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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1900
Page
4
Mark Twain has returned to New York free from debt after paying all obligations tied to the Webster & Co failure five years ago. The feat is praised as a notable parallel to Walter Scott's similar accomplishment.
Bertolani, arrested in Milan, confesses to anarchist plots. He recalls a Paterson New Jersey meeting selecting men to assassinate monarchs and rulers, naming a plan to kill McKinley.
An American machinery plan will manage coal and iron in Alexandria harbor with tonnage costs dropping from 1.50 dollars to 50 cents or less. An expert was sent to study the issue and a elevated tramway on the American plan will be constructed.
Late authorities state the American Indian population is not shrinking but slowly growing now that tribal wars have ended and conflicts with the federal government have lessened. The text notes Lo is becoming a self supporting agriculturist.
Otto Schulz holds the Evanston championship record as a pie eater with 514 pies in one sitting while his opponent ate 34 percent of pies. Schulz restrained himself, a restraint noted as admirable as the opponent paid for the pies.
Kansas town police were stunned by a stranger who claimed a thief took a $40 bill. Every officer was given a suspect description and spent a day chasing him before realizing no such bill exists and the joker disappeared.
Nearly 30 years ago Jonas Silverman, a farmer near Springfield Ohio, was swindled on a train near Valparaiso Indiana for 1560 dollars by three sharpers. The criminals escaped. one died later. The other two, who drifted to the Klondike and became rich, have returned and repaid Silverman 1500 dollars with 1000 dollars in interest.
From the outbreak of the Boer conflict to September end the British war expenditures stood at 250,000,008 dollars. Officials estimate remaining payments at 580,600,000 dollars, totaling 366,060,600 dollars. The figure nearly equals South African gold mine output since discovery through the war, over 1514 years.
The writer muses on a cane fad for women imagining how they will handle a cane and other small items like purses and handkerchiefs. He jokes about which hand would bear the cane and questions if women will hold it in their teeth.
John McDonald, a Kansas newspaper man touring Scotland, reports in a Sunflower State paper that in a highland town store he found American products including corn flour canned beef peaches apricots pears soap rolled oats washboards churns cheese hams dour salmon apples forks axes hammers joiners tools braces and bits.
The London Daily Express notes a syndicate of New York and Philadelphia capitalists led by Russell Sage and Hetty Green will erect a grand London hotel for 200 to 300 young women. It will reach lawn high, be electric lit and steam heated, and serve as a modern model home for bachelor girls. The piece questions why Americans would go to England for such a project when U S cities could use similar facilities.
Newly uncovered Babylonia records show people living similarly to today. A jewelry guarantee promises an emerald ring will stay set for 20 years while farmers arrange a mutual agreement, illustrating early commerce and social contracts.
A compact digest of politics and events spanning Washington and the nation. Reports cover actions from the East West and South with summaries of policy debates—federal budgets, foreign affairs, and domestic issues shaping the week's agenda.
The secretary of the navy has given consent to removing the battleship Maine from Havana harbor. A census bulletin lists 159 U.S. cities with 25,000 plus populations totaling 19,694,625, up 4,539,136 since 1890. An explosion at Indian Head proving grounds costs $50,000 in powder. Treasury shows record gold of $451,477,404. American manufactures shipped abroad rise in value.
Edward Henry aged 116, reportedly the oldest man in the country, dies at his Pittsburgh home. Born a slave in Culpeper Virginia in 1784, his long life spans a nation’s changing times.
A compilation notes drownings of Robert Barwood G G Graham and Richard Russell on Van derbilt estate near Asheville North Carolina. Port Stephens sails from San Francisco to Manila with 400 horses and vast supplies. Prairie du Chien editor A W Merrill dies aged 65. John Sherman funeral held in Mansfield Ohio with President McKinley present. High waters devastate streams in upper East Tennessee and Le Claire Wisconsin. Deputy US Marshal Sam Jackson killed in Helena Montana. Leeds Brothers bank robbed in Bridgeport Illinois. Harry Gudgen kills Mattie Nichols then himself in Chillicothe Ohio. Government relief for drought Indians on Sacaton Reservation Idaho. Senator Sherman wills estate valued at 3.6 million. Warby Wine hanged in Orangeburg South Carolina for murder. C M Hays named president of Southern Pacific, succeeding Huntington. Prairie du Sac bank robbed of 1700. William Stark’s four children drown near Plaster Bed North Dakota. High water isolates La Crosse Wisconsin. Vicious rains drive many from homes in Wisconsin. Acetylene tank explosion wounds E W Leitch at Austin Illinois. Henry R Pritchard dies at Chesterfield Indiana aged 71. Isham’s King Erastus troop injured in Appleton Wisconsin rail accident. George Dunlap dies in Chicago former theater impresario. Hawaii reports 11216 voters registered. Earthquakes felt in Colima districts and Pacific slope south of Austin Texas. Seattle assay office reports gold dust and bullion worth 20 166 687 received from Alaska this year.
Report from Victoria West describes a vast military depot containing food and ammunition burned. Separately Lord Roberts plans to depart for home around November 15. Insurgents have killed about 2,000 villagers in Kwai Sin district amid spreading rebellion in the south.
Reports say Abyssinian tobacco ban persists while Boxer leaders are to be punished and killed. A new imperial edict asks powers to name Boxers. Fouriesburg becomes Orange Free State capital as Transvaal joins British Empire. Belgian reporters claim 15 000 Chinese killed by Russians along the Amur. Von Moltke’s 100th birth anniversary observed in Berlin. In Luzon Narvican clash leaves four American soldiers dead. Looc battle causes two dead and four wounded. France accepts Open Door pledge. Max Muller dies at 77 in Oxford. Boers kill seven Cape policemen and seize two Maxim guns. 15,000 burghers in the field. Plague devastates villages on Sibziin and Alaskan coasts.
Fire at the Tarrant Co drug house at Greenwich and Warren streets New York causes up to 35 deaths and injuries to over a hundred with property losses estimated at 1 500 000. Other news includes Stryker's death in Trenton at 62, Johannesburg gatherings in London, and various global reports.
A compilation of brief items notes Japan enacting a law prohibiting smoking for those under twenty, Kansas reporting over 150 new schoolhouses built in a year, and various global notes on Armenians, Kipling, salt mining in British Columbia, a combined lamppost fire safety feature in England, hunting limits in New Hampshire, allotment talks of Raw Indians in Texas, a sheriff sale of Cedar Croft, a 104 year old Livingstone relative alive in Islay, apricot crops in California, a German bank leader jailed for embezzlement, Monongahela river boiler dangers, London school inspectors testing pupil vision with 23 percent defective, and a new Labrador fishing craft report.
Reports from Manila detail multiple engagements with insurgents led by David Fagin and other forces. Casualties include officers and privates on the American side, with several captured or missing. Gen. Hall’s expedition pursues Cailles through Infanta province as insurgent recruitment swells in nearby districts.
Three gun armed robbers dynamited the Prairie du Sac bank near Baraboo Wisconsin early Saturday looting about 3000 dollars including 1500 in silver and 360 in gold coin. A posse pursued the thieves as residents awoke to the blast fearing further violence.
The Transvaal agency says Kruger will reach Marseilles November 11 or 12 aboard the Gelderland and reside at the Grand Hotel de Noailles with French Dutch and Belgian delegations. He will proceed to The Hague, thanking Queen Wilhelmina, then urge intervention under Article 3 of the Hague convention. Two men killed in a Minnesota freight crash near West Superior.
It is announced that practically all of the Illinois Steel company’s works here will close for an indefinite period. Over 2,000 men will be affected. Officials refuse to discuss the situation.
The Hotchkiss rapid-fire one pounder from the gunboat Nashville arrives in Nashville Tenn for its permanent home. It fired the first shot in the Spanish American War when it sent a shot over the bow of the Buena Ventura.
London reports from Pretoria dated October 26 describe heavy British losses in Gen Barton’s column against Gen De Wet with 1 officer and 12 men killed and 3 officers and 25 men wounded. 24 Boers killed, 19 wounded, 26 captured. three surrendering Boers executed by court martial. An ambush near Springfontein- Philippolis left 50 cavalry captured with seven escaping. Another dispatch notes Barton’s attack on De Wet near Frederickstad, with Boers scattered. Cape Town dispatch says Cape police patrol near Hoopstad was surrounded and forced to abandon two Maxims. seven police killed, 11 wounded, 15 captured. 15,000 Boers in field split into 300-strong commandoes, capable of larger operations.
Heavy rains caused extensive damage across Wisconsin with railroads and businesses suffering major losses and hundreds left homeless. In Hokah Minnesota a ten foot earth bank washed onto the track while Dresbach and La Crosse area streets flooded basements and warehouses.
A boat ride on Sandusky bay ended fatally when the small craft capsized after hitting a fish pound net. Four Stark children aged three to thirteen drowned, leaving William Stark widowless with a recent string of family deaths.
George W. Blake, Democratic candidate for Congress in Illinois Eleventh District, collapsed after speaking to a large crowd in Dana Woodford County. In Wichita, Mary Voelker, a Manhattan hotel waitress, inherits $80,000 from Dutch-Bakker lineage. the India-based estate figures in her heritage.
Edward Dewey brother of Admiral Dewey dies at 71 in Montpelier Vermont after months of kidney illness. He served as quartermaster of the Eighth Vermont regiment in the Civil War.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case. It asserts the product works internally on blood and mucous surfaces and claims endorsements from local druggists F J Cheney Co and Hall's Family Pills.
In a rough exchange, Pepprey and Gussie end in a draw as Cholly boasts of a wilted collar and a rumpled cravat after the bout. The Philadelphia Press records the clash as a fierce, contentious encounter with the crowd noting the taunts and bravado.
Advertising copy for a rail tour to California with weekly departures from Chicago and St Louis, joining at Denver and passing Salt Lake City. Each party has a special agent and comfortable sleeping cars. Prospective travelers are asked to send 6 cents for a 72 page illustrated book. F E Bell is the city passenger agent.
A Norfolk line of brief items notes a man hit by a brick imagined to weigh four tons, a firm endorsement of Piso's Cure as a cough remedy, an iceman calmly dispatching a mad dog in Pittsburgh, and Carter's Ink advertised as cheap and best.
Mrs Brown recounts how her son Tom describes injuries from college football. He explains the professor said he has only three ligaments in his leg and that he has broken all three in separate games with Purdoe Sham Pain University and an Indiana college, leaving his foot held on only by skin.
Advertises the Queen and Crescent Route with Cincinnati connections, emphasizing comfortable service, al a carte meals, rock ballast tracks, and uninterrupted rest. Highlights winter tourist tickets at reduced rates, 24 hour Cincinnati to Florida, and direct steamship connections to Key West Nassau and Havana. Free printed matter available from W C Rinearson, General Passenger Agent, Cincinnati.
A humorous exchange where a patient complains that his dyspepsia remains despite advice to drink hot water before breakfast. The doctor questions his adherence and jokes about the difficulty of maintaining the routine. The vignette captures early 20th century urban newspaper humor.
The Chicago Great Western Railway offers homeseekers tickets to nearly all U S points on the first and third Tuesdays of October November and December. Round trip fare is one fare plus $2 00 with return within 21 days. Inquiries to any Great Western agent or F H Lore G P T A 113 Adams St Chicago.
The Philadelphia Record quotes a reader asking about kinship to the wealthy Goldmans and receiving a terse reply that the connection is as distant as possible yet to be kept.
An old advertisement promises cure for common colds in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and a money back guarantee from druggists. The line There is only one place where gold rusts appears as a separate motto from Ram's Horn.
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