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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1901
Page
1
Harrisburg June updates show Senate actions sustaining the governor on rapid transit supplemental bills, with votes on the Guffey ballot measure and Pennsylvanian university funding. friction over adoption/approval of amendments and appointments, plus a broad appropriation bill and memorial markers. Key figures include Governor Stone, Senator Voorhees, and Rep. Brosius.
A severe tornado swept Lincoln Illinois and surrounding areas causing about 190000 in damage. The 1.5 mile wide by 12 mile long funnel struck the Linco mattress factory, asylym for the feeble minded children, orphans home, Lincoln college, mills and the county poor farm. Trees were uprooted, an elevator at Middletown was destroyed, freight cars overturned at Elkbert, and crops including wheat corn and oats suffered heavy losses.
A large oil gusher was struck at Fantabdce in Red Fork Creek near Denison on the Frisco railroad extension. Pennsylvanians company operates in Indian Territory oil fields and reports oil spurting eight feet into the air from a 530 foot well. Pressure prevents capping at the top.
War office casualty lists show severe fighting across scattered South African theaters not in routine dispatches, notably at the Zeerust position in Cape Colony. Boer prisoners and concentration camps imply a cost of supporting around 100000 Boers borne by British taxpayers. Miss S B Spring of New York died after leaping from a train near Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. The National Plow company was organized in Jersey City with Western capital interest.
Market notes show flour weak with winter superfine at 2.10 to 2.11 per barrel and other grain prices mixed. Beef, pork, and lard steady to firm. Live poultry and eggs quoted with varying regional ranges. Potatoes, cabbage, and butter prices listed. cattle and hog markets active with price spreads, and sheep and veal calves also priced.
President pardoned Charles W. Massey once cashier of Rutland National Bank after he was convicted of misapplying 106000 of bank funds and given seven years. Massey, ill and financially ruined, aided the bank’s receiver and the government while McClure, his friend who induced the loan, was also convicted and sentenced to seven years.
The sloop Columbia crushed rivals on Long Island Sound in the Glen Cove cups race. In a strong breeze she beat Vigilant by 19 minutes 55 seconds after a 30 mile course and surpassed Ailsa by 22 minutes 19 seconds, with the race halted after the first round.
The wedding of Miss Ellen Lee daughter of Brigadier General Fitzhugh Lee to First Lieutenant James Cooper Rhea of the Seventh Cavalry U S A occurred yesterday at the Church of the Transfiguration New York. Miss Anne Fitzhugh Lee sister of the bride served as maid of honor and First Lieutenant E H Humphrey of the Seventh Cavalry was best man.
A tornado swept over Newark Ohio yesterday afternoon wrecking the upper floor of the E. H. Everett glass works where 75 men were employed. Seven were caught in debris. Lloyd Cunningham fatally injured. Foreman Weller Pickinson and Thomas Douglas both suffered leg injuries.
Columbus June 26 The Republican state convention nominated Governor Nash Lieutenant Governor Nippert Supreme Judge Price Attorney General Sheets Clerk Emerson State Treasurer Cameron and Public Works member Johnson. Session lasted from 30 10 a m to 1 14 p m, breaking Ohio records amid heat as Hanna curtailed speeches. Nippert was named without opposition after Caldwell declined renomination. Indians Appeal Denied Kiowa Comanche Apache lands in Oklahoma proceed to district supreme court. The president’s proclamation opening lands may be issued next week. Double Murder at Hagerstown Two killed and one wounded. Grant shot Fuller then Flora, and was fatally wounded. Grant cannot recover.
Butte Montana June 26 Senator William A Clark says he is an innocent purchaser of lands in Missoula county involved in a suit by United States District Attorney Rogers to cancel patents alleged filed for speculative purposes He maintains the government cannot cancel titles nor interfere with his rights.
A fireworks explosion in a Paterson New Jersey store owned by Abraham M. Rittenburg killed seventeen people and wounded nine others with a dozen injured. The blast, in a ground floor tenement, caused about $35,000 in losses and its cause remains undetermined.
A summary of events from June 21 to 30 across the United States and abroad. Carnegie plans a James G Blaine monument in Pittsburgh while political moves unfold in Virginia and Kansas City allied third party formation. Notable events include a Tennesee supreme court ruling on women lawyers, Hoshi Toru's assassination in Yokohama, and Wanamaker's $3 million bid for Philadelphia rail franchises. Also reported are miner clashes in Matewan, mad dog outbreak in Chicago, tornado fatalities near Napa Nebraska, dynamite blast in Kalama, flood deaths in Pittsburgh, a New York yacht sale, and multiple incidents of fires, rail and streetcar consolidations, and heat waves straining urban areas. Transport, military, and disaster notes feature the Grant arrival in San Francisco with colored regiments, the Cleveland jet wreck at Monaca, and a College of Physicians and Surgeons fire in Chicago. A Matewan marshals confrontation and ongoing labor strife cap the period.
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