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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1901
Page
2
Comptroller of the Currency Charles Dawes announced he has resigned to run for the United States Senate from Illinois. He stated inability to canvass for the Senate while holding the office and cited proprieties of the situation. His term would have expired January 1, 1903.
R G Dun and Co notes in its weekly trade review that overall business remains confident with ample harvest prospects and strong merchandising movement. It cites a bank failure in New York as not harming general prosperity, alongside manageable labor disputes and steady coal and tinplate developments. Failures for the week: 204 in the United States and 23 in Canada, compared with last year.
Henry Smith of Springfield Ohio believed his wife and two year old son perished when the Johnstown flood swept their train. Years later a birthmark matched his son living in Youngstown and was positively identified after a reunion arranged by the father.
Judge John W. Fbury of the Circuit Court in Kansas City holds the Board of Police Commissioners cannot revoke a saloon license unless the premises are shown to be a disorderly house. The judge notes that selling one, two or a dozen drinks on Sunday does not by itself prove disorder.
In Muncie Indiana Walter Driscoll aged 17 shot and killed Mrs Warry McCall aged 19 in the Driscoll home after a quarrel. Driscoll fled but was captured later. The blast occurred when she dared him to shoot her. The incident is part of a wider set of industrial and regional news including a steel strike and an Illinois steel works explosion.
A gasoline lamp exploded in a saloon on the lower floor of the Pullman lodging house in Butte a.m. triggering a rapid fire. Two men died and three were severely injured with many others hurt as flames spread to upper floors. The wooden building carried about 4000 dollars in loss with no insurance.
The Navy department purchased about sixteen acres around the Washington Naval Observatory to shield delicate timekeeping instruments from highways within a 1000 foot radius. Congress had appropriated 149000 dollars for the land, now available, to enclose the observatory area.
A long running feud between the Bricker and Guild families in Dayton Town Iowa over land and fence lines erupts in gunfire. C D Guild and his 19 year old son Clarence die along with Oliver Bricker and his son George are jailed on ten thousand and five thousand dollar bonds respectively. A surviving Guild son gives conflicting accounts about the assault.
Five men calling themselves Americans were seized by Chinese troops near Pekin after looting a pawnshop and loading five carts with plunder. They fired on townspeople, unaware 100 Chinese troops occupied the area, and were turned over to Maj. EB Robertson of the U.S. Pekin guard.
A compilation of recent market quotes across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with cattle hogs sheep and grain prices. Prices list ranges for No 2 wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes along with livestock values for each city. Local traders and buyers monitor bid ranges from shipping to common grades across regions.
Attorney General probes alleged insanity trust in Indianapolis where lunacy inquests often favor a fixed set of witnesses and physicians. A domestic worker and a packinghouse worker case highlight possible abuse. county fees cited reach hundreds of dollars per case.
Governor William H. Taft was inaugurated in Manila on July 4 as the first civil governor under U S sovereignty. He announced four executive departments and the addition of new commissioners in September. A month of celebrations accompanied the transition from military to civil rule as departments prepare to close military offices. Taft projected a gold treasury surplus of four million dollars to start the civil administration.
A report notes that horses are again being bought in New Orleans by British buyers. Cambridge faces an outbreak of brown tailed caterpillars. U S agricultural imports for the year total 420,180,288. Courts may be established in Manila and Singlish could become a legal language. Stephen Bennett of Caledonia, NC, died after responding to a toast at the Farmers' Club.
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