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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1909
Page
2
Kalamazoo suffers a major blaze destroying three quarters of a million dollars in property. Five firemen injured, sixteen guests driven into the streets, and most of a business district burned. Fire departments from Kalamazoo Battle Creek and Grand Rapids fought the flames all night.
A posse pursues O E Boley a gardener who escaped Massillon State Hospital and attended prayer at a Methodist church. After church he shot Sheriff Bell who died an hour later. Utica Ohio wrecks fire wipes town. 35 hotel guests escape, one dies. Wabash Train No 52 wreck near Detroit injuring several including engineer F M Richardson.
In a winter gale on Lake Erie the freighter W C Richardson of Cleveland sank about half a mile from Buffalo harbor. Five crewmen died while fourteen were saved by the propeller William A Pine. The flax seed cargo worth 400000 dollars was fully insured.
The British ship Johanna carrying sugar from Nolio to Philadelphia sank at sea near Santo Domingo. Captain Nickerson reported the loss of twenty five crewmen, with no further fate details provided.
Crowded galleries witness the start of the Sixty-first Congress as both houses convene with full attendance. Bills are deposited for consideration and tributes are paid to late members while new members are sworn in. A New York representative introduces a resolution urging use of U.S. force to arrest President Zelaya of Nicaragua for murder and demanding remedies.
Judge Cabaniss set Abraham Ruef free on eight hundred thousand bail following medical reports by court appointed physicians. Ruef, jailed since November, faced a previous bail forfeiture after the Heney shooting. He remains under a fourteen year State prison sentence for bribing a supervisor to secure a trolley franchise for the United Railroads.
Police identify Max Cohen as the man whose body was recovered near Loomis street bridge after a fatal crash that killed his fiancée Beatrice Shapiro. Cohen reportedly attempted to free Shapiro as their car plunged into the Chicago River near Jackson Boulevard bridge on November 7. Shapiro’s body has not been found.
Mrs. Mann receives facial burns after a masked stranger throws vitriol at her door. Doctors say the disfigurement will be deep but eyes saved. A note from her husband mentions threats to kill. Also noted: Bellevue Hastings merger plans forming Mevue College with $500,000 endowment. Two men die in a factory acetylene tank explosion in Philadelphia.
State's Attorney Alexander Wilson says Arthur Alexander will not be brought back from Urbana for trial due to local sentiment following the Cairo murder of Anna Pelley. No indictments are expected against those who allegedly participated in the double lynching.
Deputy Sheriff Conway Crowley was shot and likely fatally wounded near the Colonial Steel Company plant at Monaca, near Pittsburgh, after defying a mob of foreign strikers who had pulled down the American flag and raised a black flag. The incident followed workers removing the flag and gathering around the pole as police attempted to remove the black emblem.
Testimony from the coroner's inquest focused on whether mine officers acted promptly to rescue miners and if adequate protection for miners at work was provided and maintained by the mining company.
Chicago capitalists back a 240000 dollar speedway project in Chicago. Kentucky 1909 tobacco crop near 400000400 pounds, per Louisville banks from county correspondents. Vast corn fields buried by heavy snow at Huron South Dakota. harvest hindered by lack of farm help. Secretary James Wilson says US corn production reached 2767160000 bushels. farmers hold 19799000 bushels, 3 percent of 1908 crop. last year’s crop 2668651000 bushels with 2.7 percent in farmers’ hands by November 1.
The State Department in Washington announced William J. Calhoun of Chicago as minister to China on Monday. Born in Pittsburgh in 1918, he has long been a leading Illinois figure, with a career including service on the Interstate Commerce Commission and a 1905 Venezuela mission that influenced Monroe Doctrine principles.
Mrs Dori Doxey faces a first degree murder charge for allegedly poisoning William J Erder with white arsenic in St Louis after his death. The case rests on a medical analysis of Erder’s exhumed body by Warren of Washington University. Doxey, held in Columbus Nebraska, reportedly collected life insurance totals of 2700 and 500 on Erder and his sister.
Mrs. Frank M. Dickerson aged 49 was found stabbed to death at a doorway of a store and flat building in Detroit. Her husband, charged with her death, is badly wounded with probable fatal injuries. She reportedly left him four months earlier citing alleged cruelty.
Frank Grimes, a black man convicted of killing Blanche McKnight, killed himself in his Columbus Ohio county jail cell. He had been sentenced to die in the electric chair on March 27.
A Kenton man settles with a conscience stricken thief who admits stealing fowls from Mr. Taylor twenty eight years ago. The thief plans to become an evangelist and paid $20 in cash to Mr. Taylor to settle the matter. The note also mentions William Jennings Bryan touring the Southwest and plans for a future Senate race. Justice Brewer weighs in on women’s suffrage predicting gradual progress through education and public life.
The Times reports affidavits from Captain August W. Loose and George F. Dumbie alleging Dr Frederick A. Ceak hired them for Arctic data, promising $4,000 but paying only $260 before an explorer vanished. The account outlines how observations were prepared to fit Cook's narrative and questions whether Cook adopted Loose's data.
A report states robbers mistreated Mrs. Hallis Cummings and her father A. Roberson on a houseboat near Shawnee Arkansas. Both victims were found dead aboard the boat, signaling a violent robbery case under investigation.
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