12 Jun 1890
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1890
Page
1
In a Broadway hardware basement a giant centipede fought a rattlesnake kept as a curiosity. The centipede stung the snake, the snake struck back, and after about two hours the snake swelled and died. The centipede also perished in the box.
A River side California teacher taught emergency actions. After a canal incident a boy Haight used the lesson to save his baby sister found in the canal. With no doctor available he performed a rescue until the infant revived.
The University of Basle in Switzerland refuses admission of women to its medical teaching, marking a landmark exclusion in higher education. This policy affects female students seeking clinical training and medical degrees at Basle.
A rapid roundup of global and domestic items notes crop prospects in Manitoba, a cracker bakers’ trust forming, May debt reductions, a Montreal cashier ferrying $50,000, and storms in Iowa. It reports crimes, political shifts, ship launches, accidents, epidemics, and notable deaths and weddings across cities like Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington.
A London Mansion House meeting led by the Duke of Fife heard Henry M. Stanley pledge to raise funds for a steamer to Victoria Wyanza. A Scottish deputation urged British Agriculture Minister Chaplain to ease American cattle import restrictions citing cattle scarcity and no pleuro pneumonia in the US. Chaplain said British farmer opinion supports restriction and offered no concession.
Illinois Democrats held their state convention in Springfield on the 4th. Joseph Man was named permanent chairman. E S Wilson, Henry Raab, Richard Morgan, John H. Bryant, and N. W. Graham were chosen for various state posts. The platform supports unlimited silver coinage, eight hour workday, Australian ballot, and direct vote for key commissions, denounces McKinley tariff, ship subsidies, and Montana senators, and calls for school books at cost and repeal of the compulsory education statute while defending the public school system.
Exuberant Harvard students celebrate wins on Saturday by painting crimson on John Harvard statue and campus buildings including Memorial Hall Sever Halls and Appleton Chapel. Graffiti proclaims anti Yale messages. a bonfire and a student burning a dress suit occur as campus property incurs near ten thousand dollars in damage.
The House caucused on the silver question on the night of the 4th and adopted a McKinley substitute. It authorizes the treasury to buy 4,500,000 dollars worth of American silver each month and issues certificates of legal tender redeemable in gold money. Silver bullion may be coined to meet redemption demand. The plan includes the Dorsey bank redemption feature and calls for free coinage when gold and silver reach par. The bullion redemption provision was omitted from the caucus bill and criticized by several members before the substitute passed.
The Duke of Orleans left Clairvaux prison Tuesday night and crossed into Switzerland before arriving in Brussels Thursday morning. He was greeted at the railway station by a royal coach and taken to the palace where he shared breakfast with King Leopold.
Fragmentary market notes list items such as eggs and butter with unspecified prices, dairy products, wool, beeswax, and poultry including hens and turkeys. Additional figures show grain or feed prices and a clover entry with a numeric value, suggesting a snapshot of commodity prices.
Thomas Force, Indiana Farmers Alliance leader and Center Township trustee, outlines a plan for sub treasuries, bank depositories abolition, and government storage to aid farmers. He cites nine thousand members statewide, with thirty sub lodges in Martin County and a Loogootee store with ten percent profit limit as proof of growing organization and influence.
The Maine Democrats nominated a state ticket on the fourth with a resolution condemning intemperance and urging enforcement of prohibitory laws largely by Democratic officials. Results include Governor Pennoyer winning Oregon by about 2 000 votes and Herman securing a congressional majority of at least 7 000. Oregon slate leans Republican as Maine Legislature would stand with 22 Republicans and 8 Democrats in the Senate and 28 Republicans to 22 Democrats in the House.
A garbled OCR line from a New York item shows a failed effort to raise funds. The fragment features unclear wording and lacks identifiable names or dates.
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