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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1903
Page
6
The Montana Legislature, in extraordinary session, adjourned after passing the fair trial bill allowing venue changes in civil cases and Supreme Court review of facts and law. Other items include a murder charge against Charles Bonier, a secret marriage of J A Cunningham, a butcher's death from blood poisoning, and church baptism declines.
Jacob Optinger reports from Cecil Ohio on a widow, a dynamite blast, and a fatal gas fire. Duns and Bradstreet note national convention dates Chicago June 21. Will Shiplett, 35, commits suicide on railroad tracks near New Holland. Mrs Hazen burned in gasoline explosion while cleaning a dress. Panamas republic post assigned to W F Buchanan, special minister, leaves Roosevelt. Bandits rob Pavoni station safe on Pennsylvanla RR. bridge crossings above Cuya hoga. Northern Ohio Company electric cars resume crossing Casaloga Falls. War talk with Germany, imperialism fears, weather ahead of Hawaiian conference. Fire at Nebraska town injures family. Cold wave in Chicago. Fifteen Paterson New Jersey justices indicted for extortion. Two train wrecks cost lives and injuries. A West Virginia freight wreck claims five. $7,043 verdict against Roscoswlin Hubert Ammop and Miller syndicate network. Private trolley wreck in Canton injures Dr O M Lyon and Mrs Lyon.
A roundup of incidents includes a Philadelphia football death from knee injury and infection, a Burlington man hanged, a Pittsburg wife shot by her husband, a bank rob attempt foiled in Hoboken, a Stratford Rear Admiral’s death, and multiple fires, wrecks, and shootings across cities from Bennington to Chicago. Consequences touch insurance fraud, murder, electrocution, and smallpox outbreaks amid broader national turmoil and industrial accidents.
Jacob P Patzke, a farmer, killed his wife in Chaska and hanged himself. Emily Stark, a University of Michigan student, sprained her neck during a gym hockey game. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company plans a 4 million loan from the government secured by mortgage on gate receipts. Two earthquakes were felt at Enumelaw near Mount Rainier in Washington.
An OCR fragment mentions team and place details in a partial manner. It yields few clear facts but hints a local sports or event note with names and dates obscured. The readable portions suggest a brief item about a local team at a venue, with Russian doll OCR garble surrounding the date and score.
Reports span political vows by Governor Beckham at a Kentucky inaugural center, a fire on a grocery floor in New Orleans, a man found dead in Louisville after eviction, long jail terms in Texas for Allen Brown including a 1000 year sentence, coal shortages looming in Texas with soft coal at eight dollars a ton, and Embezzlement allegations against James M Edge in Memphis tied to funds from a Paterson bank.
Reports describe a collision at Ithaca between Greek steamers Pylores and As 808 with fifty drowned. Other dispatches note Queen Alexandra escaping a Sandringham Palace fire, Venezuela arming for war against Colombia, and American marines on the Isthmus. Also listed are fires on Hermes, consulate tensions at Alexandretta, and Russia Japan diplomacy amid Korea and Manchuria disputes.
New York capitalists win concession to build and operate an electric traction line in Mexico City. Langley’s airship fails dramatically, breaking apart at launch and plunging into the river with the navigator. The American Red Cross agrees to an investigation into its work. Cashel escapes from Calgary police after holding guards at bay with two revolvers after which his brother is arrested. Admirable Lake vessels recorded ninety four fatalities this season, with ten passengers among them. Causes included overboard, fall into hold, foundering, collision, machinery, and fire. The steamer Eric L. Hackley’s foundering in Green Bay Oct. 4 claims twelve lives. Captain James Johnson of the Yale gains hero status for his night watch.
The weekly industrial summary notes railway market activity in three weeks of November, with iron and steel contracts and reduced wages broadly met. Prices ease amid steady demand, with several fair contracts for structural railway supplies and improved trade outlook. Failures in Chicago district rise modestly, grain shipments exceed last year, and domestic demand broadens as weather supports December retail momentum. Livestock receipts drop 80 percent year over year.
A digest of regional prices lists Chicago cattle and hogs at broad ranges from 83.00 to 5.00 for cattle, hogs 4.00 to 4.76, and sheep 2.25 to 4.00, with grains including wheat No. 2 red 82 to 84 cents and corn No. 2 41 to 42 cents, plus butter and eggs values and assorted regional pricing.
A scrambled New York Times account places Congressman George B. McClellan in a risky nighttime Pennsylvania Avenue incident. The report suggests a police encounter in a crowded, tense moment with a concealed gesture and potential consequences.
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