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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1896
Page
1
The excerpt presents a light overview of global fashion notes and quirky trends. It hints at recurring themes in apparel and lifestyle coverage, with a playful tone typical of weekly roundups.
A compact weekly summary from The News Record covering politics religion and world events. Highlights include political shifts, religious developments, and reported casualties across regions with emphasis on major incidents and global currents.
Indiana Populists refuse fusion with Democrats and nominate a ticket in Indianapolis. Governor Thomas A Wadsworth of Dallas County leads. Lt Governor A P Tanna of Montgomery. Secretary of State Silas M Hollibson of Hollibson County. Auditor N M Jennings of Johnson. Treasurer J F Robinson of Clay. Attorney General D H Fernandez of Madison. A thirteen member committee will select presidential electors.
John Selvage, a young farmer, killed 18 year old daughter of David Joffman near Afton ten miles SW of Marysville Kansas. He then shot himself. Parents had forbidden the couple. He left a letter saying he could not live without the girl and that her parents turned her against him after initial encouragement.
Miss Kimball, an eye witness, places the Van massacre in June at about 500 killed. She says ten thousand were rendered homeless and aided by the American mission, while fifteen thousand sought refuge under the British flag for days.
I N Coffee of Cairo, president of the State Board of Pharmacy, was stabbed to death in front of Dr. Crabtree's drug store while en route to a Springfield board meeting. Coffee was struck twice with a dagger, a fatal heart wound. Both men were prominent local druggists.
A London dispatch reports Dr. Jameson jailed fifteen months without hard labor. Maj. Sir John Willoughby receives ten months, Maj. Kk White seven months, and Capt. Henry F Coventry Cols Grey and JF White five months each.
A Havana dispatch reports Captain General Weyler offers captains 24000 dollars for each filibustering steamer and zero for sailing vessels seized, with captains exempt from responsibility. A Great Storm Hits Laporte Indiana. damage along the Chicago and West Michigan line includes many houses washed away and track washed out, with heavy losses not yet estimated.
Mme Maria Dulores de Durio, married to an American and naturalized in 1870, sues Spain for 200000 dollars claiming Spanish troops burned her Santa Clara plantation and fired on her, despite U S forces reportedly overhead.
A large Mussulain body aided by Turkish troops attacked the Azomaty District of Cho dsiaud in Crete. They were assaulted by 1,500 in our gents who drove the Mussulinans and Turkish forces from the district, inflicting serious loss.
The bark Iceland arrives in Honolulu after a 154 day voyage from New York. A hurricane on April 21 cost six crew dead and the rigging damaged. The vessel Jin Ke Startuck arrived from Honolua with a cargo of sugar valued at $200,000 bound for New York.
Flooding sweeps cities as successive cloudbursts keep streams swollen. Indian Province reports major damage to towns and infrastructure, with rising water levels threatening homes and livelihoods.
Eastern Cornelina Vanderbilt doctors say he has passed the crisis and is out of danger. Ellicott Evans and Miss Katherine Hamlin eloped from Buffalo by bicycle. The Freeman's Journal cites the pope’s choice for Cardinal Satolli whether to return to Rome or stay in America, with the latter chosen. Howard R. Benedict died in New York and asked to marry his fiancée at his bedside. In Albany the East River Mutual Insurance Corporation of Long Island City is insolvent with a $115188 capital deficit. Twelve thousand tailors struck in New York to push higher prices and end task and piece-work. Elizabeth Baldy, known to police in several cities, is held in Baltimore on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses by promising employment to local girls.
A string of reports includes Henry Westendorf of Cincinnati assigning liabilities to 885 000 and a death from Brights disease for Vincent Lombard Hurlbut, a noted Chicago figure. A Colorado storm flood near Bear Creek Canyon costs lives and cautions search efforts as campers vanish. Kansas City rail rate cuts clash with Missouri Pacific pricing, while California fruit shipments reach London with modest prices. A staged robbery near Concord line prompts no resistance from passengers with losses around 500 and twelve watches. Oklahoma pardons attorney William D Halbil after near two years in prison. Missouri Republicans announce several state posts including governor and attorney general nominees.
Wires down in all directions except the line to Lendville. atroden Colo reports three lives lost and vast property destruction. Gen George W Jones, oldest surviving ex senator, dies in Dubuque at age 102 after a long public career from Vincennes to Iowa and beyond.
Mrs. Moore of New Martinsville West Virginia is jailed on suspicion of poisoning stepson Okey Moore who died and his brother remains gravely ill. The fragment also notes freight rate cuts to Atlanta and a Florence campaign clash between Judge Joseph E Marie and Gov. John Gar Evans amid broader Cairo Cuba related reports.
Government mobilizes troops as gunboat Cordova resumes service and lands munitions. Isthmian Press cites personal tax use limits. Princess Maud wed Prince Charles in London private chapel with modest ceremonies. Havana court martial on Col, Delgado, and Gonzales yields no decision. Johannesburg refugees voyage to Australia aboard Mariposa, while British political intrigue and Irish tariff debates ripple through London politics.
Obituaries report Eugene Spulter dead at 61 and other deaths in London New York Essex and Milwaukee. Fires along the Northern Railway region devastate barns fences and railroad ties while Vancouver and nearby towns suffer smoke and navigation difficulties. Unsure miner fatalities feared near Spokane.
A dense ledger of market quotes reports cattle hogs and sheep values by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo and New York. Prices cover wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes with ranges for common to prime grades and various No. 2 and No. 4 white and yellow grains.
After five months of daring heists in Chicago a drag net captured Red Sullivan and nine accomplices, with ten implicated. Orme and others arrested in Detroit while planning further crimes. the gang tied by a death pledge and capable of bold store robberies and a murder.
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