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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1903
Page
1
London dispatch notes serious Balkan repercussions after the murder of the Russian consul at Monastir. Britain weighs Russia’s demands for punishment, while Balfour urges the Porte to restrain Turkish troops and seeks coordinated action with Austria and Russia to stabilize Macedonia amid rebel threats.
Reports say Turkish forces clashed with insurgents at Kallar as 24 battalions are moved from Anatolia to Macedonia. Rashi Pasha passes Salonica with two battalions toward Ionastir amid word of fifteen Okheida villages burned by Bulam revolutionists and casualties reported. Salonican police chiefs dismissed after the event.
Russia demands full punishment for all responsible for the murder of Russian consul M. Roskovski in Monastir and vows exemplary action against Turkish officials. The incident, the second consul murder in Macedonia in months, has provoked intense indignation in Saint Petersburg and prompted diplomatic telegrams between Constantinople and Moscow.
Belgrade reports say Russian consul Rostkovski was killed when a Turkish gendarme fired on his carriage after Rostkovski struck the sentry for not saluting. Rostkovski, for twenty years in Macedonia, was known as a firm friend of Christians and a firm believer in a stern, overbearing style with Orientals. Earlier, he had quarreled with Turks over alleged local excesses at Mogil, six miles north of Monastir.
Paris suffered a fatal Metropolit an Electric Railroad tunnel disaster last evening. By 5 am eighty two bodies were recovered and eight others feared dead as two trains caught fire after a breakdown at Menilmontant Station. Firemen finally entered the tunnel and recovered seven more corpses amid dense smoke.
The fire captain bore the tiny body as he bowed at the station. Undertaker Kregelo took possession. the Kendall home funeral is tonight at 8. The body goes to Rockville Indiana tomorrow for burial. Coroner Tutewuller held an inquest yesterday afternoon and ruled accidental drowning.
In Rome on August 10 Pope Pius X endured another taxing day as he met about 30 Venetian delegates for the coronation ceremonies. He greeted each with a kiss, remembered those he knew, and spoke of bearing the cross with God’s will. Observers note he appears ten years older since his election, yet his affable manner remains.
Kent Stow, son of F D Stow, a Merchants' Dispatch agent, shot his wife Pauline on Richmond Avenue early today then killed himself. The wife died instantly. Stow died later in hospital. An infant child, aged about one, was left with his parents. The couple, married about two years, had no known domestic trouble. Stow had fought malaria recently and may have been temporarily insane.
A hurricane struck eastern Jamaica causing damage to United Fruit and Jamaica Fruit banana properties with full extent unknown. Weather Bureau reports the storm near San Domingo with unclear course due to poor cable reports, advising Gulf and Atlantic ports to monitor. Puerto Rico residents report high southeast winds and hurricane signals. Barbadoes notes a northwest heading, with heavy rains easing as barometer rises.
Fort de France endured a ten hour hurricane last night with two hours of extreme force causing widespread destruction. Hundreds of houses lost roofs and several vessels were badly damaged though no fatalities were reported.
Attorney General Knox to confer with the President at Sagamore Hill about pending Department of Justice matters, including the Littaeur Lyon glove contract case. Rumors of War Secretary Root retirement for Taft are not substantiated. officials expect no definite change soon.
A colored nurse Jeanette Childs alias Etta Price attempted to poison the Hitz baby by chloroform in milk at 197 North Capitol. Detected by mother, she confessed at the police station after being identified at the drugstore. She, age seventeen, blamed opium use and spite over accusations of theft. preliminary hearing set.
The Victorian Woman's Federal Political Association announces the candidacy of its president in New York on August. The release highlights the group's plan to advocate political reform and expand women's participation, signaling a bold step in local civic engagement.
A Times dispatch from Melbourne by way of London reports that the constitution used the word he to define Senate qualifications. Since enfranchisement of women by federal Parliament, lawyers contend the clause includes the feminine gender. Eminent lawyers consider the claim valid.
In Cynthiana Kentucky on August 10 the defense opened a strong argument led by Judge W T Lafferty against capital punishment as incompatible with Christian teaching. The defense focal point was Ewen the prosecution’s main witness as Judge Lafferty pressed the jury. Thomas Marcum of Indian Territory followed with a Bible backed rebuttal to Lafferty. He spoke for three quarters of an hour until dinner then resumed at 1 30 and completed his address at 3 o clock. Capt Ben B Golden then attacked Ewen mercilessly in his remarks to the jury.
Parker Indiana reports very satisfactory oil activity with aggregate output large though not phenomenal. Eighty one tool strings operate, Ohio Oil Company secures Frank Duncan lease with large bonuses, a new wildcat near Windsor tests the field for potential value, while Ephraim Cresl No. 9 yields about 420 barrels daily, boosting earnings and signaling continued field vitality.
Port Huron Michigan August 10 The assignment of the Columbia Iron Works to Russ Jenks of St Clair was placed on record after financial trouble that led Gilchrist Transportation to take temporary charge. Total indebtedness is 268 926 with assets appraised at 179 475 though original cost was 16. Plans for reorganization include Gilchrist and Gaston of Buffalo joining the effort.
Three year old Teddy Kendall vanished Friday afternoon and was found drowned in an abandoned cistern at 1622 Hall Place. Capt. Simeon C. Hoyt led a fire company search and recovered the boy. mother Mrs Kendall remains in critical condition, with Dr Bull tending her.
Valparaiso Indiana August 10 John Wilson a negro who assaulted Mrs Biggs last Saturday afternoon remains in jail Sheriff Lacount anticipates no trouble and will keep armed guards at the jail tonight The prosecutor found the woman in worse condition than public reports indicated Wilson boasted of escaping a posse of enraged farmers and laughed from his jail cell He is about six feet tall and weighs 160 pounds and a telegram from Pittsburg says a man matching his description is wanted in Allegheny county for an offense committed there more than a year ago.
In Decatur Indiana on Aug 10 the facts show Miss Flossie Barr and Miss Bertha Wilson, both fourteen, accuse Arthur Williams of attempted criminal assault near Geneva. Williams was pursued after the attack, cornered in a corn field, and held at the SonmuE until a hearing. A mob did not lynch him. crowds dispersed after assurance of due process.
Benjamin Edgar an elderly farmer was killed with a stone while returning from church. Robert Moore and his brothers Hance and Thomas attacked the Edgar family, after Edgar had forbidden Moore from seeing his daughter. Edgar died within twenty minutes after a temple strike. Moore and his brothers are said to hold the country for the Moore clan.
In Lafayette Indiana on August 1 the city council passed a meter and pricing ordinance granting the gas company the right to test meters and raise rates. The 6-6 vote hinged on Mayor Sample's decisive approval. Anonymous threats were read and officials received unsourced letters as debates grew heated. The gas company warned of potential winter supply cuts if meters were not installed, noting a drop in natural gas from 2,000,000 to about 200,000 feet in five years.
At Pomeroy Ohio on August 10 a boiler at Humphrey and Holt's canning plant in Rutland exploded at 1 PM, killing Bart Neer Dale Rawlings and Dom Metchler and severely scalding Albert Blackstole Webber Holt and Dennis Holt. The victims include an elderly man and two ten year old boys. The boiler was hurled two hundred yards as workers observed the machine being tested before resuming operations tomorrow.
Headquarters for the Langley airship expedition shifted from the Mount Vernon Clubhouse on Quantico Island to a Clifton Beach hotel on the Maryland shore. The move follows protests by club members and continued Smithsonian Institution scientists occupation of the Isle. Ten men remain, with plans to grow to fourteen, and another test is expected soon.
Vienna reports Russia and Austria will repatriate Servian officers studying abroad following the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga. The Servian military officers are barred from further service or study in both powers as relations deteriorate.
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