09 Mar 1903
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1903
Page
1
Ira D Sankey the famous evangelist has partial sight remaining in the right eye while the left eye shows little response after congestive glaucoma from overwork. An operation relieved pain but a definite outcome awaits recovery in the right eye.
Wilkes Barre Pa March 9 Lackawanna county district attorney investigates the death of Luigi Vinazzi a striker shot by a coal and iron policeman near Duryea Williams colliery A witness Burke testified he stood beside a coal and iron policeman when the shot was fired No bullet was found in Vinazzi s head and the district attorney believes buckshot may have killed him The inquiry continues and an arrest may follow
The silver jubilee ceremony at Baltimore Cathedral featured Cardinal Gibbons presiding. Mgr. F. L. Z. Rooker, secretary of the apostolic delegation, delivered the sermon reviewing the pontiff life and works.
A suspected burglar was fatally shot by a companion near New Brunswick New York after a quarrel over dividing plunder. The victim and two accomplices entered a Highland Park saloon, were ordered out, then one man fired through the head as they left. The wounded man, found with six watches a revolver and skeleton keys, died later at a hospital. The trio are believed to be involved in recent burglaries in the area.
In Raleigh on March 9 the North Carolina Senate amended a medicine and surgery definition to exclude those who minister or cure the sick by spiritual means. The bill passed its final reading without dissent. In Cambridge George L. O. Perry known as Jack the Slugger died in jail after typhoid and nervous exhaustion. No formal statement is recorded.
Official Evans report on Atkinsville killings states Deputy Marshal Cunningham led a second raid after agitation by General St Clair. Miners resisted arrest. several shot in their homes at dawn. 48 men arrested for conspiracy to kill Cunningham. three men found dead in a house. one wounded in bed. a widow and children survived. Coroner verdict felonious killing against Cunningham.
Constable Edward Reeves barely survived a gunfight after a prisoner, Curtis Shimp, fired at close range in a swamp near Bridgeton. Reeves grappled with Shimp, cuffed him, and later collapsed from blood loss, with the bullet flattening against his skull near the left ear and narrowly missing the jugular. Shimp was jailed and Reeves was taken for treatment.
A large mass meeting at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn raised funds to erect a Beecher memorial for Henry Ward Beecher founder and longtime pastor of Plymouth Church. Mayor Seth Low presided with Grover Cleveland, D J Brewer, Newell Dwight Hillis, and Frank W Gun Saulus among speakers. Subscriptions began with Mrs W C Wallace’s $10,000 gift and other donors including Henry W Phipps $1,000 Dr Rossiter W Raymond $2,500 and John Arbuckle $3,000.
Elizabeth von Haussler, abbess of the old woman's asylum, was sentenced to six years in a penitentiary for trying to poison servant Emma Wagner with muriatic acid. The trial revealed fears of betrayal and slander against Bavarian royal family figures. Say you saw it in Tas News.
Nine teen men die when a scow ferry carrying over 70 workers capsizes on the Hudson near Spier Falls, Glens Falls. Italians dominate the crew and days of frantic search follow as logs and currents hinder recovery.
In Rome on March 2 the Pope, feeling well, urged no delay and granted audience to about 5,000 pilgrims from Berlin, Vienna and Belgium. He offered his blessing as crowds cheered and hailed the gesture.
Waterbury Conn March 9 vig il later violence flared as motormen and conductors of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company struck. Policeman Mendelsohn was killed, motorman Chambers and conductor Weberndorfer were beaten. Eight masked men fired on the returning trolley at Forest Park end of North Main Street. Chambers escaped by fleeing to nearby swamps, later reaching police. No suspects yet as a large search found no clues. Public sentiment runs high after the fatal ambush and assault on the crew.
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