10 Jul 1903
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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1903
Page
1
Four days of violent unrest in Evansville Indiana culminate in a gunfire melee that leaves seven dead and numerous injuries. Officials report mob violence targeted law enforcement and Black residents after a white mob seized the jail and armed white and Black groups clashed across Fourth Division and Vine streets.
A packed Georgia house heard Seaborn Wright Hoke Smith and Tom Watson advocate a new child labor law. The meeting filled the aisles and gallery with citizens enthusiastic about the proposed protections for Georgia children against early mill work.
W. B. Hacket is arrested in Albany New York on complicity in a post office mail box swindle. He is named as one of several persons running operations from Washington with extensive activity in multiple cities nationwide.
Bradford county commissioner chairman John Bennett was arrested on peonage charges. The accuser, 16 year old Maggie Williams, an orphan, said Bennett and his brother in law forced her to walk back home through floodwater after she left to go to Jacksonville. She claims he beat her with a hickory stick. she was placed in St Joseph's orphanage after the sheriff intervened. Bennett’s supporters plan to refute the allegations.
Jeannette Pa dispatch reports after the Oakford Park dam failure that twenty persons are dead and sixteen missing. Valley property losses may reach 1 500 000, prompting calls for outside relief. The disaster has turned a thriving valley into a mourning area as volunteers scour debris and residents rally to aid the afflicted.
The Hammond Packing plant at St. Joseph Missouri was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. Estimated loss up to 1.6 million dollars, fully insured. Two men perished in the flames. The Nelson Morris plant nearby was saved, protecting the Swift plant to its north after the blaze began shortly after 2 PM and the building largely burned by 9 PM.
A Belgrade dispatch reports King Peter II acts to remove his name from a lifelong list of people to be executed on capture. He also restores confiscated real estate and Belgrade houses, and seeks repayment from his Montenegro in lawfully owed funds. General Wheeler dined with President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay on Monday.
In Peoria Illinois a mob of 300 white residents sought to lynch Minnie Pearl a Black woman who had beaten Perry Combs an 11 year old white boy with a club. Police arrested Pearl and removed her before the mob could reach her house. When told she was gone the mob tore down the dwelling and dumped the furniture into the river.
Berlin newspaper veteran Justus Scheibert, military editor for The Kreuz Zeitung, died. He accompanied General Lee's army as an observer during the American Civil War and later wrote extensively on military lessons drawn from the campaigns.
A water spout and cloudburst near Oakford park Greenburg Pa Sunday flooded Brush creek ravine and damaged the dam. At least twenty dead, with rumors of up to one hundred fifty. 800 people at the park sought shelter as the flood swept the area washing cars and restaurant, electrocuting some on trolley wires. Loss estimated at 800000 with Greensburg and nearby towns hardest hit.
Reported race riot in Norway North Carolina prompted sending troops from Columbia by the governor. Troops withdrawn Sunday afternoon amid protests. Town quiet but white man Evans alleged to be inciting Negroes, with potential further trouble expected.
A four million dollar mortgage was recorded at Raleigh North Carolina. The Southern Railway borrowed from Continental Trust Company of New York to acquire one hundred locomotives and seven thousand freight cars. The move aims to relieve a car famine impacting business interests.
The Pacific cable was completed at 10:50 p m Saturday east ern time with the welding of eastern and western links at Honolulu aboard the Angia. The line runs from San Francisco to the Philippines over eight thousand miles, the longest submarine cable project yet. President Roosevelt sent the first message to Governor Taft in Manila at 10 p m, and Taft’s reply followed at 11 19. Subsequent messages circled the world in record times, nine and a half to twelve minutes, via a route from Oyster Bay to San Francisco and Honolulu to Manila, then onward through Asia and Europe back to New York.
At 2 45 Monday morning Evansville jail was surrounded by 500 people as a mob of 200 white men hunted for Negroes. They shot into well known Negro resorts after Policeman Massey was shot Friday night by Lee Brown a Negro. Disorder and deadly rioting plagued the city with thousands on the streets fearing for their lives.
Twenty five people are injured after two loaded trolley cars collide on a steep hill near Chestnut Hill park in Philadelphia Sunday night. Thomas Walls Thomas Watkins Simon Haston and Hannah Baines were hospitalized while the rest sustained no serious injuries.
A southbound Southern railway passenger train crashed into an open switch at Rockfish depot, twenty four people died and thirteen were injured. Immigrant passengers in the baggage area were among the dead. Rescue operations began immediately led by Tr. William A. Lambeth. The accident halted traffic for eight hours while authorities investigated why Engineer Hale failed to take the siding.
In Evansville Indiana on Monday night soldiers fired during clashes, killing nine and mortally wounding one, with three others fatally hurt and about twenty one injured. Many victims were local families, leaving residents dazed as officials respond and streets grow quiet after mayoral orders.
Dispatch from Rome reports the pope underwent an afternoon operation and felt immediate relief. Doctors issued a bulletin saying eight hundred grams of pleural liquid were removed and that mucous remained in the lung. The pope faced the procedure with courage and his condition is now better and resting.
J. S. Bennett, Bradford County board chairman, was arraigned before United States Commissioner Locke in Jacksonville on peonage accusations by Maggie Williams. He waived examination and posted a $500 bond.
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