Denver Indiana Publishers Norris and Woolley
Denver Indiana newspaper entry credits Norris and Woolley as publishers. The fragment notes the Denver location and publishing names without additional context or events.
16 May 1901
Page 1
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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
1
Denver Indiana newspaper entry credits Norris and Woolley as publishers. The fragment notes the Denver location and publishing names without additional context or events.
A White Line steamer Bon Voyage burned to the water’s edge near the Lake Superior canal. Five Altman family members from Laurium drowned while the rest escaped by boats. The ship grounded in shallow water after steering toward shore as fire raged around the smokestack. Lifesavers arrived in time to aid passengers and crew. The steamer’s crew battled the blaze with hose streams and fire apparatus. In the Philippines, Capilles eludes pursuit as insurgents clash in Laguna and Tayabas. A detachment of the Twenty-first Infantry routs 150 rebels at Zurbano's Camp near Lusban, seizing supplies.
The article reports a daily flow of one million dollars in new currency moved from the old United States Mint at Juniper and Chesnut Streets to the newer mint at Sixteenth and Spring Garden Streets, guarded by two mounted guards and four walkers with revolvers. Separately, a boiler explosion on the Huntington and Broad Top railroad at Mount Dallas killed four crew members, with bodies flung four hundred yards. cause unknown, believed linked to water filling.
Private Cumberlidge on sentry duty at Fort Sheridan near Chicago was killed by prisoner Smith Wheeler in the guard house. Wheeler crept up, seized the sentinel’s rifle, and clubbed Cumberlidge to death. Wheeler escaped after the scuffle and had deserted during the war in Florida awaiting transport to Cuba, serving a five year sentence.
A fire at the Roy hotel on Clarence Street Ottawa Ont. destroyed ten houses and burned three men to death who were boarders at 85 Clarence Street. Several others escaped by leaping from upper windows as the blaze raced along Clarence Street. The fire caused only slight financial losses despite extensive destruction.
The government settles the dispute over the nickel hardening process, allowing future use by the government or private firms supplying armor for American ships.
The passenger steamer America of the International Navigation company reached Buffalo from Grand Haven after being detained by an ice jam in the St. Clair river.
Aiden Knitting mills at Paducah Kentucky were destroyed by a fire sparked by an electric wire. Loss estimated at about 26 000 dollars with 20 000 dollars insured.
At the Cazenovia Seminary in Syracuse New York girls hazed a young man painting his face as part of a rough initiation.
A dramatic market collapse unfolds as Northern Pacific surges to 1000 then plunges. widespread liquidations hit major railways and industrials. The New York Stock Exchange descends into chaos with injunctions and court actions shaping the crash and lenders tightening margins.
The piece notes widespread ruin in Wall Street as two strong factions fight for Northern Pacific Railway control. With no single controlling interest, massive share purchases drove prices to $1000, triggering panic among outside speculators and signaling the collapse of bubble fortunes.
Chicago lay in the path of a financial tornado that struck New York and swept through La Salle street. Mushroom fortunes vanished as the recent stock boom collapsed and panicked selling wiped out gains. Most Chicago speculators ended as losers with few heavy gainers.
The narrative describes a catastrophic Wall Street plunge labeled Black Thursday with Northern Pacific as the pivot. Banks called loans, prices fell 10 to 60 points, and brokerage houses faced insolvency while financiers battled for control. Rich and poor lost billions as panic spread to Washington.
Indiana State Fair secretary Charles Downing released revised circuits listing fair locality dates and secretaries. The schedules cover counties from Marion to Madison with venues at Kokomo Winchester Noblesville and many towns, plus the Northern and Southern circuits detailing Aug through Oct events and key organizers.
Reports from Evansville to Muncie cover accidents such as an eight year old boy Thomas Whitney breaking his neck after a tree fall, a Belgian glass blower killed by a train, a three year old fatally scalded in hot water, and a fatal morphine mix up. A Riverside Electric car injures a Indianapolis family. a gooseberry bush reveals bones and crosses near Osgood. A major Union Mills fire destroys six businesses and a residence, with Masonic and Odd Fellows halls burned. insurance and loss figures are given. Patent awards list Indiana inventors for voting machines, basins, motor vehicles, and other devices.
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