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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1902
Page
2
The grand jury indicts contractors and workers over the January Park avenue blast that killed many. Ira A. Shaler, subway subcontractor, is charged with first degree manslaughter and with improper storage of dynamite.
A proposed merger unites Leyland lines of Boston and the White Star with Atlantic Transport of New York and other interests. The group would oversee about 120 steamers from a single London headquarters with Terry Winding, a director from Leyland and Atlantic Transport, presiding.
A freight train collision on the heavy grade at Horseshoe Curve, near Altoona Pennsylvania, left two fans dead and seven injured, with two of the injured mortally. Names of dead include A S Griaves conductor WB Westner brake man E W Coons and an unknown man. Adtcona Cinefreprht workers among the crew. The reckless speed caused engines to overrun braking and crash into each other.
Five expert cracksmen wrecked the large safe in the general store of S. KB. Randall in Avial fed and secured about 800 dollars in cash plus notes and other valuables. They escaped, direction unknown, while police in towns within miles keep a watch for them.
The schooner Frank Herbert carrying pine lumber from Gypeceke North Carolina to New York was abandoned in a sinking condition off the coast. A second vessel attempted rescue within a week as ice fields drifted from the Delaware Bay toward the area.
The San Francisco Call notes Adams, Amercan, United States and Wells Fargo Express Companies may merge into one corporation. E. A. Harriman, president of the Southern Pacific, could be named president of the new entity. Commander Booth-Tucker reportedly took US citizenship in New York City and claimed deep American roots.
Ransom for Miss Helen Mc Stone and her companion Brie Tsilka has been paid. The deadline for release has not yet expired, but delivery to an American agent is broadly expected.
A Belgrade dispatch states there is no truth to a U S news agency report that two soldiers of King Alexander's body guard were chloroformed and killed while on duty outside his apartments.
At a North St. Louis business men gathering a resolution inviting Prince Henry to be the guest during his brief stay in St. Louis was voted down by a large majority.
From Lahore a dispatch to the London Exchange Telegraph Company reports a new regime of pen intervention causing rampant pague in the Punjab with about a thousand deaths daily.
Fort Wayne readers learn of February events at the Masonic Temple including programs titled 11 Ranaway Girl and Radolph and Adolph planned for February 21 as part of the city’s entertainment notices featuring young Corbett.
A fifteen ton boulder crashed into a work train caboose twenty miles west of Lith Rock Ark on the Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf railroad, killing seven men and injuring at least four teenagers.
Seven miners were probably fatally injured in an accident at the Boston colliery in Mahony City. A loaded cage with men was drawn over the tipple and plunged to the shaft bottom, leaving survivors in fright and injured.
A spate of disasters and crimes unfolds from Jersey City to Paterson New Jersey. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Pier 6 area burns causing 250000 in loss and fourteen injured. Paterson suffers ten million in damage across twenty six blocks including 500 dwellings. Other items include a smallpox death of Reverend Eagles in Brooklyn, a fatal fire at Utica Music Hall, a teenage shooting in Washington and multiple arrests and investigations.
Tom L. Western Johnson formally announces his candidacy for Ohio governor while a string of accidents and disasters end with multiple deaths. Reports include deaths in Lima from poisoned candy and a mining collapse in Trinidad. Chicago fires devastate Orpheon Music Hall and downtown blocks.
A man who gave his name as R G Sutton of New Orleans was identified as Ray Sutton Garlick of Tacoma and arrested in San Francisco on forgery charges. He posed as the nephew of William Alvord, Bank of California president, and bought a gold watch and a diamond ring from Vanderslice Co. He offered a $100 check forged with Alvord’s signature as payment.
Six men died in a Kentucky posse clash with a saloonkeeper and followers while ten or more were hurt. Frank Armstrong and his son Austin drowned after breaking through ice during a coon hunt near Madisonville Kentucky. Fifteen miners injured by a dust explosion at Bon Air Texas. five seriously burned but all rescued. Atlantic Coast Line freight depot and nearby buildings destroyed by fire in Washington DC, loss about 70000 dollars. Ed Peed a black male firefighter was killed by a falling wall. City of Galveston Texas defaulted on 3 million dollars in bonded debt due to floods and misfortunes. Col Jack Chinn foxhounds killed neighbor’s sheep. he paid damages and killed seven young dogs. North end of Scottsville Kentucky public square burned. losses around 30000 dollars. sheriff’s offices and county records destroyed. Saints St Magnus and St Bonosa buried in Louisville church after bones found in Rome catacombs. Bank robbery at New Worth Georgia yields 5000 in gold and bonds. substantial stock certificates damaged by explosion. Eva Gilbert trapeze artist at Powhattan Theater Newport News died after falling from a rope act.
The Wright, sunk fifteen feet deep after striking an uncharted rock near San Jacinto harbor on November 28, has been lifted. A cabinet council authorized the Spanish foreign minister to sign a friendship treaty with the United States after Council of State debate.
A deadly snowslide near Scewlarm by Ketchikan Alaska claims three lives. The incident follows severe winter conditions and prompted rescue attempts and investigations by local authorities.
The House spent an hour on minor business and honored late Representative Burke of Texas. Debates centered on the oleomargarine bill with a 10 cent tax proposal and a key Senate discussion on Philippine independence and tariff measures. Adjournment followed a 195 to 106 vote against refiling the bill, while other acts approved war claims and Civil War compensation.
Washington notes report Congressman Newlands has introduced a bill to grant statehood to Cuba. The House will resist Senate tariff alterations via reciprocity treaties. The House passed a 15 845 dollar appropriation for Chicago caisson explosion damages. Secretary Root proposes a plan to handle insular affairs removing acting colonial secretary duties. Admiral Schley received a 1000 dollar plane from an unknown giver.
Reported engagement shows Gen Kitchener aiming to trap Gen Dewet's entire force across a fifty mile line on the veldt with armored trains and searchlights at night. Dewet and many Burghers escaped a surrounding circle, a remarkable test of mobile leadership against numbers. The battle is hailed as a notable feat of war.
The article reviews the British Japanese treaty seen as a powerful alliance against Russia in Manchuria and Corea. It notes the pact aims to preserve status quo with room to act to protect colonial interests, pledging neutrality unless allied hosts are attacked and signaling a potential great power confrontation.
Maria Halpin, central in the Blaine Cleveland campaign of 1884 and linked to a scandal involving a future president, has died in New Rochelle. The case had sparked a national furor during the political fight surrounding that era.
Ida Rogers of Kansas City, described as a negress, devised revenge against E. R. Dale after he jilted her. She threw boiling water over him, scalding his face and breast severely.
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