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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1901
Page
6
Experiments in England test a peculiar smokeless teal fuel usable in ordinary grates or as a central basin fire. The fuel burns without odor or smoke, producing a fire resembling the finest coal fire with a white and blue flame.
An inventor has devised a method to add stone quartz sand to waterproof glue and spread it on the leather foundation of boots and shoes. The resulting soles are described as flexible and providing a firm grip on slippery surfaces.
A Salt Lake City church bell reportedly causes dogs within hearing to form a single file and howl in front of the church until the bell stops. The effect is unique to this bell and not observed with others in the city.
Historical account notes that women in China joined wars during the 1850s unrest. It states that in Nanking in 1853 about 500,000 women formed into brigades of 13,000 under female officers, with 19,000 selected as drilled garrisoned soldiers in the city.
Farmers and veterinarians across central Missouri fear decayed corn ends harbor parasites harming horses and cattle. In Pettis county alone, nearly every day a fine animal dies from the corn’s effects, prompting widespread concern and alarms among livestock owners.
It is asserted that the emperor will repeal many oppressive laws against Jews, numbering over 5,000,000 in Russia. The empress and he credit his survival to the skill and care of his physician Dr. Hirsch, a Jewish physician and member of the Hebrew race.
A hotel keeper has built a room furnished entirely from match boxes. He began collecting boxes years ago and now totals 4,000. A skilled cabinet maker crafted a writing table with smoking apparatus, a fire screen, a cabinet, a chair and other smaller articles from the boxes.
Burglars reportedly realize at most about 20 percent of a loot’s value when sold to buyers. A fifty dollar Bank of England note yields roughly ten dollars, and five hundred dollars in plates fetches only seventy five to one hundred dollars, with the thief risking years in jail for the effort.
Archduke Otto, heir to Austria, runs a studio at Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts and shuttles between cavalry headquarters and his art. He often exhibits anonymously to ensure merit stands apart from rank.
The pope's army is a small force, with only 300 men present at a Vatican review. Five divisions comprise the Guardia Mobile, 50 aristocrats from clerical departments, 100 Swiss Guards including Italian mountaineers, 100 Guardia Palatina, Papal Gendarmes, and 30 firemen.
Rome experimenter Sig Briguiti notes X rays challenge eye sight as a glass that looks transparent blocks X rays while aluminum blocks eye view yet lets X rays pass. The rays can detect a glass splinter in a hand but not a wood splinter, illustrating surprising substance visibility differences.
The article notes that the famed soprano Madame Nordica was born Norton in Maine. Her first English appearance occurred at Crystal Palace in 1877. Her first husband, Mr. Gower, invented a balloon steering apparatus and disappeared crossing the English Channel. in 1896 she married Mer Poeme.
Dr. Talmage argues that true disciples enter Heaven abundantly and with joy when their lives were spent in self sacrifice for others. He contrasts eager welcome for generous souls with strict gatekeeping for self centered, bigoted, or avaricious individuals, using biblical references and vivid examples.
A sermon extols consecrated affluence and charitable giving, urging that true riches lie in deeds for the needy. It argues that those who use wealth to aid churches, missions, and the poor earn an abundant entrance to Heaven, citing examples of philanthropists and devoted caretakers, and contrasting earthly wealth with celestial gain.
Officer Charles W. Goss surprised a gang at the German Savings Bank in Cumberland on Sunday morning engaging in a single handed battle with three inside the bank and a lookout. He fired from behind a telegraph pole and reported five shots from the gang toward him. The robbers fled toward the West Virginia Central railroad after stealing nothing and committing two more small robberies in South Cumberland. The bank offered a $250 reward and Goss received $50.
Four missing from Saturday panic identified by Sunday in Chicago after five people died and many injured at the Twelfth Street Turner Hall. Police note a claim of malicious intent with a man warning Oldstein moments before a false fire alarm. Hall manager suspects deliberate harm to the building.
A Sunday riot in Wichita Kansas ended in a clash between three colored and three white men. Wiley Schnell a Texas Negro was shot in the head and Cash Johnson a white trunk maker was shot in the groin. both are in serious or critical condition. A man named Herford was cut with a razor and another country youth had several ribs broken. A mob of about 200 white men pursued the principal Negro participant who was taken to safety by police. Seventeen arrests were made as hoodlums who pushed a motorman from a trolley car sparked the trouble. Peace has since been restored by a strong police presence.
A Meeker Colorado dispatch reports Gov. Roosevelt shot his first mountain lion after a two mile pursuit. The animal leaped from a tree to attack, and Gov. Roosevelt fired, hitting it midair and sparing Dr. Webb from injury.
Knoxville dispatch reports 36 men departed Sunday for Ecuador to staff foremen timekeepers and other roles for the James McDonald Contracting Co. in a 300 mile railway project from Guayaquil to Quito. McDonald says 5,000 Jamaicans are at work and he plans to hire 5,000 more, mainly Italians for the contract.
United States war vessels Annapolis Frolic Wompatuck and Piscataqua, known as the mosquito fleet, left Hamilton Bermuda at 9 30 Sunday after arriving January 2. Officers say they were charmed with their visit. In Yokohama four hundred fishermen are missing and believed dead after January 10 storm off the west coast.
Reported moves in the Boxer Rebellion aftermath describe Italian warships at San un bay for target practice. Allies may enter Shan Si province as a French force defeats Boxers near Pao Ting Fu with 1000 killed. Negotiations by ministers at Peking proceed as Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching sign the joint note amid Li’s Bright's disease. Russians to hand over the railroad to Germany. tensions over relief aid and British policy cited.
Portland Mo Jan 14 Thos O Moshier age 25 a farmer was murdered and his mother Mrs Rufus Moshier age 72 was brutally assaulted at their Gorham residence by two men seeking robbery. After ransacking the house they seized valuables. A Negro suspect William Hands was arrested at Scarboro with a blood stained razor, $40 and a watch. He admits being at the farm and says his partner fled to Portland.
Northern ice floes drift along the Atlantic coast nearing St Johns Newfoundland with the coast steamer Virginia forced to abandon due to thick ice. Vessels report floes sweeping outward toward trans Atlantic routes and may reach Cape Race latitude this week.
Nashville Tenn Jan 14 Walter H Rainey circuit court clerk of Davidson county was arrested on a charge of embezzlement in office. Warrant filed by Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Co of Baltimore Md which holds Rainey on bond of 10000 in First and Second circuit courts. He was admitted to bail of 10000.
Oriental reports say a crowded steamer on the West river struck rocks near Canton and sank within minutes. Of 500 passengers aboard, 150 drowned. In Washington, Joseph Yates Paige, six years chief clerk of the controller of the currency, died Sunday morning of pneumonia, known to banking interests nationwide.
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