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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1898
Page
6
The great periodic star shower, appearing every 33 years, is expected around November 13 in 1899. A similar display is anticipated on the same dates this year. The meteors are believed to be cold matter that becomes incandescent only when heated by friction with Earth’s atmosphere.
An octagonal house near the River Ver in England survives from about 795 during King Offa of Mercia. The fortifications show ancient defensive use and its lower walls are vat while the upper is timber framed of oak. It is claimed as England’s oldest inhabited residence with a history exceeding 1,100 years.
An English clergyman's wife has gathered all the offertory buttons from the last two or three years and mounted them on cardboard into animal, bird, and flower shapes. Ahead of a church bazaar she had photos taken and copies will be sold at the exhibition.
The text notes that every continent except Australia grows wild roses and calls the rose one of the oldest flowers. It cites ancient depictions in Egyptian bas-reliefs dating from 3000 to 6500 B C, mentions Homer on rosewater in the Iliad, and references rose mention in Solomon's proverbs.
A large paper house with 16 rooms stands on a Russian nobleman’s country estate at Savi novka in Podolia. It was built in New York by an engineer, and the architect says the structure will outlast stone. The proprietor plans to furnish the entire interior with paper.
The illness, named em physema, has caused six deaths, including three at St Vincent's Hospital. The Aerogenes bacillus germ activates under the skin, producing air and distorting the body into shapes unhuman in appearance.
Arkansas passes a road law empowering county courts to form road districts and appoint overseers. All males 18 to 45 must perform at least five road days yearly unless exempted by paying one dollar per day. Courts may levy up to three mills for roads. Convicts may work the roads at seventy five cents per day.
University of Michigan investigators probe a freshman initiation in which the candidate was blindfolded and tied to railroad rails near the Michigan Central track. He remained there until a passenger train passed, causing him to scream and lose consciousness. He has since been delirious.
The first fruit from Orlando neighborhood pineries is moving and shipments may reach about 50,000 dollars before January 1. Pineries near Orlando preparing for planting will require 100,000 new plants derived from suckers from old fruiting plants. Old stock is expected to yield two to six suckers annually.
Art Warsaw in Indiana reports C A Light who lives at Wilmoust was relieved of a leech swallowed while drinking at a spring. The creature remained in his stomach for 14 months, nearly wrecking his health before doctors used a stomach pump to extract it. Light says his appetite and digestion suffered, but he believes himself now cured.
Charleston dispatch reports the cruiser Maria Teresa, raised by Constructor Hobson, foundered off San Salvador in a fierce hurricane after departing Cuba October 30 bound for New York. The Merritt tug later reached Charleston with Captain Harris and crew evacuated from the sinking vessel.
The Wonderland Theater roof collapsed at 4 45 p m on Saturday, bringing down iron galleries and scaffolding. About 25 workers were present, six bodies recovered, several fatally injured, and the side wall bulging. The incident followed removal of temporary wooden braces, with ambulances transporting the injured and dead as crowds gathered. Three more victims were later recovered on Sunday.
The reported death list now totals eleven as members of the Spanish Peace Commission are affected, with the tally reflecting ongoing losses connected to the mission.
Navy officials report the Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa lost about 30 miles north of San Salvador in a northeast gale. Lieut. Commander Harris, with 58 sailors, reached Charleston aboard the Merritt, confirming the crew’s fate. Location estimated at 24N 74-30W, about 233 miles from Nassau. A Cincinnati woman dies in New York of apoplexy. A Toledo railway worker arrested for extensive express-car thefts with $5,000 of goods recovered.
In Williamstown Kentucky on November 7 Henry Jones was held on $2,500 bond for manslaughter in the shooting death of Albert Jeffers. Jones contends the killing was in self defense.
The body of Nora Everley, also known as Edith Garfield, was found in the bathtub at flats 7 The Alta in Cincinnati early Sunday. She had spent the night with Mrs. Josephine Gerald and two young men, Frank Woodrow and W. Boyd Wessel, and appears to have died by accident or self harm. A bruised forehead was noted later, and Coroner Haerr and police are investigating unexplained points.
Arthur Williams, jailed for the Wellburne murder of Miss Elina Ogden, confessed Saturday night naming two other suspects James and Monroe Leggitt. A mob seized Williams at 11 pm, killing him with bullets and burning his body as James and Leggitt were detained, likely to face the same fate.
First National Bank of Flushing Ohio announced it would receive no more deposits as it plans to quit business and enter liquidation. The bank had been reported weak for some time. Dr Christopher C Sharp Dies at 77 of pneumonia in New York City after living in Cincinnati Lexington and Indianapolis.
A Sunday explosion and fire at 5 18 PM in the capitol destroys the supreme court room and adjacent spaces. Gas flooding from a ruptured meter sparked a blaze that damages the library records and marshal's office. losses estimated at around 200000 dollars for the building with library and records far higher. The court will meet in the senate committee room on Monday while repairs are planned.
Funeral services were conducted for Julius Goldschmidt, the late United States consul general, who died November 2. The service took place Saturday in Brnnix, with many American consuls from various parts of Germany in attendance.
Madrid correspondent reports Spain will sign the peace treaty under protest as of November 7, citing Daily Mail dispatches from London. The note suggests formal ratification despite objections, timing unclear and details pending official confirmation.
Yellow fever grips Havana with rising cases and two new fatalities causing panic among American officials and residents. Captains Foraker and Beebe were affected near Vidado while Chief Clerk Caldwell and clerk Stuart of the quartermaster department fell ill and were isolated. Other clerks showed mild symptoms as the illness spread beyond Vidado.
Washington reports delays in moving troops to Cuba due to yellow fever fears. Col Hecker, chief of transportation, has been abroad, leaving one man to handle the task. Fourteen transports on the Atlantic coast are scattered, with the Chester and Fifteenth Infantry delayed beyond November 6.
At Good Way Mission Sunday a crowded service ends with Mrs. Jennie Walker collapsing and dying moments after declaring she was ready to go. The testifier died of heart disease as worshippers bore testimony and the hall remained crowded during the incident.
Seven men were killed and three fatally injured at the Exeter colliery of Lehigh Valley Coal Co in West Pittston near Wilkes Barre on a Saturday. The accident was blamed on Engineer David Price who allegedly disobeyed orders causing three loaded cars weighing 11 tons to run into the top of the shaft. The cars fell down the 360 foot shaft crashing onto the carriage with ten men aboard.
A memorandum book found among a Macon man’s estate, tied to a Negro lynching in South Carolina, recounts the Woolfolk family murders eight years earlier and alleges the oldest son Tom Woolfolk was hanged for them despite claiming innocence. Also, Lineman Oliver Allen dies in Indiana after a fall on a fire alarm pole, leaving a widow and three children.
CRAWFORDSVILLE Ind Nov 7 Jacob Stein a traveling peddler hanged himself Saturday morning in a Monon box car using a necktie. The body if unclaimed will be buried in the paupers graveyard.
In Saxpusky Nov 7 a Marblehead man James McGowan shot his wife during a family quarrel and then fired a bullet into his own head, dying instantly. The wife was seriously wounded and transported for medical care.
In a confused tale from the Philadelphia Record two households named Hodkins and Podkinses feud over geese. The Podkinses rig a crafty note on corn and thread, urging the geese to stay home. The trick backfires as the Hodkinses see the device and focus their flock back on their own ranch.
A fragmentary item recalls a colonel shot in the leg at Santiago returning home a hero. A fussing observer jokes about the limp asking what ails him, the colonel retorts with a bed fall line. Mentions St Jacobs Oil and a quip about cures amid a jumble of scribbled phrases.
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