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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1903
Page
6
Entelligence by Electric Wire surveys foreign affairs and domestic events around the globe. The column highlights political shifts, economic trends and cultural notes from nations across the civilized world with a brisk, global news feel.
Secret Service Agent George F. Foster located a counterfeiters den at 5 1 West Second Street Wilmington Del. Biapui Malearosa known as Mike Ross his wife Santhia Malearosa and Nicola Di Paco arrested. The plant held ten moulds mixing pots dies presses and other paraphernalia with about 100 counterfeit dollars and partly formed nickels. Hearing set before Acting United States Commissioner Hollis.
A Fort Smith crossing collision in North Little Rock injures thirty railroad employees with four possibly fatally. The hoodlamp train followed by cars failed to stop when a switch engine appeared from behind a building. Emergency brakes were applied but cars broke loose and struck broadside.
A section of the Eddy Creek colliery beneath Oyphant sank and swallowed four frame buildings covering 6 square feet. Workers escaped via a long route after encountering a flooded vein, not life harming. No injuries were reported. The cave-in occurred Hd feet below the surface.
The first message from Honolulu over the Dacille cable reached San Francisco at 11:03 p m Friday. Signals were perfect and speed was fast. The message was Governor Dole to President Roosevelt and its text was withheld until the President could receive it in person.
The State Department reports changes in the Copenhagen diplomatic corps have named United States Minister Swenson as dean of that body. It is said to be the first time an American minister has received such a distinction at the Danish court.
A rear end collision occurred on the Victoria bridge of the Grand Trunk Railway at Montreal between two freight trains. Conductor Octave Trembley was killed as wrecked cars caught fire blocking all traffic. Trains to and from the United States cross the St Lawrence river via the Victoria bridge.
In a clash at the village of Drenovo Bulgarians and Turkish troops fought. fifteen Turkish soldiers were killed or wounded, including the commander. Bulgarians, barricaded in a house, suffered losses but the survivors escaped.
Dispatch from Sidney Nova Scotia reports thousands starve in New Guinea due to prolonged drought. People subsist on roots grubs and vermin while some resort to eating the bodies of the dead. Two European prospectors are reported murdered.
Latest mail advices report cholera deaths across the Philippines rising to 118,273 with 258 new cases and 178 deaths on the day prior to the report.
List of shows for Temple Theatre includes Jefferson DeAngelis in The Emerald Isle on January 10 and King Dodo playing January 10, offered as upcoming attractions in Fort Wayne.
Tate Levy age 14 Will Mann age 14 and Willis Brown age 11 drowned about two miles below Evansville as they skated on a pond when the ice gave way. Their bodies were recovered from the water.
A dynamite blast in the gangway of the Oakhill colliery at Duncott Schuylkill County kills three men and injures ten. The incident draws emergency response from local authorities and mining inspectors as investigators seek the cause.
Reports from Pottsdale to New York describe gas leaks flooding towns and deadly fires. Goerke’s department store, Paris Cloak and Ray Tailoring in Newark suffered $50 000 in blazes. Newark and New Haven noted fatalities from self inflicted wounds and accidents. A scaffold collapse in Erie injured several, and thefts in New York City yielded diamonds worth $31 000.
A roundup of brief notices reports deaths from Missouri to California including Mrs Dockery wife of the Missouri governor, Jessie Benton Fremont at Los Angeles, and Mrs James Aberpathy of St Louis. Also reports driving accidents, fires, bank robbery, blizzards, and a new regional communications link via cable.
A chaotic roundup reports a wide array of incidents including labor strikes concluding in recognition and wage scales, fires destroying major plants in Michigan, burglaries and liquor losses in Ohio, fatal saloon brawls in Graysville and Chicago, house fires killing elderly couples, gas explosions in Minnesota, a deadly train crash near Siam California, police searches for forged money orders, a university funding controversy, a Kansas City shooting in self defense, a fast Wabash train run, a huge lumber sale, a U S Express death, river skating tragedies, a bank robbery in Kansas, a fatal youth knife incident in Chicago stockyards, and ongoing oil field clashes in Wyoming with political fallout.
Miss Stella Waters of Nashville Pennsylvania sues Mrs Grace Upham of Chicago for 40000 damages over a false accusation of stealing a small bag of diamonds. The case highlights interstate tensions and personal injury concerns.
The viceroy of India attended a grand durbar in Delhi to mark King Edward VII’s accession. German naval budget for 1905 plans two battleships an armored cruiser two small cruisers and five torpedo boats. A gold mine disaster in Russia left 400 miners trapped with 20 rescued and fears for the rest. Earthquakes strike San Jose Costa Rica Andijan and other places with thousands of casualties. A London broker with overseas interests absconds admitting forged share certificates. A sea disaster in the Malesian Strait sinks the Kinnyeyan with sixty missing. Osaka baby farming ring arrested for infanticide with 4 800 victims claimed this year.
A snowslide toppled the Mollie Gibson mine bunkhouse ten miles from Lake Kootenai, B C, razing it and likely killing nine men while injuring others.
New York reports a quiet holiday trade with Christmas goods selling briskly and inventories delaying production. R G Dun notes December rail earnings up 5 percent from last year and 14.6 percent from 1900, with a bright outlook as Chicago’s 1902 year ends.
Market quotes from Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo, Buffalo list cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye barley butter eggs potatoes and pork prices. Regions include Chicago-Cattle Indianapolis-Cattle St Louis-Cattle Cincinnati-Cattle Detroit-Cattle Milwaukee-Wheat Toledo-Wheat Buffalo-Cattle with price ranges for each commodity.
A wide range of railroad news is reported including a 214 cent 300 pound grain tariff move, wage increases for most DL&W employees, a proposed $20 million stock issue by Chicago Great Western to extend lines, a Chicago Central alliance with Illinois Central and Southern Pacific, a 10 percent pay rise for 4700 engineers and firemen on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul, and through sleeping car service from Chicago to Spokane. Other items note New Haven Hartford buying 20 acres for a giant freight terminal in Boston, James J. Hill proposing transport for soldiers to the Philippines, inquiries into coal diversion from Washington DC, Dominion Parliament expansion plans for Grand Trunk, Rock Island survey from Wayurka to Ardmore, and a Little Rock to St Louis line. Passengers aboard the Northwestern Limited enjoyed the season’s first strawberries in the dining car.
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