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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1903
Page
6
Crystal's face clears as Pope and crew plan raiding moves after dark. The pirate crew hoists a flag, salutes with grog, and prepares guns for pursuit of a white-sailed pleasure craft that drops its flag and reveals its true nature.
In gray afternoon light Pope and his crew board a distant ship, led by a tall elderly nobleman. The old Irish owner, calm and defiant, asks why he is attacked as Pope declares they seek fortune and an estate. The encounter hints at future alliance or conflict aboard the brig.
In a tense meeting at the gangway Pope and Captain Crystal confront Earl Fitzgibbon aboard a ship held by pirates. Fitzgibbon offers a Bank of England draft for ransom, but Pope refuses, insisting on sending the lord and crew aboard their vessel while the pirates threaten with cutlasses. The exchange ends with a standoff and a promise to continue.
The Canadian Petrel fired about twenty shots at the American fishing vessel Silver Spray near the lake’s middle, wounding Frederick Culver in the leg. Captain Chris Chau crossed the border to report the incident to Washington as shots shattered the boat and crew tried to escape.
The August hurricane devastated Jamaica with Port Antonio and Port Maria severely damaged. United Fruit Co facilities were destroyed and five steamers driven ashore. Dozens of lives lost, many seamen, and widespread homelessness and banana trade collapse across the island.
One hundred fifty people on the steamer Alice Stafford traveling from Chicago to Grand Haven faced a mid night Lake Michigan storm. The vessel’s safety valves failed and a boiler explosion seemed possible. Assistant engineer Robert Manners extinguished fires and the crew used kerosene soaked blankets to signal help during a twelve hour ordeal before the Stafford was towed to St. Joseph Michigan by the H W Williams.
Attorney General Prout and state land and buildings officials tour eastern cities to study cottage dormitories for the Lincoln asylum. He praises the system used at Kankakee Toledo and Logansport and favors trial at Norfolk when the asylum is rebuilt. The plan features shared parlor dining and individual cot rooms upstairs. Board will review findings at the next meeting.
Wet tents and soaked campers suffer through heavy rain and cold night at Epworth assembly. Women and children endure discomfort while others band together to drain water and shelter belongings as spirits remain steadfast despite the horrid weather. A popular song echoes the mood.
News from New York reports Seaboard Airline has effectively passed into new hands as Rock Island and St. Louis & San Francisco interests secure representation on the Seaboard directorate and voting trustees. The accord grants the Frisco line access to tidewater at key ports including Norfolk Wilmington Savannah Charleston Brunswick Fernandina Jacksonville and St. Augustine with Cedar Key access further south.
A blast furnace accident at the Cleveland Furnace company plant killed Frank Virone George Peters and Michael Kreesi as workers laid the last course of material inside the stack. A six ton bell toppled from seventy five feet above causing instant fatalities. The cause involved a break in a part of the stack mechanism.
Yellow fever rumors near Victoria Texas seven miles from Monterey prompt stricter Laredo quarantine. State guards increased and physicians from state and marine hospital service surveil Monterey. If Monterey quarantine imposed, railway traffic likely to be temporarily halted.
Nine year old Percy Bigelow, who claims his father is a wealthy Fort Wayne resident, was found in a famished state in a box car at the Wabash freight yards by Chicago police. He says two tramps seized him and kept him prisoner without food while threatening death if he cried out. The captors vanished before discovery. police care for the boy while they contact his father.
The steamer R. B. Hayes ran aground near Sandusky Ohio with about six hundred passengers on board and was released without aid. No injuries were reported and all passengers were accounted for.
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