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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1905
Page
3
The main Vanderbilt University building in Nashville, Tennessee, was destroyed by fire due to a defective wiring on the third floor. Estimated loss totals around 150,000 with contents near 100,000. building insured for about 115,000. The 1874 structure preceded by Commodore Vanderbilt’s original gift.
Walker pleaded guilty to embezzlement in Lorain Ohio. Cashier Ed Kanen and Assistant Cashier E B Walker and Bookkeeper D 5 Walker wrecked City Savings Bank by speculation, with a $100000 shortage. Sentences: seven years for primary offenders and two and one half years for the Walkers each. they planned to go to Columbus to begin serving.
Official messages from India state a severe quake struck the Kulu Valley from April 4 with a deadly shock on April 7 causing panic and fire in the Sula Valley the toll around 700. In Jasper County Indiana a farm residence and barn burned with $5 000 loss and four horses killed. tenant injured. Valencia Spain reports long earthquakes with 20 yard height waves, many fishes killed wells overflowed and several deaths feared.
Three inmates at Pontchatoula parish jail in Louisiana attempted an escape by firing the jail. Two were cremated and a third died from burns. In New Carlisle Indiana a walking typhoid fever patient, Joseph Casey, 33, escaped from a boarding house and was found dead on the Lake Shore tracks.
The body of Paul Jones, famed American revolution admiral, found after five years of search, exhumed from Paris burial site. He will be carried to the United States by an American warship. Details recount his career including command of the Ranger and Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis battle.
The Great Northern Steamship Company lists the Minnesota and Dakota serving Seattle Yokohama Nagasaki Maube Shanghai and Hongkong as new era transports. The Minnesota sails on its next voyage to the Orient on April 20 offering largest cargo and extensive passenger lists and boosted by Great Northern rail facilities at Seattle.
News notes a freight wreck on the Santa Fe line near Raton New Mexico resulting in the deaths of two workmen. The steamship Caledonia sailing Glasgow to New York completed a perilous 150 mile voyage through ice fields with towering icebergs.
The engagement of Miss RusSh Pastor and James Graham Phelps Stokes is announced. Pastor, 26, born in Russia and educated in London, has worked in New York cigar factories and written for Jewish papers. Stokes, a renowned philanthropist, is Yale-educated but not a Yale club member. his brother is Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. The couple plan to marry in July.
Weekly weather bulletin details abnormal cold and frost across the nation. Western North Dakota saw near zero temperatures on the 166th with widespread freezing south of the Rockies. Rains hindered crops in the south Atlantic and central gulf, while planting delays affected corn, oats, and spring wheat in northern regions. Winter wheat remains promising but needs rain in Kansas and Michigan.
Cotton farmers across the South organize to curb acreage and withdraw up to 2,000,000 bales from market to sustain a 10 cent price. Led by Harvie Jordan, conventions push membership in the Southern Cotton Association and Cotton Planters Holding and Commission Company, with a New Orleans convention sending a delegation to Washington to seek federal action. About 60 percent of the normal crop goes to foreign markets and 40 percent remains domestic.
The Dun & Bradstreet weekly review reports broad early 20th century trade strength across dry goods clothing and footwear, with strong shipments, rising iron consumption, and high retail demand aided by improved weather. Meat and grain prices shift, lake traffic opens, and farm work advances. livestock receipts rise while packing remains large.
Market prices for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Detroit and Milwaukee, with grain and produce quotes. Notable figures include Chicago cattle 4.00 to 6.75 and hogs 4.00 to 5.60, Detroit cattle 3.50 to 5.75, Milwaukee wheat 1.07 to 1.08 and oats 31c to 80c, with various feed and butter prices.
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