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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
185
In a castle corridor a rope and a clever ruse let the narrator elude gallows. He climbs a stair, frees a jailer’s daughter, hides in a crypt, and slips into the governor’s hall, seizing Col. Essex’s room and a key to flee as guards near. A dangerous chase unfolds toward an uncertain escape.
A Philadelphia dealer predicts record sales of elastic bands this season as prices drop. He cites No 8 bands used by druggists and jewelers, noting millions of inches of banding and miles of potential stretch, with heavy demand from stores and women buying for hair curlers.
Sioux Falls dispatch reports Mrs Blanche Chesbrough Molineux arrived to establish residence after her husband Roland B Molineux was acquitted in New York. General Molineux said she is a good woman and denied divorce plans, while counsel knew little of her move and family differences had been settled.
The thirty seventh semi annual convocation and reunion of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Valley of Indianapolis began Tuesday at 2 PM in the Scottish Rite Temple. A class of 100 candidates from across Indiana began initiation as Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection conferred degrees four through fourteen. The banquet followed with 1,000 members present.
Con stable Stanley Swiercz shot Casimir Kova Povalovski while escorting him to a Chicago police station near the stockyards. Swiercz, arrested by Captain John Revere and Lieutenant Downey, claimed the prisoner broke away. Tony Bartkowick was arrested for aiding in the kidnapping from Indiana.
A Lake Shore Electric car ran from Cleveland to Toledo in three hours ten minutes, covering 120 miles. The trip started at 3 a.m. and arrived at 6:10 a.m., touted as the fastest such run on the line.
Mrs. Nora B. Erwin 22 wife of Albert Erwin of Greentown attempted to kill her two weeks old infant Saturday but attendants prevented it. Since birth she has shown insanity symptoms and on Sunday was adjudged insane and to be sent to the asylum.
Peoria special reports Mrs Rosetta Etzler a beauty specialist was arrested Monday charged with the death of Mrs Hattie Hart at Pekin. Witnesses say Etzler called on Hart and induced her to buy a beauty medicine believed to contain arsenic and taken in excess acts as a virulent poison.
In Seville cathedral the ashes of Christopher Columbus were deposited in a special mausoleum after a solemn ceremony. A seafaring procession bore the coffin, followed by the archbishop, cathedral chapter, the marine minister, and other dignitaries. The captain general of Cadiz and the archbishop then placed the coffin in the mausoleum for permanent keeping.
A Buffalo woman Mrs Helen Costel lo was saved from suicide by John Marshall a reservation employee near Goat Island. He was lowered into the river by rope and reached her clinging to a log below the bridge securing her with a waist rope. They were hauled to safety and landed on the abutment. Domestic troubles were given as motive.
A Pekin correspondent for the North China Herald says the Chinese government plans another upheaval with Empress Dowager reports on soldier numbers and munitions and Manchu drill. Canton dispatches say Kwan-Si rebels seized Szen-Fu and other prefecture cities, with officials killed or fleeing. General Ting defeats Boxers, capturing their fortress at Yang-Tachi and killing or capturing many. Tsan-Hsien is also repulsed with 300 Boxer dead. Boxers reportedly missing in Yun-Nan and Kueiji-Chou.
In Molineux New York Roland B Molineux will start work at DeVoe paint works in Brooklyn, as General Molineux explains he will take the burden from him and allow sleep. The father notes the business has suffered from notoriety and will need rebuilding, adding the defense of his son cost over 100000 dollars.
The Moccasin submarine torpedo boat completed a two mile submerged run on Tuesday near Dutchogue New York. It fired a torpedo at an imaginary warship at the end of the run and surfaced for observation on three occasions.
Washington dispatch reports the post office department has been notified that the new 13 cent stamps bearing former President Harrison will be ready for supply to post masters Saturday.
Armour & Co packing plant covering four acres at the stockyards valued at 900000 burned Sunday morning. Fire began on the second story of a fertilizer building. manager cites spontaneous combustion or faulty dryer. Insured for 721500. six hundred workers left unemployed by the blaze.
Jesse Lilly thirteen year old son of Mr and Mrs David Lilly living three miles southeast of Windfall Ind was killed by a horse at his home about 9 oclock Sunday morning. He and an older brother were turning the horses out of the barn when the stable door opened and all but one horse passed out. Jesse stepped in front of the door and was trampled by the last horse, dying about fifteen minutes afterward.
The Newport reports vast loss of life and property from the Guatemala eruption. Costa Cuca and nearby coffee plantations are buried under seven feet of ash while towns such as Palmar and Coatepece are leveled. Relief efforts are hindered by censorship and dangerous interior travel.
The Stromboli volcano off Sicily has begun a terrible eruption. A colossal column of fire rises as incandescent stones rain from the craters. Many houses on Stromboli have been destroyed.
Advices from Apia via Tonga describe volcanic activity on Savali the westernmost and largest Samoan island. Six craters are emitting smoke and flames and one village nearby has ashes two inches deep.
In Greenland, Pearl Justice and his brother Sunday spoke with William Smith returning from a hunting trip. Smith urged Pearl to smell the gun muzzle and then fired, killing Pearl Justice instantly. Smith says he did not know the gun was loaded.
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