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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1904
Page
6
Local publisher The Record Publishing Co prints The Weekly Record in Silver Lake area Indiana. The note confirms publisher identity and location.
Survivors recount the sinking of the Blanche in the Mersey River. Only two of nine crew members were saved after a life boat capsized and was pummeled by freezing seas. Four made it to shore after seven hours at sea, with two dying before landfall.
In New York a list of scattered items notes Mme Janauschek died at the Actors' Fund Home on Tong Island. The Nan Patterson case in New York was postponed due to a juror illness, delaying the trial. Various political, legal and accident items follow from Boston to New York, with multiple notable individuals named.
A dense list of 1900s era events covers bout results in San Francisco and divorces in Springfield. It notes mine fatalities in Duluth, a Chicago coroner report, wild town vandalism in Ziegler Illinois, and gunfire responses with several other accidents. Additional items include a Pullman car explosion in St. Louis, land withdrawals in Minot, deer hunting losses in Wisconsin and Michigan, a fatal stabbing near Ipswich DC, a streetcar crash in St Louis, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition closing.
A Pennsyl Construction crew collision north of columns injures multiple workers and a dozen passengers with several in critical condition. Authorities report a derailment caused by a misread signal as trains collided at a crossing two miles north of the hub.
St Petersburg dispatch reports city authorities grant $50 000 to Port Arthur defenders and their families and appeal to the Russian empire to raise more funds. In a separate item a gas machine incident caused a Mexico building collapse. Matthia Haines and wife were buried when the structure fell.
A major blaze wiped out The Revere Block the largest business block in Kent Ohio. About a dozen firms including professionals occupied the site. Estimated losses run to eighty thousand dollars.
An earthquake was felt in West Point Nebraska waking residents as windows and dishes rattled. Minor damage is suspected with reports of trembling events across the area.
Pantel Mason, 29, an employee of the Schenectady Railway Company, was killed in Schenectady New York while working on a trolley pole. He accidentally grasped a live wire during shooting trouble and 2,800 volts passed through his body.
Three men died and several others had narrow escapes when freight trains collided near Oneonta New York on the Delaware and Hudson line. Property valued at about 340000 was destroyed in the wreck.
Mrs. Margaret Keeler, 86, was found murdered in her upper East Side apartments. Coroner says robbery motive. jewelry valued between 200 and 1200 dollars taken. The Keeler family includes a husband, a son, and a 9 year old daughter.
Andrew Carnegie offers 40000 pounds for two Omaha branch libraries after solicitation by Edward Rosewater on conditions typical of his philanthropy. Separate items note a lion tamer’s death in San Francisco, a hospital fire in Pueblo causing 25000 damage, and miners’ strike in Colorado ending with no discrimination pledge.
The London Daily Telegraph reports Henrik Ibsen is paralyzed and unable to speak, read, or write. Paul Schumann, husband of soprano Schumann-Heink, dies near Dresden. Calve ill with appendicitis on tour in Vienna. G K R Chapman dies after a fall at the Carlton Hotel London, his fall injuring the Mexican ambassador's wife. Former Queen Natalie of Servia suffers a severe carriage accident near Biarritz. her horses bolted and she sustained facial injuries.
Secretary of War Taft in his first report cites an army strength of 60 000 officers and men and notes they are among the world’s best paid soldiers. Italians numbering over 6000 have left to return home due to railroad stoppages in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys.
The report catalogs grain and livestock quotes from Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo, Buffalo and New York. Prices cover hogs, sheep, cattle, wheat, corn, oats, rye, butter and eggs with No. 2 and mixed grades and bid ranges. Sourced figures show regional shifts and typical spreads for cattle shipping, hog quality, and dairy products.
Cleveland society leader Mrs. Cas sie L Chadwick faces a tangle of charges over alleged bogus securities and large loans. Reports tie Andrew Carnegie to a $500 000 note used to obtain loans from Ohio banks and Newton of Brookline Mass. Securities are said to be kept in Oberlin bank vaults as the Oberlin Citizens National Bank undergoes examination. A settlement arrangement between Mrs Chadwick’s lawyers and H D Newton is reported.
A grim tally from the just closed deer season shows 42 killed or wounded by fellow hunters, with a total deer kill around 4,000, far below last year. The report notes widespread accidents while arguing for stricter laws to address hunting fatalities and protective penalties for mistaken killings of women as deer.
A mixed set of notes covers Port Arthur during the Russo Japanese war with Gen Stoessel and Baron Kodama’s winter plans, three Russian torpedo boat destroyers sunk by Japan, and Baltic fleet morale. It also mentions US patents for women, a court suit against Tom Lawson, Chicago subway relief, Massachusetts sausage analogy, and an Indiana marriage fortune rule.
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