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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1903
Page
6
Local item from Silvier Lake Indiana appears in The Weekly Record under RECORD PUBLISHING Co. Publishers. No further details are readable in the fragment.
Telegraphic dispatches indicate Senator Charles V. Fairbanks may seek the Republican vice presidential nomination. The move follows pressure from Senator Hanna and President Roosevelt after discussions in Washington and Indianapolis. Fairbanks planned to decide after returning to Washington from Iowa.
Frank Pavlik accused his father in Judge Clifford's court of multiple murders including his mother's, claiming the father killed his own mother in Bohemia and struck down his grandmother, a crime for which he was never punished.
In Lexington a jury found Lieutenant Governor J Hy Titman not guilty. The verdict was read in court after jurors were recalled. Supporters of Titman shouted in celebration while others were urged to refrain from demonstrations during the reading.
The Aberdeen Washington blaze devastated ten blocks of business and residential properties in the town's most destructive fire. Four people died and several were injured with an estimated loss of one million dollars. Insurers refused higher coverage due to inflammable construction materials.
Tom Iall alias Dotglass a Black man was seized from the Revit jail by about 160 men and hanged at a tree in the jail yard. Hall denied wounding Childers and blamed another Black man. Fears of a race riot prompted removing the suspect to Kevil for safety as locals dispersed.
The London Daily Telegraph describes refugees arriving at Rila Monastery on a bitter cold night with temperatures at four degrees. They fasted and slept outdoors, grateful to monks who shared black bread and salt and exhausted their resources aiding the hungry fugitives.
About two hundred thousand members of the International Sunshine Society across thirty six states will donate to a fund to erect a monument over the grave of Fate Jill Neve who died near Asheville North Carolina. The public is invited to contribute and the project is expected to cost about 500 dollars. Mrs Nye has encouraged the effort.
The President, acting on Attorney General guidance, removes Fred A. Field the Federal Marshal for Vermont district over dereliction of duty admitting the escape in Providence R I of three Chinamen from deportation duties.
Great Britain will dispatch Europa, a first class cruiser commissioned at Portsmouth, to the Chinese station. A battleship from the Mediterranean squadron will follow to join the China command.
George Dogwood the eldest man in Brown County Ohio and possibly the state wed Aberdeen to Miss Alice Weaver aged 50 His stated age of 12 led to a claim about his age His first wife died at 72 The report notes the unlikely ages and the wedding event.
An accord reached between the whiskey combine and independent distillers to lift prices gradually to 31.22, the level held prior to the earlier price cuts.
Nine persons were injured in a collision on the Indiana Traction Company's line near Orestes Indiana when a work car loaded with thirty men struck a gravel train.
A collection of brief reports notes a theatre fire destroying a house, architects and dignitaries, a Jersey City anti dyspeptic club, and the death of Archbishop Bain in Baltimore. It lists robberies, fatal train collisions, a Yale football injury, a Windsor Conn land grant, Chinese detainee releases, a soldier author Richard Henry Savage death, a Chattanooga battlefield monument, a court ruling on faith healing, a Brooklyn merchant fatally injured, Mrs. Moody and Mrs. Broody death notices, a potential breach of promise suit involving Senator Platt, a Greensburg trolley collision, and the death of Jack Willers, famed horse owner Heatherbloom’s heir.
A statewide tone of reform spreads as Denver moves to force women to remove hats in all courtrooms. The era’s clashes include mob violence in Montana and Ohio gas explosions while a bridge project, gambling closures, and graft probes unfold across the nation.
Reports describe a gunpowder bar near Madison Indiana sinking with no loss of life, Alfred Knapp the Bluebeard appealing his murder sentence, boiler-work injuries in Omaha, dairy and bakery consolidation in St. Louis, a Sioux Falls livery fire, and various legal, political, and crime items across the Midwest including bank policy shifts, a Senator’s act to stop a runaway, and a Kansas marriage licensing dispute.
Foreign news notes Prince Ahmed Bedr Eddine son of the Turkish sultan is reported ill with pneumonia. A Franco British arbitration treaty was signed in London by Lansdowne and M Cam bou. A Hungarian survivor of the St Pierre disaster was killed in Paris by an automobile. A Ramapo river wall of water devastates a ten mile valley. Russia demands China choice or Manchurian occupation. Peace prospects in the Far East appear brighter. The American ship Benjamin Sewall was lost near the Pescadores with eleven survivors. King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena arrive in Paris with a royal reception. A heavy English rainfall causes widespread damage in the north. Eight reformed criminals in Manila are sentenced by Judge H Sweeny. A 20 000 strong socialist demo in Bilbao ends in four dead and twenty nine wounded.
Washington correspondents report the army general staff favors preparing for a war with Germany or other European powers over Venezuela, studying South American resources and defenses. Officers, to be named military attaches, surveyed Venezuela Panama Isthmus and report political and military conditions, signaling heightened alert for possible interventional conflicts.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland told the Commercial Club at the Auditorium Hotel that true politics is civic duty. He urged a creed of American Good Citizenship to unite all willing to defend the nation’s safety, peace, and prosperity through lawful, fair, and economical governance.
The latest reports show a sharp drop in urban construction due to labor problems and higher material prices. R.G. Dun's Weekly Review cites 1902 earnings trends, while Bradstreet's notes irregular trade. A Chicago naturalization crackdown is revealed by C D C Vandusen. Silver hits multi year highs in London and New York, with demand from the Philippines and India lifting prices. Nome arrests for alleged blackmail involve city officials.
A South Bend project proposes a vast electric railway connecting Chicago and Pittsburgh. It would be the world’s largest system, drawing power from Ohio water resources at St Marys Reservoir and the dam on the St Joseph River. The route would pass through Cleveland, Toledo, Goshen, and other points, with substantial early spending already made.
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