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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1902
Page
8
Readers report church attendance, dental visits, visits among neighbors, and farm rentals. A cold, ice harvest note, a church meeting with rising interest, and a local birthday obituary are recorded along with a small score update where Shelburn beat DMI by 3 to 2.
Subscriptions for the Union continue in Farmersburg as residents report travel and visits. Fielden Jeffries is ill. Mrs. E. J. Jennings traveled to Terre Haute on Friday. Sylvia Beasley and Rita Montgomery visited Shelburn and friends. Clergy meetings and a lecture by Judge Stimson of Terre Haute are mentioned amid a health note and a local furniture business change.
Miss Stella Asbury suffers typhoid fever. N W Ring visited Middletown last week. John Keene was in Terre Haute Tuesday. No school in coom 4 this week due to mumps. Mrs FP Payne improves after a long illness. Dr Davis and wife of Alum Cave attended church at the Baptist Sunday night. C C Bostic went to Linton Wednesday as a K of P dodge delegate.
County unl GGER departs this life. The Keely mine runs full time. Meetings at Mt Moriah church praised. New babies in town. Miss L Mabel Smith heads to Greencastle musical college. Tony the Convict drama next Friday proceeds aid brass band. Various locals ill, celebrating birthdays, and visitors. Basketball matches, labor demonstrations, and community events fill the week.
Local items report a worker killed by a timber fall at work and S. S. Yager visiting. Elmer Thomas and wife from Merom Junction last Sunday. Aunt Rose Ann Burnett feeble with age under physician care. Rev. Pinnick sick, Providence meetings postponed. Pratt's Food ads hinder training of plasterers at M E church. Daisy Thomas visited from State Normal for the weekend.
Jas Bilyew visited the city on Monday while John Wall and family spent Saturday with James Case. Frank Hughes and wife visited at the latter's father's Sunday. G A Rich and wife visited their daughter Bertha on Tuesday. E B Cowen and family visited Merom over the weekend. John Wilson fell from a wagon and sprained his ankle last week. E B Hughes of Fort Wayne Indiana visited his sister Mrs James Case. Everett Rich took a Sunday afternoon trip south. The Avenu.. will remain two weeks yet as they cast their votes. Sympathy for those traveling Salt Creek in cold weather. Maude Rich and her mother attended Chalmer Goodwin's funeral at Benson Chapel Sunday conducted by Revs Martin and Guyer.
The Vandalia Line invites all parties seeking information on rates and train times to write to J C Mittshaven Traveling Passenger Agent Terre Haute Ind for prompt attention.
Disraeli recalled meeting Daniel Webster in England when American statesmen were rare visitors. He described Webster as a witty conversationalist with a distinctive twang and levee visits. Disraeli praised Webster’s fine brow and eyes, while Sydney Smith quipped that no man could look wiser than Webster.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item relays a short joke in which a boarder compares a turkey to a fading dramatic star. The landlady humorously questions the boarder about his remark as the exchange turns on the idea of things arriving in increasingly small parts.
Brief dispatches note Lord Salisbury's retirement imminent as news wires say the Boer War ends. Also reported are Standard Oil's quarterly dividend of 20 a share, anti ritualist disruptions at a Queen Victoria memorial, and a fatal burn from Bedford Indiana.
Reports say Prince Henry will reside at the German Embassy during his Washington visit. Mrs. Ed Kushner and her two children perish in a Waterloo Iowa fire. Armstrong Hensley hanged in Erwin Tennessee for murdering his stepdaughter. Bank robbers who shot Sheriff Powers at Clarksville Arkansas. Col Addison A Hosmer buried with honors at Arlington. Bond issue settlement in Louisville clears Stuart Young’s bond shortage. British pursue Gen DeWet. capture his last gun and Lt Cmdt Wessels. Chilean congress delays specie payments until Jan 1 1903. Wisconsin battleship leaves Valparaiso for Calao under Rear Admiral Casey.
A report states the brother in law of the Turkish sultan was sentenced to death and has fled to Paris. Other items note lynching in Kentucky, a mob taking a prisoner in Tennessee, and the Industrial Commission’s vast final report to Congress.
The report states Venezuelan forces were defeated by rebels near Guiria with heavy losses. Other items note Mrs. Roosevelt summoned to Groton Massachusetts for Theodore Jr pneumonia illness and a legislative appropriation bill passage with a large excess over prior law.
The second part of the industrial commission report is public detailing manufactures and industrial combinations. A London circle suggests a revolution by the United Irish League is feared. Miss Mable Hanna, daughter of Senator M A Hanna, to wed Mr Harry Aas ons of Cleveland. Londoners buy life insurance as smallpox rises. Governor-elect of Bataan, Senor Lermers, fled after $4000 insurgent funds were questioned and remains missing. Fire at Dr Berlinger’s New York residence kills Jennie and Elsie Berlinger. British army purchasing faults spark public agitation about the War Office.
The Portland Oregonian notes that in seventeenth century Prussia criminals are still beheaded by an ax at the block, a method unchanged except for reduced public spectacle. It recalls Charles I’s fate at the Tower and contrasts with later use of the guillotine in other German regions.
A Chicago Record-Herald quip wonders how a person would react upon waking to a million dollar inheritance. The exchange suggests disbelief and a playful wish to dream it again.
Washington February 8 confirmations were made by the senate of appointments for Indiana postmasters. The record lists Raeco An as one of the confirmed appointees.
Starved to Death. Brookville Indiana Feb 8 John Conklin aged 67 a hermit and formerly wealthy died of starvation in a cabin on Indiana creek in this county. The text notes the ceremonial dress of executioners and witnesses as a lingering historical detail from a New York Press excerpt.
Begonias thrive when the air is not too dry and will not drop leaves. Water house plants enough to soak the soil thoroughly. A tree is nearly dormant in winter, especially after recent transplanting. Dormant plants require very little water during the interval.
Count Tolstoi falls ill in the Crimea while smallpox fears rise in London ahead of coronation festivities. Mrs. Odell dies in Newburgh New York. Miss Luca Williams 82 fatally burned in Mason county Kentucky. A Boston woman soars 600 feet by kite and lands safely. The Berlin Missionary Society buildings near Canton are burned by an anti Christian mob. Mrs. Mary Tevis of Madison county Kentucky badly burned helping her daughter who perished. German Farmers Alliance calls tariff rejection. A church accident in Herencites Colombia kills 13 and wounds 30. The battleship Illinois sails from Newport News to New York for Prince Henry’s reception. Lipton’s Cup challenger tested against Shield Rock II with American crew aboard.
The article offers practical advice on handling pests like destructive insects, using sand as a rooting medium, and watering decaying plants with soot tea. It explains repotting to refresh soil fertility and root space, and describes tying limbs to prevent tree splitting. It notes quick rooting for herbaceous cuttings such as heliotrope verbena phlox and geraniums with chrysanthemum fastest.
A Portland applicant for a pension claimed no army or navy service yet said he and others were attacked by Indians while fleeing a warpath in eastern Oregon. He asserted his presence justified the pension based on that incident, despite his denial of military service.
Kanakakee marsh dries up due to new drainage ditches in Valparaiso Indiana. Daily Market Report from Indianapolis lists grain prices for Feb 10 with Wheat at 87 cents, Corn 62 to 44, Oats 15 to 3, Cattle 2.75 to 6.50, Hogs 5 to 6.45, Sheep 1.50 to 3.50, Lambs 3 to 5.35.
Wheat at 150, pork at 15.67, lard 9.35, ribs 347. Core ogre vats and 25 sec appear as contextless figures, with markets noted in a brief price snapshot.
Wheat prices No 2 red and longberry at 88c. Corn No 2 white 08340, No 2 mixed 66c. Oats No 2 mixed 49c, No 2 white 5lec. Cattle strong at 2.25 to 5.76. Hogs steady at 4.50 to 6.66. Sheep steady at 2 to 3.65. Lambs steady at 2.50 to 5.40.
Wheat steady No 2 red 906 copper? No 2 mixed corn firm 63c cattle active at 1.75 to 5.05 hogs active at 4.10 sheep active 2.25 lambs strong 4.50 to 6.25.
Cattle active with steers at 4.70 to 7.00, stocker readers 2.25 to 4.50. Hogs steady at 4.00 to 6.35, sheep steady at 3.25 to 5.75, lambs steady at 3.0 to 6.50.
Cattle steady at 3.60 with weekly tone noted and sheep slow at 2.50. Lambs steady at 4.25 while hogs quiet around 5 and cattle price references include 6.15 and 6.80 ranges.
Cattle steady at 3 6.75 per unit, hogs active at 5 6.50, sheep steady at 4 4.50, lambs steady at 3 3.25. Prices shown reflect market activity for the day across cattle hogs sheep and lambs with no major shifts noted.
Wheat firm cash at 87 cents May 63 cents per quarter, corn active No 2 cash 59 cents, oats active No 1 cash 45 3/4 cents.
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