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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1902
Page
6
Daho state news covers varied reports from enrollments and population shifts to new bonds and construction at Welser district. Also notes deaths from farming accidents, fruit shipments, giant apples, labor parades, fires, crimes, gambling enforcement, and a Democratic state convention in Pocatello highlighting candidates and officials.
Insurgents report victory after forcing surrender of General Wert at Agua Dulce. General Herti, praised for defense, will and will not surrender arms, while Berti capitulated under lack of food and belief aid would not arrive. Panama braces for renewed defense with 9,500 troops around the capital and 1,000 at Colon. Reinforcements from Konda and Magdalena River are en route, with 3,000 more expected this week.
A cable from General Chaffee dated Sept 6 reports no attack occurred at Maulling falls seven miles from Camp Wickam on Sept 1. First Lt. William M. Parker and two soldiers were wounded and one killed. General Clintren says Brig. Gen. Sumner may move troops into Mackin eoch while warning of future good behavior. Troops have faced twelve clashes since May 2 with two dozen casualties. The department seeks limited self defense and may pursue a broader Mindanao move soon.
The death of John D. Rockefeller's grandson Jock spurred two medical students at Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania to identify a germ linked to summer complaint in children. In fourteen cases the organism mirrors the adult dysentery germ, supporting a fatal etiology.
Kingston dispatch notes Soufriere eruption effects in Windward district of St Vincent. Rabscos river runs a quarter mile wide with steam and mud. land shifts southward altering district appearance since September. Italian miners Portray and Van Costello attacked near Harry E Colliery. Van Costello killed, partner severely injured. 4,000 New Zealand sheep aboard a London bound ship deemed unfit for human consumption and culled at sea to Scotland.
A Liberty Missouri incident reports Andrew Plymore defending against two negroes Tom and Frank Kidd with corn knives. Wounds were non life threatening. Separately in Seattle two masked robbers attacked Anchor saloon bartender James Cooper, shot him in the chest. Steam barge Houghton sank at Detroit dock with two drowned in berths. cause attributed to heavy rain and absorbed water.
A posse chases Frederick Carns once of Sheriff Strain Whiting Indiana believed hiding on the Winnebago reservation northwest of Omaha Nebraska. Carns is armed with a rifle and ample ammunition and is said to imitate the outlaw Billy Tracy. He has left defiant messages at several farmhouses before disappearing again.
Reports say the German gunboat Panther engaged and sunk the Firminist steamer Crete-a-Pierrot at the entrance to Gonaives harbor after the crew abandoned ship. The Markomannia, carrying arms for Cape Haitien, was seized by Firminist forces as Crete-a-Pierrot fired on it. Panther earlier arrived at Port-au-Prince.
The presumed William Bartholin, accused of murdering his mother Anna Hartholin in Chicago and his sweetheart Minnie Mitchell, was found shot in a Lowther Iowa cornfield with a self written confession. A letter signed Wm Bartholin ties him to the killings. his mother’s death in Chicago remains unresolved. Officials plan exhumation to confirm identity amidst the case. Battle on Isthmus Near Panama City Anticipated as Panama rebels ready for action. Salazar seeks to send relief for Morales Berti, while the national government waits for forces to assemble.
In a clash ten miles east of Durent a feud between Rev. W. E. Whaley and his sons Ernest and Alf and the Richardson brothers J. A. and J. E. Richardson with John Waltenburger ended with fatalities and severe injuries. The elder Whaley died and Alf had his arm destroyed while J A Richardson suffered a serious wound.
Rios, a fanatical native leader in Tayabur province Luzon, led 150 armed men to Lagumanoc on September 3. They killed two women and a girl and wounded several others before a native constabulary detachment routed the band killing several followers and capturing a main stronghold. About 700 men were rounded up for questioning with guilty parties to be identified and released others. Rios claimed descent from God.
The fifth annual International Mining congress ends in Hutte and renames to the American Mining congress. Officers elected include President J B Richards Idaho and Vice Presidents S W Russell South Dakota and E R B Buckley Missouri, with executive committee members Armstrong Washington Grayson Oregon Kendall Ohio. Next meeting set for Deadwood and Lead City South Dakota in September with date to be announced.
An uncrewed switch engine at West Oakland yards was hit by a freight train and sent racing through hundreds of tracks toward the West Oakland Mole. Tower men steered it onto an outside track to avoid collision, but it plunged into the bay after reaching 35 mph, sinking with the locomotive buried beneath twenty feet of water.
A premature discharge on a 12 inch gun at Pish ee s Island Fort Wright kills Edward Roy instantly as he handled a thirty pound powder charge. Harry A Davis dies later from injuries and Samuel Clevenger is severely wounded. Several others suffer minor injuries among the Second Company coast artillery. Roy, a loader, was blown apart when the breech block was not locked and a burning rag likely ignited the charge. Davis sustains fatal injuries from a cheek wound. others receive minor harm.
Obituary notes the renowned pathologist Rudolph Virchow dead at Berlin. He is hailed as a world changing medical reformer whose influence shaped modern medicine across nations. Praises highlight humanitarian work in Berlin hospitals and his steadfast liberal political activity.
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