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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1896
Page
2
A weekly digest recounts notable events, observations, and inquiries from across the region. It surveys happenings in politics, society, and daily life, highlighting local incidents and ongoing issues affecting residents.
An explosion of a gasoline stove in a Brooklyn tenement injures and kills two women and two young boys. Mrs. Cohen, standing at the stove, is engulfed in flames and dies within minutes. Mrs Parearnek's attempt to help lights her clothing, and both women perish as firemen remove them to the street. Two other children suffer serious burns.
A severe collision south of Chicago Junction Ohio injures several and destroys most of a twenty four car train. Brakeman Thomas Dobson of Newark is thrown from the train and crushed. Other injured include William Smith of Elkhart Ind W C Doyle of St Louis Mo W G Simson of Utica Ohio and two unidentified men. The crash was caused by a broken rail while passing the east switch.
John Crouch a young burglar shot by Station Agent Wolfe near Viney Flat Tenn after entering the depot masked and ordering a hold up. He was wounded in the neck and, as he died, allegedly confessed implicating others in the robbery and in wrecking four Southern trains and killing four engineers.
Eleven year old Charles Glewitt of Pittsburgh died when a bolt struck him in the back of the head as he sheltered with two companions in an unroofed house. Authorities believe a steel waist truss attracted the lightning, killing him instantly.
Maronic Temple Theater in Fort Wayne Indiana hosts the popular Rijah with Rosenbecker's Chicago Orchestra providing music. The stage features 150 voices with lead roles by Leo Long Elizabeth TL Bagg George Hamlin and Francoon Davies in his first American appearance.
Town Marshall and Moore Miller of Hume captured two postoffice robbers near Littleton after a heavy exchange of about a dozen shots. One robber George Patterson was badly wounded. Thomas Hineenan fled but was later captured. They had robbed Jefferson Dye's postoffice and store at Jollytown, Pennsylvania. Patterson's wound is not fatal.
After three years of litigation Mrs. Stanford has enabled payment of the $2,600,000 bequest Senator Stanford left to Land Stanford Jr University. The transferred bonds draw interest at $10,000 every four months.
James Wilkins of Hamilet near Toledo Ohio murdered his wife Bessie 42 for refusing to withdraw her divorce petition. He then killed himself with a revolver. Four children survive the couple.
Representative Gardner of New Jersey reports the Southwick bill to confine convict-made goods to the state of production to curb interstate competition with free labor. An amendment excludes manufactured agricultural products. The committee seeks national legislation prohibiting interstate transport of convict-made goods to remedy the issue for both capital and labor.
The Cripple Creek Colorado fire swept the town on Saturday and resumed Wednesday. Thousands homeless, two inches of snow, near zero temperatures. Two million dollars of property burned, about one tenth insured. Four dead, twenty injured. Fire blamed on bandits aiming to loot banks. Palace Hotel destroyed, guests killed. Only a few homes outside the blaze survived.
A Himla India Bombay mail train explosion killed three and burned eleven as passengers leaped from a blazing car. In New York and Washington Spanish officials uncovered a Cuban plot to destroy a warship and seize gold, aiming to seize Neuvitas and provoke military moves, with roots traced to New York City and Cuban insurgent leadership.
The Dorie from Hong Kong to San Francisco carries nine cabin and steerage passengers with no sickness on board. Plague remains prevalent in Hong Kong and Canton with two Europeans diagnosed. Vapair takes strict measures to prevent plague entry while Yokohama fears outbreak after the Dorie’s departure. A Gaelic case emerged on long-keeping ship Ilong-Koing as tensions rise over canal access near foreign settlements. A Missouri cyclone devastates Boone and surrounding counties with property loss but no fatalities reported. Washington says Canada exempting American vessels from entry charges. Swope, Dolan, and Dement are arrested in Portland on charges of conspiring to land Chinese and falsify certificates.
The Indiana state superintendent reports a sharp drop of 75,000 in the school child enumeration compared with last year. Fraud by city enumerators paying per child inflated counts, aided by lax boards, prompted padding for larger school funds. New precautions required parent signatures and reduced padding, with fraud confined to cities.
Dun's Weekly Review indicates more business as the season advances but says gains are smaller than expected. Retail trade reduces stocks yet mills and factories still face unfulfilled orders and some closures. Prices across commodities, including farm and mine products, are down about 1 percent since April 1, with a 16.7 percent drop since October 1802.
The Rev. George R. McKinney, a noted cowboy preacher and local official in McKinney Oklahoma Territory, was ambushed and killed by three men, including Wm Hooks and Wm Jones, amid land contest troubles. The case mentions a suspect Frank Roth Dupes, a bigamist, and the search to locate him. Also reported are a Cripple Creek hotel fire linked traveler and the death of horseman French Joe Martin after an assault at Woodbine racetrack, Toronto.
Albert S. Willia, U S minister to Hawaii, is seriously ill with pneumonia and confined to a San Francisco hotel, delaying his eastward journey. The Glass Company threatens to close its Tiffa plant and move to Pittsburgh if cheaper natural gas is not supplied by Tiffin, affecting over 600 workers.
Advices from Havana report the capture of the American schooner Competitor by Spanish naval forces near Punta Bernico in Cuba. The vessel, loaded with arms for the insurgents and a crew, is said to have originated from Key West, not the Mosquito coast. Two Americans are reported killed. Spaniards claim legal seizure as the ship was within their coastal zone and loading troops when captured.
Scott Jackson testified as the first defense witness in Newport Kentucky, recounting his life in Jersey City and New York and his acquaintance with Pearl Bryan. He described his time in Greencastle Indiana, where his mother lived, and said he saw Bryan often in 1895, but court ruled out many statements by Will Wood. He claimed to have received many vile letters from Wood, destroying all but two kept by the prosecution.
Billy Taylor was hanged at Carrolltown Missouri on Thursday morning for the May 10 1804 massacre near Browning Linn County The Meeks family Gus his wife and two children were beaten to death and hidden in a straw stack George Taylor and William Taylor were implicated with Taylor convicted after a second trial Nellie Meeks seven survived to testify against the Taylors in a prior criminal case
Thomas I. Childs sues Judge A. A. Voris alleging bench utterances harmed his ability to counsel a prisoner. The case marks the first libel action against a sitting judge.
Persian shah Nasr-ed-Din was killed at the shrine of Shah Abdul Azim outside Tehran. The assassin, said to be a fanatic and possibly linked to a secret society, was arrested. British, Russian, and Persian tensions loom as leaders fear wider disorder and a new succession crisis.
Richard Parks Bland, Missouri silver Democrat candidate for president, is profiled as a colorful figure in American politics. Born in 1835 near Hartford Kentucky, Bland earned nicknames like Silver Dick and Silver Dollar Bland reflecting his focus on monetary issues.
The article follows Bland’s long political career from Missouri to Utah and his free coinage advocacy, then shifts to a Kingman County medical case where J H Light received skin grafts. Local donors provided graft skin from multiple volunteers to treat severe burns on arms and face.
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