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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1897
Page
2
We tender our thanks to our many friends for their kindness and assistance in the sad bereavement of the loss of our husband and father. Mrs. Lee Rostensusn and family.
Jos the Murdock of Scott county Virginia, once believed murdered, returns home after twenty five years. Bud Lindsay, who served twenty years in a Virginia penitentiary for the crime, has died recently.
Two masked men attempted to rob the north bound Mountain train at Watova. They entered the coach as the line train took the Watova siding and forced Conductor Walace to surrender a small sum. The arrival of a passenger train halted the raid and armed locals soon chased the robbers away.
In Jeffersonville Indiana on February 21 Michael Gleason aged 85 residing at Gelena began transferring a flock of 40 sheep. While letting down the fence bars a ram charged him knocking him to the ground and the remaining sheep trampled him to death.
A lump of cannel coal on a grate burns as air drawn beneath the grate feeds oxygen which forms carbonic acid gas with coal. The oxygen coal reaction releases the coal's stored energy, while inert nitrogen and smoke rise through the chimney.
An ad touts Dr. Kurem's Poultry Powder promising healthier hens and more eggs with agents listed in Indiana and Ohio. The rest includes a long roster of local officials and a map of alarm boxes at many street corners in a midwestern town.
A discussion on converting coal energy directly into electricity instead of heat. It cites large wasted energy in present plants, notes a 97.4 percent waste and 2.6 percent efficiency from 80 plants, and envisions electricity as the superior flexible energy form for heat light or motion. It references Dr William M Jacques and Harper's Magazine.
Agnes Prep liner laments a nineteen year old housemaid’s sorrow stirred by nine Sunday school fiction stories she read. The stories titled The Infidel The Dying Banker The Drunkard's Death The Miser's Death The Hospital The Wanderer's Death The Dying Shirtmaker The Broken Heart The Destitute Poor deepen her melancholy and alter the cheerful home.
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