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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1901
Page
1
Telegraph items recap numerous incidents including casualities, a handful of crimes, several fires, and short notes on political and religious matters. Notable mentions highlight local impacts and community responses across the region.
A Massachusetts mother in a fit of insanity killed her six children with an axe and attempted suicide. The victims ranged from ten years old to ten months. She survived a deep throat wound. husband Frank Naramore left for work unaware of the tragedy. The report also covers a farmer’s suicide in Payne Ohio and Miss Marie Sweet receiving two pearls and a sultan’s letter in Denver.
Washington dispatch notes that Russia questions U S naval power in Asiatic waters and diplomats fear preparations for war. Some suggest Russia seeks to buy ships while parties including the United States England Germany and Japan oppose a secret Russia China treaty over Manchuria.
Tribble, a 21 year old farmer, shot his fiancée Stella Snow, 17, in a failed engagement and then killed himself with a double gunshot to the head and stomach. Stella Snow was mortally wounded and died days later. Tribble died within hours. Stella is daughter of Mrs. James Snow who lived four miles north of Brazil Tad.
R G Dun weekly review notes improving wheat crops strong steel and pig iron prices high grain exports and robust minor industry activity. labor troubles look less likely but woolen mills show weak prospects despite a brighter winter wheat outlook. US and Canada weekly failures totaled 209 and 33 respectively.
H H Charles Stumphries a famed tenor and choir leader at Second Baptist Church in St. Louis died by suicide in his studio. A revolver lay beside his body, discovered by the janitor. A sealed note to his widow and mother and another to the janitor were found. He was 32, unmarried, and active as an oratorio singer with national recognition.
At Akron Ohio about thirty male students seized Prof Simmons prized fowls from the gym cage after he turned it into a chicken coop. He emerged in a night shirt and wrestled a student who then threw the professor into a mud hole.
Mrs. Mel Hayes wife of a barber led a saloon attack in Butler Ohio smashing plate glass and wrecking fixtures. She and several women struck the Taylor's saloon with rocks, pouring liquor on the floor while the proprietor stood by without defense. Men fled through a rear exit as a ten foot fence was sealed.
A report from Turkey Creek Ohio details Mollie Wissman stabbing Nellie Gray in two places with a six inch back wound and Wissman’s arrest. Other items include a postoffice safe robbery at Oberlin, a Kansas mine mutiny quelled by guards, a Madison Kansas bank dynamite raid foiled, and broader notes on prune crop control, a Florida suicide, Alberta province creation, Oklahoma robberies, and two West Virginia fires with large losses.
Georgianne Thompson, a pretty Denver girl, finds a burglar at her door. She flings the door open, pins him with a hat pin, and thwarts the attack as Pomeroy summons a policeman while the burglar struggles.
Iowa federal court in Council Bluffs quickly moved Gilbert J. Moffett to trial after a grand jury indictment for using the mails to defraud. He pleaded guilty and received one year and one day in prison, to be served at Fort Madison, citing a wife and two children in Denver and asking for a lighter sentence.
Mrs. Carrie Cobus of New York died after her fox terrier attacked her during an epileptic fit. Her mother and neighbor Philip Rockefeller found her body with the dog feeding on her blood in the room. The incident is part of a larger set of notices including Carnegie library gifts and the funeral of ex president Harrison.
A sprawling market digest lists regional cattle hogs and sheep prices from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more. Values cover wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes with ranges typical for shipping and prime grades.
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