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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1897
Page
3
Washington notes say Postmaster Loftin of Hogansville Ga remains unsettled amid talk of suspending southern offices. The piece covers potential transfers, political pressure, and past enforcement tactics to influence postmaster appointments. It also touches on Cuba autarky plans and various political maneuvers.
An atrocity at John Boucker’s farm eight miles northwest of Ta, a husband killed his wife and six children, then shot himself. The German family included Caroline fourteen Christine nine Henry eight Lingle six John three and an infant. Henry survived injuries but is not expected to recover.
A Tacoma dispatch reports floods near Tung-Chou within twelve miles of Peking destroying sixty villages with over eighty thousand residents. An estimated fifteen thousand to twenty thousand deaths, rain through August, and meat shortages after officials banned cattle slaughter to appease the gods, drawing foreign protest.
Chicago Record correspondent describes Consul General Gowdy in Paris. He struggles with rheumatism yet presents refined style, adopting Parisian manners and a Caesar look. Gowdy rents a prestige address near Arc de Triomphe while adjusting to duties and language.
Mobile Alabama faces a fever scare with 600 to 760 percent of cases showing fever but few symptoms suggest yellow fever. Authorities note drainage and sanitation issues fueling malaria fears as 10,000 residents flee. commerce stalls and closures spread while the death rate hovers around 14 percent as residents fear the yellow jack.
Captain John Irving of the Victoria and Sitka Steamship Co. proposes a overhead freight trolley railway from the passes to the Yukon foot of the White Horse Rapids to speed goods to Dawson City. He says the system will be inexpensive, carry only small packages, and bypass river delays with steamship support.
In Rochester New York Edgar Ketchum twelve and Reynolds Smith eleven attempted dangerous acts after watching circus performers. Smith burned his face and eyes while lighting benzin soaked cotton in his mouth, while Ketchum pierced a vein with a silver paper cutter during sword swallower performance, leaving one boy gravely injured and the other unlikely to recover.
In St Louis two rival young men, both in love with the same woman, planned a duel on bicycles on Monday night. They rode toward each other from one yard apart and crashed at the end of St Louis avenue. Both bikes were wrecked and both riders were knocked unconscious. They were taken away by buggy and medical aid summoned. prognosis uncertain for several days. Referee declined to rule.
Madrid reports a Liberal cabinet crisis after the Spanish ministry resigns amid factional strife following Canovas death. Queen Regent asks Azcarraga to stay, Senor Sagasta may be recalled to form a new government and push immediate Cuban autonomy.
Reports leak from official circles of a planned conspiracy against Emperor Nicholas during a Warsaw visit. A tunnel under Norvysviat street near the governor's palace was dug from a beerhouse cellar but halted by fears of collapse and police intervention. One thousand one hundred thirty arrests followed, including four disguised German officers. Merchants from Ladzy implicated.
The coroner's jury in Hazleton Pa. reports that cement workers were marching unarmed when intercepted by Sheriff Martin and deputies who killed them. The panel calls the shooting wanton and unnecessary and notes unlawful violence by unknown parties. The inquest was held in Deputy Coroner Cowan's office after about an hour of deliberation.
The United Democracy of Greater New York nominates Henry Crearge for mayor in the upcoming election. The party endorses Crearge as its candidate for city leadership.
Topeka Kansas hosts the twenty fifth anniversary of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway with a mass field day. Over 5 000 employees from four states joined a long parade featuring historic floats and a full size locomotive. Governor Leedy reviewed the event as 60 000 visitors filled the fair grounds for afternoon exercises. Miss Edna Whitney of Chillicothe Missouri crowned festival queen escorted by the governor.
Eugene V. Debs selects railroad project as first industrial venture of the Social Democracy of America. A seventy five mile line from Nashville to Lebanon is proposed with labor supplied by the society and income to Nashville for nominal value. A Monterey link to the Cincinnati Southern would connect to Cincinnati with a planned public ownership model.
Otley Waite and five children and G W Farmer and wife from a party of 318 emigrants who left Savannah for Liberia aboard the Labrador in March 1836 have arrived destitute. They report many deaths, failed land promises, and harsh Liberian climate with no aid from Liberian authorities.
Rev R J Kellogg pastor at Denverside Congregational church near East St Louis faced pressure over hiring. He pursued building a parsonage with help as seven men assaulted him delaying work. He now carries a shotgun for protection and has filed warrants in East St Louis.
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