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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1901
Page
1
Fema le anarchist leader in Chicago is arrested as the high priestess of anarchy. Police say she aided Leon Czolgosz but she denies involvement in the McKinley assassination plot and claims he acted alone.
Attorney General Knox in Washington prepared for possible arrests of anarchists tied to a plot against the President. Solicitor General Richards outlined conspiracy charges under federal law as accomplices. Officials expect numerous arrests and federal indictments, with sentences aligned to state laws where trials occur.
Mrs A A Mana han of Norwalk says she saw a tall thin man close to President McKinley in Buffalo crowds, with a scarred confederate, as they pressed toward the President. She notes Czolgosz wore a white cloth on his hand and appeared to handle it carelessly.
Justice Jerome District Attorney Gavan and Frank Moss led a Monday night raid on an East Ninth Street gambling house. Five arrests were made as sledge hammers forced entry. About thirty people were inside, but only those with warrants were jailed.
Thirteen leaders of the Resistencia Union of Tampa, six Spaniards, six Cubans and one Irishman, marooned off Honduras, were transported aboard the Gertrude to Key West. They describe abduction by Tampa citizens, mutiple near death from exposure, and rescue by an Indian and local Florida fruit workers before reaching safety in Key West.
London dispatch from Lord Kitchener dated Pretoria September 16 reports since September 2 the British column has 861 total captures and loot including 87 killed 67 wounded 3 prisoners 163 surrendered 179 rifles 6 211 rounds 3 400 horses and 19 000 cattle. He notes Lotter's command captured and Cape Colony unchanged.
Buffalo report suggests the Schley court of inquiry could be postponed due to the President's condition and the presence of top national officials. No official word is available on the subject.
Traeax Wheeler, who killed Elihu Burns and decapitated him with an ax, was brought to Evansville for safe keeping after a mob formed in Boonville. Sheriff Hudson deputized about 100 men and stationed them around town and at the jail as crowds gathered near Woolley’s coal mine and the depot.
The Treasury announces it will consider offers to sell up to twenty million dollars of bonds including 3 percent 1908 1918 issues and various funded loans 4 and 5 percent. Proposals due by Thursday the 12th. delivery at New York sub treasury or Washington. The secretary reserves right to reject all proposals. Internal revenue receipts to be deposited with national loan depositaries up to par value, releasing about five million dollars.
Governor Durbin reverses postponement of Indiana day at Pan American Exposition. The program will proceed next Saturday as planned after President McKinley urged no delay. Senator Fairbanks and Exposition President John Milburn urged observing Indiana now.
Imperial edict calls for reform of examinations to include Western history science and industry. The provision suggests Liberal influence at court and potential wide impact if enforced. Chinese troops enter Pekin and begin policing the city.
Fires sweep St. Johns Newfoundland area with 23 houses destroyed in White Bay. Authorities fear more villages burned as forests burn unchecked. Heavy rainfall needed to prevent further timber losses.
Seven people in a wagon were struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train at the Sixty third and Loomis streets crossing Monday night. Two girls were dragged for a block on the engine pilot but escaped unharmed though frightened. The remaining passengers were injured. Mrs N Aardena and Catherine Houberik may die.
In Chattanooga Tennessee a report describes millions of grasshoppers swarming rural districts. They overwhelm roads and vehicles, forcing windows closed as crushed bodies cover rails and cause slick surfaces. The infestation disrupts travel and damages property across the region.
A Tuesday wreck near Woodstock Ontario killed two people instantly and burned two others to death, with a fifth person mortally injured. Police and responders evacuated the scene as investigators began work. Local authorities described the crash as a severe and tragic railroad disaster.
Muncie reports Claude McDowell a Philippine Army deserter is hiding in woods between Yorktown and Gilman as a farmers posse led by Yorktown Marshal Samuel Leonard prepares to pursue. McDowell reportedly escaped Ft Thomas several times with two or three companions and kept in food by friends. His romantic past with a Yorktown sweetheart is noted along with multiple prison breaks and a later marriage before capture and recapture. Also details Washburn diamond robbery case in Chicago with Harold Smith admitting involvement alongside Oscar Lewellin and police actions leading to arrests and confiscated gems. Smith claimed lifelong kleptomania and suggested he could not stop stealing.
A pair of prairie wolves captured from South Dakota escaped after a four‑group hunt near Cedar Lake. Led by Harry W. Overman and aided by dogs from Indianapolis, a multi‑age crowd surrounded the ten acre woods at Siegler's Hotel. One wolf was killed. the other escaped despite attempts to corner it.
Two young men from Indianapolis Louis H Schulmeyer a chemist and Henry Reite an electrician claim after six years of work to have discovered and perfected a process for making diamonds. They refuse to reveal the diamonds they say they have created, noting that artificial jewels have long existed in France without impacting natural diamonds.
Benjamin Dotterer, attacked and shot by robbers at his home six miles north of Kokomo, died Wednesday morning. He and his wife were in the city Labor Day, where he sold a piece of property for 9000 dollars.
Investigation suggests robbers targeted a money payment connected to a land deal. No known motive or clear suspects exist for the Dotterer assault, but authorities believe the assailants reside in the city and followed the Dotterers to their residence.
Union City reports Frank W Hart a young married man living ten miles south arriving at Thomas Stack’s home with his throat cut and part of his lower teeth knocked out. Hart refuses to explain his injuries, giving rambling answers. He is in serious condition and investigators consider assault or possible self harm, he offers no details.
Dr. Charlies Lindley of the Delaware County Teachers Institute argued in a Muncie address that sleep is largely a matter of habit learned from ancestors. He acknowledged some require more sleep while others need little and called the eight hours per day notion a fallacy.
While hauling clover seed on the John L Saunders farm Tuesday the boiler powering the thrashing outfit owned by G F Edwards and Son exploded overturning the engine. Engineer Asa Fadley died and fellow employee David Richmond was badly injured by a broken belt.
Mrs L R Lindley wife of the box factory superintendent faced a burglar in the upper room at 10 PM. He demanded money, struck her, tied her to a stair rail, and stole her $8 pocketbook. Husband arrived, freed her, police notified. She identified the same intruder she shot last winter.
A gas explosion at the First Christian Church in Noblesville injured workers Doris Granger and Frank Shannahan of the Noblesville Gas Company in the basement during meter installation. They escaped but could not explain the cause as a gas leak ignited by lamp flames. The church suffered several thousand dollars in damage.
Four men robbed John Bechtel at his Elkhart county farm near Wakarusa about 2 AM Tuesday. They tied the family, took a gold watch and $20, cut telephone wires, and fled. Three wore blue. the fourth wore a brown hat. A family member loosened his rope, freeing others. Sheriff and Goshen police were notified and hunting the suspects.
Mrs. David Ferguson, living six miles south, died after her horse frightened by a bicycle and bolted. She was thrown against a fence post sustaining severe injuries. She died in Union Station waiting room around 2 p.m. before ambulance arrived. Her family grieves.
A Tuesday evening outburst by the Pruitt gang along the Lebanon to Isirklin road left houses shot at and livestock fired upon. A mother nursing her baby had two bullets pass through a window within an inch of her head, with facial injuries to mother and child. Farmers pursued the gang but failed to capture them.
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