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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1897
Page
3
The Live Stock Insurance bill passed along with general appropriation bills and a medical bill with little debate. The swine bill cleared, detailing carcass warnings for diseased hogs. Jay County separate judicial district bill passed over the governor's veto by 54 to 29, with Rep Newton supporting the veto.
The National Tin Plate Company contracted to erect a nine mill plant in a Pittsburg suburb. Members L Irwin, W H Donner, Philip Matter, and D P Erwin will lead with Wm H Donner as general manager and Frank Donner as local manager. The expansion aims to cut freight costs to the East.
Morris Spinner, Columbus railroad man, was in the city Sunday. Geo Maxfield of the Wabash and Geo and J. Gunnip and J C Deitz of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe rail roads were in the city Monday.
All employees of the United Counties Railway from St Johns to St Hyacinthe Quebec have not been paid for thirteen months. Key number 200 nearly all French Canadians. Strike risks riot as workers face dire straits. Elder Z T Sweeney left for Martinsville for rheumatism treatment.
In Franklin Miss McCaslin, director of the Presbyterian Church choir, quits after the church session suspended her father for six months. Backed by many congregants, she refuses to sing until he is expelled, risking a split in the church. Public opinion leans toward Miss McCaslin as the town debates the case.
The store touts a wide range of black and novelty dresses, waist silks, white goods with embroideries and laces, muslin underwear with new gowns and skirts, and ready-made dress skirts. It promises low prices and invites inspection to save money.
Paris dispatch reports the St Bernard monastery partly destroyed by an avalanche. The left wing collapsed and monks tunneled through the snow to escape. No casualties were recorded.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M E church meets this afternoon with Miss Maynard at corner 3rd and Jackson. The Mission Society of the Presbyterian church holds a 2 30 PM meeting in the church lecture room. Mrs May Williams entertained her Sunday school class last night. attendees included Norwood McClelland Edgar Abbott Roland Williams Willie Marsh George Gilbert Ford Cooper Rev Hood and H M Holmes.
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