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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
4
A physician arrives in Chicago to find his diploma and necktie stolen. The joke claims a medical license needs a diploma while the public also demands a necktie, highlighting a festive yet cautious take on professional image.
Two years after Edison unveiled the incandescent lamp in his Menlo Park laboratory, the event is cited as the origin of the first established electric lighting system.
June marks the 500th anniversary of Johannes Gutenberg the inventor of printing The note contrasts his tiny material stock with modern composing and press rooms illustrating global progress.
A conversation centers on whether the phrase The United States is grammatically correct. Opinion is split, but most agree that the United States is a proper noun referring to the nation regardless of grammar debates.
The animal is described as a tool of profitless burden, wounded and butchered for meat, while new doctors allegedly make it a drunkard to use its virus to cure human drunkenness.
Frank I Stanton recounts a Georgia boy writing to his father in another town. The letter says Jamie was blown up by a toy cannon and asks to be sent home as the family grows worried.
The text lists various leaders and ages for key events: Lord Roberts at 67, Caesar at 458, Napoleon at 49, Wellington at 46, Washington at 42, Grant at 43, and Sheridan at 34. It mixes figures and achievements, creating a compact catalog of ages tied to significant military moments.
The text contests aristocratic pretensions, arguing the president and his wife come from revel stock despite not having blue blood. It treats the notion of class with irony and questions social hierarchy.
Mrs Ballington Booth of the Salvation Army plans a New York City home to shelter four men at a time as they seek work. Residents near the site protested fearing released prisoners, but Booth remains undeterred.
A bell maker claims the proper bell shape is tubular after seventy years of the standard shape. The discovery challenges tradition and suggests clinging to the old form prevents discovering new possibilities beyond the familiar design.
It is likely a government model farm will be set up three miles west of Washington on unused land once part of Arlington cemetery. The House Committee on Military Affairs approved funding for the farm, noting the land is currently under the War Department.
A young couple fled near Plainfield North Dakota to be married but a muddy road slowed their start. They swapped for a tandem bicycle only to be halted when a telephone message led to their detention by authorities. Modern science over romance wins.
In Hawaii a merchant C D Pringle seizes Cocoanut island, claiming squatter’s rights. The government argues it was set aside as a quarantine station for Hilo harbor. Pringle refuses to leave, has built a small fort, and will defend the claim if needed. He has appealed to Washington.
The passage notes that total embezzlement in the country reached 2,215,373 dollars in 1599, a small sum relative to the nation's stealable wealth. It marks a drop of 3,632,599 dollars from the previous year and identifies 1599 as among the smallest totals in two decades aside from a 4882 figure of 2,060,000.
A brief roundup from national and regional outlets covers political developments, guidance from Washington, and notable events across the East, West, and South. Officials weigh policy shifts while communities track economic and social implications.
Summary of a day in Congress with Hale urging broad turnout against Britain in a Goer war context. A resolution sought to learn if Transvaal recognition was requested or granted. Morgan opposed the financial bill as adjournment looms. House passed pension bill and proposed tariff extension to Puerto Rico. White introduced mob violence protection. Brigham Roberts expulsion push supported. Aldrich seated Nobbins in Alabama contest.
A special committee recommends expulsion of Brigham H. Roberts of Utah. The House elections committee favors a constitutional amendment for direct election of U S senators by the people. A Daniel Webster statue was unveiled in Washington with the president present. Pension claims rise post Spanish war. U S wheat 1899 crop 557,303,846 bushels value 45,259,000. corn 2,078,143,953 bushels value 629,210,110. Civil service shows 47,956 examined, 35,652 passed, 12,274 failed.
The temperance lecturer William G. McConnell of Cleveland died in Philadelphia. The report notes other events including a Boston catcher Martin Tergen killing his wife and two children and then suicide in North Brookfield Massachusetts.
The year ending December 31 1899 yielded customs receipts of 14072114 dollars and 79 cents at the Havana port. A list of other notable events includes a Great Northern collision at Hillyard Washington injuring ten, and a Hillsboro Illinois murder suicide by Edward Moore.
In New Orleans a family of four named Giordano perished in a tenement house fire. Firefighters battled the blaze as neighbors recalled the crowded conditions and peril facing residents.
Across theaters from Ladysmith to Manila tensions rise as Boer and British forces skirmish near Ladysmith while heavies prepare for a likely decisive clash. Osman Digna captured. Warren forces advance. Yaqui fighting wanes. Mexico震 earthquake toll and UK deaths noted. John Ruskin and Richard Blackmore pass away.
Senate heard speeches by Pritchard of North Carolina against a proposed negro disfranchising amendment and Turner of Washington on the Philippines policy. Rawlins’s resolution for investigating polygamy passed. House limited to 40 minutes with no public actions. News notes cover coal miners strike in Bohemia, deaths including Henry A. Hazen, Alfred Watts, John Potter Stockton, and Thomas Lahey, revenue and customs estimates, and battles in the Philippines with American troops defeating Filipinos at Taal and Schwan occupying Santa Cruz. Reports also note mining accidents in Michigan, and Boer resistance at Ladysmith with Buller’s uncertain position and Boer forces numbered between 5,000 and 90,000.
Admiral Dewey and wife will attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans in February. Bigamists in Hungary must live with both wives in the same house. The National Live Stock association urges leasing government grazing lands. Alan Arthur, son of the late president, lives in Europe. Kansas City plans another interurban rail line to Tun to Ointhe, Kansas, 21 miles away. Rev. J. M. Atwater dies in Cleveland at 62, former president of Hiram College. Hundreds of physicians from Illinois Wisconsin and Iowa plan a Paris excursion. Uniform prices in glass tableware as factions harmonize. Governor Brady of Alaska in Washington predicts greater gold rush next spring. Henry Hughes admitted to Chester almshouse at 95. Cannonading tested with wireless messages in South Africa. Carnegie tells a New York Bible class poverty is blessed. Italian bishop invents train distance warning device. Last year grain and molasses used for liquor production. William L. Wallace of Chicago named census bureau special agent for lumber statistics. Fort Bayard New Mexico closed as garrison. buildings to become sanitarium. Jay B Burrows dies suddenly at Lincoln Nebraska.
London dispatches indicate Gen. Buller reported nothing on Monday while British forces remain in the position won after two days of fighting. Reports from Spearman’s Camp describe heavy, grinding action with Boer entrenchments and guerrilla terrain.
Manila dispatch reports Maj. Johnson leading two companies of the Forty-sixth infantry and Maj. Muir three companies of the Thirty-eighth infantry against about 300 insurgents at Yuul. U S gunboat Muriena shelled the town as the defenders captured two of four insurgent cannons. Two Americans were wounded and ten insurgents were found dead.
Washington January 23 Professor Henry A Kazen forecast official of the Weather Bureau was thrown from his bicycle Monday night and struck on the head. He was rushed to an emergency hospital where doctors reported a fractured skull and little chance of recovery as surgeons spoke late Monday.
In Nicholasville Kentucky at seven in the morning Alex Wiatt colored killed his wife in a fit of jealousy and then shot himself.
Tommy Ryan of Syracuse world welterweight champion and middleweight title challenger has been matched to fight six rounds with Jack Hammond of Detroit before the Badger Athletic club at the West Side Turner Hall in Milwaukee on February 6.
A Brussels correpondent of the Daily Chronicle claims authentic figures show 3000 and 99000 men in the field, indicating substantial Boer strength amid the conflict.
The United States Civil Service Commission submits its sixteenth annual report to the president. It shows about 75 000 classified and 107 000 unclassified positions with 71 007 of the latter filled by fourth class postmasters. It notes total salaries around 104 million dollars and discusses a retirement fund for incapacitated employees as a possible reform. It covers removals, merit system adoption, and civil service extension to colonial possessions including the Philippines.
London obituary notes eminent art critic and writer John Ruskin died Saturday afternoon from influenza at age 82. His body to be interred in Coniston churchyard per his wishes, with funeral set for Thursday. Born February 8 1819 in London, he studied at Christ Church Oxford.
John Ruskin born 1823, graduated 1842, studied painting under Copley Fielding and Harding. Published Modern Painters in 1843 praising Turner. He held professorships, wrote socialistic political economy works, and in 1871 founded St George's Guild. Son of a wine merchant, heir to a fortune. Retired at Brantwood estate since 1885.
A Saturday night blaze in a barroom lit in the old St Mary market district of New Orleans spread before firefighters arrived. Four people, all from the Giordano family, were found dead and several others were suffocated while trapped in adjoining tenements. The fire’s cause remains undetermined in the vast brick building crowded with poor housing.
Victoria B C January 22 The provincial government intends to amend its alien exclusion law to permit Americans to hold claims bought from Canadian locators This concession pleases Americans at Atlin The article also notes a Chicago affair where Louis de Luetgert is heard from while Mrs Leutgert faces questions in Akron Ohio and a sheriff confirms the identity of the prisoner at Central station
James Pyle died at his home in New York City on Saturday, aged 77. He was a longtime resident and is survived by relatives. funeral arrangements were not announced.
Albany Jan 22 All street cars in Troy were tied up Sunday due to a strike by 365 motormen and conductors of United Traction Company. They demand 20 cents an hour and a ten hour day. The company runs lines in five cities including Albany, but other workers refused to operate a car.
Frankfort Kentucky January 22 indictments from the grand jury charging Col David G Colson with the willful murder of Ethelbert Scott and L W Demaree.
George Silbee and Ed Meeks, half brothers, convicted of murder, were lynched in the county jail yard at Fort Scott Kansas after attacking Deputy Sheriff Behmer with an iron bar. Accomplice Amos Phillips fled. mob spared him.
In Los Angeles on Sunday the west end of the Third street tunnel under Hill and Hope streets caved in trapping 11 laborers and bricklayers. Inspector W T Lambie of the street department was fatally injured and eight hours passed before he was freed in a dying condition. None of the entombed men is believed killed.
Rev. Charles Harvey longtime pastor of the Eaton Methodist church preached a farewell sermon stating he would die before another Sunday. He fell ill after returning home and died early Saturday morning after growing steadily worse since the sermon.
Washington January 22 Senate privileges and elections committee heard T F Normolle of Butte Montana testify he was offered twelve thousand five hundred nine dollars to vote for Clark but refused the bribe and backed Conrad in the contest.
Jacob Reichert of Lyon County Minnesota recounts his Manitoba homestead venture. He funded 175 acres ready for crop, sowed 100 acres wheat and 50 oats barley, yielded 2700 bushels, with strong clay soil, near Virden and Hargrave. He urges fellow Americans to emigrate for affordable land and similar living costs.
Lancaster Pennsylvania January 22 L W W Frank Hauser of Terre Hill was convicted of using counterfeit cigar makers international union labels.
There is wide catarrh disease exposure and claims that it is constitutional. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio is advertised as a systemic treatment that reaches the blood and mucous surfaces. The firm offers 100 dollars for any uncured case and invites inquiries through circulars and testimonials.
A short, satirical quote from the Indianapolis Journal describes a political love feast as a gathering where many politicians pledge to bar outsiders from their spoils. It comments on insider advantage and exclusionary politics.
Illustrated pamphlet promises detailed information on Northern Arkansas mining region deemed the richest zinc and lead district globally. Undeveloped area touted as investor opportunity of a lifetime with free prospectus mailed by J. E. Lockwood of Kansas City Missouri.
Trains depart Chicago from Central Station Park Row and 12th street Lake Front for St Paul Minneapolis Ashland and Duluth. Nearest ticket agent can give further information. Jas C Pond G P A Milwaukee Wis.
In a brief item from the N O Times Democrat a terse kitchen exchange unfolds as a new wife asks for butter with a peculiar phrasing. The dealer replies playfully while clarifying the intended use for the butter.
An old advertisement claims Lane’s Family Medicine aids daily bowel movements for health and liver and kidney support. It markets doses at 25 and 50 cents, noting relief from headaches and general wellness.
The Kansas City Star notes preferred creditors avoid frequent calls. An advertisement claims Piso's Cure for Consumption is unmatched as a cough medicine, attributed to F. M. Abbott of 383 Seneca Street Buffalo New York dated May 9 1894.
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