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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1903
Page
10
An OCR fragment from a Kemmerer publishing issue shows a camera advertisement style page. Names and roles appear as scattered partial lines, including publishers and frame products, with unclear dates or locations. The readable content suggests a print catalog segment rather than a complete article.
Thirty thousand marchers gathered for a fair designation parade in St Louis amid frost across southern Indiana harming fruit crops. Reports recount factory explosions and deaths, wartime deployments, political unrest in Europe, and disasters in Manila and Melbourne with extensive property loss.
Reports from Salonica say Albanians have plundered villages in Turkey and threaten mass violence against Christians. Reliable news is scarce due to censorship. claims of hundreds killed circulate from Istanbul to Uskub and Adrianople. Italian warships have arrived at Salonica prompting fears of foreign troop landings.
A man found dead in a New York cab is identified as Ernest A. Patseauer, a Brooklyn training-school master once linked to Hooper Young who murdered Mrs. Pulitzer. Patseauer, minutes before his death, told an assistant district attorney he believed Young was innocent and that he could prove it. He claimed a murdered fiancée’s body would soon be found and would implicate the killer. The woman later denied engagement and said Patseauer had been drinking and seemed crazy.
A dynamite blast hit the Institutional church at 3825 Dearborn as congregants were dismissed after a Chicago anti policy sermon by pastor R C Ransom. Windows shattered and a large hole ripped the south wall. shock felt for blocks. Threats had targeted Ransom prior to the attack.
Bishop Frederick Burgess of the Long Island Episcopal diocese stated he believes Reverend Hadden will be reprimanded for performing the Vanderbilt marriage. Burgess warned such action would bar Hadden from church duties and effectively remove him from any diocese.
Bryant Morrie and Morrin were hanged near the Yazoo bridge at Haynes near Vicksburg just before daylight Sunday. Bryant confessed implicating Morrin as the shooter. About 200 armed farmers seized the two men at the Lage place and forced them into a thicket.
President Sundays in Kansas attended the United Methodist church at Shure Frontier, listened to a sermon by William Carter of Kansas City. An incident occurred as services began with two people in the aisle near the president's pew, and during singing the three shared a hymn book and a large tumbler of people.
Tim, once known as Steckaeith, claimed divine origin and led a fanatical following in Laon area. He and other insurgent leaders were captured or killed as the governor and foreign party crushed the uprising. Thousands displaced as fighting ends with 200 rebels surrendering and civilians returning to towns.
Walton B Dowhan of American Canadian Coal & Coke Mining reports from Frank N W 7 Bakersfield California that seventy people mostly women and children are dead in the disaster. No mine fatalities. two men thought suffocated are alive. Six cottages and several outbuildings burned. Mine is intact. operations await railroad track repairs. Cause linked to limestone slide from Turtle Mountain.
A dispatch from Montreal reports a man held for twenty two hours by a blackmailer duo, gagged and threatened with death. He signed a $13 000 note and a check under duress and confessed compromising relations with the husband’s wife. The couple were jailed within a day. The incident centers on Dalphise Camille Brseca and the alleged husband and woman.
In Butte Montana Friday Judge Knowles issued a temporary order restraining labor organizations from interfering with Western Union Telegraph Co. and set a show cause date of May 7 for permanent relief. The report also notes unrest in Constantinople with cautions of potential violence and mentions President Roosevelt’s Kansas City visit and a large turnout at the convention hall.
A Vancouver telegram reports Frank, a small town at the foothills of Turtle Mountain, was struck by a volcanic eruption at about 4 30 am Wednesday. The blast leveled buildings, trapped miners, and killed 142 people including many women and children. a massive fissure opened, a river dammed, and rail lines blocked as survivors fear another eruption.
A Vancouver special to the Seattle Times reports that around 4 am a quake or eruption on Turtle Mountain near Frank, Alberta, toppled a mountain side, burying mine shafts and homes. Up to 120 miners may have died. many workers are trapped. Mormon colonies lie forty miles away with about 4,000 members along the St Marys River region.
Indirect reports from Fernie describe lava and ashes from an outbreak choking the Old Man river near Frank town. The river passes a new town of about 1,000 inhabitants at Crown Nest pass. Across the river are tunnels of the French Canadian Coal company, which has operated for eighteen months, mining 400 tons daily. The mines are gaseous.
President Roosevelt arrived in St Louis Wednesday afternoon to take part in the Louisiana Purchase exposition dedication. His train reached Foreythe at 4 24. He was escorted to Odeon hall for a brief address as officials welcomed him amid a reception committee and a crowd of spectators.
An obscure telegram from a foreign office outlet claims Russia has evacuated the Shin King province of Manc huria. No follow up details from Russia or Belay are provided. The message also mentions American naval support and cites Mukdes as Mukdes capital of Varchuria.
A massive 11 000-strong military parade down Lincoln Boulevard preceded the dedication ceremony at the Liberal Arte building. President Roosevelt and ex President Cleveland addressed the crowd as diplomats, governors, and lawmakers attended. Rain fell while troops reviewed, highlighting the Louisiana Purchase exposition as a landmark triumph.
Sixty three people died when a rockslide buried Frank, Northwest Territory, in western Canada. The disaster struck before daybreak, destroying the Canadian American Coal and Coke plant, damaging the mine and about ten square miles of Crow's Nest Pass. Rescue attempts have recovered nineteen bodies. many remain buried under rock. Monetary losses exceed a million dollars, with mine losses potentially reaching three million and railway damage significant.
The jury in the James Howard Goebel murder case at Frankfort Kentucky returned a life imprisonment verdict after earlier trials were reversed. Howard, twice previously convicted with one death sentence overturned, faced a final sentence after jurors were sent back by the court. Also noted is Henry Raber of Jersey City who died from hydrophobia after a dog bite, and references to a large fraternal order crackdown in Kansas City Missouri with strike-related arrests.
Fragmented reports describe weather damage in Wyoming and Colorado, livestock losses, labor strikes in Spokane mills, and criminal cases in Montana. Notable items include measles outbreaks, a fatal railroad incident, a murder case in Butte, and a hayfield dispute with Jame Cowan.
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