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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1898
Page
16
A sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage contrasts virtuous clubs with dissipating clubhouse life. He warns that worldly gatherings invite gambling, drunkenness, and moral decay, urging balance with home, faith, and charitable pursuits. He offers tests to judge legitimacy of clubs and stresses family and religious impact.
Indiana reports summarize state finances for 1897 including total collections of 7,678,964.34 and disbursements of 7,808,964.52. Tax fund receipts prime shows 1,257,098.41 with other taxes and departmental costs listed. Population polls total 413,526 and land values plus improvements rise. Tax rates vary by city township and county. Health, births, deaths and marriages tallies are provided with notes on reporting defects. State institutions, mining, soldiers homes, insane asylums, schools, gas and oil, banks and railways are detailed with counts, values, and trends.
In Louisville on January 6, Joseph Zipfel 1925 Crop Street attempted suicide by arsenic but received quinine from a druggist named Crecilius. He later drank quinine in whisky at a saloon, but his friends intercepted him and learned of the ruse.
Deputy U S Marshal Shannon and Captain Webb returned from Paulding County with Henry Luce and Dr Alexander Thompson charged with passing counterfeit half dollars. The coins were plaster casts lacking weight and ring. Authorities believe two members of an organized gang are in custody. Blank certificates of membership in an oath bound society were found on Luce.
A Cleveland detective received a surprising letter from a New York widow claiming to be 25, wealthy at $1.5 million, seeking a trustworthy husband and father for her child. She offers to pay his travel to New York to meet and arrange a marriage.
A Liver pool syndicate will build a large tobacco factory in Louisville Kentucky. Plans are drawn by a prominent architect and construction may start in early spring. Representative Mr Kelk has been arranging preliminaries and the firm intends to expand from re handling to full scale manufacture for the Liver pool market. The London Times urges gold currency basis for India to avoid mint reopenings.
In Washington, January 6 to 8, the Senate and House debated the civil service law. Cabinet replies to the law's application drew sharp exchanges, while a bill for a twelfth‑century bureau and related measures were discussed. House factions formed around support, repeal, or modification. The Teller speech on January 8 attacked rumored cabinet resignations as a silver‑coinage tactic.
In Buffalo on January 10, Wm. Gipp, who killed his mother and wounded his father three years earlier, awoke from a coma at the state hospital. He walked across the room and slowly regained speech, showing signs of gradual recovery after years in a coma and food supplied by attendants.
The steamer Portia from St Johns N F landed 190 dogs at Halifax destined for the Klondike. Several escaped during transfer to the railway and were not recaptured. The cost is estimated at about 60 dollars per dog by Vancouver arrival.
Detroit Michigan January 10 Judge Albert G Boynton a 25 year political editor of the Detroit Free Press died Sunday evening at the Alma sanitarium after kidney troubles and related complications He relinquished his work last September and was brought to Alma three weeks ago but failed to rally Big failure in Louisville Kentucky January 10 The B M Creel Co wholesale grocers assigned to John W Houston Assets and liabilities about 100000 each
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