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Newspaper
Warsaw Union
Location
Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1901
Page
6
A devastating fire at the Pullman lodging house on West Mercury Street, Butte Montana, killed two and injured many as a gasoline lamp exploded during a saloon experiment. About 100 guests fled or were carried out by firemen. most survived, though several were unconscious.
News from the Inlander reports Canadian customs agent E. Bushy hoisted the British flag at Skaguay, provoking incendiary remarks and a man from Eugene Oregon pulling the ensign down. George Miller, brother of California poet Joaquin Miller, is named as the attacker. Ottawa claims American officials on Canadian soil may fly national flags. a debate on consequences ensues with Ottawa and Washington weighing responses.
Market notes list across several cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee and Buffalo. Prices cover cattle hogs sheep and wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes with bid ranges and grade notes for shipping and No 2 grades.
At Minden Nebraska county treasurer Norlin was assaulted by robbers who looted the safe of about $4,000 and set the courthouse on fire. Norlin, in his office, locked the door, left briefly, and upon return found papers aflame and the vault robbed. Fire fighters contained the blaze after the alarm, and the drawer was found broken.
Six customers were locked in an ice box during a saloon robbery at Thomas Carmody's in Chicago. The trio of masked robbers escaped with $150 from the till and a watch and studs from Carmody, while Carmody himself narrowly avoided confinement inside the ice box. After the robbery the men were removed and searched before being released.
A fierce storm struck near the marine hospital in Chicago when a zinc roof shelter on Robbins Pier drew a lightning bolt. Six boys and five men, ages 12 to 45, died instantly as bodies were found tangled on the sand. Willie Anderson survived after brief unconsciousness. A rare disaster, eleven killed by a single bolt, stands as an appalling record in lightning accidents.
A blistering heatwave shattered New York with 111 degrees on the street and 91.93 at a high observatory, deadly enough to kill ninety four and overwhelm ambulance services. The day caused massive business losses, with many stores down as much as sixty percent while the ice trade managed limited gains. Dispatches note prostrations and deaths across several northern cities as relief efforts struggle.
Dean Farrar at Canterbury recovers from illness as Memorial Presbyterian in Bay City Michigan extends a unanimous call to Rev. William Bryant of Detroit. Rev. B Lascelles Jenner accepts rectorship at Christ Episcopal Chippewa Falls Washington. Rev. W R Halstead named corresponding secretary of a Methodist hospital and deaconess home to be built in Indianapolis. Dr Joseph T Smith resigns as president of Princeton Seminary trustees. Rev J Walter Morris named president of Montane Wesleyan University after late Dr Thoman Van Loos. Rev J H Randall of Grand Rapids Michigan agrees to withdraw his resignation and decline Yonkers call.
A long roundup of local Indiana items reports a kissing bug in Hartford City, multiple deaths from accidents including Samuel Sherwood in Kokomo and Jasper Townes at Alexandria, and other misfortunes. It notes indictments, fires, land purchases, wage laws in Wabash, Carnegie library gift for Muncie, Elks carnival tensions in Jeffersonville, and a deranged engineer incident near Evansville.
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