09 May 1901
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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1901
Page
1
The Jacksonville blaze began Friday in a small factory from a defective wire and burned for ten hours. It fueled an estimated ten to fifteen million in losses and devastated 180 city blocks including hotels churches and residences. Ten thousand people reportedly homeless.
A massive forest blaze sweeps between Somerfield and Addison in Somerset County Pennsylvania near the Fayette line. Homes and fences survive narrowly. Charles A. Mitchell of Addison nearly died from smoke. Sheep perish, fields char, but fire control later restored calm as residents reflect on the destruction.
The article lists multiple incidents from Eastern cities: Theodosius I Secor, pioneer marine engineer, dies in Brooklyn. Fires destroy mill, machine shop, and town hall attic, with losses from $75,000 to $750,000 across Bessemer Pa North Chelmsford Mass Saranac Lake N Y Arlington and Hopkins. A trolley crash injures five women in New York. a crown of disasters includes a drowning, a hanging, and a fatal coach injury to Joseph Widener’s son.
A sprawling roundup reports indictments of seventeen Democrats for fraudulent voting, hangings in New Mexico, robberies and dynamite shocks, fatal sports accident in California, a Kensett fire destroying fourteen buildings, notable deaths and arrests across several states, and a peculiar issue with train delays caused by blown Russian thistles along a coast route.
An $80,000 blaze in Llorence Texas destroyed multiple business houses with $25,000 in insured losses. A separate report covers the Operators and Miners’ scale committee agreement in Whitelanding West Virginia ending a strike. Houston, Texas reports a fatal fire blamed on a displaced worker. Six killed and three injured. Cotton acreage in Tennessee and Delta plantations face replanting and losses due to floods and cold.
The Building and Loan Association with liabilities over $70 000 ceased operations as state usury laws were strictly enforced during its peak.
The report notes Italian coal importers dodging a British export tax. A Brussels local says 1,500 Qoubans plan Congo travel. Filipino general Cailles loses Dugot-Dugot and his camp is burned. British troops and Boers clash eight hours with heavy losses for both sides as ammo runs out. A German expedition fights Chinese troops beyond Brest wall with defeats. Grand Buiseon coal mine in Belgium sees 17 miners killed and seven injured in a fire damp explosion. Fire destroys Bergmann Pretach Puechel Starik mills in Spremberg Prussia with two deaths. Famine in Kherson and Bessarabia reportedly claims about 20,000 lives and threatens greater hunger before 1901 crops.
President Jiminez names a new San Thomingo cabinet as snow slides claim twenty lives in Sunrise City Alaska. Laurier proclaims May 24 a permanent holiday to be known as Victoria Day. Morgan & Co buys Leyland line steamers, with deposit paid, as trans-Atlantic shipping consolidation begins. Internal Revenue Yerkes rules export bills of lading receipts taxed. Mrs Coleman resigns after 27 years in the Treasury. Bradstreet notes uneven trade with a spring lift amid strong iron and steel output and rising dry goods weakness. Weekly U.S. failures total 214. wheat and flour shipments reach 4.28 million bushels.
Regional price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep in Chicago Indianapolis St. Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more. Grains corn oats rye and byproducts show No 2 and mixed varieties with varied cents per bushel and creamery butter eggs listed.
The week brought exceptionally favorable weather for farm work across the central and eastern states. Corn planting progresses in Missouri and Kansas while Ohio valley fodders delay. wheat, oats and grasses show good growth though frost and insects affect cotton in central districts.
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