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Newspaper
Orland Zenith
Location
Orland, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1905
Page
2
A Copenhagen dispatch reports the private cadetship Georgestage rammed by British steamer Ancona and sunk. Twenty two cadets drowned, fifty seven rescued, and one body recovered as divers search. Ancona damaged along its waterline. port authorities order stay pending inquiry.
The German government bought a prime Washington site opposite the new French embassy on C Street in Sheridan Circle’s northwest section. A stone structure in the Frederick the Great style will rise on the property.
An electric car ran over torpedoes placed on the track by boys in Danbury Connecticut. The blasts caused a panic among women passengers. Mrs Mary Davis aged 60 jumped from the car and sustained a fractured skull dying within minutes.
A 71 year old Marion man called Jeighelh was arrested for murder in Marion. Authorities led by Sheriff Mills refused to disclose the nature of the evidence against the prisoner in the case concerning Ervin Dye found November 24, 1900.
Gustav A. Conzman, cashier of the Vigo County National Bank in Terre Haute Indiana, has resigned. Bank officials say he is short $16,000 and has turned over securities valued between $50,000 and $60,000 to the bank.
Nearly 200 Barnett Carriage Company workers at Cincinnati walk out over pay cuts. The action could trigger a broader Cincinnati strike affecting up to 3,000 carriage workers following the Barnett plant.
Three killed and fifteen injured in a rear end collision on the Illinois Central railroad near Vine Grove Kentucky. Illinois Central officials refuse to comment while investigators study the wreck and determine causes.
A dynamite cane exploded in Detroit injuring five people including 10 year old Andrew Paulszyenki who mangled his left leg and Walter Jocisowski who will lose an eye. Three others sustained minor injuries.
Mrs Eviga Reilley of Lamoure North Dakota presented her husband Steyk Brings four babies: three girls and a boy. The newborns are perfectly formed and normal in every detail. Mrs Reilley is 34 years old and now mother of ten children.
Milan telegram reports a Lake Gomo excursion for children ended in disaster as the boat capsized with about thirty passengers drowning. In Muncie Indiana a fire at the Indianapolis Brewing Company damaged a building in the eastern residence section with losses around $18,000 and unknown origin.
Fire in the Palace department store in Nashville Tennessee caused damage estimated between 500000 and 650000 dollars. Flames were discovered in the retail shopping district center.
Robbers blew the safe at the Standard Oil Company office in Elkhart Indiana. Investigators report the blast disturbed only the outer door and nothing of value was secured.
Bandit attempts to hijack North Coast Limited near Puyallup Washington but fails as crew resists and train continues to Tacoma. Engineer Woods avoids stopping at the fire and the robber shoots at Brakeman Harkins who escapes with lantern. Fireman and brakeman stranded until recovery train arrives next morning.
Miss Ida Mader of Shenandoah Pennsylvania confronted two masked burglars during a home intrusion. One leaped through a window and escaped while the other fled after a struggle over silverware and a torn mask. A ring dropped by a thief may help identify the criminals.
An Ohio man digging for fish bait uncovered 151 counterfeit silver dollars hidden beneath a rock in the Columbus State hospital grounds. The coins, found by Frank Carter, were turned over to Secret Service agent Bolan of Cincinnati. The mold was good but the edges were un milled, suggesting they were buried to resemble age.
A Davies County electrical storm Tuesday night killed Addie Draham age 18 south of Washington and Jacob Hazelmeyer of Freelandsville near a wire fence. Austin Carter was knocked unconscious by a struck umbrella. Mrs James Smiths home wrecked and four cattle owned by Alfred Isillion died. A separate note reports blackmail threats against Columbus Ohio manufacturer Dr B Hartman demanding 10000 dollars. No crew or action followed.
S P Sheerin of Indianapolis a noted politician and delegate to a Chicago convention collapsed from apoplexy and died in the convention hall while responding to City Prosecutor Taylor.
The Vermont Governor grants a reprieve until December 8 for Mrs Rogers who was scheduled for execution on June 23. Weekly Trade Reviews note faster business growth due to a favorable crop outlook and heavy industrial activity.
Chicago Board of Education official W L Bodine announces investigations into child slavery tied to compulsory education violations. Hearings in Justice Prindiville's court reveal cases of orphaned children forced to work in households under alleged cruelty. Warrants issued for individuals who took institutionalized children for excessive labor.
The National Guard will ask Congress to amend the Dick bill at the next session, reorganizing the guard as part of national defense. Originated by guards officers with War Department input, the proposal doubles federal funding to about $2,000,000 for armament and encampment costs to properly equip and train the force.
Report says a Butler Ohio gas well blasts out 5,000,000 cubic feet of gas every 24 hours with no pressure drop. Oil and gas capitalists lease farms within a 20 mile radius amid widespread excitement and expectations it will become a top gas producer.
Charles Parker and Annie Smith eloped to Cape Girardeau Missouri and married. Parker killed the bride’s stepfather Charles Adams with an ax after returning home. coroner’s jury exonerates Parker. Also reports barricaded woman in Kansas, river dam overflows, Tampa buys hotel, boats collide and sink, Indianapolis wholesale fire causes $50,000 loss.
Russian troops were defeated as Japanese forces led by Oyama stormed the Manchentou heights in Manchuria. In retreat, Russians were slain by Japanese soldiers. Also noted is the death of Judge Stephen Neal, author of the fourteenth amendment, in Lebanon Indiana.
Chicago has become a hub for fake wire tappers who lure victims with investments and claims of beating horse racing odds. Police report over $100,000 swindled, six men arrested as an organized gang, but most cases end in justice court with no criminal conviction.
The court holds a closed shop is illegal and unions cannot procure a nonmember’s discharge. Michael Berry, a nonunion worker, was awarded damages after officer Jerry Donovan of the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union caused his firing from Hazen B. Goodrich & Co. Boston. The ruling warns that enforcing such contracts creates a union monopoly and deprives workers of employment based on union membership.
Two more women were sent to the Ohio penitentiary joining Harriet Forsythe of Fayette county convicted of bigamy and Sarah Lemmon of Cuyahoga county for forgery. The total inmates reached fifty eight and officials report severe overcrowding forcing use of a wide third floor corridor. Mrs Forsythe claimed to be 35 though she is about 60.
Central Ohio fields flood and corn and wheat suffer heavy damage as storms uproot structures at Spencerville. In other news, a Denver group forms the Sons of the G A R for Civil War descendants, while a Chickasaw Nation fraud case indicts several prominent officials. A deadly New York storm kills two, and the Twentieth Century Limited wreck near Mentor, Ohio claims eleven lives.
Officials blame a deliberate act for the Mentor Ohio crash that killed nineteen on the Lake Shore flyer. The railroad will abandon its eighteen hour NY to Chicago timetable and resume the former twenty hour run. Investigators say a switch left open caused the wreck and police are pursuing the saboteur.
The government will move its entire operations from Manila to Benguet during the summer months, establishing offices, hotels, and residences at about 5,000 feet altitude. Officials and families will relocate for health and climate reasons, with a sanitarium already in use and missions building additional structures.
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