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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1898
Page
2
The battleship Illinois was launched at Newport News Virginia on a Tuesday with Illinois attendance led by Chicago figures. Army and naval officials and other guests witnessed the ceremony at 12:85 PM as Miss Lester broke a champagne bottle on the prow and christened the vessel Illinois.
A blaze destroyed fourteen blocks of Lowell Indiana wiping out key structures including the Nichols Opera House the Post Office Waters draft store the Vaint building Hayward studio Jersham tailoring Spindler’s store Lowell Record printing house Pack er’s saloon Death’s hardware and millinery store and other properties with extensive losses reported.
A six year old Robert Coveney died at Boston City Hospital from football injuries after three players fell on him. He was son of Jeremiah W. Coveney a former Boston Postmaster and a Boston College student. In Oklahoma a widow Mrs. White killed her four year old daughter after threatening her six year old son near Sheridan. The child escaped. authorities deem Mrs. White insane.
The Masonic Temple in Fort Wayne Indiana lists a busy October lineup. October 11 shows Heart of the Klondike, October 12 Casey’s Wife, October 14 The Pay Train, October 15 Uncle Josh Sprusby, October 17 18 and 12 Ben Hur, October 20 The Female Drummer, October 22 George Monroe.
Thomas Ninde a 26 year old Ypsilanti Michigan horse trainer shot Millie Young a Hawkins House waitress. Jealousy is suspected as the motive though Miss Young both wounded seriously is expected to recover.
Gov Mount proposes state troops to keep order between white and colored miners in Washington Indiana. Sheriff opposes large force saying it is unnecessary. Donnelly defeats Peck for the Fourth Wisconsin District Democratic nomination in Milwaukee for Congress. New Orleans Confederate veterans protest the claim to title The Daughter of the Confederacy by Lucy Lee Hill. Col Charles F Dick named by Republicans in the Nineteenth Ohio District for Congress. Federal Council expels six anarchists from Switzerland.
San Francisco police report that several children entered Julian Kruttschnitt's residence while his family was away and stole articles valued at over $1,000 from the general manager of the Southern Pacific Company.
A half ton of powder exploded at Lind's road building camp seventeen miles north of New Whatcom Washington destroying cook house stable and shops. Three people died and three horses were killed. Report heard twenty miles away and many workers were injured or scattered. The camp belonged to a road contractor with twenty five men at work.
Four men robbed freight train No. 75 on the Lake Shore Railroad near Elyria Ohio early morning. They attacked Conductor Burt Null and took his watch and $21 then fired at him as they moved toward the engine. The caboose was looted and the rear brakeman escaped after the door was forced. The engineer reversed and started back as the robbers fled through the woods with valuables totaling under $100.
A contract has been let for a 65 foot monument in the Rockefeller lot at Lakeview cemetery Cleveland. The shaft stands 55 feet high as a single piece from Barre Vermont quarries and will be the second largest after the Egyptian obelisk in Central Park. The base rises ten feet and includes casket receptacles with the name Rockefeller in raised letters as the sole ornamentation.
An explosion of powder in the basement at 410 North Fourth Street St Louis in a building occupied by C and W McClain fishing tackle shop blew out the front and started a blaze. Three women leaped from the third window and suffered fatal injuries and severe burns. firefighter Buhlly from Company 15 was injured by falling glass.
G F Newlin and sheep owner Otto Brown vanish after a shipment of about 2000 sheep to South Omaha yards. The money from the sale, 3900 dollars, partly paid in cash and the rest sent to Denver Bank of Commerce, with Newlin to identify himself. $2300 withdrawn from the Denver bank. authorities suspect foul play and possible murder. Local commission men Cox Jones Cox report the affair and call for investigation.
Bradstreet's notes a mixed national picture with overall heavy business activity and heavy exports of cereals. Demand cools slightly in parts of the South and West due to yellow fever quarantines and cotton prices, while Eastern and Middle State reports show a brighter fall trade outlook. Wheat prices ease after early gains as farmers sell cash wheat. business failures for Q3 1898 are low for six years, though a single large September failure raises total liabilities.
The Post Office Department amends section 1246 to let money orders be drawn on the issuing office when it is not a limited money order office. Unpaid advices remain filed with other pending payments, until paid or invalidated after one year from issuance.
Bertha Beilstein of Allegheny Pa shoots her invalid mother at the bedside, then returns to her room and ingests laudanum before fatally shooting herself. Once part of Pittsburgh society, she had grown melancholy after her father J. F. Beilstein died ten months earlier. In a separate report from Sheridan Okla, Mrs. Susan White beheads her 4 year old and attempts to kill her 6 year old, with neighbors calling her insane.
A five year old girl, Anna Lamb, fell into a nine foot cistern left uncovered by a house inmate at Emanuel Noll’s Bellefontaine home. The drowning occurred in the reservoir where the child wandered after being unattended. Local authorities investigate the tragedy.
In St Louis, Judge Peabody praised Joseph Schlendwein for cutting from posters the Spanish flag displayed beneath an American flag in a villa theater advertisement. Manager Garin reported over 100 posters damaged. Schlendwein was fined five dollars for malicious destruction, but the penalty was suspended.
Frank Stevens a well dressed man was arrested by Postoffice Inspector Mayer in St Louis on a stamp theft charge. A Chicago mercantile firm reported a parcel via American Express containing 604.65 dollars in stamps and a bill of goods demanded in exchange. The case remains with postal authorities. A Klondike romance unfolds in Macon Missouri as M Ayers returns with 20000 in gold dust and faces his ex wife’s divorce decree. a license is issued for their remarriage.
Packing property seized by W M Thompson president and J C Van Blancon cashier of Commercial Bank of St Louis has acquired the Whit taker packing plant in Wichita Kansas. The idle plant will restart packing with daily capacity exceeding 1000 hogs and 300 cattle. New Lord Mayor for London Sir John V Moore elected to succeed Horatio Davies. Turkish Armenians clash leaves about fifty Armenians dead in Alushgorb. Delaware Indians buy 550000 acres in Sonora Mexico and plan relocation. Excess fruit in Ohio hampers handling as Ohio belt fruits go to waste. Ipswich South Dakota business district destroyed by fire except one block. Alvin W Crane named Democratic nominee for New Jersey governor.
Chicago cattle from common to prime range 3.00 to 6.00, hogs 3.00 to 4.00, sheep 2.50 to 4.75. wheat No 2 red 64 to 66 cents. corn No 2 20 to 30 cents. oats 21 to 22 cents. New York receipts list cattle 3.00 to 5.75, hogs 3.00 to 4.50, sheep 4.00 to 4.75, wheat 78 to 75 cents, corn 85 to 86 cents, oats 38 to 27 cents.
Read about the sun’s enormous size and mass compared with Earth, including measurements of its diameter, volume, and density. The article uses visual analogies with a two foot sun globe and a pea Earth to convey scale and describes features like the photosphere and chromosphere seen through a spectroscope, with notes from the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
A faded tale from Mt. Sterling Illinois describes Asa Robinson returning to Illinois after the Civil War. He recounts suffering aciatic rheumatism until using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, which he credits with restoring his health and permitting a full recovery. The piece blends battlefield imagery with testimonial advertising for the remedy.
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