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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1897
Page
2
Strictly Business offers ready to wear clothes ignored by most. They advertise special makes to ailored goods with big cuts for long slim or short fat figures and extra sizes. Tailors claim their suits and overcoats equal merchant garments but at about half the price, promising style fit and finish.
London dispatch reports The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says the King of Siam failed to obtain abrogation of the Siam France gate clause. With no European powers backing him, foreign reachments of French territory are expected to rise.
A fragment reports a cruiser sighting a proposed filibuster and ordering her to slow. Upon refusal, gunfire followed, with the account implying a punitive act against the vessel in question.
In Vatraraliso on October 16 a German shopkeeper was sentenced to sixty days in prison and fined $100 for displaying a small alabaster copy of the Three Graces in his window. The ruling sparked liberal outrage while radical papers mocked calls for a decree on animal clothing. Justice Siena Dominguez, a clerical judge, delivered the sentence.
President announces consuls John A. Isurues of Illinois at Cologne Germany and Leonard B. Smith of Maine at Curacao West Indies along with William F. Sands of the District of Columbia as secretary of legislation at Seoul Korea Thomas B. Needles of Illinois named commissioner to negotiate with the Cherokee Choctaw Chickasaw Muscogee and Seminole nations replacing Alexander Montgomery John A Barnes appointed for Illinois in place of Neuman who was recently rejected by Germany
Fragmentary note from Kianey and Turpin insists on immediate payment when the collector presents the bill. The terse message presses for readiness to pay the demanded sum.
Boston records show 95 324 voters qualified to vote in the upcoming state election in the city. This total is 882 fewer than the city registration for 1896.
A child of Charles Mack died after pulling a tub of boiling water onto itself while Mrs. Mack briefly left to fetch water. The incident occurred in Vincennes Indiana on October 16. The tragedy highlights household dangers for young children in rural homes.
All Indiana window-glass manufacturers in the trust will meet in Muncie tomorrow to sign the agreement of the new American Window-glass Trust. The Indiana association will expire with this act, ending its successful run that led to the national trust.
Walter Fowler of Jefferson township paid Wil D Bain seventy five dollars for two poplar trees believed to be the county’s tallest. He felled and sawed the trees into logs including five twelve foot logs and two ten foot logs from the first tree, and twelve logs yielding a sixteen foot and a ten foot log from the second, with minimal limb trimming.
The resignation of Orient from the Western Union has been extended ten days to allow union members to review the issue with Manager B. W. French. Sources say Mr. French will let the resignation stand and retire from the union.
Baldwin Made Special Agent Dean A Baldwin of Marion Indiana was appointed special agent for the Indiana Kentucky and Hamilton county Ohio district by Manager R H Garrigue of the Inter Ocean.
The item notes that alcohol affects a fish badly and cites a Boston Journal joke about a pint of tanglefoot harming a shark and a quart of forty-rod a whale. It frames the saying as a humorous origin question with exaggerated figures.
Excessive warmth peaked yesterday with 86 degrees a new October high in Chicago. One death and at least three serious heat prostrations were reported as officials lament the unusual late season heat. Weather bureau blames two slow cold fronts stalled near Michigan and Dakota.
Brussels report states Congo troops led by Lieutenant Henry defeated mutinous Manyema soldiers who mutinied in February and murdered officers. The clash near Lake Albert Edward Nyanza on July 16 left four hundred rebels dead. survivors retreated to the mountains and face starvation.
Mrs Isaac Pau wife of a farmer living four miles east of Carnett was killed in her home by robbers who ransacked the house and took 140 dollars in gold. Her husband found her dying with a blunt force wound to the skull. Authorities say about five hundred men search the surrounding country for the alleged smugglers.
The Franklin Star notes wheat at 90 cents and corn at 23 cents in today’s market. Corn prices have been sliding due to new crop reports, with new corn sold locally at 25 cents per bushel.
Articles of incorporation filed in Martinsville Indiana for the Kurtz National Telephone Company with capital stock of 50000 dollars. Stockholders include William H. Dye and William J. Kurtz of Indianapolis James V. Mitchell N Cobb and D D Watson of Martinsville.
At a colored dance last night at 1642 Halsted street six men were slashed after refusing to play without payment. Injured include Barney Reed who is probably fatally hurt and Policeman George Jones along with Frank Jackson, Charles Reed, Charles Ewing, and Charles Gross.
First Lieutenant W A Wise arrived in New York after riding from Washington in 27 hours 39 minutes official time. Paced by New York Athletic Club members he said he could repeat the feat. Earlier notes mention a Big Four excursion train from Columbus Indiana to Cincinnati on Oct 17 with round trip for one dollar.
Notice announces Vincent Thompson as a candidate for City Marshall subject to Republican primary convention and James Burk as a candidate for the office of county clerk subject to the Republican nominating convention.
An advertised printer promotes "Fine Work" for Dodgers, letter heads, calling cards, horse bills, business cards and envelopes. Prices described as the lowest with new type and pen presses and improved facilities. Customer offer includes nine rial to join Kner & Turfin.
A disjointed OCR snippet lists multiple cross streets and numbers tied to Franklin Pearl Sycamore Mechanic Chestnut Wilson Union Reeves Pulley Works Hutchins Avenue California Orinoco Ave, indicating a catalog of locations or mappings without clear narrative context. The data shows numerous two to three word place pairs and odd punctuation.
A presented catalog lists thousand mile tickets of the Big Four system and related lines including Ann Arbor, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake routes, Cleveland lines, Detroit options, Grand Rapids, Lake Shore, Louisville, Wabash, and others. Tickets price thirty dollars with a ten dollar rebate if used by the original purchaser within eighteen months and properly certified. Assistants E. O. Mecomick and Warren J. Lynch sign as Ass't Gen't Pass’r & Ticket Agent.
Fragmentary note mentions accident policy with sick benefits and references Kinney and Kinney. Appears illegible but signals an insurance policy discussion with unclear terms and locations.
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