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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1899
Page
1
The Dawes Comptroller report reviews national banks during 1899 and notes a system where banks could issue notes backed by the value of their bonds to expand emergency currency. It estimates possible bond-secured note issuance and the impact on circulating supply and bank assets.
Reports from Belmont describe a hard fought engagement where Boer forces estimated at two thousand faced a British force with higher numbers. Guards led an assault to seize three ridges amid heavy shrapnel and losses, while ammunition destruction hints at uncertain holding of positions as General Methuen’s forces claimed victory.
Kentucky Court of Appeals affirms certification of 1197 Nelson county votes for W P Taylor, rejecting Goebel petition to void count. Judge Jones ruled votes go to W P Taylor. state election board to canvass returns December 2. Taylor holds a 3122 plurality.
Washington reports Secretary of the Navy received a cable noting the province of Zamboanga and Mindanao island area have surrendered unconditionally. Admiral Watson dispatch says the surrender marks the regain of control as reinforcements are en route from Jolo. Land forces were ordered to Zamboanga as the principal city is pivotal in Mindanao.
A fragmented OCR note discusses demonstrations of automatic telegraph inventions and their speed, claiming messages traveled rapidly between St. Paul and Buffalo. It mentions inventors and projected schedules for New York deliveries and upcoming tests, with timing and delivery claims.
An excerpt from a New York specialty story accuses Admiral Dewey of a breach of promise tied to Zora Kent formerly of New Albany Indiana. The piece claims a sensational, anonymous narrative about a navy ward and related improprieties, noting fear and threats of punishment for publishing.
Atlantasperialis notes the Willingham plan on state prohibition clears the House after a dramatic battle. If approved by the Senate and enacted, it would end the sale of intoxicants to members, with brewing and private entertainments unaffected.
Specialist Richard Croker says William J. Bryan will be the Democratic standard bearer in the next national campaign. He promises Tammany Hall’s strongest support and notes no running mate has been chosen yet. Croker emphasizes a fight against trusts and imperialism.
The State of Indiana vs The Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company centers on alleged underpayments from a 1847 charter. Expert figures claim sums over 1.2 to 2 million dollars plus long interest, with hearings led by Noble C. Rather in Marion Superior Court. The trial spans decades of company books and a massive evidence record. A separate mining incident recounts a crossing of a dark mine shaft with gunfire and a wounded stranger.
Shirley adds an industrial center near the old railroad crossing south of Anderson as a ten pot window glass plant will employ seventy five workers. A Middletown bottle house contracted for and being moved, one of the belt’s largest employers with 195 workers. A Illinois machine plant moves in, hiring forty. Population gains about one thousand percent. Forty homes under construction and several stores rising.
Evansville special reports the Old Soldiers' Association of Spencer County aims to buy twenty acres surrounding the Lincoln birthplace memory site to create a park. The area features a forest of oaks and a lone tombstone placed by the Studebakers, with local veterans maintaining the grave.
Mishawaka report recounts Pharin Crawford of Sheridan township claiming Frank Downing and his wife lured him in their buggy. Crawford says Downing fired six shots, beat him, forced a confession of assault on Mrs. Downing, then bound him and drove to Fremont to reveal the prisoner’s location. Crawford’s condition is not stated.
Reports from Indiana detail a claimed separator that could extract oil and gas from a single well, stirring speculation among local speculators and farmers in Delaware County. Court rulings have halted oil flows to protect air quality, while experiments with separators have not proven successful. A Mishawaka note reports the discovery of a hunter missing near Bardon Lake, with the body later identified as Samuel Claussen. cause of death remains unclear.
Amos Nation replaces Shippy as night watchman at Buckeye mines after Shippy reports eerie sounds and quits. Nation agrees to carry a revolver and, urged by friends, hears noises himself and finds water gauges tampered with. Sunday night the events continue.
Elmo Lamb, once of Dublin, claims to be his own stepfather after saga of his father remarrying in Syracuse. The father wed the stepmother after divorcing Lamb’s mother, who is now living with them.
Lucinda Bauman a nine year old inmate of the orphans home tried to break a record by skipping rope more than ninety nine times Tuesday. She collapsed from a nervous affliction extending over the right side of her body and was taken to Hope Hospital Allen county for treatment.
Earl and Pearl Grady both seventeen and twin brothers arrive with Guy Grody, sixteen, at the Jeffersonville Reformatory from South Bend to begin indeterminate sentences for burglary.
Martinsville approves a sewer system plan and Lafayette reattempts an artesian well project. Shelbyville hosts a temperance revival as Anderson Belt Works plans relocation to Louisville.
A Republican caucus draft presented in Atlantic City outlines a broad gold standard plan. It creates a division of issue and redemption in the Treasury, sets gold reserve requirements, authorizes bonds, and details bank and currency reform measures affecting notes, silver coinage, and banking capital rules.
The text states that capital of not less than $235,000 may be organized with Treasury sanction in towns of up to two thousand people. It also prohibits organization in cities over fifty thousand with capital under $200,000.
The Sandringham residence hosts a royal house party with Emperor William and Empress present. Attending are the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Albert of Schleswig Holstein, Lord Wolseley, Dr Mandell Creighton, the Lord Bishop of London, Lord Acton, Sir Frank Lascelles, and other notable figures. Their Majesties occupy the Queen's suite.
Dispatch from Cairo states Wingate's force trapped the Khalifa seven miles southeast of Gedil. Emirs and the Khalifa killed or captured. Osman Digna escaped. Dervishes defeated. camp taken. thousands surrendered. many women children and cattle taken. Arab scouts located the Khalifa at Omdebrikas. force moved through bush to reach dawn attack.
The Mananise transport with Lieut. Col. Webb Hayes and three companies of the Thirty first Infantry arrived after twelve days of constant bucket bailing. The ship, under charter to a British firm, was derelict and short of provisions, with engines failing, a typhoon, and water flooding the hold. Crew desertions occurred, pumps failed, and soldiers labored in darkness to keep the vessel afloat, while officers blamed the ship’s management and noted the captain’s warnings.
London dispatch notes the Times review warns of Boer mobility across hundreds of miles and attacks on Belmont Graf Pan and Natal. It states numbers may exceed British estimates and calls for immediate preparation of the Sixth Division for embarkation.
On Friday Ed Lucky and Tom Mitchell were hanged for assault on Miss Josephine Lafferty. Lucky confessed on the scaffold, Mitchell protested innocence. Five Black individuals were implicated in the same crime but no evidence against them was found.
William F. Miller head of the Franklin syndicate and secretary Cecil Leslie were indicted by the Kings county grand jury for taking deposits with promises of weekly dividends. Bench warrants were issued as both men vanished. Police raided Floyd street offices and arrested Louis Miller, seizing $15,000 in cash. forty employees were dismissed. The offices were reportedly in the hands of ex-Sheriff Daily of Richmond.
London reports from Queenstown that Dutch farmers in Herschell and Barkley East have joined the Free State invasion. Four colonial rebels including a former Barkley East magistrate are said to have joined the enemy at Barkley East as forces move toward Dordrecht. Refugees say Lady Grey is occupied and a broader Boer movement is feared.
Col W J Bryan spoke to University of Arkansas students in Fayetteville on Pending Problems. He charged 250 dollars for the lecture and donated the fee to the university. The gift funds an annual medal to be awarded in an oratorical contest.
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