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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
2
A massive blaze in Jacksonville, nicknamed the Handsome City, swept fourteen blocks of homes businesses and hotels to ashes. Ten thousand people were left homeless by the fire and its destruction of residences and theatre blocks.
A $15,000,000 loss hits Jacksonville as a defective wire starts a ten hour blaze. About 130 blocks burn destroying hotels theaters churches and homes. Thousands left homeless with many injuries including the fire chief. casualty figures unclear but several deaths are reported.
One of the fiercest fires in Somerset County Pa. raged between Somerfield and Addison near Fayette County One destroying timber orchards fences and leaving a blackened waste across fields and woods. Citizens saved homes and buildings but narrow escapes occurred. Charles A Mitchell of Addison was overcome by smoke and barely rescued alive. Sheep were burned as night illumination allowed reading newspapers. The fire is under control.
A major blaze swept Armour & Co.’s packing houses at Chicago’s stock yards, burning for two hours before 11. Firemen saved a 200 by 100 foot brick building with a five story wall, keeping flames from ice rooms where 3,000 caskets of dressed beef valued at 500,000 were stored. Total loss estimated at 175,000.
Buffalo churches represented by a committee led by Rev. O. P. Gifford of Denware Avenue Baptist Church will take no further action to close the Pan-American Exposition on Sunday. The anti Sunday opening crusade appears to have run its course according to those favoring closing.
Wholesale liquor dealers warn of a whisky shortage as a single New York distillery and its warehouse control large stock. A producer combination is purchasing remaining barrel supply while production is restricted by an iron-bound agreement, risking higher prices.
John Higgins twenty one was shot and killed during a quarrel with a woman named Davis in Greensburg Indiana. Davis says Higgins demanded marriage and drew a revolver after her refusal. The weapon discharged striking Higgins in the head during the ensuing struggle.
Phill Amos, a wealthy oil and real estate dealer of Fairview West Virginia, was robbed of 12000 in certificates and 300 in cash aboard a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train. No crew to the robbers.
The towboat Raymond Horner sank thirteen Pittsburg coal barges near Henderson Kentucky in collision with a bridge pier. Losses from coal and barges are expected to reach sixteen thousand dollars.
A fire at Loudonville Ohio gutted the American livery barn causing about 75000 dollars in damage. Reports cite a blaze spreading rapidly with efforts from local fire crews and nearby structures threatened. The incident coincides with events at the nearby Masonic Temple attractions listed for May 4 and May installments.
A collage of bruising events includes Hiram McMillan shooting near Oliphant Pennsylvania and wounding his wife, Fred Dickson the Bostonians singer found dead at Houghs Neck Massachusetts, and Edward Rogers drowning after a drunken misstep on a bridge in Gouvenier New York. Fire destroys factories in North Chelmsford Massachusetts and Saranac Lake New York with losses reaching 150000 and 100000. Arlington Massachusetts town hall blaze leads to theft of 1200. A deadly coal plant fire hints six miners lost their lives at Latrobe Louisiana. A Philadelphia coaching party crash injures Joseph Widener, while a Brooklyn fire razes stables and multiple buildings in Queens.
A Western report notes a St Louis grand jury has indicted seventeen Democrats for fraudulent voting and repeating. Other items include a Grinnell association name removal, Colorado capital punishment law, a Las Cruces hanging, post office safe robbery in Ohio, a fatal cricket practice accident in Madera, a fire destroying Hensectt Iowa leaving $20 million loss, and multiple political and violent events across states.
A mosaic of incidents follows from Duluth to Chicago, Columbus to Omaha. Fires and explosions cause heavy losses. drownings and suicides occur amid investigations. Political shifts in Nebraska and manhunts in Illinois headline a string of calamities and legal cases affecting families, clubs, and businesses.
The miners' scales committee in Wheeling, West Virginia, announced an agreement and the strike was declared off. Also reports of a fatal fire in Houston caused by a boy seeking revenge on his employer, with six dead and three injured. widespread cotton replanting needed after floods in Tennessee. The Henderson Building and Loan Association failed, closing the oldest Kentucky building society due to strict usury laws.
A Brussels dispatch notes 1,500 Cubans pledge to travel to the Congo. Cailles loses Dugot-Dugot hold in the Philippines. British soldiers clash with Boers, four fights yield surrender after eight hours. German forces clash with Chinese beyond the Great Wall. Mining disaster in Belgium kills 17, injures 7 at Grand Buiseon. Fires devastate Spremberg cloth factories. Fatal blaze claims two lives. Famine kills about 20,000 in Russian Kherson and Bessarabia with worse to come before 1901 crops.
Commissioner Yerkes rules express receipts for exports are taxable under Supreme Court decisions. Margaret Coleman resigns after twenty seven years in the Treasury, linked to Seward era events. Bradstreet reports mixed trade tone with favorable iron and steel activity, adverse weather impacting crops, and weekly U S wheat and flour shipments at 4,282,189 bushels.
Chicago cattle 3.00 to 5.80 hogs 3.00 to 5.87 sheep 3.00 to 59.00 wheat 73c to tie corn 48c to 49c oats 26c to 2Se rye 20c to Sie butter 6 tie eggs lie to 12c potatoes sic to 12c per bushel Indianapolis cattle 3.00 to 5.75 hogs 4.00 to 9.80 sheep 3.00 to 4.73 wheat 72c to 73c corn 45c to 41c oats 2Se to 29c St Louis cattle 3.25 to 5.85 hogs 3.00 to 5.75 sheep 3.00 to 4.50 wheat 72c to 73c corn 43c to die oats 27c to 28c rye 54c to 53c Cincinnati cattle 3.00 to 5.25 hogs 3.00 to 5.80 sheep 3.00 to 4.43 wheat 71c to 72c corn 46c to 47c oats 28c to 28c rye 56 to 57c Detroit cattle 2.50 to 3.00 hogs 2.00 to 3.90 sheep 2.50 to 4.00 wheat 70c to 71c corn 44c 45c oats 30c to 31c rye 0 to 0c
A long weather and census summary notes generally favorable farming conditions across the central states with corn and wheat planting advancing in Missouri and Illinois while Ohio valley and mid-Atlantic districts lag. It also details insect damage in Oklahoma and Texas and a broader analysis of the center of population moving west and slightly south along the 39th parallel since 1790, now near northern Kansas.
Wall Street brokers face unprecedented demand as record trading drains strength and resources. Bookkeeping strains rise with talk of day and night clerks and a shortage of qualified accountants to handle complex brokerage office accounting.
President Merxinley visited Buffalo as the Pan-American Exposition opened at 8 30 in the morning. Officials announced the fair would run from May 20, with months of preparations evident in the busy scene.
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