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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1899
Page
2
General Maximo Gomez the Cuban army commander in chief positions himself as an ally of the United States in Cuba reconstruction efforts. He cables President McKinley confirming cooperation with American plans and indicates willingness to dispatch Cuban troops to secure disbanded cadet forces and enable soldiers to return home. He also telegraphs to Major General Arouke inviting him to Ilayang.
Bob Maras, a famed Texas sports figure, is killed after a confrontation with John W. Tennyt at the Silver King saloon in San Antonio. Both men fired during the gunfight, Maris mortally wounds Bennett before being killed. Bennett returns fire.
A blaze endangers several properties in Columbus bounded by Dleigh Chestnut and Wall streets. The Green Joyce building and adjoining structures suffered heavy damage with losses around 750000 dollars. Authorities report multiple injuries from collapsing walls as crews battle the flames.
Accident near Dyeraville east of Manchester injures about forty. A westbound passenger train was rear ended by a heavily loaded freight at the crossing, two cars derailed and one coach demolished. No fatalities reported.
Fragmentary text reports agitation in the War Department over Miles statements and disputed dates. It mentions a secretary and a president, with references to an immediate auction and a military context. The readable parts are unclear and partially garbled.
A convoluted report describes Customs Inspectors examining a small cargo item at a station near Al- Jerami Westernland. The scene mentions a cabin, a Datralo carrier, and a twenty minute delay amid cold conditions as officials assess the unusual cargo.
Four men fell to their deaths while working on a bridge extension of the Gitlalo Rochester and Pattssurgh Railroad near Puuxsutawnes Pennsylvania. Charles Mathie of Tlambure Tennessee was killed and Deo Teliear and Ber Lar of Selin's Grove Pennsylvania were internally injured.
Patrick Kinn his wife and son Gwen were found dead in bed in Lafayette Indiana. They were asphyxiated by natural gas in what police preliminarily call a home accident.
The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs reported favorably a joint resolution reviving the rank of admiral for Rear Admiral Dewey. The measure, as amended, extends his retirement period by ten years.
The North Dakota House approved a bill requiring a one year residence before a divorce can be granted. The measure already passed the Senate and awaits the governor's signature to become law.
The weekly trade review notes public confidence tested by a stock slump and rebound. Wheat corn and cotton show rising prices with strong world demand. lumber, iron and wool markets vary. U.S. failures totaled 542, Canada 80, compared with last year.
Captain John Mason of the Philadelphia party bound for Alaska drowned on the Nelson River three miles above its mouth. The raft carrying the party drifted after the raft hit a sandbar forcing the horses to be unloaded. Mason stayed with the horses on the bar as the raft drifted away and the body was not recovered.
Charles Ort of Springfield died in Ohio from spinal meningitis after suffering injuries in a Thanksgiving game. Ort, son of Dr S A Ort president of Wittenberg College, was a full back and a noted player for the Wittenberg team aged a little over 18. He belonged to Phi Delta Psi traveling.
Report claims a spectacular find at Cripple Creek where a vein in a Cripple mine yielded a rich free gold ore. In forty one days the property value reportedly rose by 2,700,000 with nodestys said to be solid meat like ore and worth immense sums. The ore contains a six foot quartz body, with values cited from 1000 to 2000 dollars per ton.
Delegations from Fulton McDonough Warren and western Illinois meet in Greenbush township to form a Farmers Party of the United States. A three member committee led by ASW Hideman A L WifeAven and Willian Starr will prepare for a national convention in early March with aims for equitable representation in Congress and state legislatures. States including Missouri Nebraska Minnesota Michigan Ohio Indiana and Kentucky pledge cooperation. The Illinois temporary organization targets 500 active members as it seeks wider consultation before finalizing convention plans.
In Carnegie Pennsylvania Adigust Branding a retailer at Adlophony cemetery committed suicide after failing to collect debts from customers. Found dead on a burial plot with a revolver nearby and three letters including a plea to be with his child. Branding had competed with the Standard GG Company in the oil business.
Four masked armed men attacked on the Guyan dotte river area. Diack Skeens was killed Jammes Skeens mortally wounded his wife and baby and Ambrose Spurlock seriously wounded. The feud motive is cited as the cause.
Miss HY. M. T. Ayers a prominent Penn Yao social and business figure was found dead in a trunk at her home. Police located the body in the attic and noted the corpse showed signs of asphyxia with an eight ounce bottle of chloroform found beneath the face.
British manufacturers show great awakening over American trade competition. Mr Halstead reports Birmingham’s consent that English trade papers give extensive space to American trade concerns, with twelve G word columns tied to American trade spotters and consular reports.
A mobile column of 1200 Tenth Cavalry soldiers passed through Texarkana on a route to San Antonio. In Arkansan towns they clashed with officers, armed guards, and angry citizens. After a seven hour train halt, dynamite was readied to blow the unit, but no arrests were made.
Reported in Sodus Point New York three youths ages 17 to 72 allegedly lured a boy named Williams into a Methodist Church basement stripped him of clothing and branded his skin with hot iron blades heated in a furnace causing severe burns and outrage in the community.
Miss E Thursby’s pet Mynah, valued at about 11000 dollars, died at the singer’s New York residence. The bird was famed as a remarkable feathered creature, speaking proficiently in five languages and singing in several others.
A violent nitro glycerin blast on the Moore farm five miles from Geneva Tid injures two men, Gideon Goodin an oil well shooter and James Thompson a drifter, who are reported blown to atoms. The explosion scatters twenty quarts of staff while one hundred fifty quarts land twenty feet away, withstanding the shock.
A fire at Monroe City during McCarty Week caused about $80,000 in damage before being extinguished. The cold hindered crews as water lines froze within twenty minutes, hampering ventilation and operations while firefighters battled the blaze.
A military court convicts Eagan with guilty on all charges and sentences him to dismissal from the service with no mercy or executive clemency. General Charles P Jagan presided as commissary general of the U S Army. A boiler explosion in Mount Vernon Ohio wrecked the biscurr block killing Mrs Bol Mantis and injuring her son Jed.
A south bound Ohio Southern passenger train derailed near Coalton Ohio. Engineer Wright was killed the fireman fatally scalded and six passengers kept Mrs Rapp seriously injured as the train rolled down the bank.
Fire at Pittsburg building housing the New York Biscuit Company and La Grosse Art Glass Company causes about 7000 dollars in damage. Several firemen are injured from falling glass. National Baseball League opens April 15 with Nick Young setting a 114 game schedule through mid October 1899.
In Philadelphia 28 year old Robert T. Rink Jr. killed himself by locking in a trunk and ingesting poison following a method similar to Mrs. Ayres of Penn Yan New York. This incident mirrors a prior similar act.
The Senate approved Senator Cullom's bill placing John M. Palmer of Illinois on the pension roll at a rate of 100 dollars per month without opposition.
The British Columbia Assembly passed a measure to bar American miners from Atlin, while Alaska’s recent homestead law grants mouve born Canadians mining rights. Canadian miners in Alaska fear loss of privileges as Ottawa hopes Alaska’s governor may not enforce the U.S. law yet. The dominion government is expected to veto the BC measure upon receipt, as tensions rise over cross border mining rights.
Arthur H. Brown of St Louis, age 29 and a glove maker, killed himself by cutting his throat with a pocket knife and leaping from a sixth floor window of the Gauss Shelton Tint Building the day after his wedding to Mamie Wulfert of Chicago. The groom’s son of Truman Brown of Gloversville New York had a previous marriage with a resident of Armisteadhm NM from which he sought divorce.
Miss Mary Margaret Conatlin of Chicago, declared not John Conalling’s daughter in his will, fought as next of kin and secured five twelfths of the estate including city and mining property after a divorce dispute over paternity.
American shipping interests in the Hawaiian Islands have expanded since annexation with 35 vessels flying the American flag, 5 British, 3 Norwegian, and 2 German. Ships arrive from various ports and carry merchandise expecting return sugar cargoes.
A gang of twenty six track workers at the western opening of Gallivin tunnel near Altoona Pennsylvania were struck by a train. One killed instantly, another died at hospital, sixteen injured.
Barrels and market quotes from Chicago to New York show cattle hogs sheep and various grains with No 2 red wheat priced between 0c and 8c and corn around 45 to 65 cents per unit. Regional notes include Indianapolis Detroit Cincinnati Milwaukee and Buffalo with fluctuating rates and grade qualifiers.
The House debated army reorganization and Philippine annexation with leaders Henderson and Henderson-O Iowa among speakers. The pension bill passed as Senators Platt and others discussed expansion. The Senate tackled diplomacy, consular pay, and a voting machines bill as executive sessions and river harbor measures moved forward.
Kansas City couple cites blues as reason for quick marriage. Baron Rolf Zederstrom 25 and Madame Patti 55 plan nuptials. Jeffersonville squire who conducted 9000 marriages is dead. Pauline Astor 19 linked to Duke of Roxburgh engagement report.
A state commission of one senator and two representatives toured penal and reform institutions, reporting to the Legislature with plans for 800 new cells and housing for hundreds more inmates across several hospitals. Other actions include bills on police commissioners, convict labor, anti lynching penalties, and a reform school reorganization creating two new institutions for girls and women.
At an uptown gathering guests traded ghost stories and light humor. A brain teaser asked who saved Pocahontas, with John Smith proposed by many as the answer, provoking lively reaction and a nod to Cleveland Plaindealer.
The passage lists extreme daylight hours in several places. Berlin and Lorilon report sixteen hours as the longest day. Stockholm records eighteen and a half hours, Tramburg seventeen, St Petersburg nineteen, five as the shortest. Torena Pine land shows twenty one and a half hours, two and a half as shortest. Wanderlas Norway has continuous daylight from May 21 to July 22 and Spitsbergen experiences about three and a half months of full day.
A reported public pipe owned by the Shah of Persia is valued at about one hundred thousand dollars. The pipe named Il Kali din is said to be encrusted with diamonds rubies pearls and emeralds and used on state occasions.
The item notes a steady rise in divorces in Scotland. It mentions forty one deaths from starvation in London in 1808 per official returns. It cites population growth in England from four million in the Elizabethan era to twenty nine million today and lists actors Sol Smith Russell admired John E. Owens William Warren and Joe Jefferson.
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