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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1897
Page
3
Five men were shot in their cells and lynched in Versailles Indiana in a dawn attack by masked horsemen. The mob demanded a suspect and seized the prisoners before hauling them to a nearby tree, with chaos and fear spreading through town.
Fragmentary note reports the governor naming a sheriff for Ripley County with reference to Mount and related officials. The text is unclear but indicates an executive appointment action by the governor.
A Texas hurricane and tidal surge struck Sabine Pass last evening with winds near eighty miles per hour. Reports indicate multiple fatalities and widespread damage as boats and dwellings were scattered. rescue efforts and scattered debris dominated the scene as officials assess the toll.
A freight train wreck west of Var near Hanson and Mount Read killed seven men and injured six others, two fatally. The No. 45 Coffeyville to Van Buren freight derailed, scattering fifteen cars and derailing all but three located at front and rear. A central car loaded with heavy machinery carried thirteen passengers, seven dead and six badly hurt as trainmen later recovered them.
A Spanish naval officer identified as Lieutenant Sobral was found in Washington after months of coast defense observations. Officials say the excursion was a scientific defense study and not intended for military advantage, and Sobral faces recall or expulsion as Madrid weighs its response.
Recent advices from Guatemala warn of deep financial and political trouble. Reports detail failures and tensions as President Boarril faces pressure while Barrios seeks power, raising fears of dictatorship and instability in the region.
Paris dispatch notes a plan to revise the French Constitution with a National Assembly in Versailles to modify the presidency. The Chronicle warns of Bonapartist and Orleanist support and a possible drift toward a hereditary monarchy, with Hana taux seen as a possible pivot.
Congressman Johnson of the Richmond district will retire at the end of his term and may move to New York to practice law. The announcement signals a forthcoming vacancy and potential party realignment.
A Colorado disaster occurred at 12 35 Friday near New Castle when a Denver and Rio Grande passenger train collided head on with a Colorado Midland stock train. Rescue crews worked twelve hours to recover bodies and treat the injured. Death toll estimated around thirty with many unidentified. 183 injured. Fire from a gas tank spread, trapping travelers beneath debris. Conductor Burban k of the Midkind stock train suspected of delaying the passenger and fled. Coroner Clark ordered arrest.
The miners from Pennsylvania West Virginia Ohio Indiana and Illinois accepted the Pittsburg operators terms after a day of debate at the interstate convention in Columbus Ohio The vote was 0 for 517 against with Illinois and Pennsylvania delegates split while Ohio and Pittsburg backed the settlement The plan calls for 65 cents in the Pittsburg district and support for affected miners with a 10 day pause before resuming work.
Senator William E. Chandler of New Hampshire appeals to Republicans and bi metallists to back bimetallism as England may reopen Indian mints and use silver in reserves. He urges united, nonhostile action toward European cooperation and decries money lender influence in New York and Chicago.
Six cases of yellow fever developed at New Orleans on Sunday prompting an immediate rigid quarantine to curb the outbreak and protect the city.
In Hazleton area Latimer outskirts seen a brutal clash as deputy sheriffs opened fire on striking miners. Reports claim fifteen to twenty killed and forty wounded with corpses counted. Governor Hastings orders mobilization, Third Brigade to Hazleton under General Gobin.
New York bankers and brokers J R Willard & Co with offices in Buffalo Philadelphia Montreal faced forced transfer of liabilities to Just Ta Starbuck with preferences for William TH Osterhout. Jay and Elmer Dwiggins, nephews of Zimri Dwiggins, travel Europe. Willard and Elmer were connected to Consolidated Exchange.
The Monetary Commission formed by HY H Hanna of the executive committee at the national monetary convention in Indianapolis last January has named nine of eleven members. George F Edmunds Charles S Fairchild Stuyvesant Fish Stewart Patterson T G Bush J W Fries W B Dean George E Leighton Robert B Taylor will prepare a bill for Congress to consider.
The Ohio Gold Democrats met in state convention at Columbus on September 3. The ticket includes Julius Dexter for Governor from Cincinnati, A. E. Merrill for Lieutenant Governor of Sandusky, John H. Clark of Youngstown for Supreme Court, Samuel Stevens of Columbus as State Treasurer, W. H. Johnson of Granville for State Commissioner of Schools, and Henry D. Coffinberry of Cleveland for State Board of Public Works. The platform upholds the gold standard, denounces tariff legislation, and opposes Hawaiian annexation.
State Statistician John B. Conner released bulletin No. 2 detailing Indiana wheat production for 1897 and a comparison with 1896. The county table begins with figures across districts, showing substantial gains over the prior year.
President McKinley signed an unconditional pardon Friday at Sumner et, Pa., freeing Francis A. Coffin who had been serving an eight year sentence for involvement in the wrecking of the Haughey National Bank in Indianapolis in 1883.
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