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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1897
Page
1
The piece asserts dominance in the local jewelry trade and emphasizes the importance of watches as the best timekeepers. It promises beauty from jewels and notes silverware available to adorn tables, appealing to refined tastes.
A detective in disguise probes Miss Jennie Peabody in Mr. Jones's house seeking proof of guilt in a complex theft case. Roving interviews, staged confessions, and a masked lantern reveal a blurry line between innocence and crime as the plan inches toward clarity.
Nora Abenethy, traveling without funds or a guardian, faced removal to Castlemartyr Ireland when David H. Knapp of St. Joseph Missouri offered to sponsor her. He recognized her as the nurse who saved his life in Ireland and they wed the same day, sparing her deportation.
A severe flood inundates MippLesSBoro and nearby towns in Kentucky, submerging two thirds of the city, forcing 60 families from homes, flooding Cumberland Ave and stores, and leaving trains waterbound. At Pineville, the Cumberland River overflows, destroying mine areas and bridges, with deaths reported of James Chadwell and his family in Powell River.
The new senate will be divided among parties: Republicans 42, Democrats 33, Populists 7, Silver Republicans 4, Independent 1, vacancies 3. Republicans listed include Aldrich, Allison, Baker, Burrows, Carter, Chandler, Clark, Cullom, Davis, Elkins, Fairbanks, Frye, Forder Gollinger, Gear, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley, Hoar, Lodge, McBride, McMillan, Mason, Morrill, Nelson, Perkins, Pratt, Platt, Pritchard, Proctor, Penrose, Quay, Spooner, Sherman, Shoup, Sewell, Thurston, Warren, Wetmore, Wilson, Wolcott, Wellington. Democrats include Bacon, Bate, Betty, Caffery, Clay, Chilto Cockrell, Daniel, Earie, Faulkner, George, Gorman, Gry, Harris Tenn, Jones Ark, Kenney, Lindsay, Mart McEnery, Mills, Mitchell, Morgan, Murphy, Pasco, Pettus, Rawlins, Roach, Smith, Tillman, Turpie, West, Walthall, White. Populists: Allen, Butler, Harris Kas, Heitfeldt, Jones Nev, Stewart, Turner. Silver Republicans: Cannon, Mantle, Pettigrew, Teller. Independent: Kyle. Vacancies Kentucky Republican, Oregon Republican, Florida Democrat. Republicans will fall three votes short of a majority.
Covington Ky February 21 There is reason to believe Scott Jackson will confess Walling believes so and his friends and relatives are convinced that Jackson must unbosom himself to vindicate Walling Jackson writes many pages of legal paper and Walling offers silent guidance as his mother and Alonzo Walling plan to meet to save their children from the scaffold
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