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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1903
Page
6
Captain Pope and Jonathan Crystal command the Oak as they outrun a Dutch frigate and a revenue boat. The crew, led by Matthew Grindal, prepares for a covert voyage to Campeachy while maintaining tension over privateering status and hidden dangers ahead.
In Hamburg three hired men are discharged with tasselled handkerchiefs and plan to meet Captain Pope in London. Pope then crews the Oak with four Dutch seamen and sails to the Thames. The narrative tease notes unknowns about the Hamburg expedition and the plate’s fate as the tale shifts to September before 1820 amid a fresh English Channel wind and dreary skies.
Dispatches describe heavy fighting between revolutionary forces and the Venezuelan government army led by General Gomez in Ciudad Bolivar. Streets are barricaded. civilians flee as government troops advance. General Rives orders merciful conduct amid the brutal combat.
Burglars entered the Hub department store in Aurora Nebraska and were fired upon as they fled by ex-Marshal Shenberger. One wounded suspect lies in jail in a stupor, unable to identify himself. The second suspect escaped. About 150 dollars worth of goods were stolen.
A mob of Black residents broke the jail in Brooklyn, a suburb of East St. Louis, to seize William Carter a Black prisoner linked to an alleged incident against a Black woman. Village Marshal Speed ferried Carter to East St. Louis for safety as the doors were battered open with a railroad tie.
Secretary Moody received a cable from Rear Admiral Cotton stating the squadron of Chicago San Francisco and Machias arrived at Lisbon from Portsmouth England. Cotton reports no desertions at Portsmouth but two desertions occurred during the Kiel visit.
John R. Garrison, chief of the customs division of the treasury department, is expected to be appointed auditor for the District of Columbia succeeding James T. Petty after a theft of three thousand dollars was discovered in Petty’s office. Garrison formerly served as Auditor of Porto Rico and hails from Ohio.
Oscar Stontagh, prominent mining man and former manager of the Northport smelter in Washington, shot himself. A renowned chemist and metallurgist with a national reputation, he was born in Austria fifty five years ago.
Two storage houses of the Louisiana Public Warehouse Company and their contents, the M. A. Hunt Mattress factory, and six frame cottages covering two blocks in Louisville Kentucky were destroyed. The loss is about 725000 dollars.
The University of Nebraska weather bureau reports a cool week with heavy rain and hail in many areas. Winter wheat harvest advances, oats progress in the south, and haying begins with excellent quality. Corn states show variable size but good cultivation overall, while some regions face need of rain and frost-related damage in Washington and the upper Midwest.
The body of 11 year old son of Neil Lewis was found wedged in the grain chute of Battling Grain Co elevator at Nebraska City. He had been on top of the wheat pin while loading a car when he fell in and struck his head on an iron rod. death presumed to have occurred some time before discovery.
Brief telegraphs report an electric car in Mansas City struck a wagon full of people, injuring several. The wagon wrecked, with one or more hurt. In Alabama, Fletcher Turner pled guilty in Montgomery court to peonage of a black youth and was fined 1000 dollars. In New York, Frank Gould and wife escaped death when their auto was struck by a streetcar, the car pushed about thirty feet.
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