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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1901
Page
12
Heat waves claim two lives and cause numerous prostrations as ambulances shuttle victims to hospitals. Cincinnati records three deaths and eight prostrations for the day, while the week totals climb to eight deaths and fifty two prostrations amid a forecast of possible relief Sunday from thunderstorms.
In Cleveland and Kansas City extreme heat held into the night and day. Four people died from heat in Cleveland after days of high temps. Kansas City reported 100 degree heat at 4 pm, matching the previous day and marking a June record since the weather service began thirteen years ago.
Toronto notes the death of Sir Thomas Galt a former chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas aged eighty six. The death is attributed to heat. He served in the judiciary and was a prominent legal figure.
A thunderstorm in Chicago during the early hours alleviated a long heat wave that caused many deaths and prostrations across the city. Emergency services report numerous victims and medical strain as people sought relief from extreme heat.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports six year old Vera Reinhard daughter of Mr and Mrs W G Reinhard was sunstruck at noon in Portland Indiana. A neighbor found her dying on the street and she was removed to her home in precarious condition with authorities awaiting further word.
A miniature tornado struck the roof over the betting ring at Overland Park in Denver, lifting it from supports and crashing down. Several injured, including ex Governor Charles S. Thomas whose shoulder was bruised, and many others listed with head wounds, internal injuries, and broken bones.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports a June 29 tornado in Knox County Indiana causing extensive damage. At St Thomas the house of Eustace hie was blown down trapping Mrs Bouchie and four children in debris. Mrs Bouchie suffered a broken arm while the children were uninjured. Numerous barns and outbuildings destroyed and harvest equipment damaged as large trees blocked roads.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports a severe lightning storm near Lodi in Brazil County. four killed, Samuel Stewart among the dead, and Samuel Featherly severely shocked losing a book and leaves flying about. Minnie Webster struck and injured, right side damaged, shoe torn, two toes broken. orchard and grain losses noted across the county. Reports from Terre Haute describe fruit tree damage statewide.
Washington forecast notes fair warm conditions for Ohio Indiana and Illinois with light to fresh south winds. Local observations Saturday show clear skies with a maximum around 92 and a minimum cooler, plus a comparative moisture report.
A powerful storm wrecked frail farm buildings and felled hundreds of shade trees in the city, including sixty five in Collett Park. A four year old child of James Carroll was injured by debris as the roof of the First Congregational Church was carried away.
A severe storm swept Daviess county causing unroofed houses and barns, uprooted trees, and widespread wheat loss. Reports say lightning struck farm residences and damaged the electric light plant wiring, plunging Washington into darkness.
Bluefield W Va June 2 the Pocahontas coal field flood report says thirty-one dead and five missing making thirty six drowned. Water supply by ice and polluted streams hinder residents while repairs resume and coal operations begin to load near half normal output. Rail traffic returns with two passenger trains expected back on schedule. freight traffic resumes east of Vivian yard at six mph. Two boys and an elderly woman were found dead in North Fork branch, all decomposed.
In Lowellton Maine a cloud burst washed away two miles of roadbed and bridges on the Canadian Pacific Railway at Bury Quebec. Houses flooded and miles of highway ruined with water up to thirty feet in some places. No lives lost as trains on the Canadian Pacific line are halted and Quebec Central service faces similar disruption.
At a Deptford meeting of the United Irish League Mr John Dillion harshly denounced the government and the South Africa war. Bermondsy delegates arrived with banners placed behind the speaker’s chair under a portrait of the King provoking cries to cover him up. The crowd cheered as the banners obscured the portrait. Maurice Graus Stars reports from the scene.
London reports Maurice Grau plans retirement from the Metropolitan Opera management in 190. He will rest in Carlsbad after a Bernhardt Coquelin season praised for receipts above prior records. The coming American company includes prima donnas Apranos Culve Mames Terria Lucienne Boeval Gadski Suzanne Adams Fritscheff. contraltos Schmann Heink Lindewell Homer. tenors Alvarez Vandyke De Marci Gilbert Dippin Salignac. new light buffo Albert Reiss. baritones Scotti Campanart Bisp ham Muhlman Declaery. basses Plancon Journet Brass. conductors Fion Walter Dumresch Zepilli. Negotiations with Zembrich Sanderson Lehman Van Roy De Reszke.
ASTORIA Ore June 2 The United States transport Thyra arrived today from Manila with eighty enlisted men of Company B Thirty-eighth Volunteer Infantry and a number of officers. Four officers and 136 enlisted men are in the battery led by Capt T J Ridgeway onboard Packling arriving today.
Six masked men bound and gagged Jacob L. White, his wife, and daughter at their Brother's Station home near Wheeling. They took 3000 dollars and similar value in jewelry, used lit matches and needles on the victims to force disclosures, then fled. Miss Sidney Mackey freed herself and summoned help. investigators have not identified the assailants. The White family, distressed, are not in serious condition.
London reports show American buyers fueling prosperity as a New York dealer pays £20,000 cash for the Prince Edward of York diamond in London. The pear shaped stone weighs sixty six and a half karats and is praised for its color and purity.
Reports from St. Cloud say a hailstorm last evening struck a strip about a mile and a half wide for twenty miles, ruining crops. Losses are estimated between $150,000 and $200,000 across the area.
The Lords select committee reports that the accession declaration language can be modified to maintain Protestant succession without reducing its security. The proposed form omits phrases about idolatry that offend Roman Catholics.
Arline Eight-Ang er aged seven was killed when struck by lightning near Farmington. Willie Barnes and Annie Costeal were critically injured last night as the storm swept through Warren County. Authorities described the Costeal girl's condition as critical and ongoing efforts to stabilize victims continued.
A Cadiz dispatch notes the German squadron will visit as Russian and French squadrons arrive and Britain's Gibraltar force is to be increased. The Madrid press has not yet announced these events, prompting surprise and comment.
Chief Willis Moore releases a July climate briefing based on long term averages. He notes July is typically quiet on the North Atlantic with few severe storms and tropical hurricanes starting in August, two thirds fog days near Newfoundland, and summer ice movement. Pacific coast remains dry, Arizona and New Mexico see July and August as wet months, while the rainiest period on the continent is June through August with brief shower events, and July frosts are limited to northern states and mountains.
A Blue Book on India shows £15,390,000 spent for famine relief in 1899 1900. Plague mortality over five years to March 1900 neared 600,000. Census to March 1901 indicates population rose only five or six million in ten years, far below the normal nineteen million. The losses reflect deaths from famine and those caused by famine.
London reports the sale of surplus royal cellar wine. Bidding for the last lots was sensational with pale sherry from Windsor Castle bottled in 180 fetching as much as 21 pounds per dozen. Total proceeds reached 15457 pounds.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad resumes freight and pacerone reception after repairs. Delaware 0.4 Street railway Co is acquired by the Columbus, Delaware & Northern Interurban Ry Co, with possession July 1. Extension planned to Greenwood Lake and Stratford. Charles R. Fitch named general manager of the Erie system. John C. Moorehead named assistant general manager. W. G. Pearce appointed general manager of Northern Pacific effective tonight. Springfield & St. Louis Railroad Co incorporated to build an electric line across multiple counties to East St. Louis with G. W. Gaulbert as president and H. S. Reardon as VP and GM.
The U S training ship Hartford sailed from Christiania for Copenhagen, and the Enterprise arrived at Leith after departing Boston on June 3. Eduard Ekrmann, a beaker, died by suicide on his Lindenau estate near Leipzig. A French decree keeps minimum tariffs on colonial foods and coffee from the United States Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines. Campania carried Herbert W Bowen to New York from Liverpool. Russian minister at Peking may follow De Giers per St Petersburg Bourse Gazette. King Charles and cabinet opened the Meteorological Observatory at Horta Azores. Schneider & Sons clothing factory in Whitechapel London burned, £100 60 damage, 2000 workers left unemployed.
David Hirsch of Defrance Cigar Company dies at home after a fall. Born 73 in Haden Germany, he served in French army and in Africa, later moved to St. Louis. Francis G. Babcock, ex New York politician and delegate at Cleveland nominations, dies at Ellsworth Kansas aged 70. body to Hornellsville NY for burial. Samuel K. Crawford, Sedalia mayor, dies of paralysis aged 63.
The military court in Manila, composed of volunteer officers, reiterates the acquittal of Harold M. Pitt, Evans & Co. manager, on charges of improperly purchasing government stores. Provost Marshal Davis ordered a reconsideration, but Pitt remains unconvicted. General Avis, who ordered the review, calls the verdict a travesty of justice.
San Francisco June 2 It is the intention of the military authorities to muster out all the remaining regiments at the Presidio on Sunday when a big rush of soldiers is expected for departure East South and North The South Pacific ticket officials expect to sell Sunday over and tickets to at least 4 000 for the East and South Captain Reillys battery of light artillery which took a prominent part in the campaign in China.
Kansas City June 2. The habeas corpus case of Hugh Matthews and W. Hill, held since Thursday by a Tennessee sheriff, ended swiftly at Springfield, Missouri. The court ruled the governor had no right to revoke the warrant. Judge Neville ordered their release and they will return home tonight.
Alvey A. Adee arrives in New York aboard the Fuerst Bismarck from Hamburg. The Illinois building at the Pan American exposition opens to the public Wednesday. A bridge accident in Georgia leaves three men dead atop a train. Burials occur after a Minnesota ditch collapse. Morgan to donate a Gainsborough portrait to New York Library. Judge Lambert Tree to attend King Alfred the Great centennial in Winchester. Metropolis marshal W E Oakes dies after a gun wound in a saloon. Land transfers involve Dodson Lead and Zinc Company to Anglo American Zinc. Oil men report a promising but modest red oil find at Muscogee. Ashland Emery mills syndicate to form July 1. Helena grand jury indicts Cobban and Catlin in Missoula land frauds. St Louis fair commission approves Forest Park site and livestock exhibit. Mandamus ruling in Cleveland court upholds impartial access to courts. American Tobacco and American Cigar Company shuffle officers. Cramps plan steel plant with Webb Allison Chandler Burrage backing. New York Times notes Canadian rail and telegraph ties in Auf. Jewish historical exhibition planned in New York with Cyrus Adler president.”
Daweon, June 2. The jury finds George O'Brien guilty of murdering Linn Reese Fred Clayson and Ole Oleson. He is sentenced to be hanged on August 2. The trial began June 9 and lasted thirteen days with sixty six witnesses called by the prosecution.
Six boys were severely burned and cut when a handmade toy cannon exploded in Muskegon Michigan on June 3. The improvised device was built from gas pipe and loaded with powder. Names cited include Rolla Buck Walter Kibber Moses Miller Joseph Kieft James Naegle and Edward Naegle.
In Omaha an eighteen year old girl Edna Jordan leaped from the pleasure steamer Henrietta into the Misscari river and drowned in front of hundreds. The quarrel with her sweetheart is cited. the body remains unrecovered.
Wichita Kansas June 2 at 1 this morning the Rock Island grain elevator caught fire and is now almost destroyed. Fears are entertained that the fire will spread. The elevator stands in the Rathrineas district. Loss on elevator probably fifty thousand dollars
New York Evening Sun reports three ticket speculators arrested outside the New York theater after a disturbance. The piece notes hundreds remain and mocks patrons arming for safety, detailing inflated prices and methods used by ticket hawkers. Also mentions A C Taylor chosen as chairman of the World's Fair Company architects board in St Louis.
The Brooklyn Eagle reprints old assertions that the Molineux case cost New York County three hundred dollars and the Kennedy case nearly the same, declaring there is no foundation for these figures.
Edgar Russell Thomas once served as president of the Seventh National Bank and Miss Linda Lee of Louisville Kentucky were married tonight at the home of the bride's aunt Mrs W B Dick in New York City.
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