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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1904
Page
2
A compact telegraphic digest gathers global happenings for public enlightenment. Reports arrive from distant regions, compiling updates on politics, economics, culture, and notable events for readers seeking broad awareness.
A Petersurg Kentucky community reports the disappearance of John Dugen an elderly farmer and his wife missing since the first of the month. Neighbors search the cottage find a distressed scene with a weak dog and signs of disturbance. footprints lead toward the Ohio river bank. Dugen a Civil War veteran is noted.
Andrew Carnegie joins the National Civic Federation executive committee to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Senator Hanna. He will assume the presidency duties, following a New York dinner where Oscar Straus hosted Carnegie as guest of honor. Straus hosts an annual dinner for federation members.
The Chapman bill delays all elective municipal offices until after next November's elections. Terms that would expire in April are extended to that time. A constitutional amendment proposes state and county officials be elected in even years and municipal officers in odd years.
Dispatch reports a cyclone sweeping Kneeland along the Cotton Belt 90 miles northeast of Fort Worth. Wires down and many houses wrecked with extensive property damage. Communication to the devastated district is being sought as all trains are delayed.
A Washington quake rattled dishes and moved chairs for about five seconds, then a second tremor of fifteen seconds followed. Affected congregants at the Immaculate church gathered in alarm as the tremor caused a small panic among worshippers and nearby structures.
Major William H. Bean of the U S Army killed himself in Omaha Nebraska with a revolver after sending for his wife to play the piano He ordered his trunk packed for the Philippines and after giving the cue to begin she aged He fired into his temple and died within moments leaving a brain wound and death.
The girl triplets born to Mr and Mrs Frank E Nulty of Niagara Falls New York are named Alice Roosevelt McNulty Cleveland McNulty and Jennie van McNulty. McNulty received a letter from President Roosevelt containing his photograph and best wishes for the Misses happiness and the mother.
The French steamer La Bretagne struck a Baltimore and Ohio car float crowded with cars near Liberty Island and sank it. The cars were salvaged and loaded with machinery before the craft disappeared. La Bretagne continued to sea without apparent damage.
Nichols has been appointed by the President to serve as Secretary of Arizona Territory, succeeding Isaac T. Stoddard. He becomes secretary of the Territorial Republican organization of Arizona.
Notices report a fatal nitro-glycerin blast on a farm in Mercer County Ohio as a worker lowers a charge into a well. A rock fall at Calumet and Hecla in Michigan leaves Michael Adam and George Mairele dead. One man was injured.
A wide array of events spans prosecutors and riots to disasters. Miss Mary Wyker dies after a shooting by rejected suitor Paul Weaver, while battleship Illinois sustains hull damage from a wall. Other items cover murders executions, theatre shootings, tunnel completion, rail and fire disasters, and industrial calamities with named places and people.
Arch ie WaterZai arrests after jail break in Toledo four months earlier and captured in Detroit. Bedford Indiana grand jury indicts James MacDonid for Miss Sarah Schafer murder. Santa Fe Railroad reports Iowa wheat uninjured. Frederick Oklahoma fire destroys block worth £100000 with partial insurance. Kansas Supreme Court strikes down 1901 newspaper libel law. Miner Joseph Bell kills James O Brien in St Clairsville Ohio by poker through eye. Ex Gov William E Stanley resigns from Dawes commission effective April 1. Mrs Deniel Manning travels to New York to arrange Women s Building furnishings. Two men writing to Mrs McKinley at Canton Ohio seek admission at her home.
Reports describe San Pedro de Marcoris recaptured by government forces after two days of fighting, while Rodriguez fled. A Bohemian violinist fled a German mob in Ling Upper Austria as race tensions surged. South American nations reportedly form a regional alliance against the United States amid U S influence fears. Japanese forces clash at Port Arthur with Russian fleets, with claims of evacuees and fires as shells fall. The German navy expansion is debated in the Reichstag. Panama notes the gold dollar standard and silver exchange rules.
The United States Supreme Court dissolves the Northern Securities merger ruling that the Sherman act applies to railroad combinations. Justice Harlan affirms Congress power to regulate interstate commerce and dissolve the holding structure aimed at suppressing competition. The decision upholds government claim that the consolidation harmed the public.
The Senate considered the fortifications bill with amendments on a submarine torpedo boat for experimental use and Hawaii defense sites approved. House action included a deep water channel project for Sabine Pass Texas and the Salt Lake City delivery status. Debates covered immigration, coastal defense sites, and rural delivery pay while House and Senate moved on post office and public building site exchanges.
General returns indicate the anti-strike faction prevailed overall except in Illinois. Andrew Carnegie says he will not fund a theater in the U S or abroad. The St John nail works plant in New Brunswick burned with a 50000 dollar loss. Buffalo Bill Cody files a divorce suit after a long St Louis courtship. The Lombardia brings sixteen Tunisian camels to the St Louis exposition. A crash near Lennoxville Quebec kills three Boston and Maine crew and injures a Canadian Pacific engineer.
Philadelphia physicians adopt a new treatment concept placing tuberculosis patients in glass houses. The Philadelphia hospital includes six pavilions for 18 patients each, with opaque ribbed inner glass and six foot glass porches. Heating uses a blower system, cement floors, and glazed brick service areas. Construction cost $114,600.
Lemuel Gompers travels to Porto Rico to study labor conditions there. The report notes his pursuit of insights into working conditions on the island and potential effects on labor movements.
In the National Capitol Frederick S Carpenter was appointed private secretary to Secretary of War Taft succeeding Merrill O Chance who moves to head the supply division of the Post Office Depart ment. Carpenter previously served as Tafts secretary in the Philippines and accompanied him to this country. President Roosevelt favors creation of two new states one from Oklahoma and Indian Territory the other from Arizona and New Mexico. President Smith of the Mormon Church told Senators Congress has no right to pry into his private affairs and he will answer only to Utah courts. Congressman Mann of Illinois was instructed by Interstate Commerce Committee to prepare a favorable report on his bill to lower tunnels under the Chicago River.
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