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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
4
Dr George Reab at Job's Hospital recounts a remarkable surgery in which stomach contents revealed a cache of metal items. A ring, watch chains, pins, nails, and other small objects were retrieved as a patient recovered, with bystanders astonished by the discovery and its implications.
A fragment notes a speech by Helen F Qark discussing New York City Protestant membership, population diversity, and non Christian rates. It cites rough figures for Manhattan, the lower East Side, and states with high non Christian percentages.
A flagstone in Bridgeport Connecticut bears a weathered impression resembling a man’s head in profile. The carved image, worn by foot traffic and elements, appears similar to Curtis the Adams Express head and to a French leader, visible only when the surface is wet. The stone has shifted over more than two decades.
A paper from the Academy of Medicine reports experiments on growth in children and youths using electrical stimulation. In some cases knee ossification and growth activity increased, but the overall enrollment height target remained uncertain and limited.
Mrs. Christina Slirt of East St. Louis describes waking during an undertaker's work. She recounts hearing whispers and her husband, feeling unable to move, and nearly being buried alive before the undertaker paused. She recovered enough to tell the mother superior at St Marys Hospital.
A Washington report describes a pampered poodle set belonging to the Russian embassy circle, including a Maltese wife and two daughters. The dogs receive daily grooming, weekly baths, pink ribbon adornments, front-carriage seating, and hotel accommodations when the ambassador travels with his niece Miss Cassini. they accompanied the envoy to Russia and back last summer.
The ten inch Brown segmental wire gun, claimed the nation’s most powerful, will be tested at Sangy Hook following a Sands Thvak test of a five inch gun. It uses a core of 262 tempered seed segments with 75 miles of high tension wire and was built in Reading Pa.
A fire at United States Pipe Line tanks in Freemansburg was worsened by oil boiling in cars and exploding. A tank escape was achieved when a hole was shot in the trap hole cover with a rifle, releasing gas safely.
Four workmen can erect a domicile in three hours as portable Beases are prepared in Connecticut for shipment to Venesuela. Paris gains nearly 100 periodicals versus last year.
A vivid look at Covent Garden market where a female patrol of a few hundred elderly women directs traffic. They shout, shake fists, and even toss turnips to manage drivers, yet maintain order, with drivers tipping them daily and market proprietors paying fair salaries.
John Gilmer Speed reports in Ainslee's that Iowa Iowa leads with 254,099,550 bushels while other top producers include Wisconsin Nebraska Missouri Kansas Indiana Texas and Ohio each above 100,000,000 bushels. Kansas is forecast over 340,000,000 this year with Montana Rhode Island Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut North Dakota Wyoming and Washington largely consuming home grown corn. Average price ranges 66 to 23 cents with national averages around 25 cents. past years show fluctuations from 21.5 to 26.3 cents, and 1894 saw a production drop of about 20 percent.
A bookmaker’s son, once a successful bettor, funds gambling with money from customers. He vanishes with large sums after winning and then losing big bets. His father uncovers misappropriated funds, and wholesale firms report unpaid debts. After 50 years in business the merchant’s shop collapses, leaving his family in dire poverty.
In Temple Bar Stew, Mr. Bacon states cleanliness and sunlight and fresh air are the strongest weapons against disease. He notes British weather is capricious yet suited to vigorous health and that western and southern winds clear smoke in large towns, shaping the Briton’s physique as a weather mark of climate.
Three tribes in the Florida swamps maintain friendly relations and adopt beadwork crafts that attract tourist interest while adapting to civilizing influences despite life in the Everglades.
Honolulu dispatches recount Capt. Walker of the City of Columbia telling of the 1838 wreck of the Wandering Minstrel 18 days from Hong Kong. Survivors found an island with a 30 year old US surveyor building, lived 14 months, were rescued by a Japanese schooner Norma, and a survivor Jorgenson confesses murder of the captain and mate before being left to die on a reef island.
Discussion grows in the District of Columbia for a law authorizing whipping posts for minor offenses. Proponents argue it would reduce crime and jail costs as reform institutions are crowded. Maryland enacted such a law in 1862 and it is cited as effective against wife beating, a common offense in Washington.
A locomotive escaped from the Bennington & Rutland roundhouse in Rutland Vermont the other morning and ran nine miles along the main line before being captured. The helper jumped to safety and a pursuer followed with tools and a hand car catching up near Wallingford.
Guests included Manuel de Aspiros ambassador from Mexico and Ladislaus Hengervar von Hengervar minister from Austria Hungary. The two principals in a diplomatic squabble attended a cordial dinner, with no awareness of the dispute by host Mrs Grant, raising hopes the incident may end. Itallane is Argentina, Italians constitute one fourth of Argentina’s inhabitants.
Two American figures, former officials, attract global attention as they roam without clear purpose. Mr. Macrum, ex Consul at Pretoria, left his post abruptly with rumor and mystery surrounding a possible Boer War issue and a mission to France. Webster Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, traveled to South Africa and Pretoria with suspicions of a secret mission, prompting puzzled Washington and European officials.
Public sale to be held on the William farm thirty four miles southeast of Glenwood Ind on Thursday June 30 1900. Items include farm wagon break wagon open bogey cart hay rake fanning mill sulky breaking plow two horse cultivators bar plow double and single shovel plows cutting box and other items. Sale starts at 1 oclock pm.
Listings show 80 acres at $800, 176 acres with two houses and two barns at $2100, 170 acres at $2000, 35 acres at $600 and 29 acres at $1100. Other plots range up to 185 acres at $41500 and 140 acres at $7000. W F Demirner advertises near Turkenkophs Cigar Store. Four acres for rent with a five room house and outbuildings, call Courier office.
The notice lists eastbound and westbound passenger services on the C H and D Railway with train numbers, types, and times from Cincinnati to Chicago and beyond. It includes through Pullman connections to Baltimore, day coaches via Crawfordsville and Lafayette, and chair sleeping car services, plus freight train cautions and agent contacts in Indianapolis.
District No. 1 Posey Township reports social happenings and moves. Names include Chas Henley moving to Cambridge City, Ed Johnson moving to Terre Haute, and Mrs Lindly Hussey hosting visitors. Local incidents include a runaway horse near Miss Martha Baker and a seven month old turkey sale to G W Baker.
The infant child of Mart Slaskett died Sunday. A boy John Bailey had his hand mangled at the saw mill last week. A son was born to Alfie Gilbert and wife. Will Willis and wife welcomed a son. A show visited Straughns Friday and Saturday night. Rev Loring filled services at M E Church. Joe Lamberson and others sold a large drove of hogs last week. Peter Hesa of Oklahoma visiting relatives.
George Heizer and Roy Hawkins fished Williams Creek for four days and caught a fish and a snail. Joshua Wilson promotes a patent medicine claimed to cure, with Madison McConnell and Det Jeffries as believers. Frank Clark and Billy McConnell doubt their lung tester results. The Nash family notices changes after Mrs Nash removed the hammock, affecting Dice Nash. Coxe.
County Assessor W. T. Murray received a letter from Kilgore & Day of Point Isabel Indiana offering a cholera immune hog remedy. They seek sick herds near Connersville to test the claim by introducing immune hogs to prove resistance. Those interested may contact Mr. Murray or Kilgore & Day directly.
A Greenville lawyer, Mr. C. E. Cook, reports long trial with biliousness headaches sour stomach and constipation. After trying many remedies he finds relief with Syrup Pepsin and cheerfully recommends it to others suffering similar ailments. Ward Jemison.
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