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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1898
Page
2
William E. Surppe and William H. Smith, West Point graduates and first lieutenants, died within 15 minutes during the San Juan battle. Bills to pension their widows were introduced in Congress simultaneously.
A Bill to regulate cremation has been introduced into the Victorian legislative council. It allows cemetery trustees to perform cremations instead of burial, spend funds for that purpose, and charge related fees. No cremation may occur without two special medical certificates.
Queen Victoria is outdone by Emperor Francis Joseph as Austria’s ruler dispenses 4,500 orders and decorations in three days. Vienna jewelers race to meet demand after weeks of backorder.
The article outlines Russia's armed forces size by conscripts every year about 280,000 and peacetime strength near 1,000,000. In war the force could reach 2.5 million with reserves, and total well-trained troops 6.947 million. militia could raise to 9 million.
At the Illinois school for the deaf in Jacksonville the football team, led by captain F. P. Kawkner and his men, uses finger signals for plays. The agile squad, averaging 145 pounds, delivered astonishing performances in the recently concluded season.
Mrs Saran Joseph Hate, a Houston woman and editor of the first US women’s magazine, spent twenty years pressing for a definite Thanksgiving date. She wrote to state governors and to presidents, and President Lincoln adopted her suggestion in 1864 as the North celebrated Union restoration.
Despite space pressures in Westminster Abbey the dukes of Northumberland hold an exclusive burial vault in the chapel of St Nicholas. The vault, once the Seymour family resting place, was opened in 1833 to receive Lady Louisa Percy, elder sister of the current duke.
Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, a popular Rothschild, died recently. Born Austrian, naturalized English MP for Buckinghamshire since 1885, he had no active role in the firm but was a silent partner earning about 1 million dollars yearly, giving roughly a third to charity. He founded a 300 bed children’s hospital in memory of his wife.
Fifty young women enroll in the College of Agriculture in Minneapolis to study a three year farming course alongside men. Their curriculum replaces male trades with sewing laundry and cooking while enabling full academic cohorts during the year rather than only summer sessions.
The Red Cross founder Henri Dunant is alive in Switzerland after devoting half his fortune to the society and enduring poverty. A visit to Solferino on June 24, 1859 inspired the idea, and governments have since aided him as he spends his twilight in comfort. Turkey is noted as the only country not to recognize the red cross.
Mrs Cordelia Botkin is convicted of murder in the first degree for sending poisoned candy to Mrs John P Dunning in Dover Delaware. The jury imposes life imprisonment rather than the gallows. Judge Cook sets sentencing for January 7 with custody in county jail prior to transfer to the state penitentiary.
The Ohio, to be the largest ship on the coast and among the three largest in the U S Navy, begins at Union Ironworks in San Francisco. It measures 388 feet long, 72 feet 3 inches wide, and 23 feet 9 inches deep with a 12 500 ton displacement. It surpasses Wisconsin and Oregon in length and displacement and will exceed them in contract speed by two and three knots respectively.
Corporal Marshall Williams of Company F 9th Illinois regiment was found dead in a Broad Street house in Savannah on Friday after asphyxiating from gas. Corporal James Newman, his companion, is unconscious and hospitalized. They visited the room at midnight Thursday.
Fire on Friday started by spontaneous combustion in the dry kiln at the John Schroeder Lumber Co. yard on Milwaukee's north side and caused an estimated loss of about 570000 dollars.
Rumors ripple through Havana amid crowds reporting Gen Menocal refused to swear allegiance to the United States as tensions rise over evacuation ceremonies. Flags torn from homes and calls for U S intervention set the city on edge while Illinois and Iowa troops move to maintain order with prospects of peace or war looming.
Benjamin R. Willis aged 23 was hanged at the state prison in Wethersfield at 12 20 Friday morning for the murder of David S Lambert his former teacher of Wilton on December 17 1897.
The War Department expresses no alarm over the Philippines situation and believes General Otis and Admiral Dewey are fully able to handle the insurgents.
Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton issues order relinquishing command of the 4th army corps. He will depart for Manila to report to Gen. Otis.
The Junta Patriotica in New York announces suspension of planned Havana independence celebrations. Gen Ludlow indicates American authorities favor delaying public demonstrations due to potential disorder while pledging support to resume festivities when conditions allow. The directory urges Cubans to maintain order during the flag change and subsequent days.
New York reports Mr McIntyre received a letter from S J Russell Jersey City druggist suggesting the Adams death might be a poisoning case or an accidental death. The letter questions whether granulated bromo seltzer from a Baltimore company could decompose into a poisonous substance tied to the Adams case.
Nearly 8 000 U S troops sailed from Charleston on Friday aboard the Minnewaska Manitoba and the Saratoga. Gen Bates with staff and the 6th Ohio volunteers head to Cienfuegos on the Minnewaska while Gen Sanger and the 12th New York volunteers sail on the Manitoba, and the Saratoga bears 450 men of the 1st regular infantry to Havana. The ships carry vast supplies and baggage as they depart for Cuba.
A Detroit depot worker recalls filming a blue ribbon cat saga. Tom the cat was seized and shipped to Chicago, later returning as a president of the office after surviving a box car journey and a furniture unloading scare. The tale ends with the cat named Senator for his cunning desire to reclaim a favored perch.
A village clergyman notices a parishioner whitewashing his cottage and learns the man is cleaning to prevent infection. He explains that the previous tenants had twins and they now have ten children, prompting extra caution.
A police magistrate hears a case in which a man claims he struck a street piano player after the musician played Therell Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight. He says he was tired after an all night outing and a sick friend, and was provoked by the tune. The prisoner admits losing control.
A swindler bets he will marry a business savvy woman. She tests his resolve and raises the stake from five hundred to five thousand dollars, calling it a bargain-day price after judging his plan. The Chicago Post notes her shrewdness in valuing the proposition.
A fragment from the Cincinnati Enquirer shows a layman asking why a doctor defeats him in a chest examination and a companion quipping about money in the pocket, illustrating a playful dialogue.
The St. Louis Republic notes public opinion remains skeptical about the Cyrano de Bergerac production. The piece argues that theatergoers are being misled by a spin on the established facts surrounding the play.
A collage of quoted exchanges from several newspapers including Indianapolis Journal Town and Country Journal and Atchison Globe. The fragments feature terse banter about life thoughts food and attitudes with no cohesive event.
A Boston Globe report recounts Joseph Jefferson and his son Tom being stopped on a Louisiana plantation by a colored boy named John who asks if Tom performs in a show. John misinforms about knife swallowing and Joe confirms Tom’s capabilities, but insists they are not circus performers.
Mrs Adsley and Mrs Darling discuss marital behavior with humor in a Chicago Evening News item. Adsley praises her husband for his support and companionship, while Darling jokes about her husband checking under the bed nightly.
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