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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1899
Page
4
Bolivia restricts voting to those who can read and write and earn at least $200 annually, with bankrupt individuals barred from casting ballots. The rule narrows franchise eligibility and affects literacy, income, and financial status as safeguards for participation.
A Berlin Korrespondenz reports that the center party will make no concessions regarding the Kaiser's naval plans. The remark suggests the issue is settled in name, leaving the central question unresolved.
An Illinois woman sues a drama instructor claiming he failed to make her a star for 1500 dollars. The case argues the attempt is impossible for many, asserting no amount of money can create star status.
A St Louis correspondent reports in Mountain Home Texas that a 17 year old boy was bitten by a rattlesnake and leapt 12 feet when struck. Five men who killed the snake will certify the distance and all belong to the same church.
Gen O O Howard visited Malden with Mr Converse and viewed Bicknell's Lincoln at Gettysburg. Among 21 Civil War leaders depicted, Howard is the only one still living, the rest are shown as historical figures.
While tearing down an old house at the corner of Evergreen avenue and Madison street in Brooklyn to build a new church, work revealed a secret passage and a long tunnel under the street. A dated copy of the New York Sun from August 14, 18s, was discovered inside the tunnel, its purpose unclear. This discovery adds to a world of mystery surrounding the site.
A Manila dispatch reports a hospital aid society formed by the ladies of the military circle with Mrs. Lawton elected president. The group will distribute contributions from this country and aim to provide clothing periodicals and suppers to the sick and wounded, visiting them to lift spirits.
In Chicago a new pattern shows the icebox as a sittable place for a bartender while the saloon cash register is being emptied. The old belief that feasting kept goods cool is challenged by these incidents.
The Only Woman's Page in the Tribune reports a Cleveland, Ohio society leader launching a crusade for women to wear men's clothes on horseback. The idea has won strong support from women who wish to appear in high bats and ride on men's saddles, seen as sensible progress compared with men donning women's clothes.
A new manufacturing process cuts tin plate production from six days to about an hour. The president of a new tin plate company and an experienced manufacturer say costs could drop by at least 10 per ton, potentially forcing existing trusts out of business and revolutionizing the industry.
A spark from a Burlington locomotive ignited the Civil War era Chariton river blockhouse, 15 miles west of Macon Missouri, and the historic building burned. The blockhouse, scarred by hundreds of bullets, stood as one of thirteen along the Hannibal and St. Joe road to guard bridges from bushwhackers, now being erased.
Philologists debate coining a shorter term for automobile but acknowledge the public is accustomed to the word. Past examples like telegraph telephone and bicycle faced opposition yet endured, making a change unlikely.
An article reports worsening disease and population concerns as epidemics sweep the world. Japan records 12,000 deaths among 50,000 dysentery cases in September, with 100,000 cases reported by October. The text notes a tidal wave of illness and urges recognition of a global crisis.
A broad digest from Washington and the East West and South highlights current events and notable developments across regions. Readers get summaries of political maneuvers policy shifts and regional happenings in a single compact briefing.
Quartermaster Gen Ludington reports last year where 1,064,353 people 72,701 animals and 54 644 tons of material were transported. Expenditures include 5 355 470 for ship charters 7 445 700 for ships and 2 654 696 for fitting transports.
A New York kite expert W A Eddy claims a wireless telegraph method using atmospheric electricity rather than batteries. The piece also notes dog Bob, mascot of the Olympia, died in Tompkinsville after serving in Manila. Week ending 10th shows SAT 2ac5s at leading U S exchanges, with a rise from last week.
A sweeping fire in New Carlisle wiped out 11 businesses while Columbia Louisiana suffered massive flames, and Memphis losses hit $500000 as trains wrecked and people were injured. A Virginia monument was unveiled, a Chicago tailor acquitted of attempted murder, and a string of fatal incidents including a romance murder in Kentucky and the hanging in Chicago of Albert Decker. Notable deaths include Dr Myra Merrick in Ohio, Orlando Barnes in Michigan, and George Hoffman in Kansas City, with other incidents across Utah Arkansas and North Carolina.
In a wreck on the Fort Dodge and Omaha railroad nine miles north of Denison Iowa, 26 men were injured. In Chicago Col Herman Jacobson who led the Twenty ninth New York regiment during the Civil War died suddenly aged 65 years.
Reports state MacArthur routed Filipino troops near Mabalacat with 28 killed. Wheaton’s troops landed at San Fabian after fierce resistance and released 25 prisoners. Insurgent movements continue across multiple fronts amid overall Allied advance.
Col Bell's Thirty sixth Infantry with pack mules moves from Tarlac aiming to overtake Aguinaldo. Manila views insurgency as over and believes capital cannot be held long. In other fronts, wrecked cruiser Charleston salvage, bank receiver appointed in Athens Ga, and various war and crime reports unfold.
Mrs. McKinley knitted over 4600 slippers for charities. John D. Rockefeller gifts to Cleveland total 1 000 500 dollars. France’s public debt tops 323 757 600 000 francs about 6 550 000 000 dollars. The Paris exposition features a model American post office. Queen Victoria’s descendants number 71 with 7 living children, 33 grandchildren, 31 great grand. Fritz Eloff, Kru ger grandchild, is four and titled lieutenant. Rev Dr Stimson raised 356 000 for missions in 56 minutes. Gen Baez arrives in San Domingo amid political moves. Daniels of NYC Central leads anti tipping drive. Smithville village bought by capitalists with factory and shops.
The U S cruiser Charleston ran aground on a hidden reef off northwest Luzon on November 7 while patrolling the coast. The crew abandoned ship after two days of attempts to float her and sought refuge on a nearby island. none were killed. The Helena was dispatched to recover the crew.
A Bradford nitroglycerin factory magazine exploded Monday afternoon near Gibsonburg, sending shock 40 miles away. Driver Benjamin Card hauling 720 quarts of nitroglycerin was killed. trees splintered, a seven foot rock crater opened, Gibsonburg windows shattered, and glycerin quantities estimated at 1,500 quarts.
Tourenzo Marquez reports the French steamer Cordoba was signaled seventy miles out from Delagoa Bay and a blank shot fired across its bows after it did not stop. The ship’s manifest was checked and it was allowed to continue. Paris reports nationwide excitement with fear of war between France and England.
George J. Schan, 50, a supreme court employee, was shot and killed in bed at his home by his son George W. Schan, a dentist, after the father refused to give money. The son was arrested and remanded to the coroner. The case involves contested wills and a stepmother, with another son serving in Manila.
Manila reports Gen. Young's march toward San Nicolas behind wagons and 6,000 man Gen. Lawton force pursuing insurgents. Aguinaldo’s whereabouts remain unknown as forces press from San Fabian to San Isidro and Cavite activity resumes with attacks on Imus Calamba and Noveleta.
William E. Midgely of New York files a insolvency petition listing liabilities of 1 716 639 with 274 762 secured. He led the American Casualty Insurance and Security Co which collapsed in 1894 after its 1 700 000 capital was expended. He was linked to indictments in 1905 with Bereher Schenk and Taylor. His wife died of pneumonia after his alleged innocence drive. He had previously sued the Long Island Railroad for 250 000 and won 20 000.
Samuel L. Overstreet prominent Guthrie O T resident and former Guthrie city attorney was found dead in a sleeper berth as the train arrived in Joliet Illinois. He had been district attorney for Oklahoma and a longtime Republican activist and territorial advisory board member.
In Cleveland Ohio on November 14 thirty thousand dollars worth of diamonds were stolen from Sigler Bros at 354 Euclid Avenue. Three men entered the store with one at the elevator cage while two distracted staff and Mr Sigler. A black box containing the diamonds disappeared as a brief distraction occurred. Police have only a description from Mr Sigler.
Henry A. Salzer, manager of John A. Salzer Seed Co. and president of Idaho Gold Coin Mining and Milling Co., reports a new gold deposit on their Idaho Seven Devil District properties. Gold Coin stock has doubled in value as patrons and investors take note.
A humorous sketch from the Syracuse Herald contrasts a father who plays the stock market with a son who bets on horse races while a piano plays. The piece toys with notions of virtue amid a noisy, worldly family dynamic.
An ad claims Grain O is a family friendly substitute for coffee made from pure grains. It promises to calm nerves and aid digestion, compares favorably in taste and appearance to coffee, and urges readers to ask their grocer for Grain O.
Hon J H Caldwell of Louisiana says he used Peruna for years with best results for catarrhal diseases and will never be without it. A Kentucky letter dated March 7 1904 reports four bottles cured catarrh and Bright’s disease, with weight gain. Send for free catarrh book from Dr Hartman Columbus Ohio.
Maj. Russell B. Harrison inspector general under Gen. Leonard Wood in Santiago and Porto Rico Cuba arrived in Omaha on sick leave with his wife to recover from a severe yellow fever contracted in Cuba.
A heavy snow and rainstorm with strong winds causes loss of life and shipping damage across Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, disrupting maritime activity.
The official ballot tally from last Tuesday shows Col. John Walter Smith, Democrat, with a 12 121 plurality over Republican Lowndes for governor. Smith carried Baltimore city by 1 101. Other state officer candidates trailed the leader by only a few hundred votes.
A Detour county special reports that in Sault Ste. Marie on Sunday three children aged eight six and five died in a house fire. The mother Mrs Kate Orr a widow was away. the grandmother in charge escaped unharmed.
The Belgique en route from Antwerp to Alexandria foundered off the Alderney Casquet rocks during a storm. A rescue attempt by the St Kilda saved some crews but five died of exhaustion and three more were drowned. Eighteen people including the captain are believed drowned out of a 26 member crew.
A committee of land owners and business men from Springfield and Mechanicsburg conferred with Decatur businessmen about an electric railway plan. The proposed line would run 35 miles and cost around 300000 dollars.
Chicago reports 14 year old Ella Gladys Hyland committed suicide in the Oakland school basement by drinking carbolic acid. The tragedy is attributed to unrequited love. A second item notes a Denver game warden organizing a posse to expel several hundred Indians encamped near Yellow Creek and Douglas Creek headwaters for deer hunting.
A locomotive drawing a caboose struck a Detroit street car on Detroit street near the Lake Shore railroad in Cleveland at six o'clock Monday evening, reducing it to kindling wood and injuring five persons. The warning signals failed to be seen by the street car conductor and the gateman after a train had just passed.
President McKinley has promised to deliver an address at Mount Vernon on December 14 to mark the masons observed centennial of George Washington's death in a commemorative event.
Des Moines reports Governor Shaw commuted the death sentence of Charles Stagal of Davenport for the murder of Charles Brown to life imprisonment. The execution was scheduled for December 1 at Anamosa.
Mary Weinberg was crushed to death under a grip car on Halsted street Mary Brady was killed by a trolley car on Halsted street in Chicago both incidents occurred Monday night
Havana on November 14 Gen Gomez states he cannot accept funds raised for his personal needs and would not be honored by such a proposal. In San Francisco on November 14 Gen Miles reviewed troops at the Presidio with nearly 100000 soldiers passing in review and expressed high satisfaction with their appearance.
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