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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1896
Page
1
Alderman James L. Francis of Chicago and Rev John Burgus of Keokuk Iowa praise Dr Kings New Discovery as an ideal cough remedy. They report five decades of use and speedy relief without doctors or other medicines. Free trial at S K Scotts Drug Store.
In Knox county Indiana at Red Cloud, William Davis was shot twice by his wife Lizzie Davis after a jealousy dispute. One bullet passed through him. he cannot recover. Lizzie Davis was arrested and jailed in Vincennes.
The Indiana state weather bureau notes hot weather and heavy rains in central areas injuring wheat oats and hay. Corn in lowlands remains flooded while potatoes rot and pasturage stays good. Millet is ready for cutting and tomatoes ripen despite some rain damage. melons and vegetables are abundant.
Civil Engineer Charles Ratcliffe surveys a line from Muncie toward Richmond for a capitalist group to connect with the Pan Handle railroad. The proposed route would run northwest to Marion linking to Chicago, with the work conducted in secret.
Aug 12 reports from Hagerstown that the wife of Charles Barnard of Losantsville bore a child described as a freak of nature. The infant’s feet resemble a raccoon’s, while its hands resemble a squirrel’s paws. Doctors attribute the anomaly to an inherited or playful animal-like development.
In Indianapolis on August 12 the Populists and free silver Democrats of the seventh district prepare a fusion candidate to be nominated at Franklin next Saturday. Populist Chairman Shepard has called a meeting in Franklin, while the Democratic convention is set for the same time and place.
A dozen affluent spiritualists each subscribed 81000 toward a spiritualist college at Camp Chesterfield. The month long camp meeting at the camp closed on Monday.
Marion August 12 The Westerman Natural Gas and Iron company is placed in the hands of a receiver. Liabilities total 100000 with assets reported 75000.
In HaGkerstown on August 12, a grave at Bryant's chapel near Centerville was broken into by groundhogs and the jaw bone of Thomas Watt, a local drunkard, was exposed. Watt, who drowned in January 1895 while drunk, had been foretold to die violently and have his bones scattered, a prophecy the old fortune teller woman claimed to have fulfilled.
Joseph Smith of Chicago was fined 10 dollars plus costs after throwing a pet rabbit into boiling tar. At the Novelty theater in London a staged stabbing failed and an actor died. Senator Butler convenes National Populist committee in Washington next Tuesday to discuss opening headquarters. The eleventh annual convention of the National Association of Railway Freight Agents sits in Detroit. A Chicago street car wreck injured Captain Michael McCabe Pipeman Joseph Butler and Patrick Cogan. Max Hamlin of Sibling's Shoals Texas died after falling into the Brazos river from alligators. A Grand Trunk freight train collision near Lansing Michigan killed one tramp and seriously injured another as seven cars were demolished.
Storm reports from Eagle Lake on Monday proved exaggerated with only minor damage. A large audience attended the Messiah at the Auditorium and Nina Drummond Leavitt gave banjo solos and dialect songs to enthusiastic praise yesterday morning.
TERRE HAUTE August 12 The intense heat yesterday left many people exhausted including Colonel Dick Thompson aged 84. He fainted in his yard while with nephews and nieces, remained unconscious for most of the day. Doctors applied cold water compresses to lower his pulse from 104, and he was very weak but mentally alert by night.
The following weather indications for twenty four hours from 8 p m yesterday. Indiana partially cloudy with possible local thunder storms cooler tonight and tomorrow light to fresh southwesterly winds shifting to northerly. Illinois cooler and generally fair weather preceded in the south by local thunder storms northerly winds. Lower Michigan fair with possible morning thunderstorms southeast portion cooler fresh to brisk northerly winds. Upper Michigan fair light to fresh northwesterly winds. Wisconsin fair cooler south portion light to fresh northerly winds. Iowa fair cooler eastern portion northerly winds.
Money on call steady at 5 6.25 percent with bankers' bills and mercantile paper quoted. Wheat corn oats and produce futures shown with August September December prices. Live stock at Union Stock Yards with hogs and cattle ranges and receipts noted.
Eli Hill of Lumber City Pennsylvania reports a twenty five year pile problem cured permanently by DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve. The ad touts its value for piles skin diseases and summer complaint and endorses DeWitts Colic and Cholera Cure for dysentery and diarrhoea with a general druggist recommendation.
Word arrived that Dr. Thomas Freeland was fatally wounded by patient Philip Cochran. The bullet passed through a lung. Freeland lies in critical condition. A mutual friend’s hoax about Cochran’s illness sparked the incident. Cochran remains by Freeland’s bedside.
At least three men burned to death as a six story building at 465 Greenwich Street burned, with two more expected to die from smoke and injuries. Fire started on the ground floor, blamed on an explosion, as flames swept through two adjoining buildings and caused extensive losses estimated at 150000 dollars.
New York and adjacent communities report record heat related deaths and suffering. City death total tops 100 in 24 hours with Brooklyn adding about 20 and suburban towns reaching 150. Hospitals near capacity as workers, policemen and letter carriers succumb. relief brigades flood tenements with water from hydrants.
Henry McManaman of Indianapolis is wanted by officers for allegedly assaulting his wife in her Greensburg home. He reportedly entered his sister’s house, struck her with a chair, and forced her from the residence after she refused to live with him again.
Williams Street resident Mrs. William White has given birth to triplets, all boys weighing six pounds each. The father, a Republican, has named them McKinley Hobart and Mount. All three are healthy. Governor Matthews weighs in on gold Democratic views.
Chicago endured a 98 degree day as thirty people died from sun stroke and about fifty suffered prostration. The heat drove many to insanity with twenty eight locked up in detention hospital. Dead horses clogged streets while the mayor offered ten dollars for removal of each carcass. Additional deaths were reported in St. Louis and Philadelphia as four workers suffocated by sulphuric acid gas at a Camden chemical works.
In Allegan Michigan on August 12 a village tale of witchcraft erupts as a family’s sick children are blamed on evil spirits. A pillow is cut, a mouse with a ribbon appears, a woman is suspected and leaves town after anonymous threats. the scare subsides as the children recover.
Louisville welcomed hundreds of League of American Wheelmen visitors for country runs to stock farms near the city. Races drew crowds at Fountain Ferry park and nearby parks, with riders from singles to quints competing. Railroads offer up to a round trip fare discount for distant riders and Mayor Todd proclaims a half holiday for league events, closing city hall to allow workers to attend.
Chester Illinois August 12 Daniel Benton known as Rickety Dan is released from the Chester insane prison He faced a pension fraud trial where a widow mistook him for her deceased husband and clung to him throughout the proceedings He impersonated William Newby and claimed a pension for Newby’s death, was convicted and sent to prison Prospect of a Place for Bynum Kansas City August 12 Judge Henry W Scott resigns from the Third Oklahoma district and forms a New York law partnership It is expected ex Representative William D Bynum of Indiana may be appointed to the office
Chicago newspapers report league results with games in New York Brooklyn 8 all, Baltimore 17 over Washington 8, Chicago 6 over Cincinnati 0, and Pittsburg 1 over St Louis 0 with additional notes from Louisville and Cleveland tied or incomplete.
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