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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1898
Page
3
An anecdotal claim describes a long standing scrofula sore on a limb healed by Hood's Sarsaparilla. The excerpt also promotes Western Florida homestead lands with rail line access and describes various quips and medical ads.
News from the Orient details a gala beheading of eight Iswangski rebels in Wu Chow with thousands watching. Simultaneously, disastrous typhoons and floods in Japan and Formosa cause massive loss of life and property, with 1000s drowned and ships lost. Unprofitable life insurance in Japan cites failing actuaries and suspensions.
Washington reports Gen Otis dispatch noting improved Luzon situation in education and property groups favoring order over independence, ongoing inter island trade issues and revenue impact, health improving with fewer fever cases though sick report up, smallpox largely arrested, deaths this month include eight smallpox and eight typhoid, plus malarial and intestinal deaths and accidents. Discrepancies in Otis dispatch withheld due to peace negotiations. Russian port Arthur spy case: Ivan Kraus, a Port Arthur officer aboard Empress of Japan steamer, arrested in Vancouver for making fortification maps and plans.
Washington reports the Cuba evacuation will extend past the planned December 1 handover. The war department notes Spain cannot move about 120000 soldiers and gear by sea within ten weeks, given limited transport capacity. Delay means Havana and other centers stay under Spanish rule until US troops reoccupy after evacuation.
Kokomo Indiana October 22 Truancy Officer J W Parsons uncovered three large families under the compulsory education law. The Troyer family with 40 children is the largest on record, plus 20 children in David Jones family and 16 in another. The three families total 79 souls and the Troyers form the entire school district.
Judge Cox in the district supreme court ruled for Secretary Gage in two suits by George B. Wightman and Wm. H. Wharton over rejected bids for the recent war loan bonds. The decision notes treasury discretion in bond awards and that Congress intended bonds go to individuals, excluding banks and corporations.
A Manila telegram to the secretary of the navy states that the collier Nero reached Taku on the 16th with coal on fire and that, with no further use for the vessel, it should be sent home. Dewey omits comments on the Philippines or deeper captures by Spaniards or insurgents.
A sergeant-major Calvin McCoy of the Third Alabama regiment was found dead on Jackson Street around three o'clock this morning with a gunshot wound to the left ear. He carried noticeable money Thursday. found with pockets cut and money missing. The coroner is investigating.
The Civil Service Commission issued a circular to 700 boards of examiners nationwide on political activity by federal officers. It reiterates July 14 1886 directives, states postmaster general confirms no revocation, and insists that partisan activity harms an officer’s usefulness. It cites Section 2 of the 1883 act restricting coercion in political action.
Washington, Oct. 22. A general land office statement shows 579,368,274 acres of unappropriated and unreserved land in the United States excluding Alaska. About 546,549,655 acres, over 94 percent, lie in 13 desert land states and territories. Of vacant lands there, an estimated 332,176,000 acres may be deemed desert, not producing native grasses for hay, lacking moisture for tree growth, or unable to yield a reasonably remunerative crop without irrigation or grazing.
London marked the Trafalgar anniversary with Nelson’s column heavily adorned by laurel chains and festoons. Floral shields cited St Vincent Camperdown The Nile and Trafalgar while crowds cheered the hoisting of the onion jack atop the pedestal amid showery weather and a chilly morning.
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