21 Jul 1902
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1902
Page
1
A report notes reckless burning of natural gas for amusement has led to a sharp policy rethink. Officials warn the public that wasteful practices threaten supply and price, forcing a return to coal as a fallback energy source.
Three Aurora youths Ben Watts 18 Albert Miller 19 and Robert McLaughlin 2 were drowned when a sailboat capsized on Wilson Creek near Aurora Indiana. Clay Easton survived after hanging onto the overturned craft until rescue. Watts Miller and Laughlin were identified as local Bell Telephone Company employees and students. bodies were recovered and returned to Speers undertaking.
Hamburg reports the steamship Premius with 185 passengers on board was cut in two and sunk by the tug Hansel at 12 39 this morning. Only about thirty were saved from the Elbe disaster.
Reynolds’ Newspaper claims the King is in a very grave condition and may not be alive to be crowned on August 9. It reports severe wounds, limited movement, and tight bandaging aboard the royal yacht with shore patrols and restricted contact.
In Marshall Missouri on July 2 George Wiley fatally shot Davie Flynn, stepdaughter of railway employee Richard Dearking, as she walked home from a religious meeting. Wiley then killed himself in the street outside the Dearking home after the murder.
An armadillo, the first of its kind spotted in this region, was captured at the Metropolis ferry wharf. It was found swimming in the river, origin unknown, and attracted curiosity from locals and steamboat crews.
New York reports Putnam Bradley Strong says he is not lost and will return to May Yohe. He claims to control his diamonds and will redeem them. May Yohe denies contact and questions the engagement. Friends expect a September 26 wedding. plans may send them back to the Orient amid rumors and temptations in New York.
Abiel Abbot Low a 38 foot kerosene launch sailed from College Point L I on July 9 toward Falmouth England captained by Henry Newman and with his 16 year old son. Sighted July 13 by French bark Tourville and July 18 by the liner St Louis distant yet in good spirits they expected to reach England in under thirty days after about 875 miles covered in nine days at sea.
John W Mackay of San Francisco, last survivor of four mining ventures, died at Carlton House Terrace London at 6 30 pm after heat prostration and a night of poor rest. Immediate cause heart failure with congested right heart and suspected pneumonia. Mrs Mackay and Countess Telfener present. Princess Galatie Colonna arrived shortly after death.
John W Mackay the last of the four Bonanza kings Flood O'Brien and Fair died in London. He helped found the Bonanza mines on the Comstock Lode and later partnered on Atlantic cables with James Gordon Bennett. He owned Nevada City holdings and funded a Nevada Catholic orphan asylum. Mackay was born in 1831 in Ireland and spent his later years in the East with property interests in California and Nevada.
A romance dating to Germany fifty years ago ends in Denver when Denver social season match pairs Mayor Charles Levi of Breckenridge Colorado with Miss Carrie Steinhauser daughter of his childhood sweetheart Levi first loved Miss Steinhauser's mother near Stuttgart The couple will wed Thursday in Denver marking a long awaited union with ties to both Germany and Colorado society.
The King prints a photo of Lady Newborough, formerly Miss Grace Carr of Louisville Kentucky, a leading American favorite in London society before her marriage to Lord Newborough. The exhibit marks her prominent status among the elite.
A mid-July Baltimore tornado struck at 1 00 p m causing eleven deaths and widespread damage. Drowned victims included Roy Batemen and multiple Cain and Schuler family members. A wind gust toppled trees, capsized boats, and damaged the harbor front, church, and warehouse facilities with losses estimated up to half a million dollars.
Wantage England July 20 Richard Croker, 80, is said to be ill and disheartened. Friends expect his return to New York after heavy losses in England. His racehorse stable and dairy farm ventures lost large sums with little income. Croker’s racing interests may be sold at Doncaster.
Richard Croker Jr arrives in New York on the St. Louis tonight and declines to discuss his father. The brief dispatch notes his silent stance as he reached the city.
Colonel William Sanger, assistant secretary of war, travels from Utica with Mrs. Sanger to New York and Washington. With Secretary Root sailing for Europe next Thursday, Sanger will head the War Department for six weeks in his absence.
Peter Swizel, 60, is deserted by his 20 year old wife Ella Fanning Swizel the sister of his late wife. She left Marion with a younger lover leaving Swizel heartbroken with their infant. Swizel had proposed marriage after caring for her and her age difference unsettled him.
Lorain Ohio July 2 John Murphy and John Brandt employees of the Lorain Steel Company were killed by noxious gases while working at the top of the company furnaces.
Keokuk Iowa July 20 flood coverage shows a river in a rising, unstopable flood that has submerged vast farmland and towns along the Missouri side from Keokuk to Hannibal. Loss tallies reach about six million dollars with more possible, levees strain under advancing waters as islands vanish and corn crops drown.
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