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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1903
Page
3
A. W. Machen, suspended superintendent of free delivery, was arrested on charges of profiting from devices used in free delivery boxes and benefiting from government contracts. Postmaster General Payne plans to publish further details.
Millinery Jobbers Association and The Milliners Protective Association announced an accord in Milwaukee to stop using song birds gulls terns and sea birds in fall hats. The western trade will halt orders for these birds and rely on domestic fowl wings. Audubon Society played a key role in shaping the agreement with wardens and milliners.
Germany faces one of its worst wheat crops on record with more than 1,150,000 tons needed from the United States. Over 20 percent of fields must be replowed, yields will be small, and grain quality poor while markets stagnate despite hopes for improved conditions before harvest.
The Malay states restrict tin export unless smelted locally to curb Standard Oil United States Steel and American Tin Company schemes. The move targets plans to import ore duty free to the United States and re export the smelted tin.
Cloudbursts and lightning caused extensive damage across the Ohio valley though no lives were lost. A car on the Mill Creek Valley line near Carthage was struck and set ablaze as passengers temporarily lost consciousness. Delhi Home City and Fernbank suffered damage. Schoolboys in New Flaven Conn form a union seeking shorter hours and more play time, proposing a four hour morning to 1 pm session. The Jake Shore Twentieth Century Limited clocked 134 miles Toledo to Elkhart in 114 minutes, a new record with high speed averages. Amos Leedy a 60 year old Leedy Ok postmaster fined for delaying valuable receivers by throwing uncalled for letters into a waste basket.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway shops just outside Portsmouth Virginia burned with an estimated loss of 750000. Locomotives and repair appliances for rolling stock were destroyed in the blaze.
The Department of Justice will have the United States secret service investigate peonage charges near Montgomery Alabama. Indicted is Robert N. Franklin for keeping a black man in servitude for at least one year. Allegations say magistrates and others exploit the debt labor plan, luring the poor into long cruel bondage after fines are unpaid.
Louise Schneider, 17, daughter of William and Mrs. Schneider of Green Point, was bound, gagged, and threatened with a knife by a burglar who searched her home in Williamsburg. Officers Captain Burford and two detectives investigated the daylight assault. the assailant fled after finding nothing to steal.
Gloversville, N Y authorities probe an explosion at a Mills Brothers leather dressing plant building. John Kennedy, son of M J Kennedy & Co., dies from injuries, while Daniel Kennedy reportedly injured but denied by the family. Police consider a possible entry to learn rival patent leather formulas.
Rouseau, nicknamed the wood clopper of Brown's Gulch, was seized in Butte Montana but proved not to be Rosseau the dynamitard connected with an infernal machine aboard the Vindria in New York. Tikosseny had left then returned, misdirecting authorities, and the detainee’s appearance did not match the New York lodger’s description.
In Emporia Kansas Judge Madden refused to restrain newspapers from reporting evidence in a note case. She defended press freedom calling for no muzzling and delivered a strong speech upholding the press. Separate items note the first woman insurance examiner in Kansas, a San Francisco inspection trip, locust devastation in Montana, heavy snow, and a Philadelphia warehouse fire causing about one million dollars in losses.
An explosion on the steamship Cabin of the Tack Diamond line from Sydney to Montreal destroyed the saloon and damaged the poop deck. A waiter was killed and two steerage passengers are missing. The incident occurred as the vessel was in port or near anchorage.
The weekly weather bureau crop summary reports warm, favorable growth in wheat and corn across many regions while heavy rainfall delays planting in Oklahoma to the Dakotas. Ohio valley and middle Atlantic outlook dulls, but Southern crops progress. Texas Georgia Florida harvests begin. Missouri Kansas Arkansas Missouri valleys show mixed results with pests and drought relief shaping yields. Michigan Illinois show germination gains. Minnesota Iowa Nebraska spring wheat rapid growth. Minnesota storms cause local damage.
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