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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1904
Page
1
Russia renews request to Turkey for Black Sea squadron passage through the Dardanelles. Turkey asks for concurrent permission from powers. Sul tan agrees to allow passage if granted. Turkey opens negotiations with Japan and even proposes an alliance.
Bankers and capitalists join the Employers' association in Chicago to abolish penalties on contractors blocked by strikes. Frederick W. Job says lenders will suspend interest on large loans to aid contractors in fights with labor.
Six men died and several were injured when a freight train fell into Yellow Creek after the bridge collapsed on the Cleveland and Pittsburg line near Irondale Ohio. The two engines and cars were swept into the water trapping crew and passengers. A mob later killed Richard Dixon after he shot Policeman Charles Colling in Springfield Ohio.
The Russian polar expedition that began on the yacht Zaria in 11 has moved to Stock hol. Baron Toll, the chief, and several companions drowned while traveling in a small boat from Bennett Island to New Siberia in November 1902. Train Wrecked in the Tunnel. A rear end collision four miles east of Jefferson City Missouri on the Missouri Pacific killed two brakemen Charles Wyrant and Frank Nevins and Conductor Frank Schumacher. Nevins and Schumacher were cremated in a burning caboose ignited by an overturned stove.
Silas D. Coffey, former judge of the Indiana Supreme Court, who resided in Brazil, Indiana, collapsed and died in the streets of Manhattan, Florida, from heart trouble. He was 63.
A large blaze at George Bullen & Co in Chicago damaged the enormous elevator and malt house. Fireman John Hubbard is reported fatally injured while the fire was estimated to have caused about $100,000 in damage.
A falling 11 story steel skeleton at 57 West Forty-sixth Street collapses into the Motel Patterson, killing a waiter and a luncheon companion and injuring many others. Faulty construction and disputes between the building department and Allison Realty Co. are cited as causes.
An official of the Panama Canal Company asserts there is no obstacle to transferring the concession to the United States. He rejects New Orleans claims of an arrangement with Colombia and argues French proceedings cannot restrain the transfer. Assets for construction and dredges are in Panama, beyond French court reach.
A Skagway dispatch reports Captain WL Richardson of the Hallies military post located Pleasant Camp Alaska by astronomical methods under United States direction. The London award marks the boundary by peaks, but lacks a permanent marker and previous evidence may be lost. A future government survey is planned to permanently fix the boundary location.
Reported investigation into Senator Smoot era reveals leaders of the Mormon Church tied to polygamy despite legal and constitutional shifts. Allegations include five wives for a church figure, with broader scrutiny of church doctrines. Also notes convictions of trust officers, a Kaiser-like fraud case, a hotel murder sentence, and a U S warning to the Russian press amid anti English pulse.
Three trains and two mixed trains are buried in snow drifts for two to three weeks between Lewistown Montana and Lombard Montana. Snow plows work daily as a thaw is not in sight. Passenger and crew members seek shelter with ranches or towns while provisions move to the freight crew at Harlotown.
A Dakota girl reports a poisoned candy package mailed to Pierre and eaten early in the week. Miss Rena Nelson, living on a Pierre area farm, is accused of sending the poison to a Boone Iowa married woman due to jealousy over a friendship with the husband. The box originated in Boone Iowa and corrosive substance was identified by the state chemist.
Miss I sip Foster of Kyinsville defies illness to testify for Hassell Tates in a Denver murder trial. Despite warned by her doctor she died in hospital after an appendix operation. Tates is found guilty. Fridbornaml is sentenced to life in prison based on her testimony.
A prominent Indiana coal operator says miners and operators in Liliana Wigons Ohio and western Pennsylvania have agreed on wage scales for the coming year and deny strike plans. The report notes a reduction of 25 cents per ton in certain seams and cites a fatal powder explosion at the H O N erbanul Company vault near Latrobe killing Patrick Quittro and injuring twenty one others. Fire destroys facilities and causes heavy losses, with authorities noting origin of the blaze as unknown after smoke and flames shut down nearby offices and the Lake Shore Hotel.
Reports describe naval exchanges near Vinlivestok with ships trading blasts and brief combat. Streets in Atoka witness dynamite explosions amid anti federal convention protests. A rail line damage is noted. Reed Smoot controversy cited as Mormon church revelations are deemed higher than laws in testimony.
A $100,000 fire at a Perth Amboy building housing Reynolds & Chan and other firms was sparked by unknown causes. Authorities say no youth initiated the blaze. The incident led to extensive property damage and legal actions as several suspects face consequences. among them is an alleged English nobleman, Lord Frederick Seymour Barrington, reportedly sentenced to death in St. Louis for a horseman murder.
Rev. Russell N. Conwell of the Baptist Temple Philadelphia declares modern churches die slowly from pastor and parish indifference. He cites countless movements and offshoots draining the parent church and notes the M C A attracts churchgoers with books and gyms. He urges a return to the first teachings of Christ.
A report from White Earth Minnesota cites an Indian preacher’s account of a Chippewa man killing and eating his wife and daughter for food amid a hard winter. The story notes conditions among northern Indians and contrasts them with White Earth.
Daniel Cushing brother of I B Cushing of Southern Pacific was abducted from a Dellie Texas station base by a group of men. A note in Cushing’s handwriting demanded a ransom of six thousand dollars. He was later released the following morning and returned to a section house near Del Rio.
The Senate debated a bill amending DC dairy laws and discussed Philippine shipping. An amendment defers the bill by a year, and another postpones its operation to 1906. House action includes fixing maximum DC telephone charges and processing Indian and other appropriation measures.
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