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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1903
Page
1
Reports indicate the war is nearly over as soldiers and sailors halt fighting today. Great guns have boomed for a week and no injuries are reported. A fierce Friday battle landed about one thousand men under Rear Admiral Coghlan who captured all the statues and defenses at the Cape and Spurwin Scar Portland.
PORTLAND Maine August 2 The noon end of the harbor defense war games sees Rear Admiral Coghlan claim a grand victory though Umpires later ruled no landing occurred as attacking troops were put out of action before attempting land. The Olympia sustained damage but remained in action as the fleet shifted to support.
Mrs Alexander Winton, wife of the president of the Winton Automobile Company, drowned in a lake near her Cleveland home after rising from bed during nurse’s absence. Friends doubt suicide, suggesting accidental fall from the steep bank. body recovered from the lake.
Washington August 3 Secretary Shaw announces a new policy to segregate government receipts from internal revenue sources and deposit them at his discretion. The move aims to meet contingencies and ensure funded operations under existing law.
Secretary Shaw, en route to Oyster Bay with plans to address the Middle West, has created a separate treasury ledger account to segregate internal revenue receipts from other funds. He has not decided on further deposits with national banks, but deems such deposits within his authority for future contingencies.
New Haven detectives say four months of silver thefts from International Silver Company shops in Meriden are solved with the arrest of John H. Booth and Joshua Sutta. Booth, a company employee, implicates Sutta in selling the stolen metal totaling about 5.40 ounces. Sutta denies knowledge or involvement.
Widewater Virginia August 28 Prof Langleys airship houseboat rode a fierce gale and broke moorings. It drifted two miles downstream before anchors held. A launch tender and vessels were lost. search will resume Saturday. The aerodrome may be delayed for repairs after the storm.
Joseph Haworth, a well known actor with a 25 year career, was found dead in a Kingsley Hotel room in Willoughby near Cleveland. Death is believed due to heart disease. Born 1855 in Providence, Haworth had made Cleveland area his base and recently acted in Julius Caesar and The Resurrection. Funeral planned at the family home in Willoughby, date unspecified.
Manila August 23 a new education bill becomes law appropriating 72000 for year one hundred top public school pupils aged six to twenty one who achieve at least seven percent in each subject and qualify may travel to the United States to complete studies at Governor designated institutions all costs in United States funded by government oath of allegiance required upon entry and civil service exam on return. court fines quartermaster 3500 for smuggling unmanifested packages to officers on the Seward. Tatssen returns to Ohio. Teft on transport Sherman sailing for San Francisco.
A marriage on an elephant is billed as the carnival’s drawing card at Anderson. The notice hints at a broader question about Capital and Labor uniting, supported by the Grand Old Party.
Fierce clashes at Passakul near Adrianople as insurgents attack Turkish posts. Autonomie reports orders to eradicate Bulgarians amid exodus toward Constantinople. Macedonian organizers plan a large advance, with five thousand fighters rumored to cross the frontier. A train bombing near Kuleli Burgas is alleged by Dnevnik. Government mobilizes regiments to bolster frontier guards against new bands.
About 2,000 insurgents near Vedena are ordered to concentrate in Movihove mountains and plan attacks on Tikvesh and Shevgheli. Earlier, Aug. 3, insurgents attacked Neveska where 2,400 troops were stationed, with 2 soldiers killed as earthworks were built. Turkish troops of seven battalions bombarded Neveska. In Athens, 5,000 Macedonians protested Bulgarian revolutionaries with a moderate rally and a memorandum to be presented to Greece and foreign legations.
Report notes eighty five yellow fever patients at Merida and nineteen at Progreso. Sanitary authorities are intensifying measures to curb the disease’s spread across the Yucatán peninsula.
London Aug 2 The Liberals won a significant Argyllshire by election tied to the fiscal question raised by Chamberlain. Liberal candidate J S Ainsworth, a free trade supporter, defeated Charles by a majority of 1586 marking a notable parliamentary gain in Scotland.
Stewart, a Unionist, ran on a protection platform while the previous election saw a 60 vote majority for the Unionist. The latest result signals the constituency's stance on Mr Chamberlain's fiscal proposals and the central issue of the campaign.
Four Small Comets from Geneva report the Brooks periodic comet seen in Capricornus moving slowly westward. Discovered at Hobart College in 1889, it follows a seven year orbit. It returns in 186 and now reappears at its predicted position with four small comets in attendance.
John Kostich, son of an Austrian noble family slain recently, was found tonight near Centerville, Iowa, with a bullet wound in the breast. He is likely to die. Authorities are unsure if the wound was self-inflicted or the result of the murderers’ confederates.
In Bogota a senate committee proposal would restrict U S control, require Colombia's consent to transfer rights, keep Panama and Colon out, place canal waters at U S disposal but not exclusive, bar mixed tribunals, void U S laws in Panama, and set a fixed completion deadline with revert to Colombia. Politicians like Diego Mendoza push for authorization to negotiate anew with U S, proposing a plural committee including Pablo Arosemena, Marco Fidel Suarez, Jorge Roa or Eduardo Posada.
President John Mitchell and UMWA officers met with operators from Missouri and Arkansas in Chicago to press for higher pay for dead work the coal handling after blasting. No agreement reached yet and talks resume tomorrow.
Metzler received a 360 day workhouse sentence and fines totaling 8300 dollars after a state case that gathered substantial evidence. The verdict was described as certain based on the strength of the evidence presented by state prosecutors.
Adam Metzler, saloon keeper at Missouri and Pearl streets, was sentenced in Police Court to 180 days in the workhouse for keeping a house of ill fame, 90 days for selling liquor to minors, and 90 days for allowing minors to loiter, with fines of 100, 10, and 100 dollars plus costs. Stella Rivers, 15, testified to Metzler's dive's ruinous influence on youths. an appeal bond of 1000 dollars was posted. Prosecutor Ira Holmes led the case. Judge Whallon urged strict enforcement of the law.
Denver reports Arch bishop Falconio ordered Father Cushing to the Trappist monastery at Gethsemane where he will be practically a prisoner for life. Bishop Matz will fund expenses and notes the priest is aged forty to fifty and in poor health. Baltimore notes Rev Don Luigi Sartoris, pastor of St Josephs Midland Md and Pope Pius relative, resigns at sixty aiming to spend his remaining years in Venice.
In Danville Indiana on August 2 the rioters cases opened with defense counsel and the State's Attorney arguing. The jury retired at noon and has not returned a verdict, with two defendants believed likely guilty. The misdemeanor case drew little interest while the more serious prison threat faces a Monday morning trial.
Twelve year old Agnes Douglass was found with a serious throat wound after sleeping near a broken glass dish in Richmond Michigan. The father says she fell onto the glass. Dr McCarthy suspects a knife. The mother suspects a murder attempt by mistake. The child is expected to recover.
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw arrives at Oyster Bay and plans to discuss currency legislation and a possible program to deposit government funds in national bank depositories with President Roosevelt. The visit also includes talks on easing money market stringency and coordinating with financial authorities across the country.
A party returning from a social near Evergreen Borough north of Allegheny drove off a high embankment into Girty's Run. Three young women died Myrtle Scott twenty Nannie Scott sister Annie Clifford eighteen. Two others escaped. Pittsburg Pennsylvania August 23.
President expresses gratification that the vice consul was not slain after a cipher error led to an incorrect ministerial report. The note emphasizes relief and confirms the safety outcome amid diplomatic communications.
United States considers naval show of force after false report of the Beirut shooting involving Vice Consul Magelssen. Officials say no injury occurred, but tensions rise and American ships may head toward Beirut while protecting interests in the region.
Oyster Bay August 2 President Roosevelt was informed the report of the Beirut assassination attempt on Vice Consul William C Magelsen was incorrect and that he escaped injury. The White House said no plan changes and that a European squadron would proceed to Beirut as ordered. Roosevelt and Secretary Hay, in Sagamore Hill, discussed the Turkish unrest and the need for American warships in Turkish waters. Hay planned to return to Washington, underscoring the gravity of the Turkish situation.
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