22 Nov 1901
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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1901
Page
1
An Indiana special grand jury indicts Newell C. Rathbun for first degree murder in the Rathbun insurance conspiracy case. The purported victim Charles Goodman’s body arrived from Little Rock and was taken by Coroner Coots for formal inquest.
In St Louis a final effort to resolve authority over foreign exhibits between the World's Fair nation al commission and the Louisiana purchase exposition company failed. The case moves to arbitration under federal law. Washington reports the Bonine murder trial opened with the state presenting its theory that Mrs. Ko killed James Seymour Ayres Jr. The Kenmore hut entry via a window and fire escape is alleged. Albany's court of appeals declares scalping ban unconstitutional.
Sioux City reports Jack Snlly a famed South Dakota outlaw tied to seven murders in twenty years. He led the Lyman county gang with Black Bird. snared after an ambush with Sheriff Taylor while attempting to kill Pete Waugh during cattle recovery. Arrest could break up the gang. Two horses burned to death in Jackson fire. suspected arson. A Kansas man, J. J. Robert of Brookville, Kan., found dead in Congress Hotel. suicide suspected. W. C. T. U. plans next national convention site chosen as Portland, Maine. Santa Fe wreck burns mail. 30,000 letters destroyed in Los Angeles. San Francisco state convention convened to push Chinese exclusion reenactment.
Theodore C Search presented President Roosevelt with an engrossed copy of the reciprocity convention resolutions. The document backs reciprocity that safeguards home industries and supports protective principles with a proposed commission to study trade terms and report to Congress. Protectionists influenced the quick adjournment, the gathering ending sine die.
London reports the death of Count Von Halz Wildenburg, once Tiian ambassador to Great Britain, at the embassy this morning from lung congestion triggered by asthma.
Carrie E. Mears, 21, of Chicago, by probate court final account of special administration, inherits property totaling 7,348 acres, 45 blocks and 252 lots across Mason, Oceana and Muskegon counties including Ludington, Pentwater, Middlesex, Whitehall and Mears. Illinois holdings exceed Michigan wealth.
In Elgin a mob gathers after three 18 year old youths are jailed at Hamperhire ten miles west of Elgin for assaulting Emma Bart rum a 1 year old while authorities seek identification to avert lynching. A separate report from Juanellon City Kansas says Trooper Buchanan who killed Policemen White and Cooper on Tuesday night was found dead in his Fort Riley cell having hanged himself.
New York reports Iowa Governor-elect Cummins sees no broad Iowa opposition to western railroad consolidation but warns of risks if rates are raised or facilities cut. Minnesota Governor Van Sant plans to invite western governors with anti consolidation laws to unite against the rail trust. Both stress potential legal challenges and possible extra sessions to coordinate action.
Columbus Indiana November 22 a petition from Farmers Anti-Hunting association signed by leading Bartholowe county property holders aims to ban hunting and trespassing on farms effectively excluding urban hunters. The move signals a rural majority blocking city sportsmen and could spread to all county farmers.
In Chicago the Allis-Chalmers machine shop district saw a fatal post strike clash as union vigilante George Trapp and another man attacked Andrew Burkhauser, who shot Trapp in the left eye after being knocked down with a gas pipe. Burkhauser was later arrested for the shooting.
A Chicago, Burlington and Quincy stock train split near Walnut on Wednesday morning, and the rear section and caboose rolled down grade crashing into a freight engine. One passenger, John J. Reese of Erie, Pennsylvania, died from burns. Nine others were injured, with several seriously hurt. Five carloads of textile were aboard. most of the fleet perished. Injured included A Baker Pleasant Valley Pennsylvania and F H Howson Clinton Iowa among others.
Jacksonville New side reports indictments for William Webb Ferguson alias William Witsegered of Quincy in the Dr Cartes Barnes Monticello murder case. Mrs Mamie Barnes and Mrs McWilliams, tied to the case, face court next Monday in Morgan county. Ferguson pled not guilty. jury indictments pending. possible early hearing for Mrs Barnes.
In a panoply of reports from Venezuela, New York, Colon, and Washington, arrests linked to a late revolution ripple through the isthmus while a Panama engagement looms as a turning point. French editors debate U S Marines landing, and Michigan farmer William Bagley unveils a pine lands homesteading plan with state aid and tax relief.
Turbulent demonstrations in Athens continue over translating the gospels into modern Greek with clashes reported and the military struggling to control rioters. Elsewhere, four inmates escaped Ogden jail by sawing a hole through a steel wall and a stone barrier, using the metal as a gauge. In Omahl Neb, a game warden case against Rock Island Railway seeks action over quail in dining cars.
Captain Ioan Lawson born August 8 1805 in Manchester built the first locomotive under George Stephenson apprenticed as a boy. He became a leading locomotive engineer in the United States before turning to steamboats and amassing a Cumberland River fortune. He will be buried in Kentucky where he resided for fifty years.
Belgrade denies Vienna’s report of Queen Draga’s assassination. Two additional volumes of Prince Bismarck’s Thoughts and Reminiscences due. Germany and Russia discuss anti anarchist conference. New York banks move to cut interest after Jan 1. Lincoln Park monument planned for a Revolutionary War soldier. British cruiser Tribune sails from Kingston. Findlay offers reward for burglar. Marshall Field clerk returns pocket book with 34 a4 400. Paris barber invents electric shaving machine. Detroit home damaged by insured fire. Unknown man jumps into open blast furnace in Pittsburgh. Glass manufacturers and jobbers sign final price and delivery terms. prices to fall. Tulley defends Dolan in $400 damage suit. result may affect future federal suits. Martinsville woman narrowly escapes crossing tracks with infant. Gospel hymn writer John M. Burke dies. Hollidaysburg post office robbed by dynamite. Denver reports 29 bodies recovered from Sailion tunnel at Telluride.
Springfield WL Humphrey in the U S court at noon refused an injunction to restrain the board of equalization from assessing the capital stock of the Chicago Union Traction Company and the Union Traction Company for 1900.
November 22. A government communication to the United States consul states it cannot warrant protection for isthmian interests. The report notes limited power to act and requests guidance from Washington on securing foreign protection amid rising tensions.
Newspaper digest notes a Bank of Liverpool issued loss risk of £175,000 due to a trusted bookkeeper’s dishonesty. Local items recount a Kentucky hunting incident near Middlesboro with one death, a fatal electric car crash, and social reflections on travel, reading, and historical anecdotes about smoking among children in 17th century Paris and England.
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