1902 September fragment headline read
Fragmentary 1902 September clipping shows a local notice with partial dates and names. Readable items include a single line about a public action and referenced individuals, but details are incomplete.
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1902
Page
6
Fragmentary 1902 September clipping shows a local notice with partial dates and names. Readable items include a single line about a public action and referenced individuals, but details are incomplete.
A Bucharest dispatch reports continued emigration of Romanian Jews with 4000 departing in three months. About 550 journeyed to Canada and the United States while smaller groups leave major towns nearly daily. Emigrants cite lack of work as motive. authorities refuse farm labor.
A deadly crush at a large New York church following Booker T. Washington's address left seventy dead and many injured. Emergency services struggled to reach the scene as bodies filled the sanctuary and surrounding street areas.
A long delayed statue of General Henry Warner Slocum was recently revealed on the Gettysburg Battlefield. The monument stands thirty one feet tall on a Barre granite base with a bronze inscription honoring Slocum.
Fire swept the power house and stables at Caperton West Virginia on New River causing a loss of 208. Families were evicted from Caperton company houses amid the disaster. The fire is blamed on unknown enemies as mines suffered closures and floods.
Fragmentary report describes Stanley Spencer aboard a vessel cruising above Laarden and moving from St Pauls toward the east while enduring strong winds. The text then hints at further movements toward a western point, with altered course and continued sailing.
A sweeping prairie fire in Hemdie County South Dakota razed a twelve mile stretch near One Northwest destroying haystacks and crops. Five men died and many farmers suffered total losses as damage ran into thousands of dollars.
John Wesley DP Divine a Black man was executed in the Baltimore jail yard for the June murder of Patrolman Charles J. Donohue. Divine had married three weeks earlier to the woman who had lived with him and whom the case linked as an indirect cause of the patrolman’s death.
A blaze at a large liver stable on 545 East Street New York City injures three firefighters two seriously and destroys twenty five horses. Hospitalization is feared to be critical for two of the injured, while the financial loss is deemed small.
Car 248 of the Union Traction Company collided with a freight train at a switch near the soldiers' home in Marion Indiana. Both trains wrecked and over twenty people were injured. The car was traveling twenty miles an hour at impact.
Iowa report states Speaker Henderson does not intend to resign the speakership in the next Congress. His secretary answered a direct question confirming the decision.
Fort Wayne Indiana schedule notes Henrietta Crosman appears September 27 with the Temple Theatre. The listing also includes Side Tracked as the attraction on the program.
Descriptive report notes forest fires spreading rapidly from the Warm Springs area to central Colorado. Government inspectors and forest brigades mobilize to curb the flames with help from ranchers and miners, while some fronts show gains and others remain dangerous.
Dispatches report the crisis deepening as Castro loyalists and government troops clash near Tinaquillo Venezuela. Insurgents claim the government falters while government forces under Gen Garrido suffer a defeat, signaling a potential final battle before the capital Valencia and shifting strength toward Valentina.
David B. Henderson of Iowa announces he will not seek renomination for Congress citing disagreement with the Republican tariff plank adopted at the state convention. He says growing sentiment favors free trade and declines to accept nomination, sending a formal withdrawal letter to C. E. Albrook.
Industrial activity in New York and across the nation is at high levels with new factories, expanded facilities, and resumed shops. Despite a cake blockade and rail capacity limits, production and exports rise, with large crops, falling prices, and robust trade expectations.
The inscription recalls Meade and the urging to stay and fight. A colossal equestrian statue of Maj. Siegemund stands at the battlefield head of the Twelfth Army Corps, 36 feet 6 inches long and 7,000 pounds, the largest bronze on the field. The mounted rider is depicted in full command as part of the wartime memorial.
The New Wikies as Maritie Exchange plans a departure for the increetion of recente preinents. Nelson Hutchinson and Peter Spicer died in a sawmill explosion near burg hin. A lightning strike hit a fence at a Nan Ottawa rainstorm site. A horse on Ned Rathje farm backing into a wire fence caused incident and damage. The St Mearce's Union in Philadelphia named John Taylor Tent and Dr I S Stone as chaplain. A German Baptists committee set Bellefontaine Ohio as next national meeting site. Southwest Kansas and Oklahoma Implement Dealers oppose the new harvester. farmers may boycott goods from harvester supporters.
Joseph G Cannon, named as Henderson's successor, is viewed as the probable speakership choice. Elected from Thiscols Illinois in 1872, he has served in the Fifteenth District since, moved to Danville in 1876, and led major House actions including the two cent letter rate and Porto Rico bill passage. He has chaired the appropriations committee for future years.
Secretary Shaw announced a plan to throw treasury notes into immediate circulation. Aimed at easing Wall Street pressure, four million of the issue will be set for rapid deployment to tide over the cost in the present banking strain.
Secretary Hay sends a note to U S ambassadors in Europe protesting Roumania's oppression of Jews. The move aims to protect Balkan Jews and avert a flood of impoverished refugees seeking entry to the United States.
Treasury officials report bond deposits will circulate as national bank bonds, with distributions over fifty thousand dollars and emphasis on not forcing banks to buy at high rates. A coordinated diplomatic note to Great Britain France Germany Russia Italy Austria Turkey seeks Roumania to improve civil duties and aid Roumanian Jews amidst this crisis. The Enuterpean Ladies Chorus of Columbus Ohio won second prize at the Colwyn Bay Welsh Eisteddfod among ten choirs.
European manufacturers now selling to Americans as Chicago imports steel from Scotland and Europe. Importers say European billets arrive faster than domestic mills can fill orders. Ten thousand tons landed in Chicago last week with more on the way, as Chicago concerns place large European orders.
Thirty one nations attended the M. C. A. world congress in Christiania Norway. Fannie Crosby age about 89 or 90, blind and prolific with over five thousand hymns. Queen Alexandra visited the Solesmies nun colony at Northwood Park near Cowes.
The report lists livestock and staple prices by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo New York Buffalo. Cattle hogs sheep and grain bids shown with ranges for No 2 and prime grades. Prices cover wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed with regional variations.
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