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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1902
Page
8
Retail firm announces relocation after closing damaged stock at 20 and 22 West Seventh. New two storefronts on Northwest site Public Square to offer a complete line of goods.
AV Enterprise promotes Majestic and Columbia ranges and Royal Oak cooking stoves with limited stocks and steep discounts, urging quick purchase before prices end.
Secretary of War Elihu Root returned from Europe aboard the Kroonland and will depart for Washington soon. He noted naval manuvres and urged practical use of tools to avoid complacency among crews. A panic at a Minnesota synagogue observance was narrowly averted when crowd control kept injuries minor. St Louis authorities near a large Chinese exhibit plan for the World’s Fair.
Detroit reports Charles H. Robson of Atlin British Columbia on a two day honeymoon seized his wife and forced her through Saginaw streets at 2 49 am in a night robe before leaping into the river. Robson is missing as authorities drag the water.
Oyster Bay witnessed a fete as President Roosevelt welcomed about 15 000 Nassau County residents at Sagamore Hill. Special trains from Hempstead Mineola Far Rockaway and Freeport arrived along with visiting yachts from New York. Attendees received lemonades as souvenirs while bands played and crowd control included 800 deputy sheriffs and secret service personnel.
Rome reports that upon the czar’s return visit he will not call on the pope. The Russian minister to the Holy See may stay away from Rome to ease the snub. Papal diplomacy struggles to avert an awkward incident tied to the nuncio’s Hague absence.
Havana Sept 16 Memorial services for President McKinley were conducted at Cur bat Baptist Church. Rev Alberto Diaz preached on McKinley the Liberator noting Cuba owes its liberty and praising the martyred president's humanity. Attendance was the largest ever at the church. August Browning in Do vah Creek found a vein of ore while blasting rock and silver ore was confirmed after examination.
Indianapolis Sept 16 John Mitchell head of United Mine Workers at WilkesBarre states no settlement is near after Harrisburg conference with Gov Stone and anthracite leaders. He says no worker return and no new coal is being mined, troops unlikely to withdraw, fund supports 25 000 displaced miners.
The bulletin lists varied items including the Belgian queen's illness, a Vermont priest elected to the legislature, a fatal assault on a strike breaker in Omaha, a painter killed in East St. Louis, and Mrs. Roosevelt planned October White House return. Also notes a Decatur suicide, Indian chiefs meeting for statehood plans, aribtration collapse in coal strike, Allied leaders criticizing Germany, Salt Lake City ban on married women teachers, a St. Louis gasoline explosion rescuer, German storms, a Cleveland circus campaign, Manchuria Russia issue, McKinley memorials, a Birmingham lynching verdict, and Christian Endeavor in Europe.
In St. Thomas Ontario on September 16 William King a farmhand confessed to killing 15 year old James Freeman an adopted son of a nearby farmer. King jealous of the boy's privileges sought to take the boy's place in the family.
Cape Town Sept 16 In an interview the attorney general 8 L Graham said the general indemnity act will become law within days and martial law will be repealed. The government will proclaim the peace preservation act to control arms importation possession and registration. Profound peace reigns throughout the colony.
Manila reports the head of a Ladrones gang in Bulacan province was shot by local forces last Friday. The outlaw had a long record of 40 murders and years of evading capture.
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