23 Oct 1903
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1903
Page
1
A New York American critique notes that The Woman Who Toil reveals a deep social divide between rich and poor. It praises the authors for piercing the silent gap with honest observation of workers and calls for action to end modern industrial slavery.
A Youth's Companion editor discusses a story about a man born to a traumatic destiny who shadows his life with inaction and fear. A confidante woman senses his tragedy is self made, not fate, and shows the danger of pride and reluctance to feel or act.
A voiced guide urges men to value marriage contracts, cherish wife through words and deeds, and avoid neglect after wedding. It extols pre marriage romance, small gestures, and sincere affection as keys to a harmonious union. It warns against hypocrisy and urges shared faith and church involvement as a household duty.
Opinion piece laments lax attitudes toward labor among workers and critics the focus on rights over duties. It urges leaders to preach the value of good work as a personal service and inspiration, warning against disdain for daily tasks and stressing devotion to work as healthful and essential.
Fashionable society and the poor in East London increasingly favor snuff while many West End shops avoid it for profit reasons. Snuff houses cater to aristocratic clientele and printers in Fleet Street are noted heavy users, despite concerns about its social acceptability. Meanwhile Germany lays more transatlantic cable and church attendance in London trends downward.
A reader reflects on a persistent climber who nears the peak of success but never reaches it. He contemplates fate and effort, noting others pass him while he hesitates. The piece ends with a call that others see room for more striving.
A rear end collision on the Belvidere division killed sixteen track laborers and injured thirty five near Summerset. Most victims were Italian. three bodies remain unidentified. A repair train carrying over a hundred workers was struck by a gravel train in drizzle, wrecking two passenger coaches and delaying rescue efforts as crews and hostile bystanders hampered assistance.
A 20 year old telegraph operator at Welch's Spur station on the Northern Pacific stopped a planned hold up by two masked men. Forcing him inside, the bandits turned the signal light to halt the North Coast Limited, but the boy wired Homestake to warn the engine crew not to stop, and then the thieves fled.
George Schwigler Jr. twenty years old of Kahokla died by self inflicted pistol shot after suffering a leg wound from an accidental shotgun discharge while he and his uncle fished near Alton on the Missouri side of the Mississippi. The uncle, returning to the boat, heard the shot as he prepared to take him home.
In Washington, prosecutors and officials expressing concern over the juried verdict in the Miller Johns conspiracy case. A new trial will be sought, likely at the next general term, unless stronger evidence is found. The setback may deter future postal case prosecutions and impact ongoing efforts.
The Dominican Government informed the U S Minister Powell it will recall the DM presented before Congress proposing neutrality of Dominican waters and declaring certain harbors free ports amid the protest.
Jay aged thirty-five a famed Buncombe County physician and Barnardsville resident murdered his three children aged six four and two with a claw hammer. The Indiana State Board of Health bars re employment of tuberculosis teachers amid statewide investigations involving 250 teachers. Kim the Girl Miss Trelon Kelly aged eighteen shot and killed in San Francisco by Albert Beckmain after a dispute over a trousseau.
Miss Pansy Ballard an eighteen year old State University student in Lincoln Nebraska ingested carbolic acid while kneeling at the confessional in St Serosa’s Pro-Cathedral. After a silent prayer she whispered to the priest that she had poisoned herself and died ten minutes later. Ballard daughter of Elias Ballard a former banker now in milling and wholesale interests, faced family pressure about education and convent ties.
Brigadier General Funston reports to the military department of the District of Columbia urging higher pay scales for privates through first sergeants on first enlistment with length of service increases. He argues better incentives are needed to attract and retain good soldiers and notes high desertion and low reenlistment. He also recommends abolishing chapeau and epaulets for general officers.
Lew York Cry, superintendent of foreign mails for 24 years, was arrested for stealing money from mail bags. Inspector Boyle assisted by Inspector Meyers made the arrest after a tense scene. Hall offered no comment. investigators are unsure how the money vanished.
Mingled items report the capture of Herriman, blamed for stealing Mindanao government funds and arming with a native crew. A grounded steamship Victoria was seized, a boat crew killed four, Herriman fled to Negros mountains, 1700 pesos recovered. Also noted is Ohio action to ban toy pistols as Fourth of July injuries mount.
Fire swept Aberdeen Washington destroying ten city blocks including Abeopers House two hotels two banks and a hospital. Four people died and property loss reached 30000. Firefighting used dynamite on several buildings to halt the flames.
The article notes 79000 passports issued under Secretary Hay far more than any predecessor, a Supreme Court docket of 433 cases with 182 added during expansion, rural free delivery seeking 20 million dollars next Congress, a 12.5 million prior year allocation, a Roosevelts dinner for Sir Ian Hamilton, mass naturalization under new law, foreign individuals holding 31 million in U S bonds, Naval Board prioritizing speed over armor, and Navy estimates for 1905 totaling 105 million dollars.
A chaotic dispatch lists vast locust purges in the field, steamer voyages from Honolulu to the Gilbert Islands, political resignations in Porto Rico, trials in Manila, and royal and colonial updates. It notes labor unrest, court sentences, and industrial shifts across multiple regions with numerous named people and places.
American artillery units departed Santa Clara and No 5 batteries aboard the Kilpatrick for home. President Palma and officials observed as Cuban guards and troops paraded. About 2000 people gathered at Punta and the palace to see the transit, with Palma wishing prosperity to the troops. Palma granted pardons to three soldiers to join the homeward journey.
Isaac Gravelles, a former convict known as Hoteau Mont-Isaac, was arrested in his cabin after a watchman reported a man digging under railroad tracks. Captured with a rite and revolver, he allegedly masterminded dynamite outrages on the Northern Pacific, with a positive identity tied to a haystack discovery of fifty pounds of dynamite near Townsend.
In Omaha Nebraska Charles E Wood a prominent banker from Talmage was saved from a deadly strangulation when surgeons removed a golden palate that had slipped into his throat. The device had rested in his mouth for years and allowed him to speak but became dislodged leading to near suffocation. Specialists from the city performed the life saving operation after local doctors failed.
In Newburg Oregon bandits seized the town for two hours aiming to blow the Bank of Newburg vault. Several dynamite charges failed to break the vault, and the bandits fled toward Portland on horseback. The vault held about twenty thousand dollars and the bank building was heavily damaged.
New Jersey to harvest most of its cranberry crop with minimal loss as frost fears ease. State accounts for 34 percent of national production, with Cane Cod leading at 53.5 percent. Estimated 1,000,000 bushels statewide this year, up from 250,000 last year, with New Jersey contributing 300,000 of the total. Frosted berries still marketable for cooking. Meanwhile, a trolley expansion from Jersey City to Trenton via New Brunswick is set for November 15, with lines and rights of way detailed. Sussex County faces near bankruptcy after floods, as Freeholders meet to discuss revenue measures. Woodston reports scarce turkeys due to wet weather. Cinnaminson Township votes to run the coming year without township taxes, relying on state and county funding.
Gardner Colby of 132 Harrison Street East Orange caught the largest Oswego bass seen in the Oranges in years. The five and a half pound fish came from a pond on Orange Mountain during a recent outing.
At the Pittsburg end of the new Wabast bridge over the Monongahela River five beams on a crane gave way burying workers under over a hundred feet of collapsing structure. Eight bodies recovered with about a dozen injured. crews and skiffs recovered more bodies from the river and wreckage. Witness John McTighe described the sudden collapse as the traveler top fell and men tumbled into the water.
Baltimore Maryland sees the Maryland Trust Company with 2.325 million in capital and the Union Trust Company with 1 million suspend after the public refuses to buy securities backing rail ventures. Together their liabilities exceed 10 million. The Maryland firm held Vera Crag and Pacific Railroad securities, a Mexican scheme, while the Union held South and Western Railroad stock, a Virginia scheme. The pair’s collapses follow rumors and threaten broader market confidence despite Seaboard bank resumption.
Isaac W Morton a St Louis multimillionaire city councilman and philanthropist died by his own hand at the Curvre Club near O Fallon. He had long faced sleeplessness blamed on thirty years of constant business focus. Before shooting himself he wrote farewell letters to family and friends and served as a director of the World’s Fair and Washington University.
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