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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1901
Page
5
A sermon fragment urges Christians to mend broken faith like nets. It warns against harsh criticism and denominational strife while urging steadfast belief in the Bible, conversion, and perseverance in soul saving work. The speaker compares faith to a net and calls for unity and patience.
Senate and House debated army reorganization and liquor prohibitions in the Philippines. The Cramp Company damage claim was set for Court of Claims review. Discussions touched on pensions, desertion removals, shipping subsidies, and tax reductions for beer and tobacco products. The Queen Victoria tribute and U S foreign relations were noted.
Election tellers of the United Mine Workers of America completed the tally of votes cast for members of the MM Board. The partial text notes a completed count and door toward final results.
Saturday afternoon ballots for the Executive Board produced nine majority winners from ten candidates. Eight named incumbents and one new member join the board, with Henry Stephenson of West Virginia as an old member receiving the strongest vote but not a majority. William Fairley Alabama Edward McKay Pennsylvania Joseph Pendleton Arkansas Fred Ditcher Ohio Benjamin James Pennsylvania James Boston Illinois George Purcell Indiana John Fatty Pennsylvania Willam Morgan Ohio defeated. Bpahy elected as the other new member.
Washington special reports the inauguration committee has arranged for the comfort of thousands of visitors. The public comfort panel, chaired by M. J. Weller, mapped city sections and arranged boarding houses and halls with capacities. A sanitary corps will inspect all sites, and there will be crowding but no rise in entertainment charges.
Washington special reports Chairman Southard sent a dispatch to W J Bryan inviting him to appear before the committee on Coinage Weights and Measures or to send his views on the pending bill. The move follows Colorado's Shafroth request to hear Bryan and other financial leaders on making all silver obligations redeemable in gold.
Des Moines Iowa January special report says President MacLean of the State University suspended ten sophomore students for kidnapping the freshman class president Stiles after the annual banquet. Stiles was forced into a hack and driven ten miles out of town where he was locked in a farmhouse and whipped.
The Indiana Senate debated a bill to have county councils appointed by circuit judges rather than elected. The majority urged postponement while Parks pressed for passage, with Lambert Keyes Jama Wool and others opposing. The House adjourned after routine sessions and votes on insurance liability and bond issues.
The session opened with prayer and featured remarks urging use of Indiana limestone for a new federal building in Indianapolis. Leaders urged Senate passage of measures on county assessments and bonds, with sharp exchanges over a lobbying influence and a bonding company proposal.
Deputy Martha Gant Jonneun and Bunnie Melutecy capture Snake Indian leader Crazy Snake at Eu fala camp after a daring dash from Creek town. Chitto Harro is held under guard as Lieut. Dixon plans a forced march to the Snake stronghold.
Queen Victoria will have a simple royal funeral without a military ceremony. The service is set for Windsor Castle on February 2 and the coffin will travel from London by train, arriving at St. George's Chapel around noon for a grand service. The procession will pass through London with gun carriage and royal guards, and Lords and Commons members may join the cortege.
London dispatch describes Queen Victoria's burial arrangements at Osborne House. King Edward and the German Emperor weep. the coffin is closed permanently and transported to London aboard the Alberta. The Queen's will and ceremonial wishes are reportedly kept confidential.
The British Medical Journal summarizes Queen Victoria's final year as marked by dyspeptic symptoms, poor nutrition, insomnia, and later aphasia. Despite cerebral exhaustion and facial paralysis, her heart function remained steady until the end with only pulmonary nerve paralysis in late hours.
Cuban postal embezzler Neely, formerly chief of the bureau of finance, left Rochester eight months ago and is aboard the steamer Mexico bound for Havana. He travels with custodians and will stay in the purser's room after the ship clears the pier. The theft amount cited is over $200 with $8,000 charged in Rochester.
Meeker Colorado special reports Vice President elect Roosevelt has hunted in the mountains for weeks. A courier found him on the Keystone ranch where he says he has killed 12 mountain lions and many lynx cats and badgers. He notes eight of the lions were unusually large and most were slain with a knife. He plans to stay two more weeks.
In Fort Wayne Indiana the jury trying Ed High for the murder of miner Malinski has been out twenty eight hours with no agreement likely and the judge adjourned until morning.
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