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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1903
Page
1
Madrid dispatches detail a Bilbao train wreck at Negrilla river. Officially thirty killed and sixty seriously injured, with twenty passengers three-quarters of whom escaped unhurt. Rescue efforts continue as bodies and injured are recovered. death toll expected to rise.
The Emperor's yacht Meteor finished first in the class A cruising schooners over a 30 mile course, beating Hamburg by 1 ½ minutes in ten knot wind. Iduna trailed 20 minutes back while Betty VI placed third. various other races and handicap results feature Navahoe, Comet, Clara, Cicely, and Crelly with fleet receptions planned for Kiel.
A Vienna dispatch reported by Morning Leader says the Adrianople vilayet faces a grave crisis with Bulgaria and Turkey fearing outbreak. Turkish authorities reportedly organize a persecution of Bulgarians with villages razed and notable figures imprisoned. 130,000 Turkish troops are deployed in the region.
Belgrade Serb ia on June 28 King Peter attended cathedral services alone. An official investigation led by the war minister is expected to publish details of the recent assassinations soon. The report promises to clarify official actions taken.
The Earl of Rosebery proposes a national advanced science and technology Institution costing 1.54 million dollars with a site secured and a suggested annual grant of 150 thousand dollars. Wernher Belt & Co and other benefactors would provide major funding. He argues UK industry suffers from poor technical education and urges government support.
Nationalists collided with police during the unveiling ceremony at Arklow Ireland for a 1798 rebels monument. Hundreds of officers charged the crowd as stones and batons flew and several people were injured before order was restored. In Vienna authorities monitored the U.S. stance on Kishineff massacre amid Eastern affairs concerns.
Eight thousand people passed through Union Station for cheap-rate trips as crowds swelled with rising heat. City parks drew an estimated forty thousand visitors on Sunday, while rail traffic and outbound excursion trains surged, underscoring calls for a new union depot in Indianapolis within the next two years.
Thousands visit the Delaware lynching site of George F. White's death as mobs burn him for Miss Helen Bishop's murder. Clergy condemn the act. Wilmington police stay vigilant. A Presbyterian church defends its pastor amid public criticism while black leaders urge self defense and caution.
In Chicago on June 23 the Rev Dr W A Bartlett at First Congregational Church argued against mob law while acknowledging strong community reactions to severe crimes. He warned against equating lawbreakers with offenders against womanhood and urged shuddering for victims rather than vigilante acts, asserting some crimes demand a higher civilization. The talk critiqued the rush to justice outside legal process and emphasized race is not the sole factor in these offenses.
The piece argues against lynching while noting the same editor's willingness to defend mob action if a mother wife or daughter were harmed. It says lynching arises from indignation and calls for swift trials outside red tape, condemns careful legal processes, and warns that protecting homes provokes violence. It notes the community will not tolerate crimes that erode national fiber.
At Las Esperanzas coal mines in Barratoreran Coahuila Mexico twenty four miners were killed and about fifty seriously wounded when gas ignited by a defective lamp causing a deadly explosion. Around one hundred men were underground when the blast occurred as workers were preparing to leave. Many were buried under falling earth and debris.
John A. Lee, former Missouri lieutenant governor, admitted receiving 1000 from American Sugar Refining and 7 from American Tobacco, saying funds paid for printing and campaign purposes. He cited checks from sugar, tobacco interests, and Fulton of Chicago as not connected to legislation, detailing advertising and obituary writing as paid services.
George W. Steep of Shortridge won a dramatic one against James Quinn of M T H 5 in a fast half mile at the Fairgrounds time 2 02 3 5 on a good track. Quinn led early but Steep surged to the finish showing endurance amid excited schoolboy crowds and local betting.
In Sioux Falls Iowa on June 28 a boating accident on the Sioux River overturned a boat carrying John Seave his sister Nora and Mike Lee and Miss Thena Waldum. Lee and Waldum were injured in the capsize while Seave and Nora escaped unharmed. Authorities reported the incident occurred this afternoon pending further details.
Jesse McClain a Fort Wayne man and nonunion machinist who refused to strike was fatally wounded in Chicago at 90 Ohio street while working as a watchman. He had recently relocated to avoid threats from strikers, and his wife said union men had threatened him after he refused to join the strike. Two assailants attacked him and one fired a shot through the groin, likely ending his life.
William Miley a Knox county farmer near Ilona was wounded after shooting himself twice with a shotgun following a quarrel at a dance hosted by Charles Gibbs. Miley, beaten during the altercation, died soon after as doctors fought to save him. He leaves a wife and three children. Also, John H. Roberts, charged with the murder of T. N. Higgenbotham and two sons near Sterling O T in 1901, was arrested at Mt. Vernon Ind after evading capture. Oklahoma officers pursued him from Carmi Ill.
Boston prepares for the forty second annual National Education Association convention opening July 6 as 25 000 teachers arrive by special trains from across the country. Dr Irwin Shepard permanent secretary of Winona Minn leads registration efforts with a large delegation including Louisville Indianapolis Las Vegas Columbus Cincinnati Chicago and New York among others.
In Ogden, during a Salt Lake vs Ogden game, a quarrel left Hansen injured after Marshall struck him with a bat. Spectators mobbed the field, Marshall was jailed, Hansen to hospital, and the game resumed after the uproar subsided.
Knoxville Tenn June 28 a posse pursues Harvey Logan the train robber who broke jail Saturday but returns empty handed after seven miles of tracking. The sheriff's horse found its way home lame. Judge C D Clark orders a rigid investigation to begin tomorrow by U S District Attorney Wright and Marshal Austin.
In New York on June 3 Theodore Wallkopf killed himself with a French dueling pistol after losing his wife and children, and facing bankruptcy. A servant heard the shot. he was found dying in bed and died before a doctor could arrive. Wallkopf, described as cultured and respected, left no survivor details in the report.
A man who arrived from Brazil a month ago carried letters from the Brazilian minister and spent freely yet avoided society. He said his heart was dead after burying his wife and babies in Brazil. Near his body lay two letters, including one to the Police Authorities stating intent to die by own action. He asked that the Brazilian minister and Chicago men John N. Prentice and Thomas Palmer be informed. Wallkopf had lived briefly in New Orleans.
At Illinois and Market streets around 10 last night George McKan of Ohio near Pennsylvania and Joe Winston a Stockyards Hotel porter fought after Winston insulted McKan’s wife. Winston fired three times. all shots missed. Watson Thompson was arrested with McKan’s revolver later found on Market Street. Thompson claims no role, faces concealed weapons charge.
Robbers entered a Limestone area farmhouse late last night, tied up James and Patrick Quinton and bound them after striking James. They stole 4.00 and set a pile of rubbish in the yard on fire. Both men, alone in the house, remained tied until early today.
The mayor advocates adopting a moonlight schedule to better serve the city. He argues extended hours would improve access to services and support for residents across departments and neighborhoods.
Mayor Bookwalter revealed a proposed lighting contract that favors a moonlight schedule over an all-night system to extend street illumination citywide. The plan seeks more widespread lights, with experimental incandescent posts in shaded North Side streets from St Clair to Sixteenth and Capitol to Twenty-first, aiming for four fifty candle power units per square.
In Savannah on June 28 the John Wesley bicentenary was observed with sermons across Methodist churches led by Bishop Galloway at Wesley Monumental and Candler at Trinity. A capstone meeting at the tabernacle drew about 5,000 as Bishop Candler delivered a major address titled "as a Man." Dupont Guerry of Wesleyan Female College Macon spoke on "Wesley and Education."
A man registered as John D. Munger from Denver was found dead in his room at the Hotel Bismarck in Chicago. He shot himself in the right temple. investigators found $225 in his pockets but no clear clue to his identity or motive. Authorities continue to probe the case.
A Decatur blaze devastated a department store, with total loss around 100000. Stock loss estimated at 80000, insured 40000, building loss about 20000 insured for 5000. Gas jet started the fire, Fort Wayne help sought but countermanded. Nothing could be saved and adjacent structures were not endangered.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal describes a major blaze in Fort Wayne at Kern, Beeler & Co. with $80,000 stock loss, $2,000 building loss, plus $3,000 insurance. The fire, started in a basement from a gas jet, destroyed barrels of oil, E stopped by a delayed city water supply. Decatur owners and local firemen faced dramatic conditions. Lebanon barn fire destroys stock and hay. Localities include Ravenna area losses and Cleveland adaptations in revised figures.
Fire at the Riddle Coach and Hearse Company in Ravenna nearly destroyed the plant, with a $20,000 loss and $14,000 insured. A nearby hospital panicked as sparks ignited small buildings. the White Hospital is several doors away.
Conservative estimates to day place the actual loss sustained by the tin plant in the fire last night at not less than 500000. Fire at Cleveland destroyed the Brooks Oil Company paint shop with a loss of 6000 dollars, fully insured.
In Chattanooga Tennessee on June 3 A M Cate a respected lumberman killed himself on a Southern Railway train near Decatur Alabama after eloping with Miss Belle Roehl of Knoxville. He was a married man and was found with a pistol shot in his right temple beside a lay by on the smoking car as Conductor Mitchell passed.
Louis Reibold former Bates House proprietor visited from Dayton and dined at the Claypool. Twenty years ago yesterday he financed Louis Deschler to start the Bates tobacco business, and last night the duo gathered at the Claypool to mark the occasion.
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