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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1902
Page
2
The Minnesota Legislature and staff receive passes on three transcontinental railways marking an unprecedented off year. Northern Pacific joins as a moving party this year despite its usual policy.
Mortgage bondholders seek a receiver for the Pan American Exposition Company amid broader reports of political nominations, business failures, fires, and a smallpox scare at Princeton. Notable items include a Maryland senator nominee, Jamestown shoe factory closure, a coal city fire death, and a Panama canal comparison.
Briefs include Nash's second term inauguration in Columbus Ohio, fires in Indiana Territory and Fayette Missouri, a naval hospital death in Newport Rhode Island, a major Choctaw Coal slope fire near Hartshorne Oklahoma, and a fatal rail collision near O Keene Oklahoma Territory. Also noted are newspaper ownership shifts, Carnegie library gift terms, Nordica railroad collision, Parker Hughes contest ruling in Topeka, Krupp's wealth, and US wheat yield projections.
Reports describe illnesses and accidents from Montana to Colorado including pneumonia following cold, a $100,000 donation offer to Wooster University if $40,000 is raised by February 21, convicts marched by fours in Kansas, a 25 year penitentiary sentence in Missouri, a post office burglary in Indiana, freight and work-tram collision in Utah with a fatal fireman, tax-shipping conviction in Chicago, misappropriated city bonds in Ohio, a bank robbery in East St. Louis with multiple hostages, a divorce suit over tandem rides in Missouri, pardons sought for Younger and Cote in Minnesota, a deadly powder blast in Idaho Springs, and other regional items.
John Banks sues for divorce in Knoxville Circuit Court charging tight lacing and belting caused ill health and desertion as grounds. The report notes an appeal to the state Supreme Court and a gubernatorial message context.
Reports from Pekin and Paris describe urban splendor and capital changes in China and Paraguay. Proposals fund electric street railways in Mexico City and a Cairo to Damascus electric network expands, while Boer losses in South Africa and clashes at New Chwang frame a tumultuous year.
In the House on Tuesday and Wednesday the Hepburn isthmian canal bill dominated by debate on the Panama company offer to sell its property to the United States for 10 million dollars. Key speakers questioned route choices while support for Panama grew, and final passage favored Nicaragua but Panama held a strong vote at 120 to 170.
President Roosevelt agreed to review the Schley court findings following a recent conference with Admiral. Gas ignited at a Sarnia Ont plant wrecking machinery worth 10000. Rear Admiral Wildes to command the Asiatic squadron sailing February from San Francisco. Alaska judge Noyes fined 1000 for conspiracy to obtain mining claims. Prison terms for Wood and Frost. Bristol wreck near Green Island with seven lost. Free Methodists in Verona Ontario witness a man fall and cause a lamp fire injuring eight.
The President signed 1,800 army commissions. Congressman Kern introduced a bill to re-establish the army canteen. Exclusion advocates 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 delayed foundation work.
A satirical vignette from the Philadelphia Record mocks social climbers who hire furs and sleigh gear to impress a date. A bounder boasts of sealskin accessories and ties to notable figures, highlighting showy pretensions and the cost of appearances.
Reports from Petroit Michigan on January 13 describe Benjamin Major declaring a remedy that allegedly cures kidney and bladder troubles. He credits Ladd's Kidney Pills with his complete recovery after long suffering and multiple failed medicines. Washington's business side is noted, highlighting Washington's canal project and early railroad interests.
A stern parent asks if the suitor can support the daughter in the style she’s used to. The young man pauses and replies that he could do so with one exception, namely he could not be stingy with the gas. The quip comes from the Denver Times.
A humorous exchange shows a child crying over his older brother about to be punished for tattling. The other character misreads sympathy as concern for the punished, then shifts to the speaker's fear of punishment, reflecting street dialect and labor expectations in a brief England scene.
An old promotional note claims Putnam Faceless Dyes color all fibers with a single boiling. A separate remark notes lumbermen judge tree condition by tapping and listening. Also mentions Piso's Cure for Consumption and quotes Mrs. S. B. Borden of Washington DC from May 23 1901.
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