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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1895
Page
5
An old notice advertises a surgeon and homeopathic physician at a stated office location near Main and Walnut, with rapid day or night calls. It also lists Bank of Westville KK 5 and proprietor Smith, offering deposits, secured loans, exchanges, and careful collections.
Indiana Lincoln League meeting in Indianapolis discusses Benjamin Harrison as a flawless president and potential 1896 candidate. Marcus R. Sulzer presides with a strong push for a second term, while officers and delegates are named for future national conventions. In Anderson, stockholders approve a 25 percent assessment to form a new baseball club and pursue a state league with nearby cities.
Indiana bill creates a three member ship canal and drainage commission for the Kankakee and Wabash rivers. It orders a civil engineer to inspect the waterway and report by Sept 30, 1806 with a $2500 appropriation and per day pay not to exceed four dollars. The piece also notes election contests in Dearborn Ohio and Switzerland counties with Miller and Bowers, and mentions state apportionment reform and age of consent changes.
INDIANAPOLIS February 14 The first group of petty violators in the federal revenue crackdown has arrived Nellie Roperson and Archie Gladmore of Frankfort were charged with selling liquor without stamps and posted bonds W Keyes of Frankfort charged similarly was arrested Fred Barnhart John Lumiey James Carter George Klink John Kenrick and William C Weitesell of Lafayette were also arrested on similar charges and posted bonds
Thomas Stanley, 23, of Miwaukee, was found by police in a dry kiln among burning gas pipes. He reportedly cooked his feet to relieve the cold and pain, saying he was cooking the feeling out of them.
George Ehinger of Muncie, a trader with a general store and saloon, says he will not return to Chicago to identify swindlers or pursue recovery of 590 he lost. He asserts no hope of recovering funds and will not pay roundtrip fare. Harrisons Company Wills is cited in a separate note from WyautE about an injunction case involving the old electric light company and a new five year contract.
A general meeting of Indiana window glass makers included 28 of 31 factories in Indianapolis. They unanimously pass a resolution to convene in Columbus, Ohio, February 21 for a national organization, while denying plans to form a trust.
A gas explosion last night wrecked the Elwood Fruit company building and C. Henze & Co. Tebs and Graham suffered severe burns, David Miller was fatally injured, blown across the street. Cause: accumulated gas ignited under the floor. Yoas, $4,600.
Intelligence reports a fatal shooting affray at Seeleyrville west of here. Henry Hyde, an old soldier, and Sanford Kyler, a young miner, quarreled during a melee. Hyde drew a revolver and shot Kyler through the right breast, inflicting a dangerous wound.
The Cyrus Brown murder trial moves to Franklin on a change of venue. The defendant, previously sentenced to death by hanging in 1898, was granted a new trial by the supreme court due to a drunken juror, with the jury now impaneled.
Captain John L. Clem, the Drummer Boy of Shiloh, is promoted to major and assigned as quartermaster in Atlanta. The British Parliament rejected an Irish home rule dissolution amendment by a 236 to 256 vote. New York moves toward a horse racing bill after Trotting Association and Jockey Club talks. An attempted robbery halted a Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe train at Hickory Creek. shots fired but no injuries. Sioux territory opens 4 million acres for settlement at 50 cents an acre. Michigan seeks prohibition amendment support. Carbondale Normal requests $60,000 extra for gymnasium library and museum. Obituaries: Brooklyn Vicar General May. W. W. Stowe of San Francisco. Jacob Schumm of LaPorte. Evan H. Swain of Princeton. Dr. Arphax Farnsworth of Saginaw. In China a Heavenly Foot Society vows men marry only women with large feet. U.S. has 13,230,168 men of military age.
Weather indications for twenty four hours from 8 p m yesterday show fair weather with northwest winds for Hawaii? Indiana and Iowa. Michigan and Wisconsin expect snow flurries with winds turning to the northwesterly.
New York money on call steady at 2 percent with various rates for mercantile paper and government bonds. Lincoln's birthday halts trading on the Board of Trade. Chicago and Milwaukee markets show mixed commodity prices for butter poultry potatoes cranberries honey and live stock with receipts and bid ranges noted for hogs cattle and sheep.
Brooklyn city railway officials and labor leaders reached a settlement to end the January 14 strike. President Lewis pledged to rehire strikers as vacancies occur, on a first come, first served basis, with no new discharges to replace returning workers. John Graham and Justice Tighe led discussions with directors and union leaders.
Chicago observances marked Lincoln's birthday with bank closings and school patriotic addresses. The Auditorium hosted the National Unions celebrate with Henry Watterson as orator. Banquets at the Marquette Club featured speakers including R J Cousins John Dalzell and Frank J Cannon. Colored crowds led in observances. Republican groups nationwide held meetings in Cincinnati Indianapolis Albany Baltimore New York Philadelphia and more, centering on Lincoln themes.
United Mine Workers met in Columbus Feb 13 and referred charges against national officers to a committee. Former president McBride spoke, defending the board and urging prudence amid mine hardships. Secretary McBryde reported a stronger membership and a year balance of 419.81 after receipts of 28,847.06 and expenditures of 28,350.23.
Pittsourg Feb 148-District assembly No. 8 in the city is suspended by the general assembly for failing to endorse the New Orleans action. A member of the general executive board is en route to here to mediate a settlement.
The United Garment Workers of America with over 60 000 members plan to expel the Cloakmakers union and end the leadership of Strike Leader Joseph Barondess in a decisive internal move.
Lansing February 13 state municipal commission finished a charter draft for third class cities with populations 10 900 to 59 000 and sent it to the legislature. Fourteen cities named Ann Arbor Alpena Bay City Saginaw Flint Ishpeming Menominee Port Huron Battle Creek Kalamazoo Muskegon Manistee Jackson and Lansing. The bill allows current officers to serve to their term ends while many bills were filed in both houses.
In Athens on February 13 a billed showing of Uncle Tom's Cabin failed to appear. Local papers decried the production as an insult to residents and posts warned, The vile slander on the manhood and honor of our fathers will show to night. Only a small audience and modest reception were expected.
New York reports the La Gascogne arrived from quarantine to the Compagnie Generale Trans-Atlantique pier. Passengers were greeted by cheering crowds as the captain explained a broken piston rod caused engine trouble. The voyage saw a grand, triumphant reception despite the incidents and weather.
The Debs conspiracy case in Chicago is postponed to the first Monday in May after the court denied four defense motions. Jurors expressed favorable remarks toward Debs as George M. Pullman testified but left when not needed.
A Jefferson City dispatch reports the Missouri supreme court affirmed a lower court ruling in the Joe Dusty case. Dusty, convicted of rape, escaped jail during appeal and was recaptured. he faces execution March 1 unless the governor commutes the sentence. The report notes limited local damage at Wei Hai Wei and a Chinese general committed suicide amid desertions.
At the Illinois state grocers convention in Springfield on February 13 a resolution honored Lincoln. Frank Kohl and C E Lundstrum read papers, and delegates pressed for a bill aiding the association and garnishee law reform. Governor hosted a reception.
The city of Columbia records ten inches of snow on the flat ground with drifts two to three feet high, a historical depth for South Carolina, as residents cope with severe winter conditions.
A gray haired man with two satchels describes a long running con where a street hustler steals his wallet after a pretense of loss. The victim believes the thief will keep the money and papers but fears the ruse may recur, as he heads off to find the suspect.
Mrs Spratt awakens to a burglar in the house and shakes her sleeping husband in alarm. He responds that she should wake the intruder instead of him to do some good as the scene unfolds in New York Weekly style.
A dialogue between Penelope and the bishop plays on the line between salvation and perdition. Penelope quips that the difference is a single syllable while noting eternal bliss or blisters as the stakes.
Quote notes an unnamed city man asking if his uncle remembered him in a will. The reply contends the uncle must have, since no mention of the speaker exists in the document.
A merchant asks a portrait painter the charge for painting his portrait if he provides the paints. The exchange appears in Tit-Bits.
A Texan sifting page quotes the line I¢ i better to be alone in the world than to bring up a boy to play on the accord ion. The fragment reflects era voice and social attitudes.
In a Chicago Tribune item a late night mishap at the Chugwater mansion ends with Josiah Chugwater covered in sticky fly paper after wandering into his wife’s flytraps. Mrs. Chugwater laments the trap while Bridget the kitchen maid and the household react to the comic domestic scene.
A fragmentary读 lines discuss a modern woman referenced by Henry Higgins and Weary Watkins. The text suggests a witty exchange about a capable woman, mentioning Indiana penal context and a throw a brick remark.
A fragmented quotation from a Chicago audience remark notes confusion over why people call a seven German girl’s work a poem. The line appears in an Inter Ocean snippet with garbled phrasing and partial attribution.
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