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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1903
Page
2
A collage of light items and quips from around the globe includes China’s port openings, Russia opposing Manchuria policies, Lou Dillon’s victory after eighteen years, jokes about bank balances and cigars, and Briton and European curiosities. It notes a Bulgarian slaughter angering the sultan, penny shortages, and a retiring Italian naval officer’s defense.
The text discusses unfair use of force with an electric whip on a bulky horse and contrasts scientific superiority with human constraints. It then presents a confrontation where China pledges to restrain territorial ambitions, while Russia commits to limiting gains to what it already intends to seize.
Members of the American Pomological Society favor judging the society by results rather than by the quality of papers. The remark suggests a practical view that the true value lies in the outcomes and fruits of their work.
Prof Stagg of Chicago says the great papers have steadily improved over ten years despite no Pulitzer school of journalism. He adds that Canada is drawing American immigrants and, once annexation is ripe, American farmers may hold most of the dominion.
A royal gift from King Edward to a Brooklyn shoemaker who once made him boots in 1860 shows a playful jab about princes memory. The newly launched cruiser Maryland slid into a mud bank at water touch, underscoring naval prowess.
Commentator notes rising violence as Servians shoot and throw bricks at King Peter. The piece suggests the monarch may rethink ending unpopular rule by assassination, reflecting unrest and potential political danger.
Confectioners market educational chocolates in cakes divided into Squares each bearing a letter. The piece notes children may prefer them to building blocks. It also cites Lillian Bell wishing for her baby to be kept private as the child enters public view before three weeks old.
The three French professors who claim to cross the Atlantic in a balloon from the Canaries to Trinidad are not to be confused with the three wise men of Gotham who rode to sea in a bowl.
A dressmakers convention discussion includes a sneaker remark noting agreement on raising prices. The line, delivered by a skeptical speaker, underscores ongoing concerns about costs and value in the industry.
The piece notes a claim that British convicts, male and female, are not allowed to see a mirror in prison. It questions why Mrs Maybrick was not released on grounds of cruel and unusual punishment.
The quarterly report from the director of the mint shows silver value rising by 0.031977 cents per ounce. Meanwhile Great Britain lifts its embargo on American cattle and sheep after the agriculture department’s successful foot and mouth disease stamping program in New England.
Shortage of 8000 in the war department accounts leads to dismissal of James H. Beatty. relatives repaid the deficit. South Dakota adds eleven banks, totaling 58 with loans and discounts near 9.63 million and deposits around 10.86 million. Robed notes rise to 1.01 million. Russia proclaims martial law at Gamel amid anti-Jewish riots. China trade increasingly competitive with the US. Plague and cholera rage near Tientsin with 2000 dead in two months. A duel in Biarritz wounds a count and a marquis slightly. Dickens birthplace bought for a Dickens museum in Portsmouth. Tarapaca, Chile declared plague-free including Iquique. Frau Maria Geistinger dies near Klagenfurt after two American tours. German soldiers complain of brutal officers. private troops provoke. Victoria premier Sir Edward Barton resigns. Alfred Deakin to form cabinet. King Alexander and Queen Draga murderers convicted. possible pardon for kings. Lake Erie reports capture of illegal nets by revenue boat Petrel. Last summer storms devastate fruit crops. American fruit demand high. Pope to visit Monte Cassino and open jubilee at Cava del Tirrene near Salerno.
Miss Priscilla Beddow of Pottsville weds Irvin B. Kerr on his deathbed. Bishop W. E. McLaren of Gothicago Dioceses retires due to ill health. Alexander Clark of Evanston dies of heart trouble at Wisconsin Central Station in Antioch. Mrs J M Jacques of Tacoma seeks 2.3 million estate in English chancery ward. Rev David Philipson of Cincinnati urges a Jewish world congress to solve the Russian Jewish issue.
A barrel of incidents reports Maj Samuel W Hay killed in an elevator shaft fall in Pittsburg Pa. Two lives lost in a Hotel Brunswick fire in Rochester N H. A private Kanss City sanatorium fire kills G C Cary and wounds five. Three men steal an electric car ride in McKeesport Pa fall fatal injuries. A Bermuda hurricane wrecks homes and damages ships. An engine explosion at an Oakland Ill sorghum mill kills Andrew Hite and wounds Jeff Hite fatally. A private electric car carrying Senator Hanna jumps track in Berlin Heights Ohio no serious injuries. Two miners killed and two injured by a powder magazine explosion at Mammoth mines Wallace Idaho. The E ta prove brings sixteen sailors from a Grand Banks fishing vessel lost in a gale to Fort Point Me. Browns ville Pa man finds two dead bodies in a lumber car on Monongahela railway locked in and starved.
August Kruegel shoots Fritz Knar in Central Missouri. Joseph Martin identified in New York as Frederick A. Verdu killer. A. B. Brownlee shoots his wife then dies in Youngstown Ohio. Wilmington grand jury declines to indict lynchers of George White. Marie Jordan killed in San Francisco by Edward de la Bromise who then killed himself. Fire hazard joked about at St Louis World’s Fair grounds. John Laughlin dies by own hand in Wheeling West Virginia. Illness and finances blamed. Attempt to kidnap Nebraska governor Mickey’s daughter thwarted. A black man lynched north of Wig ham Georgia for assault on young girl. Adelaide Pribbenow of Kansas City commits suicide by train. Peter Lenousky confesses to Wilkes Barre murder of Anthony Sennick. Nellie Andrews near death at Jasper Indiana confesses involvement in 1885 Stanford Freeman murder. Robbers dynamite a buggy in Washington Pennsylvania, killing Samuel Ferguson and Charles Martin and stealing $3,000. In Greenville Illinois circuit court Leopold Knebel pleads guilty to returning false lists, fined $1,000 plus costs. New York Jersey City Boston police seek John D S Dunbar on bigamy charges with warrants.
A career criminal with numerous aliases has been arrested on a spree of offenses including pocketing mail and theft. He allegedly robbed a mail pouch containing about $500,000 in negotiable paper as part of his criminal operations.
Word reached New York that F H Crosby also known as A E Bell and as Crawford was arrested in Denver on charges linked to a massive mail pouch theft from Philadelphia on Sept 8. He allegedly altered and cashed checks, swindled banks at Asbury Park and other cities, with a long prior record including a 1894 New York arrest and Elmira reform school release in 1897.
A jumble of short items: women tramps spread in New Jersey. smallpox found at Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland. Lake Superior ore district furnaces to close temporarily. Lake masters and pilots strike ends in a compromise. Willard Boyce and wife reunite after ten years, quarrel over a cat and separate again. A Coney Island lion escapes, panics streets, recaptured. Captain Jennings of Osceo finds sunken treasure ship near Miami from 1835 with silver ore. Oregon hop crop baling shows about 80 000 bales, down from last year. Southern Pacific estimates California bean output at 750 000 sacks, higher than prior estimates. State inspector George M. Collier of Ohio missing, suspended. suit to recover $2,716. Syracuse sophomores ban freshmen mustaches, pupil Kassess forcibly shorn. Charles Dubois killed at Buxton Iowa. wife dies in Chicago. four children left. Margaret Ryan insane, chained at White Plains, protests release for sleep. San Juan Puerto Rico court orders release of Eduardo Conde and Leonidas Guillot for insulting the American flag. F Schoenfeld seeks injunction against 2½% preferred stock dividend, alleging fraud. Leavenworth prison reports all 200 inmates with tuberculosis. thirty Indian prisoners died last year. Union bakers elect Hohengarten president. Schmidt VP. next convention in St. Louis. New York education board warns non union workers will halt school buildings without discharge. Army and Navy Spanish War Veterans women clash over suspending Miss Cornelia Clay.
Sofia Oct 4 The Macedonian revolutionary headquarters claim exact details of a massacre in Mehomia Kazalog Seres leaving only ten escapees The town is a government seat with a 3200 Bulgarians and Turks population Five nearby engagements near Kratovo saw 5000 Turks attacked and insurgents routed In Pirin mountains 2000 insurgents defeated 6000 Turks reported losses high flags over four days of fighting
In Tamaqua Pennsylvania on October 4 a group of local farmers demanded the removal of an Italian flag flown over foreign workers quarters near West Penn. Police Chief Hahn ordered the flag lowered to head off possible violence after threats of marching on the camp. The Italian consul requested full details, and Hahn stated his action aimed to prevent serious trouble.
Washington reports the president rejects pressure to avoid an extraordinary session in November. He says the Cuban reciprocity treaty must become effective at the earliest date and that this government must keep its word. No proposition will move him from calling the session.
Vienna dispatch reports czar safety steps expanded as fresh gendarmes guard hunting districts and chamois drive spots. Unauthorized movements are banned while the czar and Emperor Francis Joseph hunt, with added precautions for the hunting area.
Washington October 4 Maj Gen Corbin adjutant general of the army is to command the department of the East with headquarters at Governor's Island New York. The order takes effect at once and notes he heads the largest department in the United States in recognition of his services during the Spanish war and the Chinese and Philippine campaigns.
A New York woman was arrested on grand larceny charges after authorities alleged she juggled her accounts. Discrepancies in her books reportedly indicate a shortage near $50,000 to $56,000.
Marie Layton Johnson wife of dentist Albert M. Johnson of Larchmont N Y was arrested on a warrant charging grand larceny of 2000 with total suspected defalcations near 50000 The New York office bookkeeper and secretary to President McCutcheon allegedly padded Cincinnati accounts by 2000 to cover 5000 gaps and speculated in Wall Street losing money
Deputy Commissioner Van Iderstine accuses American Sugar Refining of diverting water from city mains via unmetered pipes over six years. He seeks 525000 dollars, while officials estimate the refinery used more than 2 percent of Brooklyn's supply and suggest a possible bill near 1000000 dollars.
Hazelton Pa October 4 Carl Treischman an alleged deserter from the cruiser Topeka is held in a city hall cell awaiting transfer to League Island Navy Yard Philadelphia. Miss Treischman and her father are jailed on charges of aiding a government prisoner escape after she allegedly turned the key from outside the locked corridor door allowing the prisoner to flee.
Wen Lung, a Chinese man, wore a coat of mail and used a self cocking revolver to kill one man and wound two others in Boston. The armor weighed about six pounds and was described as pliable steel sheets woven and covered in silk. Lung emerged from an alley and fired five shots, the incident thought to stem from a gambling quarrel.
New Orleans on October 4 reports Loeber Landau sixteen year old Tulane freshman fatally injured during a cane rush between freshmen and sophomores.
A head end collision on the Southern Pacific Salt Lake division at Beowawe Nevada involved the Atlantic Express No 6 crashing into a freight. One passenger died and twenty were injured. The wreck disrupted service on the line as investigators examined the scene.
In New York on October 4 Fritz Shoeman shot and killed Louis Zettzel in a West Thirty seventh street grocery store after a dispute over the store sale. Shoeman then died by his own hand at his home. Zettzel had recently bought the business from Shoeman.
Helena Oct 4. Frank Jackson and Mrs James K Kane, wife of a Woodman, allegedly drew his balance at a bank and eloped, according to a complaint filed with Justice Hays in Missoula. The couple, married fourteen years, are said to have gone west.
In Ellsworth Wisconsin on October 4 a cave-in during wagon bridge digging trapped Eric Reastrom breaking his leg. He was working for the town of Ellsworth when the accident occurred and is reported in stable condition.
Hurley Wisconsin October to reduce the Ashland mine workforce by half. Ellard of the Ashland mine received orders to cut staff, resulting in 250 men losing employment. The Ashland is described as the largest independent mine in the Gogebic range.
An unconfirmed dispatch from Czernowitch claims Mohilev Podolsky, near Kishineff, saw 300 Jews and 100 Christians killed on Thursday. The town on the Dnieper with 18,129 residents has a large Jewish population, though no other source confirms the figures.
Sioux City Iowa October 2 Reverend Geo Harris once linked to several bogus ventures received a three year sentence in the penitentiary from Judge Hutchinson. The case highlights ongoing concerns about fraudulent schemes tied to local clergy.
New rural route inaugurated in Winona Minnesota with delivery beginning yesterday morning on the first rural free delivery line running from Cemetery Hill along the ridge to Gilmore valley head and returning to Winona, outlining the route and service start date.
Frederich Lippmann head of Berlin's engraving division dies. Maitre Labori accepts invitation to speak at the St Louis international law congress. Elliott W. Shanklin secretary of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' association dies in Lexington. Berlin student Robert Cordes allegedly dies by own hand due to mistreatment. Rear Admiral T Kempff to retire Oct 11 with detachment orders. Clarence B Salrade Cincinnati earns Berlin technical university Doctor Engineer degree, first American so honored.
Quotations from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Milwaukee Chicago and Sioux City show wheat futures across grades from No 1 Northern at 75 80c to No 3 at 70 73c with mixed corn prices and oats barley and rye varying by grade. Cattle hogs and sheep prices in Chicago Sioux City and South St Paul reflect broad ranges for beef and pork products with steady to firm tone on key classes.
New York reports show subscriptions to the Sir Thomas Lipton testimonial fund likely exceeding the $5,000 target with responses arriving from twenty five states and territories. Mayors in several cities indicate the total will surpass the original goal as individual contributions range from 50 cents to 50 dollars.
In Toronto on October 4 Justice Winchester ordered Leopold J. Stern of Baltimore delivered to United States authorities for trial on postal fraud charges in Washington. Stern was sought for extradition in the United States case.
Boston October 4 Republicans of Massachusetts nominated their state ticket. Samuel L. Powers of Newton was chosen permanent chairman. Senator Hoar nominated Gov Bates for a second term and the nomination was by acclamation. Secretary of the Navy Moody nominated Lieut Gov Guild, and the nomination was by acclamation. The remainder of the ticket followed similarly.
A north bound Frisco passenger train and a south bound freight collided head on eighteen miles east of West Plaining Mo on Oct 4. Three trainmen were killed, a fourth fatally injured, and a passenger slightly hurt. The report also notes Herr Hildebrand, a Socialist Reichstag member for Stuttgart, resigning as a revisionist.
Word reached Mora Minnesota that a safe in the large John Runquist store at Grasstom was blown open and about $25 in cash was taken. A hot pursuit has been started.
Gov Hunt arrived in San Juan Puerto Rico from the United States and was greeted with a warm demonstration by officials and civilians. There were no disorder or incidents reported.
In a Tennessee Central wreck near Ozone on October 3, Newton Clowers, assistant foreman of a work train, was killed while twelve laborers were injured when a fing train collided with the work train.
Mason City Oct 3 Thomas Englesen heir to a vast fortune valued at 80,000,000 dollars. He travels to Norway to establish his rights to his share of the Austrian estate.
Crandon Wis Oct 3 After two hours deliberation the jury hearing the case against Mrs Farice Duff charged with the murder of her husband returned a verdict of not guilty.
Lexington Oct 4 A vast amount of testimony was taken yesterday in the Tillman case nearly twenty witnesses testified along with readings of State editorials. The prosecution moved toward the close of its case. In boxing news Tommy Sullivan defeated Kid Berman after twenty rounds in Kansas City the decision going to Sullivan.
Output Restricted. furley Wisconsin October 2 supt Ellara throws 260 men out of work. Preacher in Pen Bronx City Iowa October 3 Reverend Geo. eral bogus enterprises sentenced to three years in the penitentiary by Judge Hutchingon.
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