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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1898
Page
2
A Telegraph dispatch from Indianapolis reports a government shift in plans for volunteers. Instead of mustering out after return home, volunteers will be furloughed for thirty days. Authorities believe Spain peace talks require keeping most of the army in readiness beyond September 1.
The National Relief Commission reports over 1000 sick soldiers in Porto Rico with half needing prompt care. Typhoid is common but not rising. dysentery diarrhoea malaria and other diseases surge with the rainy season. Army doctors warn northern troops struggle in the tropical climate.
A fire on the fifth floor of the L4idlips manufactory spread rapidly through College street in Nashville causing loss of about 502,009 dollars. The blaze consumed portions of A. 47. Warren furniture dealer Phillips and Stevenson stoves and tinware and the Davis Printing Company. The American National Bank building suffered fire and water damage. Insurance covers the loss.
General Blanco sent a cable to General Toral to learn the duties imposed at Santiago to regulate Havana tariffs. Merchants prompt Cas toms Collector Donaldson to ask General Lawton if duties on goods entering Sandia may be remitted on transshipment to Cienfuegos and Manzanillo, still controlled by the Spaniards.
The Manila correspondent of the Times reports a memorial signed by teaching commercial men in London urging Lord Salisbury to act to stop Spaniards from regaining ascendancy in the Philippines. American troops wounds are reported as readily wounding, and towns since occupation remain largely undisturbed.
A Mackinaw City notice says the lake steamer Superior, with captain Iran Eltridge and a fourteen man crew, may be lost after a severe Sunday storm. The vessel carried iron ore from Escanaba to Toledo and weathering the gale is thought unlikely by lake mariners.
Leen preserves the yacht Sylph bought as an auxiliary eraser and plans to use it for president on warm events. The vessel may host important conferences with Cabinet officials and keep the press in view during occasions.
In a rough quarrel at an inn in Mungeie Overa, Albert Burton and brother Albert Burro argued over a watermelon. Burro drew a revolver and shot Burton in the left side, authorities say in self defense. Burro was arrested.
Report describes a Siberian convict ship voyage from Therm to Porosk where conditions caused suffocation and overcrowding. Up to 500 prisoners reportedly died, amid horror aboard the vessel.
A Second Avenue trolley car near Hazlewood avenue in Pittsburg was struck by lightning causing a fire. Real estate dealer B I Fear was killed after being stunned and attempting to jump from the car. Mrs Sarah Munhall and son John were hurt. Daniel Thomas of Homestead was burned and injured. another man was burned and had a foot crushed.
Dr. Wyman, surgeon general of the Marine Hospital Service, reports a suspected yellow fever case at Fort Point artillery post near Galveston. The Dry Tortugas telegraph says the Vivian from Havana has four suspicious cases and has been quarantined. Wyman says no fear of spread after initial evaluation.
Secretary Bliss in Washington declares the Seminole Nation, having signed a treaty, will not be affected by the Curtis Act and funds due will be paid as usual. Money will be deposited at St Louis for distribution by tribal officers. Chickasaws and Choctaws without ratified treaties face individual payments by Interior Department overseers.
Tension rises over the Samoan islands as Germany seeks to absorb the territory, opposed by the United States which holds a naval stake at Pago Pago. Negotiations threaten a division of islands, while Britain leans toward the U S position amid looming friction.
A prominent St Louis bank has suffered months of systematic robbery. Thieves used a hooked wire to reach the vault from the bottom of steel walls, extracting large sums. Detectives surveil bank employees as authorities estimate substantial losses.
Robbers drilled through a safe at the Rosenthal clothing store in Leadwood, stealing about 220 dollars in cash 800 and other valuables including jewelry, after cutting a hole through the safe door and bypassing the combination.
RC Ward, civil engineer and railway expert, writes in the Pumima Star about the future of the Panama canal. He argues the canal will not be completed without Algerican help and opposes a canal along the Panama route in favor of the Nicaragua project.
A severe blaze at Hammon caused extensive damage to the Simplex Railway Appliances Colley plant and nearby boiler machinery. One hundred men are temporarily out of work after an explosion ignited near a car, with evacuation and emergency crews on scene.
An explosion of nearly a ton of fireworks in Minneapolis injures sixteen people, with one seriously harmed. The incident occurs as the Danatwetnring phost o of Cheerge Wy Por ter. In Mitchell South Dakota Republicans nominate a full state ticket headed by Kirk Paige for Governor.
RG Dun and Company notes a 204 percent rise in exchange volumes versus last year and a 26.8 percent gain over 1802, with wheat prices down 3 cents as farmers withhold with a large crop. Athletic exports reach 2,731,504 bushels weekly, Pacific exports fall, and boot shipments advance. domestic failures rise in the United States and Canada.
A locomotive tender jumped the track ten miles above Birmingham on the Louisville and Nashville line. Five passenger cars carrying the New York regiment from Fernandina Florida to Huntsville Alabama piled down a bank. Two soldiers died and about twenty five were injured as Col Edward Duffy and staff were aboard. Wreckage was cleared with axes and injured were assisted out. The cause of the tender leaving the track remains unknown.
Prominent citizens of Wheeling West Virginia are sued by nonresidents to recover taxes alleged to be due. The informers charge false returns with penalties for fraud. The effort involves Chicago grain interests and a plan to oppose Chicago wheat elevator control. An Egyptian expedition gunboat Zaite sank after a leak near Shendy with all aboard saved.
The Topeka federation of women’s clubs votes to remove the veroin’s bible from its display claiming it is written in a ship pant and coarse style. The action follows a weeklong discussion among the board of censors.
Chandler Oklahoma reports a fatal shooting when Leonard Bridge, aiming for Bryant, killed John Thompson in a Bryant neighborhood barn. Bridge, with two companions, had gone to confirm Bryant's location after threatening to kill him. Thompson, asleep, was shot as Bridge mistaken him for Bryant.
Gen Pando's Mexico visit allegedly aimed at persuading Spaniards with land to accept thousands of Spanish troops as colonists. Government charters favor immigration of strong agricultural Spaniards accustomed to conscription, to settle across Mexico.
A large ammonia tank used for artificial ice exploded and set Hoffman's Crescent brewery on fire in New York. Firefighters mounted rapid rescues as hundreds of residents fled the surrounding tenements in panic on Third Avenue and adjacent streets.
George Paetke and Betor Ediniston left Riverside California over a year ago to prospect on the Colorado desert. They traveled to Santiago and have not been heard from since. A rumor circulates that both men may be dead while California Republican leaders nominated Henry Gage of Los Angeles for governor.
Chicago to New York price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep, plus wheat corn oats rye and butter and eggs across Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Toledo Milwaukee and other markets. Values show No 2 red wheat and No 2 yellow corn with mixed high and low figures reflecting market conditions.
Isaac Snow admits shooting William H. McCart near Bedford and says self defense as McCart ambushed him. Snow, arrested in New Albany by Patrolman Nick Seery, learned McCart was dead after the shot. He also notes a will contest in Columbus over Mrs. May D uit’s estate and a New York hotel death.
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