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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1902
Page
8
In southwest Missouri farmers press wives and daughters into sowing fall wheat as weather allows. Labor shortages from gin and lead mine work push families to work day and night and on Sundays. Wet conditions slow progress as fields drilled early fail, forcing replants in Missouri and Kansas.
In Cosmopolitan, Professor Heck urges fathers to weave experience into a son’s intellectual and spiritual life. He notes many fathers fail by ignoring daily influence, risking years passing without guidance as the boy nears manhood and faces independent challenges and dangers.
Jefferson City Missouri report states W Cooper of Salisbury failed to file timely for the State Senate sixth district. Democratic incumbent Emmet Fields has no opposition. Cooper’s nomination affidavit arrived October 14, late. October 15 was the filing deadline. Cooper had been nominated August 27.
Anglo American trade deal moves ahead as two directors of United Fruit Co in London to discuss a merger with Elder Tyffes, the island’s top banana importer. United Fruit operates seventy ships with $10 million capital and links Jamaica and the Canaries in a bid to standardize freight rates and reduce competition.
Tom Gammon, songwriter of Goo Goo Eyes and I Hates to Get up Early, lies dying at Marshalsea, the Allegheny Poor Farm in Pittsburg. He fell ill during a vaudeville engagement at the Avenue Theater. Paul Dresser of New York wired to cover the costs of Gammon's removal if he recovers enough to travel.
Largest enrollment in the university's history. Since last commencement, total students reached 1,556 at Columbia Missouri. Law school shows a slight dip as its program expands to three years, while academic engineering mining and other courses rise enough to offset the decline.
New York report states several bundles of greenbacks were found in the ante room of two of five issued paper bills involved in a nighttime incident. District Attorney Jerome says ownership is unknown and that discovery does not prove rightful possession. He notes the sums are substantial but emphasizes no claimant can prove the roll is theirs.
Topeka Kan October 18 Senator Burton reports Hawaiians have been robbed by missionaries from Boston and elsewhere who exchanged lands for certificates promising heaven after death One noble Hawaiian in his unimproved state is worth forty androgogued an h n s Hawaiian natives are full of good awaiting development by our government
Berlin dated Oct 18 reports Chancellor Von Buelow defending a new tariff as not aimed at extracting greater concessions from other nations. He cites the United States tariff arguments of the past twelve years and says the measure enables long lasting commercial treaties. He appeals to the reichstag to pass it without modifications.
Jim Dalton was convicted by a jury in Independence Kansas of murder in the first degree for the 1898 jail escape during the killing of Deputy Sheriff Batterson with iron plates. The verdict carries a life sentence as the report notes. Republican office seekers urge voters to repudiate the State School Fund bonds, though they promise free textbooks for children, claiming the financial plan will be developed by five experts who could not agree.
A shopper confuses a familiar remedy, noting Perry Davis Painkiller is not the product on hand. The vendor provides an alternative medicine the writer hadn’t noticed, claiming long use for dyspepsia cramps and stomach pains.
A shed at the Dena Shipbuilding yards in Danbaton was swept from its moorings by a hurricane today. Lip ton's new challenger was being built inside the shed and escaped damage.
In New York on Oct 18 Her man Roger, famed trainer, enters a cage with his jungle troupe protected not by guns but by three guarding boarhounds Nero Hoeeter and Allie on pedestals. Nero once saved Roger from a leopard, and during a Berlin show a leopard later wounded him. In Berlin the leopard leapt, Nero bit its neck, and the trainer escaped with the boarhounds’ help after a grievous bout.
Dorothy Stiles, 16, daughter of William Dioce, a retired Hewlet, from Collins, is dying from a mysterious disease slowly turning her bones to stone. Doctors say the illness attacks shoulders hips and feet and may soon be fatal. The account notes experiments with tissue and mentions a bathtub incident linked to the case. No visitors are allowed at the Stiles residence as the ailment progresses.
A retrospective report from the war department shows revenue from sieges during the occupation beginning July 18, 1908, with expenditures and the remainder turned over to the public of Cobaant. Sanitation administration is praised as thorough, with a drop in death rate from 60 per 1000 to under 23 per 1000 and no yellow fever during the recent season.
Arrivals report a gusher at Kayak head of Controller Bay oil prospecting site. Machinery worked for oil when suddenly oil burst 60 feet into the air, causing a fire that was brought under control. Preparations to ship oil are underway as tanks and barrels are secured, with estimates of $4 to $5 per bushel. Authorities expect more wells in the area.
Parsons Kansas October 18 Frank Short an iron molder at the railroad shops accidentally shot and killed his cousin Miss Zella N Short while handling a revolver. Miss Short was visiting relatives here but lived in Missouri.
Richmond Virginia October 18 reports say a boat overturned in Chesapeake Bay last night leading to the drowning of Captain J A Evans a prominent merchant his wife his daughter and two other passengers.
A screen, asked what proved most difficult in the operation to save Mr Tightfiat from a untimely end. The surgeon replies with a wry smile that the hardest moment was collecting the money, a remark seasoned with practiced skill.
The Paris Figaro publishes an interview with Dr. Nocard of the veterinary school and academy member critiquing Dr. Garnaults experiments on tuberculosis contagion. Nocard argues Koch implied ingestion, not inoculation, and warns Garnault should have tested milk infection status first.
Walter A. Wyckoff the college man who lived as a tramp to study solf problems starts a Colorado walk tracing the ground he covered 12 years ago to gather material for political economy pieces. He climbs Pike's Peak descends into Cripple Creek then moves toward Wet Mountain Valley and aims for New Mexico before returning to Princeton duties.
Yokohama October 18 reports a powerful typhoon sweeping northern Japan with seismic tidal waves at Odawara. The disaster causes extensive loss of life and property across the region.
Three royal women colonels are discussed as Wilhelm opposes granting military titles to women. The emperor’s criticism targets figures including the crown princess of Roumania, the princess of Heese, and Princess Charlotte of Saxe Meinengen.
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