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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1902
Page
2
Two Motzen children aged five and six were lured with candy by a stranger who dragged them into an alley. One child was struck and another severely cut on the head. Bloodhounds traced to a house where gardener Joseph Hoth was arrested but denied guilt. One child’s condition is critical.
The Department of State asks the Mexican embassy to use its influence to protect Mr. and Mrs. Everett Morgan and Miss Sarah Linley of Plainfield Indiana, American missionaries in Cotovoi Mexico, where locals threaten their lives unless they leave. The embassy has appealed to Mexican authorities for action.
Rail crash near Logansport injures two crew as rain floods an open switch, with officials suspecting an attempted robbery. News from Oregon notes 360 homeless after forest fires in Multnomah and Clackamas counties, while California’s Pious Fund dispute over 43 thousand dollars in back interest heads to The Hague.
The Associated Press reports Britain is accelerating fortification work in the West Indies to strengthen strategic positions against potential Panama Canal scenarios. Observers note intensified defense improvements on British islands and probes of Caribbean fortifications of other powers with Caribbean claims.
A telegraph report from Cheyenne states Governor Richards and Col. Gorin coordinated to request intervention from the Interior Secretary as a forest fire devastates areas north of Pearl in the Wyoming road region. Authorities urged immediate relief.
Speaker Henderson refuses a renomination after a letter to C E K chairman shows his tariff views diverging from many party members. In Indiana, two young sons of farmer George Trobaugh died in a straw stack fire caused by straw piled over fallen trees, trapping them inside.
Special American marines now travel as guards on passenger trains to and from Panama. The United States cruiser Cincinnati landed fifty marines and deployed a rapid fire gun on a railroad truck protected by iron plates. In Shawnee Ohio coal miners Robert Jones aged 24 and Andrew Gat tens aged 48 were killed by falling slate.
A dispatch from Pekin to a London news agency states Catholics in Sze-Chuen Province were said to be killed by boxers in numbers ranging from three hundred to one thousand as a result of anti-Catholic violence.
The Hon. R. LG. Gowler, prominent attorney and former treasury comptroller of Cleveland, died at his Cincinnati home of heart disease at age 46.
Fire monsters sweep Lewis River region across Clarke Cowlitz and Skamania counties. Thirty deaths reported as homes, camps, and timber lands burn for over forty miles. Survivors found stripped of clothing, many rescued by search parties amid scorched landscapes.
Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco sues the Mexican government at The Hague for $990,862.77 in interest on the California mission fund. The pious fund began in 1697 to support Jesuit missionaries in what is now New Mexico and California.
Editor Henry Watterson condemns the so-called smart set in New York society as morally abandoned and corruptive. He contrasts their glittering circles at horse shows and resorts with their wealth driven by money and scandal. The piece questions the virtue of the Four Hundred and notes their influence and hangers-on as a moral hazard.
Across multiple cities losses from fires reach 65 000 to 100 000 dollars. Notable incidents include the Hubard Fertilizing Company blaze in Canton and a fatal shooting in New York beer hall. Ex justice Horace Gray dies of paralysis in Nahant while investigations unfold into a banker’s death and a police shooting in Reading.
James Oliver former teacher of Jay Gould dies in Burlington Kansas. Winfield Scott Stratton, the Colorado Springs mining millionaire, dies after illness. Mrs. William M. Stewart killed in Alameda automobile crash. A post office safe blown open in Irondale Ohio with $60 and stamps stolen. Numerous frosts injure crops across the Midwest.
A mixed batch of notices and incidents includes Isaac Friend's guilty murder verdict followed by his suicide in Indiana. Other items report a Nebraska murder, massive Washington Oregon forest fires, a Chicago strike settlement, a fatal rail collision in Oklahoma, royal visitor to Delaware Ohio, and a deadly post office burglary in Indiana.
Fire destroys a Sonora Texas business block with an estimated loss of 100000. Oil field fire in Texas under control with total losses around 200000. Stonewall Mills Mississippi fire wipes out spinning and card rooms in mill No 1 valued at 125000 insured. Alabama court convict Horace Jackson in lynching case sentencing him to ten years. Raymond Gray dies in hospital from self inflicted injuries with cocaine suspected. Sam Kendlewood shoots brother John Kendlewood accidentally in Ironwood Virginia. Betsy Bryant hanged for murder in Nashville Georgia with public execution witnessed by Etta Hynds Parker.
The German Emperor lauds Roosevelt Seth Low and Ambassador Whiteman as he bids farewell to American generals. The London Evening News reports a $50 million coal syndicate to buy mines owned by Fife and Clyde companies. Floods in Bengal leave 6,000 homeless after river overflows. Pelletan calls for holy war in Tunis, angering Italy.
Reports from Labra dor say Lieut Peary and his party are safe and will return home soon. Old world dignitaries and industrial notes color a busy news week with crime, pensions, and business consolidations.
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