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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874 Abstracts 101 - 111

ACCIDENTS & DISASTERS - Railroads (Cont'd)

101 L June 29:7/1 A. L. Goodrich, an employe of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, was run over on the track near the Union depot on June 27. Amputation of his right leg was necessary.

102 L July 1:7/1

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Stephen Henry, brakeman on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, had his hand caught between the dead-woods in car couplings June 29. Part of his hand had to be amputated.

103 L July 4:7/5 Henry Graham, while intoxicated, was injured at a railroad crossing yesterday. He fell against passing cars and was thrown

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104 L Oct. 13:1/6 - William Snider, a brakeman on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, was killed instantly yesterday when crushed between two cars.

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105 L Oct. 21:7/1 - On Oct. 17, a Mr. Dunn of Willoughby, whose team had run away, was compelled to go home on the train. Willoughby, he fell beneath the cars and was killed.

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106 L Oct. 30:7/1 - Patrick Welch, 14, a former employe of House and Davidson, jumped from a moving train on Oct. 28 at the Willey st. crossing. The wheels of the train passed over his arm, severing it from his body.

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107 L Mar. 17:7/2 Philip Schock, 191 Harbor st., an employe of Rad-
cliffe and Langel, shipbuilders, fell 45 feet
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108 L Mar. 28:8/2 The scow BAKER, while moving into the Black river the other day because of the storm, collided with the scow I. U. PORTER, causing 12 stanchions to become broken.

The Buffalo strike of ship carpenters and caulkers continues. They mean to stay out until their demands are complied with.

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109 - L Apr. 8:7/4 The propeller HICKOX towed in the schooner JOHN JEWETT, which she found below Mouse island with the foremast twisted off. (2)

110 L Apr. 22:7/1 - P. A. Sweeney on Apr. 20 fell through a hatchway on the steamer barge SPARTA, breaking both his legs.

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111 L Apr. 23; ed: 4/2 - The newspaper FRANCO-AMERICAN is evidently nervous about the conclusions which the world is likely to deduce concerning the brilliancy and staying qualities of French seamanship from the AMERIQUE and the EUROPE steamship disasters and puts in a protest in favor of the captains of those vessels.

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874

Abstracts 112 - 119

ACCIDENTS & DISASTERS - Shipping (Cont'd)

"The less the French newspapers try to patch up the bad reputation of those sea captains the better for all concerned."

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112 L May 12:7/1 The steam barge WINSLOW, coming into the harbor yesterday, burst a steam joint, severely scalding the fireman.

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113 L June 6:8/2 Charles Smith was killed yesterday aboard the tug LEAFIE STARKWEATHER when the head of the boiler blew off, scalding him with steam and boiling water.

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114 L Sept. 7:7/3 - Samuel Hyde was drowned at the Detroit boat landing Sept. 5. He slipped while carrying freight from a vessel to the shore. (2)

115 L Nov. 2; ed: 4/2 The boilers of the steamer BROOKLYN recently exploded in the Detroit river.

"Several of the parties who were guilty of causing this disaster paid the penalty of their folly with their lives. To those who survived, it is to be hoped that impartial justice will be meted out that their punishment will stand as a record to prevent other steamboat officers from ever risking the lives of the traveling public by racing."

116 L Nov. 11:8/3 - William Gilbert, 27, of 44 Bolivar st. was struck and killed by a barrel on Nov. 10 while unloading the steam barge ANNA SMITH.

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Street Railways

117 L May 7:8/3 At the Evangelical association publishing house, now under construction at the corner of Woodland and Pine sts., one of the ropes extending from the new building to a derrick loosened in some way yesterday. The derrick swung into the street, caught in the roof of a passing street car and cut completely through the roof, severing it from the car but without displacing it.

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118 L Dec. 21:7/3 Joseph Reynolds was badly injured last night when he was thrown from his buggy. His carriage collided with a street car on Woodland ave. near Osborn st.

See also Droughts; Floods; Fires & Fire Prevention

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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874 Abstracts 120 - 125

AERONAUTICS

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120 L Aug. 28:4/2 Professor King, the distinguished aeronaut, will take off in his balloon from Monumental park, at two p.m. Sept. 3, if the weather permits.

"The ascension will be made from a place where it can be seen by an immense multitude and we advise every one to come. This time he hopes to make a flight of 1,000 miles."

121 L Sept. 3:4/1

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122 L Sept. 3:8/2,3 The process of filling the balloon in which Professor King will make his ascent will begin at seven a.m. tomorrow. It will rest upon the Public Square at the east of the monument. It is not known who will accompany Professor King, as some who may go have not yet decided to have their names announced. It is certain that at least eight

or ten passengers will accompany him.

It is expected that a large crowd of visitors will be present, as word comes from all over the country that a great many are coming to see the sight.

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L Sept. 4:8/2 - The balloon ascension could not be made yesterday because of a heavy rainfall. Every railroad brought in loaded cars and ran extras on every train. The ascent will be made at 11 a.m. today. Several policemen guarded the ship last night.

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124 L Sept. 5:8/2,3 - The first balloon ascension in Cleveland drew a crowd estimated between 30 and 50 thousand.

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At a few minutes before 11 a.m. everything ready, Professor King gave the signal to start. The passengers came on deck, all looked calm, none showed a disposition to back out or stay home. Five men made the first ascent; they were Luther L. Holden of the Boston JOURNAL, Capt. Sam Whiting, of the Cleveland LEADER, Will E. Chapman of the Cleveland HERALD, Thomas Whitehead of the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, and Dudley A. Cozad of this city.

Cheers from the crowd and music by the Cleveland Grays sent the BUFFALO on its way. The balloon went up gracefully to about 400 feet, and finally headed out over the lake on its journey to Buffalo, for which city it was named.

At five p.m. a report showed the balloon over Ashtabula harbor traveling very fast, so it seems probable by morning it will be near Buffalo. (35)

AFRICA

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125 L Jan. 25; ed: 4/1,2 The efforts of the English and Dutch governments to put down the revolts in Ashantee, Natal, and Acheen are

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874

Abstracts 126 - 130

AFRICA (Cont'd) progressing slowly and will continue to do so as long as the Birmingham manufacturers keep the revolters supplied with arms and ammunition. Our government has spent much time and money in arming the Indians and in whipping them afterwards. Perhaps it is from Washington that the Dutch and English get their theories of the best methods of crushing revolts.

126 L May 5; ed: 4/1 - Wherever the indomitable Yankee goes is heard the click of type and the roll of the printing press. In Transvaal, South Africa, in the rich gold fields of that region, is a city of tents, and the inhabitants include a goodly portion of Americans. Though shut out from neighboring civilization, they have unbounded resources of information and culture in the form of a weekly newspaper, called the GOLD NEWS, which promises in its salutatory "fair and generous support to the government, but reserving the right to criticize whenever deemed neces

sary.

127 - L June 10; ed: 4/2,3 The battle of the Moroccans has been allowed to pass unnoticed, yet it was waged in the cause of justice. The emperor of Morocco is a sordid, grasping, unscrupulous tyrant. He is the possessor of boundless wealth wrenched from the 8,000,000 people he governs. The taxes imposed are an odious "gate tax" on the people of Fez. Twelve thousand Fezites revolted against the imposition. The emperor's troops. opened a cannonade, houses and stores were battered and burned, 90 citizens were killed outright, and freedom's battle was then deferred to a moment when the son will find it convenient to take the place of the "bleeding sire."

AGRARIANISM

128 - L Jan. 28; ed: 4/1 - A fund should be raised to provide the NATION with a glass that will permit it to see things a short distance from home. It pretends to see nothing in the "hayseed" movement, pronounces it a failure, and asserts that the movement never had any strength and that the press of the country treat the grangers as of no account whatever. All this must be harrowing to the grangers' feelings and calculated to excite their pity for the short-sighted NATION.

129 L Feb. 2; ed: 4/2 The grangers are having trouble in Wisconsin. Wrangling with the plow makers has caused much bitterness, and preparations are being made by the grangers for making their own plows. There is nothing said about patents covering these desirable plows, which are owned or controlled by manufacturers. Of course the order can furnish inventive genius to supply new patterns.

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130 L Feb. 12; ed: 4/1 The proceedings of the national grange at St. Louis are found to be of considerable interest. There is such wide discrepancy between platform professions and party practices that people are slow to endorse new movements without a trial. "We hope the Grange means what it says about eschewing politics. It is well." (2)

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1874

Abstracts 131 - 135

AGRARIANISM (Cont'd)

131 L Feb. 13; ed: 4/3 - The grangers are considered a body of men who have more zeal than discretion, and who have a grievance against railroad monopolies, which they were seeking to remedy by political combination. Others regard the grange movement as a nucleus to gather a new party to figure in the politics of the future. Conceding that the St. Louis platform was laid in good faith and that the declaration was sincere, it may be well accepted as a matter of fact that the Grange will be an element in the politics of the future. What it may accomplish, time will show. One thing is certain. If the primary objects of the order are not of sufficient importance to keep it in existence outside of politics, its career inside will be of brief duration.

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132 L Feb. 21; ed: 4/1 The Democratic press is inclined to drop the
grangers they have been fondling in anticipation of securing accession
to their depleted ranks since it is known that the new organization will
keep out of politics. The handful of liberal Republicans suffered an
additional pang of disappointment at seeing the chances for a third party
vanish.

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133 L Feb. 23; ed: 4/3 - The state grange of Ohio, in session at Xenia, adjourned after a sensible and harmonious meeting. No other state convention of the Patrons of Husbandry held this winter could show more conclusively that it was made up of real farmers with no private purpose or ambitions. The grange of Ohio is a member of the national association. There are 555 granges in Ohio.

The grange as an organization has no part or lot in politics. This last point has awakened the wrath of the Democrats, who had relied on using the grange as a substructure for the Democratic platform in 1876. What may happen before that time cannot be told. Politicians may creep in and persuade the grangers that the only way to effect their purposes is by allying with politics. Whenever this happens the doom of the grange of Ohio will be sealed. Up to this time, however, it has kept within its proper path and commended itself to the favor of outside opinions.

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134 L Feb. 25; ed: 4/2 Papers which have looked to the farmers' movement as the beginning of a new party which would sweep Republicanism and Democracy from their decaying foundations in 1876, are now becoming convinced that the grangers do not amount to much after all. It was the action of the grange meeting at St. Louis that did this business. There is no call yet for any liberal newspaper to become the organ-in-chief of the new party of 1876.

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135 L Apr. 13; ed: 4/1 - The grangers of Indiana are not disheartened by the failure which our granger legislature has made trying to rid our state capital of corruption. They think they will do better in their state, where they declare that great reforms are needed. They will transact all their business in about six weeks, then adjourn and return quietly to their plows just as they have done in Ohio.

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