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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1900
Page
2
The Weekly Record presents a compact update from The Record Publishing Co. with community notices, notices, and brief regional items. Readers find concise briefs on events, meetings, and public notices in a period voice.
A man named Joseph Garrison from South Dakota was jailed for fifteen years after robbing an Adams Express office in Parkman. Disguised as an Indian, he demanded 169.85 dollars with a revolver. He was captured two days later and sent to the penitentiary.
Vienna dispatches report Germany will not allow a German officer tasked with reorganizing the Greek army to remain in the German army. No officer accepts the assignment, fearing loss of his home position, forcing Greece to seek help from another nation for a reorganizer.
A Muncie dispatch reports the Indiana Iron Mill management will shut down the plants soon indefinitely due to wage scale uncertainty and a desire to invoke. The mill, one of Republic Iron and Steel Company’s largest, may presage other trust mill closures. Nearly a thousand men could lose work.
The Northern Indiana Editorial Association after a postal vote will meet in Sandusky on July 19. They will visit Put-in-Bay Cleveland and Buffalo. The group includes all newspaper editors in the part of the state north of Indianapolis.
General heavy rains are reported in Wisconsin Minnesota and North and South Dakota. The rainfall came at an opportune time and is believed to help save the wheat crops in the listed states.
James McElroy shot and killed Sam Stafford on Battle Avenue in Steubenville Ohio. He surrendered to authorities after the fatal confrontation ending a longstanding family feud.
A Honolulu dispatch reports the inauguration of the territorial government and the installation of Dole as governor on the 14th with elaborate ceremonies.
William Nahrwalt, 25, shot and killed his wife, 18, at her father's Fort Wayne home, Ind, then killed himself. Jealousy cited as motive.
A head on crash near Mishawaka Indiana between two Grand Trunk freight double headers left Brakeman Moon fatally injured and Engineers McCarty and Mulvey seriously hurt by Jumping. Two engines were demolished and another two damaged with losses around seventy thousand dollars.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has decided that women cannot practice law before any of the courts of Tennessee.
Advices from Chefoo via Shanghai report Admiral Seymour’s expedition relieved after failing to reach Pekin. The relief force saved foreign legations and began returning to Tien-Tsin amid light casualties. Dispatches minimize foreign peril and note continued harassments by Chinese mobs during the retreat.
ANAC reports Northwestern will open a line between Mankato Junction and New Ulm, Minn. Erie withdraws from a joint passenger committee risking a general rate war. Western Passenger Association clerks meet in St. Paul to revise yearlong tourist tariffs and fall wholesale merchant rates. Illinois Central explores pensioning 40 year plus employees. CB&Q contracted with Crow Indians for grading near their red reservation. Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad reincorporated with $15 million capital, aligning with Illinois Central and Iowa branches. Southwestern Association rejects merchant meeting rate cuts for New York. Canadian bids to build Winnipeg to Duluth line under government rate control. German Officer warns Boxers spread. long, bloody conflict looms. Boxers to be disbanded, graves will be heavy. Rural unrest spreads to the south with grave dimensions.
A fragment notes that British legation entrance remarks discuss joining north and mobs of fanatics armed by smuggling arms, with Gen Stahl warning Japan Russia hostility complicates crisis and calls for unanimity. Also mentions Rev Thomas B Cheney suicide, stolen high bronze howitzers from Chickamauga Park, and Lord Huntley earning income from sporting novels.
Chicago gears for the thirty fourth Grand Army encampment the greatest yet with a full official program. Key events run Aug 26 to Sept 1 include parades naval battles fireworks receptions and park concerts led by commanders Shaw Atwell and Tan ner with Gov Tanner and Mayor Harrison among dignitaries.
A dispatch from Taku via Chefoo says 2000 American marines under Maj Waller relieved Tien Tsin and silenced Chinese guns. British and Americans led the assault with Gen Chaffee following. Russians report four killed. Chaffee to command US land forces in China, with units from Manila and San Francisco arriving by Aug 1. Growing southern unrest and a Chinese empress backed crackdown loom.
The National Quadrennial Prohibition Convention in Chicago adopted a single issue platform focused on ending legalized liquor traffic and endorsed the Young People's Prohibition League. Delegates debated women's suffrage, with a rider resolution approved nearly unanimously as the convention adjourned pending Thursday nominations.
Miles Ogle the famed counterfeiter and former professor and grand master of counterfeit operations was released from Ohio State Penitentiary. He served long sentences across multiple prisons and, now aged and invalid, ends a notorious career in the rogue trade.
Soaking rains urged to secure spring wheat crops. Spain’s finance minister Senor Villaverde resigns. English bleaching firms form a combine. Mary Jackson of Louisville perishes after coal oil poured on a fire. Chilean President Ferrazuria suffers another stroke. Rus sian rains revive crop hopes in the south. Nancy Hanks Lincoln’s grave monument planned in Spencer County Indiana. Stephen Crane’s Newark burial noted. New York clubmen plan summer quarters atop city buildings. Methodists protest tax on charitable bequests amid war. About 42 000 horses sent to South Africa for Britain by end April.
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