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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
2
News notes a steamer fire in San Francisco and a street car accident. It also reports Secretary Long dismissing Edgar Stanton Maclay from a skilled laborer position after he refused to resign when asked, with President involved in the decision and a response letter cited.
Newell C Rathbun convicted of manslaughter in the Charles Goodman poisoning death at Jeffersonville Ind The jury deliberated since Saturday and a new trial request will be argued later Goodman was found dead in a Jeffersonville hotel last month His body was shipped to Little Rock Ark where Rathbun s wife lives The case involved an insurance policy and Rathbun later served in the U S Army under an assumed name
Rome dispatch says the Vatican grows hopeful the United States will appoint a diplomatic envoy to the Vatican. The pope seeks a semi official representative now with a path to a minister or ambassador later. Washington resists while the Vatican signals willingness to meet American wishes in Cuba and the Philippines and may create a cardinal in the United States.
One person was killed and nine injured when an electric car on Fillmore Street lurched down a steep four block grade south of Union Street. The runaway car crushed another vehicle and struck a telegraph pole before stopping, leaving multiple fatalities and injuries.
Edgar Stanton Maclay, tied to the Schley affair and Roosevelt’s push for his resignation, formally requests regular naval trial procedures. He claims civil service protections prevent dismissal without charges and vows to stand by his rights while continuing work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He notes the post offers little pay but significant value for his writing.
Franceszi Umilian is electrocuted in Charlestown Massachusetts state prison for the December 1598 murder of Kasimiers Jedrusel on a Granby farm. Jedrusel disappeared in December 1598 and his body was found dismembered in an unused well with the head later buried under a barn. The conviction rested on circumstantial evidence and a worn cutter linked to the crime. The motive cited involves a priest’s letter warning about Umilian’s past family in Poland.
Secretary Hay reports a Chile Argentina dispute has seen diplomatic exhaustion and broken relations after Argentina withdrew its envoy. The proposal to refer the dispute to Great Britain as arbitrator is believed to offer a peaceful path. The United States monitors negotiations and stands ready to assist in a mutually agreeable solution.
In Fort Wayne Indiana a 65 year old grocer George Schaffer dies in his home along with Henry Anderson aged 60 after asphyxiation from a closed residence with a blocked chimney flue. Anderson shows life and is taken to hospital where doctors fear he will die. A nephew found the scene and police investigate as soot and gas filled the house.
General Martin led a Colombian force of 4200 against Honda on the Magdelena river December 10. A 450 strong garrison held the line from dawn until dusk as 200 reinforcements arrived by eight. The clash near Carecoli nine miles from Honda used bayonets and machetes. about 400 were killed.
Mrs. Mary Hansen, now in Helena, recounts an alleged eight year old murder in Belvidere Illinois. She says Charles Buell and her husband Hansen hunted together and Hansen disappeared claiming Buell drowned him. Hansen recently confessed to the county attorney after joining the Salvation Army.
A blast at Moosic Powder Co in Jermyn Pa shattered the barrel mill and adjacent buildings. The shock traveled fourteen miles. Fatally burned Jacob Siller lay in the engine room. Colin Gibbs George Gibbart and George Forkes suffered injuries from flying debris. A glass fragment injured Albert Careys daughter. Many homes and shops lost glass panes.
Joseph Dusseldorf was convicted in Dodge County District Court for murder in a drunken box car brawl in North Bend last spring. He received four years at hard labor in the state penitentiary from District Judge Hollenbeck after the jury found him guilty of manslaughter. The motion for a new trial, heard last week, was overruled.
Martin Gleason aged fifty, superintendent of the Wild Horse Diamond and Deadwood mines, was found dead at Kalamazoo shaft bottom 500 feet below ground. The body showed severe mutilation and signs of a struggle, and authorities deem the death a murder with motive unknown.
An explosion at an old Sharpsville Pennsylvania furnace wrecked the structure. Three men named Clary Dickson and Bartlett were burned to death while working at the top of the furnace. Another workman was fatally injured and Donnelly was injured by jumping. Bodies were recovered as nine o'clock.
Details from South Africa state two hundred mounted infantry clashed with three hundred Boers and forty armed natives near Beginderyn on December 21. British casualties were ten killed and fifteen wounded, while Boer losses are unknown.
Chief Post Office Inspector W. E Cochran accompanied by many inspectors will depart Washington for Havana to attend the trial of Charles P. Neely former Cuban postal bureau chief. The case is set to begin January 2 with Neely facing charges related to departmental finances.
A Wichita city court issues a warrant for William Sleece on charges of enticing Flora Ellsworth and Miss Cole away from home. Officers traced tickets to Missouri Pacific to Clearwater then Santa Fe toward Caldwell. Girls, both teens aged sixteen and seventeen, were captured and to be returned to Wichita for court.
Bull real estate dealer George Anderson and his wife were found murdered in their Parsons Kansas home after two days missing. Marshal Bennett found Bull and wife dead. rooms undisturbed, no struggle, jewelry intact. Both about fifty five, wealthy Methodists, living alone at a handsome house.
In a crowded Salina street scene, Athol manager says the man was a former partner of Athena from Kansas fame. Harry Kenebrew, once of Harper Kansas, lies buried in a grave in Salina's business district amid extreme cold weather.
Salina Kansas city expenses for the past month total 4561.82, up from 1079.7 the prior month, leaving the treasury nearly empty. The bill covers forty nine items. the Salina Waterworks company charge stands at 2653.10, highlighting financial strain.
Creditors of Bee Sullivan, a large cattle dealer in Waverly Kansas, attach property to cover his obligations as his whereabouts remain unknown for several days. Extent of assets and liabilities is not yet known.
The Independence Kansas cotton mill is now operational with forty five workers on the payroll. It is expected to become a valuable and growing city industry under current management.
An unknown wild animal attacked A. K. Garrett’s chicken house one mile west of Coffeeville, killing forty two chickens. The birds, including many full blooded Plymouth Rocks, were found with similar wounds eaten near the back.
In Childersburg Alabama a white man and his son die and a white boy and a black man are badly wounded after a feud over a crap game escalates. J Bird and Sampson were slain during the incident as whites surround and arrest the black suspects later sent to Talladega for custody.
John D. Weeks, friend of Rear Admiral Sampson, reports a letter from Mrs. Sampson stating the admiral’s mental condition is beyond recovery. The note, written in Washington December 26, references sympathy with the Sampsons amid controversy with Rear Admiral Schley. Mrs. Sampson says the brain is tired though physically comfortable.
Three men Swan Traver and Rock were crushed when a steel crane at the American Bridge works in Chicago collapsed. Four others were injured as the crane carrying twenty tons fell from its guaranteed thirty ton capacity. About thirty workers were nearby with many escaping narrowly. No cause is assigned though a possible flaw in a chain is suspected.
John W. Taylor chief engineer of the terminal railroad association and William Austin Kent of Lewisville Ky were crushed beneath a Wabash switch engine in North St Louis after leaping from a fast moving gasoline motor car at a street crossing.
John E. Demsey a printer from St. Paul Minnesota leaped from a fourth floor window of the Washburn building to escape a nearby fire. He sustained injuries and died shortly after. The adjoining building caused the blaze but did little damage.
Cracksmen blew open a safe in the flouring mill office of H A Franze & Son in New Douglas. They secured about 1500 dollars, beat and tied two watchmen to posts before escaping.
J Wilsons, a farmer near Dwight Georgia, quarreled with neighbor Tom Parlin over who was the greatest Civil War general. Parlin drew a revolver and shot Wilson dead, in a fatal rural confrontation tied to Harlan county Kentucky references.
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