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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1899
Page
3
A Denver minister offers compact maxims on society, work, belief, and education. Quotes touch on socialism, dignity in labor, the Bible, and social reform, noting the tension between comfort and justice while urging thoughtful living.
An eight year old woman bicyclist is praised as the oldest rider. The piece extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for digestive health and relief from dyspepsia indigestion and constipation, urging regular use to prevent digestive diseases and maintain health into old age.
Dr Frank W Gunsaulus, pastor of Plymouth Congregational, Chicago, accepts call to Central Church Chicago, succeeding Dr Hillis who moves to Plymagain Brooklyn. Baltimore and Ohio South Western Railway revival starts with spring ground-breaking, receivers Harmon and Robinson target March rail delivery including 40000 tons of 85 pound rails and 101000 rail joints. Additional motive power ordered with 40 freight engines and 5 passenger engines from Baldwin Works to reestablish a robust southwest division.
The piece notes Nubian dress tradition shrinking due to Manchester cottons. It highlights chiefs wearing parti colored robes, with robes spun from coarse wild cotton along riverbanks and finer yarn from Abyssinian valleys. The Nubian spindle mirrors ancient Greek and Roman devices, and the hand loom resembles those seen in Egyptian monuments.
A faded clipping describes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a sworn affidavit from F J Cheney promising one hundred dollars for every uncured case. It also notes medals of honor awarded by Emperor William to Jesuit fathers in Boston for bravery on the battlefield, and includes manufacturer contact lines and testimonial claims.
A Silver Plume dispatch reports two snowslides near Cherokee gulch at 8:45 this morning, killing ten miners or their relatives. The Pelican and Corry City mines lost cabins and ore worth about 850,000. Rescue efforts amid below zero temperatures saved scattered survivors and recovered multiple bodies, with more slides feared and residents evacuating threatened areas.
A 2 AM blaze gutted a laundry cottage at the state insane asylum in Yankton, North Dakota. Seventeen female inmates died as fire and collapsed water supply hampered rescue. Fifty-two people were in the building, with crowded conditions and limited exits as attendants fought to save others in -23 degree weather.
In Diamondville Wyoming on February 12 at 8 30 pm a second mine fire claimed two lives and left ten escaping, naming John L Russell and L E Wright among the dead. The blaze, ongoing since December 28, engulfed the working area and an explosion of black damp sealed fate for the miners, yet surface volunteers risked lives to aid rescues.
In Pueblo Colorado a fire destroyed the De Remer theater building at Seventh and Main during the early hours. The two story brick block suffered total loss with estimated damage between 54000 and 55000 dollars and insured for under 17000.
Sixteen skaters from Rogers Park and Lake Forest were swept onto Lake Michigan ice floes today. Ten were rescued while searchers throughout the evening failed to locate the remaining six.
Manila report notes a coordinated assault at Caloocan where the Monadnock opened fire from the bay and the Kansas regiment led a left flank charge through earthworks. Rebels were driven from the town line and the presidency, with the Filipino flag lowered at 4 30 p m. American positions extended along the Pasig river and nearby fronts as forces fortified the area.
Washington Feb 10 President McKinley orders an inquiry into General Miles charges that refrigerated beef sent to Porto Rico was unfit for the army. Allegations claim tinned roast beef caused sickness and even dog refusals, with old stock reshipped from abroad. Court meets Feb 15 with Wade Davis Gillespie and George W. Davis on the panel. Also anti imperialist league meets as Boutwell presides and adopts resolutions demanding immediate suspension of hostilities in the Philippines and a move toward recognizing an independent Philippine government.
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