Northwest Notes of Fires Floods and Crime Trends
Northwest Notes reports a string of incidents including Enet Timmer and his mother injured in a Lertralia runaway, Broderick dying from Reno saloon gunfire, and various Western events. It covers forest fires in Wyoming, a Canon City flood, a Pasco shooting robbery, a Florence flood, and plans for a Seattle union depot costing around 200,000,000. It notes hops prices at Eugene, a Washington murder case, a Montana bank wreck sentence, a fatal fall of Frank Cooley, and a new national park at Great Falls. Additional items include elopement captures, Watkins charges in New Castle, a brutal rancher death near Virginia City, Reno fire updates, a hotel bell-boy strike, a steer roping record at Cheyenne, a Spokane streetcar robbery with Chief Reddy aboard, and Deischneider’s confession regarding a Goose Hollow homicide.
Elks Parade Highlights Joliet Delegates in Salt Lake City
Joliet delegates to the grand lodge of Elks in Salt Lake City march in a monster parade wearing miner outfits and burros. Park City’s George A Cronk wins first prize for best display, while Cotton Pickers of Greenville Mississippi take second. The grand lodge selects Baltimore for 1903 meetings and Cronk is elected Grand Exalted Ruler. A contemporaneous piece warns against oil gas usage in railcars and advocates electric devices to improve railroad safety.
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Would Have All Men Marry Chicago University Students
Chancellor B Benjamin Andrews of the University of Nebraska told summer students at the University of Chicago that marriage is the only relation in which the individual fully develops. He claimed an ideal society favors the community over the individual and cited unmarried people as responsible for much crime, pointing to Washington Lincoln and McKinley as examples of men who achieved great deeds after marriage.
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Alleged embezzlers set free in Quebec custody
John F. Gaynor and Capt. Menojamin D. Greene, fugitives from Savannah, were liberated from Quebec custody after arrest in Montreal and transfer on a writ of habeas corpus. They faced conspiracy charges with former Capt. Oberlin M. Carter to defraud the U S government.
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Parisians Chase The Chameleon Hearse Tale
Paris papers mock a Jardin des Flavutes rumor about a color changing horse said to be in a hearse. Authorities explain the animal is simply a wild horse shedding hair and changing coat. Parisians now joke about a sea serpent in the Seine.
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Courtship in China Reveals Hidden Look at Bride
Minister Wu recounts a clever plan to glimpse his future wife from thirty feet away before the formal ceremony. Mrs Wu, sister of Ho Yow the Chinese Consul General, arrived without English but now speaks it well and embodies a high caste, well educated Chinese beauty.
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Great Strait of Canso Bridge Project Outlined
Plan for a cantilever bridge linking Cape Breton and the Nova Scotia mainland with a 1800 foot span. The immense engineering feat carries an estimated cost of about five million dollars and aims to be the world’s longest span.
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Death of Tristan da Cunha governor Thomas Watson
The long-lived Tristan da Cunha island, in the South Atlantic, loses its seventy-fifth year governor Thomas Watson. The colony's history notes Portuguese discovery in 1500, British possession to watch Napoleon, and a small, insular community with a stable population and common property. Watson arrived from the Cape fifty-five years ago and led the island until his death at ninety-five.
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Corbin Plans European Visit With Empress
General Corbin and aides will travel to Germany to meet Emperor William as guests. Mrs. Corbin, a prominent Washington figure, will accompany her husband and attend the German army maneuvers and related festivities.
Last of the Light Brigade Sole Survivor Lives in Sharon
Biar Irwin, a long time British Army veteran, resides in Sharon Massachusetts and is said to be the sole survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War. He served over 11 years and fought in the four great battles: Alma Sebastopol Balaklava and Inkerman.
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