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Newspaper

Defiance Weekly Express

Location

Defiance, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 30, 1903

Page

6

Cheap Homes Along the Cotton Belt Route Open Land Values

African ad style notice describing affordable farming and grazing land in Texas Arkansas and nearby states. Highlights include timber ground for grazing crops fruits and vegetables and long growing seasons. Promotes literature on the Southwest and offers discounted railroad tickets via the Cotton Belt Route with stopovers and a 21 day return limit.

Southwest Missouri Arkansas An. W. Louisiana Texas St. Louis Thebes Cairo Memphis Louisiana E. W. LA Beaume Gp.& TA

Low rates and travel options to western states via rail

An advertisement highlights low one way and round trip fares via Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route from St. Louis and Kansas City to Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Utah, Colorado, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Pacific Coast points. Through sleeping cars and free reclining chairs, plus best dining car service, with contact for illustrated matter. The water wheel revival and power economics are discussed with turbines and dynamos powering coast plants, plus a note on saving and thrift prizes from a Chicago trust firm.

Louis Kansas City Kansas Missouri Nebraska Utah Colorado Arkansas Texas Louisiana Pacific Coast St. Louis G. A. A. Deane Sentinel Indianapolis Atlantic Pacific East San Francisco Sierra Nevada Mountains Maine Georgia Atlantic Seaboard Mississippi Valley West Virginia

Various World Notes Affects Labor Droughts and Disasters

A sweeping digest of brief items notes a Oswego strike settled for an eight hour day delaying a broader labor walkout. Other items cover a St Bernard dog saving a child in New Jersey, court martial probes in Alaska, and a fatal stove accident in Brooklyn. Sugar prices rise, floods, fires, and arctic snow deaths are reported alongside political and business moves in Maryland, Ontario, and beyond.

Oswego N. Y Manor Tucker New Jersey Bloomfield Watessing N. J Root Alaska Nina Corraglio Brooklyn Latvia Fom Lehigh Coal and Gation Co Panther Creek Silesia William Mortimer Clark Toronto Province of Oliver Mowat Cumberland Isabel Whitehurst

Lowell Mills Face Costly Wage Demands As Board Reports

Massachusetts Board of Arbitration finds Lowell textile firms largely cannot fund a 10 percent wage rise sought by organized labor, except Lawrence Manufacturing Co which can. Board cites cost of living rise since 1897 and varying wage increases, notes mills lack modernity and face southern competition on coarser goods.

Boston State Board of Arbitration Lawrence Manufacturing Co Lowell Massachusetts Mills Seling Fall River New Bedford

Smugglers Exposed by Young Witness in Buffalo Case

In Buffalo on April 23 James Fox testified about a organized gang smuggling hundreds of Chinamen across Niagara River. Federal officials arrested George F. Judson as alleged gang leader while Fox pressed his case, with broader links to firms in New York Chicago and Toronto and potential future disclosures.

Young Butrato Buffalo N. Y Niagara River James Fox Fox Canada Pacific Vancouver Toronto Uni George FE. Judson New York Chicago

Catastrophic oil plant blast kills ten in Minneapolis

An explosion at the Northwestern Star Oil Co plant on Sixth Avenue Minneapolis fatally wounds ten workers, with eight men and two women dead. The blaze, caused possibly by ignition of inflammable oil in the basement, wipes out the office and leaves a precarious search for more bodies. Insurance totals, building loss, and a fire wall remain as remnants of the disaster.

Kinea Minneapolis Minn Northwestern Star Oil Co Sixth Avenue J. Davis Durrin W. Mitchell Jacob Domm Caroline A. Record Harold €. Colbern Ella M. Rounder David Dacey John Spontanske Joseph la Fond Will Larson Charles Aironson Joe McGinty Walter E. Scott Joseph Dronick E. J. Link Joseph Livingsto W. H. Davis

Riots in Illinois House Over Traction Bills

The Illinois House saw a violent melee around the speaker's platform as rival street railway and municipal ownership bills triggered chaos. Reports say bribery accusations were leveled at Speaker John H. Miller as chairs and fixtures were overturned amid the tumult.

Moll House ‘of Representatives Springfield Illinois John H. Miller Legislative Gener Unition Co Chicago Street Railway Chicago City Council Ilinois House of Representatives

Tyner’s Dismissal Over Missing Post Office Papers

Postmaster General Payne dismissed James N. Tyner assistant attorney general for the post office department amid charges that papers and records in Tyner’s safe were taken with help from Mrs Tyner. Officials warned about confidential government papers and debated whether missing documents were government property.

Payne James N. Tyner Post Office Department Tyner Knox Postofice Department Ross Perry Tyners Mr. Perry G. A.C Fianes Christianey

War in Africa Mad Mullah Victorious in One Battle

In East Africa and Somaliland British forces suffer heavy losses as Mad Mullahs claim victory near Berbera and Danop. Brigadier Manning relieves Col. Cobbe after a costly engagement. about 2,000 Mullah forces are reported killed. Concurrent dispatches describe Paris unrest and Bell’s flying machine research.

Mad Mullah Aden Arabia Berbera East Africa Somaliland Col Cobbe Manning

Hay And Cassini Confer On Russia Demands In Manchuria

Washington April 27 Russia demands in Manchuria and their effect on American interests were the subject of a near hour long conference yesterday afternoon between Secretary Hay and Count Cassini the Russian ambassador at Hay's house. Steps have been taken to assess the request and note of inquiry has been sent to St Petersburg and Peking to protest and seek explanations. Open door policy and China’s integrity cited. Russia says trade concessions may follow negotiations. A St Petersburg dispatch says China has the Russian proposal on duties at lake boundaries.

Hussia Manchuria Washington Russia Hay Count Cassini State Department McCormick St. Petersburg Cable Conger Peking United States China Ional Pekin London

MobKilling of Youth Sparks Race Tension Near Santa Fe

In Thebes Minnesota a mob attacked Black residents after a man aged about 17 allegedly assaulted the 10 year old daughter of farmer Branson Davis near Santa Fe. The tents housing Black workers were burned and many were struck. Hundreds of gun rounds were exchanged with no whites harmed. Branson Davis lives half a mile east of Santa Fe.

A Thebes Santa Fe Brans Davis Branson Davis Senta Fe

Reliance makes builder’s trial amid brisk winds at Bristol

Bristol April 27 The new America’s Cup challenger Reliance completed a two hour trial run. C Oliver Iselin expressed great satisfaction with the vessel’s speed and handling in beating and going to windward. Government troops were reported in San Domingo as rebels overran San Carlos and nearby areas. Whitecap Raid in Bloomington ends with two sisters whipped. a black man also assaulted. A fatal street car collision in St Louis killed one and injured ten. Adolph Openham, once thought dead in Harlem river leap, was found near High Bridge. Madrid elections favor Republicans with gains in major cities. Barcelona unrest and casualties reported. Lenox end collision between Grand Trunk and freight rails two killed.

Bristol R. T Narragansett Bay Reliance C. Oliver Iselin Syudroneof Sare Ors Ing

Roosevelt Resumes Tour With Yellowstone Gate Ceremony

President Roosevelt restarts his western tour with the laying of the Yellowstone park northern entrance cornerstone in a Masonic ceremony. Crowds from Gardiner and nearby towns witnessed the event as Troops and bands stood guard while Maj. Pitcher escorted the president to a decorated stand. He praised the park’s natural wonders and thanked soldiers for his two weeks holiday.

Roosevelt Yellowstone Park Gardiner Mont Montana Maj. Pitcher Third Cavalry Frank Smith Alliance Neb Edgemont S. D New Castle Wyo Crawford Tenth Cavalry Gillette Moorcroft Ardmore Grand Island Island St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Trade Bulletin and Miscellaneous Notices From April Reports

Trade Bulletin notes brisk weather lifting activity in wearing apparel while wholesale caution remains. Rail freight improves due to lake navigation. steel demand steady as bridges and buildings revive. Failures: 166 in the U S and 15 in Canada. Avoca mine cave-in causes townwide unease. Colorado cruiser launched. Miss Peabody christened. Lincoln train robbery nets 1000 and a 50,000 haul untraced. Coopers strike. Jennie Flood under investigation for murder. Chinese laundries strike for $5 daily. 10,000 miners resume work after mass meeting. St Louis exposition mission list shows Prince of Wales as president.

R. G. Dun & New York April Co Review of Trade United States Canada

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