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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1901
Page
5
During a June thunderstorm in Pratt's Corner Connecticut Fred H. Lee and his wife sought shelter under a tree. A bolt struck the tree and traveled down the trunk through Lee, burning his shoe and foot, singeing his hair, while his wife was knocked unconscious. she is expected to recover.
Lincoln June 28 note urges veto of any delegate who does not endorse the Kansas City platform. He warns against reorganizing elements aiming to control the party and urges remaining voters to oppose delegates lacking commitment. He cites past campaigns and cautions about deserters guiding the party.
Detroit report notes Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland asserts monopoly in private hands is the era’s chief evil and calls for universal taxation. The session opens with small audience as President Pomeroy introduces Johnson as chair. The program covered church roles in equality and debate on using press and books with input from Scripp Abbott Sibley Patterson and Kent.
Hartford dispatch reports Mrs. Wm. Denby of Windsor Locks received a telegram announcing the marriage of her daughter Harriet to Thomas Fleming the ball player. Miss Denby is described as a village belle still hardly out of her teens and considered too young to wed, yet the unions proceeded.
Miss Denby, niece of Charles Denby U S minister to China, married Fleming in Brooklyn after he left the Eastern league. Known as Old Sleuth for his creeping fly catch, Fleming had been released two weeks earlier following reports his romance interfered with play. He attended Notre Dame, played briefly for New York, and has signed with Omaha in the Western league, taking his bride.
New York June 28 grand jury indicted Fire Commissioner John J Scannell on neglect of duty with three counts. A separate conspiracy count with William L Marks adds four sub heads including extortion from manufacturers. Bail set at 2500 each as Scannell vows to clear his name amid an extensive fire department purchase record.
In direct opposition to her mother’s wishes Elita Proc tor Otis married William Carpenter Camp without her mother’s knowledge. The ceremony was at Madison Square Presbyterian Church at 5 o’clock with two witnesses Miss Dorothy Rossmore and Theodore L. Barrett present.
Burton Griffin aged 30 died after a kissing bug bite at the Farrell foundry in Derby. Two weeks earlier he felt a sting on his arm, blood appeared, and a large black bug flew away. He grew ill, his arm swelled, and workers fear the insect remains in the foundry.
Edwin Ruthven, a Black burglar, was electrocuted at the Ohio State Penitentiary at 12:08 a m. after a single shock. He died two minutes later for the May 6, 1900 murder of Policeman Shipp in Cleveland.
London reports the formal proclamation of King Edward's coronation set for June next read at St James Palace Temple Bar and the Royal Exchange. Norrey King of Arms in full regalia announced God Save the King as trumpets sounded, with King Edward in an admiral's uniform and Queen Alexandra watching.
In the House of Commons H. O. Arnold-Foster said the admiralty contemplated supplying the navy with home grown beef where proper slaughter arrangements exist. The move would strike at American canned beef, recently forbidden in the British navy.
Consul-General Stowe reports from Cape Town on the British prohibition of American meat for military use in South Africa. He studied the ban’s cause and submitted findings to the state department. British enlisted men found the American article very satisfactory, and their officers concur.
A cure for catarrh is now marketed as Stuart's Catarrh Tablets, a tastier tablet form that avoids sprays and douches. The tablets use antiseptics to kill germs in blood and mucous membranes, with a Pittsburgh clerk praising relief after two months. Druggists sell a full sized 50 cent package, guaranteed cocaine mercury and mineral poison free.
Bluefield West Virginia story notes two bodies found in a drift pile at Landing Raif. They were too decomposed to identify and were burned. The piece adds that coal companies resumed work, loading over 200 cars, and telegraph lines were repaired rapidly as Vivian.
Pekin June 28 The Shan Li Province governor informs Li Hung Chang that Belgian missionaries have not been massacred, quelling a rumor of mass killing linked to the region.
The America, flagship of the Baldwin Ziegier North Pole expedition, departed Dundee on June 28 bound for Tromsø Norway.
Washington reports a 93 percent jump in cotton manufactures imported into the Philippine islands in 1900, totaling 8.73 million dollars versus 4.52 million in 1899. U.S. shipments rose 303 percent to 69,236 dollars, while the United Kingdom led suppliers with about 4.0 million dollars and Spain supplied 1.24 million.
Despatch from Che Foo says Sheng King province in revolt with rebels overrunning the country. Villages near Mukden are burned and hundreds killed as Russian forces reportedly fail to maintain order.
Brig. Gen. A. W. Greeley chief signal officer arrives from the United States to confer with the Philippine commission on transferring subsidiary telegraph lines to insular government control. The commission sets the compensation. Fifty teachers have arrived.
Six men fell 80 feet when a temporary platform inside a moribund tank scaffold outside the eastern elevator broke. Four died, including John Corbett Jr of Hartford Connecticut John Keefe Jr W Krouz and Peter Krozinger. Injured were James Carl and William Edwards. The ironworkers were building the tank top. cause may be unrecoverable due to wreckage.
In Syracuse a jury found amateur base ball players not guilty after three minutes of deliberation for playing on Sunday. The same case against Syracuse Eastern league players is set for July 6 for trial.
A lake sailor identified as Timothy McCarthy of Buffalo was killed in Binghamton early last night. His body was found by a freight-car switching crew today with two bullet wounds in the left side. No trace of the murderers has been found.
Irving C. Smith, 58, inventor of steam and electrical engines, shot himself in the head today. The Northern Pacific panic in Wall Street led a firm to abandon financing for one of his electric motor designs, driving him to despair.
Lord Wolseley, former commander, stated in the House of Lords that the United States army is the finest of its size in the world due to good wages. He warned Britain may need conscription to secure results, noting the cost in L. S. D.
Washington June 28 The Chinese minister at the state department said he did not know that the total indemnity was 35,000,000 taels less than China had agreed to pay and he would not say if China could retain the shortfall. It is believed the United States would decline to accept any part of the excess and favor remitting the amount to China.
New Haven June 28 Nat Butler of Cambridgeport and J S Perry of Springfield raced 20 miles motor paced. Perry won by about two miles after Butler's machine suffered an accident. Time for 20 miles was 36.58 2-5.
John Bateman was publicly executed in Marion Arkansas on June 28 for the murder of his wife. The execution marks the area’s enforcement of the death penalty in a case involving a domestic homicide.
Lowell resident Mrs. Emily Leary reports four years of severe kidney inflammation and back weakness eased by Dean's Kidney Pills after trying other remedies. She praises Ellingwood & Co. for recommending the pills and says two boxes ended her trouble completely.
The census bulletin lists school age and militia and voting age males for Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado and Connecticut. It notes foreign born males 21 plus citizenship rates illiteracy levels and nativity shares with California Connecticut and Alaska showing lower illiteracy among native whites and higher shares of foreign born in some states while Alabama and Arkansas have high native birth rates among voting age males.
Washington June 28 Judge Bradley of the equity court in the District of Columbia rules that Admiral Dewey and his command are entitled to one half the value of sunken and raised vessels at Manila Bay and related war matériel. Rear Admiral Sampson and his command receive half the value of the Infanta Maria Teresa Reina Mercedes Sandoval and Alvarado plus captured munitions. Land captures are not prize. An appeal may be taken.
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor lies dangerously ill at his Washington home after a concussion of the brain and possible skull fracture. He was injured when alighting from a car while taking his two children for an outing. Physicians report his condition critical but expect probable recovery.
Washington June 28 The President today disposed of 23 pardon cases with several denials and others granted to restore civil rights. Pardons for minor offenses were issued and sentences in some cases were commuted to shorter terms.
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