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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1902
Page
2
Brief dispatches cover varied happenings from commerce to politics. Casual ties emerge in social notes while minor crimes and fires appear as quick summaries. Religious and political items are included in compact paragraphs.
Telegram from Butler Pennsylvania reports Edward Biddle mortally wounded and John Biddle critically injured after a sensational jail escape aided by Mrs Soffel. The pursuit led to a snowbound road two miles east of Prospect where officers confronted the Bidtles in a one horse shack, exchange of gunfire, and multiple injuries to both sides.
Reported raid on a parliamentary building where thousands clashed with police. Windows smashed and proceedings halted as mounted forces charged the crowd. Ambulance crews removed several injured, with critical cases feared.
Judge O Pudet in Chicago rules that the business activities entangled with John Alexander Dowie and the Christian Catholic church violate public policy. Ebner Teaburn is named receiver of the lace plant, establishing a precedent affecting Dowie’s future enterprises and doctrinal efforts.
Fragmentary OCR text references a court case involving Phe Chu and Described as a trial related to a maid and company, with scattered names and locations. Readable fragments hint at legal proceedings, charges, or testimony but lack clear details.
Fragmentary OCR text references a murder case and November proceedings. Names and places are unclear, but the item centers on a legal action and judicial steps related to a fatal incident.
Report from Orange River Colony details a hitherto unreported engagement on January 28 at Abridianos near Katty fonterm. Colonel L. E. Dumoulin of the Sussex regiment and each man were killed. seven men were wounded.
The Chicago and Alton southbound limited struck a D-rail at the Wabash crossing a mile north of Pontiac TH. The locomotive mail car and two coaches rolled down an eight foot embankment injuring five passengers.
Local playbill lists February showings at Rinsonic Temple in Fort Warque Enid. Jefferon De Angelis stars in A Royal Rogue Reb and ONeal headlines Monte Cristo with Desideon Stock Co performing February engagements.
Berlin officials reject a Vienna origin tale claiming Germany would purchase the Philippine Islands from the United States and that Prince Henry’s visit would precede any such sale as absurd.
The jury in Frankfort Kentucky convicted Jim Howard for the assassination of William Goebel and sentenced him to imprisonment.
Congress moved on the deficiency bill with a $500 000 provision for protection and shelter for troops in the Philippines, amid bitter Senate exchanges over press censorship and remarks by officers. The Senate also advanced a commerce and labor department, extended bankcharter terms, and tackled Nicaragua canal routing.
The item cites concern among party leaders over U S policy toward the Philippines and notes a controversial proposal to move the presidential inauguration date. It mentions a political scandal involving James Alman offered money to poison Abraham Lincoln, and reports on military, diplomatic, and trade matters affecting government action and meat inspection funding.
The week saw persistent improvement in trade with favorable Western reports and strong mill orders. Railroads press steel rails, coke supplies improve, and prices for wire, bar iron, and leather stay firm while construction plans in Chicago face council delays.
Historical market notes show bid ranges for wheat, corn, oats and rye across grades No. 1 through No. 3 with multiple region references. Prices cover sheep hogs and cattle, including shipping steers and prime hogs, with varied dollars per hundred weight and era-specific terms.
John J. Gallagher of Auburn New York is sentenced to fifteen years in prison for the alleged killing of G E Seibert in a case outlined by local court records.
A large Eastern force vaccinate the East Boston population as 125 physicians conduct a citywide inoculation drive, reaching about 15 000 people.
A Montana mining camp dispute escalates into a ring duel over child custody. The woman wins possession, while the man and his relatives escape serious harm.
Seventeen crewmen were taken off the Norwegian steamer Dastgery after it stranded near Cape Henry Washington. Across Texas a stock train collision near Meller killed W T Stillwell and fatally injured J G Adkins. Timber valued at a half million dollars swept from Guyandotte river by broken booms.
Fire devastated the Saint Paul Monastery on Mount Athos in Greece. The pri or and nine monks perished while twenty others were seriously injured.
Reports include Thomas Middleton's suicide amid a 10000 shortage in Yukon. Prince Tfenrys’s tour planned for March 1 after Washington and the East. Fire in Rat Portage destroys hotels and stores with losses over 100000, while census data show U S manufacturing value rising 38 percent since 1890.
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