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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1903
Page
6
A collage of quirky observations and quips from an Emmons County newspaper. Jestsabout geography and history, jokes on royalty and surgery mix with brief, sharp notes on coal output, Bulgaria’s purchases, a bicycle girl, and social foibles.
An outline of Sir Thomas Lipton born in Scotland to Irish parents and living in England while doing business in India before residing in America. The report frames Lipton as a transnational figure active across multiple continents according to the St Louis Slobe Democrat.
A historic note claims King Pete of Servia seeks a $1,000,000 loan and hints that gold brick artists would reward the lender’s name. In a divorce trial a bellboy’s light touch drew a laugh from the woman, illustrating how some miss the point of a joke.
A witty remark imagines Naples tapping Mt Vesuvius heat and using waste hot air to warm the city next winter, highlighting a playful critique of energy ideas and local enterprise.
The North Adams Transcript reports Sheriff Morrissey recovered the knife used by Michael Blair to saw his way out of a steel cell in the town hall basement. The article questions Blair’s current location and status.
A Chicago man sent his relatives one million dollars to see what they would do with it. The plan aims to amuse and test family reactions, hoping the experiment gains popularity if the results prove entertaining.
Champion Jeffries offers Jack Munroe ten thousand dollars to stay four rounds. The remark implies Munroe should occupy every minute of his time to profit from the engagement.
The report notes public astonishment as Bashi-Bazouks are released in Macedonia, a move widely feared by observers familiar with their feared reputation.
Mrs Langtry argues that disrobing on stage shocks less than actions seen in the boxes. She notes many common folk in the orchestra and gallery would likely agree with her assessment.
A Chicago physician announces a cure for lockjaw using a calcium and potassium salt injection. the report urges caution and suggests restricting toy pistols to avoid a festive uproar around the Fourth. The text contains garbled lines and unclear fragments.
The St Paul Foundry will construct for the government a bird cage at the St Louis fair as large as the treasury building and ninety feet wide. The cruiser Cleveland tested at 16.495 knots against a required 16.5 knots. acceptance is recommended at a reduced price. Minnesota pensions paid total 2,294,000 dollars with South Dakota 509,000 and North Dakota 231,000. Nearly 41,000 companies were dropped from rolls by death during the year. The State Department cables Minister Beaupre at Bogota that he will not be hampered in canal negotiations with Colombia.
The three sisters who lived with Pope Pius X in Venice arrived in Rome recently after a six week separation and were warmly greeted. France delays sending the exequateur for the Dominican consul at Havre citing alleged violations of foreign bond laws. The Dutch plan to adopt a monetary system akin to the Philippines gains general support from the international exchange commission. The Pekin government seeks to insert a clause in the American commercial treaty directing the U S consul general in Shanghai to suppress any foreign settlement newspaper with seditious content. The Supao affair remains deadlocked between the consul and diplomatic bodies with each side deferring to the other.
Multiple prominent figures pass away across the United States and Europe including Herman Zumpe in Munich bishop Thomas L. Clark in Middletown Rhode Island and John Bullock Clark in Washington. Promotions include E P Moulinier advancing to first assistant district attorney Cincinnati and Thomas H Darby named second assistant. Joseph E Morcombe hired by the sultan of Turkey as press agent for Turkish communications.
A compilation notes several deadly and injurious incidents: two boys named Epstein burned to death in Scranton Pennsylvania. six killed and around 25 injured in a Yorkville South Carolina railroad wreck. six badly hurt when a boiler exploded at Hanson Van Winkle plant in Newark New Jersey. three women struck by a Lake Shore train near Ligonier Indiana killed. laborers Mike Jesey John Cranz and Dan Sabin crushed in a Los Angeles hotel excavation collapse. County Judge Arthur E Sutherland of Rochester New York wounded while duck hunting in Stonylake Canada. Price Joyner fatally hurt and about 100 injured as a Robinsons Circus tent collapsed at Anthony Kansas. Mrs Michael Wolfe killed and eleven injured near Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania when a trolley car ran off a track. two Mexicans and a Black man die in a mine fire at Dawson Fuel Company mine in Springer New Mexico, followed by a rescue explosion injuring about thirty. three men killed and others injured in the Bride Mine near Everett Washington.
In Homberg and vicinity 200 persons are suffering from trrconisis. Thirty-six international disputes have been settled by The Hague tribunal. China protests against Russia over evacuation terms in Manchuria. Swansea tin plate strike nears arbitration with 20,000 workers set to return. President Harper wins sultan concessions for explorations near ancient Babylon. Capassa the aeronaut Berger and M Reclus plan a balloon crossing. Hague conference seeks to preserve good offices as non hostile. Marshall Field in Munich notes he is not seeking Kingsway space. British foreign office protests US seizure near Borneo islands. Jacques Lebaudy to be sued for rescue costs. sailors may sue for damages. Experts note he may claim desert possession.
Patrick F. Conklin was executed in Sing Sing for wife murder. Sheeney Harris and Kelly escaped from Schoharie County Jail. An assault on Maya McMasters in Tuscola Illinois. Baltimore murder confession by Charles Jones, age twelve. M W Wales removed as Randolph Massachusetts postmaster after accounting issues, later paralyzed. Jett indictments overruled for Jackson Town Marshal murder. Mrs Helen Purinton committed suicide in Chicago. Mine operators jailed in Kansas coal inquiry. Senator John Raines had money and promissory notes stolen in Syracuse. Lieut McClune Hamilton found guilty in the Philippines court martial. Mrs Amelia Mueller and her son attempted suicide after grave death, others affected.
London reports indicate widespread devastation across the British Isles from a southwest gale reaching 72 mph. Lloyds notes over fifty serious shipping casualties as many vessels founder and coast towns suffer, while inland areas face root damage and telegraph networks remain down. France also reports coastal damage and disrupted communications.
A coal blockade in Superior harbor holds up shipping as a flood of coal arrives. Docks are stocked but handling is difficult with four vessels at anchor and some ships delayed six to eight days amid the big rush.
Mitchell October 13 reports ninety percent of local corn fully out of frost danger and yielding well. Farmers anticipate a very high average harvest, with corn shown in the city palace exhibit illustrating the crop’s excellent condition. The fall has not yet reached frost levels, the lowest so far being 42 degrees.
United States District Attorney Beach announced six defendants named in seven indictments tied to letter box and supplies transactions. George W. Beavers August W. Machen James W. Erwin George H. Huntington Isaac S. McGrehan Eugene D. Scheble are charged with conspiracy to defraud and bribery. Additional counts cover conspiracy to defraud and to accept bribes. Other postal cases are pending before the grand jury as sessions resume.
Ernest B. Johnson of Duluth Minnesota indicted by the grand jury on two counts of forgery in the third degree. He was arraigned and waived reading of the indictments and will plead today. He is out on fifteen thousand dollars bail.
Winona Minn Sept 13 Burglars entered Max Lossens home on West Wabasha while his family viewed fair sights and forced open a safe taking 67 in cash and two diamond earrings valued about 200 There is no clue the inner door battered and safe possibly left unlocked or opened by someone who knew the combination.
Edwardsville Illinois reports banker merchant William Neimeyer of Mount Clive died at his home from a brain injury after a runaway wagon dragged a truck into a telegraph pole, driving a splinter that struck him in the eye and penetrated the brain.
The Chicago city hall faction backs Mayor Harrison for reelection while Seth Low garners a fusion endorsement in New York. Other items note grasshoppers destroying Picuris Indian crops in Tang county New Mexico, the United Society of Christian Endeavor meeting in Baltimore, and a McKinley memorial unveiling fixed for October in Adams Massachusetts. Juries and wage talks surface, along with a Cleveland 3 cent fare ordinance and a Chicago line grant condition. A Richmond judge dies, a legal bid blocks GE city entry in Fort Wayne, and an Tacoma minister laments memory loss after an unsolved ad puzzle. An Oldenburg school principal is arrested over a published gambling accusation.
The Edward Hines Lumber Co of Chicago sold eighty million feet of pine in southeastern Douglas county Wisconsin to the Empire Lumber Co of Winona for about $620000. Logs will travel down the St Croix and Mississippi rivers to Winona. Empire has an option on 20000000 more feet in the same tract.
Louis P Aloe of St Louis arranged a private car journey from a Muskegon Michigan summer resort to St Louis to avoid quarantine for his two young daughters amid reports of scarlet fever. The special Bashaw limited train conveyed them, arriving at noon the following day.
Andrew Garland of Marinette was about twenty miles from town when a great black bear grabbed the tool he was holding, sat on his haunches and ate berries nearby. Garland, without a gun, fled with his brain still in the field.
Waterloo Illinois September 13 William A Hoffman slayer of his father in law William Branidt at Maestown refused pleas of his grandfather mother wife and other friends to surrender or leave the country He rejected protection from lynching and money to depart Sheriff Ruch increases posse from 25 to 40 to capture Hoffman.
In Manila a customs inspector, Thorm Coates and Lieut. Osborne, serving in San Fernando, were tried and convicted of misappropriating government funds. Osborne received ten years, Coates eight. Dean Tompkins, La Union province treasurer, was convicted of forgery with sentence reserved. The minimum penalty for forgery is twelve years.
Frank James filed a 35000 dollar suit in Kansas City against the Griz theater and the owners of The James Boys in Missouri claiming the Wild West show and the stage production bring disgrace to his name and expose him to public censure while touring with Cote Younger.
Redfield South Dakota September 13 It is learned that the burglaries at Turton a few nights ago were committed by a Negro who has used Watertown as a headquarters He has been brought here for trial.
Redwood Falls Minnesota reports burglars attempted to crack the Gold-Stabeck bank at Wabaco last night. After breaking a door, the alarm triggered and the burglars fled town with a team stolen from Leo Altermate’s barn. About $5,000 in currency was said to be inside.
Joseph and Andrew Kervela brothers from Laurium narrowly escaped two bears during berry picking at Calumet Michigan on September 13. One bear seized Joseph by the shoulder and both men fled, abandoning their pails and fruit as they ran for safety.
Superior Wis Sept 13 Jack Mattson a shipyard employee fell head first thirty feet from a ladder. He was paralyzed by the shock but remains alive. Doctors say his chances of recovery are about even.
In Onida Sully County Court William Lewis received a one year sentence in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to perjury. The crime was committed to aid a friend.
Duluth Minnesota Sept 12 Financial troubles caused the death by own action of George Ruprecht a prominent Duluth lumber man. His body was found in the St Louis hotel by a chambermaid. He had taken laudanum.
Caledonia Minnesota September 12 farmers are discouraged as continual rains delay threshing and damage grain stacks. The corn crop will not mature before frosts, adding worry for local growers.
Garretson South Dakota report notes Mrs. L Farley, a well known resident since Sept. 1, has become the crack shot of this portion of the state as the prairie chicken season opened.
In Stamford Connecticut on September 12 reports say detectives hunt near Woodside Park for a large sum of money alleged hidden after exposures that led to Captain Carter’s imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth and Captain Greene and John Gaynor fleeing to Canada.
Washington Sept 13 The secretary of the navy accepted the resignation of Lieut R N Marble Jr of Duluth taking effect next Tuesday He was appointed to the naval academy from Duluth by former Representative Page Morris and has led the Craven naval torpedo station at Narragansett Bay RI for the past year No reason given for the sudden move surprised fellow officers in Washington.
Winnipeg Sept 13 Hugh Mann brother of D D Mann vice president of Canadian Northern Railway was accidentally killed while supervising track laying near Erwood.
Theresa Vaughn, once an actress, is dying at the Worcester insane hospital from paresis. Relatives have been notified that her death could come at any time.
Great Falls Montana report says the body of White Calf former Blackfoot leader aged eighty three, who died last February, was stolen from his grave yesterday.
A Clinton Iowa fire department team set a world record in an exhibition run at the fair grounds yesterday. The team completed the half mile in 1:16.15 with 150 feet of rope laid for the display.
A Boston Enterprise style critique notes a lady on a park stage beneath trees about to sing. The sun in her eyes is described as sunproof paint. A pianist with a closed fist touch provides preludes while a teasing frog in the throat is explained as a device to produce a thrill before the vocal line emerges.
Gen Sher man honored guest at a banquet when a familiar face reappeared. He asked the guest who he was and learned the man had made the general’s shirts. Major Schurtz received a warm introduction from the receiving committee.
A mountain town boy four fears bears and stays indoors after his mother warns of bears in the road and park. A clergyman questions him, mother confesses the fib, and the boy suggests asking God to forgive the lie. The story from Lipincott's Magazine ends with the child's clear faith.
An advertisement extols complete rest of body and mind through stomach health. It urges quitting coffee and using Postum Food Coffee to rebuild nerves and tissues. A hygienic sanitarium physician reports lasting benefit after coffee withdrawal, with the Doctor’s name available from Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich.
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