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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1899
Page
2
The War Department plans to recruit volunteers through United States recruiting officers in major cities. It aims to raise nine regiments under the new act, with full instructions and enlistment blanks already dispatched from Washington.
W. J. Elliott, once life sentence for shooting rival newspaper man Al Osre on Washington's Birthday in 1897, received a Fourth of July pardon from Gov. Bushnell and was freed. The incident on High Street near the State House killed an innocent man Hughes and wounded Patsy Elliott and others as a parade passed. Elliott has near blindness from confinement.
Reports from Manila note a Negros Island attack on departing California troops. About 250 bolo-armed rebels attacked, killing one soldier and wounding another from Company E before being driven off. The Sherman will return California troops to Manila en route to San Francisco. The Grant will soon embark the Colorado regiment.
A card game near the G A R grounds in Elmwood Nebraska turned deadly when William Harris of Nehawka drew a revolver and shot indiscriminately. George Jones of St Joseph Missouri was killed while William Malone of Oklahoma and Joseph Hart were seriously wounded but survived.
A Mo nongahela Traction Company collision on a steep grade near High Bridge killed two people and injured five seriously with ten others lightly to moderately hurt as crowds returned from Kennywood Park.
Parthena Connors sued James A. McKenzie for breach of promise in Galesburg Illinois. The jury awarded Connors 1000 dollars after she sought 10900, marking the second trial after a disagreement in the first. McKenzie was noted as a leading Knox County lawyer.
Three boys, Roy Harbaugh Bert Hoover and John Hoover drowned while bathing in the Cedar River below the lower dam at Waterloo Iowa. The swift current proved deadly as all three were swept away in a vain rescue attempt.
Dr Paul M Jones biology professor at Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee drowned while bathing at Wood Ahball Massachusetts. He served as secretary of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
The Chamber of Deputies adopted a resolution allowing qualified women to practice at the bar in Paris. A steamer St Paul blew out its boiler flues twelve miles north of Alton Illinois. Five crew were badly scalded, four Black sailors and one white man. The ship was landed and injured taken to St Louis where two died.
Maj Gen Henry J. Madill died in Towanda Pennsylvania at 70. Lt Melton K Schwenk USN retired died in New York at 49. Harvard crews beat Yale at New London in all races. Vinton Lumber mill burned at Winona Pa destroying 60000 dollars with no insurance. A I M Dewar bought a New York Stock Exchange seat for 40000. E Mullins of Newton Center Baptist elected president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Fire Chief Edward F Croker appointed at 6000 salary. Recorder Goff missing believed offshore. 30 million asphalt combine chartered at Trenton. George A Huhne implicated. Oliver Ohl sentenced after railway collision. Sacred Heart Convent fire kills Sister Mary Aloysius. 3000 damage. G Percival Stewart surrenders on four indictments bail 2000. Sadie B Matthewson murdered by Samuel Rowens after drinking. body burned. Joseph S Hollinger hanged for wife murder in Harrisburg.
Capt Coghlan lectured on The Battle of Manila at Winfield Chautauqua. J H Allen of Chicago elected President of International Hahnemann Association. Alderman Griffiths murdered at Weatherford. Sheriff Dewstoo named Cleveland postmaster. Deputy Bache wounded in Chinatown. John Beach bankrupt in Kansas. Kansan Legislature insurance law ruled unconstitutional. Electric wire caused a youngster’s death in Cleveland. Mrs Kopp killed husband in San Francisco. Bouts of jealousy cited as motive. Kansas quarantines cattle over tuberculosis. Mary Bechweitzer found dead in Hoquiam river. Mrs Alice Petit burned to death near Greenville. Sedalia jury finds James West guilty in train robbery case. Frank Callaway found guilty of murder in St Louis. Spencer Fisher files bankruptcy in federal court. Welborn case jury unable to reach verdict.
The report notes multiple legal actions and sentences including Macomb train robbers case updates and Lewis Nigh's twelve year penitentiary term. It covers a string of incidents from fires and duels to drownings, labor upheaval in Indiana, and a series of local tragedies in Missouri and Ohio. It mentions uprisings in oil and zinc sectors, and storm damage in North Dakota.
The Kentucky Democratic convention at Louisville nominated William Goebel for governor on the twenty sixth ballot. In Elliott County Lee Sparks was fatally shot from ambush while traveling a public road. Gustavus A. Ulman of Chicago wed Genevieve Raab in Richmond Virginia as roses showered the couple during the ceremony. A Wheeling and Stair Way Company strike ended in a compromise. A fire at the United Verde copper mine in Jerome Arizona was controlled after shutting off power to save the town. Extensive rains across Texas delayed railroads and flooded hundreds of acres of farmland. Huntington bought 1350 acres in Hanover County Virginia for a juvenile confinement facility. Post 1802 Paducah Building and Trust Company remains active.
Financial woes hit Paduceh with liabilities and withdrawals. Melbourne passes a federal act. Hague Peace talks reject Russian disarmament. Philippine rice varieties mature in three months. Mrs Ellen C Johnson dies in London aged 75. Haiti seeks a 3 million dollar loan for gold standard reform. German coal strike violence leaves three dead. Italian aeronaut Merighi survives a 10 000 foot balloon burst. Venezuela arbitration scuffles over document presentation in Paris. Benjamin Harrison intervenes in the Venezuelan case.
General summary of varied items including Arthur Tennyson’s younger brother’s death, Cuba possibly seeking annexation by the United States, Ohio River Railroad wage increase, P Lorillard resigning as American Tobacco president with Thomas Maloney elected successor, Maj General Anderson receiving LL D from Mount St Mary’s, the steamer Margaret Olwill sunk off Lorain with 10 lives lost, Toronto machinery hall fire at the industrial exhibition causing $25 000 loss, McKinley canceling western vacation due to Mrs McKinley’s health but planning to attend Chicago fall festival, John Johnson of the Krim hospitalized with yellow fever, a yellow fever report from Santiago, Lorin Thurston’s Hawaii visit noting potential territorial government and a big sugar crop.
The report lists daily market figures for cattle hogs sheep and grains across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep and for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes across many markets. It reflects regional variation and commodity valuations found in early financial pages.
Heavy rains in Texas trigger millions in damage as rail traffic halts in south Texas. Houston area streams flood, destroying cotton, corn and cane while cattle and houses are washed away. In Calvert, a sudden rise drowns several negros and five bodies are recovered. Brazos rivers join at Navasota, wiping out vast cotton and pine land with one family of six reported dead. Losses exceed 2 million including railroad damages.
Treasury figures show receipts of 514,116,911 dollars and expenditures of 604,644,972 dollars, producing a deficit of 90,528,061. Customs brought in 205,919,116 and internal revenue 271,773,869, with increases over last year. Expenditures rose by 161,256,003, driven by war costs totaling 293,744,766, and the two-year war expense estimate reaches about 277,510,797.
A new strike at the Homestead steel plant in Pittsburgh grows as 2,000 workers quit after 15 dismissals tied to union affiliation. The Amalgamated Association notes organizers were discharged, uniting workers to stand for reinstatement and threaten full shutdown across departments.
Prediction follows a Chicago conference as nearly all tin plate mills shut for repairs with about 50,000 workers idle. The Amalgamated Association hopes for a 20 percent wage increase, while trusts are ready to grant raises once plants resume operation. Headquarters are in Chicago.
Captain Dreyfus arrived at Rennes and was placed in prison after being transported from Quiberon by cruiser Sfax and then by train to Brest. The announcement contradicted earlier expectations of a Brest landing, signaling the next phase in the prolonged case on French soil.
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