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Newspaper
Kendallville Daily Sun
Location
Kendallville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1902
Page
3
The readable text references long standing illnesses and suffering, mentioning ongoing health issues and a general sense of strain among affected individuals, indicating a broader medical context without clear names or dates.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on June 7 a shooting at Stanton colliery unsettled the area. A 13 year old boy Charles McCunh was wounded and is believed to recover. Sheriff Jacob swore in twenty deputies and kept watch as coal and iron police fled town.
Descriptions of mine unrest claim flood water rises in lower levels while engineers and pumpmen strike. Officials from Susquehanna Coal deny changes. Nanticoke seeks court injunction to stop water cut. A 13 year old boy wounded and a tenant curbs idle workers. deputies revoked amid riot proclamations as terror claims grow. Local sheriff skirts action, possible gubernatorial appeal looms.
President Mitchell of Wilkesharre says 29 000 men are in the field with 18 000 to stop work today and others to follow in days. By June 7 miners in Kanawha, Norfolk and Western lines join the walkout. 700 at Pearl Mining Company go out. about 10 000 are said to have struck in the Flat Top region including Elkhorn Tug River and Dingess fields.
A Chinese immigrant, Fong Jung, arrives in New Orleans aboard the John Wilson from Bluefields Nicaragua. He cannot land under U S law and cannot return to Nicaragua, so he faces being passed between ships until a willing master takes him.
News from Valparaiso reports upward of 1,000 lives lost as Tacona volcanic eruption devastates Ratabhulen near Champerico Guatemala. Earthquakes have shaken the region since the April 18 disaster that destroyed Quesaltenango and Guatemala City area.
May Thompson died last week from paralysis of the respiratory muscles, jury says the poison nature undetermined, and holds Dr E W Johnson the beauty doctor for involuntary manslaughter. Johnson jailed. Also notes resignations and a curious White House incident amid Chicago building labor dispute.
Philadelphia middleweight Jack O'Brien knocked out Al Neil of San Francisco in the third round of a six round bout in Chicago. Neil was out classed in every aspect of the contest last night.
Lionel E G Cerrden the British consul general at Tavana has been gazetted as minister to the Republic of Cuba. Also notes a Mark Twain unveiling Eugene Field birthplace memorial in Manila and labor strikes in Manila with workers demanding a 30 percent wage increase.
Washington notes a furor over alleged Miles sourced papers and a supposed order to return to Washington for a court martial. Reports conflict on whether Miles was ordered to Washington or simply misquoted. No War Department orders have been found, with Miles traveling between Fort Riley Chicago and Syracuse.
Lexington Kentucky attorney John Ti Johns returns from Jackson where he defended Thomas Cockrell charged with a killing. He reports terror on both Cockwell and Sargis factions as judges refuse to act fearing for their lives. Gov Weckham is asked for help as tensions rise toward potential bloodshed.
Secretary Root sent to Philippine committees the instructions to Governor Taft for negotiating the purchase of friar lands in the Philippines. Taft is told to explore whether church authorities can sell and to press a basis of negotiation while stressing separation of church and state as a US principle. The mission is described as a business negotiation, not diplomatic.
A detachment of the Fifth United States cavalry was ambushed while decorating graves near Binangonan Rizal province Luzon. Democratic attackers seized the troopers and local officials including the Binangonan president and his secretary. Escapes followed as troops pursued the bandits and rescued some captives. The raiders also seized a large quantity of dynamite from local quarries.
Denver colored church representatives adopt resolutions to boycott the International Sunday School convention in their city and urge colored delegates to abstain from Anhelss, criticizing a restricted section as unjust discrimination.
Five officers drowned when a Spanish boat sank off Gfi'on. Other items note Vaehr of Nebraska named consul at Cienfuegos Cuba, a 338 million peseta loan authorized by King Alfonso, Philippine civil government bill due in one week, UK columns ordered to stand fast, Herbert named British ambassador to Washington, King Albert's illness described as critical, Bourgeois elected French deputy president, Potter Palmer will probate in Chicago, and a Pueblo fire causing 100000 dollars damage with heavy Nebraska rain and flooding.
A narrative traces the famed Scotch regalia ring from Mary Stuart through James I to Charles I and II, its presence at coronations and deaths, and its final return to Scotland’s royal jewels. Also includes an unrelated advertisement for Hall’s Catarrh Cure claiming cure for deafness.
An advertisement promotes Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets to relieve dullness after meals poor appetite bitter taste torpid liver constipation and headaches. It claims benefits for digestion appetite and liver and bowels and lists A R Otis as a seller along with Otis Tropical Tea price details 45e.
D Scott Currin of Loganton Pa promotes One Minute Cough Cure as safe and immediate relief for coughs colds croup and throat and lung troubles. It is for sale by A R Otis. A humorous ad line remarks a man turning over a new leaf is never satisfied until it is blotted worse than the old one.
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