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Newspaper
Marshall News
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1901
Page
3
A long list of local notes items includes births, marriages, business changes, legal actions, and community events. Highlights mention a July birth at Burns home, a Lake Michigan excursion, openings and sales in Battle Creek and Marengo, a fatal shooting in Wisconsin, stockholder meetings, school plans, and public works discussions.
A wealthy woman cured of deafness by Dr Nicholson's artificial ear drums owes his institute ten thousand dollars. The notice mentions leaving deaf people free from reliance on es ry Druwa and references The Nicholson Institute at 7 Highth Avenue New York. Nagel catalogs deathlies weeklies and other items.
A mixed batch of notices and reports from the era. It notes youths killed near Hoyt avenue siding by a switch engine, with several injured, and reports two additional deaths from bone plague in Honolulu, including a native and a Japanese individual, plus a possible third under suspicion. Cardinal Martinelli arrives in Chicago for church consecration preparations. A new Battle Creek city directory and a Marshall township directory are discussed, praising their scope and value for residents and historians.
Reports from Pittsburgh and San Francisco describe unsettled strike actions in several cities. In Wilkesbarre the stationary firemen's strike ended after a joint meeting of strikers and United Mine Workers boards. 16 companies favored reinstating old workers, seven refused, and most strikers are to report back to work.
The Cincinnati Northern railroad offers a Sunday excursion to Toledo on July 28 with a 7:54 a.m. departure and 2:31 p.m. arrival, round trip fare $1.00 for one day. A $1.25 round trip option applies for remitters on July 20 via Laredo trains. Children 6 to 12 pay half the adult rate. An event at Erie park and Casino includes a dress party with a 60 piece band by the Ohio National Guards camp and venue.
Those expecting the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo will learn that the Teachers Pan-Tourist Company offers lodging for up to 10,000 daily in cottages tents or houses. Prices range from 6 to 8 per person per night with kitchen use, or 8 per room with bath in Buffalo homes. The firm will also arrange tours to Niagara Falls and other sights. Correspondence to the Pan-Tourist Co at 48% Hoguey bane Eld, Buffalo, N.Y.
Five persons drown when the yawl rigged Venitzia of Philadelphia capsized two miles east of Sand’s Point near the New York and Connecticut line. Only two aboard were saved. Victims include Arthur Colburn and his daughters Ida and Annette Colburn of Philadelphia, Captain Eliot of Brooklyn, and a sailor named Woolford. Mrs Sprank of Philadelphia and James Stackridge of New York were rescued by the tug Gertrude after two hours.
In Ellison West Virginia on July 23 a mob of about 400 seized William Brooks after he killed Chief of Police Robert Lilly of Cumberland Maryland. Brooks was led to a park tree where he was hanged as the mob watched, despite sheriff and guards' resistance. Lilly died from bullet wounds. Brooks was killed by the mob.
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