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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1902
Page
7
Two trainmen died and five were injured in a rear end collision near Litchfield Illinois when the Illinois Central Diamond Special struck a freight train. Fireman E B Burns and brakeman Frank McIntyre perished. fog and locomotive trouble cited as factors.
A 15 ton rock rolled from a mountainside and struck a work train caboose west of Little Rock on the Choc taw Oklahoma and Gulf railroad. Seven men died and at least 14 were seriously injured as sand cars buried many workers beneath rubble and sand. The crash occurred two miles west of Little Mounmelle after heavy rains loosened the rock.
Marshalltown Iowa February 17 four lives were lost when a northbound light engine collided with a passenger train one mile north of Gifford. The engineers Wallace Frew Elmer Ogle and John White and Frank Patton died. Several passengers were slightly injured. Frew failed to clear the passenger at Gifford for unknown reasons.
In Connellsville Pennsylvania on February 17 engineers T. W. Lyons of McKees Rocks and P. W. Desot of Buffalo were killed when freight trains on the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad crashed at Round Bottom after one crew member reportedly disobeyed orders.
A party of seven in Cleveland on a coasting outing crashed into a stone abutment of the Erie railroad bridge at the hill's base. Patrick Fallon suffered a fractured skull and physicians fear for his life as others sustained injuries.
The excerpt notes William Lecky’s praise for Washington as commander in chief shaping the revolution’s success. It contrasts Washington’s limited intellect with his superior military judgment, discipline, and administration, while detailing contemporary critics and rivals who underestimated him but whose views faded as his leadership grew.
In colonial New Jersey three ordinary men convene in a farmhouse as three others arrive for orders. A coded dispatch to Jean Paul Jones is prepared while a test of cunning unfolds using nuts and elder as a metaphor for strategy. General Washington presides over the dialogue and choices.
A compact verse recounts a boy who shuns envy and tells lies at school, noting his father Washington’s absence and a motherly eye. The speaker recalls honesty, mischief, and the expectation of being found out by a strict mother.
The article quotes Thomas Jefferson and correspondence with Count Chastellux discussing marriage. Jefferson mocks French views of domestic felicity and notes it as a contagion as he praises American domestic life. It also records advice given to a widow about matrimonial consent and agency.
Isaac Weld, writing in Washington III 1797, describes President Washington at the end of his second term. He notes a compact chest muscle, slender limbs, a small head, light gray eyes, and a long nose. Weld cites portraitist Mr. Stuart who says Washington’s features reveal strong, ungovernable passions, and speculates he would be the fiercest savage if born among forest tribes.
Israel Zangwill speaks on Basel meeting prospects noting D Hocal may secure a charter for Palestine via negotiations with the sultan of Turkey. He predicts large contributions once a charter is obtained, with roughly $1,000,000 already pledged by a few subscribers and hope for refuge for poor Jews.
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