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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1902
Page
2
Governor Stone directs the Philadelphia City cavalry to report to General Gobin for duty in the anthracite coal regions. The unit replaces the Harrisburg troop sent from Shenandoah to Lansford after disturbances. No extra troops will be sent unless the strike worsens and Gobin cannot maintain order with current forces.
A west bound Northern Pacific passenger train was halted at Sand Point Idaho sixty five miles east of Spokane. Seven robbers forced the engineer to stop the train uncoupled the baggage car then attempted to wreck it with dynamite. The blast failed after fifteen minutes the robbers fled and the engineer returned with the engine.
Five employees at Battle Creek sanitarium drowned when the steamer Welcome collided with a row boat on Lake Gogenae near Battle Creek Michigan. A party of young people was returning from a lake outing with a young man. Bennett in the boat fought to steer as the steamer started its final trip and struck the boat broadside.
One of the heaviest rains in the Arkansas valley caused major damage in Florence. The Arkansas river and prairie creeks overflowed, houses flooded, and many rendered uninhabitable. A mountain cloudburst near Canon City sent floodwater through streets, with fruit crop damage listed as very heavy.
In Ciudad Bolivar Venezuela the revolutionary gun boat bombarded the capital of Bolivar state killing and wounding many. A large British population exists and British subjects urge dispatch of a British warship for protection. Both sides alleged to commit atrocities.
A Nebraska blaze at Gebring killed six people including a mechanic S. H. MecCumpsey who started the fire with kerosene. The blast set his clothes alight, igniting his wife two children aged one and a few days and two other young girls. The parents perished while trying to save the children.
In Landerneau France the expelled sisters found a decree dating 1828 that removes them from the association law. They have resumed possession of their school. A crowd cheered as the sisters returned, giving them an ovation.
H. H. Brinker once receiver of the German National Bank of Pittsburg is jailed charged with embezzlement. He allegedly caused a $20,600 shortage by manipulating deposit slips defrauding the bank.
David Segal tried to kill his wife Dora Segal and his step daughter Lillian Coke in Boston and then shot himself through the right breast. Authorities have not determined a motive for the shooting and fatal self harm.
News from Barcelona reports a fearsome tornado at Klanitz on Majorca. Enormous damage is described with mouses destroyed and thirty lives lost in the disaster.
A Bloemfontein dispatch reports a shunting engine crash into a train carrying refugees to Johannesburg. Several women and children were killed and Governor Headley died. A Watkins New York dispatch notes ex Governor Hoadley of Ohio died aged 75, remains to be transported to Cincinnati after seven weeks at Watkins.
East of Chicago T Barnes barred from tight rope Niagara crossing. A car crash near Long Branch N J kills two and injures three. Four Kronberg children and a servant die in Wortland Me house fire. Roosevelt attends Newport as godfather to Chanler’s son. Detwiler arrested in San Francisco. Hoadly dies in Watkins N C at 76. Admiral Pillsbury’s squadron ends naval maneuvers with a defender victory off New England. Julia Lamont dies in Sorrento Me. Joel Hutton dies in Delaware pulp mill explosion total seventeen. Collision near Pittsburg kills one and injures five. Rev Robert Nourse suffers heart trouble in Washington. World wagon record set in Norwalk Conn. Miss Olive Broad found murdered near Cormish Me. Oyster beds forecast strong yield in Maurice River Cove. Coal and iron police guard idle Pennsylvania colleries at $1.8 million outlay. Buffalo guard shot. prisoners escape. William Woldredge dies flying a kite in Medina N Y. Gas in New York home causes homicide suicide.
A flood of brief items from early 1900s notes includes Western L A Sartell killed in a 1200 foot fall at Homer Ti. Thomas Kane elected president of Winona assembly. Union Pacific arrest in Omaha. Colorado Green Thorn fires tamed by rain. deaf quarrymen killed near Kansas City. suggestions US may acquire Cubs. Ohio legislators convene extraordinary session. children killed by freight car and other mishaps. sugar theft in Duluth. Chicago broker Herbst Hill Co placed in receivership.
A survey of recent incidents includes Walter Bailey Southern hanged at Selma for an 1899 murder. Memphis streetcar panic injuring seven after trolley wire break. J D Wilson killing G F Apperson in Richmond. AS Florists convention adjourns in Asheville with Milwaukee next. Bay Shore trolley crash near Norfolk kills three, injures forty. Adairville KY post office robbed. indepth on Larwell IN stamp and cash heist. Ornsley Covington and Cherics Hunter killed, John O Hara dies in Lexington blast. Ruskin GA town largely burned. Sumner County and Nashville leaders arrested over 1896 Williams assassination. Maud Thompson killed by James Greer in Henderson County. Henry Kohlhaase commits suicide at New Orleans mint, $700 short in mint books.
Cholera statistics show 25004 cases and 18040 deaths in the Philippines amid claims numbers exceed official reports. A powerful cyclone devastates Felanit, Majorca with lost lives and destroyed homes. Mount Pelée eruption darkens Martinique for twenty minutes. Admiral Von Diedrichs resigns as German navy chief, succeeded by Vice Admiral Buechsel. Field Marshal Wolseley says the American army is the best. Utowa yacht wins Crawford Coronation Cup in a race From Nab Lightship to Cherbourg and back.
Senator Wanna abandons efforts to end the coal strike citing operator attitude and predicts a song fight. A Treasury report notes 1 750 submarine telegraph cables totaling about 200 000 miles. Northern Pacific raises operator wages at least 10 percent.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles travels toward the Philippines with President Roosevelt’s approval to inspect army conditions there. Secretary Cortelyou confirms the trip, stating full presidential permission has been granted. War Department officials fear Miles could complicate U S policy with the Moros.
The famed Newgate Prison in London was razed as wreckers began removing the walls to make way for modernization and street widening. Dating to the 18th century with earlier predecessors destroyed by fire, the historic stronghold stands as a symbol of confinement and recent urban change.
President Roosevelt concluded a day in New England with speeches in Providence and Newport praising general prosperity while warning against envy toward wealth. He urged prudent corporate use of capital, strong public regulation, and thorough publicity of corporate operations to curb evils. The tour ended in Augusta Maine with visits to major cities and a Portland welcome including Thomas B Reed.
The text notes Sir Richard Whittington as author of a work linked to Newgate Gate in London. It recalls the old building’s small size, its destruction by the great fire of 1666, and that its cells housed historical figures whose names endure in the nation’s history.
Pleasant Durham and his wife fled Winora Ind taking cash deposits believed to total between 10000 and 100000. The Winora Bank, a private institution begun by Durham after moving from Chicago in April, had strong fixtures and a large safe. The town reels from the bank's sudden collapse amid an undeclared incorporation status.
Obituary notes Hon. John D. Lyman a noted agricultural writer dies in Exeter New Hampshire at age 59. A railway derailment near Merut India kills sixteen natives and injures thirty natives and Europeans. George Wingert near Spring Hill Kansas reports harvesting about thirty three bushels of bluegrass seed per acre.
Designs approved for new subsidiary Philippine coins by a Filipino artist named Fugueroa. Obverse features a female figure in flowing robes with hair, left hand on chest, right hand on hammer over anvil. In the rear a smoking volcano, representing Mayon in Luzon. Above this…
A shipload of Russian wheat arrived last fall for Kansas millers on wheat growers. About fifty bushels were moved to Harper County at 2.50 dollars per bushel. J. H. His sowed three and a half bushels threshed forty bushels from it. About ten percent was rye with the rest a mix of two kinds of wheat.
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