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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1903
Page
3
The excerpt describes a train’s passage through a vast station and a welcome return to familiar faces. It contrasts a wintry wilderness beyond the doors with the joy of greeting loved ones, pondering the fate of a traveler at life’s final end.
Captain Mather of the Grip aids a well dressed yachtsman F. V. Rentore who covertly loads cases including champagne and whiskey. The pair dines aboard as the ship sails toward Lundy and later permits a hidden crew to seize the vessel’s deck. The Grip lands in St Mary's and the yacht escapes after a bold robbery of Boucanera, while Mather and crew vanish into Southampton mystery.
A young Englishman pretends to take up a frontier occupation called a riding pioneer to justify a costly crate of riding gear sent home. The box includes corduroy outfits saddles boots and equestrian equipment. His family misreads the idea and enables his extravagant ruse while he avoids explaining the real duties of the supposed profession.
The article warns Russia's demands on Manchuria risk a major war with Japan, Britain and possibly the world. It notes Japan and Britain sending ships, Russian troop concentrations, and a potential US role as moral ally, with diplomacy and naval force under consideration.
A Missouri resident pilots a new religious service using telephone lines for scripture reading exhortation and blessing. The method transmits messages via transmitter and receiver enabling remote participation and communal worship through telephonic prayer and sermon delivery.
Alice Cornelia Thaw of Pittsburg married the Earl of Yarmouth in a ceremony marked by opulence and solemn Episcopal rites. The groom, about 33, is notable for lavish spending, past bankruptcy fears, and aristocratic lineage, while the bride’s father earned a fortune in the iron business during Pittsburgh’s industrial expansion.
In Somaliland the Mad Mullah ambushed a 10 000 strong column led by Col Cobbe and slaughtered 180 native troops and all officers. The defeat of Col Swain in 1901 is likelier to affect loyal natives less than Col Plunkett's failure. Reinforcements rushed to the fortified camp afterward.
Gen. Miles publishes a February 19 1903 report detailing alleged officer and soldier misconduct in the Philippines during his winter inspection tour. He cites water torture killings in Lipa Cebu Laoag and Samar with named officers and troopers implicated while noting condemnations by several generals.
Missouri preacher Rev. J W Kimbrell staged a telephone church for 200 subscribers, enabling singing and sermons to reach farms and distant homes during a downpour. The unprecedented experiment sparks talk of telephonic sermons during bad weather as a nationwide method.
Arcadia Louisiana saw 1200 bales of cotton burn at Levey compress with a 25000 dollar loss and 18000 insurance. Sarcu Texas suffered a sawmill blaze with 75000 feet of lumber lost and over 75000 dollars. A Massachusetts man known as Wing of the Gypsies left 25000 in cash and a 15000 dollar West Roxbury house to his widow and eight children. New York and Hoboken ferries sold for four million to Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railway. A colored man Hid Walker was hanged in Centerville Alabama for murder of Mrs Costello and Samuel Waters was hanged in Norfolk Virginia for murder of a white man.
Reported raid by tribesmen on Mequinez, Morocco results in thirty seven deaths. The Arequa reduction mill at Cripple Creek built four years ago by J D Milliken and St Louis financiers destroyed by fire. Cost estimated at $100000 with $65000 insured. Denver and Rio Grande engineers and firemen receive increased pay with extra 5 percent for ordinary energies and 7 percent for compounded?
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