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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1905
Page
1
Dispatches report Finland and Russia importing rifles and revolvers to aid a revolutionary movement. A Tokio special confirms Admiral Togo’s battleship Mikasa sank after a mysterious fire reached the aft magazine, with heavy loss of life.
Sheriff FE M Hudson returned to Hartford City from Bowling Green Ohio with Patrick McFall who is alleged to have shot Ollie Walker during the glass workers riot last fall. The shooting stems from a fight between two glass workers unions and continues to draw labor interest this year.
After nearly twenty years Z F Vauga of Los Angeles claims to have found a method to temper gold silver and copper into a steel like alloy. The process is used to make springs knives and needles from precious metals. A company is formed to manufacture hypodermic needles suture needles and surgical instruments from pure gold.
A cyclone south of Brazil Indiana devastated a strip twelve miles long and twenty yards wide. Large trees uprooted, outbuildings and grain stacks leveled, several houses damaged but no injuries reported. Estimated damage amounts to thousands of dollars. India drought relief estimated at five million dollars needed for Raj Puntana region and Punjab relief efforts.
Babeldies in multiple townships in Lagrange and Steuben counties commit subsidies totaling 57 300 dollars to the St Joseph Valley Railroad Company and insure the electric line extension from Lagrange to Angola linking with Toledo and Western College Building Burned. The Agricultural College at Logan Utah reports the mechanical arts building totally destroyed by fire causing about 50 000 dollars loss with suspected arson.
Lloyd Williams accused furniture dealer Fred McLauchlan of coercing him to support the latter's aged father under threat to reveal Williams as a former criminal to his wife and employers. Williams reported to Hyde Park police, saying he was forced to care for the mother-in-law and faced ruin without continued payments.
Two prisoners from Wapakoneta Ohio confess wealthy farmers hired them to dynamite the Grand reservoir gates twice aiming to flood St Marys and surrounding country. They implicate Isaac Sheely and his sons John and Lee along with C J Uiesecker and Fred Beherens, alleging land hooding angered the farmers.
A circulating report claims a $20 million consolidation of Carleton Dry Goods Company and Hargardine-McKittrick Dry Goods Company with William Barr Dry Goods Company in St. Louis. The plan allegedly includes Scarritt Furniture and Scruggs Vandervoort Burney, with capitalization at 20 million dollars.
Antonia Coletta died with her two under ten children while attempting to rescue them from a crowded East Seventy First Street tenement fire in New York. Coletta carried his invalid wife to the roof where she escaped to an adjoining building.
A riot at St Louis de Mole Quebec injured Salvationists after a religious clash as police and residents intervened. At the Minnesota State Fair a Ferris wheel accident killed Mrs Leventhal and badly injured Mr Leventhal. A bad crop outlook and a Utah lightning tragedy add to a day of calamities.
The body of Alfred Krattinger, a public accountant from West Fifty-second Street, was found in a Sixth Avenue hotel room with escaping gas. No suicide signs. a bruise near the temple and tampered registration suggest homicide. Brothers expect a diamond pin and cash missing. killer believed to have fled through a Sixth Avenue window.
Widespread famine fears in Rajputana drive large scale emigration as crops fail due to drought. Authorities anticipate cholera risk with the movement. Food prices rise and export wheat trade is disrupted, with distress relief efforts under way across British India.
A disastrous incident along streams in Roger Mills and nearby areas reports multiple drownings. In Sayre area three children of Mrs. Susith of Paehto Colorado perished in a small stream while en route to Cheyenne. Four others drowned in Pine Creek with youths aged 11 to 16, and one man, Francis Holliday, 28, was killed by lightning near Almon, Oklahoma.
A 7 year old boy Leonard Works, identified as a youth from Niles,Ohio, was caught near the rear of the First National Bank with a skeleton key attempting entry. He had previously been involved in a bank robbery and likely faces institutional care for delinquency.
A Mc Connellsville marshal TL i Porter was instantly killed on a street by Woodie Stewart brother of Morgan County clerk, noted for years as of unsound mind but never violent before this incident. The case follows other scattered headlines from the era.
Oil magnate Rockefeller predicts a national downturn in 1907 08 with 7 to 10 million idle workers, based on overproduction. Col W N Moore, president of the National Good Roads Association, cites the statement and urges legislation to create jobs building roads before peril arrives.
The Interior Department may stop all liquor sales in Indian country north of Fort Snelling, shutting saloons and liquor stores in Minneapolis Duluth St. Cloud Moorhead Crookston and many smaller towns. The district attorney says enforcement would create an effective ban impossible to lift without Congress action. The ruling relies on Judge Lochren Morris decisions and a 1803 treaty with Indians in the Red River valley.
Burglars seized thousands of yards of silk in Quincy and Keota Iowa and shipments to Chicago were suspected. Police search for the goods follows raids on multiple stores as investigators chase ties to a Chicago gang led by a former kingpin.
Chicago reports indicate sustained general strength with notable grain market weakness due to smaller offerings and low wheat prices. Rail and pig iron demand remain robust, building needs push lumber prices higher, and overall commodity movements stay large. Bank clearings exceed 1904 levels, with money demand broad and prime mercantile rates 4.2 to 6 percent. failures in Chicago districts total 10 for the week.
Grain and livestock prices listed for Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee and others. Cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs and potatoes shown with bid ranges and grade designations from various markets.
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