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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1901
Page
2
A cablegram from Colombia reports Equador mobilizing army and naval forces near the Colombian Equador frontier after intervening against Colombia. The message says Equador aims to join with rebel forces on the Isthmus of Panama, signaling a shift from neutrality.
Local merchants hit by guerilla depredations along the Isthmus of Panama urge the United States to land troops under the Colombia treaty to halt disturbances harming trade and property. They say cutting military supplies to insurgents arriving via Panama would help end the trouble. Ship captains report Belgium and German arms landing in Venezuela.
Two hundred twenty six men of the Twenty seventh Infantry at Fort McPherson are in the post hospital with illness blamed on ptomaine poisoning. Of 416 in Companies A B C D only 199 were on duty. Physicians cite tainted food. cooks deny leftovers and fault ice. Col J W French orders a rigid investigation.
American missionary Miss Stone from Roxbury Mass travelling in Turkey with a female companion has been seized by brigands near Salonica. US Minister Leishman reports to the State Department that immediate steps are being taken for her release. Columbia to defend America's Cup. trials show Columbia faster than Constitution.
Henry Peltier and his wife, farmers near Windsor Gul, were struck by a fast Michigan Central train as they drove into the city, instantly killed. Their carriage was ground to pieces and both bodies were thrown several feet from the impact site.
The Candid Friend reports King Edward continues to suffer heart trouble since before his accession and shows no improvement as he receives care in Hamburg under light water and massa ae cure.
Major Emerson H. Eggleston a well known lawyer died at his residence in Cleveland Ohio following a surgical operation He was six and a half years old and had served a term as United States District Attorney.
Strike action lasts two months between Chicago stockyards packing plants proprietors and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters' Union. The dispute centers on labor terms and conditions, with no final agreement reported.
Ten thousand peach trees in Athens County Ohio will be destroyed on orders of the Chile Agricultural Department due to San Jose scale infestation.
A forage train was dynamited and burned near Arberton in Lyden Arg district, Transvaal. No casualties were reported.
A blast at the Aetna powder works in Miller's Station near Valliso Indiana caused two buildings to burn and about $2000 in damage. No employees were injured.
President McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo by Leon Czolgosz. The first bullet struck his breastbone after shaking hands, a second pierced the abdomen, and he was executed to an Emergency hospital where the bullet lodged near the breastbone was removed. Czolgosz, born in Detroit with a Cleveland home, was arrested and jailed.
Leon Czolgosz signs a six page confession admitting anarchist beliefs and naming Emma Goldman as influence. He says no confederates and that he acted alone, buying the revolver in Buffalo three days before the act. He shows no insanity but is reticent about his career and does not state his organizational branch.
The crowds on the Esplanade welcome President McKinley as he delivers the day's feature address at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition. He discusses reciprocity, tariffs, trade routes, the Isthmian canal, and a Pacific cable, urging unity and peaceful growth among nations. He thanks foreign representatives and envisions expanded commerce and mutual respect across the Americas.
The article notes Labor Day has expanded in participation and recognition across states, with large parades in New York Philadelphia St Louis Chicago Boston and other cities. It argues the holiday endures, drawing turnout from workers and wealthier classes alike as a public display of labor strength and prosperity.
A miscellaneous column jabs at war memories and recent events. The writer mocks political figures and public figures, notes weather and floods in New Orleans, and wittily critiques media and public sentiment with sharp, era-appropriate humor.
The article describes a three-tier agricultural reporting system used by the statistician in Washington. County correspondents and three assistant township reporters collect crop data, supplemented by state statisticians and field agents, with reports transmitted to Washington monthly.
A brief dispatch notes that Minister Wu will leave the United States after a period of official engagement. The report references earlier events connected to the Pekin affair and London as context for his departure.
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