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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1903
Page
2
A patchwork of noted curiosities includes Keene facing poverty, a jibe at central telephony, rain hampering crops and ball games, aging insight, a denial about Harry Lehr, sartorial quips on frilled drawers, and Eastern girls selling a piazza mat hat with a curious tilt.
A Wisconsin boy, reportedly wasting time on a corn hoe, goes fishing and discovers a prize worth 2675 dollars. The column mischiefs humor blends with quips about royalty and a dowager empress, noting debts of 80000 and public appetite for gossip.
St Paul moves first among large cities to curb the 1904 toy pistol craze. Meanwhile, rising beef prices threaten to keep living expenses above a fixed threshold for many households.
An Atlanta Constitution quip notes the Humberts, famed Paris swindlers who allegedly stole millions, may receive only a light punishment. The editorial reflects skepticism about justice, asserting the case leaves a receiver in control and questions the outcome.
Manila correspondents report the sul tan of Sulu is so taken with Singapore that he will not return to Sulu. After rumors of his death, he has resigned, signaling a dramatic shift in leadership and loyalty.
The remark notes that Colombia favors war over humiliation and suggests that South American republics generally prefer conflict to many alternatives. The tone is sardonic, reflecting diplomatic fatigue and skepticism about regional peace motives.
The Washington baseball team is reportedly up for sale amid strong owner nerve. A provocative remark suggests giving the club away with a small tea concession as a playful jab at the situation.
A sixty horsepower engine used at western ranches will plow sixty acres a day. Between that machine and the automobile, people who like horse meat should be able to get it at bargain rates.
The article notes that Egyptian mummies may enter the country duty free following a recent customs decision. It mentions no protests from infant industry yet, but cautions that such objections could arise later.
People who return worn from their outing should cheer up, for roughly fifty weeks must pass before they can have the same experience again, a reminder of the cycle of leisure and time.
An English clergyman has entirely lost his memory after taking a bath. The incident may reinforce belief that bathing is foolish and dangerous.
A cautious note suggests the American painter of the Empress Dowager of China should avoid strict realism to ensure payment and avoid international incident while completing the portrait.
Britain releases seven teenage irreconcilables from Boer captivity. The most troubling aspect is their refusal to work. Even a small number of idlers can cause considerable trouble for authorities and mission teams.
A Calais Maine dispatch says a man has died after taking out a life insurance policy six weeks earlier following dreams of seeing his own corpse for three nights in a row. Some wonder if the insurer will pay.
An auto trip covers San Francisco to Chicago in fifty days. The chauffeur aimed to prove to the public that it is still possible to travel slowly in a puff wagon.
The cruiser Cleveland in its trial trip exceeded the 16.5 knot standard for its class. Maj. Samuel Reber is appointed secretary of the army war college and is Miles’s son in law. Public Printer Palmers order requires all divisions heads to take an oath of allegiance at the notary public. Rumors say Emperor Francis Joseph may abdicate but no army concessions. A strike at Ekaterinoslav leaves eleven dead and twelve wounded. German sailors and English artillerymen clashed in Queenstown, knives used, two wounded.
Lieut Commander Frances O Davenport U S N retired died at his residence in Detroit from heart failure. John Q Thompson sixty four editor of the Washington Chronicle is dead. He was a native of Indiana. Robert Stevenson a pioneer wholesale druggist of Chicago is dead of heart disease. He was stricken suddenly while visiting at the home of friends. N W Mellvar formerly United States consul general at Yokohama has received the decoration of the double dragon from the emperor of China. David B Henderson former speaker of the national house of representatives and his wife and daughter Miss Belle Henderson who have been spending the summer at Brockwater Fresh Water Cove Mass have cut short their stay owing to the illness of Miss Henderson due to close application to her studies.
J P Cassidy and his four year old sons perished in a house fire at New Island and Pacific railroad property. Loss estimated at 500000. A West Shore locomotive exploded on a grade near Girard Pennsylvania fatally injuring an engineer fireman and brake man. An electric car in St. Louis injured two drivers. Albert Sinyers drowned near Nantucket after capsizing a boat while rescuing an eighteen year old. A New York Central special derailed near Little Falls New York killing engineer Robert Lilly and fireman Conley with several others hurt.
King Peter of Servia threatens abdication. A waterspout endangers Huare Peru city of 20000. Prince Henry of Prussia to be relieved next fall from first naval division. Cayman Islands hurricane feared heavy losses. Attenberg absorbed by Belgium. Danish expedition to Spitzbergen profitable. 36 white bears shot. Krupps press American bridge contracts against steel trust. London board laments women teachers short careers due to matrimony. Cardinal Moran meets Pope Pius in Australia. Canadian marine aims to curb Great Lakes fishing with patrol boats. Czar to visit Vienna at end of September. Garibaldi funeral in Rome sparks veteran demonstration. Fire at Goldbergs leads to 10 deaths and 200 injured. Carnegie endows £50 yearly for life in Dumfries home of Burns. Mrs Brown, Burns’s descendant, noted. Wagner family boycotts Berlin monument ceremonies over program. Wilhelminian rejection cited. Program would have run fourteen days.
A long list of incidents including a Detroit murder case, robberies in Los Angeles and Alaska, a stabbing spree in Lancaster Pennsylvania, fraud involving Senator Elkins impersonation in New York, failed train wreck attempt in Missouri, a missing girl escape in Illinois, a Georgia or Kentucky church shooting, and arsenic poisoning cases. Names places and dates mentioned span builders in Ohio Illinois Kentucky Iowa Missouri and Texas with various victims.
A movement aims to unite all German societies in the United States formed of veterans of the German army. Judge Raymond rules the Dawes commission may allot lands and funds to Cherokee freedmen not on the 1898 rolls. The Ur of the Caldees excavation project is abandoned due to Turkish authority issues. Congressman John Stephens advocates a penal colony in the Philippines for criminals, including African Americans. Macedonia sympathizers meet in Chicago to denounce Turkey. The American Shipbuilding Co. wins an order from A B Wolvin for a 560 foot lake vessel costing $500,000. Chicago street car line consolidation is studied to fix traction. Richmond street railway strike ends after 69 days, costing $125,000 to the company and $50,000 to the strikers. Plainfield relatives learn Col. Bowden alive after two years missing in the Philippines. Pat Burke dies after a hospital bath.
A new fissure in Vesuvius cone erupts at 5 pm sending burning lava toward the Ottajano area. The lava, halted by older deposits, creates loud detonations as it courses down the mountain. no harm reported to villagers. AAP report from Naples notes dramatic, terrifying scene with vast liquid fire and detaching lava masses.
Turmoil grows in the Adrianople vilayet as revolutionaries seize frontier posts. The Turkish commander in Seres orders massacre and destruction of Bulgarians when insurgents appear. Turkish civilians flee toward Constantinople, eight hundred seeking safety at Yasitiko. A clash near Passakui leaves 150 Turks dead after rebels break a siege.
Richmond Michigan August 30 Twelve year old Agnes Douglas was found with a severed throat while sleeping beside her father. The physician says she cannot recover. The father woke to find her bleeding as a glass plate lay broken in the room. No arrest yet and Justice Heath calls the sheriff for investigation.
Rome reports a railway disaster during king and queen celebrations at Udine. A train crowded with soldiers crashed into a passing freight at 10 p.m., causing extensive wreckage. Twenty soldiers died and eighty were injured in the collision.
In Mexico City on August 30, reports show 85 yellow fever patients in Merida and 19 in Progresso. Sanitary authorities are enacting active measures to prevent spread to other locations.
In South Chicago, Michael Fozinsk i was killed and six men injured by an explosion at the Illinois Steel company's works yesterday. The blast, blamed on a bursting draft pipe, disrupted operations and sent workers to local hospitals.
A San Pedro electric car loaded with passengers was held up and robbed last night several miles beyond the city limits. The incident occurred in the late hours as the train continued along the line outside Los Angeles. No injuries were reported and authorities began investigations.
Marshalltown Iowa Aug 29 Orrin Beach a married man with four children and known in Albion has been arrested on a criminal assault charge against Laura Larison. His hearing is set for Sept 8.
Mrs. Nora Norbeck died at 568 Jackson Street yesterday from carbolic acid poisoning. Authorities say the long absence of her husband is thought to have caused the tragedy. Local police report the death is under investigation and a probable suicide.
Aug 30 report from Omaha details Jefferson Keep and Edgar Hamilton drowning after swimming in a South Omaha backwater. Willie Paulson perished in a flooded Council Bluffs cellar. Railroads remain strained with eastbound Burlington traffic rerouted via St Joseph as crews repair damaged lines. relief expected as gangs labor on the tracks.
Lower portions of Council Bluffs Iowa remain under water with many homes flooded to the lower floors. Row boats operated in downtown districts as streets become a lake between the city and Lake Manawa five miles south. Street cars to Manawa stopped and launches used. eastern mails delayed forty eight hours. Only one railroad kept clear tracks. Extensive damage reported from the artificial overflow.
The steamer John Duncan carrying iron ore and a crew of nineteen began leaking near Harrisville Michigan at midnight. A Sturgeon Point lifesaving crew rescued the imperilled sailors around noon, the vessel beached in twenty feet of water as a northwest gale raged on Lake Huron and pumps kept failing.
Eight Holdrege residents were bitten by dogs believed mad prompting panic in the town. Five victims sought Pasteur Institute care in Chicago as Merrill Wisconsin reported several dogs bitten and the police hunted and killed dogs to curb spread.
Record rainfall surpasses previous marks at the government weather bureau in Sioux City. Yesterday's rainfall reached 7 inches, lifting eight month total to 33.51 inches from Jan 1, 1903, the highest for any year in the past thirteen years.
A Great Northern depot burglary in Watertown last night netted between 200 and 300 dollars after the safe was opened by burglars. Found 2:30 freight time drawers sprawled on the platform, no clues, suggesting a gang at work in the city. Earlier, three men attempted shoplifting at a Chicago store, two distracted the clerk while one tried to flee with cloth. they received thirty days in jail.
Ex Treasurer John Erickson of Sawyer County Wisconsin, facing a $2600 shortage, is making efforts to settle. A suit against American Bonding Company, the surety on his bond, led to a $500 check received by the district attorney yesterday. Erickson is expected to arrive to finalize the settlement.
Ottumwa Iowa Aug 30 John Kostich son of Austrian murder victims was found near Centerville almost dead with a bullet in his breast. Police unsure if self inflicted wound or shot by federates of Kostichs parents killers.
Lightning struck the Iowa Central depot in Eddyville, Iowa, damaging the building where 1,500 pounds of dynamite were stored. Twelve people inside the depot escaped unharmed as the blast threat was contained.
In Turtle Lake Wisconsin on August 30 Mrs Frank Nenitz reported finding the remains of a man in the woods. The entire village population joined in searches for the body.
A Linares Mexico letter reports yellow fever there with a death rate of fourteen daily, warning residents of the epidemic and its rapid toll on the community.
Augusta Me Aug 29 The estate of Mrs James G Blaine approaches two million dollars in real estate, profitable stocks and bonds as details of the estate are summarized in the report.
Senator Hanna who has been ill is reported to be better in Cleveland Ohio on August 29. The brief notice notes the improvement without detailing his condition or treatment.
Six armed men robbed the Rock Island depot in McFarland Kansas taking money watches and contents then beat railroad men. They looted the eating house and locked six employees in a refrigerator car before fleeing toward Topeka eluding a pursuing posse.
A party of eight tourists in Salt Lake Utah August 30 narrowly escaped death on Frankel's Twin Pears after a fierce snowstorm. They crawled on hands and knees for ten hours, sheltered behind rocks as winds reached fifty miles per hour and temperatures plummeted. Dr A C Behle started a small fire to keep the group alive before they began their descent.
In Decatur township Vincennes Ind Aug 30 Misses Emma Hancock Little Hancock and Pearl Twitty were arrested and fined by Justice of the Peace Charles Fyffe after a hand to hand church fight that panic struck worshippers Mollie Moore fled to a neighboring county to avoid arrest while the others paid fines and were released by their fathers
Berlin authorities convict an army servant named Bishop for failing to report mistreatment of privates by Sergeant Breidehbach. Breidehbach receives 312 years for brutality, while Bishop is sentenced to three months in prison.
Aug 30 report from Butler Pennsylvania says Boydstown dam burst releasing about 2,000,000 gallons of water and flooding surrounding lands for miles. Property damage is extensive but, as far as known, no lives were lost.
A sudden death occurred at St Charles on Thursday night as Mrs Mary Patterson died in her sleep and was found dead in bed yesterday morning in Winona Minnesota.
Rapid progress on a new Methodist church in Chandler aims to replace the tornado-destroyed structure of 1899. Construction continues as August 28 notes the ongoing work and plans to complete the replacement building.
A new jail has been completed at Erwin, 8 C, with expectations it will curb crime among transient harvest hands, bringing safety to the town and future stability.
A Russian artillery officer and chemist named Imschenetezky invented uralite a new fireproof building material composed of asbestos fiber with silicate bicarbonate of soda and chalk. It is nonconductive heat and electricity waterproof weather resistant and paintable. It can be shaped veneered painted glued and used for walls panels or partitions and tolerates moisture or temperature changes.
A gray haired stranger confronts the society editor about a Mann reception note. He claims a paragraph implying the daughter’s grace hints that her father built his fortune by selling brooms. The editor denies intent. after a brief exchange the man leaves.
A New York Times quote portrays Mrs. Wall famed for finding bargains, saying fashion is fleeting but warmth matters. Her daughter Bessie teases for a baby sister, joking about getting one on remnant terms if damaged.
An Irish hod carrier Terence known as a lusty good-natured workman is teased by the building owner about family privilege. The owner notes a brother who is a bishop and remarks on unequal fortunes, to which Terence admits that good things in life are not evenly divided as he climbs the ladder with his hod.
A humorous exchange about self raising flour leads to a quip about inventing self raising coal that would enter the scuttle and rise in the cellar. The brief joke, attributed to the Philadelphia Ledger, plays on home cooking and household cleverness.
The farmer in the sideshow asks where the rattlesnakes are while the lecturer reassures him that the living skeleton is merely suffering from the ague. The judge narrator adds a witty remark about the unusual exhibit.
A testimonial promotes Postum Food Coffee as a cure for migraines and nervous headaches caused by coffee. The writer stopped coffee two and a half years ago, reports no headaches, and says household work continues smoothly. Neighbors also switch to Postum with health benefits, per Postum Co. advertising copy.
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