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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1899
Page
4
The article suggests the kissing bug is not a new arrival but an old species adopting different behaviors. It questions how such changes could have been learned, implying shifts in its interaction patterns and possible ecological or social influences.
In Wichita Kansas a bride two hours into her wedding was killed and her husband and brother were seriously injured during a performance at the event. The incident occurred as the party continued despite a chaotic, irresisably funny act.
Estimated global bread-eating population will require 2,260,006,000 bushels of wheat in the coming year. Production is forecast at 2,380,000,000 bushels for the same period.
A recent calculation counts only £5 000 donations and above and finds a six year period with an average exceeding 35 million dollars per year to U S charitable and educational institutions.
Official reports show limited American superiority in sailors engaged at Manila Bay and Santiago. Dewey commanded 1745 sailors against 1754 for Montojo, while at Santiago 200 Americans faced 2125 Spaniards.
Since January 190 colleges academies and seminaries and eight art galleries in the United States have received gifts amounting to 27072558 dollars not counting contributions under 5000. The six month total is at least 30000000 dollars a record not equaled in any country or period.
Alexander Dewitt of Poughkeepsie New York died after living on friends bounty for many years. He left a fortune of 48900 mostly to a single relative who once sent him 15 and was the only one to show interest in his welfare.
A genealogical sketch traces George F. Hamlin a Linn county Kans state senator in 1874 to a grandfather named Europe whose three brothers Asia Afries and America not noted for deeds. Hannibal Hamlin is named as son of Afries, while Europe a served in the American Revolutionary War.
James THiings of Brookville Pennsylvania starts crow incubators and furnishes crow heads to a New York minines for 25 cents each. He places 25 crow eggs in his incubator, within 93 days the hatchets hatch and eight weeks later they are beheaded. He runs the only crow directory in the world though the business is not big.
John E. Sweavingen of Edgefield DC completes the fall classical course at the University of South Carolina at age 24. He records the highest four year mark since the institution’s founding, aided only by a reading aloud roommate due to lifelong blindness.
The Trinidad government plans to use Marconi wireless telegraphy to link Trinidad with Tobago, a 24 mile distance across the Windward Islands. A decade ago such a wiredless link would have seemed insane to many observers.
Prof. Dewar unveils a vacuum casting method for steel that promises inch higher hardness and strength. He asserts air bubbles causing flaws would vanish, producing a metal unseen before, potentially widening industrial impact.
A man sues for 100000 damages alleging alienation of his wife’s affections and asks the court to stop the defendant from communicating with his wife. The judge grants the motion but the defendant, claiming free speech rights, contacts the wife and is fined 100 and jailed three days for contempt of court.
A medical writer notes that the healthiest people often avoid frequent baths. The philosopher states a man at 94 remains well, having bathed only twice in his lifetime, both accidental. The idea counters the belief that cleanliness is essential to health.
National and regional briefs round up notable items from Washington and across the East West and South. Officials, events, and trends are summarized in concise notes reflecting current affairs.
Brigadier General Rosser, recently returned from Cuba, states no property owner in the island wants the U S flag removed. Texas flood relief seed distribution arranged by the agricultural department. War department reports steady volunteer enlistment. U S merchandise exports for the last fiscal year totaled 1 227 443 425 while imports reached 697 077 388. Post Office issuing stamps and postal cards rose to 5 162 020 525 valued at 92 659 167 up 552 701 535 in volume and 466 720 in value from prior year.
Middlesex county bank in Perth Amboy closed and cashier Valentine named a $165 600 defaulter. In Connecticut river, Annie Ninney, 17, Mary 12, and cousin Ella 15 drowned. US weekly business failures rose to 169 as rail and stock data show mixed trends. Chief Justice Walbridge A Vield dies in Boston aged 66. Railway mileage for 1898 hits 1 745 552 miles.
Conductor and motorman workers on the Big Consolidated street railway system in Cleveland launched another strike. The report notes industrial action affecting transit and signaling tensions in the city.
The attorney general of Michigan declares the state beet sugar tax unconstitutional. In Louisville the Kentucky Republicans nominated William S. Taylor for governor and endorsed McKinley. Gov Scofield asks Wisconsinites for 75000 more aid after the New Richmond tornado. Noted Iowa minister Rev W F Cowles dies in Burlington. A lynching in Texas leaves unknown Black man dead after murder of Lemuel Sharp. another Black man Abe Brown is shot amid a Doherdan woman murder case. Detroit tests three cent streetcar fares. A Midwest grocer alliance forms in Des Moines. Sioux on the warpath in Wyoming as Swift Bear pursued. John H Chapin reelected president of the Young People's Baptist Union in Richmond. FE Reno founder John Foreman dies in El Reno. Three Oaks wins a cannon for the Maine monument fund. Tulane president William Preston Johnston dies at 67. Fort Worth federal court convicts ten striking miners. Gainesville mob shoots Killed William Bell in jail. Fire destroys 27 Bainbridge businesses. Mason City youth shoots and kills Leona Elmere then kills himself. Cincinnati boat capsizing drowns James, Clifford Shannon, and Catherine Winsey. In a family quarrel Mrs George Treider kills her mother, wounds her husband, then dies by suicide near Long Grove.
Admiral Dewey arrives at Suez aboard Olympia. City of York wreck off Rottnest Island with 12 dead. Carlisle Castle sinks near Rockingham with all hands lost. Lion defeats bull in Roubaix. Mine gallery collapses near Herne Westphalia entombing 60 miners. Peary expedition steamer sails from St John s for Sydney with 18 crew and supplies for two years. Takawa Gori mine gas suffocates 190 miners. Ilolbein arrives Liverpool carrying Capt William Andrews who started Atlantic crossing from Atlantic City in a 12 foot boat.
A Manila dispatch reports direct peace overtures to Gen Otis by Aguinaldo and leaders. Other items note the Army of the Republic reunion set for Detroit on Sept 26 27, a Santiago dinner for Gen Toras surrender anniversary, press censorship protests, a Mount Vernon fire destroying the Peerless mill with 1100000 loss, a deadly Russian tornado at Nikolayevsk killed 200, Libby founder Libby died Pasadena aged 67.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis plans permanent residence in Montpelier Vermont. Jerome Hall Raymond named president of the University of West Virginia. A geyser near Fountain hotel Yellowstone National Park named Dewey. Yedro Olivar, 14, enlists in U S Navy at Brooklyn yard. Confectioners meeting at Frontenac favors no same nationwide combination. Yda Addie Storke jailed in Santa Barbara for anonymous letters. Lake Shore Southern orders 15 ten wheel engines from Brooks. Hawaii to import 7000 Japanese laborers raising totals to 65000 Japanese and Chinese, 31000 natives, 3000 Americans. Metropolis Tunnel Railroad Co incorporated to build 7 million dollar tunnel under rivers. Internal Revenue Commissioner bans stamped checks by banks. Two syndicates plan over 2000 miles of rail in China. 1895 U S copper production tops 526 million pounds.
American reporters in Manila demand freedom to telegraph all facts about the Philippine campaign accusing officials of masking true conditions. They claim censorship misrepresents dissent and demoralization, and seek broader clearance from Maj. Gen. Otis. Officials in Washington react as cabinet discusses the matter.
A London Kentucky report details a fresh Clay county feud near Little Goose creek three miles from Manchester. Five men died in a ten to fifteen minute battle. Rob ert Philpot Ed Fisher Aaron Morris Jim Griffin Hugh Griffin were among the dead.
Harry Chadwick of New Britain was slain by Joseph Hough in Chester after an evening visit to Miss Mary Smith. Hough attempted suicide, implicated in Chadwick's death, and body parts were traced from a ladder-marked window to a river and rowboat, with a river search ongoing.
The Matin prints a memoir by Comte Ferdinand Wal sin Esterhazy claiming he forged the bordereau under orders, sent to Col. Sandherr then to Col. Schwartzkoppen at the German embassy, with Berlin agents cited as proving treason and implicating Dreyfus. The document alleges ministers knew of the forgery and justified convicting Dreyfus.
Senator Chandler lodges formal complaint with the president over Civil Service Commissioner Brewer following the New Hampshire hearing involving Senator Gallinger. White House withholds details on whether removal is sought.
Eight year old Ralph Schelly died after four playmates attacked him during a quarrel. Cliff Haskins Ora Borman Dock Borman and Herman Payne held and beat him with stones. He died from lockjaw following the assault.
Lord Curzon viceroy of India will begin a tour of central India on October 20, accompanied by Lady Curzon. The announcement from Simla states the royal party plans to visit multiple centers during the trip.
Washington reports Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip assistant secretary of the treasury toured western mint and assay offices and estimates Klondike gold output this summer at about eighteen million dollars with a large share passing through Seattle assay. In Yokohama the murder case of an American and two Japanese women brings an American sailor under Japanese law as suspected murderer under new treaties.
Daniel Miller, a farmer near Lexington in Mansfield Ohio, reported four masked men entered his house at one o'clock Sunday morning. They bound him his wife and son and tied them to a bedpost and looted the safe of $1000 in bonds and money.
Two boys, John W. Allen 12 and James Glenn Joiner 13, quarreled at Meyer nine miles north of Quincy. Joiner struck Allen on the jaw with a punch and Allen died instantly from the blow to the chin.
Rt Rev Charles Graves D D bishop of Limerick and ex president of the Royal Irish Academy died Monday at age 87 in Limerick. In Denver the Supreme Court voids the eight hour law as unconstitutional with a decision forthcoming. The ruling targets mines smelters and mills for ore reduction.
Buenos Ayres July eighteenth reports the death of Senor Enrique de Patron Chilian minister to this country after two days illness.
John Potter Marsh aged 11 son of Mr and Mrs Fred K Marsh of Jacksonville died in Springfield of lockjaw from a powder wound in the hands received during a July 4 celebration.
Buenos Aires July 18 reports the minister of finance suggests lowering foreign insurance company taxes from ten to five percent while raising Argentine corporate taxes from two to five percent.
A Bath physician recalls a country town tale of an itinerant eye specialist claiming to have removed a patient’s eye, scraped its back, and reinserted it with no lasting poor vision. The surgeon admitted using an anaesthetic shaped like a spoon.
A San Francisco News Letter item notes Archibald Bruce, claiming Scot heritage, boasts of courage while his wife endures a terrorizing maid. On Monday he orders dismissal after a comical basem ent kitchen scene where he delivers a stilted briefing to Mary Jane.
In an exchange cited by the Ohio State Journal, Pilson jokes about entering a guessing contest while Dilson fears disqualification as a professional due to his weather bureau ties. The dialogue hints at rules restricting professional participation.
A humorous exchange in the Kansas City Independent features Mrs Henpeck admiring an Episcopal funeral service and Mr Henpeck joking about a line from the first lesson.
A compilation of short witticisms and quips from various papers. Jokes touch on marriage pockets music thunder and loneliness, with pithy lines from Berlin Herald Yonkers Statesman Chicago Daily News Atchison Globe and L A Bulletin.
Hon Judson W Lyons Register of the United States Treasury writes from Washington that Peru na is an excellent remedy for catarrhal affections of summer and heat induced mood low. He notes Lyons fame on currency and ties to President McKinley. Dr Hartman claims Peruna cures summer ailments and offers a free copy of Summer Catarrh.
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