24 Feb 1904
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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1904
Page
1
A Roswell correspondent highlights a recently circulated map that offers significant clarity on city planning. The document presents key area divisions and proposed allocations for public works projects.
The theater page promotes A Woman's Love at the Opera House for tomorrow night with up to date specialties. The piece includes notices about Japanese naval losses and a feature on Pecos Valley development in El Porvenir with contributions from B S Rodey and S. Rodey.
The article records unusually warm weather with a government thermometer noting high readings this afternoon and a record low thawing night. It cites 88 degrees as a daytime high and mentions a previous low near 39 degrees.
The text notes the Hondo reservoir is clearly shown on a map as a real project, not merely prospective, challenging claims of its nonexistence and reflecting what the Interior Department thinks about the reservoir.
New York Feb 24 at least twenty persons were injured in a collision on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Five are seriously hurt as passengers were cut and bruised in the panic. The crash occurred when a moving train struck a stalled empty car near a station. the motor car of the loaded train was shattered.
New York Feb 24 directors of the Texas and Pacific Railway and A Co decide to pay 10 NAV interest on the second mortgage income bonds amounting to five percent on twenty five million dollars. Earlier reports said interest would be passed. improved earnings prompted the reversal.
Five Chinese workers were burned to death in a San Joaquin laundry fire sparked by a likely defective flue. The blaze gutted the laundry building while the victims slept in a small room, and firefighters battled the flames through the night.
Cattle receipts 6,000 at Chicago market slow and lower with varied steers and cattle prices. Sheep steady with good to choice and Western lambs quoted. Wool in St Louis nominal and unchanged. Reports from Vladivostok and Vladivostok garrison note Russian orders for British subjects. Washington coverage notes Panama treaty votes, treasury prospects, and naval appropriation debate.
William S. Malone was fatally shot by city detective Samuel H. Emerich after a saloon confrontation in Denver. Emerich, intoxicated after a law and order banquet, says he fired at Michael Ryan by accident while Malone tried to escort him away and surrendered to police.
A Colorado & Southern passenger train departing Denver at 8 20 this morning derailed near Loveland. Two cars left the track and overturned in the ditch. Several people were reported injured.
In Colorado near Orsted Butte nine miles northwest of town a snow slide swept six miners to death at the Augusta mine. The victims are Peter McQuade Joseph Ferreri Peter Sterle Joseph Slogar Michael Vidmar and Tony Stenicha. Only one body had been recovered at the time.
Funeral services for Frank Devoy were held at the Catholic church on Las Vegas street this morning. Clyde Gilbert Smith held services this afternoon at the Christian church with Rev CC Hill officiating. The Record corrects an error about Charles Helford’s business trip in Lavaca county. The Fraternal Union of America meets tonight at 7:30 at Odd Fellows Hall with many candidates expected. For sale a Victor Graphophone with records at 60 percent of cost. Names omitted from a banquet list are corrected. Gus Beidleman travels to San Antonio to visit his ill brother-in-law J P Clay.
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