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Newspaper
Warsaw Union
Location
Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1903
Page
2
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A blaze at Coleman, Tompkins & Co. on Broad Street caused by Falling Watts engulfed the third story and spread to adjoining firms in Nashville. Walls collapsed burying workers. two citizens died, several firemen injured. Loss estimated at 50,000 with Coleman, Tomlinson G affected by 5,000.
A Labor Day melee turns deadly as Frank Mantna shoots laborer 2 Sabor buse at the Model blast furnace in Sharpsville Virginia killing Philip Persy. In Springfield Ohio a separate street shooting kills Lucky Bolden during the fair. Marshall Edwards, a Negro, is named as the shooter. Secretary of State Shaw addresses Ohio State Fair urging farm economies and by product recovery.
Tangled mishaps and world events fill scattered clippings. A man fatally injured in a ball ride at a St Paul fair, a ship Olympia limps into Norfolk drydock after a Maine coast detour, a New York hotel robbery nets 10000 in gems, and explosions in Youngstown maim workers. Beirut wrings with Christian casualties as winds topple a tent, while guards deter marauders near Indianapolis. An unconfirmed report cites an attack on King Peter of Serbia at Nish.
John Kingston Jr. of Chicago finally locates his father, long believed dead, after a quarter century apart. The Port Colborne, Ontario farmer vanished twenty five years ago, leaving a wife and six children. Kingston Jr. had advertised without success until a wife’s newspaper tip spurred a breakthrough.
A man named George Brandt killed his wife and his mother in law at the farmhouse of Mrs. Mary Murphy six miles from Spring Green Wisconsin. The couple had been separated for years and their young son witnessed the killings. The boy hid as Brandt crept on the victims and escaped after the murders. A posse later found Brandt on a nearby farm and he admitted the crimes amid questions about his sanity.
A guard at the Taylor & Beoaion sailor in Victor is attacked by a prowler's companion. Militiamen rush to aid as the scene unfolds. The defender is struck with a rock and the assailants escape over Bull Hill while sentinels arrive and fire a volley. The injured soldier remains alive.
In St Louis, Attorney General Crow sought an injunction from Judge Paylor to halt an alleged extortion scheme by Laclede Gas Light Company, now owned by North American Company of Philadelphia. The petition accuses the firm of forcing manufacturers to set higher prices for ranges, threatening to withhold gas free of charge. The move targets preventing monopoly power and preventing higher consumer gas bills.
In St Paul a 20 year old Otto Kirehaf died from a fractured skull after a street altercation. Police arrested Christo, John Downs, Jah, Peter Hirbert, William Neufield and Otto Neufield, while others loitered nearby as a crowd clashed with stones.
Secretary Shin appoints Robert Fullerton of Des Moines as disbursing officer to steward the $3,000,000 Congress appropriation for the St. Louis exposition. He will advance $500,000 and cover expenses from the fund. Fullerton, Chicago Lumber and Coal Company vice president, starts duties after treasury clerks approve $10,000,000 in vouchers.
Fire in Pittsburg destroyed six large buildings and three dwellings. Sixty horses were killed. Loss estimated at 203000 dollars. The property belonged to several firms including Comstock Grass Manufacturing and American Electrical Switching.
The St Paul and Minneapolis Limited on Burlington Road leaving Chicago at 6 30 Friday night wrecked about 1 am Saturday a half mile east of Chana Illinois. A fireman was killed instantly after being thrown from his engine. Passengers were shaken and some escaped through sleeper windows. Engineers and other crew suffered nonfatal injuries as spreading rails caused the crash at about thirty five miles per hour. The engine and cars toppled into a field and a baggage car was buried under clay while a mail clerk was rescued after being buried.
Admiral George Dewey contributes to the current issue of the Wary League Journal arguing that naval powers of Great Britain France and Germany reveal deficiencies in Uncle Sam s sea forces. He outlines fleet strengths and potential actions reflecting concerns about American naval capacity.
Beiruts harbor welcomed United States cruisers San Fran veo Brooklyn and gunboat Machins with no hostile display as American intentions to protect interests are noted. Admiral Dewey urges Navy League to push for broader naval strength amid regional trade growth and political sensitivities. Beirut, Syria, a major seaport, hosts diverse churches mosques and missions with about 120000 residents incl 30000 Muslims.
The La Salle Street station in Chicago, terminal for three major railroads, features a twelve story main office building and four and a half acres of sheds. Three million dollars was spent on construction with fourteen thousand two hundred tons of steel used, marking a landmark in passenger facilities. Edwin H. Welburn was shot and killed in the composing room of the Southern Methodist publishing house in Nashville, Tennessee, by former employee C Pettus who had previously been discharged.
Strike activity and wage data across multiple regions: Holyoke papermakers lose strike. Alaska daily wages $4.60 to $6.50 with board. eight hour demands in Hoquiam. Paris drivers threaten strike. Providence carpenters unionizing. San Francisco barber reductions. Saxony industrial school density. Peter Henlein monument planned at Nuremberg. Minneapolis bricklayers leaving for work elsewhere. Chicago Federation of Labor legal actions. Retail Clerks International Union growing toward 60,000. Toronto silver workers forming union. Austrian textile workers’ day length. standard wages three dollars weekly for men, a dollar fifty for women. Oregon Labor Day legalization in 1887. Toledo named national Glass Workers HQ. Brewery Workers near 83,000. St Louis streetcar union aiding injured members with a $1200 monthly fund via a sixpence monthly surcharge.
Mrs Florence Elizabeth Maybrick seeks to recover over 10000 in New York court proceedings. Her lawyers contest the executors Hamilton Bredehaw and William Gardiner to obtain an account from the will of Darius Slake Foolbrook. The aim is to access portions of a vast estate linked to her late grandfather as her release from an English prison is awaited next July.
Holbrook left his vast estate to daughter now Baroness von Roques of Rouen with a reversionary interest to her daughter Mrs. Maybrick. Portions funded the defense of Mrs. Maybrick in 1889 for poisoning her husband. Holbrook owned 2500 acres of coal and iron lands in Virginia and West Virginia, with suits filed to recover them.
The Bogota Congress debates a Panama canal treaty granting perpetual U S use with escalator premiums every century and a heavy rental. The deal fixes a 20 million dollar concession price plus 10 million rental, with mixed tribunals and U S control of police and sanitary measures. Reversion of the railroad to Colombia in 64 years is allowed, and a mechanism to settle disputes is required amid reports the Hay-Herran treaty is dead in Bogota.
Notes cover diverse topics from Sutton Ireland bird nests to Scandinavian ship rivalry with Britain. Mention Mohamanedan publishing anatomy in Constantinople, Naples quay costs, Holland state lotteries phase out, and UK boot leather demand. Also references China exam, Uganda telegraph poles, and a German gymnasium court ruling on a secret society.
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