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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1898
Page
6
Westville reports the American Society of Professors of Dancing declares the dizzy mazy waltz to be out of fashion and orders empty arm dancing to replace it as the new vogue.
The Prince of Wales is noted as champion godfather in Britain with 75 ceremonies. He also uniquely served as godfather to both the father and the son of the Duke of Marlborough, marking two generations in his long record.
The article notes animals that never drink water in their lives including Hamas of Patagonia and some gazelles in the Far East. It mentions a paraquet living 52 years at London Zoo without drinking and suggests hares may obtain moisture only from dew on grass.
California parsimoniously steadies prunes during war fears with a projected 84 000 tons from 55 000 acres. By next year 10 000 more acres will bear, with a hopeful 100 000 tons of green prunes anticipated for the first year of the next century.
Report claims Leo XIII amassed more wealth during his pontificate than any predecessor. It states Pius IX held about $10 million, Leo allegedly doubled that total. Most funds are said to be in the Bank of England with the rest in other European banks.
Djihan-Berum, about fifty, reigns over a million subjects in Bhopal’s Hindua vase sal state as a diminutive ruler. Though small in size, she governs with a firm hand and maintains quiet order throughout her realm.
The Cuban patriots debate leadership as Spain rule continues. Dr Eleuterio Betrances, a Paris based savant Hellenist and oculist, gains notice as a potential first president. Born in Porto Rico, he has lived in Europe and earned prominence for surgery and letters.
Empress EviraneTuy refused protection by detectives and dodged their restraint. Seven Austrian detectives trailed her to Switzerland but remained in Gilon as she traveled to Geneva. She frequently complained about the Swiss guard measures for her safety and escaped detectives by using a side door when leaving the hotel before her assassination.
Luimana of Darotse sits as a feared yet revered ruler whose court mirrors Louis XIV in etiquette. Lumaka, a dominant performer, leads a band whose music terrifies evil spirits. Lumaka appears in a striking blue gown with red braid, trousers, shirt, a nightcap, and a black feral hat.
Admiral Sampson is to receive about 100000 dollars in prize money and bounty. Admiral Dewey will get around 9000 dollars while Admiral Schley's share is about 5000 dollars less than some captains who captured prizes earlier in the war. Seamen including the men behind the guns are to receive from 30 to 200 or 800 dollars depending on pay and prizes won by their ships.
Experts call the new French quick firing field gun the most important advance since smokeless powder. Several batteries with the 3d army corps near Chalons under Gen. Jamont show high destructive power in live projectile tests against wooden screens.
From Lucerne Switzerland reports say the Chateau of Chillon on Lake Geneva is being restored slowly but surely. Great care is taken to preserve original style and coloring with the hall nearly finished and the 1439 ceiling by Armonet Corniaux in good condition after careful cleaning.
A Maine evangelist touring the state delivered a one hour and a half discourse in a Wayne schoolhouse to a solitary attendee who revealed by slate that he was deaf and dumb and had heard nothing.
A compact digest titled IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION summarizes recent items from Washington and regions across the East West and South. The column highlights political developments economic notes and social updates from multiple states.
Secretary Alger blames army commanders for camp sickness while Admiral Cervera comments on reality in Santiago. Maj. Gen. Miles completes reorganization plans for volunteers. San Francisco sails with 800 Spanish soldiers from San Juan. Spain trims volunteer forces by weeding out the sick and unfit. Aguinaldo appeals for recognition of Filipino independence. Furloughs do not guarantee home transport at government expense. Columbus remains to be relocated from Havana cathedral to Spain. Puerto Rico evacuation proceeds. US deadlines set for October 15 to December 31. Garcia disputes Cuban government legality. Hobson seizes Infanta Maria Teresa. Military Governor Wood’s jurisdiction expands over Santiago Province. Captain Evans joins Navy Board of Inspection. Havana notes Spain’s ongoing supremacy amid protocol talks. Washington hosts new military investigating commission beginning work.
The Austrian legation will observe six weeks of mourning for the late Empress Elizabeth. Nearly 500 pension applications related to the Spanish American War have been filed at the Washington pension office. President McKinley says a nine member commission will complete the war department investigation. The U.S. government objects to Captain General Blanco moving Columbus remains from Havana to Spain.
John Shannon George FH Morgan and John A Jones were killed by a coal fall in a Nanticoke Pennsylvania mine. A gas explosion near Brownsville Texas killed eight. The Arena a Boston monthly in free silver suspends publication due to lack of support. Charles W Woodruff in Buffalo reportedly married over 50 women since 1885. National League baseball standings listed for the week ended 25 with multiple teams given percentages. James Corbett announces his match with McCoy in Buffalo is off. The Odd Fellows Grand Lodge in Boston bans new insurance licenses.
A sawmill explosion in Milan Missouri killed two and fatally scalded three others. Near Millers Indiana two men drown. Winnie Davis funeral drew many in Richmond Virginia. A passenger train near Leeds Missouri was held up and the express car robbed. In Batesville Arkansas a farmer and two daughters were killed by lightning. The Monitor foundered in St Marys River with several named sailors missing. In Charlotte Virginia a man named Terrell was hanged for murdering his mother in law Malinda Brown. Colorado forests faced major fire threats. Oklahoma Territory governor Barnes filed an annual report noting rapid population growth and industrial strength.
In Lima and surrounding areas a tornado wrought extensive damage. Elmer Baty was crushed to death and about half the injured were seriously hurt, with two fatalities. The scene highlights widespread losses across the region amid ongoing public health and financial concerns.
Foreign intelligence reports a French vessel Ville de Fecamp foundered off Fecamp with all 36 crew lost. Simultaneously Japan and China endured severe storms and floods causing numerous deaths. Baltic storms drowned 120 fishermen. Barbadoes hurricane left 30,000 homeless and 4,780 houses destroyed. Formosa floods killed 400 and damaged 5,000 buildings. In Toronto the locomotive firemen reelected F P Sargent grand master. The Campania carrying the US peace commission arrived at Queenstown.
A snapshot of varied 1900 era items: Davenport dies at Melbourne hall in Duxbury aged 48. Dreyfus trial revision discussed by French cabinet. Bryan unable to leave Washington due to illness. Thompson Smiths Sawmill burns in Cheboygan valued at 150000. New England Loan & Trust goes to receiver in Des Moines. American Spanish peace talks in Paris. Gomez appeals US help for Cubans in Santa Clara. Merriton cyclone in Ontario kills five. Tonawaida tornado injures and damages property. France to recognize Filipino republic. Dallas train trestle crash injures 20. Judge Davis killed. Columbus ashes exhumed in Havana for removal to Spain. Allegheny bank closes in Clifton Forge with 50000 liabilities. Fairfax barn fire kills two children and three horses. Gen Woodford resigns as minister to Spain. Rev Green declines Iowa bishop seat. Americans hold four fifths of Puerto Rico. John Williams lynched in Mountain City after stabbing Sherman Dunn. Spain may demand sovereignty over Philippines and Manila return before peace treaty ratification.
The French wheat crop reaches 123 million hectoliters the largest since 1874. Rev Henry A Brown once chaplain of Roosevelt s rough riders returns to church work in Arizona. The social democracy of America plans a western Washington land colony within 30 days. Pennsylvania yarn oversupply halts ingrain carpet mills indefinitely. In New York a deer hunter kills his 16 year old son by mistake near Forestport Whitelake. Maj T C Tupper longtime Army man died in Cleveland. Klondike miner George Mulligan loses 61000 in cash and checks. Grsipman Donahue returns them. Cardinals death toll rises to 123 since Leo XIII. 67 were created by him. Lady Gay a champion collie dies in St Louis. valued 5000. Dr G Q Colton dentist known for laughing gas died in Rotterdam. he pulled over 1 000 000 teeth. English writer Robert Roberts found dead in San Francisco room. papers note his long career.
The eight member War Department investigation commission met at the White House with Gen. Granville Dodge as chairman and Maj. Mills as military recorder. President McKinley urged a thorough, impartial inquiry into conduct during the Spain campaign. A ninth member was expected. the group then adjourned to organize at the War Department.
Abdul Halli Adali arrives in New York and issues a bold challenge for the American heavyweight championship. He offers $500 or $1,000 stakes in Graeco-Itomian or catch as catch can styles and favors Ernest Roeber, saying he will throw Casper Muller four times within an hour.
A Saturday afternoon cyclone swept Lima Ohio causing extensive destruction. The storm injured many and searched for six year old Sidney Walthey who vanished in debris. Buildings barns and roofs were toppled across the city and surrounding area with damage to schools churches and factories.
A Washington Star excerpt presents September personified in golden glory, passing by a weary Oyster who questions his place. The scene blends seasonal imagery with a note of fate as September and the Oyster exchange wry dialogue about the autumn.
A pamphlet argues socialism rises from conscription and discontent in standing armies while promoting Hostetter’s Bitters as a cure for costiveness dyspepsia fever ague and nervous troubles urging readers to try one bottle.
A Chicago Evening News quip records a flirtatious exchange where a woman praises Mr Davis as an intellectual, and a rival man teases that he thinks with difficulty, highlighting social wit and gendered humor.
Advertisement announces 30,000 acres of farm lands for sale at Chesterville Texas with cheap excursions and a request to write for particulars. The solicitation is from So. Texas Colonization Co located at 110 Rialto Building Chicago.
Comic snippets show social observations from papers like the N. O. Times-Democrat and Chicago Daily News. Light zingers touch on courtship marriage merchants and theater with quips about engagements ships and corkscrews reflecting era humor. The mix reads as a collage of brief witty lines.
Washington reports instructions to Havana evacuations commissioners amounting to an ultimatum. Spaniards must begin leaving by October 15 and complete by December 31, with the U S determined to bar delays. Spanish counters propose November start and February finish. McKinley cites Cuban hunger and relief uncertainty. Columbus remains to be removed, with next Tuesday fixed for action.
An ad notes Hall's Catarrh Cure can be taken internally with price listed as five cents. The item appears among a segment of miscellaneous town topics and humorous exchanges about social life.
The wrecking company under Lieut Hobson refloated the cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa at Playa del Este Guantanamo Bay Then the ship was towed by the Potomac and conveyed by the Newark Scorpion and Alvarado to Guantanamo Bay Also dispatches from Paris urge October 19 La Fayette day proclamations to all U S governors and Edison Park Chicago sees a fatal shooting and suicide as Albert Danish kills Joseph Pfaff then dies by own hand Anarchists arrested in Vienna and Pesth with Trieste housing listed in dispatches from Sept 26
Ad touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for numerous diseases and a means to restore vitality. It urges tired and sick readers to try the product for improved health and well being.
An old advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as America’s greatest medicine and promotes Hood's Pills claimed to cure all liver ills for 25 cents.
A country visit yields a six year old’s humorous plan to turn burned eggs into little horses. The boy explains his scheme after hiding eggs in the stable hoping the eggs would hatch if burned, misapprehending farm biology. The tale ends with the plan failing to produce results.
In wartime hardship the American Tobacco Co. provided tobacco to soldiers and sailors free of charge. Headquarters established in camps and hospitals, supplying over one hundred thousand pounds of Bat-Ax Plug and Dukes Mixture, plus fifty thousand briar pipes at a cost of fifty to sixty thousand dollars. Sailors on thirty ships in Cuban waters shared the rations. The piece asserts the corporation’s humane soul despite the saying that corporations have none.
A manufacturer’s name on fabric signals top quality and consistency. William Simpson & Sons tickets on every piece assure color, finish, and overall excellence, earning trust from dealers and buyers nationwide who favor the Simpson name.
A Chicago Post quotation captures a pair of lovers debating trust and deception as they acknowledge their summer affair should end. The exchange humorously contrasts entrusting affections with concealing them in a jewel box before parting ways.
About 1,000,000 acres of government land in Northwest Florida are open to homestead entry, plus railroad lands for sale at low rates near the Louisville and Nashville line. General Land Commissioner R J Wemyss in Pensacola can supply details. Excursions to view lands occur on the first and third Tuesdays each month, or write Louisville and Nashville General Passenger Agent C P Atmore in Louisville for particulars.
A fragment from the Chicago Evening News uses surreal imagery about hair and a grocer amid a broader public voice. The note suggests everyday tensions and urban life in a clipped, ironic tone.
The Missouri and Arkansas Farmer and Fruitman in Kansas City features an extensive illustrated article on Ozark mining farming stock raising and fruit industries. A sample copy can be mailed free by writing B. W in St Louis Missouri.
Quote from Atchison Globe criticizing people who treat their fields as coaling stations and call for greater usefulness.
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