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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1901
Page
2
Brief roundup of telegraph reports across Crimea and political religious items. Notable casualties and several fires cited alongside political and religious news items from the prior week.
A missionary named Killie reports to General Chaffee that converts were killed at San Ho last December. Chinese courts convicted the accused and sentenced them to death, but Li Hung Chang ordered execution. Killie later found the men alive and learned a letter from Liang Chang forbidding their execution, citing untrustworthy testimony from Christians.
Two masked men armed with revolvers robbed Ben Marshes gambling house in Memphis Tennessee, taking over $3000 in minutes. Marsh and four patrons were forced to lie on the floor while the thieves seized cash including a $2500 purse and $500 held by Marsh. No clues to the robbers have been found.
A fierce wind and rain storm damaged Selma's electric light plant and other buildings, uprooting oaks in the city. A Mobile and Birmingham Road freight train near Jackson wrecked. Engineer Elwood died and a brakeman was badly hurt. Wide damage reported in Chattanooga, Montgomery, and Bridgeport.
Dispatch from Pekin reports a great fire that destroyed the imperial palace and an asbestos house brought by Count von Waldersee. Waldersee escaped through a window while General Schwartzkoppen is believed dead after reentering to save others. Arson suspected.
Officials estimate 10,000 to 12,000 men will march in the military escort for President McKinney's arrival in San Francisco. The line will exclude eemc bodies and feature the regular army led by General Shafter or Major General Young in charge.
A southbound extra freight double-header No 11 with twenty nine cars wrecked at Cassville fifteen miles south of Peru Indiana when the front boiler exploded. Six crewmen were badly injured and two may die all injured men living at Peru.
A Colorado and Northwestern Railroad accident near Boulder Colorado involves two big engines from a passenger train struck by a massive snowslide and hurled into a chasm. Four trainmen are reported killed.
Lemars National Bank in Lemars Iowa failed to open Thursday morning as officials investigated an embezzlement by Thomas F. Ward vice president and manager. Ward admitted theft ranging from twenty five thousand to thirty nine thousand dollars and absconded.
A cage carrying natives plunged down a deep Geldenhuis mine shaft in Johannesburg, killing twenty six workers. Rescue teams recovered all victims as authorities investigated the incident.
Wealthy bachelor farmer Andrew Miller was attacked by a masked assailant who shot him three times. Miller pursued the attacker until tiring and collapsing. bloodhounds are tracking the suspect. Miller remains in serious condition.
General Andrew Anderson commander of the Soldiers' Home at Sandusky Ohio died suddenly from heart disease at age 60. He was a Civil War veteran noted for his service and leadership.
Treasury officials warn of a mania for trusts and feverish speculation on the Stock Exchange. They report to the President that money from legitimate enterprises is diverted into speculation, fearing a possible panic may disrupt general business and prompt banks to act more conservatively.
The Isthmian Canal Commission reports unanimously for the Nicaragua route over Panama, estimating total costs of about 200.54 million dollars for a full navigation canal. Reductions are possible to 163.91 million with a single lock system and narrower excavations.
The Supreme Court invalidates hundreds of divorces from the Dakotas and other states citing lax judicial standards. Notably, James G. Blaine’s engagement to Miss Hetchhorn of Washington is affected as the ruling reverberates nationwide with decrees granted to Chicago residents and others scrutinized.
The court deliberates the validity of divorces across states. Justice Gray writes opinions on Bell v Bell and Streitworf v Streitworf, holding decrees granted where neither spouse resides as invalid while decrees issued in Pennsylvania or North Dakota are valid if domicile is present.
The article notes large city growth with Birmingham rising from 3,086 in 1880 to 33,415 in 1900 and New York expanding by about 99,000 yearly. It lists 44 Washingtons, 84,400 Americans abroad, and compares city counts from 1880, 1890, and 1900 among other population milestones.
Naval Captain W T F Hord dies in Washington. Olga Nethergale faces cancer per London report. Catholic missions property in Shanghai valued at 2 million dollars. Impending glass lamp combine eyed. Trust capital set at 10 million dollars. Australian elections yield a free trade senate and a protectionist house.
East ern. Adjutant General Corbin to marry Edythe Patten of Washington. New York committee of fifteen condemns police for protecting vice. Boston tailor’s wife attempts suicide after reading An English Woman's Love Letters. Mob in Bradford burns a vacant schoolhouse slated as a smallpox hospital. B F Sturtevant blower works in Jamaica Plain Boston burns. loss $350000, fully insured. Pittsburg grocer Thomas D. Kahney shot and killed by burglars while defending his wife. Aldace F Walker of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad dies of heart disease in New York. Four crossing Lebigly Valley tracks at South Wilkes-Barre killed two women and a man, another injured. Pa Senate approves $35000 for St Louis Louisiana World’s Fair commission. grounds building $30000. Yale students and three girls shipwreck near Savin Rock New Haven, rescued drenched and exhausted.
A wide, dense ledger of incidents and fades: a Colorado tuberculosis warning for teachers and pupils, a merged Indianapolis paper, silver mine reopenings in Tombstone, a fatal saw accident in Minerva Ohio, a Detroit car ferry leak, and a Foley-Baan Lumber fire. Also notes on a Mor mon Church head George Q. Cannon’s death, Cripple Creek derailment injuries, a deadly snow rock slide near Adelaide, a Missouri civic tragedy, a bank robbery sentence, federal counterfeit seizures, and various domestic calamities across towns from Washington to Minnesota. The Wisconsin battleship Wisconsin sails into San Francisco, and multiple murders, suicides, and arrests appear in Kansas, Iowa, and Ohio news, with ongoing local fires, railroad dangers, and legal actions.
John Martin and Wise Turner quarreled in a farmer's saloon in Middleboro Kentucky. Turner was killed amid a sentence to hang in Aberdeen Mississippi. Turner escaped jail and remains at large. U S W Legg of Dechord Tennessee, 65, died by own action. Joseph Gentry, a butcher, killed. Roy Wenner, 10, fatally injured in Chattanooga by an electric car strike on Gentry's wagon. McClurg of Chicago died in St Augustine Florida from Bright's disease. A freight and work train collision near West Vineville Kentucky killed engineers Will Sharp and yardmaster Will Fretwell. Angie Taylor, 18, of Providence Kentucky, whipped Fred Long with a cowhide after alleged insult. Nine oil companies filed charters in Austin Texas to develop Beaumont field with $1,875,000 capital. total now eighty nine companies.
A south-bound freight train on the Ohio River Railroad broke through a temporary trestle near Point Pleasant West Virginia. The engine and five cars plunged and burned. Fire destroyed the cars and engineer John Pennock of Parkersburg was killed.
Reported in disjointed items: Krupps plans mass layoff of 5,000 workers in Germany as industrial sentiment weakens. Also noted are claims for Manila-Dagupan rail damages, Budapest census figures, secret China Japan accord on Manchuria, Japanese troop demands, and other global items.
The Cuban constitutional convention rejects the Platt amendment and considers sending a commission to Washington. In Alaska quartz strikes near Kitzlass canyon yield about 1 900 per ton. Pennsylvania plans a grand transcontinental rail system with details kept by top officials. Generals relatives report Lew Wallace will begin an American novel after memoirs. The hat trimmings case, involving about 20 million dollars, is settled after long government-importer battles. Wheat and corn markets show modest gains with strong export totals for the week and season to date.
Chicago cattle values range from common to prime 3.00 to 5.90 with hogs up to 6.30 in Buffalo notes, Indianapolis and Detroit show similar cattle and hog ranges, wheat No 2 varied from 68 to 76 cents, corn around 42 to 49 cents, oats 20 to 29, rye 48 to 58, butter 18 to 21 cents, eggs 11 to 12 cents, clover seed $6.50 to $6.60, with regional price spreads across multiple markets including St. Louis Cincinnati Toledo Milwaukee and New York.
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