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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1901
Page
6
Dispatch from Andalusia reports governor sends troops to aid Sheriff Bradshaw protecting prisoners in Opp jail amid martial law. Three unidentified African Americans shot by a citizen posse near Opp. a mob threat looms while authorities brace for attacks. A negro inmate near Opp allegedly suicides as bloodhounds pursue him.
An east bound Oregon Railway and Navigation passenger train derailed twelve miles east of The Dalles Oregon on December 6. The engine and several cars overturned while a private car carried Western Union official Cel. R. C. Clowry remained on the track. Engineer Maurice Cavannaugh scalded and possibly injured. Wiceman Frank Cras seriously hurt. no passengers harmed. Investigators found seven eighth inch nuts placed on outside rails on a three degree curve and another nut ahead. A $1000 reward offered for arrest and conviction of the wreckers.
Dan T Working, librarian of Doniphan Social and Literary Club, is jailed in Grand Island Nebraska for selling liquor without a license. A county board resolution orders the county attorney to notify club members to contribute to the jailed man’s family support, a move seen as setting a precedent for keeping a brother’s keeper.
A Ontario Pacific Awgight train on a dangerous curve above the Fraser River encountered a rock slide about fifty yards ahead. Engineer Randall and Fireman Petruff died beneath the engine as the heavy train toppled over the embankment after three cars wrecked.
Helen Mitchell a domestic in New York is believed to have attempted suicide at a Fremont hotel room after declaring the act. She cried it is all over and later vomited. a bottle of carbolic acid and a spoonful taken were found, but no poison remained in her mouth or throat.
Sixty residents of the Masonic home in Wichita are quarantined as 14 year old Roy Bevins contracts scarlet fever. Twenty five children at the home attend McCormick and Hinklin schools. The health board reports malignant scarlet fever, more dangerous than last winter's smallpox. A nurse is assigned and isolation is practiced to prevent spread.
Mrs Rich Gardiner awoke to a kitchen assault by a tall man who struck her with a club, injuring her teeth and bruising her. Sheriff Mikels and Marshal Fleming investigated as townsfolk sought the suspect amid bloodhound searches from Manhattan. six men were questioned without success.
About eight o clock, 29 men entered the grocery at Tenth and Riverview. They tried to rob the proprietor and struck him with a club. Mr. Williams grabbed one attacker by the throat, threw him out, and the assailants fled as G W Sargent approached. Williams suffered head wounds but skull remained intact. robbers escaped empty handed.
In Carbondale two residents died within 24 hours. Cyrus C Smith and his wife Cryus C Smith Jr were found dead in their home near Wakarusa Mars. Mrs Sarah Ann Dunphy, widow of a Confederate veteran, died at a neighbor’s home after a fall asleep with her elbows on a frame. Both deaths blamed on heart disease after days of high spirits.
Lawton Oklahoma police report the capture of two Fort Leavenworth escapees Turner Barnes serving ten years for assault and Bob Clark serving five years for breaking into a Texas post office. Clark was a revolt leader who held up Superintendent Hinds. Warden Mc Claughry confirmed the likelihood the pair are among the missing prisoners. Seven escapees remain at large.
Rev. F Bradford, Methodist minister at Brookside, Alabama, was shot and killed by R D Coffman, a local justice of the peace. Bradford had just learned he would serve another year and reportedly urged harmony, adding that relations would improve if Coffman and others stopped lying about him and the church. Coffman had once been a church member but was expelled on a charge, fueling tension prior to the shooting.
Horror marred the Danville hanging of Wilson the convict who killed guard R H Naylor at the Yell county camp last September. At the moment of execution the body moved as deputies lifted him from the coffin and again on the scaffold. After a pause the physicians declared death from strangulation.
I M Hall attorney for the finance committee of the A Q U W temple at Grand Island writes the district court clerk that he will not require the transcript of proceedings. He says committee members and grand master Workman ordered not to pursue litigation further. The case is disposed and the committee expects to complete the building purchase in a few days.
A 100 citizen committee presented a petition asking repeal of the malt ordinance but the city council voted 6 to 2 to keep it. Temperance supporters discuss pursuing quo warranto proceedings to block license money.
Mrs J Fred Meyers five miles from Correctionville Iowa wrapped her five month old baby in a blanket and placed it in the oven of the stove to keep warm. She left the house to gather fuel and returned to find the stove burning and the room full of smoke. The baby lay dead with arms and legs severely burned.
David R. White, a Kansas pioneer aged 71, shot himself in the temple with a muzzle loading shotgun in Manhattan. Authorities say ill health and financial worries likely led to the deed. He arrived in Kansas in 1858 and had resided in Manhattan since 1896. a will was made the day before his death.
The Southern Pacific California express, leaving San Francisco December 6 for Portland, wrecked at Salem. Fireman Silas I. Fish of Portland was killed and Engineer W Hi White severely injured. No other passengers or crew harmed as engine mail express and baggage cars plunged into a fifteen foot Mill Creek trestle ditch. The dry coach derailed but stood upright as the Pullman sleeper and superintendent Fields car stayed on track. Train speed was about ten miles per hour. cause unknown.
Sheepmen of Sweetwater Valley form a vast combine to lease or buy every alternate section from Union Pacific, aiming to control about 1.5 million acres of winter feeding ground the red desert and to end encroachment by flockmasters and local cattlemen. They propose a rate of 1 per acre or 4800 dollars annually and have wired the move to Omaha for quick closing.
Sheriff Troughton of Bell County with three deputies brought Berry Howard to Frankfort Kentucky from his fugitive status of over a year. Howard, indicted for complicity in the William Goebel murder, is jailed with Caleb Powers and James Howard. He claims innocence and seeks an immediate hearing or release on bond.
James Henry, a seven year prisoner for stealing 69000 from the United States mint in Carson, Nevada, took a pauper oath and was released. U S district attorney questioned him about his property, which he said left his possession during imprisonment. He claimed remaining assets were placed in his wife’s sands and she had a divorce last year.
A barn in a well settled Grand Island Nebraska district burned during a Friday evening windstorm. The fire department saved one barn but another was destroyed and the property belonged to E E Brown, a stock food agent.
A large group led by Rev W. McGill of Birmingham plans a campaign to challenge the state constitution's racial disfranchisement. A meeting will raise funds to hire legal talent to take the case to the U S Supreme Court.
Sixty five guests fell ill from suspected poisoning at a wedding feast hosted by John Mulky in West Point Wisconsin on December 6. Coffee may have been the poison vehicle. Physicians from Lodi treated the crowd and hope for full recovery persists after samples were sent to a chemist for analysis.
Night Marshal J BR Smith was shot in the head during a bank robbery in Chelsea, Iowa. He died two hours later as the robbers were found by him during an attempted break in. In the exchange of fire the robbers were killed and others escaped on a fleeing car.
A wreck near Malvern Arkansas between two passenger trains on the St Louis Iron Mountain Southern line kills three and injures thirty eight, most victims being Black travelers from North Carolina Georgia and Alabama en route to Texas. Engineers Heriot and McCampbell escape. the southbound coach is wrecked. In Greenville Illinois a bank robbery verdict orders death for Louis Brooks and Albert Phillips. two posse members die and one robber is killed.
A Washington report to the New York Press claims Rear Admiral Schley is faulted on five specifications by the court of inquiry. It cites delays off Cienfuegos misrepresentation of coal departure from Key West, disobedience of orders, failure to destroy the Colon, and conduct unbecoming an officer in the Schley Hodgson dispute. The Associated Press cannot confirm these statements.
In Washington the senate heard President Roosevelt's first message and adopted a resolution to form a joint committee with the house to express the nation’s sorrow over the death of President McKinley. Senator Foraker presented the McKinley resolution, and the senate adjourned after the reading.
Washieton December 3 Assembly in session as Speaker Hender notes order. On motion by floor reader Payne the house agrees to meet again Friday when adjourned. Speaker announces rules committee members Henderson Iowa Dalzel Pennsylvania Grosvenor Ohio Richardson Tennessee and Underwood Alabama.
Sol Levison a prominent jeweller and pawnbroker of Deadwood South Dakota was fatally shot in the left breast by eo Winsburg. Winsburg was arrested immediately and told police he hoped he had killed his man claiming he was brought out under misrepresentation of the business by Levison.
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