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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1898
Page
2
Foreign telegrams report fresh lightning flashes of crime fires and calamities worldwide. Dispatches outline sudden storms in towns and cities, arrests, and notable incidents across continents with brief official notes and local impacts.
Isaac Sebastes, Grand Rapids and Indiana station agent, and his assistant Marshall Wickes faced two robbers at the Martin depot. Wickes was wounded. a robber was shot in the leg. The robbers fled on stolen horses to Gunn Lake and Wayland, pursued by citizen posses.
A special officer stopped a man in the act of lighting a fire in the basement of John Wanamaker’s Philadelphia department store. Shoppers filled the building as the flames sprang from wicker baskets. The suspect, Michael Morgan, was arrested with matches and turpentine. bail set at 2000 dollars. Morgan claimed no home.
A Managua dispatch reports the attempt to fuse Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador into a central federation has failed. Federal organizers dissolved the union as the three states reclaim full sovereignty amid an uprising in Salvador against federation rules and Honduran troop involvement.
Joseph Cheate of New York called at the White House Wednesday to pay respects to the President and stayed only briefly. His visit fuels renewed speculation that he may be appointed Ambassador to London, though no official decision is known.
The insurgents in the Philippines refuse to recognize the cession to the United States and pledge to resist to the last. They claim the United States would need 70,000 troops to quell the rebellion and allege they hold 10,000 Spanish prisoners forced to serve against Americans.
Information from the War Department reports the transport Manitoba with the Twenty second New York Regiment sailing from Savannah and to be stationed in territory surrounding Havana, Cuba.
New York reports heavy storm losses prompting marine underwriters to consider advancing rates. A meeting is planned here next week to discuss the issue and decide on action.
The Ainsworth, a Nelson to Bonners Ferry steamer, was wrecked in a storm on Kootenai Lake. Six crewmen and three passengers drowned, survivors rescued.
The home of farmer Hiram Biggs near Perry, C. T., caught fire. Biggs, his wife, and their three young children burned to death as the family slept.
At a Board of Managers meeting the Rev. William Ingram Haven of Boston was elected Secretary of the American Bible Society board.
A. Lincoln Landis of Mayer Landis & Co. was convicted by a jury for arson after a fire at his business on Twentieth street and Allegheny avenue in Philadelphia burned in September 1897.
The Board of Directors of the Second National Bank of Springfield has decided to enter voluntary liquidation. The bank is among the oldest financial institutions in the city.
Colburn Fuller & Co a Boston Derry bootmaker makes a voluntary assignment with 300000 in liabilities. The steamer Portland wrecked near Highland light with all aboard lost. Ganter commits suicide after his wife dies. Wasaigi cruiser injures bridge at Newcastle. Bank of Hornellsville goes into liquidation. A factory accident in Trenton leaves a man with both legs amputated. Court actions involve Clover Leaf Railway resignation and new receivership. Kidnaping case involves Magowan defendants. Sousa ordered to pay 100000 to Blakely widow with tour profits shared.
Obituary notes former Hawaii judge William Foster passing in San Francisco. Report on the steamer Coptic sailing with 500 Chinese passengers, many ordered deported. Fire devastates most of Cuyahoga Falls business district with losses around 20000 dollars. Chicago factional violence leaves one dead and four wounded. Fatal gas explosion kills Mrs Charles F Krugman in Fostoria. Cleveland man James Gray inherits 350000 from grandmother’s estate. Wisconsin battleship Wisconsin launched in San Francisco with Miss Elizabeth Stephenson christening. Columbus orders sale of Zanesville electric railway on Jan 3 1899. San Luis Obispo official finds 10000 to 50000 dollar treasury shortage. Topeka vaults looted. Minnesota editor Conde Hamlin made colonel of state guards. Fergus Falls grand jury indicts suspected train robbers. Wrentham bank vault robbed of 2600 dollars and 65000 in notes. US bankruptcy ruling voids general assignments under state law. Pendleton Oregon snow traps sheep. three feet in foothills. Missouri fence quarrel ends in killings. Munsell dies in accidental shooting. Milan Missouri jury convicts W E Furgeson of murder. sentence to hang. Nitrogen gas treatment aids tuberculosis in St Louis. Prairie fires devastate Oklahoma and Indian Territory. tens of homes and many hay stocks burned. Kansas City fire causes 210000 stock loss and 40000 building loss. T C Walker boiler explosion near Fourteen Mile Slough California kills six, injures many. Millersburg vault cracks reveal 200 stolen from outer doors. Inner vault intact.
The report recounts Kansas coal shortages the worst on record with towns without fuel. It notes coal from Missouri and Illinois arriving insufficiently, a Los Angeles oil district windstorm damaging tanks and derricks, a murder across the Mississippi, a court demurrer over a bribery indictment, miners union conference denials, and a court ruling on religious duties in life benefit cases.
A roundup of violent crimes includes M. B. Lane shooting and being killed by his wife’s son in North Little Rock Arkansas. A Shenandoah railroad bridge wreck in Virginia killed one, injured two. A Butler Georgia boy killed Wesley Wainwright and wounded two white men during a father’s arrest attempt. Also noted are a 1903 Louisiana purchase centennial celebration plan, a private Lindsey Holt death sentence, and youth robberies in Little Rock alongside the Turquoise King of the Jarillas A Demules slain by a Mexican worker at his mine near El Paso New Mexico with the killer captured.
Reports from Van in Turkish Armenia describe a massacre. Also noted are the death of diplomat Theodore Sedgewick Fay in Berlin at 91, a Greek Patras earthquake with panic and no fatalities, and various international incidents including a bull fight ban in Santiago, Indo-Chinese railway loans, Swat frontier fighting, an assassination plot in Oldenburg, a collapse at a college near Turin injuring bishops, and a Chinese naval expansion near Chusan with Austrian reform threats and a deadly tidal flood around Trieste.
An earthquake in the southern Austrian provinces caused twenty eight deaths. The Cuban cabinet resigned to General Jiminez Castellanos who reappointed them and asked them to stay until the Spanish flag was lowered in Cuba. President Iglesias of Costa Rica received Washington courtesies including a White House carriage drive. France will bar certain plant imports from the United States and inspect fruits on landing to counter San Jose scale. A Paris church ceremony sparked panic when cinematograph lamps failed, injuring forty girls.
A worldwide peanut trust is described as forming to control markets. Reports cite rail and trade deals, including Great Northern Railroad selling 500000 tons of coal at 1.254 per ton delivered to Sandusky in 1800, plus a $3 million succession planning by Lord Strathcona in London and Montreal.
Market summaries from Chicago to New York show mixed commodity ranges including cattle hogs and sheep across several cities. Grain prices cover wheat corn oats rye with varying No 2 grade values and dairy eggs butter and clover seed national figures.
Spain cedes all Philippine and Sulu islands to the United States for 20 million dollars with no restrictions, saying acceptance came under superior force. The move follows American ultimatum. Europe, especially Paris, opposes the shift and fears American aggression.
An article reports a sudden disease outbreak in San Francisco Chinatown with cholera or bubonic plague suspected. Authorities impose quarantine amid secrecy claims and multiple suspicious deaths as the Chinese district, home to about 20 000 residents, is described as filthy and ripe for disease.
Admiral Schley spoke at a Brooklyn Club banquet asserting he alone commanded the American fleet at Santiago. The remarks stirred commentary as he emphasized his sole role in destroying Cervera's fleet.
The Navy Department reports hostilities again erupting around the American mission at Tien-Tsin. A detachment of Marines was landed from the Boston to safeguard lives and restore order. The Boston remains the sole U S warship at Tien-Tsin after the Petrel was sent to Shanghai.
The Seventy-first New York regiment faces turmoil as charges of cowardice and neglect against field and staff officers provoke muttering resignations by hundreds of rank and file despite brave action on San Juan hill. The officers deny the accusations amid ongoing turmoil and new developments.
Hoosier items cover pension grants to Richard C. Wells and others, local officials adding machines, oil prospects around Terre Haute and Wabash, a man killed near Marion, a Mrs. Oesterlee attacked in Muncie, and a rash of incidents from a Kokomo murder trial to a fall of corn due to rain.
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