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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1902
Page
2
The Kemmerer Publishing Co announces staff and providers including Griealy Casey Pfeiffer and Bator. Trem confirms managerial role with a view to insertors and suppliers in the local paper page.
A roundup of early 20th century Western notes covers crimes, fires, and political moves. Details include Mrs Wilson's $60 theft case in Butte, Montana, a $15,000 Livingston fire loss, labor support for Pennsylvania miners, and formal moves on the Butte federal building.
President Roosevelt and Secretary Cortelyou report a proposed commission to settle the Pennsylvania anthracite strike. The plan, supported by railroad and wine interests, would have a mixed panel including a military engineer and a federal judge. Miners must return to work once the commission is constituted, with findings to govern wages and conditions for three years.
The sultan of Bacolod Mintanao rejects friendship with General Sumner and calls for war. Reports say Bacolod fortifies a rifle rich stronghold as American forces may be sent from Camp Vickers to seize it. Also notes Frank Mason at Berlin on briquettes from coal as coal strike prompts fuel substitutes.
A violent storm devastated Wainey Illinois and nearby areas destroying more than one hundred homes in Camp Point and Quincy. Residents Henry M Jacobs and Mrs Tribue faced severe injuries or death risks. In Paris France Boer generals Botha Dewet and Delarey arrived to a rousing reception. A separate dispatch reports Macedonian villages in revolt and Turkish Dardanelles negotiations in doubt. A Turkish ambassador denies reports of a Russo Turkish agreement. A man, Curly, killed his wife and child in a drunken rage before fatally shooting himself.
The provisional Haitian government confirms General Nord has occupied Limbe with earlier reports dated September 2. A port blockade of St. Marc Gonaives and Port de Paix will take effect October 12 with three armed steamers deployed. The government army remains at Williamson and Mirebal. No major combat has occurred yet.
A Burlington express was robbed five miles from Lincoln Nebraska at 1 30 am Saturday. Three masked men boarded the engine forced the crew to the express car and dynamited the safe stealing about 50000. One employee was fired at but no one injured.
Governor Odell denounces coal operators and declares he will use every power to end intolerable labor tensions. The exchange in New York involved President Baer and other officials with Senator Penrose and Governor Kell amid calls for immediate settlement. Odell asserts laborers deserve consideration alongside business interests.
Lewis Sylvester a Aurora Illinois contractor who had been missing since August 23 was found in Portland hospital in Oregon ill with brain fever His wife received a letter from him saying he had been in a hospital for weeks He started for Chicago on business with about 81 000 in currency and remembered little after leaving Aurora
Coroner's jury in Jersey City concludes Mee Anne Pulitzer died from violence at the hands of William Hopper Young after her body was found in the Morris Canal on September 14. The report notes related tariff and currency discussions, with various officials denying allegations and detailing the economic climate and coinage debates.
As 700 of 1,600 militia men reported to armories in a tense city, crowds hurled jeers and stones while officials urge a peaceful settlement. Soldiers fear reprisal and some go into hiding amid the ongoing labor dispute and street protests.
A Denver dispatch reports the Western Federation of Miners plans a nationwide and Canada wide coal strike if President Mitchell and the union leaders push a general withdrawal. Telegrams show both sides weighing a stoppage to end the coal labor dispute.
Delaware & Hudson vice-president Derid Wilcox, counsel for regional operators, sent a letter to President Roosevelt urging federal action against the strike as a conspiracy to restrain interstate commerce. Wilcox, spokesman for area operators, released the message in New York along with a prior letter to the president.
Ground broken on the Whiehorne and Palmer ranches near Laramie Wyoming to cultivate Lespi and Russian thistle for summer forage. About eighty head of stock were grazed in a trial enclosure. cattle appeared to fare as well as on alfalfa, with weed left afterward.
Disjointed OCR style summary notes multiple events and figures including stock tremors, violent crime, naval plans, political appointments, and disasters. Mentions George Allen Koeman, Treadwell, Hamburg shipments, Grand Army appointments, King Edward VII, fires in Chicago and Lions, Oscar cross, COB issues, U.S. military and foreign affairs, and ships or fleets.
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