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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1898
Page
3
A reflective poem by Kathleen Kavanaugh in Farmers' Review laments a home without children. The speaker contrasts absence of noise, chores, and affection with a longing for merry girls and boys. Biblical allusions to Eve Cain Abel Mary and Christ frame the ache for family life.
In Ronaldshay a grim harbor ritual gathers as Ian MacAlastair and kin prepare Alastair for a drastic murder by sea rite. Alastair submits, asking for quick end, while the crowd tightens restraints on a barnacle crusted cross tree set at the shore.
Alastair MacAlastair endures a brutal sea ordeal chained to a cross as a storm drives him toward death. He clings to a rock, finds a crevice, and the sea finally claims him, his body and cross retrieved by fishermen from Eday who bury them in their windy graveyard. The tale remains a woeful North Isles legend.
The War Department telegraphed Chaplain G A Carstensen of the 15th Indiana Regiment to confirm or deny an Indianapolis interview text. The quoted remarks mock the medical chief as a veterinary surgeon and describe Camp Thomas conditions as bad, while Carstensen pastors St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Indianapolis.
In Roxane Indiana on September 15 officers uncovered a youth social group calling themselves The Gasoline Booze Club. About a dozen boys aged 7 to 18 had been drinking gasoline by inhaling fumes in a cemetery, with some nearly dying after large doses.
The 159th Indiana Regiment under Col Barnett arrived from Camp Meade in four sections Monday night and slept on the cars. They marched through Indianapolis streets Tuesday morning to Camp Mount amid cheering crowds and appeared in good condition. About 20 sick remained in hospital and 15 were moved to city hospital on arrival. The 158th Indiana was due to arrive from Knoxville Tuesday afternoon.
The thirteenth annual reunion of veterans of the 7th Indiana began in Prymonth Indiana with hundreds attending. Officers elected Thursday morning included S W Mair Logansport president W B Engart Logansport vice president and W E Barnhart Plymouth secretary. The next reunion will be held in Logansport in September 1899.
In Shelbyville Indiana on September 17 a residence of Philip Gephart west of town was struck by lightning. The bolt pierced the roof and floor at the head of the bed where Mr and Mrs Gephart slept, rendering them unconscious. The house did not catch fire.
Shelbyville, Ind. is stunned by the arrest of William Reid a young school teacher charged with killing Samuel Barker during a clash by farmers near the county fair grounds last Friday Barker's body was sent to Beards Town Ill Reid claims innocence and hails from a prominent county family
Tranover Ind September 15 Hanover college opened Wednesday with a large rise in attendance over last year. The opening lecture by Prof Y L Lowes treated Robert Browning as a Teacher. No faculty changes. Prof P H K Mc Comb, home from Europe, will return by week’s end.
Sam A. Keene of the 22d Infantry Company F arrives back in Sullivan Indiana from Bellevue hospital where he was treated for malarial fever He was active at El Caney San Juan and the advance on Santiago and was hailed as hero at the old soldiers reunion held there. Urbano suit seeks to recover Upland Oil and Gas Co property sold at receiver's sale claiming increased value after the assignment and noting a lease producing 30 barrels daily.
Residents along the Kankakee marsh north of Peru report the German carp have eaten away the long marsh grass that made boat travel nearly impossible. The once dense vegetation is greatly reduced, allowing easier navigation through the stream.
The centennial celebration of the Baptist church in Indiana along with the annual convention will take place in Peru in October 1922. The event will feature representation from the Sunday school and the Baptist Young People's union.
The Modern Woodmen of America staged a monster log rolling in South Benno Indiana with delegations from nearby towns. Mayor Schuyler Colfax gave an address of welcome and Lieut. Gov. Northcott of Illinois attended and spoke to the crowd. In Brazil a Fifth District Populist convention nominated A J Farrow of Putnam county for Congress, continuing the party’s bid after endorsing Samuel R Hamill the Democratic nominee.
Capt Mahlon Morton of Lawrenceburg welcomes his brother Simon Morton of Central City Ia at the G. A. R. encampment. The brothers had not met for 43 years, both thinking the other was dead, making the reunion a happy surprise.
A Dublin tale notes a farmer seeking ad insertion at a newspaper office and learning 6s for first and 2s 6d for second. Jokes follow about misheard charges and quick wits. A gentleman asks about a stallion’s kin meanwhile crows and uncles prompt quips.
A telegram from Washington announced that President McKinley will pass through Indianapolis on his way to Omaha and deliver a brief political address. The exact date of the visit has not been fixed.
Mapisox Indiana September 15. His honor Mayor McGuire issues a citizens address urging a reception for about sixty Soldier boys home on furlough this week likely Saturday noon. They belong to Company F 15th Indiana Infantry.
E.woop Indiana September 14. George Baldauff, previously divorced from his wife and sued to annul the decree claiming lack of knowledge, has remarried her, settling the matter.
A crowd gathers in Vincennes to greet Companies A and L of the 159th regiment from Indianapolis. They will be banqueted at Union Depot hotel in a royal reception. In Sacramento governor requests return of Charles N Cadwallader, absconding cashier of Union City bank, arrested in Stockton California. Cadwallader, former cashier of Citizens' bank at Union City, fled with funds from the failed bank years ago.
A parliamentary blue book on national education records a wry remark that female teachers were instructed in plain cooking and had to cook themselves in turn, as quoted from the London Spectator.
Four applicants for saloon licenses in Winpraus Indiana were defeated after a two day trial. Remonstrators held a majority of 19 and the applicants dismissed their applications.
Elevator men in Wapasu Indiana report grain houses at Lagro Urba Treaty Lafontaine and Rich Valley have received about 175000 bushels of wheat since July 15 far exceeding last year's totals.
A recipe instructs to boil and mash a large potato then mix with one egg half a pint sugar pint flour currants and half cup butter plus enough milk to form a stiff dough. Roll and cut into squares then bake per N Ledger.
The county commissioners on Tuesday granted franchises to the Albany Denkirk and Camden Electric Interurban Railway Co. Construction will start once materials arrive. The line’s southern terminus will be Albany in the county.
Edward Morrison drowned while fishing with a companion at Morrison's Lake on Friday. He fainted and fell overboard. his body was recovered.
Wasasu Indiana Sept 16 The Progressive Mennonite church will establish a college modeled after the German Baptist Dankers in North Manchester. The project aims to bring higher education to a Northern Indiana city.
A brief remark notes that women who must pay for hair curling are unlikely to spend on such service during rainy weather, implying frugality or impractical expenditure in poor conditions.
Frederick Story was struck by a Vandalia train while crossing the tracks near Brazil Indiana on Wednesday night. He suffered fatal injuries and died Thursday.
Multiple regional obituaries report sudden deaths of generals and a major. Brig Gen Joseph T Haskell of Columbus post died after an apoplexy following a day of public parade for Seventeenth Infantry. Gen George W Smith ex treasurer of Illinois died of heart trouble in Chicago. Maj William E Baldwin of Sixth Illinois volunteers died of typhoid in Philadelphia. Gen James Jensen Dana died in Keene New York after a brief illness following Civil War service.
The funeral train reached Vienna's station at ten. Prince Von Liechtenstein and a guard awaited as troops and crowds lined the route to the hofburg. Emperor Franz Joseph attended the blessing and will retire for months. a solemn requiem mass for Empress Elizabeth was held at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York with archbishop and foreign dignitaries present.
The steamship Gloucester reports colliding with the schooner Alice Jordan off Martha's Vineyard at 1:30 Friday morning. Nine of the Jordan crew drowned while seven were saved and brought to Boston. The incident follows a Baltimore to Boston voyage.
The War Department will soon consider mustering out many general officers of the volunteer army including major generals and brigadiers as the volunteers have been reduced. Regimental officers have left service but the general officer cadre remains.
A short tale recounts a boy named Fred with blue eyes who races a stubborn donkey named Joe. Fred speeds ahead on a sunny day, but Joe refuses to move, creating a comic moment of impatience and persistence. The Chicago Record notes the humorous scene narrated by Arthur J. Burdick.
A Youth's Companion writer recalls a colored nurse making a corn husk doll from soaked husks. She forms a head, hair, neck, arms, and body with knots, strings, and rose thorns for eyes and mouth, creating a green husk figure described as a sodger.
ASouthern Pacific train upgrading its line slowed and skid when a swarm of small green lizards lined the track. The engineer opened the sand box and the crew offensively advanced sand ahead of the engine to deter the reptiles. After a mile of struggle the train passed, with the conductor noting an unprecedented lizard migration from the lowlands to the foothills.
A young man risks his life to enter a burning building and rescue the millionaire's daughter. The grateful father praises the heroism and asks how he can repay. The rescuer modestly asks if a couple of dollars would suffice.
A humorous spoof advises timing of a marriage proposal, with a playful narrator weighing whether to kiss before or after asking. The piece suggests social expectations and prudent gestures in courtship.
In Bushkill Pennsylvania a brindle cat named Cuba and a three year old shepherd dog named Charley form an unlikely companionship. Cuba hunts small game daily and even nurses a two week old maltese kitten named Puerto Rico. The trio sometimes nap together and Cuba often guards her foster kitten despite the mother cat’s tolerance. One day Cuba caught a field mouse and helped it escape from a chicken, then chased the fleeing bird away.
Buffon noted the New Holland darter resembles a snake grafted onto a bird. It swims deep like an overloaded boat and dives fully, surfacing with only its head and neck. It can be mistaken for a water snake rearing up. Snake birds are swift swimmers and divers, with varieties in India, Africa, and America.
A comic dialogue shows Dullerton Pingster and Smarte arguing about grammar. Smarte explains a method to provoke correction and gratitude, ending with a claim they get along beautifully.
A traveler recalls Bagdad treasure chambers rivaling Arabian Nights. The Sassoon family, among Asia’s wealthiest, runs a banking firm with vast influence. A passport signed Sassoon is said to guarantee safe passage through the Himalayas, Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet.
A fragment notes a girl who had been studying fractions and, upon being told eggs cost nine cents a dozen, calls out an arithmetic error. Her brother Rob, the youngest, comments on the computation. The passage shows a simple math exchange in a family setting.
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