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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1904
Page
4
Excerpts cover Dr Franela Lane and a classroom quote about omnipotence. A Cook’s Traveler piece reflects sea voyage life and freedoms. North German Lloyd subsidy losses from 1896 to 1902 are examined. Northwestern University dorm mates protest mutton meals. Global coal area estimations compare nations and U S anthracite value.
The Globe laments pulling prints on an item of real interest to avoid affronting readers, noting no disreputable content yet fearing ladies and gentlemen alike will deem it improper. Also mentions an English water trade shift with many foreign buyers in London.
The Paris police plan to radiograph criminals to aid identification, building on Bertillonage methods. Some 16 006 X ray plates from hospitals have been vald ated, aiming to map bone and anatomical features for future biometric records.
Crowded eastbound Pere Marquette train from Grand Rapids collided with a westbound Detroit train six miles east of East Paris Michigan. Twenty two dead and thirty injured in the fatal crash blamed on a misread order. both trains were heavily loaded with holiday travelers from Pere Marquette’s busy route.
A fierce wind swept Daviess and Dike counties and other Southern Indiana areas. The Cincinnati Sealing Company building in Washington collapsed, injuring none of the workers who had just left. Houses, smokestacks, barns, and stables were damaged while lines were toppled in Seymour, Petersburg, and parts of Jackson, Johnson, and Bartholomew counties.
A bold bank robbery in Kiowa, Indian Territory, ends with a citizen posse clashing with robbers. About 28 000 dollars is taken and destroyed as the trio blasts a rear window and the safe, firing on pursuing townspeople as they retreat into darkness.
Robbers blew open the vault front door of the Wakefield Surry and Sussex Bank but failed to breach the inner door. About $6 left in a drawer was recovered. Also reports of racial revolt in German South West Africa and a shooting in Ringwood Oklahoma with a posses killing one suspect.
Numerous items report on a Coloidi election dissension, shoe workers in Rochester seven hours, Consul General Goodnow in San Francisco, a fortune policy inquiry in Cleveland, martial displays and a German Kaiser recovery evidence. Harvard Yale NYU athletic event in New York, James Sullivan arranging contests with National and American League teams, and Olympic plans. Bowdoin Commencement marks Hawthorne’s 200th birthday. Teachers College cornerstone laid. jockeys’ earnings in France noted.
In a blinding snowstorm in Boston harbor the Clyde Line steamer Miowa was rammed and sunk by the Admiral Dewey of United Fruit Company. Captain Chichester and all 30 crew were rescued aboard the Dewey, which then proceeded to Port Antonio. The Kiowa also sank after collision. tug Cormorant saved her master and crew.
In Hancock County Mississippi Jim Carr a man involved in a deputy marshal Cobb arrest was killed by a mob. Cobb fired wounding Carr as authorities attempted transport to Mercury Jail, but the mob abducted and hanged the prisoner in the pine woods.
District Court suit seeks to oust Mayor Del G Morgan alleging corruption and maladministration in office. Accusations include neglect of duty to suppress gambling extortion against gambling house proprietors, and a claimed police protection pact with gamblers. The case is led by Lt. Wadsworth.
Sir Charles Egerton wires of British victory at Jid bali in Somaliland with 80 Dervishes killed and 100 wounded while British losses total five. Broad Sound tragedy claims three drowned aboard a dredging scow. Salt Lake City murder-suicide report follows Christmas day shooting. Cruiser Dixie sails for Colon with Marines. boiler explosion injures crew. bank building destroyed by a mysterious blast. Scattered notes on hockey rink work, horse racing, and league schedules round out the page.
A Duquesne Limited crash at Laurel Run near Connellsville Pennsylvania killed sixty passengers and injured many as a freight car brakings failed. Steam from the smoker scalded travelers and the wreckage tore the tracks with all cars badly damaged.
Mrs. Ett S. Russell of Killingly asked Judge Guger to appoint a temporary reserver for the Windham County National Bank in Danielson. Creditors consented while owners deny charges of speculating with bank funds. The complaint alleges a 1890 syndicate led by Comfort Boul ingame and others used bank money to trade stocks.
The Secretary of the Interior denied San Francisco a permit to start building water works to tap Yosemite National Park citing the park act requiring natural conditions. The plan budgeted about 39 million dollars for the project.
The Erastus Corning of the Starin line struck Copp’s Reef off Norwalk Harbor and sank in eight feet of water. Twenty passengers and twelve crew were aboard. six passengers and others were rescued overnight in leaky boats. Survivors, chilled and barefoot, were later brought to safety. The 250 ton, 117 foot vessel was among the Sound’s oldest boats.
Secretary Root asks Congress through the Treasury for 2,520,100 to defend U S possessions. The request covers Port of Hawaii, the Hawaiian Islands, Guam and the Philippines. It aims to protect new territory, store government property, prevent cable interruption, and start fortification at insular sites.
The report outlines union activity from Albany to Milwaukee, London to San Francisco, noting new trades councils, large memberships, and wage cuts. It mentions the Trades Union Congress of England with over two million members, the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, and a Canadian defense fund concept. It notes the Clearmakers International treasuries, Milwaukee bakers seeking investigation, England’s Locomotive Engineers federating with the Amalgamated Society, and a San Francisco photographers union forming. It also references coal miners in Scotland, New England textile wage cuts, UK machine workers’ unemployment aid, and a South Africa labor commission approval of Asiatic labor. A South Wales mine wage cut notice and a general conciliation outcome are noted as well.
Secretary Shaw's deficiency appropriation estimates for the current session total 98 million dollars. Items listed include the State Department 120,453 dollars Treasury 3,007,000 Navy 8,010,201 Interior 178 Justice 1, etc plus postal service funded from postal revenue 732,727.
A garbled digest lists multiple incidents including the death of Thomas Griffin and two others from a boiler accident, a bank robbery in Indiana with $5,000 stolen, and political unrest in Macedonia with clergy targeted. It mentions ships bound for the Philippines, university appointments in Canada, and endowments at Catawba and Vascar Colleges along with various academic notes and a graduation detail.
A fragmentary report notes the French Grand Prix in Sculpture offering the successful artist a four-year support period in Rome or Athens. Other garbled lines mention British vessels in Eastern waters manned by Chinese crews and a Los Angeles magnate woman controlling a large share of a product.
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