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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
2
A string of quips and jests from a 19th or early 20th century paper notes robberies failed schemes and social satiric jabs. It tu rns to Lipton’s cup chase jokes about life and money and rumors of marriages duels and politics with wry observations on public figures and events.
The Judge advocate general says volunteers who killed a Philippine priest by the water cure are not amenable to any law. Naval recruits total 306 leave New York for San Francisco under Lieut. Commander Doherty to join Pacific and Atlantic stations. The civil service commission probes J. S. Keller of the Letter Carriers union over opposing Eugene Loud’s reelection. Hay orders Powell Clayton to investigate a Mexican mine seizure linked to Indianapolis interests. Accidents and disasters report: Baltimore umbrella factory fire, $200,000 loss. tobacco dew suffocation in Indiana. Texas floods persist. Walter Brumeld killed in a pistol duel. steamer Quito wreck near Lorain. Mrs Knickerbocker burned. Southern road wreck at Spartanburg with fatalities and injuries. Gypsey the elephant kills her keeper then is shot.
News from Dallas reports the death of J C Loving secretary of the Texas Cattle Association at Fort Worth after a long illness.
Ex State Senator John Holbrook of Bay City faces attempted bribery accusations in Michigan. Camden mayoral figure Jesse Pratt dies by suicide in his hotel. Indianapolis grand jury reports 41 indictments across grave robbing and vote selling. Silk thefts worth 14000 strike Stein hardt Paris store in New York. Eva Featherstone shot in Sheboygan. Concordia lecturer Otto Siemon hangs himself under stress. Bath Beach case links Jack the Slasher to Charles Roth in Brooklyn hospital. Pittsburg bank watchman Smith Fee dies by self-inflicted gunshot. Conkey of Hammond indicted over importing armed guards amid strike. Louis E. Ogle testifies aiding John H. Dalton in newspaper ad fraud. Dynamite blast injures none at Mahoning City saloon bar.
Odessa is declared free from the plague and export trade from the port is again permitted. The article notes global tensions with Japan withdrawing troops from Shanghai and warning it may reinsert them if others send forces, while British Parliament approves the Brussels sugar convention. It also mentions strikes in Buenos Ayres affecting business and crops, and the formation of the British American Tobacco company led by J. B. Duke with capital of 30 million dollars.
Reports span financial defaults in Cuba and a salt lake ministerial stand against Reed Smoot. New York seeks a Chinese hospital, Chicago pupils strike for longer recess, and Rockford pursues vinegar and spice fraud charges. Recovery of a child after neck procedure in Chicago and a Philadelphia death linked to nightmare. Potatoes price forecast and a Kokomo birth. Iselin studies for new cup defender. a Pa ducah minister cleared in a stabbing. Freight Dix sails to Manila. iron company merger adjusted. Painters union forms national body. New Rochelle lockout impacts 1,500 workers. Boston to Santa Barbara target practice. exhumed corpse buried alive finding. Alaska Copper River hardship notes. Evanston girl saves 400 kids in a fire. Chicago boxmakers settle with 700 workers gain 52 500 yearly. Iowa Central 30th report shows rising receipts and earnings.
London reports an impending settlement to satisfy foreign powers and bondholders owed by Venezuela. A secret Venezuelan delegation arrived in Europe to negotiate owed liabilities while Anglo American bankers, and the US government, await formal proposals and the stance of Germany and Britain.
Dispatches from Constantinople dated November 24 describe brutal Turkish suppression of Macedonian peasants. Victims, including priests, are tortured to reveal arms depots and info on Macedonian committees. Bastinado, hanging by the heels, and hot eggs in armpits are reported as methods. Troops loot and drive villagers to despair.
The Saint Paul market notes wheat prices from No. 1 Northern at 74 to 75 cents and other grades across Minneapolis Duluth and Chicago with oats rye flax and corn varying by grade. Livestock prices show cattle hog and sheep ranges in Chicago South St. Paul and Sioux City with beef and pork values listed. A Mont Pelee eruption report from St Thomas notes volcano activity.
Summer blaze in Jackson New Hampshire reduced Gray's Inn, a famed White Mountains hotel, to ashes. The fire also leveled Woodbury Hall and several outbuildings including two cottages. Estimated loss reaches 175000 dollars.
In Newton Kansas Mrs Kate Vance a Black woman aged 123 died here last night. She left a daughter aged ninety and her husband died at 105. The obituary notes her long life and family ages.
San Francisco November 29 Chemical analysis shows the candy sickening Dr Manley M Enos of Oakland and Margaret Cooper contained arsenic Dr Boon says no charges against anyone and believes the drugged candy was not intended for them The detective in the case has dropped it
The October grand jury issued a sensational final report criticizing city officials tied to doodling cases and urging changes in election law. It details fraudulent dealings, secret indictments, and praise for Circuit Attorney Folk for bribery probe work.
New York December 1 Edward F Croker chief of the fire department was found guilty by Commissioner Strugis on charges including failure to enforce property safeguarding laws at the Park Avenue hotel, conversion of public property for private use, and conduct prejudicial to good order, leading to his dismissal from the service effective December 1.
In Armourdale Kansas Ern est Damus and Charles W Tucker two packing house workers fought a pistol duel over waitress Mabel Randall. Damus was mortally wounded and fatally wounded Tucker after firing as both lay on the ground Tucker survived.
President Roosevelt disapproved the navy board findings on Paymaster Clyde Sullivan, keeping his status unchanged after Sullivan was restored to the service by an act of Congress. The action reverses the board's promotion unfitness verdict and leaves Sullivan unlreatedly in his current position.
Dent has given no consideration to the Isthmian Canal Commission personnel. He told Senator Cullom that until pending negotiations with Colombia were finished and the government knew its position, he would not consider appointments on the commissions.
In Baltimore on December 1 a mother left three Mortis Bressler children alone at home. upon her return the house was ablaze and all three died from burns. A boiler explosion near Macon Georgia killed Paul Rogers and Walton Taylor, injuring two others.
Knoxville dated item reports Richard Green the famed feudist shot his wife and daughter at their Hancock county home after an altercation. He then killed himself as a powder flare set his clothing ablaze leaving his body horribly burned. Green boasted of killing the first man in the Green Jones feud.
The Charity Organization Society adds lugubrious verse to a Mendicants list printed by the Evening Post. The quatrain asks if the reader ever sees the Black Hearse pass and reflects on life, wealth, and the fate of a dead man’s hand.
A witty exchange in Automobile Magazine contrasts piracy as an unprogressive industry with the era of modern transport, as a captive questions his fate and a sardonic Corsair retorts. The dialogue hints at satire on technology and mobility.
Anna M Willis of Kokomo Indiana endured kidney trouble for two decades with worsening pain and weakness. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills she recovered fully, noting relief after five of six boxes and renewed joy in life.
A short exchange reports a barber overcharging a sleeping customer. The victim questions the cut while the barber says the price is the same for a short or long trim, noting the customer should get his money’s worth. The quote originates from the Philadelphia Press.
An advertisement claims a remedy called Cure a Gold in One Day using Tike ve Bromo Quinine Tablets and promises a money-back refund if it fails to cure. The text notes overwork causing deaths and mentions medicine for colds and cramps. Open Grove, Md dating February 17, 1907.
A Detroit Press reader notes a flaw in a diamond joke. The item then promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children from New York’s Children's Home nurse, claiming cures for feverishness teething disorders and worms with over 30,000 testimonials. It urges purchase at druggists for 2 cents with a free sample offer from Allen Olmsted in LeRoy New York.
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