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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1901
Page
4
The News Washington notes report Schley’s counsel alleging naval files were stolen to bias the Schley inquiry. Admiral Samp son expected to be represented before the court by counsel. Also, Gen Chaffee plans to boost Manila forces as a precaution against unrest.
Emperor William orders the late Empress Fredericks Hussar regiment renamed Queen Augusta Victoria s regiment. Lady Smith wife of Sir Archibald Nevin Smith master of the rolls since 1900 found dead in River Spey not known how drowned. Storms lash UK injuring crops with November cold and Birmingham snow. Deputies attacked in Rio de Janeiro leaving chamber. one injured and several arrested. Racist Cuban enlistment policy reported by New York Tribune from Havana states 150 Cubans to enlist all must be 21 or older and white.
A cloudburst in Southern Illinois ruined ripening fruit and killed thousands of birds. Armour & Co cold storage in Jersey City burned, loss about 50000 dollars. H M Hooker & Co in Chicago lost a 75000 dollar building to fire. The steamer Ticonderoga on Lake George burned at Rogers dock with no lives lost. A Santa Fe freight derailed near Cedar Point Kansas killing brakeman L I Seigler. Tiptonville Tennessee suffered a second major fire this year, nearly destroying the town.
Obituary reports the death of Miss Maude Coleman Woods a Virginia beauty. It notes other deaths including David Simon father of United States Senator Simon in Portland Oregon and actress Louise Davenport Sheridan in San Francisco. Senator Lodge travels with family for sight seeing after Moscow and Warsaw trip.
The Marquis Ito abandons his American tour while Queen Wilhelmina sickens and will miss the christening of Oldenburg’s little princess. The Duke of York arrives at flairfax September 15 and the Canadian tour ends October 21 before sailing to England. A czar letter confirms Emperor William’s naval maneuvers invite. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal may head Britain’s delegation in the joint high commission. Berlin rumors place a military commission in Gumbinnen to review murder charges against Hickel and Marten connected to Cavalry Captain von Ixrosigk.
The article lists diverse incidents including Beallsville killings, lynchings and hangings in Baltimore and Elmore County, New York suicide, prison fights in Tennessee, Georgia murder on a train, a Notre Dame- or Indiana preacher parole, bank burglary in Indiana, a Gallagher massacre, a Dixon Springs murder justifiable homicide, and a large Japanese silk seizure at Port Wake.
A broad labor action sees 2500 girls, all shirtwaist makers, striking at seven New York workshops. Reports note trains and ships moving troops, and unions pressing officials to curb strikebreakers, while other notices announce theater appearances and nautical events.
W B Smith brother of Police Judge Mortimer Smith returns from Guam where he served as private secretary to Military Governor Schroeder and resigned after three months due to ill treatment. He says Congress will investigate Schroeder's acts. He notes eighty two marines were confined or punished in three months amid harsh conditions.
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt preached at Trinity Dutch Reformed Church then spoke at First Methodist Church in Chicago after breakfast with Paul Marcon. He urged worshippers to find happiness in faith and duty to the country and mingled with the congregation.
Berlin dispatch says Prince Chun and the Chinese mission would rather die than travel to Berlin to apologize. They object to Emperor William receiving attendants and oppose any gesture implying Chinese equality. The German form insists the Chinese government begs pardon for Baron von Ketteler's murder.
In Yonkers New York on September 2 the bodies of David Scott and John Stevens were found in an attic room of the Silvancy Golf Club. Both men were stabbed by a butcher knife. Warner Sims is detained on suspicion of knowledge about the murder and Frank Dunnington is in custody.
Commander Sargents report on Panama and Colon conditions along the Panama railroad reassures officials. The navy dept believes Ranger at Panama protects traffic but the Iowa will not be ordered home without State Department consent.
Lord Strathcona says the Duke and Duchess of York will not visit the United States. Their trip will be limited to British possessions to avoid offending inviting governments and will focus on British dependencies.
St Paul September 4 The vice president arrived by rail and spoke at the Minnesota State fair opening after a reception and lunch with the Minnesota Agricultural Society, reviewing National Guard units and touring dairy and fat stock displays. Gen Miles and Gov Van Sant attended a lengthy program as crowds cheered. Roosevelt urged legislation protecting wage workers and fair competition while noting the need for national supervision of large corporations.
A shingle and sash plant owned by N Mc Grath & Son at Lakeside Muskegon burned yesterday. The building and finished stock were destroyed. Loss estimated at 10000 with about half covered by insurance.
From St Paul a young man named Harry Sorell faced lynching after an alleged attempted assault on a girl near Harris Park during a labor picnic. A mob of about 200 men chased him for two miles before police intervened and shunted him to the station. Sorell denies the charge.
A Wisconsin woman, unnamed in reports, abducts her 14 year old son from Ixnap (Ixnapp) after a divorce from the boy’s Milwaukee road conductor father. They fled from Ixnap toward Menominee Junction, hopped trains, and traveled to Eau Claire and La Crescent before continuing to Austin.
In Red Wing Minnesota Mrs P Conklin died after a lamp exploded starting a fire that engulfed her as she resisted her husband’s attempts to help. He found her in flames and she fled to the street where she collapsed and died Sunday morning after hours of agony.
Winona Minnesota September 4 Congressman J A Yawney is confined to his home after being struck on the leg just below the knee by a ball driven by a club member while searching for a lost ball on a golf course. Surgical aid was summoned and he remains in bed for several days though serious complications are not expected.
John Walaum of Holman near La Crosse discovers a sack of gold notes and securities worth several thousand dollars hidden in a wheat bin. The hoard, deposited by his father Ole Walaum who died over two years ago, was long sought since no will left assets to locate.
Albert Duryea of Battery B National Guard was seriously injured while firing a salute for Vice President Theodore Roosevelt in Minneapolis. The old condemned gun exploded during the second salute, blowing off part of his left arm and wounding his abdomen. he was taken to the city hospital.
Labor day in St Paul featured an unprecedented turnout with a larger morning parade than before and a highly successful Harris Park picnic in the afternoon, drawing many more attendees and greater enjoyment than in prior years.
J S Thrash a shoe clerk was shot through the brain and killed in a Main Street restaurant by Joseph Saleh proprietor of the place. The killing followed a dispute over board payment.
Damaged by storms heavy rain abated farm property and roads in Cumberland Maryland and traffic is impeded on the West Virginia Central and Baltimore and Ohio lines as of September 3.
Miller South Dakota Sept 4 reports a growing following of Dowie with U Wichard Owens and his family set to depart for Zion City today, with more followers to join later.
The Mount Sinai synagogue in Sioux City was dedicated by the Reformed Jewish congregation. Principal address delivered by Rebbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago, a leading American spiritual leader.
Reports from Mason City Iowa say nine business houses in Dousherty a newly established town eighteen miles south were burned last night causing extensive destruction and erasing a large portion of the town.
A new daily star mail line will run Oct. 21 between Lakota and Elmore, twenty eight miles north of Lakota, at the end of the Great Northern railway extension now under construction. The route marks a new postal service in the region.
Sept 4 Uridre-Earned Sumner reports railroad bridge across the Wapsipinicen river at this place is damaged delaying air traffic and causing intermittent delays as crews assess the structure.
J D Hickey recounted his Pittsburg trip and charged that national Amalgamated leaders misrepresented US Steel’s stance to rally a strike. He said Morgan’s proposal was satisfactory and Shaffer should have accepted it, noting 72 percent of mills were operating and the strike appears lost.
The situation at the Duquesne plant is described as critical as strikers target open hearth workers. Boss melters and first helpers operate while ladle men stay out, with pickets blocking access and the day shift heavily reduced. If open hearth shuts, the forty inch mill faces closure and more departments may halt.
Mrs Bert E Tilden of Chicago narrowly escaped a knife attack during a burglary at 3020 Lake Park Avenue. A negro thief fought to escape, injuring both Mr and Mrs Tilden before leaping from a second story window. Both victims are under medical care with wounds described as dangerous but healing.
In Kansas City on September 3 Bertha Phillips eighteen of Dewitt Missouri was shot in an apartment. George Ritsenberger, her often companion, is jailed on murder charges though strong evidence suggests she died by her own action. Ritsenberger gave conflicting accounts and has a wife in Carrollton Missouri.
Philadelphia Sept. 3 The list of dead from the boiler explosion on the steamboat City of Trenton in the Delaware River has reached twenty one. Sixteen bodies identified five awaiting identification at the morgue. Eight bodies were recovered Saturday near the disaster area. Nine people are missing and the five unidentified are likely among them.
On September 3 in Rome New York Robert M. Wilson former owner of the R M Wilson bathtub works was found dead from a revolver shot at his summer home at Sylvan Beach initial reports suggested suicide but this is denied Coroner Hubbard conducts the investigation and police seek details of his finances as rumors of large cash on his person circulate
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