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Newspaper
Warsaw Union
Location
Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1901
Page
2
Passengers arrive from Dawson with details of a fabulously rich second bed on Eldorado Creek in the Klondike. Nuggets from quarter ounce to an ounce appear, with pan yields up to 50 dollars and one day totaling 5 000 dollars, stirring widespread excitement along Eldorado.
Warsaw Minnesota brief mentions Bartholomew in a 3 score item. Parish or team context not detailed in available text.
At 2 a m two masked robbers shot William Lee in his Union Avenue saloon, wounding him badly as he fought back with a chair. He chased them with a raised chair but was shot again as he reached the door, leaving him bleeding and unable to recover. He lives at 3528 Parnell Avenue and had gone to the wake after locking up.
Dan and Co review favorable reports on bank clearings and railroad earnings, with easy collections and a larger spring distribution. Wall Street sentiment is cautious, cotton and wool gains persist amid idle tills, and iron and steel demand outstrips supply. U.S. weekly failures total 206, Canada 21, slight year-to-year uptick.
Brief dispatches report three masked bandits boarding the Choctaw express at Bridge Junction Ark. The express messenger and porter were injured resisting the bandits. The Wella-Fargo Company ships heavy western freight on this train, which left Memphis with a large passenger list.
Abner Knight, missing for nineteen years and presumed dead, returns from California to Hannibal Missouri and discovers his wife has remarried. He explains he stayed away to avoid trouble and the couple are expected to be reunited. Also reports of a severe storm with heavy snow and damage across Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia, plus four children injured by a glycerin torpedo explosion near Northfield Minnesota. Louisiana Exposition Company to be formed with $6 million capital.
A fragmentary Alaska report lists multiple frostbite deaths and disappearances. Dr. Pelton from Oakland and 33 year old pioneer dies on trail near Solomon January 1. Names include Dan Anderson from Dexter, Dr. Baum from Mobile, and Alexander Snow identified in Nome remains. A Chamber of Commerce tale describes sixteen people and a woman frozen in a Pilgrim River cabin with only half surviving.
North Platte Nebraska chief Harry Rice died by poison after being found on his wife's grave. He had been missing hours, a workman offered water, and the body was located near midnight. Rice was deeply devoted to his wife, who had died recently.
A drunken brawl started by a crowd of black residents in Hose, Kansas, a Kansas City suburb, left William Blanchard fatally wounded by a shotgun blast. W. Davis and three others were shot, with Ben Cable and Tom Builth seriously injured. Sid Rawles initiated the melee by cutting Cable before Cable grabbed a shotgun and fired.
A fragmented markets page lists cattle hogs sheep and wheat prices across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more. Entries show bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep, grain quotes for wheat corn oats and rye, plus minor notes on clover seed and butter across regional exchanges.
Lincoln's remains and those of his son and grandson were moved from a temporary vault to the catacomb of the new Lincoln monument in Springfield. Governors and state officials witnessed as caskets were hoisted into place. A formal dedication is planned for October 15, commemorating the old monument's anniversary. The opened Lincoln casket in 1887 showed little change in Lincoln's features since his death.
Rev. George D. Herron lectured in Brooklyn and attacked religious conditions. He described the church as having “put to death” the man who dared stand for reform, while Prof. Herron and Mies Rand prepare to wed with a large dowry of 32 pieces of gold.
The report centers on Professor Herron facing a heresy and socialism charge tied to radical religious views. His wife recently obtained a divorce, and rumors say he will marry Mme Qarrie Rand, a benefactor who funded an Iowa College chair. Rand is described as confident, 25, and wealthy, with $35,000 aiding the chair. The tale mentions a contested payout if Herron resigns. Comanche, Texas notes a unrelated cotton mill development.
Growth of Divorce in the United States notes a rise from 3 percent of marriages ending in divorce in 1870 to 4.8 percent in 1881 and 6.2 percent by 1900, with total U.S. divorces reaching 23,427 in a cited year and 20,111 divorces worldwide outside the United States, leaving a 3,361 excess in the United States.
In Canada only twelve divorces were granted in the year, while France led after the United States with 12,45? cases and Germany followed, close behind with 100 fewer. More than 40 percent of U S divorces were for desertion, and city divorces outpace rural by a factor of five.
A Russian famine report describes western and central Siberia facing destitution as drought ruins crops and fodder. Immigrants wander, cattle selloffs rise, and some households resort to licorice and clay bread. Eastern Siberia also suffers from floods, high bread prices, and malnutrition among children.
Miss Laura D Gill has been installed as head of Barnard College. John Philip Sousa, son of the noted composer, is a candidate for office, based on the report.
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