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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1902
Page
6
Local items cover marriages and deaths, accidents and crimes, and personal pointers for residents. Readers learn community happenings, notable events, and guidance on urban living in this condensed column.
A long list of incidents and developments across Indiana includes five steer killed by lightning in Greensburg, plans to add fenders to Union Traction Company cars to Muncie, a $75 000 hotel planned by Harry Mach in Muncie, a man killed by being kicked at Heath farm near Lebanon, and Mrs. Whicker injured near Noblesville. Also noted are swindling by a lamp game, gas service changes, new factories in Madison, milk dealer license revocations in Lafayette, a shooting accident in Huntington, and balloon mishap near Bourbon. Additional items cover family separations and reuniting marriages, Mishawaka rubber industry activity, Shiloh battlefield monuments, a divorce case, coal-well drilling near Walcott, farm labor shortages, Governor Dorbin’s G A R encampment plan, and Shiloh dedication timing.
The Knights of Pythias opened their biennial convention at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco with nearly 150 supreme representatives in attendance. Supreme Chancellor Fethers gave a year end report noting over 540 thousand members in 1901 plus suspended or withdrawn members totaling more than a million. The session included a secret meeting for degrees and reports on subordinate lodges and uniform rank companies. Elks also held their annual reunion in Salt Lake City with over 1,090 attendees led by G W Powers and Governor Wells delivering welcomes.
Rumors say President Roosevelt plans an extraordinary session in November to act on Cuban reciprocity. The aim is to secure a reciprocity treaty by Cuba and the United States through Senate ratification after the elections, with the treaty nearly finished by Ministers Queenda and Secretary Hay.
Miss Hay to wed James Wadsworth Jr Sept 30 at the Fells Newbury NH the Hay summer home. Miss Alice Tray also to marry James Wadsworth Jr son of Representative Wadsworth of New York Sept 30. Only relatives and intimate friends present. After a short wedding trip they will go to Geneseo NY for the autumn.
Michigan Senator James McMillan died suddenly at his Manchester by the Sea Massachusetts cottage at 4 o clock Sunday morning due to congested lungs and heart failure. A golfer, he collapsed after a day on the Essex County Club grounds and died after a second lung congestion attack despite stimulants and medical care. Born Hamilton Ontario May 12 1838 he rose from Detroit industrial and political work to U S Senate 1885 to 1907 term. He chaired the District of Columbia committee and wielded influence in Washington.
William J. Bryan, en route to Danville NL to speak, denied plans to run in 1904. He said he has no future nomination plans, will remain a private citizen, and will continue his editorial work and reform advocacy. Col. Bryan expressed nettled denial upon hearing the rumor.
The total emigration from Sweden to America in the last fifty years exceeds 850000. About 150000 Swedes migrated to other countries. Only five percent of United States emigrants have returned to Sweden.
The census reports a capital of 189000000 dollars and 921 establishments in the U S meat industry. Illinois leads the states, followed by Kansas Nebraska and New York in order.
Near Tulsa, I T a Creek Indian boy named Charles Mingo was found dead early morning fixed on the horns of a wild Texas steer. The animal stirred and the boy suffered fatal injuries as he wandered the pasture overnight, with the steer later shot to free him.
The State Department will replace the worn Great Seal of the United States with a freshly cut version costing 1,250 dollars after Congress authorized the recutting on Hay’s recommendation. Since the nation’s founding only three great seals have been used in succession, in 1782 1811 and 1885.
Frederick W. Vanderbilt donates 500000 for a Sheffield dormitory at Yale University. Princeton reports 22 Phillips Academy students debarred for exam cheating. MIT starts an insurance engineering course to study fire risk reduction. Johns Hopkins completes a 1 million endowment to move to a new Baltimore site. Princeton allocates 4000 to former President Patton, with 30000 more added to raise his salary to 10000 for five years. New Orleans School Board cites 10 percent fall in colored school attendance and 25 percent over two years, plans to substitute teachers by color. state suffrage reading test debate noted.
An interview recounts J W Gates life from barbed wire sales to forming J W Gates & Co and Southern Wire, building the Braddock Mill, gaining Morgan's credit, and expanding to Consolidated Steel and Wire, Illinois Steel, and American Steel and Wire while facing the 1890s U.S. steel era.
Prominent labor activist Mother Jones, known for leading the 1900 miners strike support, was arrested recently in West Virginia for attempting to assemble striking miners in violation of an injunction. At fifty eight, she remains energetic, with a background from Cork Ireland and Toronto education.
The piece notes Sears Roebuck urging timely ads and quotes Edison on print power. It cites Pittsfield clothing dealers abandoning program advertising while plans to rally other merchants to sign a mutual discontinuation.
The wedding of Sarah Stewart Van Alen and Robert J. Collier draws New York and Newport society chatter. Van Alen’s dowry reached nearly five hundred thousand dollars with gifts including table silver a diamond brooch and a diamond tiara.
The late Amir Abdur Rahman reportedly left diaries for his successor to publish selective portions on private life while omitting political matters. A modestly titled "Encyclopedia of the World" is planned to appear, as noted by the Madras Mail.
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