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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1903
Page
10
Wyoming lawmakers plan a northern swing while Butte clamps down on nickel machines. In Trinidad a gang feud leaves a man dead and others hurt. Montana Senate delays women’s suffrage amendment. Oregon mourns Tongue as 8,000 attend.
German cruiser Panther shelled Fort San Carlos at the entrance to Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, for about an hour on Saturday. The fort returned fire with four guns, and Panther withdrew toward Curacao. Fort San Carlos reported no injuries and only minor damage amid street demonstrations following the attack.
The Interstate Commerce Commission states that in the three months ended September 30, 1902, there were 263 deaths and 2,613 injuries from train accidents. Total casualties reached 12,007 with 845 killed and 11,162 injured across all incidents. Rail traffic was heavier, requiring more staff in trains and yards. Collisions and derailments totaled 2,448, with 1,444 collisions and 1,014 derailments, affecting passenger trains. damage to cars engines and roadways amounted to $2.
Reports from Mazatlan indicate 107 plague deaths since January 1 with sparse new cases. A wooden hospital camp burned, residents fled, a young worker’s mother died at home, his wife and sister fled and one woman was later found dead. Separately in Morrissey British Columbia four men died in a hotel fire and four more are missing. The Pioneer hotel burned after a lamp toppled, many guests escaped in night clothes. Morrissey lacks fire protection.
D B George an aged Guthrie Oklahoma citizen declared on his deathbed that he was John Wilkes Booth. He attempted suicide at El Reno and died, then made a second attempted poisoning at Enid before dying. He said he killed Lincoln and evaded capture, remaining unknown to the world.
A messenger boy Turner allegedly pulled a lever at a block tower enabling eastbound passenger train No 10 to proceed. A caboose and two engines blocked the west block and were struck, killing four Baltimore & Ohio workers and injuring three. The operator had set the signal to danger previously.
Fragmentary Havana manifesto warns the liberating Cuban army will not wait past March to be paid and threatens to occupy towns from Point Maysi to Cape San Antonio if extra time is granted. General Gomez and other commanders express satisfaction with the government’s payment stance. Gomez reviews pay entitlement lists.
Lieutenant Governor James H. Tillman shot and likely fatally wounded Narciso Gonzales editor of the South Carolina based publication Gonzales had bitterly opposed Tillman in the Democratic gubernatorial race. Tillman is jailed under guard as tensions rise. German cruiser Vineta shells Fort La Vigia at Puerto Cabello prompting Venezuelan and American officials to dispute reports of unauthorized persons at the fort.
The Jediciary committee proposes to study and report on Congress power to seize all coal beds and mines and all transportation agencies and vehicles needed to move coal. The panel would detail occasions modes conditions and agencies for such appropriation to exhaust federal authority. Mondell of Wyoming may be named chair of the irrigation committee, replacing Tongue. Reeder of Kansas contests Mondell’s leadership on proposed irrigation measures.
In Salt Lake City a caucus named Apostle Reed Smoot as the United States Senate candidate to replace Rawlins. One ballot produced 38 votes for Smoot, 5 for George Rutherford, and 2 for Heber Wells amid absentees and party splits among both Senate and House members.
A large skating crowd at the Washington monument basin in Washington DC fell through thin ice as the rink broke. Three people died and several others were rescued or treated at Emergency Hospital, including Miss Jessie C. Thomas, 20, a clerk in the Bureau of Ethnology. About 2,000 skaters were present. a hot water discharge from the monument’s engine room contributed to the hazard.
A chaotic news update reports a coal famine in Kansas easing but yellow jack disease in Guayaquil causing deaths, political resignations in Honolulu, a $2600 bet for a match between James J. Corbett and Jeffries, and famine fears in crops. It notes deaths in Purdy Missouri, a Turkish sultan’s brother-in-law dying, and multiple political and industrial upheavals worldwide.
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