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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1901
Page
1
President McKinley announces he will not be a candidate for a third term and would not accept a nomination if offered. The cabinet approved the decision and pledged secrecy until public release. The move aims to protect national policies and steer public focus away from third-term talk.
San Francisco June 12 Collector Stratton asks the state department to permit Su Shih Shin a trader to land under section 6 of the exclusion act. Chinese authorities want him kept out for political reasons as leader of a reform party backing Emperor Kwang Hsu over the dowager empress. He is detained at the Pacific Mail dock with a $50,000 reward on his head for protection from empress sympathizers. In Des Moines bicycle expert Leo Wellker faces a divisive college athletics ruling after a 4 3 vote upholding professionalism charges by Cornell College.
Robert Fulford's body remains at the undertaker as of June 12 in London Ontario while his deserted wife and her mother, whom he allegedly murdered before his suicide, refuse any involvement with the body. In St Paul Minnesota, the Modern Woodmen of America head camp met at the Auditorium on June 12 with 629 delegates present.
Terre Haute Indiana reports the first Sunday in many years with no saloon business as the law was enforced on a quiet day. County and city officials note the change as a test of prohibition era policies.
A powerful tornado struck Adrian Minnesota around 1 am yesterday, carving a 3000 foot wide path through the center of town. It damaged homes, fences, barns, sheds and several businesses on Main street including a furniture store, restaurant, hardware store, meat market and jewelry store.
Judge Peter L. Palmer denounced over 100 reformers who gathered to protest injunctions against city and fire and police board actions. He pledged a judicial inquiry into whether Denver clergymen who denounced him in pulpits were in contempt and would charge any proven cases. In Otulba San Geronimo, a woman named Villavicencio allegedly shot a priest during confession after jealousy over another woman.
Denis J. Swente, long time chief of Chicago's fire department, formally resigned last night citing health reasons after serving over half a century in the role.
Hogs receipts 21,000 with sales 5.50 to 6.20 for various packing and shipping lots. Cattle receipts 2,500 with steers from 4.25 to 6.20, stockers and feeders 2.00 to 4.90, cows 2.00 to 4.65, heifers 2.60 to 5.15, bulls and oxen 2.65 to 5.00, Texas steer 4.40 to 5.35, veal calves 4.50 to 6.25. Sheep and lambs receipts 12,000 with western lambs 4.50 to 5.40, native lambs 4.00 to 5.40. East Buffalo market steady to slightly stronger for hogs, cattle holdovers few. St. Louis grain mixed with prices for wheat corn and rye varying by contract.
About 200 metal trades representatives met in New York at a National Metal Trades Association conference. Edwin Reynolds released a statement denouncing the machinists strike and reviewing arbitration accords of 1900. New firms applied for membership listing conditions pledging support among fellow members and adherence to by laws.
Portland reports growing strike of Maine Central track and fuel workers as eight divisions surrender keys to station agents to press for recognition. Canada sees wage-raise ultimatum from BRT A leaders. Toronto and Milwaukee updates follow. Cyclone damage hits Larchwood Iowa with loss of life and property. Sioux City reports a tornado and a divorce suit against Rev W B Cash.
Lowell Massachusetts June 12 the head of the woman whose mutilated body was found yesterday by private detectives under a bridge near the original discovery site has not been identified. Davenport Iowa June 12 W H Harris D D first professor of theology at Griswold college and long time Davenport Academy curator died Monday aged 83.
Indianapolis report on Judge John H. Baker weighing a 13 or 14 year old girl’s refusal to name the source of counterfeit money. After being sent to a reformatory to think it over, she stood firm, received a pardon later, and married in Indianapolis. The man who provided the counterfeit money remains undisclosed.
Illinois day at the Pan American exposition has been moved from June 25 to Sept 16 after a long meeting between Governor Yates and Col H P Rucker. The date now marks Illinois Chicago day with co mmittees to begin preparations for the combined Illinois Chicago event.
In Kansas City on June 12 the defense began in Mrs. Kennedy's case for killing her husband. Twenty witnesses probed alibis for Bert and C W Prince, brother and father, who were linked to entrances near the Ridge building during the shooting at 5 40 p m. Will Prince, the principal witness, denied mesmeric control and claimed the revolver was not his, having learned of the crime only after it occurred.
A late Monday gun battle near Giovania nine miles from Unadilla Georgia left Hence Wright dead and a deputy severely wounded. Sheriff and posse engaged a negro desperado in a fierce confrontation, with Wright killed and the deputy likely fatally hurt. The scene unfolded as authorities pursued the armed fugitive.
John Mathis of Elkox Georgia leads a posse that surrounds a cabin where an African man emerges with a Winchester and fires on the group. After exhausting his ammo, he flees inside as the crowd closes in and walls and doors are broken. The man fires again while inside. about ten bullets strike him. Mathis sustains a leg wound with a severed artery.
The Anglo American trap shoot opened at the Middlesex Gun club range with 25 birds. R. O. Teikes of Dayton, W. Crosby of O Fallon, and Jed Gilbert of Spirit Lake tied at 22. T. A. Marshall won a 22 of 25 sweepstakes. Crosby scored 19 of 20 and 17 of 20 in the international. Americans led 806 to 801. The British used two barrels while Americans used one.
A Wisconsin clam fisher found a 108 grain pink pearl in a mussel shell near Prairie du Chien. The gem, named Queen Mary, sold for 25 000 dollars to Deakin after a prior offer of 410 000 was refused. The pearl is hailed as one of the finest in the world and remains a symbol of extraordinary pearl craftsmanship.
Details emerge of a chilling sea tragedy aboard the J A Campbell with mate Adam Huber murdered by a Chinese cook who locked the gallery for hours and was killed in a steam-extraction incident. Separately, the Territorial Bar endorses Judge Humphreys removal amid bribery probes and a grand jury report looms. The battleship Oregon arrives from the Orient. Chief Boatswain J R Murphy injured when a line breaks during anchoring.
Wabash Indiana reports Alfie Hillis son of Ben Hillis is in a Byes condition due to heavy cigarette use. He has smoked coffin nails incessantly for two to three years and seeks medical help.
In Laporte Indiana June 1 Frank Palen 13 stabbed his brother Charles 15 during a quarrel. Charles is dying from the injuries.
The British in South Africa last month killed and captured 2,640 Boers. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York are in New Zealand. Ex Senator Pettigrew told a Kansas City reporter he would rather vote for Mark Hanna than for David Hill.
Jessie Morrison faces retrial at Eldorado Kent for the June 1900 murder of Mrs. Clara Castle.
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