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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1899
Page
2
Elizabeth Jane succumbs to social pressure amid Henchard and Farfrae's shifting fortunes. Farfrae starts solo business, while Henchard grows suspicious and stern. Elizabeth Jane hides her feelings as Lucretia's arrival and Mrs Henchard's illness strain loyalties and threaten possible marriages.
Three weeks after Mrs Henchard’s funeral Henchard and Elizabeth Jane discuss the past and family ties. He wonders if he could be her father and whether she would care for him as she does for Richard Newson. He wrestles with the impulse to reveal himself.
Henchard confesses to Elizabeth Jane that he is her father and former husband of her mother. He urges acceptance of his surname and hints at publishing a legal name change, while Elizabeth laments the past and contemplates the family’s tangled ties as she grapples with shock and sorrow.
The passage recalls a Johnson Garrick dispute about Hackman condemned for murder. Beauclerk narrates a man who loved muffins and, fearing indigestion, shot himself after eating three battered muffins for breakfast, with two pistols present. The question asks if Dickens drew on this tale.
The piece recalls Lewis Carroll at Oxford and his playful etymology of belfry splitting it into belle and frei to yield meat safe. It notes a provisional Christ Church Belfry nicknamed the meat safe and cites the Buffalo Commercial comment on the verse.
Reports say Gen. Otis boosts morale amid a panicked Aguinaldo faction. Wheaton’s flying column advances two miles wide and eleven miles long, destroying $500,000 in insurgent property. American gunboats patrol Bay lake as losses mount for Filipino troops, with about 1000 killed and hundreds captured while two Washington and Oregon regiments reinforce at Taguig.
A Saturday night cyclone swept from six miles west of Edwardsville toward Iron City, Alabama, killing eleven and injuring fifteen. The storm destroyed homes and ripped up trees across twelve miles, lifting houses and tossing timbers, with one double log house blown apart and ten occupants dead.
Mrs Martha Place faced the electric chair in Sing Sing New York on Monday afternoon. She walked to the chair with no struggle leaning on the warden's arm, attended by a prison officer and a physician. The crime occurred last February in Brooklyn when she killed her stepdaughter Ida Place by acid and smothering then attacked her husband with an ax. Jealousy of her husband's attention to his daughter was listed as motive.
Aguinaldo, enraged by surrender proposals, condemned twelve Manila residents and ordered Gen Lagarda executed after a visit to Malolos. Lagarda was beheaded for urging cessation of hostilities.
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