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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1900
Page
2
A survey of notable events from around the globe covering crimes fires and accidents. It highlights human interest stories, major incidents and notable places, weaving a compact weekly digest of world affairs.
The United States issued a note to Germany via Secretary lay agreeing on Germany's suggestion to punish Chinese criminals. It states instructions to Minister Conster to identify offenders, assess adequacy of punishment, and verify actual administration, aiming for united action between the United States and Germany.
Heavy storms cripple property and livestock across France. Flooding rivers devastate vineyards in Haute Pyrenees Burgundy Auvergne Rhine and Saunde areas. Vines beaten down crops nearly ruined. General Andre orders troops to aid harvest in response to growers urgent pleas.
President J Rogers Maxwell of Jersey Central and another coal carrier leader, who declined to be quoted, announced no further concessions to striking miners. They warned the strike would be pursued if the 10 percent offer is rejected. A joint meeting of coal railway presidents and operators reportedly approved the decision at Lehigh Valley offices in New York.
Prof. A. and Dachnowski, chairs of German at Taylor University Upland Ind, returned to the Father land to study at Berlin but upon identity exposure were ordered to depart within thirteen days or join the imperial army. They fled to Switzerland to enroll in college.
Mrs Lillian Smith of Iawood Manhattan shot her two children Ethel 12 and Theodore 8 then killed herself. A third child is dying in Fordham hospital from carbolic acid burns. Authorities say long brooding over death led to her insanity.
National Convention of Factory Inspectors in Indianapolis elects John Williams of New York as president. Next meeting planned for Buffalo area. Resolutions condemn child labor and urge stricter regulation.
Receipts of Klondike gold at the San Francisco mint and Seattle assay office from July 1 to September 30 totaled 16 047 555 dollars with Cape Nome gold at 2 311 801 dollars. The combined deposits at both offices for the quarter reached 33 234 810 dollars.
Prominent Wheeling attorney M F Dryden was shot and killed by his son in law Thomas Workman during a family quarrel. Workman says the shooting was in self defense and authorities are investigating the incident.
Eleven firefighters were injured in a blaze that destroyed their own home in Walt ham Mississippi. They were forced to jump twenty feet from windows. property loss estimated at forty thousand dollars.
The Fort Wayne Masonic Temple lines up entertainment events with Wilber Opera Co on October 18 and shows for October 15, 16, 17, 20 featuring plays such as Shore Acres and Miss Hobbs.
The revenue cutter Viking with Governor General Wood aboard ran aground on a coastal key about sixty miles from Batibeno. A steamer is aiding the vessel and all aboard are safe.
A fierce engagement between a German contingent and 2,000 Boxers at Kau Kau Men ended with German forces repulsing a Chinese attack. The Germans reported 400 enemy killed and five German soldiers dead.
EASTERN Col John C Wyman dies in Providence R I once saved Grant from drowning. Rev Dr Gilbert H Gregory of Kingsbridge NY dies in pulpit at 63. Thomas Gaskell Shearman Beecher attorney dies after surgery in Brooklyn. Robert McCurdy Lord found dead in Mount Vernon NY. Major Bar rett causes Fleetwood tug sinking with two drowned. Numerous other deaths and scandals surface from New Jersey to Boston as authorities investigate.
Western notes report Dowie followers driven from Mansfield Ohio and mob fears near Pueblo Colorado stifled by authorities A Charleston vigilance group lashes two alleged wife beaters A Milwaukee judge regains sight amid cataract surgery A Texas governor reports about 873000 dollars raised for Galveston storm victims A Chicago fireman killed and others injured in a collision A trader from the Chicago Board of Trade acquitted L Wolcott dies after a stroke on a Big Four train A wreck on the Southern Pacific near the Utah Nevada line leaves one dead and many injured A highwayman robs a stage near Ontario Idaho Mrs R C Pickett dies in Minneapolis from a lamp blast Police hunt for Edward Beebe after he vanishes with 1300 dollars A Chicago clothing warehouse loses 70000 dollars in a fire A Duluth bank work exposes iron ore with 65 percent content An animal loss worries John Haas farm in Ohio with a missing steer and cow
Judge Ensign sentences Randel Abrahamson to ten years hard labor for setting thirteen fires in Duluth, including a stable fire that claimed a life. Burglars loot Mrs. Martha Rounds’ Chicago home of valuables valued at $1,000. A Kansas City hospital scene ends in overdose death of Captain Frederick Dent Sharp. A Wichita streetcar crash injures 28, with a baby believed drowned. In Wisconsin a child is proclaimed chief after his father’s death. California and Ohio incidents include killings, holdups, and a dangerous train wrecks with multiple fatalities and injuries. Additional reports cover a court-ordered plural marriage, a murder-suicide attempt, and a Pekin court martial on a Manchu assassin.
Across several cities, killings and assaults mark a grim news snapshot. In Avondale Alabama Lee Clark killed his mother. in Bowling Green Kentucky a post office robbery netted 4500 to 5000 dollars in cash and stamps. in Frankfort Kentucky James Howard’s motion for a new trial was overruled and he faces hanging on December 7. Archie Winsauls died in Charlotte after two failed scaffold drops, described as a murderer. Paul Sloan deputy sheriff of Lake Charles Louisiana was fatally wounded by a mob trying to lynch Pierce Scott. Gov J C Beckham and Miss Jean Fuqua of Owensboro Kentucky plan a November 21 wedding at First Presbyterian Church. Warner Newbold, railroad division superintendent in Birmingham died by self inflicted gunshot. Charles Collier found shot in Atlanta with one word uttered Burglars. Pastors Young Reeder and Henry Williams shot in Belmont Baptist Church Newberry County D C during a prayer service.
Foreign dispatch notes Irish-Americans serving with the Boers are moved to a Portuguese transport at Lorenzo Marques. A Vatican break-in in Rome yields securities valued at 357,000 lire and 3,000 lire in silver stolen. Russia withdraws from Pekin in protest against German armament. Field Marshal Roberts named British army commander in chief, succeeding Wolseley. Churchill, son of an American woman, among the successful candidates.
The item notes Adlai H. Stevenson accepting the Populist nomination for vice president. It also covers a bold Alaska warehouse robbery of gold dust worth 10 500 dollars and other scattered world and market items including Port-au-Prince indemnity, a battleship voyage, a storm affecting Solomon City, a shooting in Vera Cruz, and British seizure claims in Alaska.
Regional and city price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grain across markets in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with figures for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and pork. Prices show varied ranges by product and city reflecting market movement.
The weekly crop report notes favorable conditions east of the Mississippi with rains needed in the South Atlantic and upper Ohio valley while wet weather slows western corn harvests. Cotton picking advances in Arkansas Oklahoma Missouri and Texas with fall plowing progressing west of the river. Political items mention McKinley’s Canton stay Debs Roosevelt hearings Cochran and Bryan campaigns in multiple states and Roosevelt’s long ballot name.
Local items report a $25 robbery at the Maritta post office and stamp loss. They note plans for a Lewis County soldiers monument, a Butler reunion for the 88th Indiana Volunteers on October 24, and a fatal train accident in Madison.
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