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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1903
Page
2
A collage of sharp witticisms and satirical lines touching on banking, industry, explorers, politics, and society. References include J Pierpont Morgan, John Mitchell, Admiral Casey, the Sultan of Obbia, and shifting headlines from Paris to Berlin with playful commentary on era concerns.
A Victoria era incident centers on Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt who misspeaks as an express train approaches while she uses a parasol. The event spurs a fashion tip advising a red petticoat for better visibility and caution.
It is a matter of record that the horse population of the country increased nearly 25 000 last year, in spite of the almost prohibitive price of real beef.
An American firm secured a contract to furnish Buddhist idols for temples in Korea, signaling notable business activity. The report notes that even leading craftsmen regard it as flourishing enterprise.
The Pullman car company boosted wages for its workers except porters who remain supported by passengers.
The Earl of Yarmouth plans marriage to a Pittsburg heiress named Thaw, a match many deem a cold proposition by the nobleman.
A Vermont man has been jailed for the 117th time on breach of the peace charges. The court noted his repeated offenses and suggested he reduce breaches to gain more personal freedom.
Following word that Mr. Schwab was sick in St. Petersburg the report updates him as cruising in the Mediterranean in the best of health.
A young society figure who injected paraffin into her nose to alter its shape suffers necrosis of the nasal bone and concludes that one must suffer to be beautiful.
Senator-elect Ankeny of Washington cannot make a speech. The piece notes that he shares this trait with many Senators and suggests the state deserves a vote of thanks for this restraint.
A curious note links Lord Milner as German born and the Washington minister as English born. The same column recalls a Philadelphia man robbed of diamonds in Chicago shortly after arriving, prompting talk that dying rich is a sin, echoing Carnegie.
A southern railroad announces it will hire only married men. Anxious single women study timetables as the policy sparks regional chatter and personal plans.
A New York restaurant keeper defaults on debts totaling 2240 dollars to two pie baking companies. The case highlights rising costs in the pie trade and a struggling food service sector in the city.
A Paris physician demonstrates a device or method that transmits light directly to the brain, restoring sight or enabling light perception for the blind. The approach claims to bypass ocular input to stimulate visual perception.
Paris reports Professor Steins claims a device restores sight by transmitting visual signals directly to the brain. Dr. Caze tests the apparatus in darkness and sees a dim light then objects, says vision could return even to the blind, with the system likened to the telephone in scientific basis.
Sioux Falls reports Bastin Giesseman, alleged Missouri moonshiner, is jailed awaiting an order for transfer to Missouri for trial. The move hinges on Assistant US Attorney Porter’s return from the Black Hills next Monday.
Recently discovered cholera infantum serum injected into animals at Wilson sanitarium in Baltimore shows wonderful efficiency. Human trials have not yet begun. Army surgeons in the Philippines first linked the disease to a germ through early research.
A black intruder entered the Cordova Alabama residence of a white man before daylight. A struggle occurred and the intruder killed the homeowner and then murdered his wife and child. Bloodhounds are tracking the suspect.
Republican senators plan united action to pass the Panama canal treaty and the Cuban reciprocity treaty quickly. A Senate steering committee meeting after adjournment agreed on this course of action.
Charles C. Sankey of Newcastle Pa reports his cousin Ira D. Sankey famed evangelist has become blind at his Brooklyn New York home due to a cold settling in his eyes. Doctors hope sight may be restored after extended treatment. Sankey is known globally for his religious songs.
Victoria B C March 7 reports from Pekin warn of a possible major Boxer uprising. Empress dowager and Yung Lu are accused of backing Tung Fu Hsiang’s movement in Kansu while edicts claim Western reforms. Chinese officials allegedly plan to escort Pu Chun to Pekin and eliminate Kwong Hsu.
Dispatches from Constantinople and Sofia report ongoing clashes between Macedonians and Turkish troops despite a reform scheme. Macedonian leader Sarafoff is said to take a more active role, while Baron von Calice and M Zinovieff advised suppressing bands without broad troop mobilization.
Captain Mardy formerly of Company M Twentieth Kansas Volunteers denounces Gen Funston in a Salina interview. He rejects a Washington claim that he is discontented and says he will stand for any charges against Funston, calling him a liar thief and imposter with proof to every member of Company M.
Buffalo prosecutors press on with the Burdick murder inquiry as District Attorney Coatesworth notes no weakening of the case. A woman suspect remains under vigilant police scrutiny, with arrests anticipated once sufficient evidence is gathered.
Mrs John Greenwood and three children, two daughters aged 16 and 12 and a boy 11, were struck by a Cincinnati freight train while crossing the Big Four trestle west of Springfield. The mother and eldest daughter died instantly. the younger two fatally injured. They fell fifty feet into water as fog limited visibility to about twenty-five feet ahead.
A fire in East Seventieth Street, New York, killed Ellen Vail, 55, by suffocation and her daughter Elizabeth Vail, 22, who leaped from the fourth floor. The blaze caused little property damage and panic.
Secretary Moody decided the five ships will be named Vermont Kansas Minnesota Mississippi and Idaho. The three 16 000 ton ships bear the names Vermont Kansas and Minnesota while the two 12 000 ton vessels are Mississippi and Idaho.
Over 2,000 emigrants left Liverpool yesterday bound for Canada marking the opening of the emigration season. This month’s bookings by all Canadian lines are the largest in forty years, signaling a significant surge in migration interest.
Pittsburg March 7 Hugh Dixon aged seventy committed suicide by leaping from the Forward avenue bridge to the ground below a distance of 135 feet nearly every bone in his body was broken per preliminary reports
Joliet Illinois March 7 Mrs Bayley Pitcher wife of a local businessman welcomed three girl babies born yesterday all in good health and perfect.
Fire sweeps the Dormer building in Buffalo causing an estimated 75000 dollars in damage. The Dormer Fish Company suffers the principal loss and Fire Lieutenant Joseph Herschel sustains injuries.
The Herald reports Roosevelt appointed commission findings foresee at least a ten percent wage increase for miners from October's return to work. Wages for nine hour days, weight based pay where practical, check docking at miners expense, and indirect union recognition are outlined with a three year term and local arbitration recommendations.
In Huntington West Virginia on March 9 a Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train found Frances Leginee of Columbus Ohio hiding beneath a Pullman on a board above the axle. She rode from Columbus to Cincinnati in a box car and then boarded the passenger train bound for Richmond Virginia. Her clothes were torn and she kept holding to the rods to stay alive.
Oswego New York March 9 Alonzo Clark and Elizabeth Austin aged nineteen married six weeks ago are jailed on burglary and larceny charges Mrs Clark alleges her husband forced her at night to aid in entering and robbing a Hastings Center store she dressed as a man waited outside while he broke a rear window signaled and she carried bags and baskets for the haul
At midnight the Brooklyn bridge police headquarters received a faint cry for help. Patrolman Sullivan, on duty at the central span, was found dead beneath the telephone box by the Brooklyn arch after colleagues rushed to assist him.
The 5,600 Chicago machinists vote 79 to 85 percent to push for a 5 percent wage increase a regular nine hour day and a seven hour day in slack seasons. Many shops grant the conditions and all are expected to comply before May 1.
La Crosse Wisconsin March 7 Judge Julius J Hirscheimer a veteran justice of the peace was arrested on a warrant issued by Cargill a millionaire reputed to be the richest man in La Crosse The judge collapsed when served and is now very ill the charge involves a small quantity of coal
The Montana legislature adjourned at 2:50 a.m. after Senate amendments to the World’s Fair appropriation bill raising the payment and naming seven commissioners were rejected by the House. The bill faced repeated amendments and back-and-forth clashes, and the Senate stood by its version, killing the measure.
United States Attorney General Knox seeks to block the merger of Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Burlington railroads in Minnesota. The case will be argued in the U S Court of Appeals in St Louis on March 18. No new evidence will be heard. testimony was taken earlier.
In Fargo on March 9, a unique case concerns John Halson Brown who died after a petition for bankruptcy had begun. A trustee is administering his estate as if Brown were alive, marking a first in North Dakota probate in this context.
Prairie du Chien Wisconsin March 9 A small boy eight son of Sylvester Hopwood was accidentally killed at Steuben by falling against a door casing while playing on the floor fracturing the skull and injuring the brain in the incident reported from Steuben.
Pierre March 9 Gov. Herried appointed and the senate confirmed Thomas Fitch of Milbank and A G Stover of Kimball as commissioners of the soldiers home to fill vacancies by expiration of terms.
North Dakota items report diverse local happenings from Velva brickyard plans to Grand Forks cracker factory and a new Stanley coal mine. Emmons wolf reports and Pallermo drug store hopes, plus road extensions, libraries, hotels, and smallpox scares. Humorous notes include Valentine counts and a chicken killing row.
Kid Abel of Chicago and Hugh McPadden of Brooklyn fought six rounds to a draw before the Badger Athletic club in Milwaukee. McPadden appeared to control the action throughout the bout.
Manager L N Scott of the Metropolitan houses in St Paul and Minneapolis has arranged a four week season of grand opera in English with Henry W Savage. The run opens March 16 in Minneapolis with Il Trovatore, moves to St Paul for Lohengrin and the Bohemian Girl, features sacred concerts with The Stabat Mater and St Cecilia Mass, and closes with Aida and Martha. Prices match standard dramatic rates. The company includes 110 singers, 30 musicians, and seven large baggage cars of scenery.
Menomonie Wis March 9 Operations began to develop gold and silver in Stanton town by a local company and crude oil is believed to lie in paying quantities.
Consul General Barlow notes over 1 000 US firms and individuals invested in Mexico totaling 500 million gold, half in the last five years. In Canada Consul Bittinger cites millions in mining and manufacturing led by Westinghouse, Singer, and others with plants abroad. American firms expand into Germany Russia Austria and England with machinery and show equipment.
N H Mead of Harper County Kansas left Clarence New York thirty four years ago and became a thriving farmer. Last year he harvested over one hundred forty acres of wheat. He suffered kidney and bladder trouble but reports complete relief after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says the remedy worked from the start and cured him.
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