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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1903
Page
6
A mob of over 2000 strikers and sympathizers attacked street railway property in Dubuque Iowa. Militia arrived as cars were destroyed. Captain Thrift ordered rifles to be loaded and ready. Bricks were hurled but the mob dispersed after the show of force.
An explosion at the Lyddite factory in the Woolwich arsenal London kills fourteen workers and injures thirteen as the building collapses and the roof is blown off. Several victims are reported blown to pieces while six more men are missing and feared dead. Relatives gather at the arsenal seeking information.
An eastbound Big Four passenger train rear ended an Illinois Central train near the Eads bridge in St Louis. J T Dodie of Dallas Texas in charge of an express car loaded with race horses was killed instantly. The express car attached to the Illinois Central train was wrecked and thirteen trotting horses were severely injured requiring slaughter. A signals misunderstanding caused the disaster.
Constantinople dispatch reports the sultan warns Madame Christich mother of Milan son of the late King Milan of Servia to keep him at home. Fears of an assassination attempt on the boy drive the advice though prospects of his throne remain doubtful.
Hamilton Foley of the Fifth Cavalry faces charges of embezzling soldier pay irregular pay account irregularities and improperly contracting debts. He was aboard the transport Thomas bound for home when detained by order of Major General Davis.
A deadly crash at Elmira Iowa between a northbound St. Louis-Minneapolis fast train and a gravel train killed three union carpenters riding on the blind baggage and left several others injured. The accident occurred on the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern line.
A Pendleton to Heppner relief train was wrecked when a bridge piling broke sending the rear section into a creek. Four persons and two horses drowned. The front portion crossed the broken bridge and the survivors reached Heppner, Oregon.
Will Zimmerman, 20, attempted a loop in place of Ray Stevens at Indianapolis when he fell from the top and suffered a fractured skull. Authorities will halt the trials as he is expected to die.
Berlin reports the Jewish association learned that Prince Urusoff the new Bessarabia governor has czar orders to compensate Kishinev massacre victims for their losses.
Doctors Tuttle and Morgan of Van AVert Ohio were en route to Indianapolis when their car went into an open ditch near Marion Indiana. They were probably fatally injured in the crash.
Miss Joanne Ankrom formerly of Waynesburg Pennsylvania and the only woman school supervisor in Porto Rico was thrown from a carriage in a runaway accident at Ponce and died within fifteen minutes her neck broken in the fall.
Governor Bailey issued a proclamation calling the Kansas legislature into extraordinary session to provide means for cities and counties to address public works, including bridges swept away by recent events.
A wide range of 1900s items includes President Roosevelt's Baltimore visit guarded around him, a New Yorker named Alvord Warriner Cooley named civil service commissioner, Lipton fleet's welcome to New York, and a church plan to raise 1 million dollars for education. Also noted are opera house moves in Pittsburgh, horse auctions in New York, deaths from various causes, a Newark manslaughter trial, a school banquet warning, a powder plant explosion, postmaster Derousse's disappearance, a General Sessions shooting in New York, and a major New York building slowdown and a fatal streetcar accident. The period also reports a Baltimore divorce, a streetcar seating incident, a fatal New York fire, and incendiary hallways in an East 115th Street building.
A sweep of brief items notes the Iansas City grain elevator fire costing 70000 dollars, a not guilty verdict for Dr. Rudolph Baird in a Boulder murder case, Henry F. Greene named civil service commissioner, Prof. N Coe Stewart resigning after 36 years in Cleveland, a waterspout destroying Heppner Oregon with 400 to 500 lives lost, and social notes on fashion, population shifts, and legal cases including a $12000 settlement in a $50000 suit.
Reports detail hotel and restaurant workers in Chicago striking and agreeing to arbitration while unions push for peace. Indianapolis hosts a National Technical Institute with a $2 million endowment in sight, aiming for $10 million. Missouri Supreme Court rules on tobacco company buyouts. Streetcar line bids in Cleveland demand $10,000 deposits. frost damage hits crops across Wisconsin Minnesota and the Dakotas.
The episode centers on Metcalf who faces dismissal after opposing bid by Paul Herman of Rutherford New Jersey and favoring Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford of New York, tied to Metcalf's son. Roosevelt consulted Payne and a full investigation will follow as Bristow reports outline alleged irregularities and attempts to overlook them.
A fire causes $100000 loss in May's Lick destroying the city’s business portion. Religious and social notes report Bishop McCloskey banning dancing and liquor at church picnics.
Urgent invitations from the British government prompt a US squadron to visit English waters this summer. Navy updates report the Raleigh returning to Aden for boiler repairs en route to the Asiatic station. Dispatches from Acapulco note earthquakes with shocks felt in Tolancingo and Mescal.
Suit filings in the New York corporation counsel's office target no fewer than 1,000 tenement owners for alleged violations of the sanitary clause of the tenement house law. Estimates place total costs from $6,000,000 to $15,000,000 depending on the number of affected houses and per-building remedies.
R. G. Dun & Co. reports steady demand and firm prices in some sectors while manufacturing remains irregular. Railroads show only modest June growth, and pig iron stocks rise despite high output. The piece contrasts Chicago views on labor and market sentiment with Lord Rothschild and Marshall Field, noting a shift from optimism to cautious pessimism about American industry.
Ramsey of the Wabash says Gould lines east of Toledo will consolidate this year. No further wool rates cuts this season. Big Four to double‑track Terre Haute to Indianapolis. Soo line to replace light rails with heavy steel west of Minneapolis. American Railway Association per diem rules eased if cars are delivered. East centers call for young stenographers to join railroad offices.
The report lists commodity quotations including cattle hogs and sheep prices in Chicago and Indianapolis with grains wheat corn oats rye and hay ranges. Milwaukee shows wheat corn and barley prices with various quality grades and units.
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