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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1902
Page
1
Prince spends the morning in St Louis and the night in Chicago, sampling breakfast and meeting crowds. He revisits Forest Park to view the Louisiana Purchase Exposition site, compliments Springfield figures, and bows to ten thousand people.
Prince Henry of Prussia arrives in Chicago to a record breaking civic welcome. His three day itinerary includes visits to Lincoln Park Milwaukee Buffalo Niagara Falls Rochester Syracuse Boston and Harvard University with receptions, theatre, and a public reception in the Armory of the First Infantry. Crowds pour into streets as officials, Admiral Evans and other dignitaries join the welcome amid speeches on friendship between Germany and the United States.
Crowds in Chicago lined the route from depot to Auditorium Hotel as bunting, flags, and hundreds of electric lights decorated streets for the prince’s procession. German veterans lit torches along two thirds of the mile long boulevard causing a sudden blaze of red fire. The banquet and reception at the armory topped the day’s grand events in Chicago. Prince Henry then received the Freedom of the City in St. Louis with a morning train arrival and cheers from thousands.
Twenty five constabulary members of Morong district ten miles from Manila engaged eighty insurgents. Eleven constables are missing and feared killed or captured after the clash. Ampil, jailed leader, reportedly alive but tortured. Authorities press manhunt as insurgents and ladrones flee to Leyte. General Lukban offers aid if war conduct is civilized.
Brigadier General Funston in New York says there is no real war in the Philippines and that guerrilla fighting has ceased. He suggests half the troops could be brought home now with further reductions possible in a year. He warns natives are not ready for self government and stresses firm discipline to maintain peace.
War Department officials could not identify the man captured by Lieutenant Pratt at Calbayog Samar last week. The volunteer, named William Dunston, served with Filipino insurgents for months and likely belonged to a California regiment. Also captured was native chief Abakes, Lukban's ally in Samar guerrilla operations.
Chicago reports a disorder at the Auditorium Hotel as Prince Henry arrived from the depot. George S. Howe, a discharged US soldier wounded in China and the Kaullippancy, forced through the crowd to deliver letters and a request to sail with the prince. He was detained by Secret Service Chief John Wilkie and later by police, claiming he cannot speak or hear due to his war wounds. No weapon was found.
Dispatch from Pretoria reports 682 British casualties including killed wounded and prisoners at the Vondonop convoy ambush near Klerksdorp. Delarey and other leaders present as Boers surged again and again to seize mule teams and wagons.
Rome March 3 The Pope celebrates the twenty fourth anniversary coronation with a grand chapel in St Peter's Basilica attended by about 50 000 people. Cardinal Vannutelli intoned the mass and Te Deum as the Pope was borne in the gestatoria to the throne amid jubilant ovations.
March 3 report from Gladstone says Richard Tovey’s eighteen year old son died in a snowslide at Fishers. Snow blocks Silverton & Gladstone and Silverton & Ore Railroads. Rumor claims Sunnyside mine buildings on Red Mountain were wiped out with twenty deaths. bunkhouse destruction at Silver Lake mine denied.
A Southern Pacific freight engine exploded between Waldorf and Casmalia near Santa Maria California killing brakeman Henshaw and fireman E R Dugan. Fireman Postlewaite suffered facial and hand injuries but survived after being thrown into a mudhole. The engine was a total wreck.
Paterson New Jersey endures severe flood damage with dozens of silk mills idle and foundations washed away. The East Jersey Water Company suffers a $1.5 million loss after its filtration plant and intake are destroyed. Relief efforts led by Mrs. Garrett A Hobart coordinate aid as homes flood, cemeteries flood, and residents seek shelter at the armory.
Cold weather and strong winds lowered flood risk in the Ohio Valley. The weather bureau forecast that the danger line of fifty feet would be reached in Cincinnati this morning while the accompanying flood crest upstream was projected around forty seven feet.
Analysts say no navigation interference detected yet and no impact expected. The river is forecast to rise to thirty two feet by 6 o'clock Tuesday morning.
Trains due to arrive in New York on the New York Central were delayed, with westbound mail trains held up and several lines reporting late arrivals. Local service mostly steady, though some mail shipments across the Erie and Lehigh Valley lines were delayed. The Cincinnati riverfront interruption threshold remains set at fifty-five feet.
New York March 3 at the Commercial Cable Company annual meeting the board increased to fourteen and new director Edward S Webb was elected. Vice President Ward argued submarine cables will keep commercial supremacy over wireless telegraphy, noting long experience, rapid Atlantic transmission and higher accuracy. London Lords debate the Marconi license issue, with Londonderry delaying inland signals but allowing coastal stations, Saun ders stating coastwise stations may proceed.
The United States Navy Department has ordered a complete outfit of the wireless telegraph system of Stady Arco from the Allgemeine Electricitaets Gesellenchaft of Berlin for testing against the Marconi system.
Texas Independence Day was observed as a holiday with formal exercises limited to public schools. In Huntsville Sam Houston's grave was flowered, at Austin university students held a program, and in Waco Baylor College cornerstones for two new buildings were laid with Governor Sayers present.
Constantinople March 3 United States minister John G A Leishman presented a note to the Porte accusing brigands of abducting Miss Ellen M Stone and seeking punishment for the guilty. The Porte replies denies liability and rejects responsibility.
Washington March 2 Republican House members held a fruitless caucus over Cuban reciprocity and tariff relief for Cuban sugar. Tawney proposed retroactive rebates of 70 cents per ton to sugar growers via military then civil government, arguing direct concessions benefit the sugar trust. Opposition cited risk to party unity and questioned benefits to nonresidents. caucus adjourned with no agreement.
Washington March 3 leaders from the Indiana delegation led opposition to the rural free delivery contract scheme introduced by Rep Loud in the House this afternoon. Republicans are united against the bill and seek to defeat it, with general sentiment predicting fewer than twenty votes for it. An Indiana postmaster asked if deposits could move from a national bank to a trust company, but the Post Office Department replied that deposits could not be moved under any circumstances.
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