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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
2
A compact digest notes notable crimes fires and accidents across regions with brief mentions of people places and events. It surveys incidents from the North South East and West alongside various minor affairs in a weekly round up.
Describes a major engagement near Windfontein on the Durban Johannesburg line as forces under General Delarey resist British moves. The action follows a prior loss of eleven guns and indicates heavy fighting with substantial casualties among Windfontein garrison, including yeomanry, amid a broader push toward Johannesburg.
At Ottie and Kate Hester’s Covington Kentucky residence on Western Avenue and Third Street the family of four was found dead. Kate Hester, 32, shot Ottie Hester, 42, and their three year old daughter after a supper table quarrel and then fatally shot herself. Cause of the dispute is unknown.
Mrs. Benjamin Bekel suffered fatal burns in Elkhart Indiana when a turpentine bottle spilled on a stove igniting her clothing. Neighbors arrived too late to save her as her six children witnessed the tragedy and the eldest son, 14, was burned while aiding in the blaze.
Denver dispatch reports President John W. Springer has named a special committee from the National Live Stock association to push a congressional law. The bill would require inspection of woolen goods and force manufacturers to label products as all wool or mixed with cotton or other fibers.
A row boat carrying eight youths of Philadelphia was swept over Flat Rock dam in the Schuylkill River. Seven drowned: Florence Densmore 19 Mazie Kennedy 18 Maud Rutter 19 Mattie Sullivan 21 Florence Bond 41 Bertram Osman 19 Roy Ecker 11. John Moore 21 survived.
Announcement says Associate Justice David J. Brewer will marry Emma Miner Mott a Washington school teacher next week in Burlington Vermont. The ceremony will be quiet due to the bride's mother's recent death. Brewer is a widower.
A Cu zho telegram from Lima reports French explorers Dr. M Reveaux and Monier assassinated by Italian Gianone in Convencion valley. Gianone was later killed by savage Indians. No further details available.
Brigadier General Thomas Wilson U S A retired dies at his New York City residence aged 70. Wilson earned the brigadier general rank for faithful and meritorious Civil War service.
A man named Whey Kirk was hanged at Towson Maryland for felonious assault on Mrs Barbara Green wife of theWelshman's Creek lighthouse keeper. The crime occurred March 7 when Mrs Green was dragged into the woods and attacked.
Governor McSweeney refused the resignations of Senators Tillman and NecLaurin, delaying their action to give them time to consider their stance.
A jury in Upper Sandusky Ohio convicts George Urghtivna of murder in the Celery King Johnson case from Carey Ohio. The verdict is guilty with mercy recommendation.
A wide array of incidents from Shamokin to Chicago, Albany to Norfolk unfolding with strikes and prison terms, fatal crashes, murders, escapes, and dramatic court actions. Notable items include a 1008 strong strike settlement at Shamokin collieries, a brutal post-etched tattoo case in Batavia, a fatal bicycle collision in Conn, a Philadelphia hotel murder attempt ending in suicide, a Delaware court sentencing for poison, and a massive Chicago broomcorn fire.
A stream of short items reports sudden deaths from lightning in Hawks town Ohio and drownings in Kansas City while fishing. A Great Northern freight collides with a dynamite car at Tacoma. a Newcastle Ind. factory fire causes 30 000 dollars damage. Postmaster Lowry and son killed at Carter Ok by Fowler amid an old feud. A bank in Mineral Point Wis robbed of 20 000 dollars. Various suicides and murders noted in St. Joseph Mo Conesville Ohio Court ney N C Proctons Ohio Lake Erie and other locales.
A coal dust blast at the Richland mine of Dayton Coal and Iron Company two miles from Dayton kills twenty one men many of them married with families. The report also notes floods in North Carolina destroying Caledonia prison farm crops and a Texas Sour Lake oil strike flowing fifteen hundred barrels daily. A West Virginia fatal shooting by John Rowlins follows a strained domestic dispute. A pistol duel near Salyersville Kentucky adds to the day’s violent incidents.
A report says Thomson-Houston Electric Tramway Co plans a transport combine in Paris. Carnegie faces criticism in Scotland over conditions of a 10 million gift to colleges. Milner is elevated to the peerage by King Edward amid Boer War tensions.
Reports list Lieut. Sweet as chief of the secret service in the Philippines while other items note steamers L Aquitaine and Mesaba reporting dangerous derelicts, Hazen resigning from the United States secret service, and various railway and church appointments.
The Cuban constitutional convention narrowly adopted the committee report backing the Platt amendment. Delegates debated patriotism and independence as they prepared an appendix noting reciprocity talks while observers questioned vote timing and conduct.
The bulletin notes drought persists in Missouri and central Mississippi valleys with Hessian fly damage in Kansas Missouri Illinois Michigan. Harvesting continues in Texas and the east Gulf States while California hay and fruit suffer from unseasonable cool and rain. Wheat and oats vary by region with rain improving some territories and delaying others. Warm, dry conditions in the Rocky Mountain and upper Missouri valley amid widespread frosts and insect damage impact crops across multiple states.
Chicago to Buffalo notes list cattle prices from $2.50 to $6.00, hogs $3.00 to $5.90, sheep $2.50 to $4.65, with grains and butter and eggs priced across No. 2 and white categories. Regional figures include Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, and Buffalo.
A 14 ton freight steamer Laurine traveling between Booneville Missouri and Rocheport Missouri on the Missouri River was destroyed by explosives stored aboard. Two laborers are believed killed and nearby property damaged as gasoline and dynamite ignited after a match sparked the generator. The captain and crew evacuated as a second explosion followed.
Mrs Josephine Cunti Woodbury sues for libel in Boston alleging damages up to 150 dollars. The case centers on beliefs and writings of the Christian Science movement and its founder Mary Baker Eddy, with Mrs Woodbury once closely linked to Eddy.
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