26 Jun 1897
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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily Reporter
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1897
Page
1
Slashing prices sweep departments at the Cincinnati store with 2000 yards of lawns organdies and mas lining deep discounts. Carpets hats parasols fans and shirt waists offered at low prices as stock clears.
The Cherokee freedmen payments resumed amid reports to Secretary Bliss and the attorney general. Disturbances outside the lines involve deputy marshals and beaten crowds. Troops deter violence while calls grow for authority to remove disorderly individuals and arm officials. Measures include dawn to dusk wireless updates and district court processes prompting claimed access to payers and creditors.
Fragmentary report describes Weyler citing raids on Cuban hospitals as refuges, claiming refugees' homes and soldiers' rights, and endorsing extermination of Cuban women and children to restore order. The chaotic text references Havana and refugees with violent intent amid wounded and dying.
A guilty verdict was returned late last night in the Chester W. Comstock embezzlement case, the first of three against the Mecosta county Saving Sees officials. Ex-Cashier John A. Kight of the Fifth Avenue Savings Bank was convicted of embezzling about $80,090 in a separate case. The report also notes prize drill results at the Knights of St. John convention in Erie and a constitutional convention ruling in Columbus.
A Mississippi lynching spree unfolds with Jim Williamson hanged for Crocker family murder complicity. He survives a first drop, dies on a second after 22 minutes, amid a feud over land. A mob later torches a confession from John Moses and lynches him and a preacher. In Brooklyn, Bob Fitzsimmons confirms a Brooklyn match with Sullivan at Ambrose Park, hoping for a knockout.
A lone robber who held up the Louisville and Nashville express near St Bethlehem is in custody after betraying himself to police via a woman in Clarksville Tenn Hite a suspect and alleged relative of Jesse James is jailed and the capture follows the robber’s confession detailing the four cash haul from the express safe.
Demand revival boosts iron and steel and woolens, while cotton goods lag due to high prices and imports stockpiled for two years. Silk, millinery, and confectionery show better demand, with bicycle industry prospering. Wheat futures and meet supply strength hint at ongoing market pressures in California around December 1800.
Grace Davide of Newark opens a shelter in Leray for homeless dogs and cats in association with Fayette Humane Society. Vagrant dogs receive care with small boys paid one cent each for feed plus chloroform for euthanasia. animal byproducts fund the shelter.
A sprawling Rust Belt scrap of notes reports a Bloomington convention, a Gold Indiana company forming, deaths and injuries in Kentucky and Ohio, a breach of promise suit in Anderson, a freight wreck in Napoleon, a bank note settlement, a Sandwich windmill firm assign ment, and a remark on the Iron ore movement in Gogebia Michigan. Also mentioned are Bob Clayton the jailbreaker, and actor Old Hoss Hoey, with scattered local anecdotes and brief notices.
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