Record of the Week from Telegraph-Latest Foreign News
Gusts blow in from all parts of the earth as reporters tally crimes, casualties, fires, and other incidents in a sweeping foreign update.
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1901
Page
2
Gusts blow in from all parts of the earth as reporters tally crimes, casualties, fires, and other incidents in a sweeping foreign update.
In Mexico City Diaz and Finance Minister Li Mantonur shield workers from corn monopolies by suspending duties on foreign corn, and proposing a bill to empower government purchases through next March to lower prices to a reasonable level. The move is widely praised as a strike against grain monopolies.
Abe Morehouse of Port Jervis New York was bitten on the leg by a rattlesnake. A Susquehanna doctor was sent for and bandaged the wound. The leg seemed life threatening until a swarm of mosquitoes arrived after the bandage was loosened, killing many of the insects and leaving Morehouse alive and lively.
A blaze at the American Crayon plant in Sandusky Ohio destroyed the factory, causing about 140000 dollars in damage with 62500 dollars insured. The fire began in the drying room and spread quickly, trapping fifty workers on the second floor. two girls are reported missing and feared dead, as the fire consumed the plant and several nearby houses.
Berlin notes rare maps uncovered in Wolferg castle in Wartenberg showing early outlines and names of America dated 1507 and 1516. Discovered by Rev. Joseph Fischer a geography professor in Feldkirch Vorarlberg. Maps preserved remarkably well.
A Albuquerque dispatch reports a renegade band of Apache from the San Carlos reservation moving in the Mogollon Mountains south of the city. Five people were killed on Willow Creek near the Vietora and Geronimo warpath rendezvous. US Marshal Foraker is in Silver City and may travel to the scene.
A sewer gas explosion at the People’s Cold Storage plant in 3iKecesport, Pa wrecked the facility, causing about $25,000 in losses. Engineer Priopats Fireman Kingsley were seriously burned, with injuries internal and possibly fatal. A passing baker’s wagon was lifted ten feet but no injuries. Nearby street and sidewalk were torn, and surrounding buildings suffered light damage.
The Fort Wayne Masonic Temple offers attractions including Tud. Ont. on Oct 14 with Al Wilson in The Watch on The Rhine. The Man from Mexico plays Oct 17. Put Me Off at Buffalo shows Oct 9. Reeves Smith performs A Brace of Partridges on Oct 2, 2. Henrietta Crosman appears. An English cricket team defeated New York players by seven wickets at Knickerbocker Athletic Club grounds Berea Point N J.
Cape Town correspondent for the Daily Mail reports that Boers recapture livestock and kill all cattle and sheep seized, leaving South Africa described as a black, hopeless wilderness.
Henry W Cramp of the famed shipbuilding firm died of pneumonia at Devon Jun Devon Pa. Business failures for nine months in the United States rose to 8,144 with indebtedness totaling 97,806,41 dollars for the nine months on Japan.
The American yacht Columbia outsailed and overtook Shamrock to win the second challenge race. Narrow wind favored Columbia on the home leg while Shamrock led earlier, making the finish a dramatic hour long struggle as the Defender closed the gap and finished three minutes thirty five seconds ahead.
Mark Summers, a Confederate veteran from Narrows township Macon County Missouri, returned after the war to find his wife remarried to another man. She had warned him in a moment of Northern sympathy that if he wore gray he should not return. Summers learned his wife had since married twice more and had grown children with her current partner. Summers travels to see his children and confronts his former wife.
Report claims an alleged Venezuelan revolt will not materialize and notes a pursuit of a $27,500,000 value involving Bogiand.
The America challenged British vessels at Cowes in 1851 for a prize of up to ten thousand guineas. It won the Queen's Cup by eight miles, sparking the long rivalry and New York Yacht Club custody. The piece notes evolving yacht design from pleasure craft to speed machines and mentions John C Stevens and early presidents like Roosevelt later tied to Brooklyn and Columbia University.
The report recounts a brutal assault on Company C, Ninth Regiment, in Samar led by the town president. Filipinos, summoned by church bells at daylight, killed many soldiers during a breakfast ambush and mutilations followed. Capt. Connell’s body was found partly roasted with kerosene.
The account states no attack occurred on the guard and notes the reported attempt on McKinley’s tomb was only imagination.
Emma Goldman writes in the Chicago Free Society issue praising the assassin Leon F. Czolgusz and showing no sympathy for President McKinley’s widow. The revived anarchist publication includes both disavowals of force and praise of political murder, reflecting internal tensions in the movement.
The San Francisco triennial gathering features a Bishops' House and a Deputies’ House with about eighty bishops and 530 delegates. Debates on divorce prompt a push for canon 14 requiring ministers to verify no prior spouses remain alive before solemnizing new marriages.
The Buffalo incident overshadowed the Cleveland encampment as voters chose Hon Eli Torrance of Minneapolis as the new Commander-in-Chief of the G A R. The field included Gen Daniel Sickles and Gen Stewart. Torrance led with 476 votes to 230 for Steigart after Sickles withdrew.
Reports from colleges and universities in the East and West indicate a larger registration for the fall term. Coeds and young men enter a new year of study as parents read the notices and students prepare to grind out themes and poetry under instructors.
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