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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1895
Page
1
An ad notes 35 percent of lumber product building use, 45 percent railroads and other uses, 20 percent boxes. It promotes Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin with claims of miracles and sale prices. Also touts DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for eczema and piles and DeWitt's Little Early Risers as effective small pills.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder receives the highest award of medal and diploma at a world fair, highlighting the product's superior quality and public recognition.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a steady position and stamped envelope held by The Deamion Company located on the Third Floor of Umabsa Building. Names and clear events are missing, leaving a vague business reference.
Nora Hosea administratrix of Charles Hosea deceased sues the P. C., C. and St. L. Railway Co. after accepting 1000 from the Voluntary Relief Dept. to release liability, arguing the release did not bar action for her infant child. Compromise settles the suit leaving the legal point undecided.
In Indianapolis on December 11 a reporter sought confirmation of rumors linking General Harrison to Mrs Dimmick. Private Secretary Tibbett said the general was resting and would not answer questions or comment on the matter.
In Anderson Missouri on December 11, William Cookman and his wife began a long return trip to Dade County Missouri. They arrived last August and have since lost two children to typhoid fever. Their two boys are believed missing in Missouri or Kansas after wandering from camp during a trip to Indiana last autumn. The family faces an eight hundred mile drive back.
Mattie Goatley, a colored girl about 12, was held at the police station for poisoning with intent to murder. She confessed to placing rouge on coffee for Amanda Teeters, Edward Teeters, and Elias Robinson. All victims were out of danger.
INDIANAPOLIS Dec 11 Edward Champion 10 son of a Gas City saloonkeeper has been bitterly opposed to his father and took actions that ended with the saloon closing amid a local dispute and family conflict.
The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed the Lake circuit court ruling, denying horse racing at the Robey track under the latest general assembly act. The case, State ex rel. Claude Matthews governor, involved an interlocutory injunction against racing.
The court decides the New York Chicago and St. Louis Railroad company is not obligated to pay 111000 in damages to White's Wheel Works and the American Wheel Company of Fort Wayne, after a factory fire allegedly sparked by a locomotive.
Delaware county commissioners decide convicts at the work house must wear penitentiary stripes to curb escapes. The move is described as severe and aimed at a high number of inmates labeled as plain drunks.
In Muncik on December 11, William D. Turner tried to check a gas leak with a match outside his home. An explosion followed, badly injuring him.
Alva Dorsett found guilty of murdering Charlies Burkhart. Jury sets six months in jail and a $500 fine. Burkhart was shot while returning from church with Dorsett's sister.
The Evening Call has begun using Morganthaler type-setting machines and Lafayette has become a machine town as printers describe the change.
Minneapolis December 11 Harry Hayward was hanged at 2 10 this morning after a final day marked by a non confession statement and sleepless vigil. Detective Quinlan disclosed a plotted escape involving a fakir and a concealed harness, but no action was taken.
Money on call 1 4 to 2 percent with mercantile paper at 4 3 5 to 5 percent. Sterling steady with bills at 488 954 18, sixty days 487 34 483. Government bonds steady with 4s at 1208 coupons 12034 and 5s at 114. Produce prices fall within the Chicago Board of Trade quotes for wheat corn oats and livestock following the day’s trading. The St Louis venue chosen for the 1896 Republican national convention on June 16 after protracted balloting, with San Francisco Chicago and Pittsburgh delegations in contention and St Louis emerging the winner.
Representative Barrett of Massachusetts introduces a resolution impeaching Thomas F Bayard US ambassador to Britain for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors based on Bayard's Nov 7 remarks in Scotland linking protection to state socialism and criticized as harmful to national reputation. The measure mirrors but differs from McCall's earlier milder attempt. Barrett cites parallels to Van Buren and Webster to support impeachment grounds.
Ex Speaker Crisp argues any American can voice opinions on economic questions and impeachment grounds. Republicans taunt him as Democrats call Bayard's words a political maneuver. The debate centers on a resolution about impeachment and who may report it, ending with a party line passage.
The senate met for under two hours and opened about a hundred bills. Cullom read a Monroe doctrine speech and urged affirmative policy. Call of Florida pushed a resolution against Armenian outrages. The House debated Barrett of Massachusetts’s impeachment resolutions against Ambassador Bayard over his Edinburgh speech. the report was amended to strike out mandatory impeachment wording.
WALMINGTON Dec 11 The Democratic steering committee discussed the Senate reorganization by the Republicans. After the meeting it was understood the Democrats would oppose no move to organize the communities given the Populist senators' stance.
General W. O. Bradley was inaugurated as Kentucky governor in Frankfort amid large crowds and cross-party cheers. He called for sound money and firm law enforcement, pledging to govern for all people and to advance the state's prosperity while upholding justice.
Loyous December 11 report says Richard Stephens, a Winchester millionaire and long time magistrate, is sentenced to two years hard labor for two indictments resembling Wilde era offenses. He has been active in religious and philanthropic work for nearly fifty years in his native city.
A wholesale jail delivery occurred at the county jail, with prisoners escaping by breaking through the cell roof. Fugitives named include John S. Jones charged with murder, C W Colton for horse stealing, George Brown, Charles Smith for burglary, and George Gordon for larceny.
A misfired or loaded weapon led to the accidental shooting death of Berthea Ackerman, 18, near a rural area about twenty miles south of town. Charles Prince, an eleven year old boy, reportedly caused the fatal incident while handling the gun.
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