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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1899
Page
2
A 19th century note reports that the Chinese emperor's amusements include trained goats and monkeys performing feats. The animals jump through paper windows common from palace to cottage, and the empress-dowager reportedly worries about the daily cost of replacing broken panes.
Customs receipts for Cuba in the first quarter total 5.275 million at all ports. If this rate holds, yearly receipts will approach 18.0 million, sufficient to cover government costs including the army of occupation as imports keep rising.
Judge Wiswell grants one of the queerest divorces in Sagadahoc Maine. William B. Rush aged 76 and Judith aged 74 of Arrowsic win a divorce and agree to part as friends. The wife keeps pre marriage property, while the husband receives $75, a house and minor items and the right to remarry.
The president receives his salary via a monthly warrant drawn on the treasurer. Col Crook at the White House signs, receipts, and deposits the funds to his credit in a Washington bank. The warrant division chief signs and the treasury secretary or an assistant approves.
Inside Paderewski's home a vast collection of musical artifacts from famed composers fills every room. Portraits of former owners line the walls while daily floral tributes arrive from admirers. A wall in one room bears the enormous laurel wreath awarded to him in Leipsic.
Fifty years past, the nation swarmed to California following tales of gold. Companies formed across the United States to chase El Dorado by sea and land. The forty-niners emerged after Marshall found gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848 and Polk confirmed it in his annual message.
A German discoverer proposes a cure for seasickness based on brain blood congestion. He says red glasses redirect blood to the brain, producing rapid relief similar to champagne or lying down, but more swiftly and effectively.
The Paris cafe employs large monkeys as waiters, dressed in waiter costumes with tails trimmed. They walk upright and are claimed to be trainable to form speech with their tongues. Monkeys receive checks showing customer orders written for service.
Joseph Berger, a Budapest hotel keeper, has spent years collecting 4,000 match boxes from factories worldwide. He hired a skilled cabinet maker to craft a room’s furniture entirely from these boxes. The set includes a writing table with smoking apparatus, a fire screen, a cabinet, a chair, and smaller items. Although empty, the boxes are ingeniously arranged to be as sturdy as normal furniture.
A.M. Nelson's flagship Foudroyant, overturned at her dock in 1897, is being broken up for relics. Copper bolts and sheathing go to factories to become medals and cups, while timbers form costly furniture. Lady Abercomby, descendant of Sir Randolph Abercomby who died at Alexandria, orders a gabingt end a choir.
President Schurman sent a dispatch via the Philippine commission summarizing talks with Aguinaldo representatives and seeking further instructions. Secretary Hay called the transmission satisfactory and anticipated negotiations ending promptly with no humiliating terms for the first agents. Aguinaldo is expected to surrender once sincerity is proven, with arms to be laid down as the main condition before progress.
In Yarviey Pennsylvania a premature blast at James Shuvelin quarry killed lessee Shuvelin and foreman Burns when a spark from a steel rod ignited 325 pounds of powder. John Pott lost a leg and three Italian workers were severely injured as debris hurled them over 100 feet.
The former Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes, raised and repaired after sinking in Santiago harbor during the July bombardment, left moorings Friday and was towed to the harbor center ready to depart for Newport News. Navigators warn weather could risk a recurrence of past disaster, though the ship appears seaworthy.
Aguinaldo emissaries admit US sovereignty over the Philippines in a meeting with President Schurman. The commission backs a three department government with a US appointed governor general and a suffrage plan for Filipinos, signaling concessions to end the rebellion. The plan includes executive, legislative, and judicial branches and aims to curb guerrilla resistance.
Caicaco May 6 John W Gates confirms a nationwide steel company merger plans. The new firm, headquartered in New York, may issue 500 to 1000 million dollars in stock with H C Frick set as president. Carnegie reportedly to retire from the industry. Partnerships and timing target July 1.
A Thursday night fire in Greenville North Carolina gutted the upper floor barroom of E M Cheek. An opera house audience fled as flames spread. Twenty five stores offices King House and the post office were destroyed. Loss estimated 100000 to 150000 with about 40000 insured. Government property in the post office saved.
The postmaster general ordered dividing rural free delivery into two grand subdivisions. The western division covers states west of the Ohio with headquarters in St. Louis, while the eastern division covers states east of the Ohio with headquarters in this city. Francis M. Dice of Crawfordsville Ind. will head the western division, and Henry Conquest Clarke of Washington will head the eastern.
Wheeling May 6 The Sennett Solvey Co of Syracuse which runs by product coal plants in the east central and south granted a 25 percent wage increase Friday. About 1500 men are affected.
Berlin reports May 6 that the government has telegraphed orders to the German consul at Manila to provide pecuniary aid to distressed German subjects in the Philippines.
Circleville Ohio May 7 John Par selles a prominent G A R man was killed in a runaway accident Saturday morning.
The Alabama House moved to table a motion to reconsider a measure repealing the constitutional convention act. Two amendments aim to favor white voters and segregate school funding by race. one requires literacy tests excluding pre-1861 suffrage, the other directs taxes paid by white and colored residents to fund white and Negro education respectively.
The Herald in Washington cites a cabinet member confirming Aguinaldo emissaries formally acknowledged U S sovereignty. Elizabeth Plankinton of Milwaukee donates 100000 for a Young Women's Christian Association home, contingent on site. A Kentuckian muses on oil calming waters, and Queen Amalie of Portugal is noted as the only royal line with a medical degree.
The military court report released by Acting Secretary Meiklejohn rejects Miles's claim that refrigerated army beef was chemically treated. It upholds the unsuitability of canned beef for sea transport and field rations, censures Miles and Maus for certain duties, absolves packers, and recommends no further action.
Quote from Mrs. Witherby and Witherby about couples becoming more alike over time, noting increasing handsomeness as a humorous observation.
The Nickel Plate Road reports a successful service to New York City and Boston with three daily express trains in each direction. Modern first class day coaches elegant vestibuled sleeping cars between Chicago New York and Boston and unexcelled dining cars. Through trains to New York feature uniformed colored porters in day coaches providing passenger services. Travel comfortably economically and safely by routing tickets via Nickel Plate Road.
Dr. E Page aboard the City of Peking reports Admiral Dewey in perfect health and not needing a physician. He has stayed near Manila only since last May and will return to the United States aboard the Olympia via the Suez Canal, despite press reports of his condition.
Fire destroyed all buildings at the Woonsocket Driving Park in Rhode Island. Fifty pounds of dynamite in a stable exploded, shaking the area for miles. Caretaker A C C Stair, nearby in an adjoining building, escaped with minor bruises while a similar structure nearby was leveled.
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