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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1903
Page
7
Fragmented notes describe tensions in Europe and the Middle East, including Turkey and Morocco, alongside domestic issues in the United States such as strikes, court cases, a robbery, and a fatal accident. Names, places, and dates appear scrambled, but referenced entities include Roosevelt, California, New York, Maine, and various towns and institutions.
Rioters attack a Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co. yard after a Sunday fare riot injuring at least thirty two. Police, then fire units led by Chief Coffin use water hoses to disperse the crowd. Crowds gathered opposite the barns, 4000 people present, with bricks and stones hurled at property.
Report confirms heavy casualties on both sides in clashes linked to Albanian resistance to Imperial troops advancing on Ipek. Albanian chiefs cite misunderstanding as cause. Sultan tells German ambassador a general pacification may follow occupation, while some Albanian chiefs at Ipek refuse submission and hold their families as hostages.
Settled by arbitration under Washington law the Spokane Falla Gaslight company and labor unions reached a close last week. The findings direct the Teamsters union to withdraw its boycott and state there was no real union in the sense of a true labor organization. The company must employ only union plumbers and recommend keeping union teamsters after the current contract expires. Striking gasmakers should be rehired as vacancies occur.
In Omaha the major strike action by trades unionists appears to fade as 25 teamsters withdraw objections to employer demands. The settlement signals a lower wage scale, with nonunion workers and colored staff returning to restaurants and laundries resuming operations.
Four miners are entombed near a cavern in the Egnol placer four miles from Helena Montana as rescuers sink a shaft through a 2400 foot drift to drain water. The fate of the workers remains uncertain while rescue attempts continue.
Moran a Santa Fe railroad improver in Colton was shot on a street in Ban Bernarding by Frank Harton a vaudeville performer from San Francisco Harton was later charged with murder. The incident drew a large crowd and involved a tense aftermath with medical attention and legal actions.
Reports from northern and southarm Montana describe an extreme blizzard Monday that devastated flocks. A Dillon dispatch lists tens of thousands of lambs killed and at Port Age near Portage a sheep herder Mr Wilson is believed frozen to death. Searches fail to locate him as widespread snowdrifts destroy pasture and kill sheep, marking the worst storm in the region's history.
In a remote Idaho site a party including C. J. Matthews engaged a rattlesnake den when a gruesome discovery occurred. The incident involved a pitched clash with the den and the men investigated the danger and possible injuries.
In Thihor eu Louisiana on Monday ex Lieutenant Governor Knoblock and barber James Carnull clashed on Main Street. Knoblock drew a revolver but it failed to fire. Carnull then opened fire, killing Knoblock as autopsy shows five wounds. Carnull surrendered and awaits bond. Knoblock once served under Governor Samuel D. McEnery.
A Kansas town reels after a confrontation in which a intoxicated man shoots two persons. The assailant’s volatile temper and the town’s tense mood raise the prospect of a lynching as authorities seek to restore order.
A skull unearthed by hunters near Boise revealed two bullet holes and a peculiar sound from a rock throw. In Coolidge Kansas Hugh Gallagher dies and Tom Rhodes is wounded after Bob Reynolds shoots in the streets and at the depot, Gallagher dying hours later. Reynolds jailed.
Union committees press President Hadley to bar students from trucks while Yale authorities cite constitutional right to sell labor. Threats of a sympathy strike by union workers loom as undergraduates fill truck duties in New Haven.
China again rejects opening Manchurian towns to world commerce citing Russia’s opposition. The United States and Japanese ministers urged Mukden Harbin and a small port at the Yalu river mouth be opened.
A rancher, Meory Martindale, in Milan City, Mont, fought wolves near the river Maritndele in a den. A woman was killed and two men injured at Pall River, with a veranda incident and a fleeing group observed during the chaos.
A mail coach en route from Holse to Idaho City was halted by a masked highwayman beyond Muller gulch. The bandit rifled the registered sack taking money and valuables while forcing three passengers to surrender items. Sheriff Agnew and Ada county deputies assist Boise county and penitentiary guards with tracking using bloodhounds.
General Nelson A. Miles asserts his Philippine visit was official and condemns medieval cruelty. He credits the president and high authority with guidance on instruction discipline and supplies. He says crimes stem from a few officers and Macabebes, not the American army as a whole. A posse pursues the outlaw Montgomery after a jail escape in Guthrie Oklahoma, where he killed jailer Jerry Emmerson and wounded Emmerson's wife. He claims three wives and remains armed with revolvers.
Reports state Joe AdairWash Turnerand Dave Preddy died while John Spiveymissed life after drinking moonshine in Hot Springs and Montgomery counties Arkansas. Officers investigate potential lye contamination as hundreds reportedly die or are wounded in Valparaiso street unrest. El Heraldo criticizes authorities while Mrs Joan Guillac is detained over a alleged child abuse case involving a three year old.
Authorities disclosed a plotted assassination plan against President Roosevelt during his Oakland stay. A letter signed “K.8.” warned of two men, Charles Girardo and Antonio Polivinco, who allegedly planned to meet to discuss the killing, with Polivinco noted for an earlier attempted assassination in Vienna.
Augustin Garibaldi, an Italian coal miner, killed a fellow miner in a Majestic cabin near Trinidad Colorado. He was captured by a sheriff’s posse but a miners’ mob tried to seize him. A running gunfight sent officers fleeing with Garibaldi to Trinidad as a lynch mob grows and the jail is heavily guarded.
William McCarthy, scheduled for execution in Lexington Kentucky, died from morphine taken Thursday night. Mabini the Filipino minister of foreign affairs died of cholera after returning from exile. Captured letters show Mabini communicated with insurgents but were not seditious. George Kettler, boot contract maker for the German army, found dead in Argonne, Kansas. a possible head wound from an earlier assault. Stephen Flann, a Kansas City patrolman, killed in a pistol duel. Numerous scattered names and events imply a montage of contemporary crime, death, and political notes with unclear connections.
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