23 Mar 1899
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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1899
Page
1
Tersely told telegraph tales summarize mishaps from the week with scattered references to battles, political shifts, religious notes, and multiple casualties. Brief notes mention Crimea related events and minor firefights alongside civic, military, and social developments.
A blaze at the Windsor Hotel on Fifth Avenue and Forty-seventh Street began on the second story from lace curtains and quickly swept to the roof. Ten minutes after ignition flames filled the interior cutting off stair and elevator escape. Estimates say ten to fifteen guests died within half an hour and thirty to forty were injured, with some dying later at homes or hospitals. Many more injured leapt from windows and stairways.
Masked white mobs killed nine African American men who were jailed on arson charges after a January blaze. Guards were overpowered in an out-house shooting. Six died, others expected to die as locals arm themselves. Gov. Chandler pledges troops. tensions rise over prohibition and liquor sales.
The London Evening News declares former Russian Ambassador Copunt Von Mohrenheim is the real culprit in spying for Germany. It claims Russia believes his guilt and that a public scandal is being avoided by not punishing him, with a ban on his face in czarist territories.
East bound Rock Island passenger train No. jumped the track west of Weland Kansas on the Rock Island Road. The tank baggage car and smoker were thrown down a bank, a chair car and baggage car toppled. The train caught fire destroying several cars. Twenty six passengers injured, two seriously. Baggageman William Freeman killed.
Former Chicago Board of Trade operator and packer Benjamin P. Hutchinson died of heart failure at Lakeside sanitarium in Lake Geneva Wisconsin at age 70. He was famed in 1888 for his September wheat corner before a decline and finance ended by 1891. Estimated wealth at his peak ranged from 24 million to 16 million dollars.
A gunfight in Hot Springs Arkansas left five men dead and two wounded, one gravely. The violence stemmed from simmering mayoralty tensions. outside those involved, factions are minimal. Order was restored and officials expect no further trouble.
Washington reports received from Manila suggest an imminent climax as hostilities may end soon. Officials endorse the favorable situation though details remain undisclosed. President McKinley advised of muster out orders as four companies of the Second Volunteer Engineers move from Honolulu to San Francisco for demobilization.
A roundup of notable events includes The American Tea Company’s New Jersey incorporation with a 60 million capital. deaths of George Newberger, Rollin M. Squire, and others. bequests to Yale and missions. local disturbances in Janes town and Cal gary Protestant Church ventures. cyclone in Eckley with damage but no deaths. the death of circus figure Frank Gilfort and Henrietta Schmidt in Brooklyn. a 70-year-old Newark resident Andrew C. Fowle noted for a historic lathe work. a Worcester mill’s wage restart affect ing 400+ workers. a Philadelphia conductor killed in Bayonne. a Sharon tragedy. and medical confidentiality legislation signed by Gov. Roosevelt amid Philadelphia fire deaths and injuries.
A sweep of brief obituaries and incidents from Ohio Missouri Nebraska and Colorado reports deaths from natural causes accidents and suicides. Highlights include Mrs. J Warren Keifer widow of Maj Gen Weifer in Springfield Ohio Charles C Kiefer noted Free Mason in Urbana and bank burglary at Bank of Black Burn Missouri. bridge collapse near Omaha. a Minneapolis hotelier John T West dies in hotel rotunda. a Chicago self-inflicted death at Glendon Hotel. land office ruling against Roxanna Gold Mining. jail escapes in Denver. violent storms and a fatal railroad collision near Lincoln. a 100 year old survivor in Williamsport Ohio. confessions and killings in Madison Copus Ohio and Whitewater Shaker case. a Mexico Missouri engagement cut short by Dillard's death.
The document details Mise Muir inheriting a $75,000 estate. Ex auditor Sudborough is acquitted of embezzlement in Omaha, with another ex-official Bechel also cleared. A pigeon box accident in Boildlers, Ohio causes a fatal blast and injuries. G Rutan of Chicago claims options on 100,000 acres in Cherokee nation oil fields. Illinois Central plans a Black Hills corridor via Wheeler to Vermillion, surveying and securing right of way.
Sixty Kentucky distilleries have seceded from the whisky trust and vow to oppose it to the end. Having paid out $1,500,000, the trust remains far from victory as large state plants join the insurgents. The Cimmer Lumber Company's mill near Jacksonville Florida was largely destroyed by fire in a loss exceeding $250,000 with 80 percent insurance. Yd Bean of Breton Texas shot his wife and then killed himself after stealing a shotgun and firing at the hardware store before fleeing. In Houston two merchants Osborn and Cleveland dueled in public with buckshot. Cleveland was wounded. Thrasher Mead, a famed train robber, was sent to the federal penitentiary from Meridian Mississippi after a fast federal case.
The War Department will acquire lands in Hawaii for military use and send officers to Honolulu to take possession near the capital. Senators and Representatives, about sixty in number, accept invitations to inspect routes of the Nicaragua and Panama canals via the West Indies as guests of the Panama Canal Company. The JAG opines the President has authority to enlist general volunteer officers for service in the Philippines. The State Department announces Spain’s West Indies islands remain under military control pending Congress decisions on future government. A census of Cuba is planned to determine eligible voters before elections for a representative government.
Reports state Great Britain has seized the Miao-Hao Islands opposite Port Arthur in the Strait of Pe-Chi-Li China. The era also records a fire destroying the Vienna birthplace cottage of famed composer Joseph Haydn. An Austrian bank director, Herr Krozanowski, died by his own hand after embezzlement.
State Department reports US Marines guarding Peking have left. US to deploy three Manila Bay tugs for troop transport. France orders ten high speed passenger locomotives from Baldwin Works. Saoma talks yield mutual understanding among Hay and ambassadors. Santiago Cuba debates purchasing San Juan Hill as a public park. Cuban General Gomez dismissed in a dignified open letter. General Wood backs retirement from politics to a Dominican home. Persia settles full claim of American missionary Wis hard’s robbed Shinearu house, goods valued at 200 tomans.
Marth J. Carter of Pennsylvania appointed consul at St. Johns Newfoundland. Capt Stetson reports uncharted reef in South Pacific, latitude 5.88 S 173.58 W, reef quarter mile long. Superior Court San Francisco verdict 14000 to plaintiff in Pacific Steam Whaling Co. vs Alaska Packers Association. Cuban assembly at Havana votes to thank U S and warn 3 million insufficient. Grand Army call for executive committee meeting April 12 in Philadelphia to choose a new commander in chief. Bradstreets notes continued industrial activity, firm prices, strong cotton goods demand, active lumber markets, rising sugar, mixed grain trends with wheat drop.
Price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grains in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with per unit values for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs potatoes and clover seed. Prices show regional variation and shipping grades across multiple markets.
A Paris drafted peace pact between Spain and the United States is set for ratifications by June 10. The Queen Regent signed the treaty in Madrid, with exchange via Jules Cambon in Washington and a potential ceremonial ratification event to mark a historic moment in postwar relations.
News reports a brief clash near the Dalton trail on the Porcupine river between American and Canadian miners. Four men were killed, including one American and three Canadians, and about fifty Canadians crossed the border after the exchange of gunfire.
In Hot Springs Arkansas a violent street affray leaves five men dead and one mortally wounded. Sheriff Williams and friends clash with Policeman Goslee and allies after an earlier shooting attempt. Toler Hart and others are killed in the ensuing exchange tied to mayoral politics.
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