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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1898
Page
3
Dr Talmage urges Christians to lift others burdens as a moral law. He cites Mrs Appleton and Daniel Webster's daughter, extols kindness to merchants farmers mechanics doctors and reporters, and laments selfishness while urging practical encouragement and sympathy for all workers.
The speaker urges support for doctors lawyers teachers and ministers, condemns cuts to teacher salaries, praises cheerful influence on invalids, and tells of examples from history to motivate encouragement. He ends with a call to shared burdens and Christian unity as heirs of God.
Delegates from Fulton Warren and McDonough counties declare for a national farmers party and plan a national convention by early March with Chicago favored as the place A. W. Holeman leads the movement Eldon W Bradbury reads the declaration urging farmers to join and elect representatives to Congress and state legislatures Local discussions consider one delegate per district and notes from various farmers and labor groups are read
Lonxpoy January 30 The total British warships under construction numbers 119 from ironclads cruisers sloops gunboats and torpedo destroyers. Chatham dockyard built three of the heaviest battleships in ten months and armored ships total 28 costing over £26 million. By March 1903 these vessels will join Britain’s fleet ahead of further credit requests by the First Lord of the Admiralty George Goschen.
Cascado report says an entire Robson family of five and a hired man perished in Lake Erie. The father and mother started to move a dead daughter toward Canada in a battered clinker boat. A woman’s body found near Port Burrell is presumed Mrs. Robson. others remain missing.
Gen Eagan commissary general of subsistence found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and of conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline. Dismissal from the U S Army ordered but with court recommendation for executive clemency. Secretary Alger to review the record. President has final review. Separate notes report Alaska to lay out mail route and posts. Chicago boiler explosion injures four men.
An enormous silver tip bear escaped its cage at Creighton theater in Omaha on Sunday. It injured its master Paul Batty and two others, raged through scenery, and caused panic across several blocks before trainers subdued it with heated irons.
A crew of 26 track repairmen in Altoona Pennsylvania faced a fatal tunnel collision at the Gallitzin tunnel western entrance. As a westbound locomotive approached, workers moved from the north to the south track but smoke obscured the engine. One man died at once, another died in hospital, and 16 others were seriously hurt.
In Parkersburg West Virginia the state versus Ira Hains a colored man was found guilty of murder in the second degree for killing "Crap Jim" Thomas a colored man. The verdict came shortly before 10 this Sunday morning after Hains followed Thomas to a friend's house and fired a shotgun. The defense noted threats by the victim.
The Senate will devote most of the week to the peace treaty with speeches planned by Senators Berry Spooner Rawlins Money and Chilton. The House will focus on the Army bill with a final vote at 3 p.m. Tuesday and then move to river and harbor and military academy appropriations. Additional items include public buildings and land questions and the Hawaiian bill.
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