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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1902
Page
3
A Senate address argues that import duty reductions won’t fix monopoly harms and urges tariff commission action. It lauds labor unions and corporations, stresses the nation’s vast wealth, and calls for measured regulation to curb evils while preserving industrial growth and the constitution.
In a key message to Congress, the push for nationwide regulation of interstate trusts argues that state action is insufficient. It emphasizes preserving property rights while curbing abusive corporate power, proposing a national framework to oversee monopolies and prevent harmful practices.
The era favors federation in business and labor as essential to modern industry. Both capital and labor federations can yield benefits or cause harm. opposition should target actions of specific corporations or unions, not the organizations themselves, recognizing the good work many have achieved.
The president states the island should be given consideration and hopes to submit a reciprocity treaty with Cuba to the senate. He recalls that on May 2 the United States vacated Cuban soil, transferring control to the new Cuban officials chosen by its people.
The article explains the Commercial Pacific Cable Company's push to lay a trans Pacific line from the Philippines to China, via Honolulu, and the pending congressional action. It notes the government’s preference to attach conditions on access to soundings and landing rights, including a maximum rate for commercial messages, with Congress reserving power to modify or repeal. The project awaits within months readiness for business.
On July 4, the 126th anniversary of independence, peace and amnesty were proclaimed in the Philippine islands. Some intermittent trouble with Mohammedan Moros has occurred since, but the government maintains the policy of holding the islands.
The President argues for Cuban reciprocity to bind Cuba to the United States and foster regional stability. He supports arbitration via The Hague, calls for completing the isthmian canal, and praises the Philippines administration, army reforms, and the need for a general staff to modernize military logistics.
The text urges prompt action to reorganize the National Guard and define its relation to militia and volunteer forces. It calls for modernizing obsolete laws and enabling the secretary of war to maintain cavalry horses, arguing worn-out mounts should be repurposed for nearby posts rather than discarded.
A national address urges increased naval funding and manpower. It calls for larger shipbuilding, expanded Annapolis classes, more officers, better crew training, and a robust reserve of sailormen and mechanics to deter war and support the Monroe doctrine. It also covers post office gains, rural free delivery, irrigation, and Alaska and Indian policy.
London reports De Wet's Three Years of War portrays the Boer campaign with stark honesty. He criticizes British generals, praises Knox, and urges fellow countrymen to loyalty to the new government. The work lauds Boers' faith and notes England would have fallen without misplaced British resolve.
Washington reports the annual comptroller Ridgley’s table shows 4 601 national banks with aggregate resources of 6.1139 billion dollars as of September 15 1902 and individual deposits at a record 3.2093 billion dollars. It notes growth since 1892 when 9 338 banks reported and deposits totaled 4.6793 billion.
The secretary of war reports on October 15 1902 the regular establishment had 3 586 officers and 66 003 enlisted men totaling 69 589. Hospital corps added 3 598. Philippine scouts 4 978 enlisted natives under 100 officers, Porto Rico provisional regiment 840 enlisted under 20 officers. By October 24 1902 an order cut enlisted strength to 59 866.
Chicago reports a Swift & Co plant boiler explosion on Saturday morning killing thirteen workers and injuring scores. Debris wrecked nearby buildings as bodies and injured were carried to hospitals while windows, walls, and roofs were torn apart in the blast. In Manila, efforts to restore Philippine agriculture falter due to a lack of oxen from an epidemic and funding shortages hindering planned imports.
Philadelphia authorities arrest the parents after weeks of inquiry into the deaths of Annie Williams nine and her sister Josephine three. A coroner directed chemical analysis supports the physician's poison theory. It is alleged the girls were insured for 115 and 30 dollars respectively.
The Hague Dec 1 Prof Asser the arbitrator has delivered his award in favor of the United States on the seizure of American vessels by Russia ten years ago. He fixes damages for four American schooners at 101270 dollars.
Fond du Lac Wisconsin December first telegraph operators on the Wisconsin Central railroad receive a five dollar monthly raise for every employee in that department, boosting pay across the board.
A Chicago and Baltimore express eastbound on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad collided with a freight train near Carbon Pa due to an open switch. One man, Howard Bradley of Pittsburgh, was killed and three others injured including Walter Miller and H E Townsend of Pittsburgh and Frank Miller of Chicago. The express car telescoped and both locomotives were wrecked. The brakeman is alleged to have failed to throw the switch after leaving the siding.
Put-in-Bay Ohio reports that the steam barge D. F. Rose, owned by L. B. Parker of Marine City Michigan, and the barge Mosher, owned by Captain David Hutchinson of Port Huron, struck a reef in Saturday night gale. Both are feared total losses. The Rose was beached on the south shore of Put-in-Bay and the Mosher settled on the reef with her back broken. The accompanying barges Wawanash and Lyman Casey escaped to Port Huron yesterday, leaking badly.
Nov 29 report says J S Miller notified police that three men were drowned crossing the river near East Liverpool. One missing man later found alive. Elmer Lewis of Monaca and an unknown Irishman remain missing along with two Monaca men. The group, all mill workers, drank and crossed in a skiff that upset.
Washington D. H. Nov. 26. Former State Senator Frank G Carpenter of this city reports a legislative mistake repealing the wrong section of a law, creating no method to serve summons on a domestic corporation in Ohio. He warns corporations may exploit the gap and suggests possible Supreme Court action for construction of the law.
George Gilmore of Pittsburg with Weston WV HQ sold options on 50 000 acres of West Virginia coal lands along the new Wabash route to Wabash railroad representatives. The railroad has contracted to build the line at once and focus on coal development. Price not disclosed.
Isaac Sanders, a Black porter at the Ross Meyer Machinery Co factory, was charged with murder in Cincinnati after Edward Saatkamp, the factory’s accountant and acting superintendent, was found dead last Sunday. Sanders allegedly admitted to detectives he expected a conviction and would accept ten years as punishment.
Columbus, Nov. 27. Former State Treasurer Wm. T. Cope, 66, died at his home from a paralytic stroke suffered last Friday. A former state representative, he was well known across the state. He leaves a widow and two sons, Darry Cope of Columbus and Edward Cope, a Cincinnati banker.
Frank Smith aged 25 was found guilty of murder in the second degree for the August 20 Gloucester killings of Perry Oxley and Charles Brown. The jury reached the verdict Sunday afternoon after taking the case Saturday in Athens Ohio.
Webster Yingling captain and halfback of Newcomerstown Athletic club was probably fatally injured in a football game here yesterday against Coshocton.
East Liverpool November 27 Mrs Ede win M O Connor after testifying in a case where her brother was defendant and her mother plaintiff collapsed with paralysis and fell to the floor her illness prompted a rapid settlement of the suit.
A 60 ton rotary exploded at Union paper mills early yesterday, killing Roy Taylor aged 22 instantly. Debris blasted through four brick walls and landed about 100 feet away, injuring no others.
Daniel Hazem, 75, a prominent Alliance citizen, was killed when a fractious horse spooked by an electric car threw him in front of the vehicle. The motorman deployed the safety brake but Hazem was ground to death before the car could stop.
Liquor dealers here have organized an association to discover and convict dealers who violate the closing ordinance.
Bert Kaiser a well known Cuyahoga county prisoner was arraigned in the penitentiary court Friday afternoon for hugging and kissing his girl in plain view of visitors during Thanksgiving exercises Thursday. He received a reprimand.
Akron November 29 Philip Hoffman lies dying from knife wounds in the abdomen. Mike Spitzsele and Jesse Carpenter are under arrest for the crime after a quarrel earlier in the day over a woman.
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