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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1903
Page
2
A grisly report recalls Ole Oleson’s botched execution at Aitkin Minnesota where the knot slipped and ripped the neck, blood flooding the scene. It also recounts Mobson who murdered his daughter Josephine just before her wedding with a fatal knife thrust.
In a dense fog the fall River passenger steamer Plymouth carrying 600 passengers and 200 crew was rammed by the freight steamer City of Taunton near the Race. A hundred feet of starboard hull opened. second cabin state rooms were cut away. Drowning and chaos followed as steerage crewmen slept below. At least a dozen bodies confirmed.
The Union League club of San Francisco sends a gold plated invitation to President Roosevelt for a date of his choosing during his 1903 San Francisco visit. The piece bears the President’s monogram and notes the club’s compliments. The invitation measures 81 by 6 inches and was mined in Amado county.
The War Department Bureau of Insular Affairs publishes a comparative statement of customs revenue in the Philippine Islands for 1902 versus prior years. For the twelve months ended Dec 31 1902 receipts totaled 9 018 230 dollars, with previous year totals showing different amounts in US currency.
A gold bar worth about 23000 disappeared from the Pacific Express car on Wabash train No 4 at Detroit Union Station. The bar, consigned to Buffalo, was reported missing after the messenger notified the Detroit express agent and police were asked to assist in the search.
The coroner's inquest at Olean New York found the railroad company to blame for the petroleum explosion deaths. It states the public was warned to move back but remained on company property, contributing to the fatalities.
The president reappoints Dr. W. D. Cran colored collector of customs at Charleston and William M. Byrnes U S district attorney for Delaware after failed Senate confirmations. Also reports an attempted dynamite attack on a public school in Oaktown Indiana injuring a corner of the building. several arrests expected.
Local listing shows Temple Theatre Fort Wayne Indiana presenting Zigzag Alley March 27, Uncle Josh Spruceby March 28, and Holden Comedy Co for the week of March 4 1980.
The Liverpool Post reports court officials commenting on King Edwards tired look and declining health. The piece notes his appearance often shows strain and concern over his condition.
Fire at the Leighton shoe factory in Pepperill Massachusetts devastated the structure and several smaller buildings. Loss is estimated around 300 dollars.
The Senate ratified the Cuban reciprocity treaty by 56 to 16 after amendments and adjourned sine die. The debate featured lengthy speeches by Senators Foster and Berry opposing provisions restricting future tariff changes and immigration terms. A joint-resolution trigger for the treaty’s entry into effect was approved, and a Panama canal defense request to Congress was deferred due to time.
Reports show painters in Pittsburg may strike for 3.60 a day while Tolgate workers press for higher wages and carpenters in Duluth and Cheyenne organize at union scale. England faces a 0.48 weekly wage for hand compesitors. miners in Russia work ten hours daily. Iowa horseshoers win a nine hour day. Oswego starch workers gain about 1 a week. Union activity grows in Chelsea and Michigan protests against prison cigars. International papermakers plan Erie convention and a 100000 defense fund. a new printers organization forms in New York as painters vote nationwide for upcoming strikes.
Roosevelt weighs census data on family size with figures across regions from Southern states of five persons per family to 4.4 in mountain areas. The table traces declines from 5.6 average in 1850 to about 4.7 in 1900, noting locales with smallest and largest averages and a 3.7 average in the Hawaiian Islands.
Detailed itinerary lists stops from April through June with the president and party visiting cities across the Midwest and West. It notes addresses in Chicago Madison Milwaukee and St. Louis, Yellowstone trip, and Memorial Day return to Washington, with Secretary Root and John Burroughs accompanying.
The large cane and beet sugar refining plant of the California and Hawaii Sugar Company at Crockett California will shut down indefinitely leaving about 400 men unemployed and harming the town. The plant has reportedly been bought by the Spreckels Refining Company for the sugar trust.
The United States railroads will allocate nearly $270 million for improvements in the current year. Major sums go to the New York Central and Vanderbilt lines, the Wabash, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, and others, with plans including terminal changes in New York City and abolition of grade crossings. The Wabash seeks delays and expansion to the Atlantic coast and Pittsburgh, while the Frisco expands toward New Orleans and Chicago. Canada’s Grand Trunk cites about $166 million for lines and new Pacific Coast connections.
The Senate met in executive session to discuss the Panama Canal treaty and related amendments, including defense provisions and Colombia’s role. Morgan and Spooner led opposing lines, with a 73 to 5 vote ratifying the treaty and a separate 50 to 16 vote for Cuba reciprocity later in the week.
Fragments report Frank Bowen killed by H F Steward at Benclare South Dakota Olive stove works in Rochester Pennsylvania damaged by fire top loss around 50000 with 50000 insured. Seismic disturbances shake Dominica while Honduran troops lose to revolutionaries at Taloga. Henderson Kentucky tobacco plant fire causes 75000 loss with 50000 insurance. Abbess Elizabeth van Raeussler of Munich Old Woman's Asylum gets six years for poisoning attempt. Maria D Aurignac released from Paris prison declared ill and not responsible. War Department prints captured Philippine insurgent telegrams showing leaders planned to establish.
Gen. Wood will assume command of the Mindanao department as Roosevelt plans a visit to Hawaii. The development impacts military leadership in the Pacific region amid ongoing tensions and strategic concerns for the administration.
A running summary of incidents including H. M. McDonald killed by a train at East Germantown, Mrs. Gell scalded in Wabash, a July Chautauqua in Madison led by Edward Carr, Elwood’s Til Cannon Brown shot accidentally, and William Nance found dead at Marion Soldiers Home. Other notes cover hotel plans in Muncie, a high school injury in Peru, Shelbyville school gains, hydrophobia in Kokomo, coal discovery near Dresser, a fatal hotel fall in Richmond, and a family of twenty-one in Evansville.
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