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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1902
Page
2
A brisk column offering social quips and irony on topics from dining and drink to inventions, politics, and public figures. It cites Sol Smith Russell’s death, mentions Lady Nation, Count Zeppelin, Santos-Dumont, and J Pierpont Morgan, and comments on gambling ping-pong in Providence and other contemporary curiosities.
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle questions the ability to obtain Eve's testimony on whether Adam was a myth and asks if Eve's daughters should carry weight in the discussion.
Denver May 19 report that the Texas Colorado Chautauqua will open July 4 in Boulder and run a six week season. The program lists instructors from Colorado, Chicago, Wyoming, Illinois, and Kansas plus special acts and lectures. The summer school opens July 7 for five weeks offering courses in civics history pedagogy psychology literature mathematics and more.
General Chaffee reports Moros generally friendly toward the United States after interviews with datos and surviving sultans in Mindanao. A cable from General Davis indicates Dato Ruty may resist surrender but Chaffee expects minimal fighting possible by surrounding his hilltop forts with American skirmishers to secure a bloodless victory within days. Manila tor May 19.
Madrid reports an anarchist plan to assassinate King Alfonso. Six arrests include Gabriel Loyan, an insurance employee, with dynamite cartridges found at Lopez premises. Authorities say nine cartridges seized and more arrests follow. detainees include six medical students, a printer, a carpenter and a mason.
A sweeping Washington dispatch reports House actions on the Sternberg retirement, an amended naval funding bill for liquid fuel tests, and a late push for the irrigation measure. It notes Senate hearings, Panama or Nicaragua canal treaties, Fort Hall land rush, new office building plans in D.C., and Indian land concerns plus Cuban reciprocity and a Martinique disaster relief request.
St Thomas May 16 The Valkyrie reports brutal scenes from St Pierre Martinique where a mother and child perished beneath a fire blast near Sarbet and a cart of corpses lay by a ruined cathedral. A government commission claimed no further danger, but the fallen officials and others who sought safety died after the report.
John F. Gaynor and B. D. Greene, fugitives from Savannah bail, were arrested by United States secret service and Montreal detectives. They were quickly put aboard the tug Spray toward Montreal, with no chance to consult counsel. Quebec authorities mistook the arrest as kidnapping, while US counsel Donald McMast defended the action as extradition.
Chicago UL May 16 High school education will hereafter be of advantage to young men who desire to enter the service of the Santa Fe railroad The management of that company has instructed heads of departments that where positions are to be filled high school graduates shall be given the preference.
May 16 Chicago reports cattle at Union Stock Yards topped $7.60 per hundredweight, 10 cents above last week’s peak, with all offerings sold. Hogs and sheep also posted record prices for the year as demand stayed strong.
Hazleton Pa May 17 miners meeting unanimously backed a plan to mobilize all bituminous and anthracite workers in a nationwide shutdown. A special United Mine Workers convention may be called to press for broader action, potentially straining coal supply and rail traffic across the United States.
A massive blaze last night at Armour & Co lard refinery in Chicago’s Union Stock Yards injured twenty nine workers, with seven believed fatally hurt. The five story plant, 250 feet long, housed two thousand staff, and the explosion of three boiling lard tanks sparked the fire, which spread through most of the building within an hour. Firefighters focused on rescuing trapped crowds, while victims were treated at a temporary hospital set up in nearby German American Provision Co. plant.
London May 17. Andrew Carnegie was asked if he offered to pay 300,000 for the Philippines and to announce to the Filipinos that independence would be acknowledged by the United States. He responded simply Your independence would be acknowledged ultimately by the United States and I meant it.
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