This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 22 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1905
Page
2
In BrutennAustria a collision between German and Czech crowd meetings led to troop intervention. About 160 injured and police stations damaged as windows shattered. Both sides postpone protests to Oct 10, marking Count Louis Batthyanyl’s 1849 execution anniversary. No change in political crisis.
A Chicago Great Western stock train moving about twenty miles per hour struck a Soo line passenger train just after leaving Union station. Two Pullman sleepers were hurled over a retaining wall into a gully twenty feet below, both wrecked. One woman died at St Joseph's Hospital. nine others were seriously injured and a score more lightly hurt.
A Chee Foo dispatch reports the coasting steamer Isiesho traveling Shanghai to Tien Tsin was destroyed by a mine ninety miles south of the Shantung promontory. Fifteen aboard perished including Engineers Mauchan and Muir. Spaniards Riot at Sargassa Circus Show. A Madrid dispatch notes a riot during a circus performance injuring many as police restore order. Lion tamer Miss Aimee Blondell was severely mauled by the trick lion Roosevelt. U S cavalrymen killed the lion to save her, but she is expected to die.
An eastbound Great Northern passenger train was stopped ten miles from Seattle by a gang of bandits. Hundreds of shots were exchanged with the train crew and the express car was blown apart by three dynamite charges. Sherif Sith organized a posse to the scene with no immediate report of fatalities.
The Philippines governor general notified the war department that five officers, one postal clerk, six passengers, and twenty seven crew members of the coast guard cutter Leyte were lost in the wreck caused by the destructive storm of September 26 off Samar. Full details are being received.
Attractions at the Masonic Temple Theatre in Fort Wayne include Her Only Sin on Oct 9 and 10 and The Hoosier Girl on Oct 11 and 12 with matinee and night performances. Alvin Joslin appears for the Oct schedule. Also noted is a $10,000,000 Rockefeller gift to the General Education Board paid in cash in New York City last June.
Carlton, Brooklyn's blue beard, pleaded guilty to bigamy and was sentenced by Judge Aspin in the Supreme Court to serve ten years in Sing Sing. Separately, Pat Crowe was arrested while Val Crowe, sought by Omaha police for the 1900 kidnapping of millionaire packer Edward Cudahy's son, was captured in Butte, Montana.
Two Chicago men, John T. Ryan and Edward Greene, aboard a Wabash express car, exchanged revolver fire for miles after a joke dispute. Each was shot three times. Greene jumped from the car near Decatur and was later found unable to run, likely fatally wounded.
A bomb filled with dynamite and inflammable material was hurled at the rear of a crowded Eighth Avenue tenement at 148th Street. More than twenty occupants were awakened by the blast and two were carried out unconscious as flames spread to the rear walls. Police suspect Black Hand as the attacker targeting an Italian barber shop on the ground floor.
Gov Hoch pledges to extend anti saloon enforcement beyond Kansas City to every city in Kansas backed by Speaker Tubbs and the state GOP. An assistant attorney general will prosecute violators as he battles the wet forces seeking renomination. In Nebraska a judge rules an insurance policy covers death by own action and Ohio probes the Harvester combine amid farmer uproar over pricing.
National City Bank of New York linked to two sensational affairs. The bank allegedly parted with securities valued at 350000 in exchange for a forged check. Authorities anticipate no refunding operation in government bonds with profit amid suspected Treasury Department leaks. A separate report notes an arsenic poisoning attempt to kill Jon Williamson's Washington Indiana family after a funeral visit. The pan is contaminated with arsenic and could endanger the father and three children.
Henry A. Leonard, a clerk for Halle Stieglitz, confessed to robbing the National City Bank of securities valued at 359000. He was arrested on the way to church and lived with his mother in Harlem. He planned the theft over several months to show how easily such schemes could be executed on New York banks.
The Porte maintains its opposition to international financial control in Macedonia after a Sept 26 collective note from six powers. The deadlock stalls the powers plans as financial controller delegates reach Salonika but wait idle for the Porte to issue entry orders.
Commissioner Richards forwards the annual general land office report for the year ending June 30 detailing public and Indian lands disposed of, with acres entered under homestead timber and stone desert and swamp land patents, and totals surpassing prior years. Also reports murder suspect identified in Topeka cases, inmate at Kansas State Asylum, a suicide by forgery suspect, a bank burglary near Napinka Manitoba, a former bank president convicted for misappropriation, a drowning expert swimmer, and forecast of a great commercial war due to tariff revisions.
Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission faces freight rate cases with projected losses of about 1.0004 KKD for the railroads in the state. Ely Foundry burned in Pittsburg caused about 200000 damage, fully insured. Fourteen dramatic disasters follow including cremations in Iowa and fatal injuries from dynamite in Ohio and Indiana.
Detroit reports show over 74000 railroad men are paid up in the Y M C A railroad department. Membership rose by 12000 in two years with 130 buildings valued at more than 2250000. Last year 2000 men studied in education classes. six traveling secretaries serve the program nationwide.
Grace Brennemen an 18 year old girl from Lindsey Ohio takes over her sick father's repair work at Lindsey Home Telephone Company. She rides a buggy each afternoon with tools and wire to climb poles and fix lines, earning neighbors' admiration as she performs lineman tasks.
William Harrington attacked Charles Martin with a baseball bat as he defended his 16 year old daughter from an alleged assault. Martin died in hospital from a fractured skull. Ernest Bloom was severely injured in the melee.
Diana Earns Fortune on an isolated Peckla homestead near Bemidji. Clara Olsen, 24, born without legs and Swedish immigrant, filed on her claim seven years ago and now runs a paying farm employing three men while directing operations from a wheelchair. In winter she uses a small box sled for travel.
The late Count de Hrazza relays a report detailing French forces in the French Congo committing atrocities rivaling those in the Congo Free State. The account emphasizes brutal acts and widespread suffering attributed to colonial authorities.
Headie Perkins, a white woman, received a ten year penitentiary term in Maginella Mississippi for marrying and living with a negro named Robert Brown. In other news, the battleship Mississippi was launched in Philadelphia with sponsor Mise Mabel Money, daughter of Senator Money.
Washington welcomed President Roosevelt and family back from Sagamore Hill. The capital crowd, estimated around 50 000, saw him appear vigorous as he prepared to tackle government duties. He plans to appoint a public printer, decide canal options, reconvene the Tague tribunal, and draft his annual message, with rail rate reforms likely to be debated.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.