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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1903
Page
1
A morning blaze at a north London insane asylum destroys the Jewish wing. About 2600 inmates housed, 600 in the section. authorities report fifty-one bodies recovered by noon as rescuers struggle amid barred windows and lack of fire escapes or water.
Dr J E Cannaday reports Bert Campbell of M and K Telephone injured his eye by a soldering iron in an accident yesterday The eye suffered burns exposure to copper solder and nitric acid The sight is not destroyed and vision may be restored though the eye may remain blurred The case is described as remarkable and hopeful.
Mrs Joseph Pelter is seriously ill at her corner Sixteenth and Grand Avenue residence with neoregia of the heart.
Citizens Bank in Waterloo Nebraska was wrecked with dynamite in an early morning robbery. A running fight with local citizens followed. the bandits escaped with 83500 after the blast, waking many residents who rushed to the scene but could not stop them.
Three masked men held up a Colorado saloon early this morning. Six patrons fled toward the door as shots rang out. no one was wounded. The robbers obtained forty dollars in the robbery reported from Salt Lake City.
Liverpool Jan 27 The vessel that went ashore off Holyhead yesterday is the German steamship Bathilde Gross from Hamburg to Cardiff and not an American liner as first reported. The vessel is a total wreck.
President Miner opened the fifteenth convention of the Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Association of Lumber Dealers in Kansas City with about five hundred members present. Morning agenda covered routine matters, while the afternoon was set for executive sessions. In Glasgow the British government invited bids to build an 18 000 ton battleship to surpass all prior vessels.
Charles Schwab the steel magnate has requested a private audience with the Pope in a move noted from Rome on January 27.
Mayor Maybury of Detroit opened the Get Coal convention with fifty delegates. Senator Mason of Illinois was introduced as presiding officer and urged Congress to apply to coal the same doctrine as bread and water, warning that without legal action commune and revolution could result.
London January 27 The sentence of Col Lynch the Irish member of Parliament condemned to death for high treason was commuted today to life imprisonment by the government. It is expected the mutation will later be reduced to a term of years. Col Lynch has the sympathy of all Ireland.
Washington January 27 Congressman Lessler testified before the House committee on naval affairs in a bribery probe. He denied Dublin's statement of collusion and said he had seen the speaker to limit notoriety, while the speaker urged the investigation to proceed.
In police court Axin Berthend paid five dollars for a drink. Lewis Wheeler, who caused Wade Wilfong and his gang of piano movers to abdicate yesterday, was fined twenty five dollars on the charge of carrying concealed weapons.
The Kaiser marked his forty fourth birthday with a reception in the white hall of his Berlin castle. Attendees included royal family members and diplomats such as United States Ambassador Tower.
The committee choosing a site for the Broadway school annex pupils selects the Y M C A building. School fixtures will be moved to the new location on Saturday and studies resume the following Monday.
Marriage licenses issued yesterday include Jake Thomas of Pleasant Green and Lelia Scott of Lookout. Also listed are A L Gokenour with Ethel Steele of Byberry and John Johnston with May Johnston, both pairs noted as colored, from Sedalia.
Will O Bannon is improving after a severe measles attack at the home of his uncle Joseph Dillard.
The production A Railroad Jack is praised as a complete achievement both artistically and commercially. It features a tornado-scene circus tent spectacle and the South African lion Duke, noted for ferocity. The first act depicts the Bartlett house country with convincing rolling landscapes and a sunset mood, ending in apparent peace.
The Alabama Singers will perform Wednesday night January 28 delivering a reproduction of the south land famed for beauty and pathos. A highlight is a key illusion in Way Down East enhancing the program.
After the Second Regiment band practice a social was held funded by barber Charles Pudry. Refreshments were served and the event closed with a cake walk. Breigg and Smithy won the prize, a limburger cheese sandwich.
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