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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1899
Page
3
The sermon urges selflessness drawn from Galatians 6 2, urging readers to encourage merchants editors mechanics farmers doctors and others. It contrasts selfishness with gospel duty and cites Mrs Appleton meeting her dying father and the toil of workers to illustrate compassion.
A lengthy sermon urges support for lawyers, teachers, doctors, ministers, and the aged. It extols the public service of these professions, calls for cheerful encouragement amid economic cuts, and likens Christ’s humility to legal advocacy. A tale of Sir Matthew Hale ends with a call to stand by one another and bear each other’s burdens.
Avon Illinois January meeting of Fulton Warren and McDonough delegates declares for a national farmers party to nominate and elect farmers to Congress and state legislatures. A committee will organize nationwide delegates with Chicago favored for the convention by early March. The declaration urges farmer unity and action nationwide.
London January 30 report the British warship program lists 119 ships under construction. 16 first class ironclads 36 cruisers 14 sloops and gunboats and 53 torpedo boat destroyers. Chatham dockyard built three of the heaviest battleships from the same slip in ten months.
Curiaco reports in the Toledo dispatch that the Robson family from Bass group island perished in Lake Erie. The father mother daughter 20 and a five year old son and worker Henry M Martel attempted to travel by clinker boat to Canada. the boy died and a woman's body was found near Port Burrell while the others remain missing.
Gen Eagan commissary general of subsistence is found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and of conduct prejudicial to good order. He is sentenced to dismissal but the court recommends executive clemency. Secretary Alger to review and forward to the president for final decision early next week.
An enormous silver tip bear, injured during tooth extraction, escaped its cage at Creighton theater on Sunday. It frightened bystanders and severely lacerated master Paul Batty and stage hand McDonald, while tearing clothing from manager Jake Rosenthal. Trainers then subdued the animal with heated irons, its roars heard blocks away.
A gang of 26 track repairmen at the western entrance of the Gallitzin tunnel near Altoona Pa. were injured when a westbound locomotive forced them off the north track. One man was instantly killed, another died later, and 16 others were seriously hurt.
In Parkersburg West Virginia Ira Hains, a Black man, was found guilty of second degree murder in the death of Crap Jim Thomas. The jury delivered the verdict just before 10 am after Hains shot Thomas at a friend’s house following threats alleged by the defense.
Private advices suggest three detachments will enter the Copper River district next spring to map a mail route to the Yukon River and establish posts. The move signals federal effort to improve communications and support distant settlements.
Four men were badly burned, one perhaps fatally, by a boiler explosion in the basement of the Chicago Tribune building on Sunday. The accident occurred during work in the facility, with emergency crews rushing to the scene.
Carl Agee a young merchant of Sommerville four miles south of here killed himself by taking arsenic in beer following domestic troubles. The death occurred in Oaxward City on January 30.
In Wasasinetos on January 30 a joint resolution was adopted granting Venezuela the privilege of sending a cadet to the United States West Point military academy.
Senate debate on the peace treaty continues with a 3 pm vote planned a week from Monday. Delegations will present daily open sessions led by Senators Berry Spooner Rawlins Money and Chilton. House focus shifts to the army bill with final vote slated Tuesday at 3 pm.
New York January 30 George Brown a Norwood Long Island farmer broke his neck leaping from a window as fire raged through the home while his family slept his wife and five children escaped unharmed. Ola Enoard Know Better Appany January 30 Theodore Kircher aged sixty shot and killed his wife Paulina forty five in Newtonville near this city Sunday due to a gun misfire. A C Bradley old soldier found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon but mercy requested by the court Santa Monica January 30.
Hat makers of the lower priced derby hats form a cartel to take effect February 1. The firms represent virtually all the larger manufacturers of this class of goods in Danbury Connecticut.
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