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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
6
A dense collection of satirical quips and brief notes touches on robberies in Emmons County, Lipton’s cup chase, English education, Marconi’s reticence, the salt and hammer trusts, corn supplies, road safety, marital dissolutions, Mark Twain, Jim Younger, a Venezuelan clash, Tabasco, Olympic site choices, Moroccan quiet, and Mascagni’s rebuke to the United States.
A column of New York headlines satirizes fleeting wealth and social excess. Stories include a baron’s marriage plot for a seven and a half million dollar widow, a shooting mistaken for hunting, auto crashes, and jail for a careless driver. Notes on marriages by cooking skill and comic opera trend tease public taste and city quirks.
The judge advocate general states volunteers who killed a Philippine priest by the water cure are not now amenable to any law. Naval recruits numbering 306 leave the New York navy yard under Lieut. Commander Doherty for distribution among Pacific and Atlantic ships. The civil service commission begins inquiry into J. S. Keller, head of the National Association of Letter Carriers, who helped defeat Eugene F. Loud’s reelection bid in California. Secretary Hay orders Powell Clayton to probe a Mexican court seizure of a copper mine owned by Indianapolis syndicate interests.
A fire in an umbrella factory in Baltimore caused 200000 dollars in damage. Roy Dudley of La Porte Indiana died from a tobacco dew lodged in his windpipe. Texas flood conditions remain serious though rain ceased. Walter Brumeld killed in a pistol duel near Guyan Falls Virginia ending a twenty year feud. The steamer Quito wrecked near Lorain Ohio. three crew abandoned in a northeast gale. Mrs Walter Knickerbocker of Hesperia Michigan burned to death. her husband fatally burned. A Southern railroad wreck at Spartanburg South Carolina injured several, fireman killed. Gypsey the circus elephant near Valdosta Georgia killed keeper James O Rourke after going crazy. the animal was shot.
News from Dallas reports the death of J C Loving secretary of the Texas Cattle Association in Fort Worth after a long illness. Also noted is the return of Martha Conrad's first husband to St Joseph Michigan after thirty years presumed dead.
Ex State Senator John Holbrook of Bay City Mich accused of attempted bribery. Jesse Pratt once Camden mayor died by suicide in his hotel at sixty one. Indianapolis grand jury reports forty one indictments mainly grave robbing and vote selling. Steinhardt Strasbourger store theft of 14000 in silks at 223 Grand St New York near police. Eva Featherstone of Sheboygan Mich shot in back likely fatally by rioters in a wagon. Otto Siemon Concordia Fort Wayne German Lutheran college lecturer hanged himself due to nervous prostration. Charles Roth in Brooklyn hospital confesses to Jack the Slasher slayings at Bath Beach. Smith Fee City Deposit Bank Pittsburg watchman dies by self inflicted gunshot in bank bathroom. nervousness blamed. W B Conkey Hammond publisher indicted for importing armed guards amid printers strike. Louis E Ogle testifies aiding conviction of former partner John H Dalton in ad fraud scheme with Independent Advertising. Dynamite placed on bar at Christopher Portland Mahoning City Pa. front of saloon blown. Portland and family escape injury. Portland's two sons nonunion.
Odessa declared free from the plague and export trade from the port resumes. Britain backs Brussels sugar accord after Commons vote. Japan warns it may redeploy troops from Shanghai if other powers act, while labor unrest threatens Buenos Aires crops and new antimanipulation laws pass. Tobacco trusts merge into British American Tobacco with J B Duke directing the new firm.
The report notes a default on semi annual interest on Cuban government bonds and a Salt Lake ministerial alliance opposing Reed Smoot's senate election. It mentions plans for a Chinese hospital in New York, a Chicago school strike, and Rockford Illinois probes into impure vinegar and syrups.
London reports steps toward settling all financial and diplomatic claims against Venezuela by foreign powers and bondholders. A secret Venezuelan delegation arrived to negotiate, aiming to calm the crisis. U S and British bankers would relay the offer to the United States and assess good faith and value.
London reports from Constantinople describe brutal methods used by Turkish authorities to crush Macedonian peasants. Villagers and even priests are subjected to bastinado, hanging by heels, and hot eggs placed in armpits as punishment for alleged arms depots and details of the Macedonian committees. Soldiers plunder and drive peasants to despair despite pardons.
St Paul and other centers show wide ranges in grain prices with wheat notes across No 1 Northern 74 75c and No 2 Northern 73 174c, barley malting 56 59c, oats varieties 28 31c, flax around 1.18 1.20. Cattle and hog values listed for Sioux City Chicago and South St Paul with mixed grades and regional price spreads. Mort Pelee erupts again as Vara reaches Martinique and reports violent volcanic activity.
Jackson N H December 1 Gray's inn a premier summer hotel in the White mountains was burned to the ground last night along with Woodbury hall and several outbuildings including two cottages Total loss placed at 175000 dollars by officials and witnesses
Mrs. Kate Vance a colored woman in Newton Kansas died last night at age 123. She had a daughter aged years and her husband died at 105.
Chemical tests show the candy sickeners contained arsenic in the treats that afflicted Dr Manley M. Enos of Oakland and his attendant Miss Margaret Cooper. Dr Enos says no charges and believes the candy was not meant for him or Miss Cooper. The detective on the case has dropped the inquiry.
St Louis grand jury reports sensational corruption findings in city elections. Indictments issued against several suspects, names kept secret. The panel urges broad changes to election law and commends Circuit Attorney Folk for bribery cases investigation.
Edward F. Croker, chief of the New York fire department, was found guilty by Commissioner Strugis on multiple charges including failure to enforce property safety rules for a Park Avenue hotel, converting public property for private use, and conduct prejudicial to good order. He is dismissed from the service effective December 1.
In Armourdale Kansas, Ern est Damns and Charles W. Tucker, packing house workers, dueled over Mabel Randall. Damns was mortally wounded. before dying he shot Tucker twice, fatally wounding him, while Tucker was alive after the street confrontation.
Washington December 1 The president yesterday settled the long pending case of Paymaster Clyde Sullivan by disapproving the board findings on promotion. Sullivan was reported unfit mentally morally physically and professionally yet had been restored to the navy by an act of Congress. The action leaves his status unchanged in the navy.
The Charity Organization society adds verses to mendicants appeals printed by the Evening Post. One lugubrious excerpt asks readers to ponder a Black Hearse passing by and the final ride in a plumed hack, noting a dead man’s hand cannot hold a dollar, and that wealth vanishes at the Price.
A fragmentary exchange notes the captive asking to walk the planks and the reply that an automobile will not be supplied. The dialogue brushes against piracy as an unprogressive industry and cites Automobile Magazine to frame the point.
Washington reports the president will not consider personnel for the isthmian canal commission until Colombia negotiations finish and the government’s position is known. Separately in Baltimore, three children of Morris Bressler died from burns sustained at their home after a fire started while the mother was away.
Anna M Willis of Kokomo Indiana endured kidney trouble for twenty years. She credits Dodd's Kidney Pills after six boxes she felt relief, five boxes later her pains disappeared and she calls herself a free woman.
A boiler explosion at a stationary engine site ten miles from Macon Georgia yesterday killed Paul Rogers and Walton Taylor and seriously injured two others.
Knoxville, Tenn. Nov. 29 Richard Green long noted for the Green Jones feud shot his wife and daughter at their Hancock county home after an altercation and then killed himself. A powder ignition burned his clothing and body. Green boasted of killing the first man in the feud twelve years ago.
A Philadelphia Press brief quotes a victim waking to find his hair cut short and a barber retort that both lengths cost the same, implying a practical joke or dispute over service. The exchange highlights humor and the barber’s blunt insistence on value.
A garbled OCR style notice touts a cure titled To Cure a Cold in one day with Laxative Bromo. The fragment references refunds and claims about overwork, mentioning men and harmless tones, but the text is unclear and partial.
An advertisement from Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 7 promotes Pico's Cure for consumption as an infallible medicine for coughs and colds. It mentions N W Sanus and Pedbrook indicating the vendor or related figures.
An Belfast reader extols Cole's Carbolisalve as a superior remedy for burns sores boils and eye ailments noting its effectiveness in every ointment use. The note appears amid a mix of advert style lines and quips, including Mother Gray's powders and a farcical remark about model husbands.
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