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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1903
Page
2
A grim statewide case unfolds as Gov Savage suspends execution amid a murder conviction. The court weighs an application as Rhea and Andee Holmes face a final chance before a likely date set for the sentence.
A rail disaster left several injured and at least one dead. The incident occurred near an unnamed location with injuries reported across multiple passengers and crew. Emergency crews transported the wounded to nearby hospitals for treatment.
A Pennsylvania bound freight wreck near Redcoh Tuuinction to Madisonville results in multiple deaths and severe injuries. Robert Copenhagen and Grace Copenhagen die, along with William Poole. Mrs Copenhagen, Willum Booth, and an unknown man are fatally injured. Charles Johnson and Copenhagen’s 2 year old child may recover. The wagon and mules escaped unharmed.
Miss Henrietta Distler, 18, killed herself in Cincinnati after discovering her fiancé was her brother George, 20. The siblings, orphaned as children, were raised separately after adoption and only learned their relationship amid an intense romance. Distler consumed Paris green and died several hours later after an emotional interview. The article notes a “furious race war” following the events.
In Evansville Indiana a mob twice blocked by twenty five policemen failed to lynch Lee Brown the black slayer of Patrolman Tonis N Massey. A race war seemed imminent as gates were smashed and mobs pressed toward the jail while black residents gathered in a threatening crowd.
Second autopsy at Caldwell New Jersey on Col W J Best who died in San Rafael California found the body opened before and sawdust inserted with the stomach and other organs removed. Doctors said precautions avoided light on cause of death and could not determine if irritant poisons were involved.
Gov. Durbin forbids an immediate bearing for Brown in Evansville as Judge Rasch orders Brown to be returned from Jeffersonville. Sheriff Kratz will guard the prisoner en route to Evansville where his trial for the Masacy killing may be rushed if venue changes fail. Evansville endures a tense quiet with 400 soldiers around the courthouse, saloons closed, factories idled, and Melee in command as funerals approach.
J M Mc Knight, former Louisville banker, lost five trials with four verdicts against him. U S judge Fudge Evans ordered his transfer to Atlanta for a six year prison term for misusing funds at the German National Bank during his presidency amid claims the bank was insolvent before he led it.
In Jeannette Pennsylvania the Oakford Park flood recovery crawls with little work on wreckage spread for miles from Oakford Park to Manor. Twenty bodies recovered and twenty still missing. Residents move away or seek shelter with hilltop neighbors. Relief committee treasurer Roland Merrill appeals for aid for the homeless and destitute.
Secretary Root has received Gen Davis Philippines dispatch via the Pacific cable. He advocates a substantial reduction of troops next year, detailing his plan for carrying out the cut. Approval seems likely.
A Topeka special notes over 6,000 men still needed in Kansas harvest fields to save the crop. Farmers have raised wages and even secured reduced railroad fare to attract labor, but supply remains short. In Bison, Kansas, forty farmers stopped a Missouri Pacific train searching for harvest hands, offering passengers 2.50 to 3 dollars a day for three weeks.
In federal court at Baltimore Maryland Indictments refiled against Disworth Upton and Thomas W McGregor a Washington Post Office Department employee for participation in mail pouch frauds Both men are out on five thousand dollar bail The report notes the battleship Kearsarge set speed records on its Kiel voyage and the Massachusetts and Mayflower arrived at naval dockyards amid routine bond status and a damaged explosion tale.
Three arrests were made in Wort Dodge after the death of 16 year old Clara Rasmussen known as Fox during a failed “jump for life” from a 100 foot wire at the courthouse. Leon de Etta Millie De Witt and J F Mangales face manslaughter charges as investigators say the harness failed and the rope detached. A coroner’s verdict cites negligence by the Amusement company manager and associates, while bystanders saw the girl express fear before attempting the stunt.
A thwarted attempt to blow the Okoboji Lake dam at its southern end followed heavy June rains lifting water over five feet six inches. Farmland and beaches flooded while no perpetrators were found. Ion and Manhattan Hotels report substantial losses due to rising water affecting their sandy beach patios.
James Cline and J Benjamin Vic tims were hurt when a scaffold on an Oak Avenue Highland Park house collapsed and dropped them about twenty feet. Benjamin, 70, broke an arm and leg and was taken to Mercy hospital. Cline sustained a head injury but was not considered seriously hurt. The scaffold had been built by Benjamin, who believed it secure.
Five saloon operators who kept open on the Fourth face injunctions after anti-saloon league reports and a pact via Mayor E. W. Caldwell in his individual capacity. Other notices include Roy Dies of lockjaw from a cap pistol incident in Creston. Grace Leach injured by clothing fire. Hello Girls resume at Ames. a poker debt homicide. Hooch Burrell’s murder of Frank Thompson at David City. attorney B. H. Crocker assaulted in Clinton. and a drowning of Charles Wagner in Rock Rapids.
The body of a Sioux City boy was found in a vacant lot at the north corner of eighteenth and Plover Streets after reportedly being electrocuted by a live wire. Investigators say the boy, about six years old, died instantly as the wire burned his hand.
During the Fourth of July celebration in Shenandoah crowds searched the Nishnabotna river for 16-year-old Avery Stevens son of KB Stevens after he wandered beyond his depth while swimming about a mile north of town. His parents had left Friday for a visit in Kansas.
Theodore Rerquist aged 3 perished during a Fourth of July display by the Knights of Pythias in Davenport. He tried diving from a sixty foot ladder anchored to a Mississippi River barge when a gust swept him off balance. He struck the barge and fell into the water. his wife, who witnessed the scene, acted to save herself.
Tommy Ryan aged 13 drowned in the Floyd River at Sheldon near the Milwaukee Railroad bridge while bathing with two companions. Playmates tried to rescue him. a coroner in Orange City will hold an inquest. The boy, a porter at the Sheldon House, came from Marion, Iowa.
Arthur Ball, 23, fatally shot his brother Hermano Ball while fishing in the Des Moines River near Ager Packing Company stockyards. The accident occurred about 10 am Sunday. Arthur is grieving intensely as friends and parents monitor him for potential self harm.
The ferryboat proprietor Thomas Wedmore, 24, drowned crossing the Missouri River near Sloan. Sioux City police sent grappling hooks to recover the body after the Sunday accident aboard his riverboat. Other separate reports note injuries from home made cannon blasts at events in Harlan and Marshalltown and a varIed assault incident in Beverly.
A passerby named Mya, John Clamensen of Council Blufta, was struck near Twenty third Avenue and Aisth Street by a moving Lake Mans awa streetcar while warning her grandson. She was killed instantly as the car dragged her body under its wheels.
One hundred years ago reports described Monel troops poised for a New York landing amid dire sanitary conditions provoking the Danish king to bar ships without a consul certificate. President Jefferson publicly read dispatches in Paris about a Louisiana Purchase treaty debated in the French capital.
Seventy five years ago a Georgetown man advertised for fifty enslaved people aged 10 to 25 offering to pay the highest cash price. In Greenwich Connecticut cotton oil operatives destroyed looms and cloth valued in the thousands. Rich glow of lands was reported in Randolph County North Carolina. John Quincy Adams Vittert broke ground on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal in the first spadeful. a Potomac River parade of horses was reviewed. The Thames tunnel was deemed nearly complete after engineers questioned its feasibility. Monticello near Charlottesville Virginia, Thomas Jefferson’s estate, was advertised for sale to satisfy a 72 000 debt due at the owner’s death.
A retrospective item notes the opening of the first railroad in Norway, an American naval expedition entering Yedo harbor, a Rochester convention debating colonization of freedmen, Almonte in Washington representing Santa Anna, and a plot arrest of twenty-one conspirators against Emperor Louis Napoleon of France.
Chronicle recounts Morgan’s raiders crossing toward Indiana with 4000 cavalry while Meade and Lee maneuver after Gettysburg. Gen. Morgan clashes near Columbia Kentucky and reaches Brandenburg on the Ohio with rebel forces preparing to strike Indiana. Grant’s terms at Vicksburg and Lee’s retreat frame the broader Civil War setbacks.
A collage of stray phrases mentions the steamer Virginia at Asylumwall, a Louisville lottery promoting a new public library, Jefferson Davis among New York attendees, and remarks on President Grant and Philadelphia centennial transfer. The text is garbled with misspellings and incomplete names, offering few clear facts or coherent events.
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