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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1902
Page
3
The American liner Philadelphia arriving from Southampton and Cherbourg near Sandy Hook is likely to beat its own Cherbourg to New York record by about an hour. Its best voyage time stands at six days, thirteen hours and five minutes, achieved after rebuilding and recommissioning this year.
Castries dispatch reports a severe Mount Pelee eruption near Martinique causing darkness five miles away for twenty minutes. Steamer Dahome altered course to escape volcanic dust. water cure reports and court-martial notes follow. General Torrence names Blakeman parade chief. Cedric launched in Belfast. Von Diedrichs resigns. race riot in Mississippi. Iowa man shoots wife amid pending divorce.
A fatal and bloody candy pulling near Travelers Rest Kentucky leaves Jesse Nealy dead and Robert Allen mortally wounded. James Nealy loses an arm and Reuben Fox among four others wounded as Mrs. Peters is leg shot. The fight started over a girl, Nealy killed Allen then others opened fire. John Allen fled as Jim Nealy shot Nealy’s brother’s arm before escaping.
A catastrophic blast at the Jessup Moore Paper Company pulp mill along the Christina River near Wilmington Delaware killed nine workers, left six missing and four seriously injured from two steel digesters in a two story building. Eighteen men were on site when the explosion occurred, with one digester hurled 250 feet and the factory damaged. Company officers suspect excessive steam did the damage, with property losses estimated at 49000 dollars.
Mrs. Claire Chonan of New York drenched her separated husband with oil of vitriol and burned him, threatening to reveal a crime if he recovered. A mob in Oklahoma hanged Caney-Cra vens gang outlaws to force information, then returned them to jail. Other items report a New York husband shooting his wife before killing himself, a man struck by lightning and dying, a Park City hermit found dead, and rediscovery of the Lost Cabin gold mine with prospectors frontier fire damage across West Kootenay.
King Edward grants a charter creating a British academy to promote historical philosophical and philological studies naming forty nine original fellows. Notables include Lord Rosebery Balfour Bryce Lecky Morley Pollock Stephen with Cambridge and Oxford represented. Herbert Spencer is not among the charter fellows.
Three murderers Lafayette Brooks Wallace Bishop and T Mulligan started a riot at 6 p m in the Frankfort Kentucky state penitentiary. The riot lasted over four hours before mutineers were captured. Bishop died from a wound Mulligan was shot in the shoulder and a negro convict assisting them was hit by a rifle bullet.
Two men William Ladd and Peter Olson were killed in an Ohio Deadwood mine Richford South Dakota when an unexploded charge of giant powder detonated. The blast occurred about 140 feet from the tunnel entrance, scattering fragments of their bodies.
Aged Kansas physician Dr. H. L. Foote, 80, died in his Argentine office after taking morphine by mistake. He was not found for hours, leaving a note describing his death struggle and advising disposition of his property. Foote, who came from Ohio, had a daughter, Mrs. M. B. Reeve, in Willoughby.
Rosa Hartzog, 16, on porch paring potatoes at the Mint restaurant where William McCown, 40, a porter, worked, fatally stabbed when he struck her with a knife. The postmortem showed the blade two inches into the heart. McCown was a Lima High School graduate.
Authorities arrest two suspects at 1143 West Randolph Street St Paul Minnesota after uncovering a counterfeiters plant containing about 500 dollars in bogus money. Frazer alias Bryant a former Minneapolis streetcar conductor and Edward Brown are in custody. Both arraigned before U S Commissioner Spencer and pleaded not guilty each held on 3000 dollars bail.
Mrs. Frederick W. Prentiss, wife of Hayden-Clinton National Bank’s president, was held at her Columbus home by a masked robber with a revolver and forced to surrender rings worth 2600 dollars. The thief fled after a ringed doorbell interrupted the crime.
Gen Franz Sigel died at his home in Mott Haven New York in his 78th year from old age infirmities. Born November 24 1824 in Baden Germany he fought in the 1848 German Revolution before emigrating to the United States in 1852. He organized a Union regiment at St Louis and rose to brigadier general in 1864 and major general of volunteers in 1862.
The 1860s general Franz Sigel is outlined with posts in Lehigh and West Virginia, commanding reserve divisions and defending Maryland Heights during Early's raid. He is described as a Democrat and anti- Tamany figure with a widow, three sons and a daughter surviving, including Franz Sigel Jr., a Chicago lawyer.
The coroner’s jury in Chienzo names William Bartholin as principal in the murder of Mrs. Annie Bartholin at 5082 State street with body found buried at 4810 Calumet avenue. Oscar Thompson and Edward A. Gounselin named as accessories. Bartholin at large to be held for grand jury action.
A syndicate led by T. B. Tiard of Nebraska will farm 40 000 acres between Craik and Davidson on the Prince Albert branch of the Canadian Pacific. They bought 40 000 acres for 200 000 and set aside 100 000 for improvements to begin immediately. The plan includes steam plows, owned elevators to be built at Garvin and operations of two elevators at nearby points.
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