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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1902
Page
10
A miscellany notes Tierra del Fuego minerals and gold in Australia convicts, rubber in Peru, tiny Adaman Islanders, London bridge lighting, British innosent gambling tale, Transvaal fever pool by coin stakes.
Vermont Missouri April 28 J B Tillery testifies to kidney and liver repair after long illness using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He reports rapid improvement and full recovery calling it the greatest remedy the world has seen and offers to endorse it if proven.
Washington April 29 Sol Smith Russell veteran American stage comedian died at the Richmond hotel at 2 10 pm after a long cough. He leaves a widow and two children L Alice Russell and Robert E Russell. Funeral planned from Mr Berger's home with burial in Rock Creek cemetery. Russell valued as wealthy with Minneapolis properties and estate over two million dollars.
Baltimore April 29 Congressman Amos J. Cummings of New York remains ill at the Church Home and Infirmary where doctors report pneumonia in both lungs after earlier involvement of one. He is intermittently delirious but can take nourishment and rest. Physicians accord little hope for a swift recovery as the case grows more serious.
Washington April 29 the conferees have a complete agreement on the bill. It strikes out the extension of laws to those under the present treaty and re enacts them where not inconsistent with treaty obligations. The laws extend to island territories where applicable and allow entry for exposition purposes with certification in the Philippine islands.
A Dallas News telegraph reports a tornado swept Glenrose in Somervell county between five and six this evening killing five persons and injuring forty. The dead include Mrs. Carl Milan and two year old daughter of J. R Milan, Rev. Ford pastor of the Methodist church, Miss Mae Connell, and a boy named Mudgrove. One third of Glenrose business houses were demolished and relief teams arrived from Glen Morn with details to come in the morning.
A Pittsburg inventor closed the first world contract to pick cotton by machinery in Greenville Mississippi. An experimental run will occur on a Washington county plantation. The device works on level uplands and prairie grounds and could transform southern labor in cotton fields.
Ann Arbor reports a Michigan University medical college team led by Tobe Lia Sorg Victore Vaughan and Frederick Gi Novy will travel to Asia in mid June to study benzozone a new organic peroxide claimed to be a universal intestinal antiseptic. They aim to test its effect on tropical dysentery and its potential to prevent typhoid fever cholera plague and related diseases.
The Star prints an appeal from Pilot Arkansas by J A Martin Hyatt Relief Society president asking for money food clothing and stock feed for Fulton County drought farmers in Arkansas near the Missouri border. Donations should go to the Hyatt Relief Society Mammoth Springs Arkansas. The farmers lost last year’s crop and face a hard winter and spring until their new crop comes in.
The American Newspaper Publishers association has signed five year industrial arbitration agreements with the International Typographical union and the International Printing Pressmen's Assistants. The pact covers mechanical departments in member offices and aims to secure industrial peace during local contracts and the interim between old and new agreements.
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