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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1897
Page
4
Extensive list of city and rural properties with prices, terms, and contact notes. Includes cottages, three to five rooms, outbuildings, wells, cisterns, and large farms in Brown Wayne and Harrison townships. Offers monthly payments, trade options, and body sale of Nos 63 64 65 66 67.
Special Policeman William Burrell was arrested on a warrant charging assault and battery. The trial, set for yesterday, was continued due to the prosecuting witness absence. Burrell posted bond for his appearance at 10 o'clock this morning before Justice Dennison.
The obituary notes the burial yesterday evening at City Cemetery following a funeral at the residence on Secord Street. Rev. Fuller conducted services with Kinney & Kinney promoting life insurance and accident sick benefit policies.
The note reports a child death near Columbus from diphtheria and warns of a case in or near the city. It urges thorough cleaning, public health precautions, and community cooperation to prevent further deaths. The Junior League meeting moves to Sunday at 9.15 with dues due. Eleanor Davis serves as secretary.
An old newspaper fragment advertises Cascarets candy cathartic and Gerling Remedy Co products with claims of health benefits and prices. It also notes yesterday's wheat market price at 75 cents and seeks a six to seven room house near the courthouse.
ADDITIONAL PERSONALS reports Wm. Jett's trip to Bedford yesterday and Miss Minnie White's return from Indianapolis after four weeks visiting friends. J. M. Marsh and wife attended the Crothersville encampment. Miss Bery Cooper went to Indianapolis. Mrs. Frank Bennet visits Shelbyville. Miss Hattie Reed returned to Clifford. Miss Bessie Cook returned to Taylorsville.
Captain Coombs of the American bark Essex recounts reuniting with Henry Fancy of the British Aeronaut after years apart at sea. The Aeronaut, laden with lumber, was wrecked near the Rio de la Plata, and her crew were rescued by the Annie Burrell before transfer to the Essex.
A camel landed from the Dresden in Hoboken sat in a box for days unable to stand. Cramped posture paralyzed its rear legs until a sling rescue hoisted it upright. After some exercise the camel recovered and learned not to sit again.
A crowd of applicants for naturalization in Jersey City includes an Englishman who refuses to sign the oath renouncing allegiance to the queen forever. He argues the word forever cannot be struck out and declines to become an American citizen as a result.
Judge Roy Bean of Lantry Texas reportedly delivered one of the briefest jury charges from Leslie's Weekly. He told the jurors that the man in the box was a greaser and a boss was missing, and reminded them of their duty.
A New York Times report from Washington states President and Mrs. Cleveland will invite Mr. and Mrs. McKinley to dine the day before the inauguration, a courtesy mirrored by President Harrison with Mr. and Mrs. Jewell four years ago. Mrs. McKinley to arrive March 2 in Washington and stay at Ebbitts House until moving to the executive mansion.
Classified note offers Tenacres and a two story dwelling with barn and a large fruit orchard in Hartsville for sale or trade for property in Columbus. A sales pitch questions readers about clarifying needs and refusing substitutes while praising The Star’s rising circulation.
Joseph Pulitzer owner of the New York World buys the Jekyll Island residence of Mr and Mrs W R Furness Philadelphia for 48000 cash. He plans winters there and wires telegraphs into the house to stay connected. A dredgeboat work near the cottage caused disturbance prompting Pulitzer to offer the foreman 100 dollars a day to halt work until he leaves.
The 85 foot tall chimney weighing nearly 100 tons was moved about 950 feet over rough ground in Manhasset Shelter Island Suffolk County New York. A grain capstan and a single horse pulled the greased cradle on two skids while four men loaded and moved it in nine days without incident. This is the second such chimney moved by the same contractors. a prior 52 foot chimney at Bridgehampton was moved safely.
Dr C Hart Merriam argues against certain zoological theories of Theodore Roosevelt and urges museums, sportsmen, and the public to seize opportunities to preserve specimens of large mammals. He notes European extinctions, the vanishing buffalo, near extinction of the southern California grizzly, wolves wiped from much of their range, and a vanished elk or wapiti from the Alleghenies to the Adirondacks.
Parisian millionaire Mr Menier has granted a concession for a bear meat curing plant on Anticosti Island after locating abundant bears there. The report notes Kerr's move toward Asiatic wines and that Japanese and Chinese vines are thriving near Alento in northern France with a September grape harvest producing a mild wine suitable to blend with stronger southern varieties.
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