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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1903
Page
4
The Christiana Sweden police have adopted a method to monitor professional thieves. Each thief is assigned a number and must report at least twice daily to headquarters to confirm whether they are in town or away on a job. The approach allows rapid verification of suspects amid ongoing theft activity.
Commissioner Ware reports 996545 pensioners on rolls, with 729356 soldiers and 267189 widows and dependents. He urges laws to forfeit pensions for crime, stop pensions to wives who marry veterans, improves exam methods, and supports expert boards traveling to examine claims.
Miners at the Risco mine in Gem Idaho, a leading producer in the Coeur d'Alene district, walked out and closed the mine fearing ongoing explosions and earthquakes. Officials note tremors originate below the 1800 foot level from cracking rock, with mining engineers citing rock fracturing as the cause.
Lancaster, Pa major J M Riddle and family hunted in Chester County when he fired at a supposed squirrel. He found his eight year old grandson Robert Mackerell dying in his arms. The boy cried You have shot me and died en route to a spring.
New York analyst J C Crown interprets September crop data as signaling a colossal corn yield, with 2 269 billion bushels, and a 669 811 million bushel wheat crop, the third largest in U S history. Bulls on Wall Street greet the optimistic outlook amid June market chatter.
The Tuberculosis Committee of the Charity Organization Society surveyed crowded Harlem era tenements on The Long Block bounded by Cherry Catherine Usaimil tan and Market Streets. Ernest Poole reported 265 consumption cases in nine years with 104 from old tenements.
A severe storm from the southwest battered the British Isles causing widespread damage. Lloyds reports over fifty serious shipping casualties as many vessels foundered and crews lost. Coastal towns and interior farms suffered. harvest late, hop gardens ruined, and rivers flooded. Telegraphs were down for a period.
The American Mining Congress urged Congress to pass a law creating a department of mines with a presidential cabinet representative. The group adopted a constitution and by laws and read Senator Morgan of Alabama’s letter responding to an invitation from Secretary Mahon to address Congress.
Navy approves three years of leave for Commander Peary starting April 1 and assigns him to the Bureau of Yards and Docks. He is to begin the polar dash July 1, 2004, per Washington dispatches.
Reports describe mass killings, enslavement, and famine across the Monastir and Adrianople regions as Turkish and Albanian troops burn villages, massacre Bulgarians, and force civilians into forests. Thousands starve while insurgent clashes continue and European protests fail to halt the carnage.
Foreign consulants from Caracas report that President Castro is preparing to invade Colombia. About nine thousand troops were sent toward Los Andes on the Colombia Venezuela border and ammunition has moved daily from La Guaira for a week. The origin and destination of these forces remain unclear.
In Anniston Alabama the Holiness sect leader has been arrested for refusing to summon a doctor for his daughter who is critically ill with typhoid fever after the town mayor ordered medical care. Also noted are varied items from racing and sports circles, including track mentions and sailing results.
Philadelphia authorities report an attempted counterfeit coin operation inside Eastern State Penitentiary. Inspectors George Vaux Jr and W D Robinson confirmed that convicts planned to produce counterfeit silver coins including dimes quarters and half dollars with dies and metals seized. United States Secret Service detectives joined the investigation to determine possible employee involvement.
Reports from Eastern Maine indicate large deer herds this autumn with many animals wintering well. Some deer are venturing into clearings to nibble on clover while most remain in the woods along streams and lakes. The dry spring aided fawn growth and overall feed quality improves prospects for the hunting season.
Furnifold G. Simmons, father of Senator J. M. Simmons, was found murdered near the river at his old homestead after a search prompted by his disappearance. He had been shot several times with a shotgun and battered, with the motive unknown. Lena Nichols and James Simmons, both notified, aided in the investigation. An unnamed man was arrested as the suspect.
A gang of seven to eight men held valley springs residents at bay with revolvers and robbed the Minnehaha County Bank between 2 and 2 30 in the morning fleeing with as much as 12000 dollars. Citizens fired on them as they shot into the doors and a posse formed after dawn.
Melieenport city treasurer Sam uel Milliken debates resigning as delinquent taxes dwindle boosting his pay. He forecasts annual take of about 2108.50 with 1300 clerk costs leaving under 1000 for the year. In Chicago a jewelry store loses 12000 dollars in watches and jewels after a burglary. A major snowstorm blankets South Dakota with two feet of snow delaying trains from Medora to Kenmore.
Report details drownings of children from Lite Rock Iowa after the Vite Rock River flood washed out a bridge. Coast gale sinks the Don de Dieu with eleven crew lost. Atlantic City surf claims Samuel Stevenson of Dierensburg Wa and other wrecks. Wheat crops across the Softfivent ruined by Friday Saturday storms.
Fragmentary report from a historical page mentions a death and an official figure, with multiple garbled names and places. The readable elements include references to New York, the Philippines, a group of soldiers, a National body, and a person named Robert, but concrete facts are too distorted to confirm.
Advices received by the New York Herald from many districts show unanimous optimism for continued prosperity. Trade is improving, no major wage cuts, building trades slowdowns seen as temporary, and banks report steady or improving conditions with few large failures. Local and national reports point to resumed activity in industries, carpentry, and transportation.
Nine crewmen drown when the steamship Inchavla goes ashore near Boynton, Florida. The captain and fourteen crew survive. damage also hits Palm Beach and Tampa with property losses and two storm deaths in Tampa. A Carnegie Observatory plan and Colombia Canal treaty news follow.
The Labor World reports rising union activity in Germany and Canada with 175000 employed in clgurs in Germany and 33000 in the Brewery Workers Association. Toronto teachers discuss forming a wage-focused union. New Orleans river workers ousted. streetcar workers fund sick benefits. painters and decorators grow to about 70000. Omaha letter carriers demand higher pay. England discusses tuberculosis hospital plans for workers. Michigan unions show 400 percent member growth with wage gains and shorter workdays.
Wholesale prices from New York Mile include milk, beans, fruit, poultry, vegetables, and meats. The list covers creamery butter, canned goods, dried beans, apples, cranberries, fowls, turkeys, potatoes, tomatoes, peas, lettuce, cabbage, citrus, flour, lard, and live livestock with quoted per unit prices and ranges.
Northwest rains lift outlook but frost risk looms in Nebraska Kansas and the Dakotas. Kansas rain aids corn moisture while two warm weeks could boost yields. Wet and dry pockets affect wheat seeding and spring wheat progress shown in the Northern Rocky Mountain states. Banking and trade tone hopeful for crop movement with improved iron and steel demand.
Reports indicate average crop prospects in New Bagh and portions of the Middle Altiatide States including Iowa Kansas and Oklahoma. Missouri shows a light crop while New York remains near average though fruit quality is good in the lint namie State.
A cable to Surgeon General Wynan in Washington states the Cuba plague report is a virulence type of imidaria and asserts there is no danger of plague.
A Maine Bath Times note describes Squirrel Island's first town meeting granting women suffrage and allowing non residents to vote or hold office, with comparisons to U S governance and Porto Rico like autonomy. It also quotes critique about Thoreau’s care for nature and ends noting the value of splitting differences when opinions diverge.
A German cult calling itself Nature Men forms around Gustav Nagel who lives in a Berlin outskirts wood with minimal clothing and open air existence. He has about fifty followers including a fiancée in a smock, and no colony is planned at Arendsee. Nagel sells his plate-aid book Heat Women In the World.
A historical note explains weighing ice by volume, using 92.1 percent of water weight per cubic foot to estimate pounds. A nearby anecdote recalls a Dayne Arkansas exchange dialogue about a ballgame and warm weather. The snippet ends with a short line on a blind beggar and business in New York.
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