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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
6
Anna Chapman of the Eugenie Blair Dramatic Company fell through a backstage trap door at Cleveland’s Licecum Theater and sustained a skull fracture. Also noted: battleship Wisconsin’s speed trial, Buffalo dock damage from a fire, and a string of crime and weather reports.
Eastern, London publisher Arthur Pearson arrives in New York. Martin J Tighe kills his wife and attempts suicide. Four Baltimore men marooned on Navassa Island reach New York. A Jersey City woman reports her husband fled. Plymouth plant of American Magnesia Company destroyed. United States transport capsizes in Erie basin. one dead, twenty five injured. West Point entry failures. heavy mine explosions entomb miners at Port Royal. John Wanamaker backs street railway grant in Philadelphia. War Department suspends West Point cadet for misconduct. Harvard freshman Bigelow hired by Cambridge fire department. Bus accident fiction and a series of rail mishaps distract readers across the nation.
A sprawling bulletin lists swindlings in Nebraska, fatal bank suicide in Kansas, train wrecks in Arizona and Illinois, killings in Arkansas and Ohio, a naval kidnapping in California, and various accidents. Notable items include a bank cashier’s suicide after a $250 loss, collapses and drownings, robberies on Chicago elevated trains, and a crusade of city-wide fires and murders across the Midwest and West.
Fragmented report notes Young Kong Alfonso of Spain attending a bull fight in Eloy ATL amid references to local tribes, celebrations, and a later mention of Turkish category ties. The garbled OCR cites ages, places like New York, and various names including Dean, Samuel, and Levertens in a largely unclear sequence.
The report lists cases of violence and crime including a Georgia hanging for murder of a conductor by Tracey Griffin, a planned duel in Kentucky between Simon Williams and George Bell, and a child custody dispute amid a pistol duel. It also notes a Virginia constitutional convention voting down an oath to support the U S constitution, aimed at disenfranchising Black voters.
Paris orders police to arrest profane cabmen while officials fret over Algeria unrest. Royalists in Paris plotted a coup at Vetat led by Mareuil, killed in South Africa.
The Fulton submarine boat launched at the Niton shipyard by Henry McFlagler owner of Standard Oil. The event marks a notable advance in naval construction and technology of the era.
Lions of Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York trade figures show cattle hogs sheep and grain prices across multiple markets with bids ranging from $2.50 to $6.35 for cattle hogs and $0.67 to $0.70 for No 2 wheat. The piece ends with a prominent Chicago social note about Mrs. Nancy B Irvine offering 1000 dollars to any man who can prove a month of honest work without lying.
Washington special reports President McKinley writing and signing a formal statement to not be a candidate for a third term or accept nomination if offered. Cabinet members and friends endorse the stance amid nationwide third term talk and House opposition warning against departing from two-term precedent.
Odds and Ends note Admiral Cervera foresees Spain breaking into smaller states. Aguinaldo plans a visit to the United States next fall. Dr. Robinson of Chicago former Santa Fe president is dead. A bankrupt NY schedule shows a debt of 20 dollars for beer and 26 per rent. A Norfolk Virginia hotel registers Indiia Holmes and wife as colored man and woman. He shot the woman dead then escaped.
Commissioner Evans announced 43 399 new pensioners in eleven months with 35 308 for Mexican Indian civil and war of 1812 and 3 523 for the Spanish war. Restorations added 4 100 names. Certificates issued total 914 079 amid hopes of year end up to date adjudication.
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