28 Nov 1902
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Newspaper
Decatur Weekly News
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1902
Page
1
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The Philadelphia Public Ledger reports Wayne MacVeagh's statement on private settlement efforts between anthracite coal companies and miners. Attorneys for coal firms have returned home to confer with leaders. no negotiations will occur until they are empowered to bargain.
Ardmore I T reports a serious flood in the Washita and Blue valleys Chickasaw nation with four days of rain. Homes abandoned, bridges washed out, and rail traffic halted as rivers overflow. Washington notes limited legislation expected in the upcoming short session.
In Bucharest on November 24 the disciplinary council of the Romanian bar ruled that only Romanian citizens may practice law or serve as clerks for lawyers, a decision perceived as aimed directly at Jewish professionals.
Liverpool on November 24 notes wheat imports for the previous week reached 70 500 quarters from Atlantic ports with none from Pacific and 83 000 quarters from other ports. Corn imports from Atlantic ports were reported as 000 quarters for the same period.
Chicago on November 24 reports the death of Walter N Mills father of Luther Laffin Mills and a pioneer wholesale dry goods merchant. He was born in 1821 and died Sunday at his daughter Mrs Caroline J Baker’s residence.
The report notes Roosevelt did not shoot a bear in Mississippi. Other items span Sheriff Dudley’s Indiana dismissal over prisoner protection, wage talks in Pennsylvania coal regions, and a flood of notes from the Philippines volcano disasters to political races, crime, and notable deaths.
Acting on instructions from the United States state department Consul General Gowdy requests four representative American physicians in Paris to form a commission. They will conduct an autopsy and report on how Mrs. Ellen Gore was shot in the room of singer De Rydzerki.
An old advertisement promotes Scott's Emulsion for those who cannot eat bread and milk diets, claiming it helps gain flesh, support bone and nerve tissue, and aid invalids, convalescents, weak children, and consumptives. It promises a free sample and urges the label photo be on every bottle wrapper.
Edmund L Gros notes doctors in Paris must expedite autopsy as Gowdy seeks remains. French and American investigators debate bullet trajectory with conclusions differing on range. American consul staff collect independent depositions to be sent to Washington amid funeral arrangements at Rue De Berri.
An observer stresses there is no official doubt about the thoroughness of French justice in the inquiry into the death of Mrs. Sore. The observer describes the examination of the person near the crime scene without implying any interference or bias.
Paris officials fast tracked a reconstruction of the fatal scene as part of the preliminary inquiry into Mrs Gore's death. De Rydzewiski reenacted the events under cross examination before magistrates and police, with limited witnesses present. American doctors will be allowed to perform the autopsy.
Postmasters will start receiving the new eight cent stamp on December 1 featuring Martha Washington’s head. Design praised as among the department’s most beautiful. Dispatches from western Kansas report a coal famine with no coal in Seward and nearby counties as railroads confiscate consignments.
Pittsburg on November 24 reports Henry Clay Frick will present a plan to build a university in Pittsburgh that would outrival the Polytechnic school funded by Andrew Carnegie with a five million dollar endowment.
Mrs. C. J. Pointer and her family leave town today for Birmingham to reside. The News will follow them to their new home as will the best wishes of the entire community. N. B. Alt & Sons report two draft horses dying suddenly and mysteriously yesterday.
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