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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1896
Page
3
Noted poet and designer William Morris is dead. The item lists various 1890s events including political speeches by McKinley and Sewall, legal notices, and storms. it mentions Morris's death amid a long stream of contemporaneous odds and ends from October.
A montage of European and global events includes political shifts in Greece and Turkey, arrests in Boulogne tied to a dynamite plot, and the fate of exiled figures. The note mentions Armenian refugees traveling to New York, the Salvation Army aiding a refugee colony, and a U.S. citizen civil engineer dying in Santiago. The Czarina and Czarine’s Paris visit concludes the update.
A fifty seven year old woman Betsy Hobbs widow was murdered at her Maplewood home in Pariser field. Her body burned after kerosene soaked clothes and a match were used. Authorities found holes in the neck and head and the motive remains unknown. Searches for the killer continued without a clue by tonight.
Reports recount Rev. W. E. Hinshaw’s alleged confession to an unnamed attorney claiming self defense in the fatal shoot of his wife, followed by a letter from Hinshaw denying the confession. The page also covers varied Indiana news including balloon rescues, school consolidations, fires, indictments, accidents, and local crimes.
Work on the preliminary survey for the Wolf Lake inland harbor will start next week after a $3.00 appropriation. The project aims to complete before December and make Wolf Lake a key harbor on the Great Lakes chain, offering shelter from Lake Michigan storms and long advocated by Chicago vesselmen.
Tales from Valparaiso tell how a mother coaxed a copperhead from a child’s lap with no bite. Indiana Democrats refuse fusion with Populists and Washington County reports no Black residents. Reports cite Rankakee reclamation plans and a Bloomington forgery arrest. A 15 year old touched a live wire and died at Madison. Willis Moore died after a fall from a Thorntown tree. Col. Columbus criminals sentenced to ten years for horse theft. Fire clay found near Little York. Crawfordsville votes for 320000 sewer system loan. Anderson sees active highwaymen with a shootout on a city street. Fred Trout is robbed and shot at 10:30 p.m.
Interior Department requested War Department troops to Tuskahoma Choctaw country to prevent violence as conflicts rise between full-bloods and squaw men. General Merritt reported arrival of cavalry force at Swann Lake near Pond Creek. Indian Agent Wisdom directs troops amid ongoing clashes, evictions, and casualties with a projected pitched battle looming.
Andrew Blitz of Congo Ohio died at St Francis Hospital after hours of hydrophobia. He had traveled to Columbus for a wedding with his wife and sister in law. He was bitten by his pointer dog last July causing the fatal illness.
A reviewing stand for the Iowa state celebration in Burlington collapsed on October 1 injuring Vice-President Stevenson Governor Drake and about forty dignitaries. Stevenson was shaken but unharmed while several others suffered serious injuries. County Treasurer E. S. Burrows of Burlington sustained a compound leg fracture.
Report shows grain and hay prices including corn at 3 1/2 to 4 cents, Timothy hay around $8.59, livestock quotes for stockers, heifers, cows, bulls, and milkers, with hogs at $3.01 to $3.42. Produce rates note hens, springs, cocks, turkeys, ducks, geese, wax, wool, and hides. Regional price references include Chicago wheat 73 4 to 7/8, corn 21 34, oats 16 3 as well as New York wheat 73 4 to 37/40 and other city quotations.
A druggist awoke at 2 am to a customer asking to browse the store directory to learn how to address a letter and to buy a postage stamp. The unusual prompt hints at a possible incident or attempted transaction occurring in the small hours. The report focuses on the interaction between the customer and the shopkeeper.
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