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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1904
Page
2
Telegraphic news recounts a bold daylight heist in Pom eroy where two youths with revolvers entered the county treasurer’s office, forced open the safe, stole 14600 dollars, locked in the treasurer, and fled. Chase freed after three hours. $5000 gold missed. bloodhounds unsuccessful. county insured for 1000 against robbery.
Night clerk H S Paulie 65 is killed in the tsreem hotel. Manager Ringere finds Butler battered in a pool of blood. bell boy Percy Howard 28 is missing. Police report robbery as motive. $10 taken from the safe.
The ex mayor is jailed on murder charges after his wife was found dead in their home. Police report blunt force trauma with a baseball bat and a gunshot wound in her breast. VeCue claims innocence and says an unknown man attacked them while both were in their bedroom.
Miss Mabel Mefferson reports two burglars in her Chicago roof. A bottle contents spill harms her as they flee along a terrace. Suspects flee with silverware and jewelry. Miss Mefferson tied to Benjamin Fitzawford of a national firm. Investigation ongoing with no arrests yet.
Jacoh Boeke, president of Evansville Contract Company, linked to a petition concerning government contracts. Linhillies, Linn, with connections to Siebert, and transfers to Second National Bank of Parkersburg, plus mentions of Evansville banks and related figures.
In Fort Wayne Indiana Luke Parse faced a lengthy term after a frantinuion misstep led to a barn fire. He received a fifteen year sentence, with authorities noting reform efforts and security concerns at the facility. Parson was captured at Buffalo and faces related charges.
A Grand Trunk special train carrying Lehigh Valley Railway officials struck the Gilver Hotel omni bus in South Bend Indiana injuring seven men seriously.
A large vessel has sunk off Highland Lightship Massachusetts. The crew escaped in lifeboats and the wreck type remains uncertain whether a freighter or passenger boat.
A Seaboard Air Line passenger train plunged through a trestle near Catawba Junction Georgia. Eleven passengers died and fifty or more were injured in the crash.
A blaze destroyed Warren Idaho causing total losses estimated at 190000 dollars. Fire officials report the town was wiped out with extensive damage to homes and structures. Local residents are affected as emergency crews coordinate relief.
Rosa Bias, youngest son of Albert Bias of Liberty Indiana, died from poisoning after the family ate a shipped watermelon said to have paris green dusting to kill insects. The parents and eldest brother are in serious condition from the same poisoning.
Mexico City special reports a great fire at Progresso on the coast of Yuestan with unknown origin. Losses estimated at 1,000,000 dollars, with little insurance coverage.
The weekly crop summary notes low temperatures in the Lake Region hurt corn with uneven Iowa yields and late North Central belt crops. Heavy rains hindered Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa and portions of the Carolinas, Florida, Alabama while other regions report moisture shortfalls and robust rain in the south.Cotton deterioration persists though some improvement in central districts. boll weevils threaten New Orleans-area fruit. tobacco cuts advance in Ohio and the mid Atlantic. fall plowing slows on dry soil. potatoes show a large overall crop despite drought.
Bradstreet's notes higher commodity movement and heavier bank dealings in Chicago, yet irregular conditions curb full activity. Retail trade shows growth while inventories shrink, rail shipments rise, and dry goods, footwear, and furniture demand improves. Farm product movement remains strong but consumer prices damp demand, with farm output down from last year.
Dispatches report a chaotic Russian retreat after Liao yang with Kuropatkin leading a battered rear toward Harbin. Soldiers abandon burdens, many die in the road as Japanese forces harry the retreat, officers gun down stragglers to restore order five miles south of Mukden.
A Japanese column moving along a valley road was destroyed by an electric mine planted by Russians. The blast ripped a mile of road, killing many and scattering bodies. Russians later buried the dead but could not determine exact casualties due to mutilation.
London newspapers foresee a drawn war as dispatches from St. Petersburg indicate Japan holds initial momentum. Reports emphasize relentless fighting and the strategic initiative shifting toward Japanese forces amid initial battles.
A fierce engagement near Linorang sees Japanese assaults brutal and effective as Russians suffer heavy losses. Japanese forces press, with machine gun fire and charges, while Kuropatkin withdraws to the right bank to meet other Russian movements. Reports note mine blasts near Port Arthur and shifting war dynamics across the Far East.
Postoffice Inspector Letherman returns from Panama reporting poor climate and sanitation in the canal zone. He notes 2000 applicants for district work urged to wait, yellow fever dysentery and Chagres fever afflict border districts, and workers, including 800 Jamaica laborers at Culebra, laboring in mud with high death risk.
Perce Miss Wilma H Rouse of Kucheng China has been compelled to return home due to death. Rev George Freeman British Phrenological Society vice president lecturing in this country. Princeton Theological Seminary necrological report lists sixty six alumni who died last year. Miss Ethel Jackson in Tsiping Malaya gathers Methodist congregations in Tamil and Chinese. Old Orchard Maine Christian Workers Alliance annual collection netted 44000 in cash and pledges. Rev Henry A Buchtel as Denver University chancellor has cleared the institution of more than a quarter million dollars in debt. Rev Carlton A Staples Lexington Mass pastor marks fiftieth anniversary over Meadville Pa Unitarian Church.
Regional market summaries show cattle hogs and sheep prices varied by city from Chicago to New York. Grain values include wheat No 2 red around 1.05 to 1.12, corn No 2 mixed in 52 to 59 cents, oats 31 to 38 cents, rye 60 to 76 cents, with dairy and eggs and potatoes listed in small ranges.
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