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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
173
The fugitives flee through a moonlit field pursued by marauders. Sir Deakin dies in a pinewood dingle as the group buries him under bracken and skis toward safety with Mistress Delia and the narrator tending a wounded knee and guarding a dying man.
In a moment of doubt the narrator notices dangerous footprints and, hearing a brook to the left, leads toward a small stream that trickles down the hill. He finds a suggested path and momentum to proceed while considering risks to his companions.
The narrator hides and pockets provisions from a hut full of Captain Settle and his gang. He frees a captive girl, discovers her brother Anthony is dead, and ambles to a plan with news of the pursuers. A rider, then a departing cavalcade signals their deliverance as the chase continues.
The article describes inventive telephone applications including bedroom alarm calls set by Central that ring bells until silenced, a Cleveland minister broadcasting sermons to bedridden parishioners, and an Austrian idea for a telephonic daily newspaper that wires a condensed news summary to subscribers.
A Washington police officer recalls his rookie days when sworn in without clear rights led him to fire recklessly at crappers on the commons. He credits experience for teaching restraint and urges new appointees receive definite instruction to avoid prison.
A humorous quip portrays an office where a female typist is labeled as an expert flirt rather than an expert typewriter. The joke hinges on misheard terms and office rumors, highlighting social banter in a workplace.
Washington special reports the first formal meeting of the anthracite coal strike commission in Wilkes Barre and Washington. All members and most operators or their representatives attended as the panel set rules for testimony, hearings, locations, and who may testify. President Roosevelt urged expedition and explained the commission will work to establish just relations between employers and wage workers to prevent future disputes.
The Gazette notes negotiations to merge the Pittsburg Coal Company and Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. Combined assets exceed $163 million with about 20 million tons of annual output and total assets listed at $120,088,581. Presidents Robbins and Finley lead the talks aimed at eliminating watered stock and creating a dominant bituminous coal concern.
In St. Joseph Missouri Mrs Jane Berryhill Thomas who runs a boarding house learned by phone that her 3 year old child abducted from Agency Ford years ago has been found. The child endured hardships while taken in a covered wagon and was carried through many Western states before being deserted. The mother Mrs Mary Berryhill now resides in Brunswick Missouri and the reunion followed the discovery.
Washington Indiana special reports Clement Tewell a laborer was killed by a pit train while walking along the tracks. Witnesses described the fatal accident as a sudden collision with the moving locomotive near the yard. Authorities inspected the site and notified his family.
Judge Orr appointed Tyson S. Dines D H Rice and A G Sharp as administrators to collect the estate of W S Stratton after district court ruling removing prior appointees. Bond set at 8 000 000 signed by surety firms. Judge Leeds sustained motion to quash citation and ruled county court lacked authority. Deposed admins will not appeal.
The report cites strained commerce and agriculture in the Philippines amid war, with locusts damaging crops and cholera spreading, especially in Mindanao and Panay. President Roosevelt's trade order may ease inter island freight and rice costs, while Manila notes the disease has subsided there but remains severe in other provinces. Over 100,000 cases cited.
Rome reports the next Congregation of Propaganda meeting in November will consider the Chicago archbishop vacancy after Archbishop Feehan's death. Bishop John L. Spalding of Peoria is favored, while Bishop Muldoon faces objections. Father Riordan of Elizabeth Church Chicago is in poor health, and a transfer of Archbishop Ireland from St. Paul is mooted if Spalding is not chosen.
Mexico City reports reduced alarm after ash showers. rain improved visibility in some areas. San Cristobal records forty five earthquakes by Saturday while Palenque reports no change near San Juan mountain though explosions persist. Tabasco scientists estimate energy to lift ashes at 300000 horsepower as Huistepec eruption rumors spread.
A Washington jury found Herbert guilty of the brutal murder of Louis Cunningham after five hours of deliberation. The verdict fixed life imprisonment. The crime occurred on a Sunday afternoon in June when the men first met and Herbert attacked Cunningham.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton the woman suffragist died Sunday at her West Ninety fourth street home in New York after a short illness Old age was listed as the cause of death She was conscious almost to the end and survived by Mrs M F Lawrence and Mrs Stanton Blatch of New York sons Henry and Robert L Stanton lawyers Theodore Stanton of Paris and G Smith Stanton real estate broker at Warden Cliffe L I
Four vessels of the whaling fleet entered port today. The Altair, a schooner, returns from the Arctic with 3000 pounds of whalebone and 480 fox skins. The other three ships spent the summer hunting blubber in the South Seas and along the Japanese coast, bringing in various Arctic animal skins.
Herbert McCammon threatened to kill Postmaster Newton Stowe’s daughter after she rejected him. He returned to the Riverton home armed with a shotgun and was shot and killed by Stowe, who then surrendered. McCammon had served in the army and had sent gifts to 20 year old Stones Abushter.
Wilbur S. Sherwell, former Evansville policeman, is found not guilty of murdering Mrs Georgia Bailey. The packed courtroom applauds as his wife greets the verdict with tears and handshakes with jurors. He remains jailed on two other murder charges to be called by Prosecutor Durre in December. The case rests on circumstantial evidence.
The War Department bureau of insular affairs releases a statement showing Philippine customs revenues for seven months ending July 31, 1902 at 5,064,932 dollars, up from 1901 and earlier years. Spanish administration seven months were estimated at 1,333,000 dollars.
Fairmount powder works in West Virginia, about eighteen miles from here, sustained $30,600 in damage after an explosion of 600 kegs of powder Sunday. No injuries occurred as the machinery was completely destroyed.
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