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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1901
Page
6
A compact weekly roundup outlines notable crimes accidents and fires from the North East and West, highlighting civic events and everyday incidents. It mixes prominent cases with minor affairs, presenting a broad panorama of recent happenings.
The Illinois, fastest battleship in America and world class, averaged 17.8 knots for four hours on a 66 nautical mile government course from Cape Ann to Cape Porpoise and back, watched by naval officials, and completed a full circle in under three minutes at full speed.
The North American Philadelphia reports British capitalists are buying steel works outside Morgan's steel trust as speculative investors. They may hold and operate plants, sell them, or merge acquired plants into a rival steel trust opposing United States Steel Corporation.
A New York delegate of a metal trade association declares a clash with the Metal Workers Union and the American Federation of Labor. He asserts the principal of union labor is wrong and hints at backing from the steel trust to rally against the strongest unions in the country.
Helena special reports from Red Lode Montana that Arapaho Indians on the Shoshone Reservation in Wyoming threaten serious trouble. They have defied authorities and are preparing sun dances as state militia is ordered to scene. Indians outnumber whites ten to one and mood runs ugly.
Mary Collins 22 from Brooklyn poured sulfuric acid from her home to Fourteenth Street and Ninth Avenue and threw it in the face of Patrick Stawkins, a printer. Hawkins suffered severe facial burns and possible blindness from the corrosive spray.
Evelysn Briggs Baldwin, commander of the north pole discovery expedition, left New York for Dundee on Friday. Other American members have already gone ahead, and upon his arrival in Tromsø preparations will be complete for the June departure.
The State Department releases Consul Listoe report from Rotterdam noting Chicago as a port attracting European attention. Rotterdam advertises for the first time to accept bulk freight through without breaking to Chicago, signaling a new maritime linkage.
Pekin officials signal a probable settlement of the indemnity question at the next ministers meeting, expected soon. The ministers believe a strong effort is required to terminate the affair.
Manila reports Governor General Mace Arthur will leave July 1 for the United States. He will sail on the transport Meade for Nagasaki and spend two weeks there before boarding the transport Sheridan to San Francisco.
At Coyle twenty miles from Guthrie, Ben Cravers and a companion dynamited a Santa Fe safe, securing about $1,500 before escaping.
The Cuban constitutional convention approved the Platt amendment by a fifteen to eleven vote. The session opened with no discussion on the main resolution as Senators Tamayo Villanedas and Quesada presented a substitute endorsing the amendment and urging its inclusion as an appendix.
An array of events includes Anna Schultz claiming her husband is a woman who has run away, a Smith College student jailed for jewelry theft, a $50 000 spindle mill fire in Spindleville, and an American Magnesia plant fire in Plymouth with $45 000 loss and $15 000 insurance. Other items cover West Point pass rates, mine explosions in Port Royal, a steamer collision near Catskill, a Connecticut chief justice resignation, a Harvard freshman killed by a fire engine, a Delaware River drowning, a man’s suicide in Norwich, and a failed shirt and collar trust claim amid early 20th century industry chatter.
Fire destroyed the Canton Ohio surgical and dental chair works with estimated losses of 40000 dollars. Insurance partially covers the loss.
The record lists a deadly collision between two Mississippi Valley trains near Vicksburg injuring nine people, a Houston street pistol duel with all dead, Sheriff Merrill confronting a mob in Carrollton, a Standard Oil offer to buy West Virginia holdings, a fatal shooting in Pioneer Tennessee, a Lexington copper shop blaze feared to engulf the city, and a large house destruction tragedy with twenty three homes lost.
In Corbin Kentucky a fatal confrontation during an arrest attempt leaves Deputy Sheriff Branham and Chief Silas Wilder dead and Andy Cox mortally wounded. Cox shot Branham, then Wilder, who shot Cox through the heart. The loss is estimated at eighty thousand dollars.
London reports the popular novelist Sir Walter Besant died at his Hampstead home after a brief illness. Grip is named as the cause. The piece notes his stature as a leading English writer of the era.
Ecuador has placed contracts for railway material in the United States totaling millions. President Mel Finley says he will refuse a third term if offered. Canadian robber Frank Rutledge died in a Toronto jail by leaping from a height. The People's Church of America is formed to spread religion in playhouses and pleasure gardens. A Camp McLennan to Greenwood BC mail stage crash killed driver Andrew Wirkland, with Nicholson and Mrs Prunners injured. Sarah Bernhardt to perform Romeo for 100 nights in America next season with Maud Adams, then in London and the continent. Official census projections anticipate under 5.5 million in Canada, not the 6 million forecast. A Chicago contractor Robert Fulford killed his mother-in-law and then killed himself near London Ontario. Labor unrest remains in many regions, but some settlements and strong winter wheat prospects buoy trade. railroad earnings rise May by 4% from 1900, 23.2% over 1899. New York bank clearings up 86.8% vs 1900. outside New York gains of about 27% over 1900 and 1899.
Chicago to New York cattle and hog prices vary, with cattle $2.50 to $6.00 and hogs $3.00 to $6.35 across cities like Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York. Grains and butter prices are listed, including wheat No 2 red at 7N9c to T9c and butter creamery at 18c.
The Cuban constitutional convention voted 16 to 11 to adopt the Platt amendment as part of the constitution. It reserves U S rights to intervene, select naval stations, and control foreign treaties, with the Isle of Pines to remain U S property. Washington welcomed the news and anticipated troop withdrawal and possible Cuban independence by autumn if other conditions are met.
An inspection of a Philippine apple remark reveals import pride and perishability. The piece surveys Porto Rico demographics, farming, literacy, race, and land tenure, with Allen advocating Anglo-Saxon vigor to spur progress amid colonial rule.
The report notes generally favorable rains for the spring wheat region easing drought in the lower Missouri valley, but damaging frosts hit Washington Oregon and northern districts. Apples drop heavily. overall fruit outlook mixed with better conditions in California and parts of the Midwest.
The French minister of war orders mounted infantry companies to test bicycles for military use. General de Lacroix is tasked with reporting plans for bicycle corps trials during maneuvers.
Connecticut Board of Health argues every town should have a hospital to isolate contagious disease patients. Typhoid deaths ran under 7 percent in 692 hospital cases versus 20 percent mortality in 1,163 privately treated cases. Col. James G. Miner, former Confederate navy assistant secretary, dies in poverty at Milford, Ohio, aged 82.
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