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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1903
Page
2
A brief notice identifies Thomas and Ellis as publishers in Corydon Indiana associated with the Memocrat. The fragment notes their business presence in the local press scene.
The Mayflower departed Washington navy yard at 9 30 am Wednesday headed to the southern drill grounds off Cape Henry to have Admiral Dewey inspect the north Atlantic fleet led by Rear Admiral Higginson. The fleet includes the battleships Kearsarge Alabama Indiana Massachusetts and Iowa and the cruiser Olympia with Rear Admiral Barker slated to relieve Higginson after review.
A private dispatch from Frank N W Y reports a terrible earthquake that wipes out a mine and kills about seventy people. The quake is near Fernie 3 C where a deadly explosion occurred months earlier. HW L Frank of Montana had developed the coal field driving a two mile tunnel. coal sloping above may have trapped miners. Output is 500 to 1000 tons daily.
Fifty seven fokienese laborers disembarked in San Francisco on the steamer Dorie and head to Salina Cruz to join 45 000 families soon expected to toil on Yucatan hemp plantations under John G Meyers a Merida hemp grower.
New York Court of Appeals rules the eight hour law for public contract work unconstitutional in People v. Orange County Road Construction Company. The court reverses the appellate division, sustains county court, and discharges the defendant.
The federal government sends Langille an expert timber cruiser to map the timber belt of Southern Alaska. He travels with Collector of Customs Jarvis of Kitka and will likely work as far north as Skagway this year with other cruisers to follow.
Three hundred striking longshoremen charged non union workers unloading four of six ships in port and were halted only by police armed with revolvers. Mayor Cochrane sought military protection from Lt Col Gordon as district commander.
Bernard Doyle aged 65 died from suffocation in a hotel fire at River View in Wyandotte near Detroit. Mrs Botigny owner’s wife discovered the blaze and woke all others except Doyle as damage remained slight.
New Assistant Attorney General James C McReynolds of Nashville Tennessee is appointed to succeed James M Beck who resigned. McReynolds, a leading Nashville lawyer and former secretary to Senator Jackson, is reported to be 44 and a half years old.
W H Pope judge of the court of the first instance in the Philippine Islands has resigned and, due to shattered health, will return to Santa Fe New Mexico.
The Lidell elevator at Mt. Vernon LL collapsed destroying 109000 bushels of grain and causing a loss estimated at $30000 with no insurance coverage.
Henry Hoelscher Peter C Smith and Joseph Bowen all of Quincy Illinois were drowned in the Mississippi River while returning in a skiff from Missouri where they had attended the funeral of a fellow foundry man who had committed death by own action.
Paris announces that on his return to Marseilles President Loubet will speedily receive the officers of the American squadron in European waters who will take part in the welcome to the president.
A committee of the American Academy of Sciences in Washington has ordered the Declaration of Independence sealed in a fireproof safe and no longer displayed at international fairs. Secretary Hay prompted the action after Andrew Allen, State Department librarian, reported the document’s poor state. Most text remains legible though few signatures are readable.
The New York public schools revise their book list and remove Uncle Tom's Cabin. Board members say the antebellum tale has served its purpose for older generations and offers little value to the next. Claude C. Leland led the revision and the motion to restore failed on a tie vote.
General Manning leading British troops in Somaliland defeats the Mad Mullah near Cobbe's position while relieving Colonel Cobbe. The Mad Mullah suffers about 2 000 killed. Cobbe is successfully rescued. The attacking force equals 12 000 followers, including 2 000 mounted.
In Dallas a United States Senator J W Bailey of Texas was paid 200000 by John V W Kirby and associates for services in New York financial circles. The fee covered commissions plus the base payment for assisting refinancing and arranging a railroad into Texas pine forests, with compensation based on the fee and commissions.
Berlin reports Prussia and the grand duchy of Mecklenburg have ordered the expulsion of Mormon missionaries. Fifteen in Germany and ninety in Prussia face removal for propagating beliefs deemed incompatible with state laws and public morals and for alleged polygamy.
A New York Herald dispatch from Valparaiso, Chile says about two thousand people are destitute and camping on foothills near Pisagua Tarapaca province after a town fire. Eighteen blocks of houses burned including banks churches schools prisons and cable telegraph offices. More than two thirds of the port is in ruins. No casualties reported.
Novosti reports that during the April riots in Kishinev Jews suffered severe losses. Scores were shot or beaten to death and hundreds wounded. houses wrecked and shops sacked leaving thousands homeless and destitute.
A boiler on a large Erie locomotive exploded at Mill Village near Corry Pennsylvania. Engineer George Kobart of Meadville and other crew members were badly injured in the wreck near Redhouse. The fireman and head brakeman also sustained injuries.
Russiawide orders instruct police to place political malcontents under preventive arrest through May 1 to prevent disturbances. As a result, hundreds are jailed.
A blast at the Vesta furnace in Marietta Pe during cupola prep for a cast showered five men with molten metal. Two likely fatally burned, others seriously injured.
In Kansas City Ida A. Schlegel wed John Schlegel and later divorced him four years ago. On July 8, 1897 he shot and kissed Dr. LaBerger, claiming the doctor had assaulted Mrs. Schlegel.
A northbound Missouri Pacific stock train crashed into a work train just north of Buffalo Kansas. Eleven people were killed and twenty five injured. Ten of the injured are seriously hurt and four are probably fatally hurt.
The Frankfurter Zeitung notes Turkish troops have plundered Kumanova Kratowa and Preschtitsch in Macedonia killing a number of Christians and drawing concern from Berlin.
Andrew Carnegie sent 700000 dollars in bonds to the trustees of Booker Washingtons Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama for the endowment fund. An official London announcement says China refused to grant Russian demands regarding Manchuria.
A dramatic piece echoes plans for the St. Louis fair that year to celebrate the Louisiana Purchase. It extols a world-scale exhibit proving national growth from a wilderness century ago to a modern, thriving United States with unmatched industry and knowledge on display.
A lengthy overview describes Jeffersons Louisiana Purchase widening US land and a future world fair in St Louis. It highlights unprecedented urban scale, grand architecture, industrial displays, cascade garden amphitheater, and national pavilions as centers for showcasing progress and craft from many nations.
The Weekly Review of Trade notes better weather and brisk outdoor work across sections, though wholesale conservatism and collection complaints persist. Rail and river traffic slow congestion, steel and pig iron output rise, and wheat prospects brighten amid Western drought recovery and European demand forecasts.
The United States will invest $1,000,000 to build Fort George H. Thomas on 900 acres beside Chickamauga National Military Park nine miles from Chattanooga. Capt. H. J. Slocum leads rapid construction as foundations rise and water is supplied by a booming artesian well. The post will host a full cavalry regiment plus infantry and artillery and serve as a national mobilization site for Southern militia rallies each fall with about 10,000 National Guard members from six states.
The southeastern exposition grounds host pavilions on education social economy art liberal arts and more with foreign countries districted to the west. Custer's regiment under Col Baldwin camps at Chattanooga Military Park while Grimes Battery from Santiago remains under Capt Sloyle. Officers and families dwell in mixed tents and shacks as they settle in. Patronize those who advertise.
Regional price listings show Chicago hogs at 3.00 to 5.55 dollars and butter at 20 to 22 cents, with wheat No 2 red around 7 to 12 cents and corn No 2 mixed 45 to 60 cents. Listings from Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo New York cover cattle hogs sheep and assorted grains with varied price ranges.
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