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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1900
Page
2
Foreign dispatches and late-breaking items from around the globe. Crises, crimes and a fire report populate the week’s telegraphic summaries with notable incidents and official notes from distant shores.
Desperate struggle marked the El Paso hangings as Geronimo Parra and Antonio Flores attacked officers and spectators with improvised daggers. Flores was to be hanged first amid fears he would break down. both prisoners were overpowered after a fierce melee, Ranger Ed Bryant wounded.
Commisiner Wilson of the Internal Revenue Bureau rules that a physician who prescribes and sells whisky brandy wine or other alcoholic liquor to patients must pay the special tax as a retail liquor dealer even if the liquor is prescribed as medicine and not compounded with drugs.
Rev. Mr. Brookes of the Church Missionary Society stationed at Hing Yin in Shang Tung province was captured and killed on December 3 by a group identified as the Boxers. The provincial governor dispatched cavalry to the area, but troops arrived after the deed, as villages were destroyed and Christians harmed.
A gasoline stove explosion in a Johnstown residence wiped out Frederick Wesenberg's home and all its contents. Mrs Wesenberg, her 11 year old daughter Mollie and 14 year old son Christ were seriously burned as they and the others fled in night clothes.
A 10,000,000 cubic feet gas well was struck four miles east of Findlay by operators drilling in new territory. Tools casings and tubing were blown out and the roar of gas could be heard for five miles. It is the greatest Ohio gas well since the Karg well a decade ago that sparked the Northwestern boom.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee ordered a favorable report on a bill to establish a territorial government for Hawaii. Changes include validating post annexation land sales and setting the Court of Judges tenure at nine years. The delegate in Congress remains in the measure.
Seven masked men hanged G B Watt, a white man, after he was accused of assaulting Mrs. Simpson, who had befriended him during his tramp days. Watt’s body was riddled with bullets after the mob overpowered officers.
Remains of the late Major John A Logan will lie in a state at St. John's Episcopal Church in Youngstown Ohio after arrival. The funeral is expected around February 5 with Company II Ohio National Guard acting as escort for the service.
The imperial mail steamer General, owned by the German East African Line, has been detained at Aden and occupied by British troops to search her cargo. The General, tied to the Bundesrath, was captured earlier by the Magicienne off Delozoa Bay and is now under examination.
At the Masonic Temple in Fort Wayne Indiana on January 15 17 and 18 the Wills Comedy Company presents shows. January 19 features McFadden's Flats and January 20 features Stose Coghlan in The White Heathen.
The withdrawal of trans Atlantic liners for transport and resulting non arrival of American meat causes London butchers to struggle for supplies and raise prices by two to three pence per pound.
Charles Wilson and Zachariah Singleton were hanged on the same scaffold in Charleston. Wilson killed Theodore Godfrey, an artilleryman, in 1898. Singleton killed Christopher Bennett.
Maj General Bliss and six congressmen die in Washington. Edward Todd, pen maker, dies in New York. George W Metzel of Stewartstown dies at 75. Federal judge rules clubs pay 25 tax. Knox sentenced in Pittsburg for swindling. Tordenskjold runs ashore near Lockaway. Elderkin dies in Middletown. Isid McCoy defeats Peter Maher at Coney Island. Staten Island freight shed fire destroys cars with $15,000 loss. Eben Labash shot in Passaic. Edwin Snow pleads guilty to murder. to be executed March 18. Ewen McIntyre & Co. file bankruptcy. Boiler explosion near Elizabethtown kills workers. International Fire Engine Co. incorporated in New Jersey. Gas explosion at Knoxville causes extensive damage. Serome Descio identifies thief in Pittsburgh robbery. Concord grand jury fails to indict Gallinger. Lancaster treasurer Hershey accused of $65,042.41 defalcation. Rev Peck dies during Kingston service.
The report notes the Mississippi River frozen at St Louis for the first time in years with various regional events: Lima Ohio clerk Lester Queen found asphyxiated in his room. Arkansas penitentiary escapee Wyatt Sharp surrenders in Denver after killing B A Whetstone in Huntington Arkansas. Ernest Austin sentenced to life in Ohio for fratricide. J W McAndrews dies at Elgin Insane Asylum aged 64. Water diverting into a Chicago drainage canal toward the DesPlaines. fires destroy seed and meal houses near Little Mock Arkansas. James L Moore shoots his wife near Manes Missouri then kills himself. landslide on Mare Island California releases sea wall material. Tend South Dakota Christian scientists clash with school vaccination orders. Former Congressman Ben Clover dies at home in Butler County Iran. A gas well near Vinney Ohio strikes gas four miles east, with equipment blown out.
Massena Iowa lost over half its business district in a fire that destroyed eight buildings including the post office and caused about 25000 dollars in damage. Omaha water mains burst flooding streets and basements with up to a foot of water causing about 20000 dollars in damage. Virgie Graves married Richard R Lowe in Oakland California. The Mercantile Trust sues to foreclose a six million dollar railway mortgage in Detroit. Ice harvests peak across Illinois Indiana Michigan and Wisconsin as weather favors quality and yield. Wrecks unfold in Ohio river and Milwaukee as crews escape. A 27 year old Chicago woman burned to death by a home fire started by her son.
The Mississippi Legislature organized by electing Jud Russell of Lauderdale as Speaker. The report notes a sequence of separate calamities including a Barbourville West Virginia house fire that killed William Ellis his wife and two children.
In Walker County Georgia a family feud led to a quarrel between Jerome Henson and Thomas Jones. Jones struck Henson crushing his skull with a weight. Henson later rose, retrieved a pistol, and killed Jones. In Norfolk Virginia the steamship James town collided with the British ship Glenvech near Lambert's Point piers. no injuries reported among crowded passengers.
Princess Salm Salm sails for South Africa to serve as an army nurse. Milbecker the composer died in Vienna after a paralytic stroke. An 1899 gold yield in New South Wales reached 500,418 ounces, up 168,925 from 1898. The Paris high court convicted Deroulede in conspiracy cases with extenuating circumstances. Ambassador Choate reports US protest over seizure of American cargoes in South African waters.
Andrew Carnegie provided 3.5 million dollars to Cooper Institute to establish a mechanics day school for young men to train as skilled workers. Abram S S Hewitt and Edward Cooper added 200 thousand to an existing 300 thousand endowment, expanding the program.
Chicago cattle to ship range 5.00 to 6.00. hogs 3.00 to 4.75. sheep 3.00 to 4.75. Indianapolis cattle 3.00 to 6.75. hogs 4.75 to 8.00. wheat 6S8c to Toc. corn 8 to 32c. oats 26c to 27c. Detroit cattle 2.50 to 7.00. hogs 3.00 to 4.50. Detroit oats 24c to 29c. New York cattle 3.25 to 7.00. hogs 3.00 to 5.60. corn 40 to 42c. oats 31c to 32c. butter 23c to 30c. western eggs 11c to 24c.
The Indiana field shows December as the largest month of the season with 266 wells completed and 4 255 barrels daily output. Investment in crude production runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars with prospects for more if prices stay above one dollar. Wells and Grant Counties drive the surge, alongside other counties, and five months show over 200 wells.
Dr. Wyckliffe Smith a late major surgeon with the 160th Indiana Volunteers and his Cuban servant were killed when a Wabash train struck their buggy ten miles west of Ilora. Smith of Delphi died unmarried. he had befriended and brought his servant from Cuba to live with him.
Dan Sanders, a young farmer, was convicted of attempting to kill Rutledge Glover, an elderly Franklin resident. The jury deliberated two days before delivering the verdict and he received a sentence of two to four years in the Michigan City prison.
Milk sickness is blamed for several deaths in Fulton County. Two deaths were reported at Delong with Henry S. Long and his wife named as victims. The fatalities occurred within a few hours of each other.
Ralph Lingle aged 13 was killed by an electric street car after climbing from a river bank onto the track. He did not see the approaching car and his head was crushed in the wreck.
A collage of local calamities and civic notes from Indiana communities. Fires destroy mills in Carthage and Greencastle with losses totaling thousands. bonfires burn a child in Muncie. vaccination rules close Oliver school. accidents claim lives in Rush County and Goshen plant. crime probes and civic appointments unfold in Logansport Anderson Crawfordsville Goshen New Albany Jeffersonville Princeton and Kokomo.
Reports from Rome claim American physicians consider inoculating Pope Pius IX with goat lymph to counteract illness. The aged pontiff has been seriously ill, and Chicago authorities have been appealed for possible involvement or support.
Dr. B F L Roberts, famed for lymph therapy, is in Lore as guest of Dr. Baldwin of the Eternal City American colony. Roberts discussed lymph merits with Baldwin who urged supplying samples to study its effects on the rumen system for treatment of senility.
A consignment of the medicine has been sent to Rome for the Pope to be inoculated if it proves suitable for his illness. The move aligns with plans to restart its use for his physicians and illness management.
The United States has secured assent from Britain, Germany, France, Russia and Japan for an open door policy in China. Italy is seen as certain to join, marking a major diplomatic breakthrough and recognition of the U.S. as a world power. The London Times praises the agreement as credible and expects allied enforcement.
A collection of terse local incidents and accidents: a $100000 blaze in Van Buren Texas. the death of 138 year old Hannah Fall in Houston. petroleum trial by Hamburg American line. Bal Ely kills his uncle Dops in Walnut Hills Virginia. Will and Tom Mussel kill A H Martin in Comer Georgia. Harvey Sprinkle dies froze to death near Huntington West Virginia while intoxicated. Overton and John Combs die in a duel. John Leonard burns to death in a lime kiln Camden New Jersey. Providence in St Petersburg papers condemns Britain for greed. Gen Buller wounded in Colenso battle by shrapnel.
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