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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1899
Page
2
Telegraph items recount multiple casualties from recent incidents along with assorted crimes fires and political religious news. The brief paragraphs touch on ongoing unrest and community responses across several locales.
Manila reports the release of all Spanish prisoners after a conference in Tarlac with Aguinaldo. The remnant garrison of Baler, aided by Filipino troops, returned to Manila by train escort. Lieut Martin led the barefoot boys through the streets after a long siege that ended with a surrender by the captain who was slain by his own sword.
Fort Worth dispatch says a Calvert deputy reports 200 lives lost within 30 miles of Sealey. Thursday night about 100 drowned near The Mount in San Felipe as hundreds of African Americans flee inundated Brazos bottoms with horses and cattle. Water encroaches further, leaving about half an acre, with 300 negroes at risk.
The Acting Comptroller of the Treasury rules Admiral Sampson is not entitled to pay at the higher grade from August 10, 1898, to March 4 last. It states that advancement under section 1506 does not create a vacancy until the President recommends it.
A furious hail and wind storm swept across Ainsworth Nebraska damaging buildings and destroying crops. Hailstones up to ten inches in circumference shattered east side windows and killed cattle horses and toys. Eye injuries were reported and fears of lives lost.
St. Paul special reports eight fatalities in Crookston Minnesota with widespread destruction through the Red River valley. Only fragmentary details from St. Cloud via train. railroads and telegraph lines lack specifics as districts remain sparsely populated and reports are scarce.
The President appoints Major Edmund Rice to command the first regiment under the volunteer call. This unit becomes the Twenty sixth Infantry, as recruiting for ten regiments numbered twenty six through thirty five is approved. Active recruiting is expected to start immediately.
A shifting engine in Shenley Park in Pittsburgh ran down a pleasure party of colored people. James Grubb of Columbus Ohio age 26 was killed. Lucy Brown age 22 and Mattie Meyers age 33 were fatally injured.
Evansville special reports steamers John K. Speed and State of Kansas along with tow boats Alice Brown and Smoky City grounded at Fort Ferry. Captain Hyatt of the Smoky City warns obstruction could persist all summer if the river does not rise.
A new revolt is reported in Monte Cristo led by Juan Jiminez. The San Domingo government prepares to suppress the uprising as the population suffers terror. Jiminez previously led a 1868 revolt that failed.
Ten new yellow fever cases and seven deaths were reported at Santiago on Thursday. All victims were soldiers except one, an American blackbraith.
R G Dun reports few failures in Q2 1899 with 2 080 in the US versus 3 055 last year and liabilities totaling about 20 259 000 against 36 602 252. First half failures reach ?,852, liabilities 48 711 000. Iron and steel demand remains strong. copper up. lead dull. Boot and shoe shipments rise. wool sales 79 900 pounds. cotton mills improving despite price drops.
A new control pact aims to unify ninety five percent of American match production under the Diamond company with cash payments to New York Michigan Indiana factories excluding Continental Gould assets. A 4.3 million stock issue to absorb independents. Gould to receive one million for Continental. Diamond to retain similar amount as working capital. Diamond capitalization stands at 11.3 million with anticipated annual earnings boost of 2.5 million.
Prof Otto Lugger of the Minnesota State Agricultural College warned farmers in the Northwest of a migratory locust outbreak. He displayed a dead grasshopper as evidence and urged exchanges to highlight the sighting and potential damage.
Five men attempted to blow open the vault of the First National Bank in Wilmington Illinois. Cashier Whitten, alerted by the break in, fired from his home with two revolvers after a burglar warned him to halt. The robbers fled, abandoning tools. the bank held several thousand dollars.
A fierce early morning storm in Bathgate North Dakota, lasting around 4 o clock, caused heavy damage with buildings blown to pieces, wrecked smokestacks, toppled chimneys, severed shade trees, and churches uprooted. Hail fell but crops were spared. Thunder and lightning intensified the night of terror.
A portable blast furnace used to weld rails for the Indianapolis street car company exploded. The blast produced a dramatic pyrotechnic display and a shower of molten iron that coated streets and buildings over a wide area. Six people sustained burn injuries of varying severity.
Premier Silvera and Count von Radowitz signed an accord in Madrid confirming Spain cedes the Caroline Pelew and Marianne islands to Germany and grants most favored nation status from July 1.
John Hile of Norwood traveled to Hartville Missouri to obtain a marriage license for Julia Cole. Julia wed Ben Smith of Fontana Kansas after notifying him to come claim her, leaving Hile to watch the ceremony.
Flies swarm across the South Canadian River pastures in Cleveland and Potta watomie counties and in the Chickasaw nation. Cattle die daily in every herd as the infestation worsens.
Four non union workers replacing strikers at the Union iron works in St. Louis were ambushed by four strikers on their way to work. Weapons were used and Gus Zentzoch was shot through the body in the attack.
Henry Bush, a 59 year old New York City merchant, fell dead in his room at the Burnet House in Cincinnati. He appeared in good health until the moment of death.
Abner and John Leonard were found not guilty by a Rushville jury in the Palmer murder case. John Leonard won acquittal by unanimous vote without ballot.
J T Carr, bow man for the University of Pennsylvania freshman eight, died in an electric car collision near Philadelphia. Several other rowers were seriously injured in the wreck at Poughkeepsie a few days ago.
Fire destroyed the Western Paper Stock Company building in Chicago. Seven women were injured while escaping from windows and many others leaped to safety as flames gutted the structure.
The Kansas gold boom spreads from Trego and Ellis counties as shafts multiply and land prices soar. Generals and financiers from Ohio to Nebraska invest in mines and mills amid claims of fabulous gold assays while geologists remain cautious.
A shooting affray at Elmwood Nebraska left one man dead and two seriously wounded. William Harris of Nchawka Neb. opened fire on his companions during a card game near the G A R grounds. George Jones of Saint Joseph Missouri died from a abdomen wound. William Malone was wounded in the hip. Joseph Hart of Oklahoma sustained a chest wound. All involved were arrested.
Eugene Donnelly, a St. Louis grocer's clerk, shot Grace Miller and then bent to kiss her lips before warning her husband to stay back. Authorities believe jealousy sparked the act as the killer escaped.
St. Petersburg telegraph says the Afghan ruler narrowly escaped a rifle shot in Kabul. A second plot involved Ishak Khan bribing a cook to poison the ameer, but the plan was exposed and the conspirator fled into Russian Asia while the cook was hanged and executed.
The home of Reverend N. C. Sims on Highland Place in Terre Haute Indiana was wrecked by dynamite. Sims and his wife escaped injury and ran outside with a revolver. two men fled the scene. The foundation and all windows were destroyed.
In Santiago de Chile newspapers oppose a proposal to grant William J. Buchanan United States minister to the Argentine Republic one hundred thousand dollars for his intervention in the arbitration of the Chile Argentina boundary dispute.
A blaze at the Memphis Paper Company in Memphis Pennsylvania caused one death. Ex Fire Chief Cleary died and Assistant Fire Chief James Ryan was seriously injured. Property loss estimated near 450000 dollars.
Mrs Elizabeth Ann Ingersoll and John C Collins found guilty of kidnapping Gerald Lapiner in Chicago. The court imposes indeterminate imprisonment from one year to life in a penitentiary.
William J. Eliott former Columbus Ohio editor serving a life term for Albert C. Osborne's murder was pardoned by the Governor on the condition that he leave the state and never return.
Fire at Paris Tennessee caused at least $50 000 loss. It started in a livery stable and destroyed buildings on the public square and adjacent streets. An explosion of fireworks is the suspected cause.
A catboat with five men capsized near the mouth of the Merrimac river. James Stead and Thomas Gracie of Lawrence were drowned.
A street car crash in Pittsburg killed two people, seriously injured five, and caused injuries to ten others. Police and emergency crews responded to the scene, with investigators examining the wreckage for cause.
A Denver and Rio Grande passenger train derailed eight miles west of Leadville Colorado injuring nine people. Railroad officials investigated the cause as crews cleared wreckage and assisted passengers at the site.
William Ludwick killed his sweetheart Miss Bertha Whitesides after she rejected his marriage proposal in Des Moines Iowa and then killed himself The case ends with a tragic double death and a rejected suitor.
The Omaha Show opens its gates at the city, highlighting the Greater America and Colonial Exposition. Organizers invite the public to tour exhibits and enjoy the new fairgrounds in Omaha.
William Jennings or Bill Ryan, convict in the Macomb Missouri train robbery, writes a confession declaring Kennedy innocent. He claims he and an accomplice planned the Christmas Eve hold up at Nigh's house and asserts one man, John F. Kennedy, was not present in Macomb on January 3 or nearby.
Two men were seen fifteen miles south of Kokomo Indiana with the body of a boy in a wagon. Rose Orem spotted the corpse in a wagon bottom from a fruit tree. The remains are believed to be Pearl Evans sixteen son of William Evans the stock buyer who had been summoned as a grand jury witness. A lynching party is sought to capture the suspects who disappeared the same day.
Miss Carrie Crusy of St Louis attempted to throw herself from a window on her wedding day after receiving a note from her affianced husband Harry E Baker saying the wedding would not take place and that he had left the city. Friends intervened to prevent the tragedy.
Union City Illinois town Barna Town near the Brush mines was set on fire by non union workers in retaliation for the murder of Mrs Carr at Fredonia by strikers. The settlement is nearly a total loss.
Arrivals from Dawson bring word of a reported lynching at Cape Nome following a gold dust robbery. A German suspect, unnamed, allegedly stole 3000 dollars in gold dust from a miner’s cabin and was arrested by miners who say he confessed. The committee hanged him.
A dispatch from Odessa reports a dynamite cartridge explosion during coal mine excavation. Forty four people were killed and twenty injured in the blast.
Capt. Dreyfus arrived at Quiberon and traveled by train to Bruz France with the prefect department's chief detective. He entered a landau and was conveyed to Rennes where he was placed in custody in prison.
Bay City Michigan financier and former congressman Spencer O. Fisher, a leading Democratic politician and lumber magnate, has filed a bankruptcy petition in federal court after a string of misfortunes.
A Toledo girl aged 15 Meila Salem was burned to a crisp when gasoline used to light a fire exploded. Her mother Habah Salem and father Mehah Salem were terribly injured in the blaze.
A strike begins at Homestead Steel Works in Pittsburg as fifteen workers are discharged, triggering the dispute. The move is at the center of escalating labor tensions at the plant.
William Woodrum a dry goods merchant and president of the Commercial Club of Jefferson City Missouri was drowned while swimming in the Missouri river.
Emma D E N Southworth, noted authoress, died at her Washington residence after several weeks of illness. Emil Rollinger, Chicago wife murderer, has been found guilty.
The report lists livestock and grain prices by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Cleveland Milwaukee and New York. Cattle hogs and sheep ranges appear with various grade prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and other staples.
Texas flood disaster leaves as many as 300 known dead with many missing in Brazos and Colorado valleys. Hundreds of negro victims cling to trees as waters rise, while counties face destitution and cotton losses approach 38 million dollars. War Department approves federal aid for flood sufferers.
A mosaic of social trivia lists prominent individuals and their quirks. Gen. Wheeler enters West Point from New York. Lord Salisbury shuns walking. John M. Ward wins golf laurels. Roswell Beardsley serves 70 years as North Lansing postmaster. Jonas Brooks treks 37 miles to Salina for a circus. Choate’s son serves as private secretary. G L Watson never owned a rowboat. Mrs Li Hung Chang has 3000 dresses. Mrs George Gould’s staff includes nine helpers. Augustus J. Hare lines a room with Pope Pius IX relics. Sarah Bernhardt faces near bankruptcy thrice with friends’ aid. Sir Edwin Arnold thrives amid noise. Dr S W Mitchell’s poetry boosts his medical fame. Lord Rothschild reads only the Times and Beaconsfield’s Young Duke.
The War Department orders ten new infantry regiments of volunteers for service in the Philippines. Nine regiments will be organized in the United States with recruitment at several posts while two regiments are already at Manila. Each regiment will have 1,350 men and 50 officers.
The article reports Canada’s bid to claim the Porcupine district as Canadian, affecting more than 2,000 American miners. It notes President and Secretary Hay’s hard line, Choate’s instructions to reject the latest temporary boundary proposal, and a near ultimatum stance by the United States to halt negotiations if the proposal persists.
San Francisco dispatch reports that Aguinaldo contemplates quitting as rebels fear American bullets. The Japanese Times notes two Spanish priests escaped from insurgent camps in Yokohama and says American troops will break Aguinaldo’s power by garrisoning towns.
The monthly crop survey shows a strong corn outlook with many stands rated excellent or good. Nebraska reports 67 excellent and 214 good out of 323, Missouri notes 4 excellent and 40 good out of 29 counties, while Iowa indicates a mix of excellent and good stands with smaller shares in fair or poor categories.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in the Plankinton Bank case, grants creditors every prayer in mandamus and voids Judge Johnsons May 9 order confirming Plankinton's report up to July 1 1898. The ruling stands as an important precedent in Wisconsin law.
A St Louis firm forms a large steel company to challenge the steel trust. The venture plans a $500,000 capitalization with potential future increases and aims to build the West’s largest steel plant.
Postoffice Conyers City North Carolina robbed of three hundred dollars. England orders a battalion of fusileers to the cape. Fifteen miners reported drowned in Galston England. Germany will pay four million one hundred eighty seven thousand seven hundred fifty dollars for the Carolines. Silver workers Niagara returned to work. Robert Love Trimble Ohio killed by Hank Kelley.
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