Engagements and Weddings Stir Local Society
Miss Eda Meyer announces engagement to Gottleib Streeter. Frederick Beach weds Aurora Lang atEast Butler street home. Gordon leaves for Detroit, returns Sunday. St Pauls Lutheran installs officers. Society to meet at 90 Dawson street 3 to 5 pm. Skaters fall through Reservoir lake but escape unharmed. Carter family reunion departs 128 East DeWald street. Ralston Craig weds Estella Bowen at 173 South Harrison street New Year’s Eve. Diphtheria source traced to Hugh street area by Dr. Drayer. Martha Shoebke surprise party on Shawnee avenue with friends and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eda
J. ¥. W. Meyer
Gottleib Streeter
Frederick W. Beach
Aurora Lang
East Butler Street
Will Gordon
Gordon
Pittsburg
Detroit
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Henry Honeck
F. W. W. Scheimann
Henry Pfeiffer
C. S. Sunderland
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of
Simpson M. BE
Dawson Street
Reservoir Lake
Fred H. Marsh
Willis Ashbaugh
George C. Carman
Henry Carman
Grace
Jd. G. Carman
East DeWald Street
South
Harrison Street
Jameson Defeated and Surrender Reported in South Africa
Telegraphs from Cape Colony and Pretoria confirm Dr. Jameson’s defeat and surrender after heavy losses. Secretary Chamberlain seeks generous treatment for prisoners and care for the wounded as Johannesburg discusses conciliatory moves and Transvaal unrest continues. Cuban insurgents press toward Havana with a dispersed, effective fighting style under Gomez, threatening Pinar del Rio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transvaal
Dr. Jameson
Jacobus de Wet
Jameson
Pretoria
Joubert
Johannesburg
South Africa Company
Kaffir
Bechuanaland
Free State
Hercules Robinson
Chamberlain
Robinson
New York Chamber Backs Arbitration in Venezuela Dispute
At a New York Chamber of Commerce meeting the foreign commerce and revenue laws committee, led by Thurber Schwab Carey and Robertson, urged arbitration to avert war with Britain. Carl Schurz supported the plan for an international advisory board. the measure passed with six dissenters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chamber of Commerce
Committee On Foreign Commerce and Revenue Laws
Francis B. Thurber
Gustav H. Schwab
Stephen W. Carey
William H. Robertson
State of
Great Britain
United States
Carl Schurs
Campus Seems Unable to Cope with the Gomez Style of Warfare
News from Havana dated January reports that insurgents struggle to respond to the Gomez style of warfare. The dispatch notes persistent attacks and growing difficulties for security forces in countering the campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gomez
Havana
Northwestern Mill Trust Reorganized With New Pact
The Northwestern Mill company reestablishes a trust after a three week lapse caused by Faist, Kraus & Co. withdrawal. The new combine starts January 6 without the Milwaukee firm, deposits ten percent per barrel as a forfeitable fund, enforces price levels, and limits daily output as a single entity to govern flour sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
Northwestern Mill Company
Trust
Combine
Faist, Kraus & Co
Comsbine
Young Lovers Defy Time and Civic Ceremony
Vincennes reports a bridal near-miss as Joseph Chambers deserts his wedding after an Old Love, Will Maynard of Texas, arrives. Maynard pleads, but Chambers reconciles, the couple wed in the cottage prepared for the ceremony. Elijah Maynard returns later to attempt reconciliation. The tale expands with a second reunion story in Elwoop as James Thomas and Lucy Summer rediscover marriage after eight years apart. In England, 23 year old Thomas Huston faces a suit over proposing to Mrs Barbara Cummings, 84, a notable case of age and finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
Joseph Chambers
Emma Doty
South
Will Maynard
Texas
Maynard
Miss Doty
Chambers
Remy
Elwoop
James Thomas
Thomas
Lucy Summer
Clara Burdette
Somerville
Joseph Blakely
Barbara A. Cummings
Cummings
Huston
Organ Spark Flares as Indiana Church Splits Over Music
In Oaktown Knox county congregants divide over an organ's presence. Young members push for music while elders oppose it, leading to separate meetings and a minister fearful of reunification. Other brief notices report Bergen Applegate’s death, Mrs Mary Osborne and Daniel Allen passings, and local events. Brought to light are a string of obituaries and a peculiar note on Ursula Lewis awaiting final summons with a lifetime near-total isolation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Oaktown
Knox County
Bergen Applegate
Rushville
Mary Osborne
Larkins Osborne
Daniel Oliver Allen
Waterloo
Simon J. Locke
Christman
Bryan
Locke
Lockjaw
Mr. Locke
Ohio
Indiana
Wade Bank Shortage and Fire Blot News from Several Towns
The report details Albert Wade the First National Bank assistant cashier missing with a short age of 26000 and overdrafts of 24500 totaling over 50000 secured by a 30000 bond. Beards block fire in Franklin saved by snow while local losses reach about 1000 with small insurance. A 5 year old girl in Waynetown suffers severe burns after clothing catches fire near a stove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wade
MT. Vernon
Albert Wade
First National Bank
Franklin
Beard
Second Strike Seen In Evitable Street Car Tie Up
Philadelphia reports a renewed street railway strike as cars started at 4 am. A Jan 8 update says the radical faction leads the walkout, with mass meetings planned while leaders struggle to control boisterous rank and file. A citizens’ delegation meets with manager Beetem amid fear of escalation. In Oakland, Dr A F Cory and wife celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary with family dinner after fifty-one years of practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Beetem
Oaklandon
A. F. Cory
Debt Reduced Over a Million at Year's End
The Treasury reports the public debt on Dec 31 1895 at 947 298 262 after cash in treasury. Monthly decrease 1 179 349. Aggregate debt 1 225 325 462 with cash 787 578 447 and demand liabilities 609 551 247 leaving cash balance 178 027 200. Gold reserve new total 62 568 231 after recent losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury Department
Treasury
Horrible Atrocity by Two Choctaw Boys Near Antlers
Lee Crum, a white man living near Antlers, Oklahoma Territory, was killed by two Choctaw youths aged 12 and 16. They shot him on Sunday, scalped him alive, cut off ears, then slashed his throat and gouged his eyes before his body. The pair confessed claiming U.S. laws were no good and they decided to kill a white man.
New York Financial and Chicago Grain Report Summary
New York reports money on call easy at 6 percent. Sterling exchange dull. bankers' bills demand quoted at 49 4 881 cents, sixty days at 487 54 488. Government bonds mixed. United States 4s down. Chicago Board of Trade quotes wheat and corn mixed with soybeans steady. grain prices shift. Chicago live stock at Union Stock Yards shows hogs and cattle prices with moderate receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
United States
Curicano
Board of Trade
C. Park
Cape Cod
Chicago
Union Stock Yards
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C. C. Cissell
Berry Street
M. E. Church
Ralston H Craig
Estella M. Bowen
Dr. Drayer
Hugh Street
Martha Shoebke
Shawnee Avenue
Misses May Donald
Minnie Fink
Anna Koeneman
Rosa Heikel
Martha Howicker
Bertha Balls
Roxie Hostler
Minnie Ehrman
Constance Odden
Minnie Herrington
Emily Holbrook
Sarah Hill
Florence Misner
Anna Kraft
Edith Hames
Warren Whitmer
James Pauley
John Geisman
B. McGinty
Charles Myers
Don Honick
K. J. Ryan
Otto L. Snyder
A. Bever
Alfred Horstman
George Montgomery
Charles Kinnell
Clyde Klinger
Roy Jackson
Everett & Doud
Old
Nat. Bank
Calhoun and
Berry Sts
George Meyers
Hanna, Force, John and
Gay Streets
South Side Wall Paper Store
S. Calhoun
Taber St
West Side
Calhoun
Phillip Graf
Lafayette Street
Baron
Jameson Jugged
Cape
Kruger
Matanzas
Aguacale
Pinar del Rio
Venezuela
Emmett Martin
Corner
Hanna & Buchanan
WM. Turner
Hanna
DeWald Streets
Koons & Schlenk, Feel
Calhoun Street
Northwestern Mill Trust
Morrill
Torreka
Kas
Kansas
Peter Schertz
Peoria
His
Charles Norris
James Starr
Norris
Starr
Warrington
Ursula Lewis
William Lewis
Henry
Hancock
Staty
Ana
Tincher
Veedersburg
Jan
William Walden
Waynetown
New York Financial
Chicago Grain and Produce
J.C. Peltier
Undertaker
West Wayne St
Clifton House
Monroe Street
Wabash Ave
Palmer
GEO. Cummings Hotel CO
Geo. Cummings
A. Hattersley & Sons
E. Main ST
Old National Bank
Calroun and
A. €. Gocke
Broadway
Washington Boulevard
Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania Lines
Jesine Roe Sestre Time
Fort Wayne
Ind
West Bound
Theleorks
Cucagog
Louis RR
N. Y
Boston
Cleveland Mail
Eastern Express
Chicago Express
Chicago Mail
Nod Western Express
Tuocal Freight
A. W. Johnston
B. F. Horner
Cleveland
Albert E. Bulson, Jr
Pixtey Lone Brook
Rescue Medicine Company
W. A. Hawn
Hall
Evenine Post
Moellering’s
H. G. Sommers
Uwooozzy
Persin
Faultless Chemical Co
Baltimore, MD
McKinnie
Ft. Wayne
Cincinnati
Louisville
Ake
Erie & Western Railroads
Connersville
New Castle
Canada
Senany
Philley
Ft. W
F Daly
HC Parker
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
Wayne
Grand Rapids
Richmond
Cincinnat
Wea
Tpree Ee
Boston ‘Limited
Toledo Express
Atlantic Express
Wocal Itoiguy
Lafayette
Pacific Express
Kansas City Express
Lafayette Accom
St. Louis Limited
New York Palace
New York Vestibule Limited
Pacific Limited Express
Cannon Ball
Kansas City
R. G. Thompson
Frank Leslies
Monty
RER
Frank Leslie
Opular Monthly
America
Evening Post
M. E. Burns
East Berry Street
Frank Leake
N.Y
Fort Wayne, Inn
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