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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1903
Page
4
The Tribune reports Norris and Son serve as editors and proprietors guiding coverage and publication for the paper.
Cable ship Silverton reaches Lonolula completing the San Francisco Honolulu link marking a new era for Pacific commerce. Four 2000 mile links planned, successor to John W Mackay contracts for 6000 miles Manila to Lonolula. Great iron and steel output rise. pig iron 17.5 million tons and steel at 15.0 million tons. Fire devastates Marlboro city hall with $500000 loss. Michael O'Brien buried under collapsed walls.
Engineer Platt of Pere Marquette express from Grand Rapids failed to see a stationary train at McCord's station in heavy snow. A rear end collision damaged the locomotive and rear car. five trainmen were badly hurt and several passengers lightly injured.
Joseph Harlton, longtime prospector and former Atlanta mayor, is found dead within three hundred yards of his cabin near Isle after three weeks missing. Confederate veteran and Colby figure B Harlton is identified with the case. The death is attributed to a storm while seeking shelter.
Mrs Charles Davis and her 4-year-old daughter burned to death near Russiaville Indiana after the child’s clothing caught fire. The mother, carrying the child, ran forty yards to a neighbor for help but both died from severe burns within a short time.
Fire destroyed the First National Bank and Lena Miller building at Corunna, Miah. Carland's grocery suffered heavy damage as did much of the business district. aid came from Owosso. Total loss put at about 4000.
In St Louis a jury in Judge Ferris's court found William F Gillham owner of the Empire Hotel responsible for Morris Yalls death in a February hotel fire with eleven dead. Damages awarded to Yalls widow Fannie Yall amount to 3000. lack of fire escapes and a single stairway left guests endangered and unable to escape.
John Chriss of Princeton Nebraska files complaint with county attorney alleging violation of a Supreme Court ruling banning reading the title and singing sacred songs in public schools. He says Christmas carol singing occurs during selfwood hours. Kretsinger of Centrice plans rehearing requests arguing Bible reading continues in 6,660 schools and urging the mandate be enforced.
Fire at Chase & Son's candy factory in St Joseph Missouri fatally injures Sophia Mintis age 16 and Mattie Lostie age 20 after they jump from a third story window. About fifty workers were inside and many others leapt from windows. the blaze caused about 100000 dollars in losses. Douglas & Co commission house adjoining was damaged and street railway power house across the alley sustained minor damage.
A Chicago woman recovered a diamond hair brush valued at 600 dollars and suspected four diamond rings were taken from a Pullman car porter named William Rice. A search at Rice’s St Louis home led to the brush and a warrant was issued for the theft. Separate items note indemnity claims from China and a chain of other local crimes and plans.
A new society to organize all farmers in the nation has incorporated in Indianapolis. Its aim is mutual benefit, planning and price control, likened to unions and workers’ groups. Incorporators include J. A. L. Everitt, I. A. Dirselstieht, Mark A. Purner, A. D. McKinney, Hiram W. Miller, and Sid Conger, all landowners. Officers: President J. A. Everitt, Vice President Seldon Williams, Secretary A. D. McKinney, Organizer Sid Conger.
Claimants including Miss Maris Ticks and Mrs LOA Fotheringham of Denver, Engel of 171 Ohio Avenue St. Louis, and Prances Augusta Lieks of Canada seek to prove title to the Samuel Le Tleks estate valued at about 1.6 million dollars. The case hinges on papers proving heirship and the death of Samuel Le Tleks eight years ago in Canada and his sister Mannie.
A mob led by Farmington mayor captures and shoots George Stillwell after he wounds City Marshal Robert Coulter and Justice of the Peace A. I. Musgrove during an arrest attempt. Stillwell dies in the ensuing chase. attacker details and surrounding events follow.
Mrs. Clara Demars, recently married to C. D. Smith in Monroe Michigan, died by suicide at the Union depot in Toledo. With her five children she asked about a sleeper to Clyde New York, then shot herself. A note named her brothers and kin, a $200 check and $25 in cash were found on her.
John W. Burriger Jr., 27, resident engineer of the St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Oilway Company at Claraville, Mo., was stabbed to death in St. Louis by Thompson Morton, an unemployed civil engineer. Morton was found poisoning and hospitalized. he refused to name a motive and recovery is doubtful. Barriger was the son of a prominent army officer with a brother serving in the Philippines.
A major blaze engulfed four-story structures on Commerce Avenue and adjacent blocks in Knoxville Tennessee. The Lunts Company and several neighboring firms including Broyles McClellan Lackey agricultural implements J L David Commission George Brown Hardware Shanklin Grain and Cattee were destroyed or heavily damaged. Estimated losses near 500000 with several other buildings damaged.
Fire at the Ernest Gabler and Brothers piano factory on East 22d Street, New York, causes $500,000 in damage and a public panic. Tenants flee nearby tenements, police rescue 44 boys from East Street Truant School, a watchman is burned, and a pedestrian suffers a fractured skull.
In the House the McCall resolution seeking facts on the Venezuelan affair and Monroe Doctrine was passed. The House also reduced duties on Philippine growth products from 75 to 25 percent and approved the pure food bill by 72 to 21 after debate. A Senate session was not held Friday. measures on ports, Indian relief, and public building location were advanced. The coal strike commission bill conference report was adopted, and the House adjourned to January 5, 1903.
In Washington a sequence of committee actions favors passage of a Philippine currency bill and an eight hour labor measure. Other moves include a general staff corps for the army and proposed emergency currency for banks.
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