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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1900
Page
6
A compact record notes brisk telegraph items across politics and religion, with brief mentions of casualties, crimes, and fires. The column surveys varied happenings, offering terse summaries and quick snapshots of ongoing local and national events.
A Victoria special reports a Miowera letter from Sydney stating Bushmen from Cane Oxford were killed and eaten by cannibals on the New Britain coast. The German government seeks punishment as natives trading were fired on upon landing. Victims were captured alive and dragged to the feast scene, clubbed and roasted, with some forced to witness their comrades’ deaths.
The Japanese Legation in Washington received a Tokyo dispatch dated July 4 detailing the assassination of Baron Von Ketteler at Pekin and fighting around Tien Tsin. It says the German minister was killed by a shot, with unclear mob involvement. The Tien Tsin fighting report aligns with prior press dispatches.
Thieves entered J. W. Wheeland’s Arcadia Ohio general store and carried off a wagon load of plunder. Two weeks earlier they smashed in, stealing a gold watch and keys used to unlock the door. They blew the safe with nitroglycerin but found only old notes and a single three cent coin left behind.
Jd W Morrison former proprietor of the Morrison hotel of South Bend Indiana faced a preliminary hearing before Judge Whit e. After seven hours the defendant was held to the grand jury on a six thousand dollar bond. Morrison’s statements were contradicted by several witnesses during the proceedings.
General officers of the Tin Plate Worker's Industrial Protective Association of America ordered 400 employees at the Wash ington, Pennsylvania plant out on strike. The Washington mills are owned by W. TL. Griffiths, and the strike is said to stem from the proprietor's refusal to sign the wage scale.
The removal work on Shag Rock is finished and a bay bottom survey at the site shows thirty seven feet of water where the rock stood. Contractors had guaranteed only thirty feet of water.
Perry S Heath, First Assistant Postmaster General, expected to announce resignation within days to become secretary of the Republican National Committee succeeding Congressman Charles Dick who retired to lead Ohio state campaign per Senator Alanna’s advice
The defense motion for a continuance in ex-Secretary Caleb Powers Goebel murder case was overruled by Judge Cantrill. The court faulted the defense for missing witnesses, noting their absence caused the delay.
Secretary Root states the government will not send additional troops to China beyond those already ordered. The United States will have 11,000 men stationed there once all forces arrive, a level President McKinley deems sufficient.
About three hundred miners in Flemington West Virginia walked off the job to protest a twenty percent wage reduction. The mining company requested police protection as potential clashes were threatened and tensions rose in the shuttered district.
Two young women and a young man attempting to change seats in a rowboat drowned in the lagoon at Washington Park Chicago. The accident is reported as a tragic, accidental water rescue mishap with no further details provided.
An empty car on the Dayton Springfield and Union Traction line collided with a car carrying Sunday school excursionists at the bottom of Supar Grove hill near Dayton Ohio. Fifteen were badly hurt and two men named Frank Rolfe and Mortarman Armstrong suffered severe injuries including possible fatality and a broken leg.
In Springfield Ohio Irene Warren age 11 died when a pile of pig iron toppled onto her as she carried her brother s dinner to the piano plate works. The accident occurred at the plant where she was assisting.
Evelyn B. Baldwin says Captain Ernest Andree has sent word that several European expeditions are fitted out to seek traces of his missing brother and companions Strindberg and Fraenkel. Baron von Tolst leads a Russian Arctic coast quest from Norway via Nova Zembia to Cape Chelyusk, Taymir, and Siberia.
R G Dun reports 5302 commercial failures in the first half of 1900 with liabilities of 100570134. Banks and financial firms show 30 failures totaling 25,822,682. Fall River cotton mills close temporarily. many woolen works reduced. World cotton demand uncertain. grain crop year ended. outward wheat movement continues with similar export volumes to last year.
Miss Lillian Meier from Austria wed best man Joseph Kunz after backing out of an intended marriage to Christopher Schmidt in Stockett Montana. Kunz offered $65 to Schmidt who agreed to swap roles. ceremony then proceeded with Kunz as groom.
The assize court in Brussels convicted Jean Baptiste Sipido of attempting to kill the Prince of Wales as his train left Brussels North for Copenhagen on April 4. The court said Sipido acted without discernment while instigators Jim, Meert, Penchot and Meire were acquitted, deemed to view the plot as a joke. Six lives lost in Lake Erie in a storm near Cleveland when the Idler sank. six Corrigan family members perished, Mrs. John Corrigan survived, with Captain C H Holmes, Samuel Biggam, the mate, four sailors, two cooks and the ship carpenter among the survivors.
Charles H. Eastman was arraigned in Cambridge Massachusetts and held without bail for murder after shooting and killing his brother in law R H Grogan Jr The feud followed Grogan eloping with Eastmans wifes sister and Eastman claims the shooting was accidental. Five Furnaces Shut Down: At Lebanon Pa sixteen hundred men were unemployed as the Lackawanna steel works move from Scranton to Buffalo and the lake ore rate dispute persists.
Thousands witnessed Peter Nissen of Chicago navigate whirlpool rapids below Niagara Falls in a self built small boat. The feat, unmatched in Niagara lore, drew awe and fear as onlookers believed he faced death.
Captain George F. Towle retired U S Army of Newcastle New Hampshire died in London leaving an estate near $100,000. Wellesley College is named principal beneficiary by his will.
A blaze in Windom Minnesota destroyed all business houses on the north side of Main Street. Officials say the fire, possibly started by a drunken man, caused about 60 00 in losses though insurance details are not known.
Ella Grue aged 48 an inmate of the Massillon Ohio State Hospital for the Insane died by self inflicted hanging with her stocking. She hailed from Akron.
Mrs Elizabeth Shants 27 and her five year old daughter Irene were found dead at 2044 Orianna Street Philadelphia. Neighbors reported the mother had become melancholy after her husband died in an accident a year earlier. She appears to have poisoned the child then turned on the gas and killed herself.
In Pittsburg downtown a second major blaze in a week killed four firemen and injured six others, with estimated property loss around 100000 insured. The flames began in the basement of T G Evans Co china and glassware on Fifth avenue, caused by a spark from a steam roller and a ventilator draft.
The steamer Dolphin arriving in San Francisco from New York faced a sensational voyage. A steward assaulted the fireman and was ironsed as the crew backed by arms averted mutiny. A hurricane near Montevideo and attacks by natives in the Straits of Magellan followed, with further threats at Corral, Chili requiring troops to restore order.
Three tramps stole an engine from Ouray yards while the crew were away. William T. St. Clair stood by the controls until losing control at a curve near Ridgway, causing a wreck that badly injured him. A wrecking crew found him near a spring and he was arrested.
Nearly 38,000 members of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes of America meet to discuss charges against the St. Louis Transit Company. A unanimous vote renews the fight and boycott as the strike resumes in full force.
During a game in Charleston Missouri George Cowles of the Columbus Sky team fell while running from second to third base. His left elbow drove into his side just below the diaphragm causing fatal internal injuries.
Judge Hubbard of the Superior Court in San Francisco held that a marriage of persons who were divorced in California within one year in Nevada is valid, opposing Judge Belcher’s ruling from a month earlier. Lightning Strikes Two In Bed near Fenglish Indiana paralyzes both victims and blinds Mr. Guest while they sleep beside a window.
Panic grips Canton Ohio as authorities guard the President's residence after reports of a plot to murder President McKinley surface. Alleged conspirators include Cubans and Spaniards with New York HQ, shaping cautious investigations and public fear.
Pete Peterson, once of Chicago, fatally wounded his sweetheart Annie IXing in Seattle before firing on a crowd of officers, wounding none and killing himself. The escape attempt ended with a self-inflicted gunshot.
Three men celebrating four well known young men shot at Dover New Hampshire. The incident left all fatally wounded. The article also notes Adlai E Stevenson has been nominated for Vice President by the Democratic convention in Kansas City. Silver Republicans endorse Bryan and Stevenson amid a contested vice presidential selection.
In a dark cellar at 84 Morris Street Jersey City police found a well furnished thieves retreat tied to robberies. Juveniles Joseph Guhren 14 Thomas Cosgrove 12 and Frank Cuthill 10 faced Magistrate Hoos for identification. Mrs Guhren seeks reformary custody. Goods seized worth several hundred dollars.
Arthur Brady of Toledo escaped from a Toledo courtroom by leaping from a second-story window into a twelve-foot alley and landing among wires. He slid to the ground, ran, and then jumped a trestle to flee ten feet down. Officers pursued but he vanished, just freed on a charge of neglecting his children as they prepared to arrest him again.
Detectives guard the Toronto penitentiary after a plot to free the trio Walsh Nolin and Dullman by dynamite is disclosed. Police protect the Welland Canal dynamiters reportedly active nearby, while authorities seek to prevent any forceful rescue.
Samuel T. Paisley once Pittsburgh bureau of highways and sewers superintendent, charged with embezzling over 50 thousand dollars, is dead in Newport News Virginia after a 25 year city service. In another Pittsburg incident, a railroad wreck left two dead, Elizabeth Edwards 40, Thomas Morris 48, and Thomas Fid Edwards badly injured, leg to be amputated.
A section of roof over the covered walk at the western entrance to Pittsburg union station collapsed injuring six persons. The falling framework extended about 125 feet and buried the Fort Wayne and Pittsburg Birmingham traction works on the pavement.
Chinese minister in Washington reports reassurance from Sheng that legations are safe as imperial troops clash with Boxers in China. A separate note says Moorhead Brothers plate mill in Sharpsburg reduces wages by 20 percent. Douglas Walker is killed by his brother-in-law Albert Boyle in Kingman Kansas during a family quarrel. The navy states Groton has arrived at Che Foo and will proceed to Kure for repairs.
A blaze gutted the Thomas B. Rice & Son box factory on the Mifflin street wharf in Philadelphia, causing estimated losses of fifty thousand dollars. Fire crews fought the flames, with the building nearly destroyed and damage to surrounding facilities.
The Russian government declares it will grant Japan a free hand to apply military force in China, signaling a shift in regional power and potential implications for regional diplomacy and security.
The markets list city by city pricing for cattle hogs and sheep, with grain and butter values. Regions include Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York, detailing prices for No 2 wheat corn oats rye and related products, plus butter eggs and pork prices.
Tokyo dispatches report Gen Nieh led forces into Pekin with 9,000 men and fought Prince Tuan’s army, losing 2,350. Japan plans sending about 50,000 troops to China as unrest grips Shanghai and Chefoo. Russians may have massed near Port Arthur, while the Pekin legation and Greek church were burned amid Boxers’ excesses.
The Goebel trial opened in Georgetown with Judge Cantrill presiding as officials searched attendees for weapons. The town gathered to witness Col Chinn’s clash with deputy sheriffs and monitor the defense’s witness list as ex-Gov John Young Brown opened by noting twenty nine.
The Commonwealth's Attorney urged an immediate trial prompting the defense to request time for a continuance affidavit. Jurors had been selected on Thursday, signaling a key phase in the case.
At Canton Ohio on Thursday President McKinley was formally notified of his Republican nomination to seek a second term. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge delivered the notification as chairman of the committee and the President replied carefully. The exchange foreshadows campaign lines and mirrors the 1896 ceremony with Lodge announcing the unanimous choice for President.
A 19 year old Denver resident Hart Wood won the prize for the accepted design for the gateway of Denver city park. He stood out among a dozen renowned architects with long experience and training, though he had only studied a year and a half.
More than 5,000 children sang in the children's chorus at the New York sar gerfest.
Preliminary estimates for the Department of Agriculture indicate corn planted across 22 states with 1,000 acres or more rose about 1.2 million acres or 1.5 percent from last year’s harvested acreage. Alabama Mississippi Arkansas Tennessee and Kansas show increases while the five named states account for a net decline under 600 thousand acres.
Five masked robbers halted an Illinois Central express between Wickliffe and Bardwell Kentucky at 2 a.m. Wednesday. They shot and wounded the fireman J J Fryisch, forced messenger J F Hickcox to open the safe, and escaped with loot possibly worth up to 10000 dollars. The engine was moved a mile before stopping. the bandits split up, fled into nearby woods, and a Wickliffe posse with bloodhounds pursued. Passengers remained unaware during the hold up and the raiders acted with notable caution.
Washington collected 1134.38 for Boers widows and children. Only 18 dollars remain to be sent to them. The rest was spent on fireworks entertaining delegates hotel bills hack fares wine and advertising.
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