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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1901
Page
2
A compact roundup reports on criminal cases accidents and fires from North South East and West. The item notes incidents of public impact and ongoing investigations with regional details and official responses.
William B. Smythe Grand Secretary of the Masonic Order of Indiana was shot in his Indianapolis office. He survived briefly claiming a blonde woman asked to use the phone, then drew a revolver and fired. Smythe describes the moment of the shot before the assailant fled.
A head on collision of two crowded passenger trains at Franklin New York injured many with at least a score seriously hurt and one man fatally crushed, as panic and chaos followed the crash with passengers fumbling for doors and splintered debris causing injuries.
Reports from Washington Iowa and Ottumwa confirm forty nine school children drowned while skating on a pond near the fair grounds at Foster Iowa near What Cheer on the C M and St P line. The accident happened about nine o clock in the evening and direct communication with What Cheer is unavailable.
The Albert Dickinson Company engineers a bean corner in Chicago as prices rise from 1.84 to 2.20 per bushel in two weeks. Dealers foresee a further advance to 2.50 within a fortnight. Government purchases are reported as a major factor behind the surge.
A cable from United States Chargé Beaupre reports the Colombian government stating invading troops were overtaken by government forces at Ionarig and that their leader General Ucribide was defeated at Corazel in Bolivar province.
London special reports growing anxiety over scarce dispatches from South Africa. The Cape Colony frontier has pushed further south than last December and Lord Kitchener has not secured notable success against the invaders.
Mrs. Lulu C. Jenkins settles damages for the lynching of her husband William H. Jenkins by a mob at Versailles Indiana. She receives 4000 dollars and agrees to pay court costs accrued in the case.
John Kelly aged 13 and Willie Hull aged 10 drowned after breaking through ice on Union Mills pond in Norwalk Connecticut. Hull attempted rescue for Kelly and both were lost as others failed to reach due to thin ice.
Dispatch from Scranton reports fifty three men imported from New York, thirty five left after pressure from striking street car workers. Many townspeople refuse to sell food to the men brought to take strikers places. The strikers are orderly.
Governor Pingres of Michigan issues a formal requisition to the Cuban governor for Charles Jenner Thompson sought in Detroit for forgery. This marks reportedly the first such request Cuba has ever received.
Anarchists Bernaceo and Sasse along with Italian members resisted arrest in Barre Vermont for breach of the peace and fatally wounded Police Chief Brown after being shot three times by the assailants.
At Hawleyton Pennsylvania a marriage ceremony halted when the bride’s mother blocked the union. In Washington a War Department auditor Frank Morris was shot dead in his office and the killer Samuel Macdonald then killed himself. A Bridgeport fire roared through the Hotchkiss complex destroying buildings and stock worth eighty thousand dollars. In Paterson a department store elevator disaster killed two and injured three as a weight crushed victims on the lower floor.
A British army officer seeks 50 000 horses in Kansas City for use in the South Africa war. Other items report a South Dakota clergymen monument plan for Right Rev Francis Lawler, a Minnesota man’s suicide, a Missouri child’s fatal stabbing, a New York editor’s daughter marrying a stock ranch manager, and multiple urban crimes and accidents across the nation.
A sheriff's posse pursued and captured one robber after a bank break in Tennessee. The intruder blew open the safe and stole about 35,000 dollars, but authorities recovered the funds. Meanwhile a suit in Louisville sought dissolution of Brennan & Co and appointment of a receiver to sell property and divide assets among stockholders.
Kitchener reports invasion of Cape Colony checked. Advices from Luzon say Ninth Cavalry fought insurgents near Guinobatan Albay with 55 dead and one American wounded. Loyal Philippines natives form autonomy party. Boxer indemnity seeks up to 200 million dollars. native claims may be higher. China leaders beheaded. 1,500 reformists killed in Pechili province.
Reports say North River Lumber and Pulp Co plans a large pulp mill near the North river in St. Ammes district Cape Breton and a second mill on the same river in Victoria County. Railroads Clover Leaf Missouri Pacific Lima Northern Ohio Southern may consolidate, with an official announcement expected soon.
Summary of commodity prices across major markets including cattle hogs and sheep prices for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis and Cincinnati. Grain spots show No 2 red wheat 69 to 70 cents No 2 corn 37 to 38 cents No 2 oats 21 to 22 cents No 2 rye 49 to 50 cents and dairy and egg quotes with butter 22 to 23 cents and eggs 26 to 21 cents per dozen.
The piece contrasts 1872 and 1896 defeats with a call for Democratic revival. It quotes Cleveland urging sincere Democrats to abandon wandering and restore faith, calling for rehabilitation through Democratic methods and returning to the party’s core. It emphasizes giving the rank and file a real chance.
The Boer leaders De Wet and De larey lure British forces north of the Vaal while a larger Boer squad invades Cape Colony seizing Colesburg. English sentiment back home grows sympathetic to the Boers as calls arise for volunteers and a larger war effort. Debates over the Hay Pauncefote treaty and the Clayton Bulwer clause shadow Britain as China indemnity talks unfold.
Fragmentary notes describe a lynching scene with disjointed phrases about movement northward and British capture, lacking clear names, places, or outcomes.
The piece argues grain trading is more open than stocks, with price quotes spread openly and less room for insider manipulation. It notes the wider dissemination of quotations would boost speculative activity, contrasting grain as a transparent market versus stock cloistered by cliques.
A garbled census fragment references New York areas and neighboring counties including Rhode Island Pennsylvania and others. The text is incomplete and does not form a coherent report or event. It mentions counts and places but lacks clear dates or actions.
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