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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1904
Page
2
A collage of brief items from Linton North Dakota notes, jokes, and curiosities. It mentions Lord Kitchener pride in a tunnel, a Vanderbilt girl’s birth, billboards as art, J M Barrie income, Bohemia praising American beer, and assorted quips on marriage, smoking, journalism, and a trolley obscuring Revere’s route.
The University of Chicago Mathematical Club discussed a popular question on integrating the differential equation M d2 X d1 X P X LQ 0. A police detail was assigned to keep crowds away as the Countess of Yarmouth attended.
Representative Davis secures an $8 a month pension for Mrs. Julia Maether of Hastings. A bill to reinstate naval cadets from hazing is being proposed. The Rivers and Harbors committee weighs appropriations contracts. Crimes span a $1,220 safe robbery in Argue Manitoba, 169 indictments against alleged policy shopkeepers, and other federal actions.
A compilation of obituaries notes the deaths of Solomon Loeb founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Co in New York. Detroit inventor Edward J. Frost. Sioux City banker August Groninger. Ohio politician Charles B. Rannells. Capt Robert G. Lee, relative of the Lee family. Capt Benjamin Jewell, longtime Mississippi River steamboat figure. lumberman M D Moore. Rev Robert Bird, Detroit Methodist elder. Also listed are William L Johnson of Detroit and Judge Fletcher Ladd of the Philippines supreme court, with locations and brief biographical details.
A roundup item listing various global notes including Senor Velasco’s resignation, a Metz fire causing $500,000 loss, Vatican audiences for W J Bryan and son, accusations against U S Consul Hughes, Norwegian women’s suffrage rejection, Valparaiso docks plan at $10,000,000, the death of Monsignor Asti, authors’ copyright talks, a criminal insanity ruling in England, cholera epidemic near Bagdad with 176 deaths, Craven’s phonographic invention, naval promotion rules, Heidelberg university extension lectures, Portuguese cabinet tensions, and other brief items.
A Yale forestry school building burned with estimated losses around 100000 dollars and nearby trees destroyed. The Italian ship Cavour, lumber laden, went ashore near Astoria Oregon and is a total loss. A Japanese sealing schooner Seikozu Mary reportedly lost with all hands near Victoria British Columbia. General Ballington Booth fell from a stage in Waterbury Connecticut injuring his knee. Fred Haskins and Frank Allen were blown miles on ice at Lake Aldawampsett Middleboro Massachusetts and drowned after a boat capsize. Two men found dead from wood alcohol in New York, a third dying in hospital, and a fourth missing from the party.
General Miles denounces the army canteen while a Boston movement seeks a Britain United States arbitration treaty. Amid distress in Chicago’s railcar freezes and a dam flood at Paterson leaves thousands idle. City pays 625000 for Hecker millsite. Russia pledges its largest foreign exhibit.
A San Francisco real estate figure, alleged to lead a land fraud ring, is charged with bribing an official in the General Land Office. Federal investigators say the case centers on manipulated land deals and illicit influence to push through approvals.
John A. Benson a San Francisco real estate operator was arrested in the Willard hotel on a bribery charge as part of a broad land fraud scheme alleged to have defrauded the government of about 100000 acres across Western states. He faced United States Commissioner Taylor after pleading not guilty and claimed to have no lawyer.
A Great Western passenger train from St Paul to Northfield derailed after striking a broken rail north of Northfield. Nine people suffered varying injuries as two of three coaches left the track while the engine and baggage car remained on rails. The date is December 20 in Red Wing Minnesota.
Gold was found on the Hickman farm near Lucas Wisconsin assays 145 to the ton. Rock samples taken at five foot intervals for eighty five feet in a well yielded the average gold content. The finding caused excitement and land prices in the area rose quickly as plans formed to organize a company to develop a surface mine.
First shovelful of dirt turned on the Huntley flats irrigation canal project in Billings Montana marking the start of the effort to reclaim 30 000 acres. John Schram of Seattle leads a group including several Washington and Portland investors with local capital also backing the scheme.
Highwaymen held up inmates and visitors at Ida Coats resort 900 First Avenue North Minneapolis on December 20. They robbed jewels and cash totaling 3500 dollars. Suspected leader is Pat Crowe, recently active in Minneapolis.
C R Mandigo of St Paul Minnesota has been awarded the Sales prize scholarship for 1903 04 at Harvard Cambridge Mass The Sales prize scholarship founded 1893 by Francis Sales Cambridge MA carries a principal of 4916 Mandigo a graduate of St Paul Central High School class of 1902
Dumphy’s withdrawal silences the group for a week as the lonesome woodsmen face a family crisis. Boss, moved by Dumphy’s grief, assigns a pen-stock task to friend Mike, forging a plan to deliver help and cash to a poorhouse family before Santa Claus returns with hope.
In Fargo on December 20 Judge Pollock granted a new trial in Beiidler & Robinson v Coe Commission Company. The court ruled the Coe Commission Company is a gambling institution. Remarks by the court were sensational and drew much comment.
A deputy game warden arraigned every butcher in Sauk Center Minnesota for selling venison unlawfully, with hotels boycotting the officer over the conduct of the evidence collection. The move sparked significant local ill will as hotels refused him accommodations.
A shaft mine of the Lincoln Coal Company in Lincoln Nebraska suffered a fatal blaze starting in the engine room. Fourteen miners were trapped and two suffocated as underground fires and heavy smoke prevented rescue.
Mrs Anna Krenen wife of Fred Krenen drowned herself and two children in the cistern at their Le Sueur Minnesota home. The bodies were found at 3 a.m. Friday morning by the husband returning from a night out with friends.
Washington reports lingering discouragement as the neonate committee on public buildings indicates opposition to new federal building bills this session. In Baltimore four workers were severely scalded when steam pipes exploded in the Medjma’s fire room built by the Cramps of Philadelphia.
The summary notes the board of regents of the University of California projects expenses or allocations that will amount to over 1,000. The fragment references governance and financial planning for the university system.
Pierre Dec 20. The Commercial Mutual Insurance Company of Mitchell withdrew the case against Insurance Commissioner Perkins in the fourth circuit court on motion and at its own expense. The action aimed to aid old line companies seeking reentry to court in the anti pact case.
Col. John R. Hastings prominent Burlington official dies alone in his Marlborough apartment Thursday evening from valvular heart trouble. The well known figure was found in his rooms after being last seen earlier that day.
In Reedsburg Wisconsin Albert Good was seriously injured when a tree fell and pinned him, breaking his leg on his father's Walton area farm. The incident occurred yesterday as he felled the tree.
Two deaths and four new typhoid cases are recorded at Suttor. Contributions now total over $81,000 with a car load of canned goods and provisions donated yesterday to assist affected families.
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