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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1902
Page
4
The court’s decision endorses the code as constitutional and ready for a full test. It stresses that changes can come from the legislature if needed and that public acceptance hinges on voters selecting capable officers to implement provisions. The piece urges careful candidate choice to avoid disrepute.
The steamer Silverton travels seven to eight miles per hour from San Francisco to Honolulu and will carry the first telegraphic cable to connect Hawaii with the United States and the world by New Year. It will then proceed to Midway Island Gaum Manila and onward to Shanghai completing a Pacific cable between North America and Asia and linking our possessions with the continental United States.
The Salvation Army’s street outreach in Cleveland is praised for its impact as it helps rescued men reform through a Mentor farm project. Four years of land gifts and citizen support have turned formerly gutter-dwellers into self-sustaining workers, with Christmas aid planned for a thousand poor. The piece extols the Army as a tangible Christian force.
A lower house resolution seeks funds to buy a site in Washington for a national theater modeled on European examples. Andrew Carnegie may fund the project to be self sustaining, with a manager board to select wholesome, artistic plays. Sightseers welcome at The Age office to view the Sinotype. Coshocton expects a housing boom with a new rental and sale company to deliver modern homes.
The piece recalls Thomas B Reed’s quip about embalming a fly in his remarks and notes other political gibes. It also cites Reed’s boast about preferring to be right over president and recounts humorous exchanges with Congressman Lansing.
Jacob Steffee died at his West Carlisle area home at age about fifty five from diabetes, lingering after a runaway injury five years earlier. He helped build a respected family and community, with wife sister to Judge W.R. Gault and children in several states. Funeral at his residence, interment at West Carlisle. Another obituary notes Ingabie Bucklew Campbell of Knoxville Iowa died at 70, mother of nine, active in church during long service to the sick and needy.
French Mobley had his left eye removed after a coal bank injury, in a procedure performed yesterday by Drs Marshall and MecCards. He is recovering as well as could be expected.
Samuel Gamble of Coshocton served as foreman of the U S jury in Celambus that returned a verdict of unity in the famous conspiracy case against lawyer Steel and My Anna Miler. Gamble returns home Friday night and says the case drew intense interest and he is receiving congratulations on the verdict. English Lutherans announce meetings beginning next Sunday at the Central labor hall in the Selby building.
A flood of Christmas wishes pours in to Santa Claus via The Age office. Children name desired gifts such as dolls, sleds, drums, candy, and clothing, each writing with simple, hopeful sincerity to be granted this holiday season.
A Pittsburg telegram claimed Ed Poole would retire from baseball after a season with Cincinnati's Reds. President August Herrmann dismissed the report, noting Poole is under contract for 1903 and had written he was recovering and would report in spring.
Colonel J L Diaz Barcenas portrays Ci priano Castro as a skilled strategist who rose from frontier fighting to seize Caracas in 1899. The article traces Castro's reforms, Hernandez’s rebellion, and Matos's later bid, noting Castro's military discipline and political control versus volatile revolts and personal ambition.
Brief items report a safe-dynamiting burglary at Miller’s drug store in Valley Junction Iowa netting about $3000. Separate fires devastate W R Knott & Co warehouse in Minneapolis with losses around 70000 and an institute for the feeble minded in Faribault Minnesota suffering 50000 plus in damage. Hydrophobia death of Harry Daniels at Dry Bridge after dog bite seven months earlier. A Cleveland attorney and receiver Dc I Shaw is arrested for embezzling 10000 from Lion Model Laundry. Marching crowd storms Northwestern Fuel Co office in St Paul mauling a clerk after a three hour coal rush.
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