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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1898
Page
4
The Republican county central committee sets delegate apportionment for the Greensburg district convention on Feb 1. Precincts listed include 1 2 10 11 12 plus Clay Clifty Hartsville Hope and other areas with total 16 delegates. Primary conventions on Jan 22 select delegates and new county officers. mass convention Jan 20 reorganizes the county committee.
Household furniture from a six room flat is for sale regardless of cost. Call after 2 p.m. to view bargains in carpets, chairs, tables, book cases, piano, etc. 621 Washington street over Duffy's store. Also notes a benefit concert by The Woman's Musical Club for the G A Ki encampment fund on Jan 18 1898 at the Methodist church with 10 cents admission. The new City Directory lists 70 800 names and estimates city population at 194 700 with 14 070 gain in the year.
Local notices report Mrs. Matt Pfeifer and child gravely ill with Dr. Butler attending. Seymour visitor Miss Fannie Thickston en route to Indianapolis. Charles Anderson of Hawcreek to Klondyke hunt. Attorney Cox's son Lon plans Klondyke trip. Plus health, travel and sale items. a religious reflection on death by Rev. Amory Braddon.
Local Republican groups in South Precinct Axalia Columbus township and Rock Creek precincts set meetings on January 21 22 with John Williams James Pierce Andrew Perkinson Issac Jackson and others to select committeemen and delegates for Greensburg Indiana district conventions on February 1 1898. Robert McCullough John M Williams lead notices.
Regulations required a sheet iron curtain to isolate the auditorium in case of emergency. The curtain, heavy yet counterbalanced by iron weights, could be raised or lowered instantly by a button via an electromagnetic adjustment. Comedie Francaise in Paris first used the device installed by an American electric company, powered by a two horsepower motor, lowering up to four and a half feet per second, though asbestos curtains have largely replaced iron in many theaters.
A humorous anecdote credits Dr Fitchett with quelling a speech in parliament after a quip about a school in Taylor’s eye. A New York Tribune note describes a Russian sect called the Runners and their ritual smotherer. The sweet pea’s Sicily roots are noted with planting timing. Professor Forbes estimates Nile cataracts at 600000 horsepower high Nile and 85000 horsepower low Nile.
The piece compares autograph values of figures like Wellington Nelson Beaconsfield Dickens and Byron, noting price ranges from shillings to pounds. It discusses why popularity and activity affect values and shows wide gaps between authors, statesmen, and poets. It also touches on misattribution in crime headlines and a brief local ad for coal and wood fuels.
The Sentinel predicts a year of very interesting news with McKinley’s cabinet administration and policy shaping state capital events. It pledges abundant updates for its broad readership and notes the state government will deliver substantial information through Sentinel reporting.
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