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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1899
Page
2
Telegraph brief highlights from abroad and domestic incidents. Gleaned items cover weather gusts, crimes, casualties, fires, and notable events of the week with concise notes on outcomes and affected parties.
The U S Philippine Commission issued a proclamation prepared by President Schurman. It urges cooperation and outlines principles including American supremacy, civil rights, honest administration, anti corruption, public works, trade, and education. It invites a Filipino representative to meet and exchange views. Germany says it will disavow any provocation from Herr Rose if issued. Chicago reelects Carter Harrison mayor with 145 014 votes. aldermen split 19 Republicans 15 Democrats. council to be 28 Republicans and 40 Democrats.
The Winds or Hotel ruins in New York were explored, revealing 45 total deaths with 41 missing. Seven bodies are believed wholly consumed as rescuers recovered 34 bodies so far. unidentified victims remain. Filipinos Entrenched Near Malolos. General MacArthur reconnoitered with units including Montana regiment and Fourth cavalry near Malolos, finding about 1000 rebels armed and preparing for defense. Two Montana soldiers were wounded, no full engagement occurred. Later MacArthur advanced north while Malolos water supply remained inadequate.
Bob Brown was hanged in Glasgow Kentucky and pronounced dead twelve minutes later. He offered no statement on the scaffold and appeared without fear. Brown had killed his elderly father in law Lewis McClelland.
Rome reports a London Chronicle source says officials indicate an agreement between Italy and Great Britain will lead to Italian occupation of San Mun Bay in Chi Kiang, China before April 25. Also notes a Eureka dispatch of ten drowned after the Chilkat wreck on Humboldt bar. Laurada brings $150,000 Klondike treasure to Seattle.
A new Nicaraguan party supports annexation to the United States. The idea has backing from figures including former envoy Guzman and President Zelaya, with recent congressional talks signaling a shift after the war with Spain and new territorial gains. Next year may see formal moves.
Engine hostler Sebastian Michler sat atop a Columbus Shawnee and Hocking locomotive boiler in Sandusky Ohio as water ran low and the fire roared. A roundhouse worker stopped the danger by venting steam from the valve and extinguishing the threat. Michler, facing domestic trouble, said he wanted the boiler to explode and go with it. The locomotive is among the railroad’s largest and valued at about $15 000.
The Republic Iron and Steel Company with capital of 50 million dollars will control and operate thirty bar mills west of Pittsburg, including three at Youngstown Ohio and extending south to Birmingham. headquarters in Chicago. Plans call for a Youngstown steel plant to supply billets as part of the organization.
W S Stuart loses district judge seat after testimony shows giving cigars and liquor to voters and offering jobs. James Falloon, who also gave gifts, is barred from seated. 14 to 10 vote in contest court. Senate authority questioned amid a vetoed $10,000 appropriation.
R G Don Co reports first quarter 1899 failures at about 21.48 million liabilities, far below 1898 and 1897 levels. They cite a check in business, cautious mood due to market uncertainty, and bank tax shifts affecting accounts. Railroad earnings and Chicago east bound tonnage show mixed signals amid weak rates. Weekly U S failures total 194 vs 220 last year. Canada 26 vs 27.
James Lablanche a young French Canadian stabbed Olga Possami an Indian woman at Pelee Point Ontario and then killed himself Lablanche learned another man from Sandusky had won the girl's heart They walked near Lovers Rock where he killed her threw the body into the lake and died by suicide.
Government opinions declare chain letter schemes illegal under lottery laws with prizes like a Paris trip and an $8 Kodak. The Cherokee Nation murder case ends in habeas corpus dismissal for lack of jurisdiction. Miner strikes celebrate the eight hour day in Illinois and four states. Opera singer Lily Post is declared insane and confined. A Kansas City incident ends with a whippings. Georgia ends convict leasing for five year terms. Baroness Hirsch dies in Paris. Rear Admiral Carpenter commits suicide in Jamaica Plain. Stella steamer sinks in fog with 120 lives lost.
Kansas City Star reports a gang of Kansas criminals tied to Joseph New’s 2 year old murder in Greenwood County. Warden Lantis at Kansas Penitentiary backs immediate pardon for Mrs New and Dobbs amid confessions naming Frank Alltgood and Bill Turner as murderers. Alvin Bullard, serving 8 years for horse stealing, admits involvement in the New case.
A blaze started in the engine room of the Pacific folding paper box factory in San Francisco and spread to the adjacent five story Miller Sloss & Scott hardware building, gutting the hardware warehouse. The Hicks Judd Company's printing house also suffered fire and water damage. Estimated total losses run about 500000 dollars. Miller Sloss & Scott peg their loss near that figure, likely encompassing all losses.
A syndicate of anthracite coal operators from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties Pennsylvania plans to take 201000 acres of coal lands along the line of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Rail road in the northwest part of the state. The Lessenrings Kommerors and other hand coal operators are involved and the venture is expected to yield about 300000 dollars annually in railway receipts.
Edwin Munshawer a discharged letter carrier was caught in the act robbing the Norristown post office and claimed he had stolen from March thirteen times and February six times. A separate report notes Mrs W D Owen wife of Indiana’s Secretary of State died suddenly en route to Texarkana with words I believe it is paralysis. Another item says Miss Jane Fuller will wed Nathaniel Francis Jr in Washington on April 12. MacArthur reports Malolos taken as insurgents burn and evacuate the city. In Brandon Texas two men Robert Lynch and Robert Finch are killed while attempting to run the town.
A Chicago to New York sweep of market figures shows cattle, hogs, and sheep trading in broad bands across multiple cities. Prices span cattle from $2.50 to $5.75, hogs $2.75 to $4.50, and sheep $2.50 to $6.25, with grains and butter and eggs quoted in varied cents per unit.
The seventeenth Northern Indiana Teachers Association convened in Fort Wayne with 2300 educators from districts six through thirteen. Highlights included addresses by Brumbaugh and Hall, a welcome by George Felts, and elects for officers and the executive committee with next meeting planned for Logansport.
A veteran railway figure compiling Indiana rail projects lists lines either under construction or planned. Potential routes include Indianapolis to Lebanon and to Logansport, Noblesville, Tipton, Muncie, Danville, Greencastle, Brazil, Terre Haute, and further links such as Terre Haute to Marion and Martinsville to Waverly and Indianapolis, with Cambridge City to East Germantown, Dublin, Milton, Mt. Auburn and Hagerstown, Tartford City to Noblesville via Indianapolis.
A fragmented list shows travel connections between Mattoon and Charleston Evans ville Rockport Tell City and Camel ton Indianapolis New Castle and Richmond Richmond to Muncie Fort Wayne to Indianapolis Columbus to Terre Haute Aurora to Rising Sun Cincinnati to Lawrenceburg and Aurora Angola to Pleasant Lake Hudson Ashley Waterloo Auburn and Garrett Warsaw to Winona Indianapolis to Vincennes Richmond to Eaton Ohio Richmond to Cincinnati.
Operators and miners in Indiana coal fields agree on a two payday wage contract at Terre Haute. The deal for bituminous and block fields aims to steady work as the industry, employing about 80 000 men, looks to a stable year. A Brail scale committee meeting signed the Pittsburg agreement with a proviso about miners setting their prop.
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