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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1899
Page
4
A Week's History The Important Happenings of a Week Briefly Told
A compact roundup of notable events from across the United States summarizing political, social, and economic happenings. Highlights include developments from Washington and regional reports from the East West and South reflecting the nation’s current affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
East
English Explorer Unveils New Formosan Race
The discovery unfolds as a British explorer arrives with reports of a previously unknown savage tribe in Formosa, challenging late nineteenth century views of indigenous peoples and colonial encounters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Formosa
New Stock Speculation Machine Impresses Investors
A mathematical device for stock speculation has been unveiled. Described as emotionless and immune to tips, it is touted to be far smarter than the typical novice investor.
Nebraska Senate Passes Child Labor Law
The Nebraska legislature adopts a law restricting work for children under ten in factories and stores. It also limits those under fourteen from working unless they attend school for twenty weeks in the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Largest music box built for world fair of 1910
Antonio Ziboru completed a monumental music box after 15 years of work. The device, described as the largest in the world, can perform any concert piece with a finished tone and quality suitable for the 1910 exhibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yaris
Antonio Ziboru
Opening of Ute Reservation Sparks Last Great Boomers Rush
The Colorado Ute Indian reservation opens to settlement drawing a wild surge of boomers for prime claims. It may be nearly the final rush as large tracts near exhaustion. The tract covers 656,600 acres and is described as rich and fertile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Last Year’s Life Saving Service Disasters and Savings
The life saving service logged 767 disasters with 7,000 lives at risk and 22 lives lost. Property in danger valued at £7,50,005 with £6,585,955 saved. These results came from a $1,400,600 expenditure.
Mark Twain's Example for Authors Seeks Enduring Fame
A note on Samuel L. Clemens known as Mark Twain urging authors to plan a book for publication 106 years after death. The author asserts this gesture would please a long-suffering public and hopes many writers follow the model to improve the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Population and money in circulation report for May
The treasury reports May figures with 75 75 000 in the United States. April gain is 13 000 and January-April rise is 545 000. The census estimate for next year, including new possessions, approaches 5 600 060.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
United States
Alabama Women Honor Annie Wheeler With Silver Set
The women of Alabama plan a tribute for Annie Wheeler daughter of Gen Fighting Joe Wheeler. They will present a handsome silver set as she served in fever hospitals at Santiago and now requests the War Department to send her to the Philippines as a nurse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Annie Wheeler
Gen
Joe’ Wheeler
Swedish inventor unveils all-in-one butter making machine
A Swedish inventor introduces a device called a radi ator that makes butter from milk without churning. It uses the separator principle to remove the cream and then converts it into butter in a single integrated process, combining pasteurizing separating and churning in one machine.
Births in 1410 and notable figures of Victoria era
Queen Victoria marks eightieth birthday amid reflections on a year 1410 rich in distinguished births. John Ruskin and Julia Ward Howe are listed among those born in 1410, with Victoria described as the oldest and most respected of surviving sovereigns, reflecting on the prosperous Victorian era in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Victoria
John Ruskin
Julia Ward Howe
Victoria
England
Cumberland Ky man claims world’s largest family
Jason Webb of Cumberland Kentucky heads what he believes is the largest family. He has 19 children, 173 grandchildren and 100 great grandchildren. His late brother Miles Webb had over 400 descendants. Other relatives raise the Cumberland Webb clan to about 12 600 in the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jason Webb
Cumberland
Miles Webb
Jason
Webbs
Walworth Family Soldiers and Nurse in Wars
The Walworths from New York city supplied a son in every war since founding. Gen Walworth died at Buena Vista, another was crippled in the Civil War, and the Spanish American War record was bright. Only Mrs Ellen Hardin Walworth and her daughter Miss Reubena remained, and the mother volunteered as a nurse throughout the war, dying of typhoid fever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walworth
New York City
Buena Vista
Ellen Hardin Walworth
Reubena
Washington Journal of War Losses and Jubilation
The dispatch lists total army deaths from the Spanish war: Cuba 1399, Porto Rico 287, Honolulu 45, Philippines 606, U S 3872, total 6269. Washington features a civic parade, a grand street pageant, and presidential reception marking the jubilee. Henry Fournier set a bicycle record at 1 31 3 5. McKinley signals that negotiations with the Filipinos fail and surrender is demanded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Cuba
Porto Rico
Honolulu
Philippines
United States
Washington
Henry Fournier
McKinley
Manila
Notable Deaths and Disasters Abroad and in U S History
Notable deaths include mW Cale of Nashville who collapsed in a New York hotel. An explosion at Cambria blast furnace in Johnstown, Pa killed three and burned three. Fire at Coney Island destroyed 20 buildings with $500000 loss. The New York legislature adjourned sine die after approving tax and Dewey celebration funds. Yale appoints Arthur Hadley president. Boston critic William Ball and wife commit suicide by gas. A three day 31 hour 4 minute car trip covers TOT miles from Cleveland to New York. Clearing houses show weekly totals of $? and 142 U S business failures. Kraenzlein sets a US running record in New York. Over 6000 Brooklyn Sunday School children parade honor of union’s anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mw. Cale
Nashville, Tenn
Fifth Avenue
New York
Cambria
Johnstown
I.a
Admiral Dewey
Arthur Twining Hadley
Yale University
New Haven
Boston
William T. W. Ball
Cleveland
New York City
United States
A.C. Kraenzlein
Pennsylvania
Brookln
N. Y
Brooklyn Sunday School Union
Coney Island
Prohibitionists nominate ticket in Des Moines with Eaton
Iowa activists name Rev. EL L. Eaton of Des Moines for governor but Eaton declines and M. W. Atwood of Estherville is chosen. The report lists numerous other national incidents including outlaws killed by a sheriff, mining mill activity in Alaska, severe weather and casualties, and political developments from coast to coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
EL L. Eaton
James Humphries
Alew
Tex
Lucinda Pratt
Chicago
Frank Glass
Montgomery
Minn
Lfe
Harrison Heed
Florida
Jacksonville
J. E. Moss
Joplin
Wood
Santiago
Democratic National Committee
St. Louis
Denver
Admiral Schley
Staples
Havana
United States
Bancroft
Neb
Peter Dyers
Jerome Pilamm
Falls River
Wis
Iowa Supreme Court Afirms Novak Life Sentence
The Iowa Supreme Court confirms Frank A. Novak's life imprisonment for the murder of Edward Murray on February 2, 1897, at Walford. A tornado at Hastings, Nebraska, wrecked 20 houses and caused additional damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of
Iowa
Frank A. Novak
Edward Murray
Walford
Hastings
Neb
Peace envoys leave Manila amid surrender doubt
The Aguinaldo peace commissioners move toward the insurgent lines with no surrender pledges. American judges foresee the envoys returning soon ready to promise insurgent capitulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aguinaldo
Manila
Emilio Castelar
Republican Party of
Spain
Barcelona
St. John
N. B
Rosa Bonheur
Fountainbleau
France
China
San Mun
Hague
San Fernando
Benjamin Harrison
Paris
Loubet
Admiral Dewey
Navy Department
United States
New York
Aguinaldo Death Rumors Stir Manila Reports
Spanish Manila papers declare Aguinaldo dead with causes unclear possibly self inflicted or an assassination. Genera Otis promises fierce, regressive action against Filipinos throughout the rainy season.
Notable Obituaries and Distant Ventures Across 1900s News
Brief items report deaths of General Bermudez Reina and architect William F. Hackney, and note shifts in Alaska military leadership to General Sh after. Other items cover church assembly plans, Baldwin locomotive order, notable individuals like blind pianist Toone, Captain James Slover, Helen Gould’s income, Andree expedition, San Francisco monument funding, Kansas parole plan, Lula Randall’s pension, and an Alaska agricultural survey team led by Merriam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bermudez Reina
Madrid
War Department
Alaska
Presbyterian General Assembly
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Great Central Railroad of
England
Baldwin Works
Philadelphia
Toone
Columbia
James Slover
Monitor
Merrimac
Hampton Roads
Easton
Helen Gould
William F. Hackney
Kansas City
Board of Education
A. G. Natherst
Greenland
Andree
Helsingborg
Sweden
San Francisco
Admiral Dewey
Gov. Stanley
Kansas
Lula B. Randall
Frank B. Randall
Dewey
McCulloch
Manila Bay
Department of Agriculture
Washington
C. Hart Merriam
Messrs. Fisher
Stocks
Coville
Destructive Storms Hit Nebraska Iowa and Michigan
A multi city cyclone and hailstorm sweep through Nebraska Iowa and Michigan damaging property injuring and killing several. In South Dakota seven dead including a farmer and six children with many injured. Beatrice Hastings and Cedar Rapids report severe glass and crop losses and railroad damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
The
Bee
Central City
Nebraska
Hamilton County
Iowa
Beatrice
Louis Cox
14 year old girl charged with patricide in South Dakota
Lena Bouts aged 14 and her younger brother are arrested in Rapid City. The girl is charged with murdering her father Frank Bouts a Pennington county contractor. Report says the father was cruel and the family lived half starved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapid City
S. D
Lena Bouts
Frank Bouts
Burlington
Pennington County
Census Official Named Frank A Flower Assistant to Chief Statistician
Washington May 29 Frank A Flower of West Superior Wisconsin former state statistician has been appointed assistant to the chief statistician of agriculture of the census.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Frank A. Flower
West Superior
Wis
Agriculture
Increased insurgent activity signals new Manila front
May 29 Manila reports rising guerrilla operations along American lines as Gen. Luna and Gen. Mascardo press San Fernando trenches. Insurgents hostile to peace talks push for renewed fighting while plans to arm Macabebes or reenlist volunteers are considered. A Negros attack on the Recorder results in a massacre, with Capt. Tilly likely drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Malolos
United States
Luna
Mascardo
Tarla
Philippines
Aguinaldo
Escalante
Negros
Recorder
Cebu
Signal Corps
Tilly
Ife
Itecorder
Iloilo
Train Wreck in Iowa Claims Several Lives and Injuries
A Burlington Cedar Rapids & Northern passenger train wrecked near Waterloo on a washout caused by a cloudburst. Seven cars telescoped, many injured, several killed including E L Arnold and William McLaughlin. Surgeons treated victims at Water loo and Cedar Rapids, with all survivors reported to recover. One victim died later after expressing plans to marry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Blauckhawk County
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad
Orange Township
Cedar Rapids
St. Luke’s Hospital
E. L.arnold
Minneapoli
William A. McLaughlin
Minneapolis
H. R. Sheppe
Alton
Til
David Hello
George Wainwright
Burlington
S. H. Basher
W. F. Burke
Cedar Falls
A. L. Fox
D. W. Fleming
Albert Lea
Minn
C. W. Whitney
William Hayden
Chicago
A. D. Morris
J. H. Bates
Toledo
W. J. Stevenson
St. Paul
E. D. Drummond
Finchford
Jerry Murphy
Castiedoon
Ireland
John Miller
Hunter
N. D
Norwood
Ostrander Nordhill
William Durlin
H. C. Tunnel
Frank Gray
Allison
S. Sullivan
Terre Haute
Ind
Claud Willams
Peoria
R. L. Calvin
St. Louis
William H. Heale
Anna Urban
Tower
Marshall County sues heirs for back taxes on Boardman estate
Marshall county Iowa sues heirs of late H E J Boardman, a millionaire lawyer, to recover 145000 taxes due on five years of withheld property. The estate's personal value is 300000, but only 15000 was reported for taxation. Also notes Thomas Bailey Aldrich completing a world voyage and Edwin C Madd en named for third assistant postmaster general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Board of Supervisors of
Marshall County
H. E. J. Boardman
Dreyfus to be retried by court martial in France
Paris reports state former Captain Dreyfus now jailed on Devil's Island will face a court martial. The trial will be held in a garrison town away from Paris with Ballot jeaupre's report read at the hearing. Expect verdict by June 3 after two days of proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Dreyfus
Devil's Island
France
Manau
Jeaupre
Heavy Irish immigration lands 756 youths in New York
Immigrants from Ireland arrive in large numbers this season after disembarking from the Majestic at the barge office on Friday. The 756 arrivals were mostly youths aged 15 to 25, forming a sizable contingent of young Irish migrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ireland
Majestic
Britain to accept neutral sea rights pressuring Germany
London reports British delegates have largely dropped opposition to American demand for neutral sea rights akin to land rights. It is believed Germany will agree as well. Also in brief misfortunes: Butte miners Angus Mac Leod and Anton Peranda killed in a Diamond mine blast. Louis E. Bert, a Sandusky farmer, killed by lightning at a barn warming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
London
The
Daily Chronicle
Hague
Germany
Butte
Mont
Angus MacLeod
Anton Peranda
Sandusky
Louis E. Bert
Oxford Township
Double Execution in Winnipeg on Scaffold
Wasyl Guszcsak and Simon Czuey two Galician men were executed on the same scaffold in Winnipeg Manitoba for the murder of Wasyl Bojecacko and his four children at Stuartourn last October. The drop fell at eight o'clock a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Man
Wasyl Guszcsak
Simon Czuey
Wasyl Bojecacko
Stuartourn
Chicago banker charged with larceny in New York case
In New York on May 29 August F. Sickman secretary of the Garden City Foresters Building and Loan association of Chicago was remanded without bail by Magistrate Cornell to await extradition papers over larceny of three thousand dollars from the association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caughr
New York
F. Sickman
Garden City Foresters’ Building and Loan Association of
Chicago
Cornell
Preacher Shot Dead by Huntsville Man
A Black Baptist preacher in Huntsville Alabama was shot and killed Saturday night by Tom Pitcock a prominent local figure. The preacher had threatened Pitcock and Pitcock was arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Ala
Tom Pitcock
Pitcock
Wisconsin Delegation Backs Henderson for Speaker
Wisconsin congressmen will unanimously support David B. Henderson of Iowa for speaker. The decision was reached at a Saturday meeting with all ten representatives present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Henderson
Milwaukee
David B. Henderson
Iowa
Big Four Gift Spanish American War Panorama
An illustrated album advertised by Warren J. Lynch of the Big Four Route features 160 half-tone engravings from Army photographs. scenes include Spanish and American gunboats, Cuba, Havana, Manila, and notable figures like Dewey and Roosevelt. Free to address in the U S Canada or Mexico for 12 cents postage. limited edition. order at Big Four ticket offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neely
Cuba
Havana
Manilla
New
Islands
Dewey
Charles Kin
Charles King
Wheeler
Hobson
Roosevelt
Sampson
Miles
Schley
Shafter
Warren J. Lynch
Cincinati
Ohio
Oddities and sayings from a Chicago Post column
A collection of aphorisms and quips on mule genius luck marriage and aging from the Chicago Post. Observations draw humor from social norms, family roles, and lifelong changes. The tone mirrors a light indexed column noting contrasts between people and animals.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Reward Notice
One hundred dollars reward offered for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio promotes its cure price 75 cents per bottle with testimonials and endorsements from West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists Toledo. Hall's Family Pills also advertised as best.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Start Delays and a Cab Horse In a Harsh Race Scene
The sun blazes on a distant racecourse as horses and jockeys await a starter. An animated exchange with a cab horse reveals the unusual obstacle delaying the event, highlighting a tense moment before the race begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suez
Academy
Grain-O: A grain based coffee substitute for all
Grain-O is promoted as a long awaited coffee substitute for the whole family. It claims to calm nerves and aid digestion while tasting like the best coffee. Made from pure grains, it is presented as a genuine scientific product that supports health and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandma
Exaspersating Visit Proves Exasperating in House
Clara argues with Mrs Higgsley Clara about sending Granley away earlier after a late night visit. The mother insists, noting it was long after 11 o clock, while Clara admits he always lingers with an impression of impending news. The Chicago Evening News records the dispute.
Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement for new shoes
Do Your Feet ache and Burnt Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease a powder for the feet It makes tighter New Shoes feel Easy Cures Corns Bunions Swollen Hot Callous Sore and Sweating Feet All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell it 25c Sample sent FREE Address Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy NY
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Look the Same Yeast and Mud Baths
A bizarre mix of old advertisements and quotes. Notable lines reference political candidacy in Yonkers and cures for colds, with testimonials and product pitches for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Glenn's Sulphur Soap Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crimsonbeak
Yonkers
Glenn
Hill
Letter to Mrs Pinkham on Cure Claim
A reader from Pearl Louisiana writes about Mrs Pinkham's Compound claiming it could cure severe cases. The letter questions the medicine's efficacy and expresses skepticism toward the idea that it could work for such conditions.
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Chamberlain, &. C
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William Kelley
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David French Rovd
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge
Social Democracy of
Massachusetts
Winfield P. Porter
Newburyport
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Harry Jones
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John A. Merritt
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