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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1901
Page
6
A digest of international items spanning crimes, casualties, and fires reported by the Telegraph-Larcoat wire. Gleaned from diverse global correspondents, the brief highlights notable incidents and evolving situations across distant lands.
A severe crash near Ruslin's siding eight miles south of Trenton involves the Nellie Bly express from New York to Atlantic City and passenger train 330 from Camden to Trenton. Ten are dead and more than twenty five injured as both trains’ engines and front cars are destroyed and fire breaks out. Passengers escape via windows with aid from others as wreckage blocks the cars.
The Verna arriving in New York from Genoa Naples and Gibraltar cites a February report from the Saint Quentin saying the American schooner Isaac N. Kerlin is lost with all hands, the crew said to have been saved by the Saint Quentin. The Kerlin sailed from Jacksonville January 29 bound for Baltimore with lumber, built in Leesburg New Jersey in 1883 at 338 tons.
Thirty black miners are trapped in a flooded abandoned shaft at the state insane asylum near Tuscaloosa. Water burst in with little warning, the mine is filled to ten feet, and pumping efforts make little progress. Rescue teams race to reach them as hope fades.
The 1805 Lewis and Clark arrival centennial will be celebrated with an exposition in Portland in 1905. The Oregon legislature will seek state support and Congress will be urged to provide funding.
Pekin dispatch says unofficial Chinese message offers to accept all terms of the powers. The Chinese seek to spare Chan Shu Chiao and Ying Nien, but ministers press for the full demands. A complete surrender is expected.
In Ingalls Michigan a 6 year old girl, left alone with her younger sister, set fire to the elder sister's clothing using burning brands hidden under garments. The younger child died within hours from severe burns.
Revenue cutter McCulloch leaves San Francisco with coal to hunt the dismasted German vessel Otto Gildemeister off the California coast as it tries to reach the port.
In a secret session, Havana's constitutional convention decided to accept the conditions of independence imposed by the United States. The convention has not announced the decision publicly.
The Delaware Senate passes a bill proposed by Clark that makes child kidnapping punishable by death or life imprisonment, establishing a severe penalty for this crime.
Col. W. C. L. Taylor a Civil War veteran and judge of the Circuit court died at his Lafayette Ind home. The obituary notes his long service and local standing. He served as a jurist until his death and is remembered by moves within the community.
Andrew Carnegie pledges fifty thousand dollars to Marion Indiana for a new public library project. The gift signals major support from the philanthropist for the local education and cultural development initiative.
A destructive fire razed most of Woodruff Wisconsin businesses. Authorities report three general stores three hotels and thirteen saloons burned with little or no insurance. One saloon allegedly survived the blaze. Losses remain unassessed and the cause is under investigation.
The Pope is ill and has not received visitors for four days. Vatican doctors remain in constant attendance, with great concern over the pontiff's advanced age.
Poet Marshall S. Pike dies in Upton Massachusetts at age. Four firemen killed and one fatally injured in a New Haven fire. Composer Ethelbert Nevin dies suddenly in New Haven. Staten Island land buys tied to steel trust shipyard plan. Bangor youth Michael McQuaid rescues a woman and two children from a tenement. Two boys adrift in ice near New York are rescued. Dr. Norman Fountain, once wealthy, is penniless in New York. A toddler Warren Armstrong is killed by a bullet from his brother’s gun in Pennsylvania. Hecke shot defending himself from robbers in McKees Rocks. Dynamite explosion at Patterson Creek, Maryland. two Italians and John Boarder killed. Buffalo Bolt plant fire in North Tonawanda. $75,000–$100,000 loss insured. Hamilton avenue car wreck in Pittsburgh injures twenty. Edith Talbot shot leaving Boston theater. Executors of Huntington estate file $700,000 certified check. fortune pegged at $70,000,000. Body of James Monahan found in Watertown barrel. death likely ran away and froze. A southbound express wreck near North East Maryland kills engineer Edward Mead and injures Fireman Myers. no passengers harmed.
Obituary notices show Albion College president Lewis Ranson Fiske dies at 75. Kidnapping suspect James Callahan identified by Eddie Cudahy. Kansas City saloon robber John Julian sentenced to forty years. Quarantine blocks Redfield due to smallpox. Will of Frederick Harvey of Santa Fe filed. estate valued at 1.1 million. Kansas City stock yards project by George Fowler and Lou & Co. Newark. Kentucky and Nebraska cases drive various legal actions.
Freight wreck on the Texas and Pacific near Dallas kills engineer C M Nelson and injures brakeman W C Sheets. Steamer Aragon loses tow in a Virginia gale. Fisher estate heirs in Decatur County Tennessee claimed, valued around 100 million dollars. Robbers steal 5000 dollars from an Omaha Texas bank, escape by handcar, then flee. L A Hester in Georgia receives life sentence for murder of Sterling Thompson. Pegram Cochran and Shell Cochran also sentenced. five more white men indicted. Bodies of Mrs H M Wilson and William Hamilton found.
A student in pharmacy disappeared from Atlanta recently and was found one mile from the end of the Chattahoochee car line. Authorities indicate he killed Mrs. Wilson, set fire to the woods near her body, and then took his own life.
Sir Francis Cook dies in London after marrying Tenny Claflin. A French glass workers strike spreads to other industries. Russia orders Finnish reserves to surrender rifles. Cape Town reports plague cases and another death. Italy forms a new cabinet under Sig Zanardelli. Italy cites a 35 million population in a census. Tekla, King of Gojam Abyssinia, dies. two claimants contest the throne. Russian secret police arrest many for alleged conspiracy. Envoys demand eight days for Chinese edicts. Copenhagen reports Denmark halts US talks over West Indies sale after a Danish East Asia firm offer.
The Farrellon reports Alaska’s severest winter in thirty years. Honolulu journalists Gill and Stevens quarrelled leaving Stevens fatally wounded. A Victoria monument will rise in Winnipeg at $30,000. Philippine Supreme Court judges named from Minneapolis and Fort Worth. Cumberland mine shaft gas explosion buries sixty. Snow shocks Mexico City after fifty years. Russia imposes 50 percent add on American iron and steel. Kearsarge shell burst observed at Pensacola. Groundhog February accuracy questioned. Bradstreet cites cheerful trade with strong prices, cotton lagging. wheat exports rise to 4,814,878 bushels this week.
Chicago to New York list cattle hogs sheep and grain prices by city. Prices cover wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes with ranges for common to prime categories and shipping grades.
The Senate pushed the agricultural appropriation bill and district code bill while the House focused on the sundry civil appropriation bill. The following days featured approvals, amendments, filibusters, and votes on naval and post office measures with major bills and deficit concerns advancing in a tense session.
Indiana lawmakers report a busy session with the House killing Mr Slack’s anti trust measure and a Senate plan to curb railroad subsidies. The House also defeated a $50 000 appropriation for the Pan American Exposition and passed a mileage book bill for 500 miles at $10 usable by any purchaser’s family. Other items include a favorable Senate ship canal project, tax levies for kindergartens, and the reapportionment bill strengthening GOP districts.
In Cedarville New Jersey William Davis uncovered several thousand dollars stashed in an old residence once inhabited by the miser Eli Sha McChesney. The discovery adds a curious note to a home with a storied past and an unexpected cache.
A succession of obituaries and short items from Indiana towns notes deaths of Daniel Loehr 89 Noblesville Isaac Milburn 80 Anderson Henry Newby 93 Greenfield Stephen Hamilton 75 and Catherine Record 75 at Muncie James Beard 15 near Frankfort died suddenly James Murphy Crawfordsville died from injuries after a caboose accident Charles Ruge 93 Lake County entered the State Soldiers Home Lafay ette Henry Giles who killed himself at Elnora had nine wives living Work stoppage by Jeffersonville reforma tory laborers and a ruptured vesselaffecting Lieut William McLeod 157th Indiana Bonds extended Greenfield to Knights town Bank organizing Hope with Burney and Stapp Hartford City resident W A Gourley 65 died Three month funeral preps Peru bob sleigh crash injures children George Partington Evansville died after election joy Edward Buchanan Butlerville disappeared in November Rochester teen date call social prank Brazil receiver bid filed by fifteen creditors Rochester notes A farmer received a gang letter hinting at robbery and a crying baby deterred crime.
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