to make arrangements for beginning operations.
Sam’l Lutz, who lives near Circlevill, O., had 1,200 persons in and around his house on the 18th inst., to help him celebrate his 100th birthday anniversary.
The Mechanical School to which the late millionaire Isaiah V. Williamson gave $2,500,000, has been located on 150 acres of land, near Media, 14 miles from Philadelphia.
Fifty boys rebelled at the Cincinnati House of Refuge last Sunday, making a bold break for liberty which it took all the force at hand a half hour to quell. They were armed with base ball bats, knives ect.
Of the 175,00 persons who went to Washington and braved the Inauguration storm, not a few, perhaps hundreds, will pay the penalty with their lives. A change to April 30, the first date, would be a good idea.
On the pillow of white roses, contributed by Gen. and Mrs. Harrison on the funeral occasion of Justice Matthews were the words in purple immortelles: “Say not good night, but in some brighter clime bid me good-morning.”
New York is the native State of Tracy and Miller, Pennsylvania of Blaine and Wanamaker, Vermont of Proctor and Vice President Morten, and Ohio of Windom, Noble, Rusk and the President. The latter state comes in for a full share.
Governor Furaker has appointed Capt. S. B. Porter, of the 2d O. V. I., R. W. Merry of the 21st and Judge Thaddens A . Minshall, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, of the 33d., a committee to erect a suitable monument over the Andrews raiders, who belonged to these several regiments and who were hung in Georgia, as spies, and afterward removed to the National Cemetery in Chattanooga.
source: The Miami Helmet
location: Piqua, Ohio
