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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
9
In Indianapolis on January 12 miners begin a great meeting to press for a universal eight-hour day in all coal mines. The United Mine Workers Journal warns that miners can shut down business by halting coal and food supply, threatening market and industry disruption if demands aren’t met.
The Indiana Car Service association held its annual meeting at Union station Indianapolis listing seventeen railroads represented by proxies. They reported handling 275 242 cars during the year and a 99 percent earnings collection with about 4 percent refunded.
In Indiana reports indicate Bishop Rademacher near death in Fort Wayne after hours of illness. At Warasa a church attendee, Charles We, collapsed from apoplexy with hopeless recovery. Evanshire sees a fire gut Taylor Angel’s wholesale grain house causing about 90000 dollars in damage. A boy in Zeganeport died in an accident after a gunshot wound.
The B and O railroad plans a $1.5 million program through Indiana to shorten travel between St. Louis and Cincinnati from nine to eight hours. Four thousand workers will be hired as weather allows to rebuild across Indiana. Major changes include Willow Valley tunnel at 1,080 feet and a big tunnel east of Mitchell at 1,700 feet with track realignment over three miles.
In Petersburg Indiana Frank Percell and two companions jailed there face imminent lynching over the killing of William Riss. Other items note Goodhart Bros seek to set aside a bankruptcy discharge for Nathan Ambers of Lafayette, and a man in Indianapolis commits suicide in a peculiar manner. Not Guilty of forgery case in Dorazil ends with verdict. Iron works shutdown at Frankton idles hundreds. A South Bend man dies by suicide with a note to his Notre Dame son.
Fort Wayne Indiana January 13 Bishop Rademacher died at 11 o'clock of heart failure after brief illness. Interment will be in the cathedral. Right Rev Joseph Rademacher born Clinton county Michigan December 3 1840 ordained August 2 1863 first stationed Attica Indiana later St Paul Columbia City rector Fort Wayne St Mary's Nashville bishop of Nashville then Fort Wayne see.
Evansville reports John Purcell a coal miner from Washington has been jailed an hour after he shot and killed a young man named Roff in Auguste at Hartwell mine Pike county Civil unrest notes John Braunders English actor died aged 83 in Indianapolis and T J Nolan died from Monon wreck injuries in Lafayette a cigar maker Leo J Miller filed bankruptcy listing debts 3496.54 assets 190 One third of Coloutte population is female cinema statistic appears in same column
A sermon centered on Psalm 94 9 praising the human eye as a divine marvel. Dr Talmage extols the eye's complex anatomy and its functions, compares it to celestial and divine design, and urging gratitude for sight while reflecting on its spiritual significance and accountability before God.
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