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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1899
Page
6
American builders will construct a first electric railway in Porto Rico connecting San Juan with surrounding towns. Municipal woman suffrage is a practical result in Deattie Kansas where a mayoress five alderwomen and a clerkess were elected.
The prompt asks about two phrases best and worst in contradicting senses. It explores whether to best and to worst are equivalent. The wording treats common usage, noting that best usually means defeat or surpass whereas worst implies inferior treatment or defeat in another sense.
A pauper woman in Paris was convicted of having her child baptized fourteen times as Catholic and twelve times as Protestant to obtain five francs each time. The case highlights repeated baptisms to extract money.
Congressman Joe Sibley of Pennsylvania donates the full term salary, about $10,000, to public hospitals and other district charities, setting a startling precedent for fellow lawmakers.
The late John Walter of the London Times left a legacy to a daughter enabling her to hold an advertising column in the paper. The column is highly valued and provides a steady income of 159 dollars daily to the holder.
In fifty years the count of public officials in France grew from 1 060 to 416 000 and salaries from 49 060 000 to 121 000 000 dollars while population rose about ten percent. The contrast prompts questions about government size.
Relic hunters carry away pieces from the Montpelier birth house of Dewey. Although many relics tied to the Manila Bay hero exist, only a few are immediately available as mementoes because most are sunk at the bottom of Manila Bay.
A revolt in Arabia grows as Mecca's Mohammedan church leaders consider breaking with the sultan and pledging allegiance to the grand sharif, an ally of England. The situation signals a turbulent European year ahead with shifting loyalties and potential regional upheaval.
The inspector general of the army reports 2 regular college students and 30 alumni commissioned in the regular army and 157 students and 256 alumni in the volunteer army, totaling 341 officers. An additional 1,694 students and former students joined as noncommissioned officers or privates.
A French man aged about 100 died by his own hand driven by fear of living forever. The report notes he had long lost clear reasoning, and references Mark Twain's quip about immortal French ductists.
Various editors offer humorous, conflicting opinions on hay fever. An Ohio editor blames kissing grass widows while a Missouri editor cites a moonlit kiss. A flow editor mentions a cow, a Kansas exchange jokes about kissing the girl and cow. A poetical editor writes of youth’s heycey kiss.
The Hodgenville Kentucky birthplace farm of Abraham Lincoln was sold to David Grear and will be turned into a park. The piece notes the farm remains the last intact link to Lincoln's birth place, with the cabin, the bucket, and fence rails long gone, undisturbed by showmen or relic hunters.
The Herald Ledger of Russellville lists poll tax records in Logan County including Nim Forehand Spot Garrett Kennedy Poteet Commodore Libb Con stance First Perk lamb Major New Lum Bilberry South West Lum Low Tess Bell Lee Panther Yack Fresh Wash Garrigus Garl Felps Jasper Hipock Green Self Bill Pulley Pearce Ligons Bill Chestnut George Buckett John Woolcock K Q O Loopmans Penny Hightower Bill Fipps the Key Hose Stewart and Samuel Nisselbauch among those named.
The article notes Mme Adeline Patti a renowned diva and baroness will likely tour the United States again. It comments on her freedom to change plans, and reflects on her past farewell tour and ongoing appeal to fans and American audiences.
A concise review of notable national events from Washington and across the East West and South, highlighting political developments and key happenings shaping the week in the United States.
President McKinley issues a proclamation announcing the ratification of the extradition treaty between the United States and Mexico. The dispatch conveys gratitude for gallantry in the Philippines and honors Sun. Lewis Baker dies in Washington at age 67, after a long journalism and political career. Brig. Gen. G W Davis reassigned to Porto Rico with San Juan HQ, relieving Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry who retires. The Miles army beef inquiry report is received by the president.
A decree divorces Henry T. Sloane from Jessie A. Sloane. in Greenwich, Connecticut, Jessie marries Perry Belmont. The week also reports Pittsburgh fires destroying grocer J J Welden’s and Novelty candy works, totaling 200000 dollars in losses, plus a manslaughter hold over in the Lavelle fight death. Other items note U S business failures, clearing-house totals, New York legislature adjournment, a Rochester rail wreck with multiple deaths and injuries, the 165 year old Mary Spooner death, a DuPont mill explosion in Carney’s Point, wage increases at H C Frick Coke, and weekly baseball league percentages.
A stitched roundup reports ex governor funeral at his Elkhart home attended by notable figures. Looting and bank robbery in Ellsworth Illinois. A Kirksville tornado imperils dozens of homes with 29 dead and 70 injured recovered. Hangings and mob violence in Arkansas and Texas amid wide earthquake shocks and fires across states. The piece notes medical leaders, military movements, and fiscal data from April including imperial debt and Spain peace terms.
The international Sunday school convention at Atlanta decided the next gathering would be held in Denver in 1902. A. J. Miller, 55, vice president of the Bank of Cobden Sr., which failed March 1, 1899, died by his own hand.
Reports from Naples, Manila, Kiel and Poland note a New York family head Robert Goelet's death from heart failure in Naples. Paris exhibits gain 300000 square feet. Insurgent leaders from Luna meet Gen Otis in Manila amid peace terms. Filipinos claim Yorktown crew as hostages. Fire devastates Kiel Krupp yard. A Petersboro wife-husband double murder. Kishenar gold mine flood kills 62 miners.
A string of brief notes reports Hawaii National Guard status, a Marysville man killed by a boy’s sling pebble, a 110 acre animal burial ground in Coxsackie NY, an abducted heir claiming a fortune in Knoxville, and Florida senator-elect Taliaferro’s Civil War service. Other items note Gibbons resigning as DL&W treasurer, a heavy English man Leo Whitton, Sheridan Shook’s death in Red Hook, Booth’s Australian farm project, Sister Hyacinth’s death in Columbus, tonnage record on Lake Shore, Gen Arthur MacArthur’s Civil War fame, Lizzie McKenney’s fatal rope-jumping, Archbishop-elect Barnada in Santiago, and Cuban sugar and tobacco crop estimates.
At a Manila conference Gen. Luna's envoys made clear the United States will accept no terms but unconditional surrender. President Schurman urged a voluntary end to hostilities and offered a role for Filipinos in drafting a government once sovereignty is acknowledged.
In Wardner Idaho on May 1 a mob of 500 to 1,000 union and sympathizer miners attacked the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine and mill, blew up the mill and boarding house, killed pickup man Jack Smith, and caused $250 000 to $300 000 in damage. Word from Wallace and Spokane notes rioters returned to work and raises talk of martial law and federal action.
Information reaches Memphis that Willis Lees, a 30 year old Black man, was seized from Osceola jail by a 40 man mob and hanged in the jail yard after confessing to barn burning amid recent arsons in the area. Local tension and frontier justice are cited as motives. Separately, the collier Abarenda began a voyage from Fort Monroe to Samoa via Magellan, with Vixen delayed and Wilmington, Nashville noted in transit to Para and Helena Arkansas.
Washington May 1. The formal order assigning Brig. Gen. Davis as governor general of Porto Rico was issued Friday. Gen Henry will return when relieved.
Coroner Henzler discharges John Henry and Philip Hartzfeld for killing Martin Turnival who stole chickens on their property. The piece urges county commissioners to form a country police to prevent farmers from taking law into their own hands. Also notes home seekers in Durango and US stance against double taxation of merchants at Bluefields.
Fragmentary note refers to a bicycle maker incident in Toronto with a May date. Readable names and details are limited, preventing a full event reconstruction.
Miss Georgiana Dean, a former M E Church missionary and Frances Willard nursing graduate, endorses Pe-ru-na for obstinate stomach catarrh. Her letter to Pe-ru-na Drug Mfg Co. cites marked relief when used under physician guidance and notes symptoms of dyspepsia and related complaints.
The New York Central system leads in passenger earnings, beating the Pennsylvania system by a substantial margin. Poor’s Manual lists NY Central at 15,214,000 with other lines like New York Central & Hudson River and Boston & Albany also showing strong totals. The piece also notes upcoming meetings and advised routes via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway for various conventions with travel details and agents listed.
A Kansas City Journal item recalls a teacher asking a class a math riddle about seven dollars today and night dollars tomorrow. A boy quips the mother would have a fit, while another joke compares affection to a box of strawberries, calling her the dearest little thing.
A sharp stranger pressures a physician listed on hourly medical bulletins to add an advertisement line for Bulger’s Blood Bitters. The physician resists, insisting bulletins are not ads, and the man exits in anger, leaving the doctor outraged.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any catarrh cure not achieved by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Includes endorsements from West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin, Toledo wholesale druggists. Cure taken internally, claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills praised.
An illustrated 64 page booklet on fruit culture along the Frisco Line in Missouri Arkansas Kansas and Indian Territory has been issued and is available free on request to Bryan Snyder G P A Frisco Line St Louis. Whisky relieves dyspepsia on the theory that the brick in the stomach offsets the brick in the stomach.
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