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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
2
Castella Attacks Esperanza in Cuba with 2,990 Pack
Spanish reports say Gen Castella, unaware of a rebel government at Esperanza, advanced with 2,590 infantry 400 cavalry and two field guns. After three days of march he breached a 1,000 man insurgent defense burning Esperanza houses and government buildings. The next day he met 2,500 rebels near Esperanza and routed them after five hours. Rebel losses are uncertain due to dense woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falla
Havana
Castellano
Esperanza
Tuerto Principe
Ioss
Guilty Verdict In Merry Murder Case At Chicago
The Chicago peddler Christian Merry was found guilty of wife murder. Co defendant Smith was acquitted and reacted with disbelief and joy. Judge Horton ordered caution, seeking a grand jury indictment for accessory after the fact as the scene cooled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Merry
Chicago
Smith
Horton
Chris
Merry
Tragic Train Death Taints Missouri Reunion
W C Hoge of Nevada Missouri died on a freight train in Fulton after a fatal incident. His mutilated remains were found near Liberal Missouri three miles away. An affectionate letter from his wife urged him to stop dissipation and return to her while she promised to drop a pending divorce suit. Basketed remains were sent to his wife in Nevada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Hoge
Nevada
Fulton
Liberal
Neveda
Rear Admiral Palliser orders fleet readiness for China
In Esquimalt Rear Admiral Palliser receives admiralty orders to have every vessel ready to depart for China within forty eight hours. The bustle increases as crews coal and provision ships. Pheasant is ordered to begin the Pacific crossing at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B. C
Esquimault
Palliser
Admiralty
China
Pheasant
Pacific
Stockholm City Burned Off Newport News Fire Yields $50000 Loss
The British steamship Stockholm City arrived from Manchester with most of its woodwork amidships burned after a bunkers fire. Officers and crew nearly naked due to loss of clothing as the ship battled for survival. Estimated damage stands at $50,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Manchester
Four Killed As Mareca Wreck Near Wales Coast
The British steamer Mareca from Baltimore to Newport ran ashore west of St Govens Head on the southwest coast of Wales. Four crew were killed on board, six who left in a boat are missing, and a third of the crew have been landed safely at Cork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land
Cork
Baltimore
Newport
St. Govens Head
Wales
Murder in a Trunk Reveals Mafia Kill in Utrecht
A mafia murder surfaced in New Orleans after authorities found a trunk in the Utrecht district behind a city residence. Police identified the victim and launched a homicide inquiry linked to organized crime networks.
Fire Devastates Harrison Block in Spencer Indiana
A disastrous blaze swept the Harrison Block and several adjoining structures in Spencer Indiana. The fire caused about 30090 dollars in damage and threatened nearby homes before being brought under control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
Spencer
iInd
Fatal Engine Boiler Explosion in Galesburg
Fatal explosion erupts from an engine boiler in Galesburg Illinois killing Oscar and Anderson while Lloyd and Meadows are seriously injured in the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galesburg
Oscar
Anderson
Lloyd
Mormon Missionaries Ship Out forservice Duty
A group of about 200 Mormon missionaries prepare for overseas assignment. Church officials announce the deployment and outline the general purpose of their mission work abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mormon Missionaries
Transit commission reports no quick rapid transit solution
A New York rapid transit project is deemed currently unfeasible by commissioners. Other items note a Pittsburg salesman’s suicide in Zanesville Ohio, Lehigh Valley’s assignment to Julius Workum, General Electric’s large Schenectady foundry plan, and a New York capital syndicate securing control of major potteries in Trenton and East Liverpool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New
York
Rapid’ ‘Transit
Daugherty
Pittsburg
Zanesville
Lehigh Valley Construction Company
Bethlehem
Julius Workum
New York
General Electric Company
Schenectady
N. Y
George William Douglas
Trinity Episcopal Church
New Haven
Washington Bridge
Harlem River
Aryan
Dirago
San Francisco
Shanghai
National Summer School Association
Glens Falls
J. J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Bridgeman
Hamline University
Miners Strike and Widest News From Coast to Coast
Twelve hundred northern Colorado coal miners strike for higher wages. Jamestown jury convicts in Villers murder with life term. India n wife claims to be lawful wife of California mine owner John R. Hite. Oklahoma statehood plan urged by Sing fisher convention. Freight shift proposed from Northern Pacific. Northwestern Elevator destroyed by fire at Willmar with 6000 bushels wheat. Doctors remove stomach of Beck 46 in St Louis. prognosis hopeful. McKinley pardons Clyde Mattox in Oklahoma murder case. Nostorio assign ment of Kohn Brothers store assets. Oregon politicians convicted of jury bribe ing in right of way case. Donnelly pursues Baconian cryptogram. Baton claims authorship of Shakespeare works and Don Quixote. Port Townsend rescues whisk y shipments seized aboard City of Seattle and City of Topeka. Cement deposit found near St Helena. Paul Metcalf wounded in Winchester dugout. Elizabeth Van Wyck Anderson attempts suicide in Tacoma. saved by police. Mrs James L Blood dies after operation in San Francisco. St Louis child killed in arson case. Bauer arrested. Shore Acres draws crowds at McVicker's Chicago. new scenery by Reid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Villers
Jamestown
N. C
John R. Hite
California
San Francisco
Interpartisan
Singfisher
O.T
Congress
Oklahoma
Oregon
Washington
Southern Lines
Northern Pacific
Willmar
Minn
Northwestern Elevator Company
Rebekah Hospital
St. Louis
Beck
President McKinley
Clyde Mattox
John Mullins
Nostorio, O
Henry Isohn
Kohn Brothers’ Dry Goods
Meyer Friend
Edward Isillfeather
I. H. Taffe
Portland
Ore
Ignatius Donnelly
Baton
Shakspeare
Port Townsend
Wash
City
Seattle
Alaska
Topeka
Richard Pithie
St. Helena
Cal
Paul Metcalf
Montana
Winchester
Elizabeth van Wyck Anderson
van Wyck
New York
Tacoma
Puget Sound
James L. Blood
California Woman’s Hospital
Kansas City
Chouteau Avenue
Cauer
Hilda Ersar
Bauer
Shore Acres
James A. Herne
Nathaniel Berry
McVicker
Chicago
York
Crimes and robberies flood a mixed early 1900s docket
A roundup of incidents includes AEREE closing its gates with assets hardly 2 percent paid on claims, John Ritner jailed at St. Clairsville confessing to multiple robberies and a wreck aimed at robbery, a Bellevue Nebraska shooting halted by a doctor, Bellevue police, and three post office burglars escaping Leavenworth. Eugene Field monument plans advance at Missouri State University Columbia with a granite base and a bronze statue, costing about $6,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AEREE
John Ritner
Wheeling Creek
Cleveland, Lorain
Wheeling
Bellevue
Neb
F. A. Langhine
W. C. Buell
James Murphy
George Woodruff
George Gordon
Leavenworth
Kan
Topeka
Murphy
Gordon
Woodruff
J. West Goodwin
Sedalia
Bazoo
Eugene Field Monument Association
Hoffman & Brochazka
New York
School Children of
Missouri
Eugene Field
Missouri State University
Columbia
Temporary receiver named for Hoffman Machine Company
Arthur S. Pope appointed temporary receiver for the Hoffman Machine Company a West Virginia corporation in a stockholder suit seeking dissolution. In Louisville three men were burned in a Ferncliffe distillery boiler explosion two fatally including John Kenny and Philip Kerb. Benjamin Butterworth US Patents Commissioner dies after illness at Piney Woods Hotel Thomasville Ga. Dora Cassius M Clays wife escaped a gun attack by Clell Richardson. Mount Kentucky Democrat proposes poll tax qualification to vote to remove negro from politics. James E Berry known as tramp millionaire body found in Paducah then interred in Mount Vernon Illinois by his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur S. Pope
Hoffman Machine Company
West Virginia
Louisville
Ferncliffe
John Kenny
Philip Kerb
Benjamin Butterworth
United States Commissioner of Patents
Piney Woods
Thomasville
Cassius M. Clay
Dora
Clell Richardson
Clell
Willie Bryant
Mr. Mount
Oldham
Kentucky
James E. Berry
Paducah
Berry
Mount Vernon
Notable Deaths and Global Tensions Reported Abroad
Sig Ernest Nicolini husband of Adelina Patti dies at Pau Italy. Charles Pelham Villiers known as father of the House of Commons dies in London age 96. Anti Jewish crusade in France grows alarming. Cuban insurgents explode a dynamite bomb and wreck a train in Havana province. Bread riots renew at Ancona Italy with troops dispersing rioters and fifty arrested. Race conflicts resume at Prague over language teaching in Bohemia. Eight hour workday demand withdrawn by engineers joint committee in London. Great Britain to lend China £12 million at 4 percent for fifty years in exchange for treaty port access and Yangtze and Burmah Railway concessions. Rome correspondent cites Civilita Cattolica urging Italian republic to resolve Vatican versus Quirinal. Article predicts coexistence of Vatican and monarchy impossible and cites Swiss and American constitutions as models. The Clyde Line steamer Cherokee arrives New York with reports of recent events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sig
Ernest Nicolini
Adelina Patti
Pau
Italy
France
Havana
Ancona
Charles Pelham Villiers
House of Commons
London
Prague
Bohemia
Engineers’ Joint
Employers’ Federation
Great Britain
China
Hunan
Rome
London Daily Chronicle
Civilita Cattolica
Vatican
Quirinal
Papal
Holy See
Switzerland
America
Clyde
New York
San Domingo
Earthquakes Hit Santo Domingo Port Damage Heavy
After a quiet period a second tremor caused a stampede. Porto Plata damages total about 25000 dollars. Central Dominó Railroad traffic halted. The Hayti cable and Santiago churches and government buildings suffered. Santa Cerro church collapsed. daily shocks continue with no reported deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Plata
Central Domingo
Hayti
Santiago
Santa Cerro
Polarized Judge Warns Courts and Arrests Likely
Judge Wat Starr issues a sensational manifesto pledging to resist federal court authority and suspend Cherokee courts until he is arrested. The report threads through Alaska, Dreyfus unrest, and growing commerce data, highlighting a volatile mix of legal defiance and economic activity across continents.
Market Reports Across Cities With Grain and Livestock Prices
A dense market roundup lists prices for cattle hogs sheep and grains across multiple cities. Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York show varying ranges for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye barley and related commodities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
Debates and revelations mark a Congress week in review
A week of general debate on the army appropriation bill in the House followed by eulogies for Seth W. Milliken of Maine. The Senate saw Hanna sworn in, passage of the immigration bill, and various resolutions on silver payment, Cuban belligerency, and a canal survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Seth W. Milliken
Maine
Congress
Senate
District“ of Columbia
McClellan
New York
George B. McClellan
Lewis
Washington
Hanna
Foraker
Ohio
Sherman
Hobart
Walcott
Cuba
DeArmond
Missouri
Bailey
Dingrey
United States
Finance Committee
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Lake Michigan
Wabash River
Turpie
Committee On Commerce
Chandler
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Joint Traffic Association
Dingley
Teller
Pettigrew
Secretary of
Secret Service Plot Laid in Richmond In War Echo
A London paper notes the plot of Secret Service centers on Richmond a key point in the late civil war between North and South America highlighting its strategic role and historical significance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Secret Service
Richmond
North
South America
Hall Caine Ordered by Physician to Rest and Avoid Work
Notable notes report author Hall Caine has been ordered by his physician to tax Rome and abstain from all work and worry. The brief appears to note the writer William Be Hone tary, OE and omeena in unclear text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall Caine
Rome
William
Southern Indiana Editorial Association Holds Annual Meeting
The Southern Indiana Editorial Association met in Indianapolis for its yearly gathering. President J W Cockrum of the Oakland City Journal delivered remarks and pressed the Denver press battle against department stores. Officers elected included Recording Secretary Major Simpson, Financial Secretary E A Remy, and Treasurer K E Purcell. Delegates to the national convention were W W Allen H P Simpson and H J Chancellor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Indiana “Editorial Association
Indianapolis
Chapmin
Denver Press
J. W. Cockrum
Oakland City Journal
Major Simpson
Paoli News
E. A. Remy
Seymour Republican
K. E. Purcell
Albany to get electric plant and local industry push
Evans Johnson of Carthage nearly died from nitric acid, and Connersville saw a dog attack raze a child. Elwood offers a Connersville mirror factory site with free gas and track facilities as cities shift to attract industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Cynthiana
Evans Johnson
Carthage
Arthur Foote
Connersville
Joe Stotelinger
Brazil
Center Point
Elwood
Jos. Carver
Crawfordsville
No. 9
Washington
John Stiles
Madisonville
Standisburg
Salem
John Wagner
William McLem
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gan
Merry Guilty
New Eans
Utrecht
Western
Southern
Wat Starr
Atlas Line
Andes
Port Au Prince
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Dawson City
Eldorado Creek
Alaska Commercial Company
Hudson Bay Company
Louis Sloss
Alaska Company
Dreyfus
Paris
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Heights Street Railway
New York, American
United States Biscuit
United States Biscuit Company
Bradstreet
Northwest
Canada
Market Reports
Editors
William Dall
Francesville
Pulaski County
Fort Smith
Newark
Company I
Second
Ohio Calvary
Hugh Bowman
Rochester
Henry Bowman
Germany
George Bower
Dyer
Lake County
Kankakee
Myrtle Grove
Edward Schell
William Compton
Fort Wayne
Postoffice
Leatherman
Globe Produce Company
Schell
New Albany
John Judd
Georgetown
John B. Conner
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