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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
2
A Havana dispatch notes 486000 tons of sugar in the island awaiting the result of reciprocity talks with the United States. The move would boost Cuban treasury and people by widening trade and revenue opportunities.
Buffalo Hill plans a major show effort as part of a traveling exhibition by Mr Cody who also operates a vast irrigation farm of 606000 acres in northwestern Wyoming. Cody is praised for organization and calm management amid farming challenges from the Louisiana Purchase era.
Taft's Rome mission aims to spotlight the United States' long standing decree of absolute separation between church and state. The governor cites Washington's instructions noting complete separation as a controlling principle of government, ensuring freedom from interference wherever the American flag flies.
The Senate and House debated naval funding and the Isthmian canal, with amendments on battleships cruisers and gunboats, and a Panama route shift. The irrigation bill passed in the Senate and House, while a Corliss Pacific cable bill and forest reserve transfers faced defeats or debates. Personal notes cover Morgan, Flourens, Sloan, and other political figures with brief outcomes from Paris to Washington.
A hurricane at Sigourney IA on the 12th toppled the main tent of the Amarris Nickel Plate circus injuring twenty five people. Also reported are labor talks near Kansas City about District 25 with a potential three hundred miner strike if no wage agreement is reached by August 3. A bank security theft case from the Bank of France involves 450 650 francs in losses. In Minnesota a farmer John Fox killed his brother and mother and then himself, likely driven by mental distress following family tragedies.
Senate discussed Nicaragua canal bill with Morgan continuing his speech. Colombia district appropriation passed. many private pension bills disposed of. House tabled cost information on Philippine war. private pension bills advanced and Lincoln memorial plans funded.
Lafayette June 16 The Tippecanoe Battlefield association held its annual exercises at the battlefield tabernacle with special trains and a large crowd. Graves of fallen soldiers were decorated and Hon Henry Watterson spoke on Heroes in Home spun. In Terre Haute 12,000 attended a fairground show under the Order of Railway Conductors featuring a South American strongman wrestling a bull with a three year old Hereford calf involved in the bout. In Lebanon six indictments were returned by a grand jury including forgery charges against attorney Joseph D Cunningham and murder in the first degree against Charles Byroads for the fatal head wound.
June reports from Montpelier and Kokomo detail a statewide oil surge with over 100 wells active in Grant county and many more in Wells county. In Kokomo, farmer C. C. Strong is found dead, with investigators unsure if suicide or foul play. Notre Dame boats lead a naval parade on St Joseph Lake, Kinney of Wyoming directing 12 varsity crews showcasing skilled oarsmen.
In Mishawaka Rev. T G Mosier of the Watch Tower Evangelical church calls for a minimum marriage age of 30 for men and 25 for women provoking unrest among parishioners. In Wabash farmers face higher thrashing costs as thrashermen agree to higher rates starting July five cents per bushel for wheat two and a half cents for oats seven cents for rye.
Gurney Trowbridge and Arthur Stevens with Marshall Warrold of Sweetzer were arrested near Marion. Trowbridge confessed to fatally shooting James Lacy west of Marion. Gar Coan of Marion is also under arrest.
In West Baden, Indiana, June 16, Palmer a saloon-keeper at French Lick acted as a peacemaker between two excursionists when he was shot and mortally wounded by Charles Walker, a Mitch el barber. A boy in the crowd was wounded in the foot.
Very Rev. Edward J. McLaughlin of Clinton Iowa delivered the baccalaureate sermon at Notre Dame University's commencement in Notre Dame Indiana. In Alexandrina Indiana new glass machines replace blowers and gatherers at the window glass plant, with guards kept from inspection. In Logansport Indiana Emma Eisle age 15 accused by her father of larceny took morphine during delivery to the police and is expected to die.
Carbondale Illinois reports ongoing race violence in Eldorado Illinois since May 29. Mob attacks on the colored normal and industrial institute, home shootings and expulsions threaten five families. Rev Peter Green's house stoned. fear of colored labor in new mines grows. Board plans a June 27 meeting on school removal or new president. Gov Yates asked for protection.
County prosecutor swears information charging W. J. Magee former 18 year public administrator of Macon county with forging a $3,880 bond for Mrs. Mattie Lurber of St. Louis. Magee is confined in Fulton insane asylum. state seeks trial if condition permits.
Two unnamed military prisoners escaped from guards near Fort Baker after overpowering two guards at the Alcatraz army prison. About 150 coast artillery troops under Lieuts Showard and Ludlow joined roughly 100 Sausalito prisoners in a large manhunt to recapture them.
A cloudburst near Barre Vermont on June 17 caused river flooding and washed out bridges on the Central Vermont line at Middlesex. A freight train with 12 cars and a locomotive derailed after hitting a washout, killing five railroad workers including the conductor engineer fireman and two brakemen.
Bernhard Steinert, 40, slater, died from a skull fracture after a blow on a Kansas City sidewalk at Fourteenth Street and Grand Avenue. Barber Dulin Chrisman and a woman were arrested. Chrisman says he struck in defense of the woman Steinert allegedly accosted. Both suspects held.
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