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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1903
Page
2
A compact roundup of happenings in courts, crime cases, and public safety incidents, plus notes on labor and capital conditions and grain and money market movements. The column highlights notable actions, trends, and economic signals affecting local readers.
An explosion of natural gas wrecked Benjamin Fight's home on South Nebraska street. Five occupants were injured and a second blast as firefighters battled the fire injured a firefighter. Clyde White of Grand Valley Pa is critically burned. All other injured from the Hight family. the house was lifted from its foundation.
Two heavy freight trains collided on the Knoxville division near New Hope Kentucky. Engineers Graves Coners and Sturgis and Firemen Reynolds Leyden and Leach were killed. Head Brakeman KR Hiume died and Brakeman Abner Winkler was badly hurt. The wreck occurred on a reverse curve at the top of a thirty foot embankment. All three engines were destroyed and most cars derailed. A fire destroyed fifteen cars of merchandise and coal.
The Soviet declares Russia re-occupied Mukden in response to a U S naval show of force in the Far East. It argues the move will pressure China to honor a convention with the United States and labels the action a dignified reply.
The Cohanbian minister to Peru publishes cables from Bogota dated November 10 and 12. The cables state Colombia intends to suppress insurgent groups and that all classes have pledged life and property to defend the nation’s territory.
Edward Poover, convicted of killing his wife's father at Tadiunmepetis Ind, was executed at the Michigan City penitentiary. The account notes his lack of emotion and his calm demeanor as he faced his fate.
The secretary of the navy reports the board of naval officers has selected a preferred site for an additional naval station. First choice is Lake Blue, second Ravine, third Muskegon, fourth Milwaukee, and fifth Michigan City.
Andres J Stone of New York plans an Arctic expedition to reach the north pole by a steamship through the northwest passage. He notes the passage was last attempted by Franklin fifty years ago and seeks to guide the project after nine Arctic summers in Alaska and northern British Columbia.
Andrey iD Green longtime New York civic figure known as the father of Greater New York was shot five times at 391th street and Park avenue. Cornelius M Williams a 48 year old Black man is under arrest. Green died of wounds.
The twenty foot mills of the American Tin Plate company at South Sharon Pennsylvania started in full last Monday. The Mabel blast furnace at Sharpsburg, idle for two months, was also put in blast.
A Seattle letter from Shanghai reports Russia continually changes the names of its warships to sow confusion about ship movements.
The transport Thomas arrived in San Francisco after a severe typhoon near Nagsaska. She carried Companies G and H of the Fifteenth cavalry, 114 enlisted men, 120 casuals, 32 sick, 2 insane and 83 prisoners.
Vienna reports that European petroleum concerns are negotiating a combination to oppose the Standard Oil Company. The talks aim to unite rivals into a coordinated effort to counter Standard Oil’s dominant position.
Andrew Carnegie offers 300000 for a New Haven library. In Paunton Massachusetts 11 year old Peter Clark shot dead by 13 year old Walter Bassett, with Bassett charged with homicide. Elkins dies at 71 at Ashbourne near Philadelphia. Roberts & Co. wins 2500 judgment against Russell Sage in railroad stock case. Gordon Mellay wills Harvard 50 percent of net estate income. Rockefeller interests claim steel trust control amid ships scandal. Carrie Nation debuts on stage in Elizabeth New Jersey. Seven Chinese men sentenced in Philadelphia for policy playing claim being students. Judge Lasombe orders deportation of John Turner under new law. Fall River mills cut wages 10 percent. potential wider strikes. Union debates over wives mending overcoats. Colonel A S K McChure named prothonotary in Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Frances Sterling losses 35700 diamonds and 500 cash from hosiery. Erie traction accident kills five, injures many near Erie, Pa. Baltimore area high school class mob disrupts Lilly Gaugart. James Thomas waterman and Italian Pierro killed in Ackermineville wreck. Martin Loew and Ephraim Stone hurt after Phi Psi Chi initiation. chapter president arrested.
President Roosevelt appoints Frank Worn as postmaster of St Louis, ending a long factional fight. A broad page of items follows including crime arrests, fires, strikes, and notable deaths across cities like Chicago Denver Omaha and St Louis.
Reports from across Europe and beyond include the German ambassador in the United States facing cancer surgery, Emperor William's yacht racing plans, a failed memorial to the czar by Finnish exiles, and rumors of a Russia Germany defensive pact. Also noted are a polypus operation, Cape Town clashes, a Naples minister’s suicide amid corruption charges, Panama expeditions, Chinese railway talks, and a fire on a Russian mail train with $3.5 million loss.
Cuban Congress approved a 50000 gift to General Maximo Gomez for his leadership in the revolutionary army. Roosevelt’s message urged honoring Cuban commitments as the Fifty-eighth Congress met to implement the Cuban reciprocity treaty.
The Fifty-eighth Congress met in extraordinary session called by Roosevelt to enact Cuban reciprocity. The House and Senate opened with large, crowded galleries, lavish floral tributes, and the election of Mr Cannon as Speaker.
President Roosevelt urges Congress to pass the implementing legislation for the Cuba US Cuban reciprocity treaty. He argues it honors national policy, protects American interests, expands the Cuban market for US producers, and binds the two nations with mutual economic and strategic benefits.
The Cleveland water works tunnel, costing fifty tees and millions, has been opened after years of construction. A typhoid patient, Margaret McFarland, died after leaping from a fourth story window at St Luke's hospital in Duluth. In Minneapolis the plasterers union remains financially strong with almost full membership. A contractor Samuel Hankin was killed and Mrs Mattie Fitzsimmons seriously injured in a collision near Cleveland on the Erie line. A 16 year old Brooklyn boy, Thomas Lucas, is jailed for killing his stepfather Charles Anderson. A Lincoln theater play Jesse James the Bandit King was halted by Chief Routzahan.
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