23 Jan 1903
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1903
Page
1
A fragmented verse from Lowell describes organ music swelling through a church, the choir rising beneath a tremor of mellow thunder, then pausing and bursting again to fade into distant silence as the hymn washes over the aisles.
Convict 73 Samuel Henscott escapes from prison using a window, tracks Riverley to a house, and confronts him about a long-settled betrayal. He accuses Riverley of stealing bank funds, ruining his life, and poisoning Marie’s fate, demanding reckoning and justice. The scene unfolds in a tense, noir like confrontation between former friends turned enemies.
A Hawbury Independent urges country subscribers to pay a full year in advance. The piece argues country papers need funds more than magazines, noting publishers rely on prepayments to sustain operations. It cautions readers about lost earnings from delayed payments and promotes annual subscriptions with special club rates.
A collection of aphorisms and quotes from various authors including Jean Ingelow Hayes Rivarol Cicero Shakespeare Sismond Feltham Grant Lowell Pilpay and Joubert. The lines reflect on life fame justice happiness and open hospitality in concise, moral statements.
A natural history note describes two wasp attack methods. One species approaches skin cautiously by crawling to the skin before stinging, often near the hair or beard. The other species, living near human dwellings, flies directly at the face, revealing an evolutionary shift in targeting.
A historical cookbook style recipe segment describes preparing a onion souffle with a white sauce and eggs, a codfish mash with potatoes, and a tapioca peach bake. It details mixing milk butter bread crumbs onions egg yolks and whipped egg whites, baking until risen. It also covers washing codfish, mashing potatoes, frying cakes, soaking tapioca and combining with peach juice for a baked tapioca peach dish.
The guide describes preparing Holland potatoes by peeling, square trimming, and shaping 60 NB to an oval. Cut one eighth inch thick, parboil, dry, and fry in moderately hot fat until soft but not colored. Drain, fry again to puff into balls, drain, salt, and serve on napkin or garnish.
Recipe reads like a longhand instruction for making bread dough with warm milk lard yeast sugar eggs butter salt and flour. The method covers warming the mixture proving the dough shaping cutting rolls and baking in a hot oven.
The fragment covers cleaning methods for various items such as furniture, dolls, carpets, dishes, and jewelry using water, ammonia, turpentine, and other agents. It also mentions Utah cotton production with remarks from G C Townes of Salt Lake City and a Chicago Journal quote about a Utah Mor mon settlement and a wooden-pegged factory building.
A jumble of notes covers Supreme Court action in Massachusetts divorce, Admiral Dewey’s return to Washington, Treasury directives on deposits and bonds, and California health boards’ condemnation at a plague conference. Officials discuss anti trust provisions, diplomatic talks, and fiscal policy. Governor Taft orders neutrality in church land disputes while Manila Bay targets reveal precise practice. San Juan mayor rearrested over destroyed records.
A boiler explosion at the Renney refrigerator plant in Grecovile, Michigan killed two and injured about a dozen. Manuel Chavez, a Cuban, was acquitted of murder in Tampa after a sixteen day trial. George Stone, en route to Chicago, was brought to New York from London for murder charges. Labor strife in Chicago led to 4000 clothing workers, including 2000 women, being locked out. The will of Mrs. Mary J. Winthrop leaving $3 million to Princeton Theological Seminary faces contest. Fortunes of Serrer fever halt Forest University recitations. Jewelry store robbery in South Bend, Indiana yielded goods valued at 5000. A Spokane incident resulted in a death during a confrontation over burglary. A Chicago grand jury indicted forty four coal operators for conspiracy to monopolize. The Episcopal churches in Chicago raised nearly 25000 for missions. A canal improvement bill costing 8101,000,000 was introduced in New York. The Milner assembly lower House pushed a direct election for Senators.
Telegrams from Stockholm report widespread famine in northern Sweden affecting about 70 000 people from the Gulf of Bothnia to the Russian border. Starvation drives use of pine bark and moss as famine bread as crops fail and fish vanish. Estimated $30 300 000 needed to avert decimation. $200 000 already subscribed, including over $12 500 from Swedes in the United States.
Miles Sage Snickle defended Disbrow who was acquitted of the murders of Claer ence Foster and Dimple Lawrence. District Attorney Smith, disappointed, said he would not pursue the Lawrence indictment. Verdict reached after defense attacked the couple's character. the jury cleared Disbrow at 4 50 pm amid applause.
Dr Charles Hendrick of Bayonne and former Justice Samuel Stanton of Hoboken, with Laura Biggar, were sentenced by Judge Fish to two and a half years in State Prison for conspiring to gain the Bennett estate. The judge rejected an affidavit from juror Coombs about influence during deliberations and indicated bail pending appeal could be considered.
The Pittsfield Grand Jury charged Euclid Madden and James T. Kelly with manslaughter in the death of Secret Service Agent William Craig during the August collision with the presidential carriage. Both defendants pleaded not guilty and a trial date was set.
The bondsmen of B D Greene and John F Gaynor, fugitives for frauds in Savannas Harbor improvements, will pay into the United States Court registry eighty thousand dollars. The bonds were forfeited in Savannah Georgia. Kirke of Syracuse. Greene's handyman. and late John D Leary of New York City are linked to the Gaynor bond. His executor will pay.
A two-year-old boy died after his six-year-old sister unintentionally shot him with a toy gun at their residence on ELooper's Island Delaware. The gun was not loaded and the girl reportedly exclaimed I will shout you before the shot struck the boy in the head.
Former members of the revolutionary army in Cuba threaten retaliation unless they are silenced by Marcel. The dispute centers on calls for removal and public tension rises amid protests and political pressure.
The article notes two daily papers focused on automobile interests and references various economic and social items. It mentions Monte Carlo losses, a Washington birthday banquet badge, Army birth origins in Germany and elsewhere, Seattle exports to Japan, and other scattered figures.
Snowy election notes recount U S Senate votes with Smoot in Utah, Clarke in Arkansas, Gallinger in New Hampshire, Fairbanks in Indiana, Root in New York, and Stowe in Missouri. Insurgents challenge Platt machine in New York while other states confirm reelection and succession.
The New York Appellate Division Third Department rules the Special Franchise Tax Law of 1399 unconstitutional in its transfer of assessment power from local officers to the State Board of Tax Commissioners citing home rule. Justices Parker Kellogg Chester Smith dissent on scope and state authority. Decision will be appealed to the Court of Appeals for review.
Edouard Labelle and Clarre Pour ier, two French Canadians convicted of murder, were hanged in the Jalquh at Daweron Alaska. The thermometer read sixty below zero. Labelle and Powter fled on horseback toward the Upper Yukon. others named Leon Boutillet e James Constantine and A Boaudoin were killed and their bodies cast into the river.
Nine men died and ten injured west of a collapsed bridge in Collinton near Happy Hollow Washington. The Great Northern bridge crew suffered losses with many workers from the track. A separate note mentions an earthquake in Davos Switzerland with a brief tremor recorded.
In Pitstang Pennsylvania a jury cleared Loulaite Engle of murdering her teenage relative. The court cited no grounds for a charge against her, and the verdict followed the judge’s order. The report notes surrounding health concerns and references unrelated global events.
A Burlington man, David Shatelin, is found dead after apparently falling through ice on a water power near Trenton. Investigators link a diamond ring and gold watch to a likely accidental death. Other items include public salary debates for county officials, farming labor shortages in South Jersey, a Dover double homicide suicide note, a frozen pastor’s son death, and multiple regional agency decisions and public works notes.
The Statistical Abstract for London shows rapid growth last century with city population rising from 320,048 in the eighteenth century to over two million in 1914 including surrounding areas. It notes denser housing and changing living conditions and cites the Boer War cost estimate at 1.2 billion pounds by the War Office.
London reports show the unemployed marching daily under red banners from Mile End to Hyde Park with police escorts. Collectors move wooden boxes as workers receive about thirty seven cents per ticket for sixteen miles of marching amid bitter winter conditions and fatigue.
The government tested a new sixteen inch canal defense rifle at Sandy Hook in three brief runs before hundreds of officers and Congressman Gillette. General Crozier hailed it as an absolute success proving sixteen inch guns can be produced on demand. Doubts linger on future construction due to preference for multiple smaller guns.
A two week segregation experiment at Chicago University shows changes in student behavior. Women adopt casual dress and front seats become available while men sit back. professors note mixed classes affect attention and formality.
Columbia South Carolina reports editor N G Gonzales died after four days of illness following a shooting by Lieutenant Governor Tillman. Formalin treatment was attempted but could not stop blood poisoning from the wound. Mrs. Gonzales was present at his death. Crowds gathered at bulletin boards as news spread.
Domestic troubles sparked a fatal double murder in Purdy Missouri as J My Witt killed his wife and himself. A Norfolk Virginia hanging followed the murder of a colored admiralty official named Treadwell.
A mualelans' union in Quincy Tl doubles members since January 1 1802. At Bridgeport 200 buffers polishers and platers vote to return to work after a six week strike. Broommakers win a twelve percent wage increase in Des Moines Iowa. Tacowa carpenters seek seven and 4 half cents per hour raise. Portage la Prairie teachers strike for higher wages with local leaders backing them. Russian workers win arrears pay and sack foreman in Rostov, denying holiday celebrations.
The Marconi wireless system carried a message from President Roosevelt to King Edward VII and a reply from the King. Cape Cod to Cornwall successfully transmitted the exchange, with officials notifying Secretary Cortellou. The King’s reply thanked the President for the cordial greetings and expressed sincere best wishes.
Mrs. Letitia Eagle wife of S and Eagle superintendent at Pressed Steel Car Company and social figure in Avag Jon suburb faced a criminal court charge for the murder of her thirteen year old ward Edna Warner. The coroner had said death by suicide but DA Haywaker ordered an information and Eagle pleaded innocence.
Tampa Florida Judge Isaac A Stewart of Volusia County’s Criminal Court was jailed for thirty days by Hillsborough County Judge Graham for contempt after refusing to testify about alleged purchases of letters found in a physician’s rooms connected to a death case. Stewart tried to read a written statement instead of being sworn.
Christian Lesher and wife near Castle Green Pa recount a fatal accident as two children left with a grandfather rope play on a second floor bed. The younger child became entangled by a rope around the neck and fell fatally, while the elder child continued playing unaware of the tragedy.
News from Manila reports the Sultan of Jolo died of cholera. His mother had gone to Jolo as a slave and her ascent mirrors the Dowager Empress of China. She once asked the Philippine Commission for permission to help protect her son in the sultanate.
Report of a trainload of coal seized by Arcola residents ending with settlement payment. The coal belonged to a mining and manufacturing company. A bill favoring the action was received and a payment to cover the amount was sent.
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