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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1901
Page
2
Mob Lynches Four Black Residents After Murder in Carrollton
In Carrollton Mississippi a mob of about five hundred white citizens lynched Betsy McCrea Belford McCrea and Ida McCrea following the July murder of Mr and Mrs Taliaferro. They were hanged at the town roadside after being seized from jail by the mob and shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrollton
Miss
Taliaferro
Betsy McCrea
Belford McCrea
Ida McCrea
Carroll County
Duke
Degroes
Government monthly statement shows July 1901 surplus over deficits
The monthly comparative statement of government receipts and expenditures reports July 1901 receipts of 62,320,540 and expenditures of 52,307,590, yielding a surplus of 12,760. War department spending declined by 2,428,605 to 16,017,809 while Navy outlays rose 285,000 to 6,145,265 and pensions fell 315,006 to 41,401,219.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Navy Department
Fire destroys three Hammond plants wounding over 600 workers
A blaze in Hammond Indiana destroyed three large manufacturing plants after an oil pipe burst in a furnace at the Simplex Hallway Appliance factory. Kensington and South Chicago sent aid and halted spread. Loss exceeds $100,000. Over 600 workers left jobless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond
Ind
Simplex Hailway
Kensington
South
Chicago
Crescens Sets New Trotting Mile Record in Cleveland
Columbus reports Crescens, trotting champion, completed a mile in 2 02 lowering the week old mark of 2 08 at Cleveland. The first half ran in 59 7 with splits of 29 and 50.59. A tail wind up the stretch limited a faster time to 2.02.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Crescens
Cleveland
Island vanishes near Chequamegon bay creating navigational hazard
Steamboat island in Chequamegon Bay on Lake Superior has disappeared after recent storms. The former sand and rock is replaced by a rocky reef just below water, leaving navigational risk and possible need for a lighthouse on the edge to mark the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steamboat Island
Apostle Group
Chequamecon Biy
Lake Supe- Fier
Tampico Wharf Collapse Kills Many in Railroad Terminal
At least seventeen men and five women died when the Tampico terminal wharf of the Monterey & Mexico Gulf Railroad collapsed under thousands of tons of coal. Eight men and four women bodies have been recovered. victims were crushed and mangled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monterey & Mexico Gulf Railroad
Tampico
Mexico
Shoemakers Rage Over Planned American Shoe Shops
Vienna interview with Herr Bitza, chairman of the Shoemakers guild, warns Americans may sell 30 percent cheaper than local makers. He notes rising agitation among locals and talks of possible violence if the shops open in Austria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna Fremdenblatt
Herr Bitza
Shoemakers’ Guild
Austria
Locomotive Boiler Explodes Wrecks Train at Bolton Ga
An explosion wrecked a Western and Atlantic passenger train at Bolton Georgia when the boiler blew up. The baggage car was derailed. Fireman J L Renchacher of Atlanta was fatally injured. Engineer N V Bell of Atlanta was badly hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern
Atlantic
Bolton
J. L. Renchbacher
Atlanta
N.V. Bell
J. W. Collins
Deveny
McKinley Accepts Invitation to G A R Encampment
President McKinley accepts an invitation to attend the national G A R encampment in Cleveland Ohio and will be in the city Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday of encampment week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Cleveland
Ohio
Seven of Joseph Martin Family Poisoned in Pa Accident
The Martin family of New Baltimore Pennsylvania, seven members, were poisoned after mistaking toadstools for mushrooms. One person is dead and the others are critically ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Martin
New Baltimore
Grain Elevator Fire in Chicago Causes Major Damage
Fire broke out at the Grand Bank grain elevator at Fifty first Street and Central Avenue Chicago. Damage is estimated at 375000. No injuries reported. Fire crews fought the blaze through the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railway
Fifty-first ‘Street
Central Avenue
Chicago
Secretary Hackett Presses Santiago Fight Facts
Secretary Hackett cites Admiral Schley’s letter to support the precept that disobedience of orders during the Santiago action is a fact. The document asserts the precept must stand despite Schley’s protest and presents the cited events as established truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cine
Hackett
Navy
Schley
Santiago
Multiple deaths and fires headline city and region notes
A collection of short notices reports a Hanover fire at the American Machine and Foundry shop causing estimated losses between 75000 and 125000 dollars. Philadelphia actor Mark L Wilson died by inhaling gas. Baltimore hosts the death of John O Day formerly of the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad after a long illness. Atlantic City wage decision favors manufacturers at a glass workers conference. May Siosburg’s father withdraws rewards for her killer. Percy Proctor Jr reportedly drowns in Cayuga Lake. A Shamokin inmate, John Gullick, wounds his mother and brother and risks recovery. The Sagamore whaleback sinks after colliding with Northern Queen on Lake Superior. two drowned, one missing. George McCabe, 46, dies by throat cut amid workmen’s strike stress. A cousin of A T Stewart sues for a share of the estate, claiming the will was not his.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ness’ Palmer
Red
Philsdebbie
Cornell
Aca
N. Y
Ness
American Machine and Foundry Company
Hanover
Mark L. Wilson
Philadelphia
John O'Day
St. Louis
San Francisco
Baltimore
Bright
Atlantic City
R. L. Fosburg
May Siosburg
Percy Proctor, Jr
Oakland
Cornell University
Cayuga Lake
Percy Procetor
John Gullick
Shamokin
McCabe
Worthingien Tiedraullie
Brooklyn
John Stewart
A. T. Stewart
Supreme Court of New York
Alexander T. Stewart
Carnegie offers library to Jordin Missouri under usual terms
Andrew Carnegie proposes a 4000 library gift to Jordin Mo subject to standard conditions. The report also notes coal price hikes in Kansas, new rural mail route superintendent in four states, life imprisonment for two men in Ohio, and multiple local accidents and incidents across several states.
Wrecks and crimes reported across the nation
A diverse string of incidents is listed including a wreck near Dayton with two dead and fourteen aboard, a Kansas City prisoner released on bond, a Missouri River island loss, a Lima musician who attacked his wife, a Rock Island train wreck near Stremlin, a major fire in Richmond, and multiple injuries from fights and storms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tri
Dayton
Ohio
Troy
Lulu
Prince Kennedy
Kansas City
Philip H. Kennedy
State Supreme Court
Missouri River
Howells Island
Missouri City
BE. H. Frey
Lima
Multiple killings and disasters reported in brief notes
Southern news items describe W. S. Bowers stabbed to death by cousin Albert Bowers in Memphis over a debt, Walter Sheppard shot by Henry Vittatoe near Pleasure Ridge Kentucky, a Winyah Lumber Company sawmill boiler explosion in Georgetown South Carolina killing three and injuring others, a street fight in Isoline Tennessee leaves Policeman Pink Pass and W. E. Knox dead, Shirley Pass wounded, and the deaths of R. T. Taliafero and wife in Carroll County Mississippi suspected murder by outsiders seeking revenge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. S. Bowers
Memphis
Tenn
Albert Bowers
Walter Sheppard
Henry Vittatoe
Pleasure Ridge
Winyah Lumber Company
Georgetown
S. C
Isoline
Pink Pass
W. E. Knox
Shirley Pass
R. T. Taliafero
Carroll County
Mlississippi
Families Back Boys With Rifles On Neutral Ground
Edwin Blalock and Robert Wright Jr. supported the boys as the two families stood ready with rifles on neutral ground, backing the youths in a tense local dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin “Blalock
Robert Wright, Jr
Charters Granted and Global Developments in Industry
A New Jersey charter grants a bread industry holding company control in major cities. Morgan ends the steel strike via mutual concessions, seen as a draw between capital and labor. Reports cover plague spread warnings, canal water concessions for irrigation, a pardon bid in Puerto Rico, a singer fending off a burglar, a wrecked steamship with survivors, and plans to expand Great Lakes freight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Senator
Port Lownsend
Charles D. Lane
Nome
Seattle
Nunivak Island
Lyman C. Smith
Great Lakes
Buffalo
Duluth
Abel Murillo
Cartagena
Colombia
White Pass & Yukon
White Horse
Fort Selkirk
Yukon
Dawson
London
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
United States
Canada
Market Reports Full of Mixed Farm Prices Across Cities
Regional market notes show cattle from Chicago and Indianapolis at 2.50 to 6.00, hogs up to 9.95 in Detroit figures, and diverse grain quotes. Prices span no. 2 wheat around 64 to 69 cents, corn 53 to 65 cents, oats 33 to 39 cents, rye up to 53 to 66 cents, with regional variations and livestock quality ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
Catule
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
Bold train robbery attempt on Chicago express
Four masked men stopped a Baltimore and Ohio New York and Chicago express near Calumet Heights at 9 p m claiming to hijack the baggage car. They planted dynamite, fired continually, and fled after failing to find the safe leaving 46 sticks behind and a damaged car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Express
Lengineer
New York
Chicago
Death of Col. Leroy Black at Monroe City Missouri
Col Leroy Black aged 70 dies at his home in Monroe City Missouri. He was a prominent member of the G A R. A river accident claims Marion Lehr nine year old son of C F Lehr an ice dealer drowned in the Missouri River at St Joseph Missouri. An elevator fire at Salina Kansas destroys the structure and 14000 bushels of wheat with 10500 dollars loss and 9000 dollars insurance. The Bristol Texas winter dumps near Nome Alaska sluice over half a million dollars. A Matt Andrews fatally stabbed by Mik cane in a secret act near eecretly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy Black
Monroe City
Salina
Kaa
Thridge Board of Trade
Phillips
Marion Lehr
C. F. Lehr
St. Joseph
Nome
Bristol
Texas
Matt Andrews
Mik
Damages Sought After Train Misdelivery Sparks Betrothal Fallout
Charles Arnold of Rockport files 620000 damages against Clover Leaf Railroad Co. claiming a conductors error caused him to miss his wedding. Mrs William Stillwell widow, betrothed to Arnold, canceled the engagement by wire after a sleep during transport left him miles from Melott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Arnold
Rockport
Clover Leaf Railroad Company
William. Stillwell
Ele
Clover Leaf
Melott
Killing by enraged mother shocks rural Shelby County
William Gray, a contractor, was shot and killed by Mrs. Mark Frieze at Redmills ten miles northwest of Shelbyville. Mrs. Frieze and her husband drove from Franklin, confronted Gray at his workplace, and after a heart wound fired again near his head. Gray had courted Mrs. Frieze's daughter before secretly marrying another woman, provoking the deadly act. The Friezes are jailed and silent on details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam Gray
Mark Frieze
Redmills
Shelbyville
Gray
Fatal quarrel leaves ex councilman dead in Kokomo yard
In Kokomo Edward Van Hart a bartender shot ex councilman Jerry McCool in McCool's yard after a quarrel with Van Hart's wife. McCool struck Van Hart with a fence picker then was shot through the right lung. McCool will die and Van Hart surrendered to authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kokomo
Jerry McCool
Edward van Hart
Hart
McCool
Wif
van Hart
Jilted Lover's Cruel Deed and Lake Boat Sinking
Peter Tillbury an ironworker enled at the home of Iwate Phinney in Muancie and threw carbolic acid into Mrs. Mary Torrey burning her eyes and neck. An excursion boat Ethel sank on Webster Lake twelve miles north of Washington after striking a sunken log. twenty nine excursionists were rescued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Tillbury
Iwate Phinney
Muancie
Mary Torrey
Wshe
Piapiac
Ethel
Webster Lake
Washington
Local Fatalities and Distress Mark Indiana Notes
A scattered set of reports from Indiana recounts suicides and accidents including Mrs. Carrie EB Hanlin of Marion taking landanum, William Babcock a Porter County farmer killed in a mowing accident, Erasmus Callahan near Browns Town shooting himself, Frank Eggert found dead in Laporte woods partly devoured by hogs, and David Jones of Blackford County dying from blood poisoning after a horse kick. Layman & Co of Kokomo faces $12 000 liabilities with $3 600 assets. Indiana lodges of the Amalgamated Association plan a strike fund. Jennie Clark, 18, of Lawrence, leaped from a moving train and was killed. William M Young, 30, of Columbus, found dead behind a store in Anderson, epilepsy noted as possible cause. Ralph Gillispie, 9, of Anderson, fell from a wagon and suffered a fractured skull. Edmund Frank’s body, left after a robbery and Mississippi river dumping, is returned to Petersburg. Elkhart brakeman Charles Dolan injured at La Porte in a Lake Shore wreck caused by a bursting air hose. Maurice Schufhauser and wife near Indianapolis shot by Herman Sickinger, jailed for abducting their daughter. Florence McCulloch severely injured after William Shirley of Edwardsville stabbed her and then killed himself. Barber’s mills farmers form a grain and livestock trust to cut middlemen profits, planning direct city deals. Rock Creek township farmers largely sign on, with rates negotiations among railroads to favor the lowest bidder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsville
Carrie EB. Hanlin
Marion
Landanum
William Babcock
Porter County
Erasmus Callahan
Brownstown
Frank Eggert
Laporte
Layman & Co
Ixokomo
Anderson
Ralph Gillispie
James Gillispie
Anderson Grocer
Mier
A. Lox
Edmund Frank
Memphis
Petersburg
Charles Dolan
Elkhart
Maurice Schufhauser
Indianapolis
Herman Sickinger
William Shirley
Edwardsville
Florence McCulloch
Barber's Mills
Rock Creek
Lake ‘Erie
Western
Erie
Wells County
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Will Ware
Andrew Carnegie
Jordin
Kansas
C. G. Swain
Richmond
Indiana
Kentucky
Michigan
Upper Sandusky
Willis Miller
Marsh Lindsay
Wiliam C. Johnson
J. E. Yrow
Olathe
Wathena
Kan
Livermore
Log Henderson
John Wiliams
Dreneling
Troutie
West Lebanon Coal Company
Charles A. McDonald
Wwooster
Earl Jenkins
Florence Nevtos
Miss Andtia Cole
Duvallup
Spanaway Lake
Tacensa
Wash
Anderson Valley
Cal
Wiliam Rose
Leir
Seger
O. T
George B. Whitcehorn
St. Paul
Johnoseen
Minneapolis
Isaac Lane
Mississippi River
Helena
Ark
Will Kelly
Frank Camoru
Wakefield Dursin
Pioneer
Skittery
Ames Bridge Company
Denver
el Verde Rio Ot Company
Ogden
Utah
Uled
Spetro- Jearm
Green River
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Stremlin
C. L. McLain
Enid
T. Uc, Taylor
W. HK. Hadley
Fry Brothers
William Cain
William Grottendick
King’s Mines
Cambridge
William Austin
Hill City
Austin
Lotish
Fremont
Max Hednark
Mike Materzak
Mike Swinski
Colwich
Rock Island Road
Hamblin
Devil's Lake
N. TD
Hermann Ratien
PRP
H. Pickett
George Kelly
North Dakota
Tappen
Northern Pacific
Phil McWilliams
Trinidad
Col
Salvadore Trareces
Charles Pareces
Ldareces
McWilliams
Peter Drum
Bucyrus
Drum
Southern
Market Reports
Fiatpnnoe Rey
State Newa
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