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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1902
Page
8
WOW Enterprise offers Royal Oak Majestic and Columbia cooking stoves at deep discounts. Available stock won t last long as prices slashed to attract quick purchases.
New York reports 6 587 fresh cholera cases in the week ending Sept 23 and 6 983 deaths. Since July 15 the outbreak totals 30 031 cases and 25 734 deaths. Dispatch from Mezandr ia via London notes decline in cases from the prior week.
The Correio Da Manha accuses the U S battleship Iowa of surveying Rio de Janeiro bay and photographing forts during a Brazilian visit. It urges the government to halt the vessel's "prying" as tensions over foreign inspection rise.
Four killed and six injured in a gas explosion at the Stafford mine of the New Central Coal Co near Fairmont West Virginia on Monday. Authorities say a dynamite charge caused the blast. 26 men were at work and all have been accounted for. Superintendent Stewart led rescue efforts and the gravest cases were hospitalized. All bodies were recovered.
The American Line steamer Kensington, fresh from Newcastle to Southampton, tested oil as fuel after overhauling a plant there. The initial trial succeeded but a full voyage test was postponed until return.
A fragmentary verse meditation on religious worship, deceit, and social change. The speaker contrasts old fears of hell with widespread cheating and materialism, noting some still follow Christ while the majority drift. The text reflects tension between faith and modern behavior.
A Leesville Indiana boy faced death as his family hurried with him 15 miles to obtain Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. The boy Brown endured severe asthma but the medicine brought instant relief and sleep returned. The ad promises guaranteed bottles and a free trial at W P Woldridge’s drug store.
Sydney reports the relief steamer Winward, carrying Lieut. Roald Amundsen Peary, arriving from Cave Sabine. All aboard are safe. Peary says the expedition did not reach the North Pole but yielded important scientific findings. He recovered instruments and library from the Greeley expedition and brought back rare natural history specimens.
The Wisconsin Central Railway offers greatly reduced settler tickets from Chicago to Montana Idaho Oregon Washington and British Columbia from Sept 1 to Oct 1 1902. Inquire at nearest ticket agent or write T D Campbell D P A 218 Pike Building Cincinnati or J C Pond General Passenger Agent Milwaukee Wis. August.
In Knoxville Tennessee on September 19 at 7 30 p m two coaches of a Southern Railway train carrying Hon Jas B Frazier and party from London ran off the track on the edge of a fifty foot embankment. The conductor Haun pulled the bell cord warning the engineer and saved the train from plunging down the embankment. The northbound train had taken the siding at Lenoir to let a Washington train pass and was leaving the siding at about 12 miles an hour when the accident occurred.
Reports from New York and Derby Conn detail police uncovering a bloodstained trunk tied to the murder of Mrs. Anne Pulitzer. Evidence includes a stiletto, garments, a pepper shaker, and a mislaid paper from Hoboken. William Hooper Young is identified as the suspect, with detectives describing his nervous behavior in custody.
A Canadian bulletin warns on using carbon disulfide to kill woodchucks in grain fields. The method involves pouring the volatile liquid into burrows, filling the entrance with dirt, and burying the animal and young. It cautions about extreme flammability and explosion risks.
A Chicago exchange reports Frederick Brown, Aurora justice of the peace and practicing attorney, has just married his 400th wife and is underway on his fifth century of marriages. He is a widower with 74 winters and is a nephew of John Brown. The feature notes his courtly manner and the unlikely prospect of divorce help if needed. Also included are brief items on the Belgian queen’s funeral preparations, a record trolley trip of 900 miles, and piano makers winning wage gains.
A Chicago Inter Ocean report describes the long string of terrifying pranks by Thames P. Ogden in Gower Missouri. He hid in barns and manned ghostly signals from a cemetery to frighten villagers, causing at least one death and a near lynching, and he later confessed on his deathbed. The tale includes a haunted mansion, wire tricks, and a graveyard theater that drew crowds of over a thousand before his surrender.
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