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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1897
Page
6
A proposed law in Xcosylvania would tax aliens three cents a day for each day of employment. Unemployed aliens would avoid tax, and naturalization would also exempt them. The measure targets foreigners who work for reduced wages, use free schools, and yet pay no taxes as noncitizens.
A discouraged Chicago woman attempted suicide four times. Her friends brought her before a prospective justice of the peace who gave her a remedial hearing and fined her 16 dollars plus costs. The piece lampoons the judge’s temperament and hints at public scorn after the city’s remark.
It is alleged Prof. Von Schreer of Naples University discovered "Wife" in crystals and argues rocks contain life. He uses magnified photos to show crystals born, growing away from a "mother" and becoming complete. The report notes the theory is "rocky" and not vouched for.
South Carolina, liquor in private or business premises requires a State Liquor Commissioner certificate on the container. The court affirmed a chain gang sentence of three months for personal use liquor, despite no sale intent.
The Northeastern Lumberman argues pine is cut more now and can be sustained if lands are protected from fire or kept scarred for perpetual growth. It urges encouraging owners to plant second growth pine maturing in 35 to 40 years and predicts double future yields. Fire threatens thousands of acres in Michigan and Wisconsin where half-grown timber has burned.
A Globe Democrat writer condemns the Debs plan as a paper blueprint for forced cooperation. He argues it would replace individual effort with mass partnership, spreading risk and rewards across all industries and workers, violating proven rules of success.
A June Cosmopolitan essay argues modern warfare makes numbers irrelevant as volunteers face certain death by their own willingness. The piece foreshadows the grim risk borne by troops and the destructive power of contemporary battle engines.
The article notes high death risk for submarine torpedo boat operators and soldiers using dynamite arms. It says such battalions will be formed with higher officer and private salaries, and that military men expect to fill the ranks despite the dangers.
Across several states in the early 1867 session, anti trust laws were enacted in Indiana Illinois and New York while Minnesota passed a similar measure. New York approved a drastic inheritance tax bill but the governor vetoed it. Utah enacted an income tax law and colors of labor reform appeared with factory inspections child labor bans labor commissions and expanded health board powers. Northern states pursued education and higher taxes on rail telegraph and telephone firms. Streetcar and municipal gas issues drew limited attention aside from Illinois.
An article notes shrewd canvassers exploit village merchants with time table ads and gimmicks. It cites Grand Rapids lessons showing fake schemes fleece businesses, while newspapers prove a better but costly advertising method requiring prudent use.
Dr Tal mage urges prayers for city officials and reform in New York and other towns. He laments civic decay, links moral governance to commerce and schools, and calls Christians to engage in politics, prayers, and moral action to save American cities.
A firebrand sermon calls Christians to action for cleaner towns and a righteous society. The speaker urges rapid sacrifice to reform cities, praising forgiveness for sinners and inviting the prodigal to return to faith and community. The message blends moral urging with biblical imagery of redemption and celebration in heaven.
America's smallest practical locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works ships to Senor Fernando de Teresa near Mexico City. The two small driving wheel pairs form a ten foot four inch wheelbase. The cabin is airy, with nickeled gauges and gold trim. The train includes a luxe seven coach entourage and a blue and gold eight wheeled tender. The project costs four thousand seven hundred dollars.
A teacher troubled by a pupil’s truancy seeks help from a kindly supervisor. The lad visits the supervisor’s home for a meal and a pep talk, only to confess the truancy was a trick, revealing another boy paid to take his place.
Louisville reports four building and loan firms with assets over a million and a quarter collapse within 72 hours after the Court of Appeals ruled interest above 6 percent as usury. Kentucky Citizens' Building and Loan Association closed with about 212000 in assets and liabilities. President Fred Hoertz says the ruling caps profitability, prompting withdrawals and widespread fear of state-wide financial ruin for these associations.
Duluth reports say a cyclone obliterated Lowry Minnesota on the Soo line near Glenwood. Early accounts list four dead and several injured with a second tally of seven killed and many harmed as the cloud moved southwest to northeast after 6 pm.
The superintendent of public instruction presents tables for common school revenue apportionment. It shows $1,073,576.07 collected from counties, $17,837.94 from other sources, total on hand $1,091,414.01, amounts apportioned $1,072,299.80, treasury balance $19,114.21, and a per capita of $1.43.
Ex Governor John Evans of Colorado died in Denver on Saturday. Born March 9, 1814 in Waynesville Indiana, he graduated from Cincinnati Medical College in 1838 and practiced in Attica Indiana. He later led Indiana Insane Asylum, moved to Chicago, founded Evanston, the Methodist Book Concern and Northwestern Christian Advocate and served as territorial Colorado governor in 1861 with railway and mining interests.
Excessive heat from July 1 to 6 caused many deaths and prostrations. Cincinnati recorded 31 fatalities in three days, Chicago reported 9 deaths and 28 prostrations, with St Louis New York and Cleveland also noting elevated deaths from the temperatures.
President McKinley and his party departed Washington for Canton on Friday to visit Mother McKinley and stayed through Monday evening. Citizens of Canton welcomed the distinguished visitor with broad cordiality across party lines.
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