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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1899
Page
6
A reflective poem by Maude Meredith in Midland Monthly ponders whether effort and courage amid defeat bring true recompense. It asks if justice and divine understanding reward those who persevere through life’s trials and losses.
Master Ardick comes of age and joins the Industry as second mate bound for Havana. A chase by a suspicious sail ends with a deadly exchange. Captain Houthwick is killed and the ship suffers little damage. Pradey plots mutiny, Ardick Tym and Sellinger thwart him, seven crew die, and the besieged party escapes in a raft. A Spaniard warns of capture for Panama slaves, Mac Ivrach is revealed, and a buccaneer ship offers escape by raft sailing under an English flag.
On deck at eight bells the buccaneer gains, while the Pilanca hugs the wind. Capt Placido orders dragooned defenses ready as the enemy closes to within mile and a half. Guns loaded, water buckets set, and the scene readies for a decisive exchange aboard the ship.
On deck the fight rages as a crimson flag flies and cannon fire roars. Captain Sellinger commands a quick advance while Mr Tym arranges a retreat plan and Ardick and Mac Ivrach prepare the raft for a perilous exit amid pistol fire from the Pilanca crew.
Fragmentary OCR reads two heavy reports of smoke alarms and quick movement. A captain is described near a flat with a knee and hands while men burst in, suggesting a chaotic assault or boarding action.
The narrator and companions evade a pirate assault as gunfire erupts aboard the beleaguered vessel. They reach a raft just as the ship closes, witness a brutal execution on the Pilanca, and spot the buccaneer signaling with a makeshift flag while their crew struggles to survive amid wreckage and pursuit.
An aged Black man on a Cedar avenue streetcar confronts five young cigarette smokers. He lights a short black pipe and declares he will fumigate again if necessary. The passengers retreat as the pipe’s force ends the smoker’s押, leaving him and the conductor with the back platform largely empty.
Lippincott's Magazine notes changes in German harvest celebrations. In parts of Germany the kirmess becomes a harvest home with three days of music feasting and dancing and partner selection at a May festival. In the south the sickle feast ends the harvest with the last sheaf carried to the barn, half decorated, half burned, ashes kept as rheumatism charms. Peasants leave ears of corn and apples for Wodan, avoiding stripping fields bare.
Mrs Strongmind denounces the unthinking mob and its apathy toward abstract justice and civil governance. A rude heckler in the audience taunts with a caveat about shaving until a woman president is elected.
A note traces how patches worn on the face by court ladies in seventeenth century England gave rise to surnames such as Cross Ship Coulter Castle Trump Shear Cloak Sickles Vain Flagg Crow and Crabbe. The practice included patches shaped as crescents stars circles diamonds hearts and more, even a coach and four or a ship in full sail.
Delegates from the Ohio Water Works association with ex-union and ex-confederate soldiers toured Camp Chase Cemetery where 2000 Confederate dead lie. They organized a memorial association to foster northern southern patriotism, naming Rev. John Hewitt as president and Gen. Walter Payne as vice president. A permanent group will be established during Confederate Memorial exercises next month. The visitors planted flowers in the cemetery.
San Francisco May 20 The Ohio battleship construction has fairly started with the first rivet driven Friday at Union Iron works. The ceremony drew the full government force. Captain L J Allen inspector of machinery and Naval Constructor Elliott Snow drove the rivet. Lieut H T Mayo handled the cinching iron. George W Dickie manager of Union Iron Works held the snapping tool. James Dickie superintendent of the yard was heater boy. John L Scott supervisor of the works also attended.
Charles E. Tinsley an engineer in Kansas City locked himself in his apartment Friday and refused to leave as officers approached to place him in the city pesthouse quarantine. Health officials halted the attempt to escort him fearing consequences. The city pesthouse now houses 13 smallpox patients with several in danger.
The insular commission members are finalizing a voluminous report on Porto Rico. It will be submitted to the secretary of war next week and covers concessions and franchises currency laws taxation judiciary public improvements education and civil affairs of the island.
Washington May 20 The funeral ship Crook now a regular army transport will sail from New York Saturday to Savannah to embark the 2d regiment of infantry for transport to Cienfuegos Cuba The transport Dixie that brought the 4th regiment of immunes home from Manzanillo also left New York Saturday with about 600 recruits for Havana
Charles Farris of Company H Third Battalion United States Volunteer Infantry was found guilty of murder by a Santiago Cuba court martial. He was sentenced to be shot but the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and dishonorable discharge from the army after President review.
May 20 report states Andrew Carnegie is preparing invitations to a London anti expansion conference in June. Prominent opponents named include Senator Hoar Bishop Potter Carl Schurz and Thomas B Reed.
Vancouver May 20 reports from the steamer Miowera state that Samoa remains in statu quo. Great Britain Germany and the United States are expected to pursue definite arrangements while affairs stay as they are.
Cyclone passed Kiowa Thursday night destroying several houses and reportedly wiping Colwitch from the map. Communication is cut off, verification of details is not possible.
May 20 samples imported in quantities intended for sale by jobbers are declared dutiable by the secretary of the treasury to the post office department. The ruling clarifies how samples are taxed when distributed through channels for sale rather than used personally.
Havana May 19 Gen Maximo Gomez issues a manifesto reviewing his negotiations with Gov Brooke and McKinley. He argues for payment terms tied to surrendered arms, urges patience, and asserts the goal of an independent Cuban republic backed by diplomacy and strength.
Buffalo N Y May 19 Marine firemen at this port have joined a sympathetic strike. As vessels arrive the firemen quit work and will remain out until the dock troubles are settled.
A large Karstadt & Co warehouse in Brunswick Germany was destroyed by fire on May 19. Five girls perished in the flames and several others were injured, one later dying from the injuries. The tragedy underscores the dangerous blaze and casualties in the incident.
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