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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1897
Page
6
The text lists twenty five presidents with some serving two terms, notes seven chief justices since the court’s formation, and mentions two living ex presidents, Harrison and Cleveland.
Italy broke its emigration record in 1896 with 306,093 people leaving the country. Three-fifths of those departing planned permanent absence. About 68,000 went to the United States, 75,024 to Argentina, with the rest mainly to Uruguay and Brazil.
A Chicago jury, after retiring to deliberate, found one member did not understand English yet shared the guilty verdict on the robbery charge. Eleven jurors agreed, concluding the defendants were guilty despite the language barrier.
Carl Schurz of New York possesses a pair of sleeve buttons that belonged to John Quincy Adams and remained in his cuffs at death. The Adams family presented them to Senator Sumner, who then gave them to Schurz during their Senate years in Washington as colleagues.
Researchers report Aerogenes Capsulatus as a long rod shaped microbe that produces tissue gas causing crackling under pressure. When gas escapes via punctures it can ignite and burn with a blue flame, a finding linked to a rare but known disease.
The court ruled the Louisiana law requiring listing of dogs for taxation constitutional, so the dog owner who did not list the animal could not recover its value after the dog was killed. The decision implies that taxed dogs are property and could entitle recovery if properly listed.
The dispatches claim pacification and troops recalled while intelligence speaks of a major insurgent victory. Reliable news from Cuba remains elusive as newspapers stress uncertainty and the island’s continuing hostilities with Spain.
Broker Chapman, jailed in Washington for refusing to answer a judge in the Sugar Trust case, arranged an upscale prison outfit. Invoices list a brass bedstead with bedding, a table, two chairs, two Persian rugs, a chiffonnier, a wash stand, bowl and pitcher, reading lamp, and a refrigerator. He says his actions were as a broker for senators and reflects on the justice system rather than his own conduct.
The court affirms a statute restricting use of property when it harms others, denying an inherent right to exhaust private possessions for personal gain. This decision elevates public welfare over private interests and impacts oil territory owners in the Gas Belt.
Prominent firms in many American cities unite to recite the Cuban war’s disastrous effects on their interests. They claim war exists in Cuba despite public mood and hope the administration will act to aid business. The piece notes reform often follows profit-driven motives and criticizes sentimental calls for liberty.
The piece argues England used honor as a pretext to justify inaction during the Turkey Greece crisis. Despite strong English sentiment for Greece and Cretan insurgents, the government remained passive while Ottoman outrages continued. Lord Salisbury warned the Sultan, yet British diplomats and securities holders influenced cautious policy.
A long smelling but undetected gas leak in an Indianapolis family’s two story house led a prudent resident to try locating the leak with a lit match. The resulting blast wrecked the home but left the family unharmed aside from minor injuries and singed eyebrows. The man later mused that he bore some blame yet believed his risky method avoided greater harm.
Miss Margaret Williams, a Trenton typist, prepared a bill copy that passed the Legislature and used by the Assembly. It wrongly said gaming was prohibited when it allowed it, forcing a costly extra session estimated at 675 dollars. She denied collusion and said she worked without pay to support betting suppression.
A poetic meditation on time told through voices of ages trade the aged man the dying sinner and the sun and seasons. Each voice weighs time's value as a guide to living and a threshold to mortality. The piece concludes with Time's end and the angelic proclamation that time shall be no more.
The Indiana education fight centers on the proposed meeting bill authored by the former superintendent. It would tighten licensing, empower the State Board of Education, and threaten non state colleges with reduced influence. Non state advocates argue the measure favors State institutions, while the Legislature stalled the bill, preserving existing laws and boosting public sentiment for reform.
The London Times reports on a new Gizeh museum as Egypt’s native diggers daily destroy monuments and plunder sites. Arabs dig more in summer than licensed excavators in winter, hollowed hillsides yield honeycombed ruins, and dealers fill shops with antiquities amid floods and enforced idleness. Looting and loss go unchecked, with ongoing, unrecoverable evidence.
A Tallahassee area farmer devised a clever method to weed his cotton field. He fitted each goose with a water-filled gourd as a neck trough, letting the birds roam and graze away grass while avoiding the cotton plants, a scheme reported by the New York Sun.
Prof. R. S. Bowman of Hartsville College recounts severe illness cured by Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People after other physicians failed. He describes nervous exhaustion, grip, kidney issues, and poor digestion, saying three boxes, taken as directed, restored health and led to full recovery. Affidavit confirms truth of his account. Pills sold 50 cents a box, six for $2.50.
An advertising feature touts Grain-O as a pure grain beverage superior to coffee from Yemen and other origins. It warns caffeine as a poison, highlights Grain-O as a food and body builder, and notes packaging at 15 or 25 cents and lower cost than coffee. Included are testimonial plus a secondary claim about declining potato yields in New England and a patient testimonial for Piso's Cure for Consumption.
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