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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1902
Page
6
Report by Lieut. Shoemaker details an expedition that succored Marines during a perilous trek across Samar Island. The document outlines the challenges faced, survival conditions, and the actions taken to reach and aid the stranded Marines.
Major Waller led a perilous crossing of Samar Island with 15 marines toward Basey while Captain Porter chased ahead. After days of shortages the party split. a native carrier brought a note that Waller had abandoned the attempt, with survivors later rescued by a relief voyage.
Mrs Wilcox is described as now in perfect health due to a treatment from an unnamed agency. The fragment emphasizes a life saved and recovery from presumed insanity, portraying the method as the sole cause of improvement without other interventions.
A Winters California resident Mrs. J E Wilcox credits Paine's Celery Compound with curing severe ailments after medical treatment failed. She describes mental distress, bodily weakness, and kidney trouble, claiming four bottles restored health and saved her from mental confinement. The ad also touts Diamond Dyes as pure and unaltered.
In a harrowing march men are stranded by a swollen river and rain. Lieutenant Williams and a relief party endure twenty five miles of rapids hauling boats by hand to reach starving marines and nine men who have gone crazy or died of exposure. Natives become uncooperative while a native boy’s capture aids escape. The rescue ends at Tacloban with thirty one Marines and several natives evacuated. Philippine insurgents are active nearby and a separate Laguna clash yields fifteen enemy killed and thirty one rifles captured.
A string of 12 March 12 items describes bank robberies in Farm ers Bank of Townville Titusville Pennsylvania missing 7000 to 5000 dollars 1300 in silver and gold. Newcastle Kentucky Bank robbed of 4500 cash and president Isaac W Kelly jewelry. John Stevens alias Harrington convicted for bank robbery. New York coroner case of Mrs Kate Voepel murder son Voepel arrested. Bowling Green Missouri warrant for W T Dial murder. Portsmouth Virginia hanging of Neal Standback for attempted assault.
Frank W Gasper, a Republican candidate for justice of the peace in the upcoming primary, is described as intelligent fair-minded and honest. He is blind which has limited his livelihood and he invites inquiries into his character and fitness from voters who do not know him personally.
The Senate committee on Isthmian canals voted 7 to 4 to report the Hepburn bill authorizing construction of an Isthmian canal via Nicaragua. It outlines perch rights, surveys, and war department supervision with a $10,000,000 initial outlay. The same issue touched diplomacy with Colombia, and hearings on pure food Legislation continued in the House.
Russian authorities apologized to Captain Barry of the Vicksburg after two incidents at Niuchwang involving Russian soldiers and an American sailor. Separately, the Senate foreign relations committee adopted a report on reciprocity treaties affirming presidential and Senate power in treaty making. The immigration committee advanced the Mitchell Kahn Chinese exclusion bill with full exclusion for Chinese in the Philippines and a shipboard crew proviso permitting Chinese sailors only under emergency conditions.
Trial of Albert T. Patrick continues with Dr. Gardner testing chloroform on towels while Dr. Love attributes Rice illness to age edema and lung congestion. Experiments show towels burn slowly and odor questions arise as court adjourns amid Minute Men call for national organizing.
In Trigg county Kentucky Alfred Bridges a prominent planter was shot through the heart and killed at his home near Cadiz during an entertainment. Scott Thomas aged twenty two a member of a leading family fired the shot and escaped into the night while Bridges tried to lead him from a room. A posse is searching for Thomas.
The executive committee of the United Society of Christian Endeavor accepted the Denver Colorado invitation for the July international convention. Secretary John Willis Baer reports a 20,000 mile Pacific coast convention tour, sending messages. In El Paso Texas a prominent attorney C W White, parent of C A White of St Louis, is cremated in Southern Pacific wreck debris near Sanderson last week. he was unnamed on casualty lists and was en route from Mobile Alabama to Washington State.
New York March 12 E W Bloomingdale was named temporary receiver for Escewage and Cohn importers of fancy goods. Liabilities are said to be 91.00 and assets 750.
Cambridge March 12 An anonymous gift of 2000 dollars to the Harvard College observatory is announced by director Edward C Pickering. After the opera a chafing dish and a pint of Cook's Imperial Extra Dry Champagne are customary rewards.
Chicago dispatch reports former Governor John P. Altgeld died in Joliet at 7 9 this morning from cerebral hemorrhages after fainting during a pro Boar meeting. He collapsed on stage, received medical care, and no post mortem will be held. Lieutenant Governor Northcott proclaimed half mast and funeral hours with state business suspended.
Chicago reports state former Governor Altgeld, aged and frail, delivered a pro Boer address in Joliet before collapsing from locomotor ataxia. Clarence Darrow arrived as a friend. Altgeld recalled pardoning Chicago anarchists and criticized Lord Pauncefote for meddling in US affairs.
John Peter Altgeld born Germany 1847 came to the U S as an infant in Mansfield Ohio. He enlisted in the Union Army at sixteen and served through the Civil War. He taught and studied law, practiced in Missouri, became state's attorney in Andrew County, moved to Chicago, served as Superior Court judge, then governor from 1893 to 1897. He pardoned three anarchists and opposed sending federal troops during the railway strike, later facing financial decline but remaining famed for real estate ventures including the Unity building he called his “children.”
Washington March 12 W J Glenn aged thirty nine doorkeeper of the House of Representatives died this afternoon from pneumonia after grip He leaves a widow and two sons His remains will be taken to his home in Cuba New York He was a longtime New York delegate to Allegheny county Republican conventions and a staunch Platt supporter He served on state Republican committees and ran the Cuban Patriot newspaper in Allegheny county Charles Brother president of Manhattan College died of pneumonia at the college He was born in Paterson New Jersey forty seven years ago Jacobs coal operator with lands and interests at Massillon Mansfield St Marys and Des Moines died at ninety Mrs Ross wife of Ontario premier died suddenly in Massillon and Charles Wilbour US consul at Dublin died in Rutherford New Jersey
Secretary Downing of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture says Sousa's band will be a principal attraction at the jubilee state fair next fall. The schedule places concerts at the state fairgrounds on Sept 17 and 18, with potential concerts in Peoria the following days. A contract has been arranged and Tomlinson Hall is secured contingency.
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