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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1902
Page
13
A midwinter list notes 189 lawmakers granted passes for three transcontinental roads, with the Northern Pacific among movers unusual for an off year. The report mixes diverse incidents from across the nation including a fatal shooting near Caddo bridge and a bank transfer in Piqua Ohio.
The itemized column details mortgage receivership bids for the Pan-Amer Exposition Company, a Maryland senatorial nomination for Gorman, factory closures in Jamestown NY, a fatal house fire near Coal City PA, smallpox precautions at Princeton, bankruptcies, marriages in Washington and Philadelphia, a New York tunnel disaster with many deaths, arrests in Utica NY, a Mass city official's death, canal route comparisons, Rockefeller donation offer, Camden NJ double death, a wreck in Chicago, and various regional accidents and business failures across multiple states.
George K Nash inaugurated for a second Ohio term in Columbus. Fires scorch sites from Tush kamp Indiana Territory to Fayette Missouri, destroying property and timber. A naval hospital tragedy occurs in Newport Rhode Island. Car and rail accidents record fatalities. Carnegie proposes Columbus library funding contingent on site. Krupp leads German wealth. Wheat yields in 1901 projected at 14 8 bushels per acre.
Reports cover a wide range of incidents including a pneumonia-related illness from exposure, a Chicago physician offering funds to Wooster University, prison reforms in Kansas, a Kansas City fatality from a prison fight, a greensburg post office burglary, a Rio Grande Western freight-train collision near Roy Utah, a fireman killed in Salt Lake, a Knickerbocker Ice Company trial in Chicago, misappropriation of city bonds in Ashtabula, a bank guard warding off a late-night entry in East St Louis, an Indiana Supreme Court decision on contract liability, a New York man fasting at a Colorado sanitarium, a large bank robbery in East St Louis, a divorce suit over tandem cycling, pardons sought by the Younger brothers, and a fatal Idaho Springs powder blast.
The report lists a divorce suit in Knoxville citing tight racing and belting causing ill health, plus desertion. A serious rear-end collision on the Baltimore and Ohio near Shinnstown injures six and wrecks two engines and a trail car. A Mississippi jury convicts Whit Owens for aiding the Montgomery murders, sentencing life. North Carolina Gov. Ascock sets February 25 for six executions, with Supreme Court appeals noted in each case.
Reports describe Chinese court returning to Pekin with grand displays in the capital entrance. Paraguayan revolutionists topple President Aceval and install Hector Carvallo. A new ministry forms after a Senate riot. Paris funds Mexico City rail network at 16 million dollars. South Africa war losses total 18 320 Boers and 9 113 British killed or captured with further disease deaths and reinforcements.
In the House a tense two day discussion centered on the Panamas company offer to sell its property for 10 million dollars. Support for the Panama route grew, with many lawmakers urging a battle over Nicaragua and a possible presidential route choice. The House passed the Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill by a wide margin, while a strong bloc urged a Panama-Nicaragua square issue.
President Mo Roosevelt agrees to study findings of the Schley court of inquiry after a recent conference with the admiral. Gas ignition at a Sarnia Ont plant destroys a well equipment worth 10000. Rear Admiral Frank Wildes to command the Asiatic squadron. Feb 1 sailing from San Francisco. Judge Noyes fined 31000 in Alaska mining conspiracy case. district attorney Wood and Frost jailed four months and one year. Bristolia wreck near Green Island leaves Captain McIntyre and six crew dead. seven other men survive. Free Methodists in Verona Ont witness a man claiming to fly, leaping from a table as coal oil lamp ignites, causing panic and burns.
The President recently signed 1,800 army commissions. Congressman Kern introduced a bill to re-establish the army canteen. Advocates of Chinese exclusion prepared a bill to bar Mongolians from the United States. Contractor Peirce will finish the Chicago post office by May 1 with penalties totaling 50 500, likely remitted due to foundation delays.
A satirical piece mocks snobbery as a bounder advises hiring furs and gear to impress a date. He name drops figures like the Mayor of Doz Galch and Senator Pitcoe to imply status, then notes the costume makes him resemble a modern Eskimo and flirts on the perceived wealth.
An unnamed Detroit man Benjamin Major reports curing kidney and bladder troubles with Ladd's Kidney Pills after long suffering and failed remedies. The note cites widespread daily reports of cures as evidence. Washington as Business Man. George Washington is credited for horse trading insight and early transport ideas including canal and railroad prospects.
A Denver Times quips about a suitor agreeing to marry a woman of means. The young man pauses and accepts, noting only one condition, that he cannot be stingy with gas. The exchange highlights old fashioned courtship humor.
Excerpt captures a light domestic exchange in England where a boy laments a brother’s beating after revealing him, followed by a shopkeeper’s terse inquiry about hiring. The humor centers on misunderstandings and street slang of the era.
The advertisement claims all goods are alike to Putnam Faceless Dyes and color fibers in one boil sold by druggists. It notes lumbermen judge tree condition by a single heavy ax blow and sound. It also endorses Piso's Cure for Consumption over others. The message is signed Mrs S B Borden, 442 P Street Washington D C dated May 23 1901.
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