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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1904
Page
2
Washington notes tariff reformers uneasy as Western Republicans worry that new pensions canal and public building bills will exhaust the treasury. They foresee annual costs around 30 million for pensions and the Isthmian canal, with river harbor and public building plans adding to deficits. They stress no revenue cuts while deficits loom and seek a remedy.
Official figures show the United States again tops global exports in 1903 with domestic product exports totaling 1 457 565 783 dollars. Britain follows with 1 415 617 552 dollars and Germany around 1 200 000 000 dollars. The Philippines eight month trade shows imports of 22 266 581 dollars and exports of 20 867 313 dollars, with hemp and copra driving growth.
Washington fraud and waste issues reappear as auditors warn the post office pays railroads $36,195,116 for mail transport, the department's largest expense. The dependence on mailing weight and four year audits raise doubts about service valuation and accountability.
Fragmentary text shows an opposition stance to a Pure Food Bill with a campaign ad mentioning individuals and places. Details are unclear but the tone hints at political contest and advocacy efforts.
Chicago producers and wholesalers who backed the federal pure food act have shifted to oppose the measure in the Senate. Reform critics claim the original statute violated law and pushed for changes as a remedy, while prominent firms now devote effort to defeating the bill.
The senate will continue the Panama debate with no refresh of a broad program. Resolutions of inquiry will arise from Saturday's Democratic senators conference. Amendments to the foreign relations treaty may be withdrawn before final action. The house plans to focus on the army and urgent deficiency appropriation bills with Friday as private calendar day. The army bill is under five minute rule in committee of the whole and few provisions have been considered.
The treasury department warns of a new counterfeit five dollar silver certificate from 1899. It uses zinc etched plates of poor quality on fair paper with red silk threads, marked with check letter D and plate number unreadable. Names J W Lyons, Ellis H Roberts appear as registrar and treasurer.
Isaac Hall, 33, killed his sister Hannah Hall, 30, at their Van Buren home six miles west of Dunkirk. He shot, attacked, and severed her head with an ax after dragging her through the house. Hall surrendered to police, claiming divine command and later gave incoherent explanations.
George Whistler, son of the late John Whistler and longtime vice president of Wabash First National Bank, was found in a barn at A. M. Rodibaugh’s farm in a stupified state with hands tied behind him and legs bound. He claims an unknown man attacked him while he was headed home.
London reports President Roosevelt sought King Edward’s clemency through Sir Thomas Lipton and Michael Davitt for Col Arthur Lynch who led the Irish brigade in the South African war. Lynch was freed on license after a year in prison but cannot sit in parliament or hold public office without a royal pardon.
In La Crosse Wisconsin January 25 a confrontation between Hokaha school principal Rolin Vogenitz and Fred Hirt left Hirt stabbed twice in the back. Hirt 21 was said to have threatened the teacher to free his sister held after school for minor misconduct. He is in dangerous condition.
Valuable radium bearing earth discovered in the Llano gold and coal fields 115 miles north of Austin Texas. Scientists who visited the mines brought the news of the find.
The Rev. W. E. Hinshaw, jailed for life for his wife’s murder, passed through Indianapolis on his way back to prison after a parole visit to his ailing mother.
Cork report says Lord Barrymore vice president of the Irish Unionist alliance and chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations was thrown from his carriage and seriously injured.
Dublin elects Councilor Joseph Hutchinson nationalist as lord mayor. Cork names Councilor Thomas Roche United Irish League candidate as lord mayor. The addresses reflect shifts in Irish political leadership during January.
A 23 year old man in Moneaqua Newfoundland died after a leg amputation caused by a crush injury at the coal shaft. The operative procedure led to his death.
Reports describe Catt as a wealthy Pike county farmer fleeing after a pistol shot wound. He is said to be hiding with relatives while a bloody trail leads officers miles away. Earlier, an attempt on his divorced wife’s life occurred months ago with a window shot but no arrest. In Petersburg Mrs Dedman endured a sixteen time assault near Gladish chapel as two farmers tried to help.
In Iowa City on January 25 the Amana society a religious charitable group may be dissolved after an action for wrongful abuse of corporate power. Attorney D H Wilson of Marengo secured a court order allowing him to proceed against the society. The organization operates under Iowa incorporation laws for nonpecuniary purposes and holds assets including coin over 1.5 dollars and products such as linens woolens indigo prints and starch.
In Kenosha Wisconsin Charles Windsor is hospitalized after being shot in the thigh by Daniel Smith during a duel outside a dance. Smith, who invited the confrontation, is jailed. Windsor's condition is described as possibly fatal and the incident has become city talk.
A Valdez letter claims Russia priests control western Alaska and suppress English instruction, aiming to Russianize native communities in the region of the United States, as reported from Victoria BC on January 25.
Indianapolis Jan 25 The United Mine Workers of America selected President Mitchell and Secretary Dodd of the Pittsburg district as delegates to the International mining congress in Paris in May. H C Perry of Illinois and I D Nichols named as alternates.
Prof Behring urges the Reichstag to require calf vaccination with tubercle bacilli derived from humans. He argues this would render calves immune to the disease. The proposal reflects wartime sanitary measures and veterinary public health considerations in Berlin in January.
Fragmentary note reports a cordial reaction from French and Amerit with positive sentiment on reciprocity. Limited context cites Washington state location and a porta reference, needing more detail to confirm participants and outcome.
Resolutions call for canals along the Atlantic coast and a network of irrigation ditches in the arid west. They favor homestead reform to restrict land to bona fide settlers, support Arizona Nevada and Montana irrigation plans, endorse the Quarles senate bill, reserve all public forests, and back a new postal money order and parcels post while pushing reduced letter rates. The board favors reciprocal trade with Canada and Panama Canal treaty ratification, adjourning the meeting to next year.
In Washington on January 22 the house debated the army appropriation bill as a committee of the whole. Representative Williams of Mississippi used poker terms to attack Republican policy, urging a revision of the tariff and a Democratic approach but cautioned it would take time. Lacey of Iowa countered that voters had not forgotten to let well enough alone.
The Carnegie Institution’s executive committee creates a department of economics and sociology led by Carroll D. Wright with experts across population, immigration, agriculture, forestry, mining, manufacturing, transportation, commerce, money, labor, social legislation, insurance and poor laws. A second department, experimental biology, forms a tropical marine lab at Cold Spring Harbor with Prof. Charles B. Davenport as director.
Representative Mann of Chicago, who had charge of the measure, reported on January 22 from Washington that the pure food bill faced a decisive House vote. The scene centered on leadership from Chicago and the bill’s future amid party divisions.
A favorable report notes the Burke bill authorizes opening the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota to settlement. The action accompanies discussion on the Osage Reservation and timber sales, reflecting favorable congressional sentiment.
Washington Jan 22 Representative Thayer of Massachusetts introduces an amendment by request to the constitution. The lands of the United States would be divided so each citizen receives eight acres in as nearly square portions as possible.
Senators Gamble and Kittredge of South Dakota met the president to urge appointment of Indian agents for the Yankton and Sisseton agencies in their state. Current administration assigns both agencies to school superintendents.
Washington January 22 The house ways and means committee will hold a hearing on February 4 for several bills aiding tobacco growers. The main proposal is to remit the customs tax on growers who stem and twist their own tobacco.
Missouri River Improvement Association told the House Rivers and Harbors Committee that a program costing 1 million dollars annually for ten to twelve years would control the river current and protect its banks as part of a Missouri defense project.
The president has approved the sentences from courts martial for Knud Knudson of the Seventh Infantry and Hector R. Robinson of the Thirteenth Infantry, both of whom have been dismissed from the service.
Navy reports Rear Admiral Evans arrives at Olongapo in Subig bay with his battleship squadron the Kentucky Wisconsin and Oregon.
Representative Spalding of North Dakota introduced bills to appropriate 100000 for monuments to William McKinley and Alexander Hamilton in the District of Columbia.
La Porte Indiana January 22 1909 report that Reverend William Hinshaw who served seven years for murdering his wife has been paroled to visit his dying mother. Officials expect a gubernatorial pardon before his return to prison next Monday rendering his re incarceration unlikely.
Under Duke Ernst Guenther of Schleswig-Holstein and with theEmpress’s brother presiding, Berlin hosts the formal launch of a central European customs alliance. The movement plans a tariff union against British and American goods.
A Berlin based historian asserts the game poker originated in Germany. The claim traces poker’s roots to German culture and character, challenging common belief about its foreign origin. The research positions poker as a national invention with historical ties to German traditions.
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