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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1899
Page
2
A concise column summarizing current events includes political and religious items, minor crimes, several fires, and notable casualties. The piece presents quick notes from telegraph reports and assorted updates.
A violent storm with high winds and heavy rain struck Norwalk and Puerrus causing four inches of rain in places, toppled trees, shattered windows, and widespread havoc. In Upper mandusxy houses were displaced and West Mi Ohds area saw extensive damage to a school and homes. Twenty four people were affected with several injured and at least one fatality reported including Fisher and Owens. Names include Nettie Mar, Fay Burton, and Marze aged residents among the victims.
Ignorance Orders reports Gen Brooke was told by the President to demand Cuban arms be turned over to U S authorities while Brooke proposed delivering arms to Cuban city mayors. Alger denounces Brooke. he telegraphed the President with full details. Delays in arming Cuban forces likely.
James Clem mer was hanged in Norristown for murdering Mrs Emma Kaiser in October 1805. He plotted with Charles Kaiser to gain a $1000 life insurance, Clem mer shot the woman, and Kaiser killed himself while awaiting execution. Lizzie DeKalb known as the woman in black faced a lighter sentence after confessing.
A manifesto issued by Gen. Gomez urges Cubans to lay down arms to meet American demands. Many doubt his sincerity as opposition to him grows. Anti American feeling climbs as towns report unrest tied to hostility toward Ward American administration.
General Otis wires the War Department that Aguinaldo delegates seek terms of peace and that insurgent forces are fading into the mountains. War Department officials express satisfaction with the dispatches, noting the end of the uprising appears near in the terrain.
Police sergeant Julice Passan was struck and killed while attempting to arrest a man described as a Black suspect believed to be Brown. The suspect had murdered a couple named Rosenstein in Slidell, Maryland. The suspect was captured and identified, a patrol wagon protected by officers as a mob gathered demanding the prisoner’s life.
The article reports Queen Victoria nearly blind due to a cataract in the right eye. Doctor Pagenstecher, a noted oculist, has proposed a de vires operation on the eye to avert total blindness.
Hiram Boyd aged ten years received a severe whipping under court order by Judge Winfrey for disorderly conduct in Evansville. This was the fourth public whipping in that day and within the past year.
President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico will accept an invitation to visit Chicago and the United States in the fall. The invitation extends hospitality across the country and accommodates Diaz and his chosen companions.
Carl Schorzon LL.D of Columbia University New York will deliver the honorary LLD degree to Carl Schorzon on commencement day.
United States transport Meade bound for New York with the Nineteenth Infantry struck a sunken wreck outside the harbor causing a serious leak and forcing a return. Divers are at work assessing the damage to the steamer.
Thomas Davis a former Chicago jeweler has filed for bankruptcy stating liabilities of 2221090 with no assets available.
Dun and Co reports a robust week with 71.5 percent higher payments through principal clearing houses than 1892, iron output at 250,095 tons weekly, boots and shoes shipments up 9.8 percent, hides up about 1 percent, cotton stronger, wood prices higher, and 105 U S failures vs 240 last year, plus 20 in Canada vs 24.
The coal laden schooner Nelson foundered in a violent gale off Grand Marais Lake Superior. Nine crew members are missing or lost. Captain Andrew Hlagboey survives after drifting ashore. Owned by Mitchell Transportation of Bay City and fitted at Toledo, the Nelson was on its first season voyage with the Mary B. Mitchell in tow of the steamer A. Folsom.
In Breyrus Ohio R W Wreener a prominent citizen regains speech after a long involuntary silence. Illness in ISS5 left him unable to speak despite long physician-led treatment. While holding a child on his lap he suddenly spoke and, aside from an odd voice, communicates as before.
Secretary Long orders gunboats Annapolis and Vicksburg out of commission and refitted as gunboats. The Hartford and Pensacola will replace them in Pacific waters as training ships for sailors and gunners. Amphr it e and Lancaster head north with trained men reassigned and new classes to take their places.
A new American Bicycle Company trust forming in Trenton New Jersey announces $80,000,000 capital and control of 106 bicycle factories and material plants. The issue lists 4,000,000 preferred shares and $45,000,000 common stock. A. G. Spalding of Chicago and New York will lead the venture and hold options on the plants.
Daniel Mahoney sued Mary Mahoney in Kansas City claiming she saved 600 dollars from his earnings. The couple were separated but not divorced. The court, through demurrer, held a husband cannot sue a wife and dismissed the case.
Trafford N. Jayne a prominent Minneapolis attorney and society figure is missing for days. A desk letter suggests financial misdeeds with estates and hints he may have harmed himself after leaving on business.
A blast at Kurt's chemical works in St Helen's England killed four people and seriously injured twenty. Fire started in the chlorate house causing eighty tons of chlorate to explode. The boiler burst and the works were razed, with total losses about 100000.
In a Taylorsville lock race on the Muskingum River, the Valley Gem and Zanetta collided and crushed the Zanetta’s starboard side. The crew secured the Zanetta and kept her afloat with no loss of life.
Burglars broke into Blow Safe to Fragments IXenoyer's bank in Leon Iran and plundered about $2,000. The safe was blown to fragments, tools were stolen from a local blacksmith, and the building was wrecked. Meanwhile in Asia Britain asserts control near Hong Kong as Whow-Loon is taken under possession amid renewed native resistance.
In Georgetown Colorado Mrs Jane Fish was acquitted of murdering her husband Raylord Tish by chloro forming him as he slept. The trial concluded with a verdict of not guilty for the widow.
Forty strikers attacked twenty five colored miners behind a stockade at mine No 53 near Huntington Ark. Two guards fired killing one striker and fatally wounding John Wright while James Campbell was seriously wounded. Miners had been brought in to replace strikers and warnings to leave town went unheeded.
J. Glidden of Lowell Massachusetts and associates have extended control from Michigan to Wisconsin Minnesota North and South Dakota with a $1 200 000 Wisconsin Telephone Company stake. The deal unites Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota and Dakotas under one management also linking the Cleveland Telephone Company and Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company with Texas and Arkansas interests.
Cuban dock laborers confront Capt Barker at Cienfuegos port demanding back pay. Violence erupts as they return with fifty more, cursing and threatening. Police arrest the malcontents but a general street fight ensues, leaving one laborer dead and several wounded including three police officers.
John Pearson a wealthy farmer was arrested in Fort Scott Kansas by U S officers for obstructing the mails. He had previously driven corn to Star Kansas and refused to clear a main line when a freight train blocked a side track causing the mail train to be delayed about twenty minutes.
Police search the territory around Lansing Michigan for James Brumm wanted for the murder of Mollie Flagler shot dead at her mother’s home near Dimondale. Brumm allegedly pursued the girl for years and urged marriage. she rejected him.
Four Hungarian laborers were killed instantly when a section of a large calm bank collapsed at the Centralia Pa breaker. Several others were badly injured as the coal refuse tank toppled and buried workers during screening of coal.
George J. Scott, longtime manager at John D. Rockefeller's Tarrytown estate, died by self-inflicted gunshot. He shot himself near the right ear, the bullet exiting the top of his head, causing almost immediate death.
J E De Gette of David City quarrelled with his wife over petty matters leading to a murder attempt in the Victoria Hotel Chicago. The bridegroom was wounded in the left lung by a bullet and is likely fatally injured.
Judge Dale rules street cars in Wichita Kansas a public nuisance and orders service halted. The current company’s lease expired long ago but operations continued amid city protest and legal action.
The national executive board of the United Mine Workers of America orders a strike at all company mines in the Weir City district that operate in Arkansas. Three of eight mines are idle with about 600 workers out.
San Isidro long viewed as a key insurgent stronghold fell to Lawton's alliance column led by Col. Summers. The capture is described as a decisive blow against the insurgents.
Orders reach Omaha directing the Sixteenth Infantry to leave the department and sail from San Francisco on May 29. One battalion is stationed at Fort Crook, another at Fort Leavenworth, and the third at Jefferson Barracks.
A crowd of several hundred students in Princeton New Jersey clashed with Pawnee Bill's Wild West show marchers during a street parade. A riot followed with multiple people on both sides badly hurt though no fatalities reported.
The Supreme Court rules the Curtis bill for governing Indian Territory is constitutional and supports the lower court rulings. The decision affirms the framework for federal authority over tribal lands and governance.
A sheriff and deputies attempted to attach a Toledo and Ohio Central extension train in Bishopville, Ohio for about $5,000 in back taxes. The southbound engine was chained to the track, but the northbound crew fled, moving the mail car to the rear and continuing. The pursuing train could not follow, and an upcoming excursion headed toward Morgan County escaped.
A poultry and produce trust formed by J. B. Jean of Wichita W. B. Hurst Co of Fort Scott and W. B. Redfearn of Springfield Mo consolidates three large exclusive shippers into a stock company with headquarters in Springfield. They run stations across Kansas Missouri Colorado Arkansas Tennessee Kentucky and other states and will control the poultry and produce market in those communities. They deal mainly in chickens and eggs and handle many train loads daily.
Kansas City convention votes to admit women to the Catholic Knights of America. An initial defeat gave way to a reconsideration and a landslide 492 to 29 in favor after the vote was retaken. Women will carry $1,000 insurance and join ages 18 to 40.
John Ixerr was found guilty of second degree murder for killing his father-in-law John Reid at Valley Nebraska a year earlier. The crime arose from Kerrs attempt to reconcile with his divorced wife after Reid had beaten him during the dispute.
A collision of passenger trains on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad near Exeter six miles south of Reading Pa results in at least twenty five deaths and about fifty injured. Emergency crews rush to the wreck as investigators begin work.
A Southwestern special collided with an express train at the New York Central depot in Witea New York. The Waszner car and the engine and one express car derailed and burned in the depot. Flurry Neal of Buffalo sustained severe burns.
A collision three miles below Marine City Michigan involved the Vanderbilt bound down and the White Star bound up. The White Star sank and losses were reported on both vessels with several men missing.
Rev Dr Charles A Briggs ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Potte York amid notable opposition. The ceremony marks Briggs's entrance into priestly service within the Episcopal tradition in New York.
At Crowley Ada Jesse A. Allen night operator and James J. Warner engaged in a duel. Allen was killed and Warner fatally injured.
A costly blaze in Palestine Texas destroyed two half blocks of business properties with estimated losses near 75000 dollars. The fire caused extensive damage to storefronts and adjoining structures. A separate item reports the death of renowned French dramatic critic Francisque Sareey who reportedly plunged at Pavisaye in the first year.
Market report lists cattle hogs and sheep prices by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York. It also covers grain quotes for wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs clover seed with No. 2 grades and varied price ranges.
Washington dispatches report tense Cuban American clashes over arm surrender as Gen Brooke presses disarmament. The War Department seeks tact and patience to avoid conflict while Gomez’s stance softens and McKinley may intervene. Cubans resist American control, threatening renewed warfare if no fair terms emerge.
Aguinaldo has not been heard from for over two weeks and is said to have fled into Neuva Evila province. Insurgent general Gregorio Vilar claims the Filipino leader is deserted by the government. About 5,000 Spanish prisoners are moved to a northern province, beyond American help for now. Five American prisoners were taken through San Miguel. names are unknown. Natives forced a countermand of burning villages as they retreat. Generals MacArthur and Lawton plan an extensive forward movement with strengthened forces everywhere.
Chinese rebels from Tung Kung reportedly invaded British Kowloon as Great Britain strengthens its hold with warships and troops patrolling Kowloon European quarter. Chinese and Russian railway moves raise regional tensions while a Kentucky man, Sam Mattingly of Brush Grove, killed his wife during an attempted elopement.
General Lawton advances with Col Summers and Oregon troops to capture San Isidro, insurgent capital. Summers’ mix of Twenty second infantry Minnesota regiment Oregon and North Dakota regiments push from Baluarte with Scott’s artillery. Rebels, about two thousand strong, resist briefly then withdraw as artillery opens fire.
The Tinclad gunboat Laguna de Bay supported U S forces as they turned the right flank at a rebel town. Fifteen rebels killed and twenty wounded while an Oregon and a Minnesota soldier were slightly wounded. Col Summers’ troops pursued retreating rebels after capturing the town. Maj Kebbe’s expedition moved up the Rio Grande toward Arayal with Seventh Infantry and support units, convoyed by Tinclad gunboats under Captain Grant.
Seven men including former British officers were arrested in Johannesburg on high treason charges against the Transvaal republic. Warrants issued against prominent figures. incriminating documents show enrollment for rebellion. About two thousand men said to be enlisted. officers allegedly planned a Natal corps to aid the movement.
An article outlines telegraph rates for war news from Manila, tracing a lengthy cable path to New York. It also reports Sable Island’s sinking and frequent shipwrecks, April export declines across agricultures, iron hall creditors’ losses, and a note on windup crowds at London football.
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