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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1900
Page
2
An important weekly telegraph digest highlights recent foreign dispatches and happenings around the globe. The brief covers notable crimes fires casualties and other incidents reported from diverse regions, summarizing events and outcomes for local readers.
Brookfield Massachusetts dispatch reports Martin Bergen catcher for the Boston NL team killed his wife and two children and died by suicide at home. Annax used to poison the wife and one child while a razor killed the other child. the man took his own life. Authorities suspect insanity linking past behavioral signs to mental derangement. Bergen age around 20, wife similar, children ages about 9 and younger.
London dispatch reports Gen Buller delaying a combined attack strengthens his position. Transports land at Durban and fresh troops move toward Colenso. North of the Tugela Buller commands 32 000 to 35 000 men with fifty guns. total forces likely around 40 000 forming an outer arc west of Ladysmith. War Office contactors expect fighting to begin soon.
Southern senators express optimism about securing legislation in the current Congress to refund money paid into the U.S. Treasury after the Civil War from proceeds of cotton captured by Federal forces. About 30 million dollars were originally involved, with some paid to cotton owners after the war and the rest left in the Treasury.
A Victoria dispatch reports J P Molera from Manila recounts a thwarted attack on General Otis. Molera recalls Otis once appearing on the firing line as a rifle shot narrowly missed his head. The shooter remains unidentified.
United States Minister Leishman at Berne reports to the State Department that Switzerland has revoked a prior decision and now authorizes importing American dried fruits. Fresh fruits may be imported if Basle examination finds them free of scale or other parasites.
A circular posted at the Turion Depot Chicago announces a wage cut for sleeping car conductors. The reduction is reported as up to 20 percent in many cases. It is unclear if all employees are affected or if cuts apply only to certain lines.
The American line steamer Paris ashore off the Menacles was floated from Milford Haven where she lay in temporary repairs and will be towed to Belfast for a thorough overhaul.
Burglars raided Otis in La Porte County looting stores of valuable merchandise. Hanna bloodhounds tracked the trail and a posse of men pursue the raiders with confidence of capture.
Local program notes list events at the Masonic Temple Fort Wayne Indiana with dates January 29 through February 3 including Paul Kauvar Hotel Topsy Turvy A Temperance Town and Midnight in Chinatown presented in sequence.
Three men were killed and three others were fatally injured when an elevator at O Reillys storage warehouse in New York collapsed after a cable broke. Rescue crews transported survivors and investigators began examining the cause.
A Bank of Ellersville ten miles north of Bloomington Indiana was dynamited and robbed. About 1500 dollars were stolen. Culprits pried windows with crowbars used dynamite on the safe and fled on a hand car.
Montague White, recently Consul General of the South African Republic, has spent a week in New York and is preparing to travel to Washington on what is described as a diplomatic mission. He refuses interviews.
A packed roundup reports bank robbery in Philippi for 100000 dollars, naval inspector Charles Siegfried dies in Newport at 50, Columbia Mines founder Thomas Egleston dies at 68 in New York, and General Sharpt of Kingston dies at 12 in NYC after an operation. Also notes art gallery gift plans for Buffalo, Meriden's major employer suspends, Larrabee bankruptcy, electric headlights for Scranton trains, and a deadly boiler tube explosion at Delaware City. Felix Morris dies in NYC aged 53. Other items include a nine mile locomotive run in Rutland, a Boston banking firm assignment, and the Monitor pilot Lieut. Samuel Howard dying in Washington.
A roundup mentions Mrs. H G Fuller death in Yankton. a Cleveland strike by 300 Black workers over seating with Italians. Kansas City electric rail to Olathe Kansas. floods receding in Potlatch and Clearwater rivers. cooler eastern Washington weather. Red Mill Workers rodmen strike at American Steel and Wire mills in Cleveland. multiple violent incidents including a fatal stabbing in Houston and a lineman killed in St Louis. a Minneapolis lumber convention. Belgrade murder suicide. real estate brokers injured by a horse in Texas. legislative bills passed in St Louis. habeas corpus granted for John D Reese. a Holland inheritance claim valued over 45 million. a Mo jailer killed by prisoners. Denver shootout over murder case. a Chicago man found dead by epilepsy. St Louis jewelry firm debt filing. a Blue Mound patient dies after attack. Bastrop Texas sheriff’s son killed.
A patrol report lists a deputy mortally wounded in a feud tied shooting at a murder trial, a missing child returned to St. Louis, a grammar room riot in Cortland Neb, and Miss Orpha Sheets charged with murder in Green Springs Ohio. Also noted are a Grand Rapids grocer’s suicide, a Texas couple eloping, a failed assassination attempt on Judge Lochren, a bride’s death on wedding eve in Shelbyville Ind, revived Sioux City Sladdock case memory, a Omaha druggist freed by a store accident, a Indiana treasurer’s son returning a paycheck, and a Chippewa Falls boy uncovering hidden money and valuables.
Reports from Tennessee detail multiple killings and a lynching tied to domestic strife and criminal feuds. Incidents include a bank cashier shooting a teller in Cae Ga and then suicide, a man killed over a dispute in Almy, and a wife-murder suicide near Knoxville. A lynching followed aiding fugitives, a mob attack near Trenning, and a fatal hotel duel in Frankfort.
Honolulu burns twenty blocks of Chinese quarter to curb bubonic plague spread. Wagner singer Fritz Plank dies from a 30 foot fall in Bayreuth. King Alexander sacks Serbian cabinet over amnesty dispute. Avigliana dynamite plant blast near Turin claims ten lives. London cable notes sale of Benjamin West Lazarus picture for 7500 dollars to a New York cathedral. A shipwreck tale arrives from an unknown source.
The British steamer St Helena broke on Bombay rock 420 miles from Cape St James during a Hong Kong to Singapore voyage. Crew abandoned ship after eight days at sea as supplies dwindled, facing fifteen days of hunger and heat before reaching Cape St James in boats.
A collage of brief items reports the death of Rafael Salsado former Santiago mayor. A Cuban cabinet meeting advances province high schools. Louis August the Fort Monroe murderer hanged himself in his cell. Opera singer Marion Mason seeks divorce from Jack Mason. The frigate Saratoga sails west for its winter cruise with 70 cadets aboard. Dawson experiences a major fire wiping out most business, with losses over 500000. Ontario reports 14000 Canadian settlers from the US this year. Juarez plans a near term execution with 25 cent admittance for spectators. A damaged Helgoland buoy reads mund and elgoland likely. Lindsay joins Canada’s Boer War push, later kills himself. Bradstreet notes steady demand and price trends with price gains in select staples and strong sugars while wheat and corn exports rise.
A dense review of livestock and grain prices across U S markets. Cattle hogs and sheep show varied shipping and common to prime ranges in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit and Buffalo with soy beans corn oats rye and wheat values and per bushel quotes across many terminal points. A secondary note covers butter eggs and potatoes with assorted regional pricing.
The Senate and House conducted a flurry of sessions with Philippine resolutions and a financial bill debate. Key items included a nine member special committee for treasury relations, a rural free mail delivery appropriation, and a census director’s powers expansion amid labor criticisms.
A digest of assorted items notes Salem Mason's death at 108 in Nashville Tennessee, burnings in Cleveland Tennessee Huntsville Alabama and Sugarland Texas with various losses. Other entries include a fatal row at Sweetwater Tennessee an engineer killed at Clarendon Texas and a man leaping to his death in New York.
A special House committee vote finds Representative-elect Roberts of Utah ineligible to hold his seat. The seven majority report says the House may bar him. two oppose, proposing seating him first then expulsion. Findings detail Roberts as a naturalized citizen over 25, with multiple marriages and plural wives known publicly.
At Washington the Missouri Attorney General Edward Crow urged the Supreme Court to grant leave to file a bill of complaint against Illinois and the Chicago Sanitary District. They seek a writ of injunction to halt the canal’s opening and a subpoena to Illinois Governor and canal trustees. No Illinois counsel appeared. drainage board counsel Sam M. Bartlett and Judge William M. Springer represented the party. The court noted no notice had been given to defendants and ordered the bill filed and copies served.
President Schurman presents a resort of Philippine governance outlining an American governor, an advisory council, a mixed legislative assembly with governor veto and Congress oversight, provincial governors, and native educated leadership to balance good government with Filipinos' self government aspirations.
Church observers report a shortage of eligible ministers while church groups in Glasgow and London coordinate revival efforts. Fundraising remains robust with British soldiers families benefiting from Sunday campaigns and a $25 000 non sectarian clubhouse gift in Jenkintown.
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