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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
1
Brief telegraph roundup from foreign shores reports on noteworthy events, with a focus on crimes, fires, and miscellaneous incidents. The column provides rapid summaries of multiple items, highlighting standout records and notable developments from abroad.
Fire in Fisher Michigan gutted C H Worcester & Co lumber yards and large mill complex. High winds fanned flames that consumed saw mills, planing mill, schoolhouse, factory dwellings, hospital, two lumber yards and depot, leaving about 200 homeless. Loss projected over 200000 dollars with partial insurance.
Captain Alfred Dreyfus has left Geneva with his wife and arrived in Paris a French dispatch to the New York Herald reports. The government is anxious over the unlooked for journey and will take measures to have him depart quickly due to fear of demonstrations.
A tank exploded at the A. G. Wykoff gasoline storehouse in Raritan New York. Firefighters battled flames as a second tank blew up engulfing and severely burning A H Conyne and A J Chamberlain. Recovery chances appear slim. Also, Assistant US Attorney General Boyd ruled money order and travelers' check issuers are not liable to broker taxes.
John Hayes and his stepchild were killed in Pelican Point Utah and Elias children in Provo City Utah, while Rev Charles O'Shea or Rev William Tyron sits jailed in Chillicothe Ohio. He claims multiple wives in Ashton West Virginia Circleville Ohio and others unnamed. He toured towns holding revival services, drew many converts and fostered love affairs with women. He has confessed past horse stealing time at Mansfield reform school and other undisclosed admissions.
In Bowling Green Ohio a dog belonging to J E Wadman dragged part of a corpse into a house during dinner hours. The severed hand and upper body of a woman were found, likely dead about two days, with a palm burned. Witnesses heard screams and shots near the old glass factory wasteland, and sightings described a man and a distressed woman on a nearby railroad track as evening fell.
Wellington R Burt of Saginaw Mich sues Lake Superior Consolidated Iron and Rockefeller iron ore interests in Duluth alleging attempts to form a monopoly by keeping ore properties dormant and fixing freight rates. Suit also claims a lease was violated by under mining and seeks to set aside the lease. A separate Ohio suit challenges a Bellevue license ordinance after grocers were fined for selling without licenses. Diamonds worth 10000 seized in Lexington Ky from a San Francisco couple trying to sell at 6000. Two Ohio villages West Brookfield and Navarre burned with major losses. Cambridge alderman F P Rourke fined 1000 for kicking a boy last May.
A major blaze at the Mellowee Hotel on Delavan Lake results in total loss valued around 15000. The property owner is H. W. Week. Authorities suspect incendiary causes amid the dramatic fire sequence.
R G Dun reports mixed recovery from high prices with reductions delayed as capacity remains tied up. Production rises, unsold stocks grow, wool yields edge up, cotton goods demand weak, and weekly U S failures total 192 versus 165 last year while Canada shows 15 failures versus 20.
Mrs Lena Anderson and her 8 year old daughter Mary Olesen burned to death in South Omaha Nebraska after Mrs Anderson filled a stove with corn cobs and gasoline mistaking it for coal oil. Axel Olesen the son was severely burned and his life is despaired of after a match caused a massive explosion blowing the stove apart and engulfing the room in flames.
In New York Annie Gumbart a 35 year old widow killed her 10 year old daughter Annie by giving poison then drank the potion and died. In her death agony she forced the cup to her other daughter Katie 44 who spat out the poison and survived. The mother died from insanity linked to terminal illness and fear of death.
A Big Four express from Cincinnati was halted by twenty hoboes near Middletown Ohio. Trainmen complied at gunpoint. the men vanished into darkness after leaping from the moving train. No passengers were robbed. scene caused excitement among riders.
T E Stockdale a traveling man with Chicago headquarters committed suicide in the Union Hotel Burlington Iowa by turning on the gas. Tapers found in his pockets indicated financial trouble. Also reports describe Corbett outpointed by Jeffries in New York after a long heavyweight bout and a family murder in Italy amid insanity.
Three Chicago criminals named as planners and executors of the Paris Bank of France robbery two months earlier. Police report the group including Jerry Daley known as Kid Morris and Mickey Gleason, said to have operated in Chicago for years. No arrests will occur without Paris’s formal request.
The Czar signs a bill passed unanimously by the Council of State to abolish exile to Siberia. Deportation without trial ends and mass transportation stops. Central prisons will be built for temporary confinement of convicts.
Horatio R. Harper, publisher and Harper & Brothers director, lies in Sands Point L I after a frightful horse attack that tore his upper lip and threatens lifelong disfigurement. The accident has stunned thousands of friends and drawn wide regret. Separately Detroit hosts the formation of the National Chair Association, uniting seventy chairmakers with officers including G W Cann president and Nels Johnston treasurer.
Advices from Samoa state that the American flag has been raised over Tutuila amid native rejoicing and that chiefs have ceded the island to the United States. In Manua, residents request the flag be hoisted and the island likewise ceded. In Arkansas, J S Estes fatally wounds Dr J O Cook at Pine Bluff. bystander Samuel Flies wounded in the leg as Estes fires six shots.
A powder mill of the Indiana Powder Company in a ravine near Fontanet blew up with terrific force after workers had quit. The blast caused heavy property damage and significant loss.
Regular summer shut down of flint and green glass factories will proceed this year despite efforts to stop it. Plants will close from four to eight weeks starting June 15. Robert Wet ze] attempted suicide after losing $3.40 by jumping from the Brooklyn Bridge. Judge Richard Yates of Jacksonville is nominated for Governor by Illinois Republicans.
Chicago markets show cattle common to prime at 5.04, hogs 5.00 to 5.50, sheep 4.00 to 6.00. wheat No 2 ped 64 to 65c, corn No 2 40 to 41c, oats No 2 22 to 28c, butter 0.20, eggs 0.12 to 0.13. Prices across St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York listed for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye clover seed and more.
British commander Lord Roberts reports the occupation of Kroonstad and near-control of the Orange Free State. Boers retreat toward the Vaal river while British forces press from the east and south with Buller and other generals advancing. High mobility and superior numbers keep the campaign moving toward Pretoria.
The U S Senate voted 22 to 24 against the direct proposition to erect a government armor plate factory for warships, with amendments also rejected. Senator Chandler charged fraud in armor plans and urged building both a plate and steel plant at estimated costs of 1,500,000 and 500,000, arguing it would keep the nation independent in armor production. Senator Stewart supported government armor manufacture to prevent profiteering and to ensure self sufficiency as a rising world power.
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