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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1902
Page
9
The lengthy summary reports on congressional actions including a 800000 dollar aid fund for West Indies victims and naval and Philippine bills. It notes a Marysville Pennsylvania circus train wreck injuring six, a boiler explosion at Lehigh Valley coal mine killing three, insane verdicts in Montana, a failed hardware trust, and a range of local calamities and court actions involving murders, suicides, and indictments across several states.
A Soo line passenger train collided with a freight at Pembine Wisconsin demolishing both engines and injuring four men led by engineer Menger who is not expected to recover. Elsewhere John Golden was electrocuted while saving schoolchildren in New Rochelle New York. Richmond P Hobson named supervising constructor at Lewis Nixon shipyard Elizabethport New Jersey. Jamaica Hospital staff resign over double medical staff plan. Coal strike hits Chicago and coal prices rise. Fire damages Enterprise Stove plant Vincennes Indiana. Hyannis Nebraska crash kills four with many injured. Silk dyers strike Paterson New Jersey. Baltimore Sun cuts price to one cent. William Beals dies at Boston aged 86. Admiral Sampson will the widow with remaining life insurance to daughters. Philadelphia Reading strike idles 3 000 workers. Locusts appear in Washington Altoona Nashville. Newark mother witnesses daughter's fatal fire death. Various political nominations and legal actions surface nationwide. Tragedy and arts news blend with business, labor, and crime notes.
Reports from May 17 to May 20 describe Mont Pelee eruptions near Fort de France and La Soufriere activity. Deaths in St Vincent rise to 1 600 with 5 000 destitute. Saint Pierre and surrounding towns face widespread ruins and relief efforts intensify. Consuls Prentiss and Jupp identified. US and British relief supplies and ships deployed. volcanos continue ejecting cinders and ash across Martinique and nearby islands.
William Leet, convicted in Superior Court of the murder of his wife Nellie Leet by choking and burning her, was yesterday sentenced by Judge Newnham to 350 years in Jackson prison. Leet, 56, will face Mary Worse for the same crime in June.
One man is dead and eight injured after a gasoline tank exploded yesterday at 905 Winnebago Street on the South Side of Pittsburg. Investigators await details as emergency crews treat victims and assess the scene.
Rochester May 20 The anthracite strike disrupts steam transportation on Lake Ontario with many vessels in Charlotte Harbor awaiting coal.
Reading Pa May 20 Judge Endlich in common pleas court refused to grant a preliminary injunction sought by the American Iron and Steel Co against striking workers who gathered near the plant.
In Atlanta on May 19 an armed stand off ended in a deadly riot. Eight men were killed including three policemen and four Black suspects, with six injured. A block of buildings burned as 3,000 shots were exchanged by police and civilians. Will Gregg was shot after criticizing the killings.
King Alfonso reached his majority at sixteen and was proclaimed king in fact and name. Bands of music marched to the royal palace as the oath to uphold the constitution was taken in the chamber of deputies. An assassination attempt was thwarted with several suspects arrested, including a man linked to a previous attack.
A Saturday night cloudburst in eastern Wisconsin county caused extensive damage to farms and railways. Bridges on the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line near Oakdale were washed away and the track washed out elsewhere. Over 200 feet of the Chicago Northwestern line was swept away ten miles south. Livestock drowned and crops, highways, and bridges sustained harm as lightning struck Monroe and Vernon counties.
Anthony Matre reports many local auxiliaries formed in cities and counties, with state federations under bishops in North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Wisconsin. States, districts, counties and cities are forming, ahead of the national convention in Chicago on July 2.
Havana reports broad celebrations across towns as the change of government is marked. Sunday programmes include popular rejoicing and leisure activities, reflecting a shift from strict religious observance to general amusement in Spanish areas.
The New York City chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held its annual service at Old Trinity church on Sunday. Afterward a chapter committee decorated the graves in the churchyard, including that of Alexander Hamilton, among twelve Revolutionary War soldiers buried there.
A cloud burst in Dubuque on Saturday night dumped two inches of rain in one hour causing washouts on the Sinois Central to Waterloo and on the Great Western to Oelwein. No westbound trains arrived until Sunday night and cargo trains were halted until then.
Private Frank L. Farris of the Tenth Infantry and former first sergeant in the Philippines was killed at the United States Military Academy West Point when a passenger train struck him after he had stepped aside from a freight train.
Dispatch from Pretoria reports about 460 Boer leaders assembled at Vereeninging. They appear inclined to press for continuing hostilities, yet a ballot vote could tilt toward peace.
A severe wind storm swept Fairfield Nebraska on May 19 wrecking the St Joseph and Grand Island roundhouse and blowing a residence to pieces.
May 19 reports indicate Gov. Gen Wood may depart the treasury with about 8100 in hand. Follows a weekend closing of a collection of receipts under the American regime, though full reports from all parts of the island are not yet in.
Robert A Williams longtime chief of the Chicago Fire Department and veteran of the Great Fire of 1871 died yesterday at Garfield Park Sanitarium at age 77 after years of ill health.
At Fraterville coal mine near Coal Creek Tennessee a gas explosion killed between 175 and 225 workers and boys Monday morning. Only one man survived but was gravely injured. rescue efforts faced a slate fall that halted progress for hours.
Hazleton delegates vote to continue the 145,000 mine workers strike after two months of considering the plan. The move aims to involve engineers, firemen, and pump runners, potentially paralyzing national industries if adopted. President Mitchell arrives in Wilkesbarre with no new news.
In fog on Monday the Staten Island ferry Middletown struck a steam yacht. Passenger J. C. Atterbury of New Brighton was killed and the ferry carried many aboard with no other injuries reported. The Mauch Chunk collided with a railroad float by the Battery. all aboard were unharmed and landed in Jersey City.
In Hastings near St Augustine on a May morning William Austin killed five people including 15 year old Abiatha McCullough then died by self inflicted gunshot after being spurned by the girl. John Keller found the six bodies at the Wilkerson home as police began to learn of the motive for the tragedy.
Col John F Gaynor and Capt W D Greene, who fled to Canada after skipping bail in Savannah, were arrested by US secret service officers and Montreal detectives. They were taken to Quebec and await extradition proceedings to answer charges of defrauding the US government.
Esther Dowie daughter of Dr John Alexander Dowie founder of Zion died at 23 after burns suffered while a gas jet ignited hair. Nurses treated wounds but the Divine Healer Elijah II prayed at her bedside as attendants were excluded from the room. The University of Chicago student died after hours of prayer.
Winfield Kansas May 20 George W Miller president of 101 Livestock Co was arrested Monday on murder charges in the October killing of Santa Fe railway detective George C Montgomery shot through a window while in his parlor The case links Miller to the 101 ranch as the Coffelt trial in Texas previously connected the 101 ranch to the murder Montgomery was working on a case conflicting with the 101 ranch
Professor Eugen Teorhaeffer 40, senior master at Bishop Scott academy in Tortland Oregon, died by self inflicted gunshot. His body was found seated in a classroom chair. The school operates under Episcopal church auspices.
May 20 New York UP Tonl lard Co raises wages of all employees under foreman grade by 10 percent. Two thousand workers gain the higher pay.
Frank Orrell, operator at Vandalia depot in Knightsville Indiana, became violently insane yesterday. He nearly caused collisions between east and westbound passenger trains and two fast freights. He ran through Knightsville shouting the depot had been robbed and waved a revolver. The engineer of a freight reported misread orders and sped to Brazil, Indiana, to report the incident.
In Washington on May 17 the National Civic association considers how to help end the anthracite coal strike and discusses a tender of federation road offices and arbitration ideas but has not reached a definite conclusion, allowing several days before a decision on the federation’s course.
Iie Client Loran and Wheel RR timetable shows northbound and southbound schedules with stops including Bridgeport Flushing Uhrichsville New Phila C Dover Justus Massillon C Fulton Warwick Akron Cleveland and Sunday limits. Electric cars run between Bridgeport and Wheeling Bellaire Martins Ferry. MG CARREL Gen Pass Agt.
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