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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1899
Page
3
Dr. Talmage denounces gossip as a sin and a world destroying evil. He argues whisperers corrupt neighbors, harm businesses, split families, and defame women. urges refusing to listen and teaching children to speak well of others, likening slander to a burning hell.
The Saengerfest audience of at least 12,300 watched the $1,000 prize cantata amid a festive scene. Eisenheimer, stepping to batons for "Weihe mste," faced adoring cheers as garlands and evergreens pelted him. Inda was praised as the crowd’s first standout, while presidents Deiler Bettmann and Mayor Tafel spoke on stage.
Judge Taft and Judge Jackson issued injunctions blocking Cincinnati brokers from selling Saengerfest tickets for the BL and O S W, and for the Big Four and C H D lines. The move mirrors G A R encampment controls, citing railroad contracts with visitors requiring the return-trip low rate use or no sale.
The German ambassador Dr. Von Holleben sent greeting to Fest President Bettmann for the Golden Jubilee Saengerfest in session. He expressed sincere congratulations and hoped German songs transplanted to North America would enrich culture and pride, benefiting the new homeland.
Maj Gen Madill died here Thursday after enlisting in the 6th Pennsylvania reserves in 1861 and serving as a major of the regiment. He became a brigadier general in 1866 and later achieved major general rank.
A vast rain storm hit southwest Texas on Thursday, disrupting rail service across the region and tying up the state’s rail section. The downpour affected transportation and logistics critical to the area.
A U S army officer writes in the July North American Review that Cuba’s pacification is complete and Cubans are ready to govern themselves. He warns that delaying evacuation risks a large revolt driven by irritation and suspicion, risking unkept pledges and continued hardship on the island.
Heavy rains along the Brazos river bottoms and valleys of the Guadalupe and lower Colorado wash out 100 miles on several railroads and flood 1000 miles of rich farming land. Hood, Robertson, Brazos, Washington, Harris, and McLennan counties are flooded with crops ruined and rail bridges lost.
The Apra Samoa dispatch reports peace after two months of conflict as the international commission arrives aboard the Badger. King Tanu and Mataafa agree to surrender arms and accept a commission‑fixed government including abolition of the Samoan kingship, with a governor and three power councils to legislate for Samoans.
ReEnNakEs France July 1 Capt Dreyfus landed at Quiberon and was taken by train to Bruz near Rennes. He entered a lan dau with the chief of detectives and the prefect, then moved to Rennes where 25 gendarmes waited to escort him into the town. Ten gendarmes rode in a wagon while the others followed on foot. The party reached the prison without incident as a large crowd gathered in silence.
Ciscry Hall July 1 reports the National Saengerbund meeting in North Turner hall praised the local committee and chose Buffalo New York unanimously as the site for the next saengerfest in 1901. A constitutional overhaul would move test management from local committees to a 15 member at large board.
Three men in a buggy rode to the Northwestern depot at Dewitt in Dewitt Iowa Saturday at 10 oclock. They held up the operator with revolvers, blew open the safe, and escaped with 100 dollars. No crew was harmed.
Donald Perrier was hanged at Westminster Friday for the murder of Jennie Anderson last November. He met death gamely.
Nebraska's new female labor law took effect on Saturday restricting labor hours for women in mercantile, manufacturing and mechanical pursuits, hotels and restaurants to 60 hours per week and ten hours per day. The rule change will force department stores in cities to alter hours, while outside those businesses fewer innovations are expected.
City of Seattle reached Victoria from Alaska with 80 Klondikers and a small gold dust shipment. Ike Schwartz of Portland is credited with 25000, H Stevens and wife 10000, and Blake and Conrad 15000 in gold dust.
Supreme officers of the Catholic Knights of America arrived Friday evening transferring the order's headquarters from Vincennes Indiana to St Louis Missouri.
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