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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1903
Page
8
The Account Southern Teachers Association meets in Vincennes Indiana April 9 to 11 1903. The B and O S W offers tickets to Vincennes and return April 8 9 with return limit to April 13. Rate from Washington 60 cents.
Sam Watgen and others visited the city today including Roy Boddoe from Bedford and Will Switz from Indianapolis. Several locals returned from visits or trips to nearby towns while others attended examinations and family visits.
Greenville Miss March 28 A crevasse in the levee five miles south of Greenville allows a water volume sixteen feet deep and over 600 feet long to flood thousands of acres in Yazoo delta. Labor crews struggle to stem erosion as the breach widens, threatening Washington Bolivar and Sharkey counties with inundation for more than two weeks. Major John M Sears warns this is the worst break in the levee system’s history.
Washington reports Secretary Hay warns Cuba against any Cuban Congress amendments to the reciprocity treaty. Any change would derail ratification since amendments must reach the U.S. Senate before March 31 final exchange. U.S. minister Squier carried the note, Cuban minister Yorelen expected to curb amendment efforts.
Two hundred Irishmen in a 2000 strong New York audience rise in protest at the New Star theater after a performance of Mc Fadden’s Row of Flats. They pelt the stage with rotten eggs vegetables and fruit and force the actors to flee. Irish societies allegedly planned to rout the burlesque act amid a citywide uproar.
In Sharon Pa on March 28 Gaylord H Locke and his nephew Frederick Jas drove a horse and wagon into the Shenango river. Several hundred spectators watched as both men were drowned and their bodies were recovered. The wife of one victim was among the witnesses.
Three Mexican passengers died and nineteen were injured in a rear end collision near La Coste station twenty miles west of San Antonio. The Southern Pacific limited collided with the Eagle Pass express as first section of the former train. The Pullman and General Geronimo Trevino’s private car were destroyed and three Trevino relatives burned before rescue. Trevino, son in law of the late General Ord, was traveling to San Antonio with a sick son.
Chicago March 28 N K Fairbank millionaire manufacturer and director in banks and manufacturing concerns died yesterday at his home aged seventy three The report notes his prominence in business and civic life in Chicago and as a bank and industrial leader.
A catalog note advertises good muslin drawers with mistakes in wording, priced at 25c 20c and 36c. It promises a full stock of drawers in odd sizes with tucked hems and attachments, urging readers to ask to see them.
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