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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1895
Page
6
May Riley Smith writes of anemone awakening and the speaker’s own brief life cycle. The dialogue compares endurance through winter and the spring arrival, claiming the flower’s fading precedes the soul’s hoped bloom. The verse blends nature imagery with spiritual persistence.
In a French drawing room, Antoinette resists an arranged match to Baron de Merillac while her mother, guardian M. Lambert, and cousin Gaston stage a test of devotion. When Gaston reveals his love, Antoinette smiles through tears and accepts true affection over wealth.
A Vancouver dispatch reports a remarkable run of candle fish or eulachons along British Columbia and Alaska. The fish, fat and candlelike when dried, could supply light for winters and even serve as cod liver oil substitutes. Large catches, including 70 buckets sold at 25 cents a bucket, hint at wide native use from Alaska to New Westminster. The abundance risks oil monopoly disruption while offering a potential food source. England about 200 men each worth 5,000,000.
Hundreds of visitors from America attended the World's Temperance Congress held in Britain. The event showcased the rise of women leaders in temperance, suffrage, and reform, highlighting the birth of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and predicting political influence from mass meetings across the English speaking world. Lady Henry Somerset presided over the British association.
A woman alters her graduation attire by enlarging the sleeves to exceed the dress. Eugene Busch, after fasting forty days at South Enid Oklahoma, has been committed to an insane asylum. A plan to hire 500 laborers at the Pacific end of the proposed Panama Canal is approved. Joe Hayes, arrested at Huron South Dakota, is charged with starting a blaze that destroyed $20,000 in property. Daniel Welshart of Tipton County Indiana, driven mad by ruined crops, was found banging a tree. Detroit cigarmakers strike against annex shops teaching underage apprentices.
A Notre Dame centennial celebration drew about 3000 visitors as Gov Claude Matthews and staff attended. Archbishop Spalding delivered the commencement keynote praising Father Sorin and Christian education blending secular and religious learning, urging morality and citizenship. dignitaries from St Paul, Washington, Helena, Covington, Salt Lake attended. Military bands fired salutes and escorted guests to Morrissey Hall where speeches stressed unity of faith and study.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quietly marked the eighty fourth birthday with no formal celebration. Relatives and friends worldwide sent congratulations while she remains vigorous in health. The copyright on Uncle Tom expired two years ago, leaving her no claim to receipts, though publishers still provide a small bonus.
A Monday cyclone from the southwest struck Hartford Kansas wounding several and causing severe property damage. The storm crossed the Neosho River then vanished. Nebraska endured heavy rain and winds with Richardson County reporting costly crop and property losses yet no fatalities. In Crawford County Iowa a windstorm intensified into a cyclone injuring Mrs. Rose fatally and dislocating Mr. Rose while a baby survived wrapped in a quilt. The Denison area school near three miles east was wrecked and livestock perished.
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