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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1896
Page
1
A compact report on crime and disasters detailing fatalities injuries and property loss. It catalogs incidents across locales with local names authorities and timelines, highlighting the human impact and ongoing investigations.
Reported government inquiry reveals a bill to authorize the purchase of Maumee Valley battlefields. Separate item notes an attempted train wreck near Cleveland as part of ongoing security concerns.
The House military affairs committee backs a Maumee Valley Monument Association plan to acquire Fort Industry Fort Meigs Fort Miami Fort Defa nce Fort Wayne Killen Timber battlefield and Put in Bay ground for monuments. An appropriation of 1500 is to start the project with the War Secretary authorized to enclose the sites and erect tablets for War of 1812 fallen. Crop bulletin notes warm Indiana weather aiding winter wheat and corn plowing while Ohio reports slow lye progress and poor bottom land wheat. A Cleveland report recounts a thwarted train wreck where would be wreckers removed ties just before a 50 mile per hour express train passed.
News from Lechuza reports the Alphonse XI battalion under Col Debos engaging insurgents led by Macro. Spanish forces fought valiantly but suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat to avoid encirclement.
A severe gas explosion at the Woodward mine of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Company near Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania badly burned five men and left others seriously injured. The victims include William Morgan John Evans Arthur Golightly James Lewis and William Powell. The exact cause remains unknown.
A secret conference of the Pittsburgh and Western Association of Window Glass Manufacturers last week decided all plants will close in May for an indefinite period. The closure will impact Indiana heavily as most plants are located there.
A report from New Castle Pennsylvania states an Italian man, who barged into Mrs. Martha Burt’s home near Bessemer, tried to assault her. Mrs. Burt fled to another room, the intruder followed, and she fired a revolver. The assailant was shot near the heart and died.
United States District Attorney in Philadelphia issues warrants for the arrest of John D. Hart owner of the steamer Bermuda and the stays officers on filibustering charges. Dr Congosta the Spanish Consul is the prosenitor.
A Kingston Jamaica special reports Haytians who fled under President Hypolite are accepting amnesty offered by new President Tsi Mot Sam and preparing to return. The note lists a cinema listing at Masonic Temple Theater St. Wayne Indiana with showings including Trip to Chinatown on April 20 and Side Tracked on April 2 and 28.
The fifteenth International Christian Endeavor convention will be held in Washington July 8 to 13 with about 60 000 attendees. Daily early morning prayer meetings in twenty to thirty churches precede formal openings in three large tents.
Berlin reports a duel near Potsdam left Baron von Schrader seriously wounded by Count von Kotze in a flare of anonymous letter scandals. Schrader, master of the Prussian court, was hospitalized. Kotze, once a court chamberlain, had previously been acquitted as alleged author of the letters and vows to continue dueling. The scandal dates back five years to a wave of anonymous communications about public figures and relatives.
Prohibition party delegates at Springheld Illinois adopted eight platform planks opposing liquor manufacture and sale, supporting woman suffrage civil service reform compulsory education and Sunday observance. A minority report favored free silver while the majority was reformulated amid parliamentary maneuvers. Other planks called for a national tariff commission and government transfer of transportation and communication controls.
The Weekly Review of Trade notes no overall rise in business since April 1 with prices hardly moving. Breadstuffs and iron show small gains while other commodities fall. consumer demand remains weak and layoffs slightly trim employment, hindered by poor spring weather and uncertain job stability.
Arthur Schneider a German youth about 20 was hanged in New Orleans parish prison Friday for the murder of Hermut Schroeder after a failed romance with a restaurant worker. A commission found him sane and responsible, though he blamed Deputy Sheriff Jerry Reagan for alleged justice failure.
At St Johns Newfoundland twenty eight men were driven off shore on ice Saturday night. Two steamers searching for them returned later. One man landed Sunday morning and others may have ashore on a deserted island. Kite reported from sea fisheries with a full cargo. remaining ships but Ranger heard nothing since March 20 when she was seen crippled. Fear for her safety grows as she had over two hundred aboard.
Cowley County Kansas seer Dutch Charlie foresees three cyclones this summer with June, July, and September strikes. He warns the first will be damaging, the second more severe, and the third the worst, potentially killing more people and causing greater destruction than the others.
Col. John A. Cockerill, famed editor and writer tied to the New York Herald, died suddenly of apoplexy in a Cairo barber shop. He had been in Egypt as Herald special correspondent, after leaving New York in January 1895 for Japan assignment.
Walter Price was attacked on Broadway Friday afternoon in New York and robbed of a satchel containing $2,015 belonging to the Gleason Lamp Manufacturing Company. The thief escaped and Price was arrested, suspected of connivance.
Representative Van Voorhis reports a Banking and Currency Committee bill to allow national banks with capital as low as 20 000 in towns of 4 000 residents, down from the current 50 000 threshold. The measure aims to broaden bank formation amid shifting financial policy and urban growth dynamics.
The Empress of Japan reports a massive Chinese mutiny at Kiang Gin with two regiments seizing forts and killing officers. A magazine explosion wiped out two battalions, shells flew, and 16 000 pounds of powder burned. Capt Kao faced a demoralized garrison amid crimes.
Canadian authorities signal readiness to take charge of Cree Indians and deport them within four weeks. Governor Richards of Helena Montana received a letter from A T Traiger, commissioner of Indian affairs for Canada, requesting delivery of the Crees by May 1. The note describes Cree people as roaming and unhelpful, alleging smallpox spread across Montana.
President Cleveland proposes good offices of the United States to mediate between Spain and Cuba’s insurrection in the West Indies causing a crisis in U S Spain relations. Also notes Prohibition party nominations and Arizona land lease law passage without presidential approval. Also reports George Bauer’s suicide in St Louis and a clerk killed by masked robbers in Puente California.
Chicago cattle range 3.50 to 5.00, hogs 3.00 to 4.00, wheat No 2 red 5c to 66c, corn No 2 20c to 30c, oats 19c to 20c, rye 36c to 38c. Indianapolis cattle 3.00 to 4.50, hogs 4.00 to 4.25, wheat 0 to 0, etc. New York cattle 4.00 to 5.00, hogs 3.00 to 4.50, butter 17c to 19c, eggs 10c to 11c. Prices listed for multiple cities and commodities.
A massive gas explosion at the Kokomo Natural Gas and Oil Company plant in Kokomo Indiana wrecked four buildings, shattered nearby homes, and knocked down windows miles away. Superintendent Joseph Lindley was hurled through a window. two horses died, no lives lost, many workers slightly hurt, and fuel supply to hundreds of families cut off.
Frank Brown of Terre Haute, treasurer for local Red Men lodges, has vanished amid concerns over his health and possible self harm. In Portland Ida Tullis sues Valentine Landing for $5000 for breach of promise claiming two marriage plans failed. Edinburg druggist T. L. Coons died by ingesting prussic acid, leaving wife and child after recent financial dissipation. Dr. A C Jones seeks state encampment leadership in South Bend. he served as drummer boy in Colorado at age 12. Mishawaka farmer William Smels was injured by a calf and a horse while hitching a team, in precarious condition. Kilhart fire destroys Jacob Geiser’s home. $2500 loss, $1000 insurance, $3000 cash and $1000 gold hidden are recovered. Otis residents Kemper and Lipkie fought in a saloon brawl. Kemper’s blow to Sickle led to his death days later. coroner to decide if grand jury needed. Bristol area unearths counterfeiters’ plant by St Joe river. tools, dies, bogus coins, and a pocketbook identified as belonging to Jonathan Crumpacker, linked to a year-old assassination and Bristol robbery.
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