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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1903
Page
2
Six inmates at the Malahi military prison in Laguna DeRay allege maltreatment in a Washington routed complaint. They describe tainted meat, chaining with hands overhead for hours without food or water, and repeated denial of supper after refusing to work.
United States consuls report ports near Venezuela closed by President Castro. The State Department instructs that decrees blocking commerce must be disregarded except where the government actually controls the ports. The policy follows the department’s standards in similar cases.
A 10 year old son of Michael Hart near Crown Point Indiana defended his parents property in their absence with a double barreled shotgun and fatally wounded an Italian boy rummaging the house. The parents left the boy in charge of the farm home near an Italian railroad camp and he fired both barrels into the intruder.
A Vancouver special reports widespread floods across southern British Columbia with entire valleys in the Kootenays submerged. Drownings occur near Silverton as Mr and Mrs Ward W Henry Moet and Bardo Anderson are noted dead. Landon mining town sits in a canyon as residents dynamite buildings and bridges to prevent a dam and town destruction.
The board of construction of the Navy Department recommended to the Secretary of the Navy acceptance of bids from Newport News Shipbuilding, New York Shipbuilding, and Fore River Ship and Engine for the three 16,000-ton battleships. No action has been taken yet.
A colored man thought to be Toby Jones attacked Mrs. Smith in South Marion Indiana, injuring her severely. Police pursued Jones for miles, firing several shots, but he escaped. A searching party roams the countryside, with a lynching risk if captured.
A forest fire near Ely Lake has burned through standing timber and destroyed thousands of dollars in cordwood. With fires visible in a dozen directions, heavy timber losses loom unless rainfall arrives soon.
Records show 30 72 colonists passed Ogden Utah and El Paso Texas gates to the Pacific coast between Feb 15 and June 5, indicating an unusually heavy flow to California and other far West states.
Reports from St. Petersburg warn of severe famine across the trans-Caspian territories as a locust swarm devastates grain and fruit crops. Turkestan already suffers famine as pests multiply beyond control.
The Dublin Daily Express reports tremors were felt in Skirries county causing frightened residents and shaken houses, with no damage reported.
Dispatch from St Clair Michigan reports a major blaze at the Thompson gait block nearly total loss with only one shed spared. Estimated damage runs to about 100000 dollars.
Two thousand paper makers walkout at Holyoke Massachusetts affecting every one of the twenty eight local mills. They demand a general wage increase and threat of shutdown hangs over the industry.
Paris dispatch reports M. Bertaux and Guyot De Villeneuve of the chamber of deputies fought a duel following a violent quarrel inside the assembly.
The Baptist Church in Byron Minnesota was blown up with dynamite on Friday at 1 o'clock. Tensions rose after Rev. M Utton left the Baptist church and joined the Methodist Church in Lanesboro.
Fire destroyed the greater part of Randshburg California’s business section. The blaze began in the Orpheon Theater and spread rapidly to surrounding blocks. The loss is estimated at 100,090 dollars and most buildings reported as flimsy structures.
News brief highlights include Daniel J. Sully's cotton campaign end and $20,000 distributed to associates, Newport fashion of long flowing hair, Celestine Garling's suicide note to her husband, Mary Morse's marriage beside her father’s coffin, Jerome Park reservoir safety concerns with over $500,000 repair estimates, a deadly chemical fire at W. J. Gilmore Co. in Pittsburgh, ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed's estate value, a hotel arrest for postal fraud, a threatened anthracite miners' strike, a fatal mistaken identity by a hotel night watchman, George Gould's Pittsburgh railroad entry push, and a Buffalo storage fire with heavy losses.
A wide array of incidents and leadership changes ripple across the country. Freight moves from Cleveland to Chicago while a Tarkio fire destroys Midland Manufacturing. drought damages New England farmers. a Wisconsin mob is halted by militia. and a Ohio Governor hopeful is named at a Republican convention.
News from Madison Illinois across the river from St Louis reports fifteen American Car and Foundry Works employees drowned at 1 am while trying to save property. About 150 more workers are in danger as floods spread across towns in Kansas and surrounding areas.
Reports from across the United States show varied wage scales and rising union activity. Carpenters in Boston and nearby seek three dollars daily. San Francisco builders demand $2.25 for eight hours. Cleveland laborers request two dollars and eighty six cents per day. Eleven new unions form in Winona. West Virginia blacksmiths unionize. temperance-only hiring pushes emerge in Findlay. international workers in Canada and Britain discuss weekly pay and political candidates. A surge in child labor awareness and broader labor movement sentiments accompany these developments, with a call to organize national labor temple funding and immigration debates noted.
Drought affects eastern farm products while labor disputes disrupt distribution and trades. May railway earnings exceed 190? levels, and pig iron contracts show activity with $10.55 at Pittsburgh. Steel rails, structural steel, and iron markets face strikes, but demand from trolley lines remains urgent and exports reach high levels.
Edwin Wadsworth Longfellow travels home from the Orient aboard the American Maru after world touring. In San Francisco the Republic Theater burns, $25,000 damage. New Lisbon Wisconsin suffers near total destruction with losses around $100,000 as Stinson Brothers store and other firms burn. firemen struggle with limited water supplies.
Floods kill 75 to 100, wiping out large cotton mills and causing about 2 million dollars in losses in Spartanburg South Carolina. Other incidents include hangings, shootings, a fatal train washout near Sumter, a Texas street shooting, and the dedication of a new Mississippi capitol with thousands attending. 刘
A mob in Belleville hanged W T Wyatt, an East St Louis teacher, two hours after he shot county superintendent Charles Hertel who had refused to renew his teaching certificate. Wyatt, a Michigan graduate, was accused of immorality, but the mob burned his body after the execution. Hertel was hospital bound with a chest wound. State's Attorney Farmer will pursue leaders.
A Sunday noon collision off the Maire Islands between the Liban and Insulaire, both Fraissenet line steamers from Marseilles, drove the Liban aground and sank. The Balkan and Blechamp aided in rescue, with about 100 passengers and crew lost and many survivors reported.
Market reports show cattle and hog prices varying by city with New York, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, Buffalo and Chicago among key centers. Corn wheat oats rye and butter prices are listed with No. 2 grades and various quality notes. figures range from $4.00 to $8.50 for cattle and $0.47 to $0.86 for grains.
A statewide digest notes Warrick County funding for a new courthouse. Accidents claim miners in Coal Bluff and a young Arcadia girl dies of lung hemorrhage. Rock road contracts near Patoka Township set at 52520 dollars. Multiple injuries and deaths follow falls, electrocutions, fires, and a train strike in various towns. Health board quarantines smallpox cases near Dundee and officials discuss land titles and ditch projects in Starke and Laporte counties.
Miss Jean Reid convalesces after an appendicitis operation. Ex President Harrison papers go to John S. Griffiths for a forthcoming life, due in two years. Chevalier Serra sails from San Francisco to Italy and is said to have gone for good. Count Grimani arrives, adding intrigue to Serra’s retirement tale.
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