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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1901
Page
7
A reflective verse urging resilience after trials. The piece encourages perseverance through storms and dark times, insisting hope remains as winter yields to spring and the sun returns. It mentions strengthening one’s resolve, rising from past grief, and standing firm for better things.
Lieutenant Marshall Dean races to respond as a mounted alarm and village panic surge from Folsom's ranch near the Laramie. Smoke on Lar m ie Peak signals a possible Sioux raid while Dean leads a fast pursuit to guard Hal Folsom and the women at the homestead and to confront a small, armed party hidden beyond the ridge.
Lieut Deans orders his troop to march without delay to Fort Emory to relieve forces and take station. Captain Brooks, ailing, must stay in bed for a week at the old frontier fort above the Platte. Wagons are sent forward as the unit heads toward Gate City, exchanging light banter along the route.
A Confederate-like scene unfolds as a young trooper signals rein and squads move to recover a lost stead. Two painted warriors atop ponies surge over a ridge firing, shouting, and waving ragged tokens before retreating, while the troopers chase with sixty men in pursuit.
A Chicago era account recounts Bishop Whipple averting an Indian uprising at Leech Lake when government pine sales triggered anger. Whipple refused to yield, pressed truth, and used curt speech to regain ground, convincing Flatmouth and his council to pause violent action. The tale frames courtesy, authority, and resolve under frontier tension.
Brig Gen Kobbe directs northern Mindanao operations with HQ at Cagayan as Col Birkeheimer with five companies of the 28th Regiment clears areas near Santa Ana. Maj Case of the 40th Regiment fights southwest Cagayan, destroying strongholds and taking prisoners. Minor captures and surrenders persist in Luzon. Zambales towns urge insurgents to quit by January 30 with 30 pesos per rifle reward or be treated as enemies.
London reports from a trusted source that Lord Salisbury consents to grant Russia the Niu Chwang to Shan Hai Kwan railway. It is unclear what compensation would be paid. Financiers suspect the move signals Britain's acceptance of China’s partition, with Russia gaining the north and Britain the Yangtze valley.
Washington January 12 1900 monthly statement from the bureau of statistics shows December 1900 exports by article with changes from December 1899 including breadstuffs 24323665 up 5150000 cattle and hogs 3163923 up 1100000 provisions 15038289 down 350000 cottons 44153788 up 18322000 mineral oils 5127893 down 250000. For the year 1900 the total exports reached 832364250 up 119000000.
Springfield Del January 12 The Wa bash railroad will next week place orders for twelve passenger and thirty two freight engines. Six passenger engines will haul seven cars at ninety miles per hour and run one hundred twenty miles without stopping. They feature seventy nine inch driving wheels cylinders twenty by twenty eight water tanks six thousand gallons and boilers two hundred pounds pressure.
New York reports the coroner’s jury finds the Tarrant & Co wholesale druggists firm criminally responsible for the fatal explosion. Thomas Main and William G D Powers are ordered held on bail of 5000 dollars each as grand jury action proceeds.
Lord Kitchener reports Boer forces attacked Irene and Olifantstein lines and 800 Boers under Leyer besieged Kaalfontein station. A six hour firefight followed before Boers withdrew, blowing the line beyond Kaalfontein to disrupt mail service and seize supplies with no British casualties.
The North German Lloyd steamship Koeln arrived at New York port with two passengers missing. Edward Hermann and his wife Freda, aged 59 and 56, were last seen on deck January 3 after appearing despondent. They were bound for Chicago to visit relatives. A search found no trace of them.
Beaumont Texas January 14 Thousands flocked to the vast oil well near town as Sabine East Texas railroad ferried crowds in five coach trains every two hours. The flow remains uncontrolled with an estimated 60,000 barrels wasting on the prairie as three days pass. Several large syndicates have formed or are forming to develop oil fields.
Pittsburgh dispatch: Captain John Dippeld, a renowned Ohio River pilot, was killed instantly Sunday after a train struck him on a Baden railroad track while he watched downstream boats. Other items report a town fire in Mucientes Spain, the Maine hospital ship arriving in Southampton, Bishop Potter tipped as mayoral candidate, and a Hartford City child fatally scalded in a boiling water accident.
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