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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1897
Page
4
In Wauneta Kansas a local doctor who owns a drug store also serves as justice of the peace and constable. He sells liquor to boys and then arrests and fines them for drunkenness, prompting questions about conduct in the town.
An impressionable Paris banker, owner of vast riches, dies of grief after learning he lost all except 100000 francs. His pauper brother inherits the sum and dies of joy.
England sees a major strike as about 120,000 engineers walked out for an eight hour day without wage cuts. Reports warn of a protracted fight with outcomes still uncertain.
United States sent over 7,000,000 barrels of flour and about 4,500,000 bushels of wheat to Japan in the year ending June 30, 1897. The remark implies Oriental demand for more substantial food.
Klondyke thermometers expose extreme January heat with fifty below noted as moderate. The piece humorously contrasts hot summer days with the uncomfortable reality felt by many warm blooded residents.
Signor Ferriani, author of Clever and Fortunate Criminals, notes that in 1825 France saw 1,000 undetected crimes, while current annual figures reach 80,000. He argues many offenses escape detection across borders.
Money lenders claim South Dakota farmers have repaid about 50 million dollars of debt in four years. A company seeking 75 thousand dollars in farm mortgages cannot attract buyers for more than a third. The firm notes that among 1,500 farms, fewer than fifty foreclosures have occurred in seven years.
A farmer left 11 000 acres to his three daughters who divide the tract into small sections and lease to tenants. Their drainage efforts convert waterlogged acres into productive fields, handled with practical oversight. They run the operation with hands on work and smart decision making.
Chicago police announce an open war on bucket shops slot machines clock games and switching devices plaguing the streets. The chief orders vigorous enforcement to protect visitors from swindling schemes and curb the gambling fraternity’s activities.
The Cleveland Leader reports 86 divorces filed in the Common Pleas Court in the year ending July 1 with 95 filed by men. The data mirror state figures, suggesting men either provide more grounds or are more patient while most divorces cite desertion drunkenness or cruelty by husbands.
Judge Phillips of the Western District of Missouri rules under the Sherman act that the Traders' Live Stock Exchange of Kansas City violated interstate commerce restraints. The court issues an injunction dissolving the exchange, which had 143 members and charged 500 dollars for membership. The ruling centers on cattle at Kansas City stock yards being interstate commerce.
The piece weighs the Klondyke gold fever against the 1849 California rush. It warns many will be disappointed and urges caution for those with home ties, while noting increasing prospecting chatter and a coming navigation season that could boost Pacific coast business.
Prospering England shows higher government revenue totaling 127 million for the last quarter compared with the prior year. Capital investments in breweries bicycles hotels and other manufacturing rise substantially while bimetallic advocacy faces strong opposition from Lord Salisbury and Parliament.
The Klondyke gold strike fuels coastwide excitement with an estimated 30,000 prospectors heading to Alaska. The Alaska Commercial Company warns that supplies and transport are limited and winter arrives soon, while reports detail huge yields and fortunes won and lost on Bonanza Eldorado creeks.
Washington experts including Prof Tittman and Prof Fratt of the coast survey affirm Alaska placer gold reports. Mint director Preston corroborates large gold dust shipments, with $1,200,000 moved from Alaska placers. Travelers may reach Yukon via Yukon river or from Juneau by the headwaters route.
The Gypsy moth, blamed on Trouvelot's European specimens, covers 200000 square miles in Massachusetts and has cost the state about 750000. The pest's spread and impact have grown since its introduction thirty years ago, with early warning by Prof. C. V. Riley.
The 1889 warning about the Gypsy moth proved costly for Massachusetts. About 700000 dollars spent to stamp out the pest with fumigation and plant quarantines, plus projected 500000 more to finish eradication. Professor Fernald believes total control by 1910 is possible.
A Detroit man on Woodward Avenue narrates a hammock adventure begun on the veranda roof. A sudden squall snapped the guy rope, sending him whirling through branches and crashing to the yard, leaving him bruised and smelling of arnica.
The AFL and United Mine Workers convene in Wheeling to back the miners demand for living wages and to condemn injunctions seen as suppressing free speech. They urge mass indignation meetings nationwide and call on governors and public officials to protect assembly rights.
Lovey Aldrich, one of seven surviving widows of revolutionary soldiers, died at her son E. C. Aldrich’s home in San Diego on Monday afternoon. Born March 29, 1800 in San Bornton New Hampshire, she was in her ninety eighth year.
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