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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1899
Page
1
A historical wrap reports crime, accidents, fires and minor events from across regions. It notes Dun and Co. reviews on trade showing overall business strength despite Wall Street volatility. Production rises across sectors with wool demand strong and Western crop outlook favorable for next year.
The Executive Committee of the Cuban Assembly reports Gen Bartolome Maso and fellow generals agreed to take 3 million dollars for soldiers and to help organize a new Cuban army of 10 000 under American administration after secret talks with Gomez and the Assembly. A fatal fire at Cleveland Ohio destroyed the Donglars Vapor Stove Works and stamping department causing multi hundred thousand losses and the death of Fire Lieutenant William Roth.
A San Francisco special recounts Capt McQuestin of the Twentieth Infantry describing the capture of American photographer A. B. Peters by Filipino forces while photographing near the Aymericar Mnesy. Peters was jailed, injured by a sword, and subjected to a head hunter ritual before American officials secured his release.
The ordnance bureau of the War Department circulated directions to every state stating that arms and ordnance stores lent to volunteers in the Spanish War will be returned in kind. It outlines how to issue requisitions to collect each item returned.
A blaze at a boarding house owned by Mrs. Nolan at 14 Court Street Memphis Tennessee killed four residents and left several others seriously injured. The fire originated unknown and was the second blaze in the same building that night with the previous fire not fully extinguished.
Gen. Greeley in Washington received dispatches from Cuba announcing military telegraph lines completed between Sancti Spiritus and Ciego de Avila in the island center and between Holguin and Victoria de Jantunas in Santiago department.
Advices from Ecuador report American missionaries in the Panamanian interior are threatened with a general massacre unless they depart immediately. Fanatical Catholics are said to lead the revolt against Protestant advancement.
Burglars cut telephone wires before robbing William Kimball’s house of $2000 in Tiffin Ohio. A frightened maid leaped from a second story window.
Five people involved as dynamite blast near Rock Ledge Indiana on the Southern Indiana Railroad killed P Moore and injured others. Authorities report the incident occurred while cars were being moved near a buuic location. Further details are scarce.
Bradstreet describes spring-driven demand across dry goods, millinery, footwear, and related jobbing lines with sustained iron and steel activity and unchanged price levels. Lumber shows little animation while cereals weaken. wheat and flour shipments total 4,114,046 bushels and corn exports reach 4,211,326 bushels for the week, up from prior figures.
The War Department to run Marconi wireless telegraph experiments using roof of the State War and Navy Building and Fort Myer as stations six miles apart. Col. James Allen and Lieut. George O. Squire to conduct tests with government instruments. success could decide adoption by the signal corps. Secretary Alger plans summer camps for troops in the South, including near Atlanta, with Georgia quarantine rules adjusted. About 15,000 troops expected per camp, with transfers and delays for troops returning from Cuba.
A Louisville woman receives 4000 dollars after suing The Standard Oil Company for a dog bite by the trust's bulldog. The incident occurred in January when the dog jumped and bit her eye as she walked by. She had sought 10000 dollars but jury awarded 4000.
The St. Petersburg correspondent reports near conclusion of talks favoring Russia gaining the Nai-Chwang treaty port in Leno Tong province on the Linou river near the Gulf of Pe-Chee-Lee in exchange for backing China against Italy. Robbers wreck bank vault in Medway Massachusetts. explosion frightens them and kills an engineer while a Lake Shore train wreck in West Seneca New York leaves one engineer dead and a brakeman badly hurt with passengers shaken but uninjured.
Windstorms sweep Alabama Mississippi and Arkansas causing widespread property damage and loss of life. Severe storms leave communities assessing damage and fatalities.
Detectives thwarted a Southern gang's bid to steal 100000 in coin shipments from Norfolk to the Hampton National Volunteer Soldiers Home. Senator Platt, president of United States Express Company, confirms the plot and countermeasures, with informants warning officials after a loud talk in a Baltimore saloon.
Wesley Hurt is slain by Thomas Wiggs a substitute teacher in Caborn Ind In a schoolhouse confrontation Wiggs stabbed Hurt then his 16 year old brother joined in stabbing from behind Both brothers were arrested Wiggs a 20 year old recently mustered out of the army served with Gen Miles in Porto Rico Case hinges on a fierce lethal dispute at a Pike County school.
A powder keg exploded in the store of L. Leslie at Dewitt Arkansas fatally burning two children and injuring several others. The blast wrecked the building with about a dozen people inside including Leslie family and customers. Authorities suspect children playing with the keg caused the fire and explosion.
Central Trust Company sues in Columbus federal court against Ohio Mining and Manufacturing to appoint a receiver for Perry County Coal Company. Alleged debt amounts to 700000 dollars plus interest.
Excitement grows in Pleasan ton Kentucky as miners uncover rich zinc ore after days of quiet extraction by the mining company. Officials confirm large quantities and a forthcoming assessment of the mine's value and output. No Parole for the Youngers in Minnesota Senate bill fails to secure early release for the Younger brothers serving life terms for the Northfield bank robbery and related James family involvement.
An explosion rocked a laboratory of explosives attached to the War Department in Paris during tests of a new gunpowder. Chief Engineer Well Assistant Engineer D Ougille and a third official were injured. Separately imprisoned miners Charles Reuss and Burtroy were released at Leadville Colorado after thirteen days in confinement and show few lasting effects.
A westbound Erie passenger train No 5 jumped the track at Rittman Ohio. The engine and baggage car derailed. Engineer Wallace Logan was killed nearly instantly and his fireman seriously injured.
A powder blast at Dupont’s Carney facility near Wilmington New Jersey fatally injured three laborers and left several others wounded as investigators assess the collapse of boilers and hazardous conditions at the plant. The incident occurred amid reports of broader market shifts and other industrial accidents in the same period.
Missionary Parsons of the China Mission Society, traveling from Ching Kiang to Paoning with an escort of four Chinese government soldiers, was attacked by local militiamen and imperial troops. He swam out to midstream as the escort fled. a Chinese gunboat later rescued him.
A Brooklawn Hotel Cleveland fire shortly after 5 am woke over fifty guests. A strong wind aided the blaze as police and firemen forced entry to awaken occupants. Panic ensued but all escaped without injury. several women were carried down the fire escape. Origin of the fire unknown. losses about 10,000.
Market quotes list prices for cattle hogs and sheep in multiple cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York. It covers wheat corn oats rye butter eggs potatoes and clover seed with varying grades and price ranges.
In Arkansas near Little River County a lynching spree erupts after the murder of planter James A. Stockton. A black man nicknamed General Duckett confessed to plotting a race war and named 23 alleged conspirators. White mobs killed several accused plotters and many Blacks fled. In Mississippi near Silver City, two more Black men, Willis Boyd and Minor Wilson, were lynched after a plantation incident.
Differences among the United States Great Britain and Germany over Samoa have sharpened to a near repudiation of the Berlin treaty. Despite US and British reports, Germany supports Consul Rose at Apia. Admiral Kautz and British authorities back Chief Justice Chambers as tensions rise with a March 17 meeting of officials and fears of consequences if talks falter.
Special dispatches to Bradstreet's report changes in available grain last Saturday versus the prior week. Wheat United States and Canada east of the Rockies up 317,000 bushels. Corn up 530,000. Oats up 567,000. Decreases include 292,000 bushels at Galveston and 200,000 at northwestern interior elevators. Portland Tacoma Seattle stocks fell 277,000.
Government inquiry members finish in Chicago and travel to Governor's Island. Theodore Roosevelt testimony awaits before the court moves on. Evidence centers on canned beef and refrigerator meat used by soldiers in Cuba and Porto Rico, with bellboy Fleischmann recounting a yard visit with an unknown man. Clark Marshall offered opinion that canned beef sold today is unfit for human food.
The February statement shows imports of merchandise at 60 260 032 with 28 074 179 free of duty up about 7 186 000 from February 1898. Exports of merchandise total 98 884 149 a decline of 1 000 000. Imports of gold 5 148 006 down 1 000 000 while exports of gold 324 840 down 700 000. Imports of silver 1 427 027 down 658 000 and exports of silver 4 562 196 up 800 000.
A Memphis house fire at night suffocated four people and left three others seriously injured. The origin is unknown, earlier blaze may have lingered, and firefighters arrived to find a rapid, extensive fire progress.
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