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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1901
Page
2
A miscellany from Kansas cites oddities: parades in Ness and Ness counties, a mule relic from 1674, a windmill planter, waxwork on dog taxes, and locals boasting about crops, cattle, and superstition. Mentions Wichita drought reminiscences, Lawrence degree news, and peculiar local mishaps and lawsuits.
A mob of about 200 overpowered the Benton jail and lynched two Black men linked to the murder of John Gray Foster and Prophet Smith. Jailer and sheriff were forced to surrender keys. Smith of the Church of God movement prayed as he died, McLand offered no reply. A preacher D. B. Jones was also lynched nearby after an assault allegation.
Two young men from Fort Wayne and another driver attempted to pass the Leibacher family, causing a collision that killed a two year old and injured the wife and three other children. Arthur Hartzell was arrested on manslaughter charges as a result of the crash.
The Petit Parisian reports new French submarines will employ double motors steam and electricity like the Holland design. This change aims to extend range and enable quicker submersion. Earlier Naryal experiments were unsatisfactory with crew suffering and surface navigation proving faulty.
Manila reports Captain Andrew S Rowan of the Nineteenth Infantry is under inquiry for burning a town in Bohol triggering renewed insurrection. A native assassin killed a corporal, and Rowan’s retaliation sent insurgent leader Samson fleeing to the steamer Teutonic, now in New York. Also, Rev Campbell Morgan arrives to lead evangelical work from Baltimore for Northfield extension. Supreme Court at Jefferson City upholds writs to block recounts in four contested elections, citing ballot secrecy risks. Captain Rueben Turner is ordered to Des Moines to oversee military post building programs. Munice Illinois sees the Republic Iron works shut after a worker strike related to hiring practices. Yacht racing plans at Newport may pit the Constitution and Columbia on July 1 2. The Kaiser orders a US built schooner yacht. Lightning hits two prominent farmers in a separate report.
State Board of Agriculture leaders met in Lincoln to plan grounds upgrades after purchase. Proposed barns vary by purpose with horse stalls at least 114 feet, cattle stalls 130 feet, hog barns 110 feet. A new general exhibition building and horticultural space are also planned with a wire fence around the grounds.
An unprecedented avalanche in West Virginia’s Hopeville, Grant County, roared two miles along the Potomas river valley. Mrs. Andrew Ours and her 22 year old daughter perished, while a grandchild and Mrs. Ours survived after neighbors pulled them from the debris.
Reports recount a suspected murder of Daniel Richards at his bride to be Elizabeth Walters in Mount Carmel, a lightning fire destroying Salem church in Nebraska, bloodhound recoveries in Chicago, and other scattered notices of crime, inheritance, theft charges, and military transport arrivals.
Dispatch from Burnfield West Virginia reports a catastrophic flood surpassing Johnstown 1889 with Keystone town of 2200 people nearly wiped out. Officials estimate two hundred lives lost as Elkhorn Creek swelled flooding mines plants and rail lines across the Pocahontas basin. Property losses could reach two million dollars.
Secretary Root relays Wood's report showing Cuba's constitutional convention approving the Pratt amendment and broad island satisfaction. Cuban progress faces tariff and trade hurdle as markets seek freer access to the United States, with reciprocity likely after Cuban self-government is ratified by the Senate. In other items, Garven is arrested near Billings for cattle theft tied to Creek losses, California grand jury indicts three for murder in the Calvin Hall lynching, and the City of Bangor steamship hits a fog bank with no lives lost.
Toneph Dusseldorf a tramp is jailed in Fremont Nebraska awaiting murder charges. He stabbed Durkin in the neck and another man thrice in North Bend while the two slept in a box car. One victim died of his wounds. Dusseldorf admits drinking and may have acted in a frenzy during the alleged attack.
Adelbert Hay son of Secretary Hay and former consul to Pretoria was found dead on a New Haven sidewalk near the New Haven house after spending the evening with friends in high spirits. A passerby found him at 2:30 am on Chicago street side of the hotel with hotel staff confirming his identity. Yale classmates identified the young man as Hay and witnesses suggested a dizzy spell or fainting fit caused him to fall from his room window.
Carl Tanjes, about 14, drowned in the Platte River near Fremont. He swam with his brother Paul and another boy Bert Kittle. Carl leaped ten feet into the current, was swept away, and his companions failed to pull him from the strong flow.
A western benefactor has placed 61,000,000 in securities in a Denver bank to endow people’s churches nationwide following W. H. Thomas of Chicago. Funds managed by Dr. Thomas and liberal church movement promoters.
A violent tornado swept through Keya Paha valley near Stuart Holt county Nebraska at sundown Thursday. Eight people died including Jacob and Maggie Greening and Clara Ada and Grace Anderson among others and many were injured. The storm destroyed homes barns and a bridge and caused extensive livestock losses as rains hail and fierce winds raged over the countryside.
A Providence dispatch reports Chancellor Benjamin Andrews of the University of Nebraska and former Brown president was unanimously elected a Brown University trustee. The vacancy followed the death of Dr Edward C Bixby A M.
Fire and explosion at Abrahant M. Rittenberg store in Patterson New Jersey kill fourteen people and injure others. The blast caused extensive damage with property loss estimated up to 35000 dollars and the cause remains unknown.
A Seventh Hussars officer’s charger leapt through a door six inches above head height at Norwich riding school, clearing a three foot aperture and landing on stones, injuring but not harming the horseman. Captain Dibble tested a trooper’s height to gauge the feat. Ambrose McKay recovering in Missouri after using Dodds Kidney Pills, praised for cure of various ailments. Pineapple cargoes to Philadelphia and Baltimore. Yellowstone Park tours announced. Ping Pong gains popularity as a social game. ads praise effective advertising. Joseph Chamberlain rumored superstitious over rabbit foot. children’s drink inquiry promotes Qi 4 as a nourishing beverage.
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