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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1899
Page
1
A fragmentary account links capital and labor as mutually dependent for prosperity. The piece weaves religious and moral appeals with industrial life, urging capitalists to treat workers as fellow beings and urging workers to trust in a democratic gospel. It references many unnamed individuals and places in a broader social critique.
An explosion on a new ten inch gas main near Royal Center fatally strikes Howard Vioch and injures several others, as rescuers race to aid victims. Reports describe a violent incident tied to White Caps activity and broader local tensions including an assault on Joseph Britton in Newark, with officials in Chicago arranging aid.
Police report a man hiding in a cellar drenched in root beer after a tense standoff with an armed attacker. The cellar resembled a skylight scene, with the intruder pressing upstairs while the man’s wife yelled for help.
The steamer Iowa sank in ten feet of water at Slim Island, three miles below Mt Vernon, while towing an excursion boat filled with colored passengers from Evansville to Paducah. Loss estimated at 5909 dollars with 3000 dollars insurance. boat owned by F E Selby of Henderson Wyoming. Passengers were rescued by the nearby steamer Racket after many panicked and jumped into the river. Captain Balus and pilot Shaw praised for cool handling.
The Wabash Valley Gas Company gas works, supplying the city with coal gas, was totally destroyed by an explosion Monday evening. A flame tower about eighty feet high collapsed with bricks and roof, destroying the plant and nearby buildings. The plant had been installed recently as the first of its kind in the city.
While plowing on Tuesday Ernest Dunten and Sarburn ospeciale unearthed bones in Par it my. Three skeletons were found. a woman's bones were mostly intact and a man’s skeleton lay two and a half feet deep. Local settlers recall no prior burials in the area.
Matthews ten miles east of Fairmount faces a dangerous illness blamed on the Mississinewa river. Physicians cite polluted water from nearby strawboard factories dumping refuse into the river, with disease spreading through wells.
Fragmentary text shows influential figures named Tarate and de Weal preparing to challenge a strong adversary. No clear location or event is provided.
The report details large fossil bones with measurements and skull placement in a trench, noting a massive upper jaw and mismatched lower jaw. It also recounts a Laporte tale of a woman brewing beer, a cellar gunshot incident, and a husband fending off burglars with a six gun.
Two children of Mrs. Trean Perkins are confined in canvas bags to prevent biting as signs of rabies appear. Several people struggle to control them, and sacks are placed over their heads during rabi es episodes.
Four year old Carter Mantis, described as the father of the state, died at his raunkton in the county. The report notes he was married once and leaves a wife.
A jumble of small notices reports a man injured jumping on a freight car, a public lake purchase proposal at Lafayette, a bridge grading project between Greenwood and Seurnpert, a severe burn rescuing a person from a fire, an Indiana Methodist itinerant preacher gathering in Martinsville, a bee sting incident near Union City, a man abandoning his family in Marion, an injunction over street work in Brazil, Tipton gamblers seeking leniency, a Richmond telephony contract chain, a Lafayette son’s property turned to a trust, a fishery protest in Frankfort, and a mentally deficient man wrongly urged to practice law in Porter County.
In Rennes two attackers ambushed Maitre Labori, a counsel for Dreyfus, firing a shot that struck him in the back. Labori fell in the roadway and was reported alive. The assailants escaped along the river road as Labori’s condition worsened amid conflicting later accounts of the wound.
Indiana Governor James A. Mount issues the annual Labor Day proclamation designating Monday September 4 as a day for appropriate ceremonies and for closing places of employment. The text urges appreciation of labor’s role, calls for moderation, and emphasizes public harmony and the protection of life and property.
Special report from Jackson Louisiana describes a tragedy at McLowen's plantation where five Black children were allegedly burned to death after their parents locked them in a house while they went to church. Charred remains were found upon their return.
Paris police rounded up M. Paul Deroulede founder of the League of Patriots and other anti Semitic and royalist leaders at Croissy and Paris. A magisterial inquiry cited a conspiracy to alter the government with raids on Patriotic and Young Royalist groups and searches of league offices.
The court scene erupts as General Mercier accuses Dreyfus in ruthless depunetation prompting the prisoner to demand declaration of innocence. Cheers, interruptions, and disorder erupt in the courtroom as Mercier exits amid calls from spectators and shouts of Vive la France.
Attorney General Tayloe rules that notices under the county reform law may be published in two leading county papers not necessarily in the county seat. One must be Republican and the other Democratic, both leading in circulation though not required to be the top paper.
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