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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1903
Page
1
General Assembly in Los Angeles approves a revised set of questions on infant damnation with the color issue sent to a committee for study. The move ends years of agitation within the church over doctrinal definitions and references.
The Presbyterian Church in the United States voted to adopt revision of the confession of faith tonight after weeks of debate. The assembly also settled the Tennessee overture on separate presbyteries for colored ministers and approved the divorce and remarriage report. Dr. Van Dyke and others spoke on the changes including infant salvation and the headship of Christ.
Reports from Asiatic Turkey say an April 29 quake at Melazgerd in Van province leveled the town and killed about 2,000 people including 700 Armenians and Melazgerd garrison troops. Many surrounding villages lost hundreds of buildings. relief appeals follow.
Two miners George Cunningham and John Martin were killed at the Mountain View mine in Butte after a drilling machine slipped and threw them from the sinking cage 1 600 feet to the sump. The coroner jury blamed their own carelessness for not lashing tools to the car. Cunningham is a station tender living in Centerville. Martin lived on East Daly Street Walkerville and belonged to local lodges. Funeral plans were noted for Martin with a funeral to be held Sunday.
Lady Margaret Cowell Stepney daughter of Lord Debatable was granted a judicial separation from her husband Sir Arthur Cowell Stepney on the ground of desertion. The baronet, a former MP and Welsh landowner, is in the West where he renounced his title and became an American citizen and also secured a divorce.
In Yates Center a mob of 309 men gathered before the jail to seize J. M. Woods, accused of assaulting a white woman. Sheriff and county officers faced them with drawn revolvers, then secretly moved Woods by carriage to a Wichita jail 17 miles away for safety.
Helena dispatch reports the Keerl murder trial closing phase with expert medical witnesses testifying for the defense. The court will recess Memorial Day and resume Monday with 10 to 15 rebuttal witnesses ahead of jury deliberations.
M G Van Cleve a ranchman was examined by Justice McKeown in Band Coulee and bound over to district court in 500 dollars on an assault with intent to kill charge. He says Holmes beat him, forcing a self defense shot. Holmes was brought to Great Falls with a non fatal abdominal wound. the ball was removed and a full recovery expected in two weeks.
A planned assault on Jackson Jail was thwarted by vigilant sentries. The incident involved Curtis Jett and Thomas White, alleged for the murder of J. B. Marcum, with multiple shots fired but no successful breach.
In Jackson Kentucky a midnight clash between guards and about 60 armed men raised fears of a rescue or assassination attempt on Curtis Jett and Tom White. A searchlight, a Gatling gun squad, and scattered gunfire framed the tense scene as Judge Redwine’s illness adds legal uncertainty.
A Kansas flood crisis worsens with bridges submerged rail lines washed out and telegraph down. Trains halted on Union Pacific Rock Island and Santa Fe lines. two men drowned in streams near McPherson and the Cottonwood river.
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports Napoleon Lauzon a miner at the Baston mine seven miles southeast of Virginia City Virginia on May 28 shot himself after leaving a supper table. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of death by own action. Lauzon, about 38, had recently arrived. burial planned in Virginia City.
News from Newfoundland reports four crewmen drowned near the Bay of Islands aboard the schooner Peer less from Lunenberg and fourteen more perished from another Lunenberg steam vessel whose name is not given.
Storm devastates numerous Indiana towns killing several, injuring many, and causing extensive property damage. In Alexandria a mill foreman William Gray died, and the Pennsylvania American Glass Co. suffered heavy losses. Walton reports Manford Grevens killed by lightning, four others injured. Hammond roof damage to a police home injures Officer William Bunde. Edward Brennan, a railway engineer, died from shock. Greeneburg Frankfort Thorntown Beatur Windfall Camden and Moneye typos indicate broad state impact with Howard County losses near 190000 dollars.
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