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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1897
Page
3
Governor Mount delivers inaugural remarks before the General Assembly. He urges law enforcement, impartial leadership, and cautious reform across taxes education roads insurance and public health, emphasizing interdependence of capital and labor and prudent budgeting for state debt reduction. He praises farmers, workers, and soldiers, calls for economy, and requests unity in shaping future policy.
James A. Mount was sworn in as Indiana's governor in a minimal ceremony. Lieutenant Governor William S. Haggard succeeded Mortimer Nye. Chief Justice Jordan administered the oath. Governor Matthews bid farewell and returned to farm life, stressing modesty and Indiana pride. The pair and their wives attended a public reception in the governor's parlor.
Senator Shively introduced an anti trust bill after lawmakers returned to the chamber. It would strip any company that joins a trust of its right to operate in the state and fine officers up to 500 dollars with a 500 dollar fee to the attorney general for each conviction. Prosecutions may be started by prosecutors. House actions were limited to new rules requiring a two third vote to appeal. Adjournments and caucusing dominated days as W. F. Fairbanks emerged as Senate choice amid factional debate. A temperance bill to align license fees with saloonkeepers passed the House, while saloon noncompliance persisted. Meanwhile some senators received whisky gifts by mail, provoking mixed reactions.
A New England woman living inland attended the Christian Endeavor convention in Washington. She spent a night aboard a steamboat, her first time traveling by water. She arrived fatigued and told a friend she might not travel by water again, noting confusion about life-preserver instructions in her state-room card and difficulty sleeping with it on.
A whimsical tale recalls Suvarof Empress Catherine’s favorite ordering Te Deum and chairs for officers as he vaults through them in church attire before donning a uniform. A Edinburgh sheriff tale follows where a fare dispute ends with the cashier jokingly asking for two pence after inspecting the suspect face.
Chas. W. Fairbanks, a native of Ohio and Indiana’s twenty eighth senator elect, is lauded as an able lawyer, honest politician and upright citizen. Born near Unionville Center 9, he studied at Wesleyan University, moved to Indianapolis in 1874, rose in Republican leadership, supported Harrison, and will join the Senate allied with the McKinley administration and Indiana interests.
A bright young lawyer defends a hog theft case with dramatic rhetoric. The judge interrupts, declaring it a case of hog stealing and quashing the defense as imprudent theater. The exchange highlights courtroom bravado and misapplied patriotism.
Elizabeth Foster born in 1665 in Massachusetts Bay married Isaac Goose in 1693 and joined South Church, Boston. Her melodies for grandchildren were published in Boston in 1716 by Thomas Fleet, her son-in-law. She died in 1757.
A Mount Morris, Wisconsin sheep owner, P. A. Porter, reports his flock of sheep has dwindled from ninety four to sixty due to wolf predation since last spring. Separate fragment mentions the crown of the Kings of Persia hidden in an Arabian fortress for a millennium.
A profile of the Indianapolis conference ends with a push for a consistent monetary system. It supports maintaining the gold standard, retiring United States notes, and creating a banking system with elastic credit and loan distribution, plus appointing a monetary commission and executive committee to guide reform efforts.
Foster Fry a colored man of Muncie plans to collect 1300 dollars with interest for service as a Civil War substitute for a prominent Indianapolis citizen whose name is not disclosed. Fry and James Ferguson, both formerly enslaved, were brought to war service. Ferguson stayed in Muncie while Fry went to Indianapolis, received 1500, later borrowed 1300 with the promise of repayment after the war. The debtor is now said to be a wealthy Indianapolis resident.
Twin brothers Ralph and Lloyd Martin of Muncie ages ten were sent to deliver washing. They stole the money and went to a theater then hid at the electric plant. An engineer turned on steam as a prank, burning the boys badly and risking their lives.
A May flood of brief Indiana notices reports Vernon rail deliveries turning out 22 tramps, the death of Hiram Jacobs at 73, and William Scott struck by a fast freight near Kellers. Other items note a Grand Hotel fire in Indianapolis, a child’s death from swallowing gum near La Grange, Col Louis Hoyt’s death in Valparaiso, an oil find near Anderson claiming superior quality, and Rev J H Harwell’s jail illness and hospital dispute. Additional notes cover Amish land colonization in Brown County, delinquent guardians reports, Harry Rodgers marrying Bessie Peterson, and the pardon of George Stottler amid lingering hostility. Also reported are Midland steel works resuming in Muncie with 1,200 men employed and a runaway inmate terrorizing Muncie before arrest.
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