Heat and unrest in the town and China power balance
A Saturday night melee in the town centers on John Shaffer of Warsaw as fists fly near Froehly's store and the Hammer saloon, described as the era's most disgraceful disorder. The article also analyzes Great Britain's, Russia's, Germany's and Japan's competing interests in China and the open door policy amid a looming partition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierceton
Old Town
Barbee Lake
Market Street
Front
Record
John Shaffer
Warsaw
Froehly
Shaffer
Freehly
Hammer
United States
China
Germany
Kiao- Chau
Russia
Manchuria
Siberian
Harban
Port Arthur
Yangtse
Kiao-Chau
Hong Kong
Canton
Shantung
France
Annam
Tonkin
Cambodia
Kuang Chau Wan
Japan
Korea
Formosa
Fukien
Ponies Leg Bracing Sparked Akron Pee Wee Critique
A Akron News item describes a pony with a broken right fore leg and the failed braces. A Warsaw veterinarian advised iron braces to support the limb while the pony could walk. The Akron Pee Wee’s treatment of the story drew strong censure and satire from local readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi Strong
Warsaw
Akron News
Akron
Pee Wee
Ben Franklin
Cost of State Institutions in Indiana for Nine Months
The Indiana bulletin of charities and corrections reports nine month expenditures ending July 31, 1900. Total costs include hospitals for the insane, Soldiers Home Lafayette, Orphans Home Knightstown, Deaf Institute Indianapolis, Fort Wayne Feeble Minded Institute, and penal institutions. Aggregate state penal costs reach 265,505.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Corrections
State Board of Charities
Lafayette
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans
Knightstown
Deaf Institute
Indianapolis
Fort Wayne
Michigan City
Reformatory
Jeffersonville
Industrial School For Girls and Womens
Reform School
Plainfield
All Kinds of Weather Forecast for October by Hicks
Prophet Hicks predicts a Mars centered October with repeating early September patterns, turning more autumnal, storms and cooling. Key periods include early and mid month storm bouts, with thunder, high winds, and possible snow in north areas, followed by warming near month end and a final reactionary storm around October 29th and 30th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prophet Hicks
Vulcan
James Howard to be hanged December seventh
Judge Cantrill in Frankfort Ky overruled a new trial motion for James Howard and sentenced him to be hanged December 7. Attorneys may file their bill of exceptions in the appeal to the court of appeals by the third week in October. Howard is alleged to have fired the shot killing William Goebel last January. The court found defense juror qualification affidavits offset by prosecution counter affidavits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Howard
Cantrill
Frankfort
Howard
Court of Appeals
William Goebel
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Ofall
B. Oppenheim & Cos
North
Manchester, Ind
Wabash County
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Openheim & Co
Indiana
Stout & Son
Silver Lake
IND
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