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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1897
Page
8
The posted rail timetable for the Big Four line shows corrected northbound and southbound passenger numbers as of June 7, 1896. It lists No. 162 as the northbound passenger train and No. 104 as the opposite direction, with corresponding southbound details.
Society directory notice lists church events under one heading with pricing. Details include Friends' Cuuren worship times, Sabbath services, mid week and prayer meetings, Sunday school, Christian Endeavor and Junior Endeavor sessions, singing practice, teachers meetings, and monthly meetings with specified dates and times.
Local notice lists Royal Center in Cass county planning water works. Mentions various local items from sales at Newsom's and Coffin's drug store to incidents, deaths, school notes, and civic events across several Indiana towns including New Maysville Dublin? (assorted towns). The compilation reflects a town page with commerce with Newsom's Weingart's and Coffin's drug store promotions, local accidents, civic actions, and upcoming votes.
Lieutenant Commander Kimball to organize a 25-boat torpedo flotilla including destroyers and the Stiletto instruction craft. The fleet aims to patrol shallow waters and rivers, with evolutions planned through the summer. The squadron, capable of high speed, will marshal engineers, seamen, stokers, and crews for inland operations.
To the Citizens of Carthage and Ripley Township announces a jewelry establishment on the second floor of Henley's brick block. Offers repair of clocks and watches, gold soldering, and general jewelry services. Sam J R Rakest Raw, Carthage Ind. Scale Books 50c at Record office.
The buyer of the Frank Beach factory, Harry E. Stacea, promises to pay top price for milk starting Monday June 28. He names James Carfield as butter maker and pledges fair treatment to patrons, urging them to bring in as much milk as possible to raise prices.
A Brooklyn woman calling herself Mrs. Dreyer asked Mayor Strong for help obtaining a 1,000,000 indemnity for alleged false imprisonment and cruel treatment in a Stamford Connecticut sanitarium. Her refined appearance and fluent English masked her as a crank, and police refused her access to the mayor. She claimed removal from home without a court order and eight years in the institution, per the United States district attorney.
Hamlin Garland recalls visiting General Longstreet at a rural Georgia farm near Gainesville. He describes a modest house, a tree bearing wine, a vast vineyard, and Longstreet as a large elderly man with white whiskers, slow gait, and ruddy skin, busily pruning vines.
Reports from 2 606 planters and cotton dealers in the south indicate an increase in cotton acreage this year over last year by 979 000 acres. Except in Texas where weather has been normal the crop is late and much damage has been done in the Mississippi valley by floods.
General Green P. Garner died in Chicago. He fought in 30 battles across the Mexican and Civil Wars and was wounded at Chapultepec. He also served at Palo Alto Cerro Gordo and Buena Vista where he became cannon deaf. He later became a civil engineer and helped raise the Eighteenth Illinois after Fort Sumter was fired upon. Garner rose from private to general during Grants campaigns and served with Grant in the east before leaving the service with the rank of general.
A proposed submarine tunnel between Ireland and Scotland could span about 20 miles and run roughly 1 000 feet below sea level in midchannel. Estimated costs start at 40 million dollars with traffic unlikely to cover expenses, and the Scottish mouth would lie in a sparsely populated area 80 miles from the nearest major center. Even a very low rate to attract traffic might not cover interest on the capital.
Special correspondent reports a brutal Ras Kolniki tragedy in Tiraspol where 15 or more followers buried alive in Feodor Kovaleff’s cellar. Nine bodies found in a small cave like space, with victims dressed in best garments and shrouded, all dying motionless as Kovaleff shoveled earth. Kovaleff described as sober and thrifty. police to search Plotzkoe for similar graves.
Four well known Oakland young men Beach Carter Soule Raymond T. Baker Royal P. Macdonald and Clifford Boardman set out to endure roughing it in Yosemite for six weeks They will abandon city comforts to live as wanderers working odd jobs dining with strangers and foraging for food Each will carry a gun as they endure the journey and aim to learn the outcast way of travel over country roads
The St. Louis public library board proposes stations at power houses to loan books to street car workers and families. Captain Robert McCulloch will pilot the program, with library wagons delivering reading material to workshops. Each reader gains a membership certificate. Moses Pierce of Derby Lane Vermont is noted as 104 with a unique presidential-era lifespan.
The text offers farming guidance on cattle selection and breeding, warning against bogus livestock bidders at auctions. It advises setting minimum prices, culling sows with care, counting teats for breeding stock, and fattening steers with corn byproducts from canneries. It also touts Putnam Fadeless Dyes sold by Owen E. Hill.
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