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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1899
Page
2
A compact news brief greets readers with highlights from abroad including crimes, casualties, fires and other incidents. It presents items from distant shores in a telegraph style, noting events of international interest.
A Gulf Coast storm devastates Carrabelle as tides, wind, and rain wreck the port town. Reports say Crescent City steamship lost between Apalachicola and Carrabelle. Drownings at St. Marks and wrecked passenger train thirty-five miles from Tallahassee. Crops suffer extensive damage.
Henry Kilbert a wealthy Evansville Indiana shoe merchant has become obsessed with the Dreyfus affair since the Frenchman's imprisonment at Devil's Island. He raves at the French and is confined at the Southern Indiana Insane Hospital in what doctors call one of the institution’s worst cases. Kilbert 42 comes from a prominent Hebrew family in Henderson Kentucky.
J. H. Turpie a well known Lafayette resident died after leaping from a third story hotel window onto Fifth Street. He was found by an ambulance crew after midnight and died at a hospital. No reason for the act is known. He lived with his family in a wealthy neighborhood near the Hotel Lab.
The War Department anticipates 40 000 available men for the Philippines under Secretary Root. Root has asked bureau chiefs about supplies and equipment and seeks to increase the eastern archipelago’s military force.
A dynamiting incident in Cleveland damages a Jennings avenue streetcar carrying six passengers. The blast wrecks a wheel flange and splinters the running board but, despite great fright, no injuries are reported as the car continues to the end of the run.
Nellie Berger sixteen abducted from home near GileadIndiana found at Freetown near Seymour Sheriff Fultz and ex Sheriff Gast found her. Abductor William Jones arrested and both transferred to Indianapolis for custody after recovery.
Advices from Cebu report American forces attacked insurgents in trenches last week. With assistance from Charleston units they routed the enemy with minimal American casualties.
Fire at Armour's fertilizer warehouse in Chicago threatened the stockyard district briefly before firefighters confined the blaze to the building. Immediate action by the fire department stopped it from spreading to nearby facilities and streets.
The Postoffice Department experiments with automobile delivery. If successful, large cities will be equipped, changing mail transport and service expectations nationwide.
New York City tailors have ended their strike as nearly all contractors sign contracts for the upcoming season, securing work for their members.
The hospital ship Relief reaches San Francisco with about 400 wounded and sick soldiers. Many are in serious condition.
General Ludlow the military governor of Havana Province has suppressed the Cuban newspaper El Reconcentrado. The seizure reflects ongoing censorship actions and control over press outlets in the region.
Immigration Commissioner Powderly rules that Filipinos recently brought to San Francisco may stay for the Omaha Exposition. The exposition company will keep them and return them in a year.
A steamer named Al-Ki brought placer and quartz gold from Alaska and the British Yukon to Seattle, valued at about 300000 dollars. Approximately half of the shipment is believed to be Treadwell product.
Advices from Seoul describe a series of dynamite outrages blamed on conspirators led by Prince Pak Yung-hye. Explosions rocked the city injuring two and damaging a royal residence, with police arresting seventeen suspects including six women.
Florence Campbell, daughter of Judge Campbell of Wheeling, admits she sent poisoned cherries to herself. She had claimed Mrs. Rathorn tried to kill her but says the tale was a plot to shield her family name and avoid disgrace from a possible divorce suit.
An 11 year old white girl, daughter of Alonzo Newton, was found hanging from a tree near the family home in Fannin County Texas. The murder sparked county indignation with Sheriff Rib bling and Chief Jackson leading a manhunt. A lynching may result from the crime.
A Montgomery Chester line trolley with seventy four aboard left rails near James Nodlit’s grocery in Phoenixville Pennsylvania. The car jumped a steep incline, struck Nodlit’s store, and crashed injuring over thirty passengers as the car and building sustained damage.
The Baltimore and Ohio main line tunnel west of Cambridge Ohio caved in shortly after a west bound passenger train passed. The 700 foot tunnel was half blocked and a track inspector halted a special train just in time to save it. Trains were rerouted via the Cleveland and Marietta Railway.
A major blaze wiped out almost all of Tupper Lake New York except two hotels the opera house the Catholic church and a few tenements. About three hundred people are left homeless and destitute with losses estimated at two hundred thousand dollars.
Bet Clardy killed Will Southall near La Fayette Kentucky while the Southall brothers worked in a tobacco field. Charles Southall mortally wounded Clardy by bludgeoning him with a stone after Clardy shot Will.
A rail line will connect the Northern Ohio Railway at Copley with the Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling at Warwick to Barberton. The project is to be built by a company formed by O. C. Barber and J. K. Robinson of the Diamond Match Company.
The announcement of the Jacques Cartier bank suspension in Montreal triggered a sharp run on other French banks. Banks met all demands and confidence was quickly restored.
The 20 month old child of Mrs. Augustus Hageman was abducted in South Bend Indiana by a girl and officials believe a gypsy band that recently passed through holds the youngster.
In Chicago a grand jury returned a true bill against W. A. S. Graham former secretary and business manager of the Board of Education charging embezzlement of thirty four thousand dollars.
Mrs Mary Stevenson 25 in Detroit administered morphine to her daughters Hila 6 and Emma 3 then swallowed poison. Ella died. The case details indicate a fatal family poisoning with a mother as primary actor and two young children victims. Authorities investigate motives and timeline.
A Ortiz Mexico special reports Yaqui River Valley warfare with multiple deaths among Americans and Mexicans. Witnesses claim a battle near 40 miles southeast of Ortiz and name Remley of Hermosillo and Miller as casualties. General Torres is said to be among the fallen, suggesting a large-scale outbreak feared to rival the 1897 war.
The nude body of Charles B Clark 28 a train dispatcher at Mc Gonigle s station Ohio was found on the Miami river bank six miles south of Hamilton. His clothing and a tin cup with hydrocyanic acid traces were nearby leading authorities to conclude he killed himself. Clark a former medical student and political speaker was found to have studied medicine and pharmacy. His parents reside at College Corner and believe he may have died in mental distress.
Severe rain hail and wind lashed South Dakota causing serious crop losses in Epswich Roscoe Hills View and Hosmer. Ashton experienced a tornado like storm injuring crops and wrecking buildings. Frederick reported hail south of town as hundreds of acres were destroyed and telegraph poles toppled.
Report from Indian Territory describes the killing of an elderly white woman by three Seminole women who beat her to death with clubs, amid recent tribal deaths and misfortunes tied to a witch hypothesis.
Erie passenger train No. 7 bound west collided with a freight express derailed a mile east of Lackawaxen Pennsylvania. Four cars burned including two sleepers. Two killed and twenty one injured. Wreck traced to a landslide.
Twenty people were injured in a wreck on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad at Herrs Station Pennsylvania. None of the injured is likely to die but several are badly hurt. The smoker and middle coach were crowded and smashed to splinters.
Three youths lost their lives on the Ohio River in front of Evansville Indiana when their skiff capsized in rapids near the mail line wharfboat. The victims were August Mattingly 17 Miss Pearl Cheaney 14 and Miss Marion Owan 20 of Henderson Kentucky.
Edith Morell aged 17 was shot and killed by Eugene Pakahouer an Indian graduate of Carlisle Pa. The crime occurred at Mrs J F Morells home in South Amherst Mass where Pakahouer had worked about a year. The motive was Miss Morells refusal of his attentions.
Fire destroyed Mrs. Mary Hayes-Chinoweth’s Edenvale mansion in San Jose, California, with losses listed at 175000 dollars and insurance of 75000 dollars. A second blaze wiped out the J. B. Inderreiden & Co. fruit warehouse in Chicago, causing about 40000 dollars in damage with 25000 dollars insured.
Cuts throat with a pocketknife the former Kansas City Alderman and long time livestock commission man John Salisbury died by his own hand after months of apparent mental imbalance. He had been a prominent figure in local civic and livestock circles for years.
Edward Kieley fled through Indiana swamps near Bourbon and Bloomingburg after being pursued by a mob. He evaded capture with Nellie Berger, whom he abducted, and remains concealed in the marshes.
A trolley car carrying eighty passengers including women and children was held up by four highwaymen in Brooklyn. The conductor was beaten nearly to death and robbed of all his money. the robbers were captured.
Louis Billow in Ellensburg Washington admits the dynamite blast at Miss Hess Fremont Ohio and the killing of her father after she refused marriage. He is under arrest for murder and the case centers on the violent act tied to a rejected engagement.
Harry Hurt, a farmer near Stephen, Minnesota, reported two laborers digging a well on his farm when the bottom suddenly gave way at 44 feet. One man disappeared into water, the other clung to the hoist rope and was pulled up. Hurt dropped a 100 foot weight on a rope. it vanished with no bottom, suggesting a large water body beneath.
Prof J B Steers of Ann Arbor, famed natural history authority, disputes the kissing bug and strangling bug as myths. He compares public fear to Brazilian natives who fear harmless insects while tolerating venomous snakes, recounting a trip where Indians fled at a captured toad.
Bradstreet notes in Chicago report ongoing iron and steel activity with heavy advances and numerous shipments. Cereal markets show little price change while trade opinion leans toward steady demand despite large foreign takings raising potential fluctuations.
A light engine moving west on the Union Pacific hit an overland passenger train one and a quarter miles west of Walcott Wyoming. Fireman Konold was killed. Engineer Walter Marsh of No. 4, a resident of Laramie, died a few minutes after being picked up. Both engines and mail cars were demolished.
Alderman Timothy Hickey surrendered at police headquarters after shooting M. J. Real in Real’s Keokuk saloon. Real died later the same day. he was married with a family. No witnesses were reported.
In Lima Ohio Harry Huffman pulled a revolver at Ed Parish and claimed he would show how to kill Mexicans The pistol discharged striking Parish in the breast and killing him Huffman was arrested for the shooting.
Sir James Edgar, speaker of the Dominion House of Commons, dies in Toronto after complications from Bright's disease following an operation. He had recently undergone surgery and was believed to be recovering before the sudden decline.
Mrs Ramsie wife of a divine healer died at Bluffton Ohio after several days illness. Her husband refused to call a physician and locals refused to permit burial, prompting an investigation into the death.
Canada pushes for docks wharves and other terminal facilities at the proposed leased port on the Lynn Canal asserting rights in the Alaskan boundary dispute. The need for a clear agreement and guardrails for future operations remains.
A man who identified himself as Thomas Hughes of Chicago died in Mankato after claiming he had been shot by robbers. Police investigations continue into the circumstances of the death and the man's true identity remain unknown.
Mrs Kate Chase Sprague died at Edgewood her country home near Washington in her fifty ninth year.
A saloon brawl in Omaha Nebraska ends with Kid Joyce dead and Ed Callahan mortally wounded in a violence incident at the tavern fight.
The report lists live cattle hogs and sheep prices beside grain quotes in multiple markets including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Osible Hawa Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York. It shows ranges for cattle from $2.50 to $6.00 and hogs from $2.75 to $5.75 along with grain futures like No 2 red wheat 68 to 69 cents and corn 30 to 82 cents per bushel.
The Chicago and Northwestern fast mail derailed near Boone Iowa on Tuesday morning, plunging off an embankment and smashing a small hillside. Four men died and seven were injured as engines and cars were wrecked. cause uncertain but heavy rain is suspected. The Overland Limited and a fruit train passed safely before and after the wreck.
After six years apart, Mrs. Ethel Fredler of Louisville found her husband through a tombstone inscription. Miss Ethel Treaner and Charles Fredler secretly married seven years earlier. With the panic, Fredler left St. Louis, later a tombstone note spurred his reunion, and Mrs. Fredler confronted him in St. Louis.
American forces repelled a two-pronged assault on Calamba as 2,400 rebels attacked from north and south. Two companies of the Twenty first regiment and a single gun held the north flank, while 400 Washington Volunteers pushed back the southern effort. Casualties for the Americans were one killed and seven wounded.
The piece recounts Robert Ingersoll’s 1888 Republican delegates speech supporting Walter Q. Gresham. Indiana’s Harrison alignment prompts the audience to abandon the hall, leaving Ingersoll a disappointed man as his advocacy backfires.
Indiana brief notes tell of Muncie militia plans and a gas explosion injuring J. H. Wilson and William Darbyshire near Muncie. Elsewhere, a boyhood tragedy in Clarksburg ends in murder suicide, and multiple divorces and lawsuits unfold among Indianapolis area residents.
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