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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1899
Page
2
A compact aggregation of notable happenings from across regions detailing crimes accidents fires and varied minor affairs. Includes recognitions and human-interest notes reflecting social life in brief, era tone, and concise summaries of the week’s notable occurrences.
A Channel Islands bound passenger steamer Stella wrecked on the Casquet rocks in dense fog off Alderney. About 120 passengers and crew are feared drowned. four boats and forty survivors rescued by the Lynx. News reports note no panic aboard despite the disaster. a collapsible boat likely struck rocks. Also contained is the Dun’s weekly trade review and quarterly failure tallies.
A report recalls the hanging of E Bates Soper in Harrisonville Missouri for the murder of his wife and two daughters aged four and six. Soper allegedly fell seven feet, breaking his neck, slept, spoke readiness, and refused the death warrant reading before mounting the scaffold with forty witnesses.
Articles of incorporation filed with the New Jersey Secretary of State reveal an authorized capital of 20 million dollars. The firm intends to operate as merchants planters and farmers and to grow manufacture and deal in produce merchandise and property of all kinds.
Ex Secretary Olney and John Bassett Moore cited as probable civilian members of the American delegation to the Czar's peace congress. In Richmond Indiana a St. Louis fast mail train crashed into a freight in the yards. Telegraph operator William Dunn killed. passengers unharmed.
At Somerset Kentucky W R Bardine stored a gun in a granary set to fire on door opening. His eldest son forgot and opened the door triggering the discharge. The son was killed in the accident.
In the latest army orders Admiral Dewey becomes subordinate to General Otis though Dewey outranks Otis. The Navy Department has concurred in the order as issued, confirming the arrangement.
Dr Kennedy, convicted in New York City of the murder of Dollin Reynolds, is scheduled for execution by electric chair during the week beginning May 22.
Dun reports continued activity across most sectors with production rising in nearly every line. Bessemer prices show slight dips in front and steel at Pittsburg while gray forge and Southern Iron rise. Chicago contracts for building inch up demand. minor metals weaken on London speculation. wool remains unsettled with large interior sales and balanced market in Philadelphia and Boston. US weekly failures total 200 versus 261 last year. Canada 24 vs 21.
Ralph Hoyt of North Fairfield Ohio traced and captured three heavily armed burglars who robbed a post office and a store. He tracked them to a barn four and a half miles away by new rubber boot prints, woke them with a rifle, and they surrendered meekly. Hoyt will receive a $600 reward.
Dr Charles R Corey a Tacoma physician and pharmacist shot and killed his wife believing he was firing at a burglar pursuing her through the streets. In his dream he saw a revolver on the sidewalk and fired twice into his wife's head. He was 36, she slightly younger. married nine years with no domestic trouble.
A Sandusky party led by H C Passon and his four companions drifted for about twenty hours in a small sail boat amid ice floes after a storm tore the spar and drove them into heavy seas. Two men reached Marblehead life saving station in a rowboat before the group was forced ashore at Cedar Point. They were found exhausted and frozen. tug Silver Spray later helped reach them.
Five masked men stormed the Carbon dale Traction Company's car barns in Mayfield Pennsylvania. They sandbagged engineer Patrick Dempsey fireman Frank Coggins and watchman William Brokenshire, rendering them unconscious. The robbers ransacked the office and carried away the cash box with the day's receipts, over $1000. One robber was later killed.
Druggists report quinine has surged about sixty five percent as the Spanish war boosts demand. The previous bubonic plague in India caused huge consumption as well. Farmers neglected cinchona trees when prices fell, now contributing to the current tight market.
A freight train wreck near Pittsburg on the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad killed engineer James A. Bracken and fireman James St Lowe, fatally injured brakeman C I Brandenbaugh, and caused about 25000 dollars in property damage.
A 10 inch gun breech burst during a test at Sandy Hook proving grounds. Henry V Murphy, longtime recording clerk for the gun tests, was killed in the accident.
Mrs Philo Conkling of Denton New York chastised Levi Osborn a 16 year old who eloped with her daughter Jennie a year younger The boy and girl confessed to marriage and the mother chased them home with a sharp tongue lashing and harsh rebuke The incident drew local attention in the suburb near Middletown New York and the youth left to recover from the shock
The Kansas City Star reports a notable Kansas criminal gang arrest linked to the 2 year old Greenwood County murder of Joseph New. Wife and George H. Dobbs now in prison for life. Warden Landsurges pardon to Mrs New and Dobbs. Frank Alltgood jailed in Iola for forgery. Alvin Bullard in state prison confesses that Alltgood and Bill Turner killed New.
Miss Edith Boone of Philadelphia sues her former sweetheart Frederick A. Farrow prescription clerk for 15000 damages claiming his hand squeeze caused severe injury to metacarpal bones with potential necrosis and possible amputation.
The Warren Line steamer Norseman bound from Liverpool to Boston ran ashore just inside Tom Moore’s Rock about 100 yards off the Nanepashemet hotel on Marblehead Neck Massachusetts. The crew was saved.
Fire in Hartford, Connecticut, results in the complete destruction of the Howard block and slight damage to the Hines Bros. hotel. Loss estimated at 75000 dollars. The Howard block is occupied by machinery builder James L. Howard. A mob in Holton, Kansas, forcibly removed Henry Sanderson from jail and lynched him after an attempted shooting of his sweetheart and a shot at her aunt.
The St. Regis and Cornwall Island Indians in Ontario reject federal rules for electing five chiefs for two years, seeking to restore the traditional life-long system of twelve chiefs. An August election was blocked and recent attempts led to confrontations with Indian Agent Long and Inspector Hogan, who were barred from the building and assaulted. the officials were detained or driven off.
Convict Otis Hurley, held at Columbus Ohio penitentiary for an earlier attempt on Miss Daisy Sprague, evades security with a steel saw, hiding atop a safe in the bookkeeper’s office. He had worn a ball and chain but removed fetters and fled. Hurley is serving a twelve year sentence for the prior attack on Sprague. Also noted is a government post office reorganization improving through mail facilities, affecting 16970 miles of routes and trimming Chicago to New York transit time by one hour and fifteen minutes.
In Youngstown Ohio Fenry K Wick petitions in court seeking judgment of 200000 against the estate of his late sister Laura Wick alleging loans advanced during her life were to be repaid in her will and she failed to honor the arrangement.
Regional market figures for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with bid ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grain futures including prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs potatoes and clover seed across multiple cities and markets. Strong entities include city names and commodity grades providing a snapshot of midwestern and eastern market activity.
A Jamestown New York notable clash unfolds as women denounce Mormon missionary activity, pledging no quarter in opposition to polygamy. The piece notes broader social tensions and outlines asides on Washington Lafayette statues and a push by American women to fund an equestrian statue for Paris. It also surveys shifts in animal numbers and military arms, and reports on domestic science advocacy and war revenue collections.
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