27 Jan 1899
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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1899
Page
1
A notice promotes a special five cent sale tomorrow Saturday January 28 featuring a broad assortment of goods. The speaker says readers will be surprised by the many items priced at five cents and urges attendance.
Ed Hill and others were seen around Rushville this week in a series of visits and business trips. The district features mentions of health updates and community events, including a trial and local changes in staff, with several residents traveling to Indianapolis and Greensburg for work and social reasons.
Ex-sheriff George W. Wilson, 60, was fatally struck at the Main street crossing by a Cincinnati Express. The engineer and flagman were not found at fault. Wilson died within minutes after the collision. He was a Civil War veteran, twice Rush county sheriff, and a Grand Army man. Surviving widow, two sons, two daughters. One son with Company H, 161st Indiana, at Havana, Cuba.
The Spiceland Gazette editor, fond of poultry, tests sawdust mixed with meal to save costs. He switches from cornmeal to sawdust and nine six chicks emerge from a hen setting fourteen eyes, twelve with wooden legs and one with a Moodperker.
In Indianapolis Fritz Hicks wounded landlady Mrs. Josephine Ronhilt over a $40 board bill, after borrowing a revolver earlier from a workhouse superintendent. Hicks was jailed as the Ronhilt family arrives to manage the Illinois House. In West Fork Crawford County a colored family faces hostility as white students flee a classroom when a Negro girl appears, teachers cite no mixed schools and the case remains unsettled.
A Terre Haute carriage firm secured a contract to supply 150 U S Mail wagons for use in multiple midwestern states. Wagons come in three sizes with red running gear blue body white belt and panels red roof and screens blue rear with gold leaf U S Mail lettering. Delivery by July 1 to Ohio Indiana Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Illinois Iowa and Missouri.
Dr. Calvin J. Fletcher was arrested on a malpractice charge connected to the death of Laura McDaniel in Indianapolis. Attorney Thomas Doyle was also arrested as an accessory, and coroner Gasarday was notified of the death claimed by Dr. Fletcher.
The 161st Indiana regiment is erecting a 20 by 20 foot base and a 20 foot shaft in Havana to honor comrades who fell in Cuba. Masons of the regiment, led by Lt. Col. Backus, oversee the project using coral rock at an estimated cost of 2000 dollars and a dedication planned for next week. Also, Dr. H H Gillen, wealthy Wabash physician and Deland orange grove owner, died in DeLand Florida after long cancer illness. He was born in 1818 in Mount Sterling Kentucky and practiced medicine since 1838. He moved to Wabash in 1854 and is survived by four daughters and one son. remains to be buried in DeLand.
Washington reports appoints several Indiana postmasters including Hackleman McCabe Overman Payne Waskinaie and Eastes. Dunkirk man Beal acquitted on insanity grounds after shooting Patsey Webb and William Thomas last February. reason given as mental imbalance following the death of a child. Friends church trustees sue to quiet title to church land.
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