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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1893
Page
1
Reports detail a lynching incident in Indiana and a prison escape from Jeffersonville Penitentiary. The article also includes a crop report and announces that the World's Fair will open Sundays.
Seymour special reports Lon Trench hanged by a mob at Brownstown after abducting Henry Faedler. A masked, armed crowd seized Trench from the jail, hanged him from a tree, then returned home, marking a quick, violent act by locals mirroring a recent lynching of Tooley.
Four desperate criminals escaped from the Prison South at Jeffersonville Indiana. Names include Robert Adams Nathan Bell William Nelson and Frank McCarthy with years served from Jackson and Hancock counties. They tunneled through walls and floor and carried dirt in sacks, leaving a twenty two foot long tunnel under a board fence to the outside. Weather and crop notes follow with broad county reports from Indiana and Michigan and weather favorable to crops.
Directors vote to open the World’s Fair Sundays after an appropriation of 2400000 was secured. Police fear strikes and disturbances as workers protest, while Governor signs deputy sheriff bills and a bank in Moncronville reopens to meet obligations.
A collage of brief items reports Joan Knorbel’s knife attack in Pittsburg, a cigarette sale bill in Pennsylvania, Westinghouse profits, a New York bank murder suicide, and fires in New Jersey. Also noted are stock and insurance moves, a lynching in Indiana, theater legal action, and a Cunard Campania transatlantic record voyage.
Lems of former Treasury Secretary James Guthrie donate Madison Indiana property valued at 20000 to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville Kentucky. A counterfeit five dollar silver certificate of the ski series bearing the letter iL circulates with a poorly engraved Grant portrait. President Cleveland, then New York Governor, restored Erpywarp Strokes to citizenship in 1884.
An Indiana column lists a stream of incidents including a sulphur well at Paoli, a fatal fire near Lebanon, a man struck by a fast freight west of Centerville, and Anna Ennan found dead near O M tracks. It covers deaths from train accidents, shop mishaps, drownings, and robberies, plus local court filings, farm equipment patents, and notable obituaries.
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