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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1902
Page
4
The issue lists staff including editor R Nesbit and assistant R P White under masthead. It notes a subscription price of one dollar per year paid in advance and provides a date of publication Wednesday November 26, 1902. It reflects a small-town newspaper format with standard telephonic contact and publication details.
The Sullivan county mob sentenced a Black man to death near the county line with Knox, an act the writer condemns as out law violence. Leaders from Knox and sympathizers in Sullivan are blamed, urging return to lawful justice and possible law reforms.
Havana reports two strikers killed and eighty-two wounded amid a general strike that shut trades and halted electric cars. Police were unable to stop disturbances until the mayor invoked measures allowing deadly force, with public blame aimed at Senor Tamayo and city officials.
James Dillard a Kentucky man arrested at Lawrenceville Illinois for criminal assault on Mrs Mary Davis and Mrs John Lemon was seized by a mob in Sullivan Indiana. The sheriff refused to surrender him and the mob hanged him from a telegraph pole between Sullivan and Oaktown after identifying him as their attacker. Governor Durbin ordered milit ia to suppress the mob but the lynching occurred first.
In Hartford City Indiana on November 24 Sandy Vanhorn a Western Engineering teamster suffered a fractured skull and two broken ribs when a tree used to pull a boiler onto a wagon broke off and fell on him. The victim is feared to die from the injuries.
Normal Expanding at Terre Haute reports that at the Indiana State normal school trustees meeting on Saturday a formal request was made to the next legislature for 70 000 dollars to buy ground and construct buildings for a new teachers' training department.
Pendleton Ind November 24 Lewis Riggs a prosperous farmer was nearly maimed while operating a corn shredder on John Huntzinger's farm west of town. Doctors fear amputation may be necessary if blood loss and injury worsen.
Frank Warner fourteen, son of John C Warner, was shot and killed instantly by his eighteen year old uncle William Warner during a hunting trip. The shooting is ruled accidental.
Grace Keefer 3 daughter of Linden Keefer died after her clothing caught fire from a stove while playing with a kitten at their home near South Bend Indiana.
Washington reports the Navy directed deep sea soundings and surveys will be transferred to the Commercial Cable Co for laying the Pacific cable beyond Hawaii. Charts show routes to Midway Island and Guam with lines to Manila and Yokohama, and the contract allows American operatives where possible.
Kansas City police chief Hayes announced that a bullfight planned for Thanksgiving evening in Convention Hall would not be permitted. Bulls and matadors from Mexico were in the city and the setup was ready, but authorities blocked the event amid public sentiment stirred by sermons citywide.
The British steamer Damara collided with and sank the Newfoundland schooner Shamrock near St Johns while entering port. Shamrock carried 500 quintals of codfish and her crew were rescued by the Damara, which reported no damage. An allegation claims the Shamrock showed no light, a common precaution ignored by local fishing vessels.
Manila reports cholera spreading along Mindanao west coast causing destitution. Quarantine worsens suffering by halting work and supply movement. General Davis directs General Sumner to distribute food to sufferers in infected and quarantined towns. Disease recedes in Manila.
Wayne Brumfield was killed instantly near Guyan Falls in a pistol duel with Henry Tiller. The dispute stems from a 20 year old family shooting affray in which Tiller’s father was killed.
Shanghai reports the evacuation of foreign garrisons with Japanese troops first to withdraw, signaling the start of a broader pullout from the city.
A telegram from Portal, North Carolina, states lawyer Stephen Hayes, who had recently left town for a prospecting trip, was killed. Hayes, a well off resident with a family in Bloomington, was found with $500 missing from his possession.
In Ashland Wisconsin three men were killed when a fire gutted the Wisconsin Central ore docks on November 24. Fire crews battled the blaze but the men perished in the flames as the structure burned.
In Hesperia Michigan on November 25 Mrs. Walter Knickerbocker aged sixty eight perished in a blaze that gutted their residence at Mena Creek, while her eighty year old husband was fatally burned attempting to escape.
Terre Haute Indiana November 22 Miss Cleo Collins aged eighteen took strychnine to end her life at home leaving a note stating she was despondent. The death is reported as a suicide with an accompanying letter explaining her state of mind.
Joel Thompson fifty five years old was found on the Lake Erie and Western railroad near Tipton Indiana. His head was crushed in what police term an accidental death. The body was discovered on November twenty fifth. Authorities investigated the scene and said no suspicious circumstances were found.
In Greencastle Indiana Rebecca Key was acquitted of the charge of murdering her newborn child two hours after its birth. The verdict came swiftly after the incident on a November day in Greencastle.
The article notes Pope Leo XIII values his birds for diplomacy and quiet, while Portugal's king favors a large drinking-leaning baboon. Turkey’s sultan prefers pigs, and Queen Wilhelmina tends white mice, with Spain’s regent keeping nurses’ former companions in memory.
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