29 Aug 1901
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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1901
Page
1
The November 27 1890 Seattle execution of Charles W Nordstrom for the murder of William Mason is described with graphic detail of the last hours on the scaffold including his collapse and the four men needed to strap him to a board before the trap sprung. The item continues with brief world and local notes.
Spaniard J J Lopez De Larra was arrested after duping Labert Turner a Theosophist in Kansas City with a buried treasure tale tied to Cuba Weyler era reconcentrados and a cave hid cattle hides. De Larra confessed his story was false and claimed terminal illness, Turner declining prosecution.
Sixty of four hundred teachers from San Francisco on the transport Thomas married aboard Honolulu as it stopped en route to Manila. Couples, strangers at departure, wed after ocean companionship. A clergyman officiated at a shore ceremony when the ship docked at Poandulaa.
Jim Lee, a Black man, was stabbed to death in Toledo Ohio. Days later a resident found a spider web in his house bearing the words Murder woven in fine white thread. The eerie message drew thousands of visitors as witnesses described the weblike letters and the reaction of local Black residents.
Edwin Manning prominent Tuwa businessman and state figure dies at his Keosauqua home aged 60. Reported an estate between 3 000 000 and 54 000 000, with a life story described as the state’s growth from early days. Born in South Coventry Connecticut February 18 184? rise from clerk to wealth. Also notes on Youngstown steel plant accident and patent office clerk Edward V. Shepard’s dismissal.
Dispatch from Constantinople reports 400 Kurds raiding the Dawitra district. Twelve villages destroyed, leaving ruins. Only young girls spared, carried off to harems. All males reportedly butchered in the raid.
Tuesday night about thirty men went to waterworks crib No 3 to start a tunnel toward crib No 2 two miles offshore. Five men descended the shaft when gas ignited unleashing a blast that wrecked the crib and drowned several workers. survivors lacked rescue gear and cried out only at dawn when a passing tug heard them. A workman’s pick may have sparked the ignition. Massive iron girders and equipment were hurled from the shaft.
John Schmacker of Berlinton Indiana died in South Chicago Hospital after recounting to his father a robbery on a Baltimore and Ohio excursion train near Brinson Indiana. He said two men robbed him of 80 cents on a platform and, when he tried to reboard, kicked him in the head and threw him under the wheels.
Reported in Rising Sun area woods and swamps of Wood County Ohio, well dressed men asked farmers about finances and banking then fired on Jacob Schultz and two others after being warned away. The incident follows a series of burglaries and other unrelated troubles across the region.
A 12 year old boy, Frank Kuerz, fell from a second story Equitable Building window to the sidewalk. A broad shouldered pedestrian and his straw hat intercepted the descent, crushing the hat and saving the boy from injury. The rescuer has not yet revealed his identity. the boy’s parents offer to buy him a new hat if he comes forward.
In Deadwood South Dakota a body believed to be Kirk Shepherd was unearthed in the potato patch on veteran miner W H Ward’s property. Ward had befriended three Shepherd brothers Lee Kirk and Flarley before their sudden disappearance five weeks earlier. Ward vanished after threats of lynching if the boys’ bodies were discovered on his premises.
Unknown persons sent a box containing dynamite to Sheriff Eugene Ackman of Carmi. The box held a peculiarly constructed device. opening it nearly caused an explosion. Ackman and his wife barely escaped injury as they unsealed the package at the jailer's residence.
Markets surveyed in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York show cattle mostly $2.50 to $5.85, hogs $3.00 to $6.00, sheep $2.00 to $3.80, with grains including wheat No 2 ranges 67c to 78c and corn 57c to 62c. Butter eggs and oats vary by city, with notable high prices for creamery butter and fresh eggs.
The Agricultural Department’s weekly crop summary notes favorable weather for spring wheat harvest nationwide, drought and drought-related losses in Texas Missouri upper Mississippi Valley and western states, improving corn in key states but late corn damaged in some areas, and mixed prospects for apples oats and cotton with rain shortages in parts. Temperatures were hot on the Pacific coast and excessive rains hit the Carolinas Georgia Florida and Tennessee, while California and the Rocky Mountain region saw a favorable week.
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