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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
8
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Norace Clark Sr a 60 year Peoria County resident and first board of trade president died Monday of apoplexy. Born Sardinia January 6 1824 he ran the first central Illinois flour mill and served as western agent for Pillsbury. Survived by three sons George Charles D Horace D Clark president of the International Steel Gutter association had left Glasgow for the United States. He was among Illinois early Congregationalists.
Reports from Bhenandoah Pa say the region remains extremely quiet with no new colliery starts and relief efforts organized by the miners union. Harry A Faulkner, convicted of perjury in municipal bribery cases, was sentenced in St Louis to two years and posted a $10,000 appeal bond. In Cripple Creek a rich gold pocket yielding about $1,000 per ton was opened, shipping 27 tons of ore fetching $216,000.
Peoria, UK August 1. A major incendiary attack at noon aimed at burning the business area. Losses include Clarke Sons mills 100000, Neumiller livery barn and 20 horses 50000, O Leary undertaking 25000. Neumiller livery barns in Block 600 Adams street burned. 20 horses suffocated. One horse saved. stock of carriages destroyed. Fire could spread to nearby buildings. prior attempts on Val Blatz Brewing storerooms. A residence burned earlier. Firebug search ongoing with a $500 reward. Police say they arrested the firebug. In separate items, Wilson's Creek battle anniversary observed in Highland Illinois. Also U S gold reserves show gold holdings led by the United States at 565.0 million, followed by France 514.0 million, Russia 363.0 million, Germany 275.0 million, England 189.0 million.
August dispatches report Cape Haitien factions in revolt destroying Petit Goave and Metier Goave. Four thousand homeless amid fires. French cruiser D Assas aiding survivors. Port au Prince and Washington note claims of deliberate burns by Firminist and Chicaye forces. insurgent blockade reported by Commander McCrea of Machias.
Jim Flack, jailed by Sheriff and deputy, bribes with a gold coin to win escape for Jinny mare at Witches Hill. Martina, Jim Finck’s wife, confronts danger as the deputy fires, Jim is killed, and Martina awaits news with her children watching the road.
A collage of fragments notes social talk and games across papers. A Western quote hints at community power and arrogance restraint. Mentions of golf pingpong croquet tennis and a remark on work define leisure in period journalism. A cable dispatch from Washington reports Venezuela Barcelona cable cut by revolutionists.
A collection of humorous snippets from various papers and a local obituary notes Capt. Alexander Robbins of St Louis dying at home in his eighty fifth year after arriving from Massachusetts in 1849. The page blends jokes about tenants landlords temperate soap and a potato prize idea with brief quips from several periodicals.
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