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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1897
Page
4
Classified ad listing many properties in Columbus including cottages, six to eight room houses, vacant lots, and farms. Items include Nos. 63 to 109 with prices from 400 to 2500 and notes on terms, with several large residences and rental investments. Also notes legal item on notary and postmaster vacancy rule.
Evansville report tells of Mrs. O M Yarborough who stepped on a parlor match and sulphur splashed into her clothing causing fatal burns she died that evening at about thirty years old leaving two young children. A separate note mentions drought in Sullivan.
ADDITIONAL: PERSONALS reports Asbury Brown of Indianapolis attending his mother's funeral for Mrs. Amanda Brown. Herald Boyer of Indianapolis visiting Miss Swengal. Gertrude Washburn and Plauche Banker returned from California. Albert Woolley and Tom Denham plan visits to Scipio. Thos Rush was an Indianapolis passenger yesterday. Eli Marquette of Jonesville and John L. Jones of Taylorsville were in the city yesterday. Rev. Swift addressed a Sunday school picnic in Taylorsville. John Newcomb will visit his father in Browns town. Frank Crump leaves for Waukegan. Miss Margaret Thornton of Indianapolis visiting the White family on Washington Street.
Local items report insurance offerings by Kinney & Kinney and notes on accidents, marriages, and illnesses. Mentions Brown county voter margin, a toddler’s death, diphtheria warnings, and court actions including fines for assault. Advertisements urge genuine products and stress avoiding substitutes.
An advertisement offers tenacres and a two story dwelling with a barn and a large fruit orchard in Bartsville for sale or trade for property in Columbus. The note questions buyers about preferring substitutes and mentions Star newspaper circulation improving.
The Essex resupply voyage meets the Aeronaut ashore after a storm. Captain Henry Fancy of the Aeronaut recognizes Captain Coombs, his sister’s son, prompting an emotional reunion aboard the Essex. The Aeronaut’s crew were saved by the Essex after the storm wrecked the lumber laden ship.
A camel landed in Hoboken aboard the Dresden sat in a crate so cramped it refused to rise. After days of paralysis from sitting, a sling hoist freed the beast and revived its rear legs, ending the tale of sorrow with a lively warning not to sit again.
A New York Times Washington report says President Cleveland will invite Maj. and Mrs. McKinley to dine before the inauguration and they will likely accept. McKinley arrives March 2 and stays at the Ebbits House until his quarters are ready after the ceremony. The Cleveland family plans to depart March 4 for New York, with repairs ongoing on their Princeton, New Jersey home.
The 85 foot tall chimney, seven feet square at base and weighing about 100 tons, was moved nearly 950 feet over rough ground in Manhanset Suffolk County New York without damage. Lifted on two greased skids, it required nine days and four men using a grain capstan and horse power. The operation, the second of its kind by the same contractors, followed a previous 52 foot chimney move at Bridgehampton, both completed without incident.
A late Science article by G Hart Merriam argues zoological theories of Theodore Roosevelt, urging museums and naturalists to collect specimens before species vanish. It warns of widespread European extinctions and ongoing loss in the United States, citing the buffalo, southern California grizzly, wolves, and wapiti. Bears on Anticosti Island prompt a curing-plant concession, while Asiatic vines thrive in Alencon France, ripening grapes for wine by September.
Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New York World, has purchased the Jekyll Island residence of Mr and Mrs W R Furness Philadelphia for 45000 dollars in cash. He plans to spend winters there and will have telegraph lines connected to stay in touch with the outside world. A dredgeboat near his cottage caused distress during a prior visit when noisy machinery operated nearby.
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