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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1898
Page
2
An unusual sleigh drew attention in Leo, minister, Massachusetts a few days ago. A molasses hogshead rested on runners with the front scooped like a rocking chair arms and the back left full length, painted bright yellow and appearing cozy.
A plan to form a gigantic cotton trust including planters and speculators was foretold two months ago during the Atlanta convention. The strategy envisions reducing acreage and output to push cotton prices higher in the United States.
An Italian immigrant named Guazone heads a vast wheat operation in southern Buenos Aires province. His 66,270 acre farm employs thousands of workers who share profits, and at harvest he loads more than 3,000 railway trucks with grain.
An external authority estimates global deaths by cause across a million persons. Only 900 die of old age. Large numbers die from gout, measles, apoplexy, erysipelas, consumption, scarlet fever, whooping cough, typhoid and typhus, and rheumatism. Averages vary by locality but are considered accurate worldwide.
Edward W Box addresses the domestic service issue in editorial 2 of the February Ladies column. He argues that women have more employment options than factory store or office work, urging broader recognition of female labor in various sectors.
Farmers in rural Texas and surrounding regions have begun building a new railway toward St. Louis. In Henrietta, 12 miles of track are laid without any capital subscription. Farmers served as laborers while merchants hired substitutes, forming a novel local effort across Texas, Southern Kansas, Northeastern Oklahoma, and the Indian Territory.
A New York man builds an unusual business on the fourth floor of a gloomy building. He secures snakes from bogs and swamps, displays them in glass cases, and the city’s fashionable set visits to choose skins before they are shed, making the venture highly lucrative.
New Jersey has surged to the front among states in road construction with seventy miles of macadamized highway added last year. Plans call for connecting links to create complete thoroughfares from the state’s southern tip to its northern end. State outlay reached $100,000 for the 70 miles, while individuals and counties contributed $250,000 to the effort.
A wealthy Oklahoma ranch owner, cited by the New Orleans Times-Democrat, purchased 8000 acres about ten miles south of Shreveport along the Kansas City Shreveport Gulf road. He plans immediate conversion to a cattle ranch with fine stock and believes swamp and lake lands in the area could yield productive cattle farms if properly drained.
The United States ranks fifth in naval power tied with Germany, with England first, France second, Russia third, and Italy fourth. Germany has more torpedo boats, but the U S leads in battleships and cruisers. With ships like the Kentucky Kearsarge and Illinois underway, the gap may close.
In Havana on February 3 conservatives organized across the island naming Weyler honorary president and Romero Robledo vice president. A Mariano meeting followed Gen Lee entertaining Maine officers as Romero Rubio urged that Spain would prove its strength against the United States, warning Americans of Spain’s resolve. The anti American sentiment rises.
George W. Finch a murderer sentenced to hang surrendered to Fort Scott authorities after fleeing about 100 miles from pursuers. He had followed Frank Swofford from Paola Kansas and killed him for a few dollars, hiding the body in bushes. Finch telephoned from Lamont Missouri to say he would ride the evening train to help mend jail bars he had broken.
The British to Majestic has been chartered to carry 22 locomotives and a general cargo from this port to the Finland government. The consignment includes 10 passenger and 12 freight engines built by Baldwin works. Locomotives are also being built at Baldwin for Norway, Japan, Africa and other countries that previously sourced them elsewhere.
LAWRENCE Mich Feb 5 Train No 3 on the South Haven and Eastern Narrow Gauge railroad wrecked here Friday injuring at least six people. It was the first train through since Wednesday noon and left the station at 38 40 a m A snow plow jumped the track a quarter mile from the station and was piled into by the two locomotives that drew the train and the two coaches.
St Louis reports Daniel McCleland, 43, employed at George S Mephan Klein paint works, killed himself by placing his head between a putty chaser wheels. His head and a side post were crushed, death instantaneous. no motive found.
Philadelphia February 5 The Inquirer reports that the Interstate Canal and Irrigation Canal and Land Co an enterprise of Francis C Grable has told its creditors it possesses not a single dollar in its treasury to satisfy outstanding notes.
A Crawford Nebraska bank failure scare emerged as the State Bank of Crawford did not open on Friday. Cashier C J Grable is in the east and vice president Francis C Grable is absent. Assistant cashier A E Hobson says no statement beyond plans to pay all deposits and liabilities in full. The delayed currency shipment from the east contributed to the decision not to operate that day.
Washington February 7 The Senate will divide its attention this week between the Hawaiian annexation treaty and appropriation bills while the Corbett seat in Oregon looms as a major privilege matter. The House plans to open with the Aldrich Plowman Fourth Alabama contest and push appropriations to adjourn, with political speeches likely to pepper debate. President Dole begins return trip to Hawaii from Buffalo.
Washington February 5. The House committee on interstate and foreign commerce held an extended hearing Friday on the Hepburn bill to establish a department of commerce and industries. Ferdinand Peck and other business leaders urged the measure as beneficial to labor and U.S. trade, urging centralized statistics and foreign warehouses. President McKinley may attend Gettysburg Memorial Day services on May 30 if not blocked by public business. The Maine will be relieved from Havana soon, with Marblehead and Detroit’s Marblehead replacements discussed. A Washington dinner for McKinley and cabinet featured an indoor tropical setting at the Arlington.
The first class armored cruiser Vizcaya of the Spanish army arrived at Cartagena and sailed Friday for New York, after calling at Las Palmas Canary Islands on February 5.
A Savannah blaze on February 7 leveled the Magnificent Cathedral of St. John the Baptist after a hay warehouse fire spread through Bay Street. The cathedral, centerpiece of the state’s Catholic church, valued at about 225000 with 60000 insured, was destroyed. major losses hit Charles A. Conklin & Co. and surrounding brick buildings as fire crews struggled to control the flames.
Joseph P. Smith, long time Ohio politician and McKinley associate, director of the Bureau of American Republics, died in Miami Florida at 4 40 Saturday morning of heart failure. He had earlier held state librarian post and published Republican papers promoting McKinley. The body to be moved to Urbana Ohio. He leaves a wife and seven children from a Galveston marriage in 1834.
Frank Belew confessed to poisoning his brother Louis and sister Susie in Dixon California last November, recounting placing rat poison in their tea kettle and witnessing his sister's dying moments without remorse. At Carl Lindbach’s funeral in Wear Keep, his father forgave Young Glantz and wept, the scene marking the burial after a glove encounter death.
A navy launch capsized in Kiev on Saturday causing nine egil ors and three workmedb to drown. The accident occurred near the river port, authorities reported casualties and ongoing rescue efforts continue.
Eight t rovski and companions, once Michigan residents now in Alberta, report on Western Canada from a government visit. They praise thriving farms, railroads, markets, and homes, noting low coal prices, ample timber and timber fuel, abundant grazing land, and tasty wild raspberries. They urge others to consider Canada as a future home and promise an illustrated Ottawa pamphlet.
A fragment from a Baltimore item dated December 2 notes varied views on religio and labor. It cites St Jacobs Oil claims for cures including consumption, neuralgia, and frost-bite foot problems amid a Washington Democrat ad style. The prose mimics a collage of public notices and popular patent medicine rhetoric.
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