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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1895
Page
2
A compact review of daily events across sectors including incidents, accidents, politics, religion, commerce and crops. Highlights cover notable happenings in communities, policy updates, and market movements shaping local life.
Private dispatches describe Salvador on the brink of dissolution amid a fractured cabinet dubbed the Hodge cabinet. Reports say Francisco Bachez massacred citizens, police killed his brother, and unrest looms with possible lynching.
Victor Col. reports W S Straton the millionaire mine owner struck a vein in the Independence mine that may be the richest lode in the country possibly the world. Miners across the junction of two veins find ore warranting millions of dollars in sight with assays around 140000 dollars per ton.
George Fulmer of Wooster Ohio aged is declared insane and to be committed to the Insane Asylum after a practical joke caused him to flee into woods during a coon hunt. He was found hours later with his mind blank from the fright.
Captain Quick reported a Cuban waters encounter near Cape Antonio on July 14 as the Spanish gunboat fired two shots at the American schooner Carrie E Lane. The vessel was forced to heave to and answer for itself before resuming voyage toward Breakwater Delaware, with a crewman narrowly escaping a near miss on the bowsprit.
Record shows current standings in the National League with clubs listed by position and performance through the latest games. The brief notes the top teams and their win loss records in the ongoing season.
The Franco Chinese treaty grants France open ports and consular rights in several Chinese locations including Tieng-Heng Lanchow Mong Teo Hokbow and She Mao. It allows river transport rights rail and telegraph extensions, with reduced duties for commerce and new opportunities for French settlement along major rivers. In Hempstead High School a trial alleges principal Simons taught high kicking, with claims he tore his trousers during a lesson. he denies both teaching and tearing trousers, noting a pupil Mary popularized the activity.
The seed division of the Agricultural Department was abolished on Oct 1 with chief Mathias E B Fagan and the entire staff to be dropped. Secretary Morton acts on Olneys ruling limiting seeds purchasable under section 572 of revived statutes. All bids for furnishing seeds were rejected. estimated annual savings near 200000. Also noted: Alaska appeal issue raised in San Francisco and White Star liner Germanic’s faster voyage after overhaul.
Wire service dispatches debunk an alleged uprising at Jackson Hole Wyoming. Seven people were never killed and sensational details stemmed from a careless Market Lake Idaho correspondent. Troops remain near reservations. authorities pursue lawless whites connected to Indian hunter killings.
A cyclone swept the town of Three States sixty miles below Cairo killing George McClellan his wife and three children plus Mr and Mrs Thomas at Barnes Ridge. The funnel cloud cut a 100 yard swath through timber uprooting trees and snapping the village smokestack of the Three States mill, the strongest sheet steel stack ever built.
News comes of Dan and Crockett Whidden brothers murdered at Cedar Camp Flo during a long running family feud with the Whitehursts and Stevensons. The two men who were supervising camp work were shot while sleeping in palmetto shelters. killers fled.
Ho Tang Taike a Hong Kong banker warns of looming internal strife after the war. He predicts revolution fueled by public discontent and mass superstition, noting Hung Chang’s days are numbered and England discussions on a Chinese war loan failed.
Rumors of mismanagement at the Haverhill almshouse culminate in a joint city meeting ordering an inquiry. A delegation found a semiparalytic inmate named Doughton in a filthy bed beneath a tree, with aides urging the superintendent to loosen the man’s shirt amid the appalling conditions.
An explosion in the Prince von Cursen mine near Bochum Westphalia killed thirty two workers and left others missing. Nine men suffered severe burns in the disaster and rescue efforts continue.
Miss Elma Busch aged 19 daughter of E L Busch of Kansas City Kansas drowned herself in a pond. She left a note saying she was losing her mind and could bear the anxiety no longer.
Delegates from nearly every European and American society attend the opening at the Imperial Institute in London led by the Duke of York. The four week congress to feature papers on exploration and geographical investigation includes a prominent display of globes, photographs, instruments, and maps tracing cartographic progress.
Walter Barker in Sagunta Grande Cuba reports that US exports to Cuba reached 4 750 886 with only 1 241 187 in American bottoms. British vessels carried about half of the shipments while American shippers lost market share to foreign tramp ships.
Market quotes cover cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Buffalo Milwaukee and York with prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs potatoes broom corn and pork varying by city and grade. Reading shows mixed ranges and notable spreads between regions and product types.
The U S government and Canadian tests show Royal Baking Powder as the purest and strongest cream of tartar powder, delivering 160.6 cubic inches of gas per ounce versus 111.5 for others. It leaves fewer impurities, with Ohio findings noting no other powder below 10 percent inert matter, and Royal dominates US cream of tartar use.
A description of headwear in Japan during imperial festivities. Nobles and guests wore stovepipe hats, passed down through generations since 1858, while ordinary people shunned hats. Army and police favored blue caps, women wore none, and officials once wore distinctive hats now vanished with the Shogunate.
The horse serves as production medium for antitoxine by inoculation and blood extraction to counter diphtheria. France leads progress with 186 Paris horses, government supports 20 for phthisis and the poor, other studs exist nationwide. Horses shown robust despite blood loss.
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