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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1905
Page
2
A gas explosion in St Marys Ohio destroyed two buildings and damaged nearby plate glass. Night Watchman WF Smith was killed after noticing a burning jet in a saloon owned by William Belt and opening the door to shut off the gas. The blast wrecked the saloon and a nearby blacksmith shop. The shock was felt across the city.
City of Mexico dispatch says the Catholic bank, once backed by high clergy, has shut its doors after deposits were withdrawn. The bank reportedly held about 800000 dollars, mostly from poorer customers, with a receiver yet to be appointed.
A seven foot tidal wave from Lake Michigan wrecked dock property at Wauke gan JL, injuring one steamer Tiora with a hole in its side and damaging two harbor tugs. Detroit reports 149 lives lost and nearly $7,000,000 in losses across the lakes in the most disastrous season.
Mine No.1 at Kemmerer Coal and Coke in Diamondville Wyoming wrecked by explosion. Twenty one dead and thirty three entombed. Mine on fire with little chance of rescuers reaching imprisoned workers. Coal barge Deltewanna sinks after towboat Scrantonfoundered off Minots. Captain George D B Muns, wife, engineer and cook drown. one survivor saved by tug. Yellow fever cases rise in Cuba with four suspected cases and one autopsy.
A massive blaze wiped out the Curon Lumber Company mill and yards ten miles from treeswood West Virginia. Several million feet of lumber burned. Dr WA Collins of Geneva Indiana was killed when struck near the incident. A passenger train was derailed and the horse perished.
Aissauido, 87, an Italian resident, was killed near his Chicago home by unknown assailants suspected to be members of the imatia. Police arrested three suspects, all Italians, in connection with the shooting.
In Terre Haute Indiana the Stahl Urban & Co working men clothing factory was destroyed by a blaze. The loss is reported at 8125000 with unknown property damage and no immediate details on casualties or causes.
Charles Books an employee at the Elkhart paper mill in Indiana was killed when his coat caught in a line shaft. He was mangled in the machinery as the incident occurred.
Five persons were badly injured in a head on collision between eastbound double header passenger train No. 16 and a freight train on the B and O railroad east of Hammond Indiana. The collision was caused by misinterpretation of orders.
Ernest Peugnet son of E P Peugnet of St Louis died by shooting himself in Carthage Missouri. Cause of death attributed to self harm not fully known. Colonel Peugnet is described as a millionaire by local reports.
A head on crash one mile from Albion Indiana on the Baltimore and Ohio line killed five trainmen and fatally injured one other man. The wreck occurred in dense fog as a work train collided with a gravel train.
Cuban police raided a house near San Juan De Martinez in Pinar Del Rio arresting anti government plotters. Dozens of conspirators were captured during the raid.
Chicago University football team edged Michigan 2 to 0 to claim the Cre West crown by a hair in a dramatic late-game sequence. Eckersall’s punt near the goal line set up the safety when Badenock tackled Caplin, sealing Chicago’s unexpected victory.
Minister Nerbert G. Squiers resigns as envoy to Cuba in protest of a reprimand by Secretary Root for encouraging Americans in the Isle of Pines to push a territorial government. Eawin Vo Morgan to succeed him. interview with a New York paper and a Ravens paper editor triggered the fallout.
Richard A L McCurdy resigns as president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company and its trustees accept the resignation. Robert H McCurdy son of the founder and Louis A J Thebaud retirements are noted. Frederick Cromwell named interim president and trustees may elect a new chief at the next meeting. The board's investigative committee will continue work today.
Bishop Scannell issued a notice prohibiting Catholics in his diocese from attending or supporting the marriage of a divorced person to a living partner. Several prominent Catholic families attended the ceremony or reception, and the bishop said they excommunicated themselves by participating.
Industrial conditions in Chicago show steady production at high volume with ample demand for iron steel machinery and hardware. Freight pressures, strong forward orders, and expanding manufacturing plants reflect confidence, while retail wear and holiday wholesale trade rise despite some slow reorder activity and rapid weathered goods demand.
The report lists grain and cattle prices by city including Cincinnati Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee and New York with figures for wheat corn oats rye and butter mirrored from market listings. It also notes smallpox in Para Brazil and a new Cleveland Buffalo boat line led by George P Rand with daily service beginning next spring.
A poem recounts a pursual to Rainbowville, traveling from a distant place through fields and orchards past willow and poison ivy. The speaker and companion endure cold and hunger, keeping faith that fortune favors the journey. Decades pass, yet the quest continues toward Rainbowville as described in the Washington Star excerpt.
The narrator recalls Muriel revealing her engagement to a knight of her heart after years of friendship and unrequited love. He accepts the news with difficulty, vows friendship, and imagines their future while Muriel prepares for marriage, leaving him to cope with a life changed.
Jonas Elering a Bronx resident and philosopher praises large families as citizenship builders. He plans a four story $25,000 apartment near his home for his daughters and their families, facing building-department scrutiny and a boarded front door.
A San Francisco editor notes an old paper ad claiming a man found a pocket book with a large sum on California Street and asked the loser to reclaim it. The reply stated the recognized finder would return the money if the loser called at his house.
A fragmentary account describes a fisherman asking a local native about fishing in a river bend area. The native replies the fishing is not good, while hinting at the value of the fisherman's time and unknown local conditions. The text contains distorted names and unclear quotations from a Philadelphia Press source.
A Cleveland Leader item notes a cashier mix up with a humorous misprint and stumbles in handling customer requests. The anecdote highlights printing quirks and reader amusement from the local paper.
A Cleveland Leader quip about calling a chophouse a place for a hatchet steak prompts a bemused exchange. Separate witticisms note women mend feuds by gossip and a street-railway store owner avoids recommending walking as exercise, reflecting humorous observations.
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