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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1900
Page
2
Telegraph notes Terady reports Taalen in brief for public readership. Casualties and crimes rise lightly while fires occur sporadically. Political and religious news receive attention alongside community updates.
Joseph C. Hurst was executed for a murder in Glendive Montana amid crowd anger and claims of innocence. He declared the sentence a mistake as Sheriff Aiken watched on the scaffold. The case connected to the later assassination of Dominick Cavanaugh and Hurst’s political ties as sheriff candidate are noted.
A body recovered from Lake Mercer near Celina Ohio has been identified as John Dilley a Beaverdam resident and retired lumberman. Authorities believe murder occurred over his large cash hoard and suspect foul play.
Archibald Forbes the renowned war correspondent died in London at age 68.
Immense corporations back the Uniontown Waynesburg and West Virginia Railroad to cut freight costs. From Uniontown to Wheeling the new line spans seventy one miles, shorter than 113 miles via Pennsylvania and 142 via Baltimore and Ohio. Chicago access improves by thirty eight miles to the coke regions of Connellsville, with Cincinnati relation shortened seventy one miles. Contracts will be let within a month and construction starts in June.
Bradstreets reports few irregularities in the trade and industrial scene with the overall outlook remaining encouraging. Retail distribution and collections improved in Southern Western and Northwestern markets due to better weather, plus steady railroad returns and strong exports from New York. Wheat and corn export totals for the week reach 8,?85,? bushels and 3,123,848 bushels respectively, with signs of Europe resuming Iran shipments and solid fruit crops.
Rebecca Greenwood sues Charles Bartlett of Chicago for breach of promise seeking 25 000 dollars over a dream related obstruction to marriage and Bartletts plan to keep her as housekeeper while raising wages. Bartlett29 is a coal dealer with a 12 year old daughter and a younger son.
A string of crimes and disasters is noted from Rochester where two robberies occurred on a busy street with bystanders watching, to Hardy Nebraska where four robbers looted the National Bank. Other items include Yaqui fighters clashing with Mexican troops, a Kansas flour mill fire, a deadly sawmill boiler blast in Ohio, a tunnel collapse near Pittsburg, and Switzerland declining to mediate the Boer conflict.
Albert Stedge of Chicago 17 struck cattle buyer William Hobson 87 with a barrel stave after an insult to Mrs. Stedge. Hobson died on the sidewalk. Stedge confessed after police arrived and was jailed with Mrs. Stedge. The incident occurred about 11 pm and Cosgrove later found the body.
William Henderson a wealthy Brooklyn mineral water maker was found dead at the Riverview Hotel Merritt Island Indian River Florida. Coroners physician Hartung reported death due to cerebral hemorrhage from violence noting cross shaped and forehead cuts. North death certificate cites heart disease.
W M Branch, part of a Virginia mob that killed Lee Puckett in 1898, was convicted in Patrick County and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Five prior convictions for lynching exist, with all men in prison. these are Virginia’s first lynching convictions.
Two youths were sent to prison in Philadelphia after confessing to forged indorsements used to fraudulently deposit checks. Julian Wallazz, 10, opened an account and deposited 1408 dollars plus a 1170 dollar check from Irwin Megargee Co. The pair and accomplice Percy Farrell, 12, attempted a 2500 dollar forged check before a teller.
The sloop Dawn returned to Santa Barbara from San Nicolas Island with a tale of starvation and death. Three Chinese men, left to gather abalones for six months, faced theft by a prior visitor sloop from San Pedro. One Chinese man died a month ago and the other two were too weak to move when rescued.
Excitement mounts at Nebraska University in Lincoln over the strange missing case of senior Reuben Sampson. Room evidence includes a bloodstained floor and scattered furniture after a fierce struggle. he vanished after being in his room with $200 reportedly on his person.
Senate actions include sending the diplomatic and consular bill to conference while approving Porto Rico appropriations and related measures. Votes record passage of the Porto Rico ($2,000,000) appropriation bill in conference and House approval of the Porto Rico relief bill, plus Alaska civil code amendments and various army and pension bills. The session features debates on tariffs, free trade for Porto Rico, and reductions in transportation and military funding.
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