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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1897
Page
5
Washington notes discuss Senator Fairbanks pushing an immigration bill favoring educated long-term settlers and test requirements. The piece also mentions currency reform plans and Spain alleged attempts to bribe insurgent leaders, with analysis of international reactions and potential impacts on policy.
U S state department reports Havana authorities offered General Gomez a pardon and lifelong pension to quit the insurgency. Gomez, 73, in poor health, faces internal rivalries among leaders and a fracturing revolt. Some Cuban factions back endurance while Spanish envoys press terms to end the conflict.
Readable portions describe a local event with unclear details. Key names, places, or dates are obscured, yielding a minimal outline of activity without verifiable specifics. The piece hints at a public notice or notice-like item but lacks concrete nouns to identify.
Fragmentary OCR text hints at financial directives and treasury actions involving percentages, park accounts, and national orders. Several garbled names and places appear, suggesting a wartime or policy briefing with unclear specifics.
Fragmentary text notes promised reductions and improvements, mentioning December dates and a pestering seller. Details are unclear, with garbled place names and terms. The passage hints at ware reductions and an arm promise, but lacks coherent facts.
Report from Washington states Lindsay G Burke and a Mgr Mellin both Washington residents were killed and mutilated by Congo Free State natives while serving in the Belgian army in the Congo.
Fragmentary OCR reports a Piewatcean figure arriving Tuesday night and discussing evacuation and public spending. It references a session, a proposed Deseromient, and critique of private enterprises amid broader governance debate.
An invitation for bids is issued for a government armor plant project. Notices state advertising will proceed under congressional authorization and related procedures, with a focus on security and technical requirements for plant construction and equipment handling.
In Viento, chaos followed a motion read by the President as the Bell de claring a step. Emperor Francis Joseph adjourned the Unterhaus and accepted the ministry's resignation. Crowds shouted Revolution and guillotine cries against Count Ea dens, police scattered rioters, many wounded.
Western African mail reports Cuban exiles at Fernando Po suffer brutal treatment in the Spanish penal colony. About 150 of 200 exiles said dead. survivors allege harsh conditions, no trials, and burials without coffins. Liverpool cable notes Pingree plan and robberies. many exiles missing or dead.
Wichita special reports an outbreak of jack rabbits in Summer county prompting county commissioners to sponsor hunts paying rewards per rabbit. A large drive on Saturday killed six thousand rabbits, but thieves later stole scalps from the carcasses leaving headless rabbits for handlers.
San Francisco. Mrs Theresa Cardoza a 42 year old resident died Saturday and was buried Monday in Julian cemetery. She weighed over six hundred pounds requiring removal through her residence hall by breaking stairs. An iron bound special casket carried the remains as a heavy express wagon conveyed them to the cemetery. She leaves five children the youngest infant only eleven months old.
Governor Pingree seeks to seize a Venezuelan asphalt lake to break up the combine, assuring municipal ownership of paving points and permitting local contractors to win bids rather than let the combine monopolize the business.
On a large cotton plantation in St Francis county elektrosroes attacked Joe Midler and murdered him after robbing his savitsor. The Susit yo was thrown in the river. Wea Molier, the murdered man's wife, was assaulted and the house looted. Winliams was arrested and confessed implicating seven others, four of whom have been arrested.
Albuquerque bail for three train robbers in Valencia county with three suspects named Jesse Williams Tom Anderson and an unidentified man. Special District Attorney Finieal reports extradition from Arizona to this territory as papers are prepared. Estimated loot ranges up to 25000 to 50000 dollars. The offense is capital and suspects face possible execution if convicted.
William Carr awaiting execution for drowning his three year old child in the Missouri river swallowed crushed glass in jail Sunday afternoon. Two hypodermic doses were given but he vomited the fragments. Doctors expect recovery due to his strong constitution.
A Honolulu delegation arrives en route to Washington to oppose Tiawiil annexation. Led by HL Naullal of the Tiawatian Patriotic League, the group includes David Kathant, Wil Memauld, and John Tichardson as their solicitor.
An elderly resident, Mrs Abbe, was found dead in her house with marks on her body and a broken door lock. Authorities suspect burglary and foul play, noting she appeared eccentric and was believed to possess considerable money and valuables. Police investigate possible motives and suspects, including a man linked to the case.
Report from England notes revived cultivation of the Sozar crop in Essex and East with promising results. A Greenock factory reopened to process the product from experimental plantings. Root analysis shows 14.61 percent saccharine versus 2.97 in Germany, English yields over sixteen tons per acre vs thirteen in Germany.
The Colonial Office says the documents found at Greytown are of little value and do not alter Britain's formal position. Newspapers had overhyped the discovery and the episode ends without affecting the case or UK policy toward its neighbors.
Toronto reports Cawthra Mulock aged thirteen as sole heir to Mrs. Cawthra widow of a Toronto businessman. By will the estate valued at 4 million dollars passes to him with 19 percent income until age twenty five, then the entire sum likely exceeding 5 million goes to him. Mulock was the late benefactor's favorite nephew and son of the Dominion's Postmaster General.
Governor Mount announced Sunday night he would not convene a special session of the Legislature to consider measures for gas belt relief. He said existing laws on the books are not exhausted and no extreme action is needed while those laws remain available.
A sweeping prairie fire advances across the grassland south of Clayton, New Mexico, with no rain for weeks. The high winds from the north drive the blaze along a two hundred mile cattle range belt, endangering thousands of sheep rushed to safety.
In Carson Nevada a first stage robbery in fifteen years hit the Bishop to Independence run. Wells and Varga Company's express box containing about 1400 dollars was seized in the heist.
Richard Croker and Tammany Hall sent twenty dollars to the Cuban revolutionary government. T. Estrada Palma, in an interview, said the money is for aid to the hungry sick and wounded and not for munitions. He affirmed receipt and pledged proper use.
Judge Blanchard of the LaSalle County Circuit Court ruled a deed transferring 100 acres from E S Peddicord to Dr John Kellogg of the Battle Creek sanitarium as prima facie void and set it aside. The property valued at 1260 reverts to the children. Peddicord, aged 74, entered the sanitarium May 19 1896 and died June 5 following.
The President pardoned Frederick W Griffin once assistant cashier at Northwestern National Bank of Chicago who embezzled 24069 dollars two years ago and was sentenced to five years in Joliet penitentiary. He confessed guilt saying he lost the money speculating on the Chicago Board of Trade.
Six miles from Brunswick Rev. Mr. Lee, a traveling evangelist, has set up two large tents where hundreds attend all day services. His followers, the Joy Laughers, engage in a "holy laugh" chant that induces trances with worshippers falling to the ground for hours. Converts renounce jewelry and adopt the faith wholeheartedly.
Richard Mad Dick, a colored man, claims to have been torn July 3 near Richmond Van. He applied at the Department of Charities for admission to the dams stating he is too old to work and cannot support himself. He was accompanied by his wife aged seventy eight and his daughter also well up in years. The authorities assured they would be taken care of.
Consul General Lee reports there are lead American citizens in Cuba dependent on charitable assistance. They have been partly provided for from a 25.00 appropriation. He estimates relief must exceed 100 a week and notes 5,000 has been drawn with two drafts of 50.00 this month. He believes a long period is needed before self sustenance.
Thomas Hickey confessed to aiding Christopher Merry in beating Pauline Merry to death on Hope street. Hickey led police to a roadside burial near eighty seventh street and Western avenue, where Mrs Merry’s body was found. The trio, including James Smith, reported the murder after a failed attempt to revive her. Merry remains at large in the city.
Governor John G Brady of Alaska urges careful reading of his advice to readers about prospecting near Alaska. He warns of mountainous terrain swift rivers scarce food winter dangers and high mosquitos. He recommends year of supplies and wage work first then outfit and claims in small parties to Juneau.
San Francisco reports Hiram S. Maxim announces a construction project for an air ship by the Atlantic and Pacific Aerial Navigation Company. The vessel features a 38 foot 2 inch diameter cylinder, 50 foot forward cone, 43 foot after cone, total length 185 feet, 16 000 cubic feet space, a 16.5 horsepower naphtha engine, aluminum hull, hydrogen fill, tanked gasoline, and a projected speed of 100 miles per hour with a price tag around 15 100 dollars.
The second trial of Adolph Luertgert, the Chicago sausage maker, is set to begin on Monday as prosecutors pursue new evidence and witnesses in the case.
A Christiana dispatch to the Daily Chronicle cites a Swedish physician claiming Emperor William warned he would crush Norway if it seeks its aims, referencing his prior action against Greece amidst Norway Sweden constitutional conflict.
A North St. Louis Ravenswood distillery fire caused an estimated loss of $160,000, with investigators assessing damage across the facility and surrounding equipment.
Victoria BC report says a fifty day world trip is possible with new Trans Siberian rail connections. J D Gavetski and P Chamillard describe a route from Vladivostock to St Petersburg via a growing line, noting military strength, fortresses, and a fleet at Vladivostock. They predict future extensions raise mineral output and employment.
Wichita special reports Boomer Howe demands Congress open the Wichita mountains or permit claims on the reservation. He warns of peaceful action turning to occupation if federal troops or Indian police intervene, drawing supporters and labeling critics as opposed to law.
Ex king Milan of Servia again seeks divorce from Natalie to wed Artemiusia Christie the divorced wife of his former secretary. He has four sons with Christie.
A large gang of illicit distillers was captured in Scott County Arkansas and authorities destroyed over four thousand gallons of liquor in the crackdown.
Three Grand Trunk railway tunnel workers at Port Huron Michigan were asphyxiated by gas from hard coal exhaust from locomotives in the tunnel on Sunday.
Germany plans a squadron of eight warships and 3,500 men in Chinese waters to press for indemnity over the murder of German missionaries. The move heightens tensions as Berlin seeks reparations and accountability from Chinese authorities.
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