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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1897
Page
3
Russiaville and nearby farms harvest a bumper berry season led by strawberries raspberries and blackberries. The report details picking wages prices crates and shipment methods as well as unrelated notes on local geology and oddities in Indiana towns.
Miami county fruit crops look poor with scarce peaches and pears. The Muncie Clerks Union boasts the world’s largest membership. Clark county expects about 350000 bushels of orchard grass. A four year old farmer son in Chesterford weighs 100 pounds and is healthy. James Blakely drowns after a river bathing accident near South Bend. A Crawfordsville man is arrested after 30 years dormant, swears off war for life.
A report by Special Commissioners Conner and Terhune on six Indiana counties details dire miner and family hardship from idleness and debt. The governor convened state officials and issued a statewide appeal urging organized relief efforts, funds, food, and clothing for destitute miners and their families.
The twelve women and two men on trial for wholesale poisoning in Buda Pesth were sentenced after a long case. Four received death sentences, one life penal servitude, one six years. Crimes in Wodmeree district involved wives killing husbands for insurance. An alleged midwife Marie Jager supplied poison. about two hundred witnesses testified.
President McKinley asks Congress to create a special bipartisan Monetary Commission to study the nation’s banking and currency laws. The panel would report by November 1 and aim to simplify and strengthen the monetary system without partisan conflict. Executive Mansion July 24, 1897.
Dispatches report forces begin evacuating Thessaly amid frontier terms in the peace accord. Djevad Pasha sails to Crete to mediate with naval powers and local Mussulman Cretans. Serbia warns of incursions, while Nicholas gifts rifles and cartridges to Alexander of Serbia. Berlin debates foreign grain exclusion amid treaty constraints.
The London Sunday Times forecasts war between Great Britain and the United States and says a further letter on the seal fisheries will not prompt protest from Lord Salisbury. It warns of new trouble from a Yukon gold discovery and reports confidential talks between Russia and the United States over Alaska cession and Klondyke claims.
Washington July 24 session ended with the Dingley tariff signoff and a crowded vote on a currency commission bill. The Stone measure passed 124 to 9 after hours of pointed debate and gallery demonstrations. The speaker announced committee appointments as the last act of the session.
The first session of the gold Democratic gathering met at William D. Bynum's office in Williams Street near Wall. Prominent guests include William B. Haldeman F W M Cutcheon Major W W Screws and L C Krauthoff. They aim to wage active warfare in states with fall elections notably Ohio Kentucky Iowa to restore Democratic principles and prove the party holds the balance of power against free silver.
A letter from John C Gill Patrick describes Alaska as disappointing for prospectors. He notes no significant strikes since last summer and widespread selling, with miners failing to create excitement on Lynx Creek. He says living relies on fur and gold fields are crowded with harsh conditions.
A New York market report notes a sharp drop in silver on Saturday with quotes at 59 5 to 9 cents an ounce. Demand is weak and the value of silver in a silver dollar stands at slightly over 46 cents.
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