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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1899
Page
1
Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley will visit Fort Wayne Indiana on May 18 under the Fort Wayne Press Club auspices. The Princess Rink seats 2600 and Riley will read eight of his plays on eight topics, promising a major literary musical event in the region.
An Eastern Minnesota ore train of forty ore cars and several box cars plunged through a bridge over the Nemadji River near West Superior Wisconsin. Engineer Thomas Quinn was killed. Fireman Larry Miller was gravely injured and likely to die as the weakened structure gave way in a suspected spring flood.
In Philadelphia, John Ging aged 2 and his wife Henrietta aged 1 were found dead from illuminating gas asphyxiation in bed. They slept when gas issued from the burner. The deaths are believed accidental as the couple had married recently.
Lieutenant General Polavieja cabled authorization for General Rios to return to Spain when convenient as Spain’s chief military officer in the Philippines. John Sherman states he would decline the Ohio governorship if offered, citing age. Snyder’s Dresden flour mill burns, loss about 4 3 000, cause spontaneous combustion. Toledo planing mills form a price‑fixing combine, eight mills joined, MacClaren & Sprague holding out for cash payment, total near 1 000 000.
Henry Fischer once a prosperous New York restaurateur faced reverses and insured his life for 2000 dollars. He urged his wife Louisa to kill herself after him so she would collect the policy. She did so days later by inhaling gas after moving to better quarters.
Federal suits against the Columbus Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway Company total $9,000,000. The Guarantee Trust Company seeks $2,087,893, M. E. Ingalls and George H. Gardiner claim $4,970,761, and combined claims include $2,198,560 on joint mortgage bonds.
Banker Alexander Masterson was lured into a Burlington apartment and shot by retired merchant James Neale Plumb. Plumb carried a typed statement detailing the feud over family estates. The case ends a long running personal dispute. Grace Crow of Lindsay Ohio fires at Denison’s bicycle when seeking remedy for breach of promise suit. She was arrested and jailed.
Striking streetcar workers and sympathizers attacked company property in Duluth injuring five, one fatally, derailing four cars and destroying one, as clashes escalated between strikers and company men.
The Ute reservation in Colorado was opened for settlement by presidential proclamation drawing hundreds into a land rush. A great fire at Rio Janeiro razed about fifty houses around the market, with casualties and damage around 4 000 centos. The Connecticut House defeated the woman suffrage bill by 103 to 63.
In Louisville Kentucky a federal jury awarded George Dinning fifty thousand dollars against six mob members who attacked him in Simpson County on January twenty seventh eighteen hundred seven. Dinning fired in self defense killing one assailant and fled as his home was burned and his family displaced. He filed suit against leaders seeking the full sum, a case seen as sensational and novel in mob punishment.
R G Dun and Co notes April failures were the smallest since records began, 38 percent below April last year and far below 1897. Business slowdowns come from overhyped anticipation of new combinations and price rises restraining demand. Week failures: 158 in the United States and 23 in Canada versus 238 and 25 a year ago.
A frontier vigilante on a bicycle, Ernie Bloxs, travels from Odessa Texas to St. Louis to confront Warren Bennett Ulysses Russell Mayne whom she married at Fort Worth a year ago and now accuses of desertion. She searches police records for Mayne’s photo and warns she may shoot him when found, suspecting another wife in Quincy Illinois and wealthy Albany New York relatives.
The Postmaster General orders rural free delivery divided into two grand divisions with headquarters in St. Louis for the western states west of the Ohio and in Washington for the eastern states.
Judge Speer of the District Court for the Southern District of Georgia rules that federal courts have no jurisdiction over a homestead held by a bankrupt. The homestead belongs to state courts and cannot be treated as an asset of the bankrupt in U S court. The trustee must seek other avenues, a decision with far reaching consequences.
A Philadelphia blaze of unknown origin destroyed Charles Bacharach's clothing store at Thirteenth Street and Ridge Avenue and damaged about fifteen nearby buildings. Loss is estimated at $150,000, with insurance covering the damages. The building was a shell-like frame and brick structure. Some employees escaped.
Mrs. Catherine Schultz, 62, of Chicago, shot her mother in a public hall after telling her granddaughter Belle Styles, 16, that her birth was disgraceful. The granddaughter reported the remark prompting the lethal act.
Martin Kelley and his son Garret of Monsey were arrested for hanging Richard Bayles to force a confession. Bayles, a Black man, says he confessed to theft to save his life, claiming coercive pressure led to the admission. The Fidelity Building and Savings Union of Indianapolis begins voluntary liquidation. J. B. Patten hopes claims may be paid in full without court intervention. Mrs. W C Whitney dies in New York after a fall from horse over a year ago. A large sawmill explosion near Hopkinsville Kentucky kills three and wounds one.
Market notes cover Chicago and national commodity prices including cattle hogs sheep and grains. Regional quotes list No 2 red wheat prices and corn oats rye across multiple cities with assorted values and minor discrepancies.
A military court ends its inquiry into Gen Miles and Gen Eagan over Army beef purchases in Cuba and Porto Rico. It finds Miles made false allegations and failed to report unfitness, clears packers, and recommends no further action while noting possible prosecutions for others.
Excitement rose in Durango Colorado as 600 acres of Ute lands opened to settlers. Fewer than a thousand began the rush to secure sites, far below the expected three thousand. The start was prompt at noon, with many bypassing the land office to race for prime locations. Only 120 lined up at the office. No trouble reported as crowds surged toward the starting point all night and into forenoon.
A collage of odd facts lists the King of Portugal as a lifelong smoker Sarah Bernhardt trimming bonnets Rudyard Kipling's golf cap choice and a series of high profile figures including Maj Strong Colred Funston King Oscar Casimir-Porier Count George Antonyi and Rear Admirals Schley Howell with notes on age appointments and travels.
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