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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1903
Page
6
Reports from the Vatican describe Pope Leo XII's worsening health with kidney dysfunction and dizziness, including hallucinations. Doctors and aid from humiant care and new breathing devices arrived, while the Noble Guard faced staffing limits and strict watch during the pontiff's decline.
Reports show twenty five thousand new members in the railroad telegraphers union and eight hour gains for western miners. Wage raises occur at Bethlehem Steel and New York plasterers. Conscious labor action touches Paris Tokyo Boston New Orleans and Toronto with strikes, politics and charity drives shaping the era.
A garbled OCR collage cites diverse 1900s headlines and opinions from St. Louis Globe-Democrat Indianapolia News Montgomery Advertiser New York Telegram and others. It mentions presidential talk about Joseph Polk, disdain for reformers, a beta meeting, lynching rhetoric, floods and murders, and a prehistory find, all in fragmentary form.
The piece describes a sweeping stock slump driven by over capitalisation and market manipulation. It cites forced loan payments, prominent figures under pressure, a resignation of Joseph J. Glm, and linked incidents including a creosote fire loss and violent clashes with police during Kellogg Procession protests.
U.S. stocks suffer a severe tumble with many blue chips halved or cut in half, sending New Yorkers and investors nationwide into a panic. The drop mirrors the panic of May two years ago as weak and strong issues alike endure heavy losses. Chicago and Northwestern fall over 100 points from its prior peak, while General Electric trades at half its former price amid ongoing capital concerns.
A West Side riot erupts as strikers attack Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Co. guards. bricks fly from scaffolds as police fire on the improvised fortification. Mob tools wagons streetcars to Ogden avenue amid chaos and running battles along Congress and Peoria streets.
The Rev. G W Burgess of Upper Town conference has left Melbourne due to health. The Rev. Edwin H Hughes of Mal eo Marys announces he will become president of DePauw University in Greencastle Indiana. The Rev. George Settenibach, after thirty eight years in Newark NC, preaches his last sermon then returns to Germany. The Very Rev. Charles P Grunnan of the Catholic University of Washington joins an international biblical committee. Cardinal Vaughan’s bishop auxiliary Algernon Brauley is linked to old English families. The Rev. Reginald J Gawpbell, age 86, will visit and succeeds the late Joseph Varnter as pastor of City Temple, London. Supt. Baker reports many saloons in Buckeye State with more ahead in cities.
The July 1 average for winter wheat stood at 78.8, down from 82.2 last month, with states like Missouri and Pennsylvania cited in the table. Spring wheat averaged 82.5, and total wheat remaining on farms about 42.5 million bushels. Barley and rye conditions and acreage shifts for flax tobacco and potatoes are noted, with minor crops to follow in the Crop Reporter.
The estate of OG L Mages in Pittsburg assigns a dispute with Dr. Walter C. Browning of Philadelphia over fees for services to the sick politician. Attorney William B. Rodgers represents the doctor in a warrant amounting to $84,000 from the recent Allegheny County Orphans Court award. Browning claims $196,000 is owed for rendered services amid multiple claims against the estate.
One hundred years ago John Hawkins showcased a device to take portraits for one cent, a forerunner of modern cameras. A Petersburg cargo of shoes shown as free black people had been kidnapped from North Carolina. Ohio voters favored Republicans with 5 558 to 1 040 for Federalists. Rowles the cheaperado was brought to New Orleans by Indians paid $3 000 for his capture. Charles Jordan, famed North Carolina hunter, died at 114. Seventy five years ago Martin Van Buren agreed to be the Jackson candidate for New York governor. John Quincy Adams received a cloth web from Baltimore weyers, predicted to presage a great American industry. A $40 reward offered for Letty Brown and her two enslaved children, stolen by her husband before he was sold. The War Secretary sought plans from England to educate and civilize American Indians. Commodore Creighton led the U S squadron off Brazil, while Commodore Biddle was ordered home.
Ex-President John Tyler neared Old Point Comfort in a reported dying state. Commodore Perry met Japan’s Mikado after opening ports to the world. Portugal faced a crisis as rulers disclosed the kingdom’s three states. Tehran, with 60,000 residents, suffered near total destruction from an earthquake. A monument to Sir Isaac Brock at Queenstown Heights was destroyed by gunpowder.
A massive New York disturbance saw 5,000 rioters burn the U S recruiting office and nearby sites on Third Avenue and Forty sixth Street, disrupt telegraph lines, and cheer Jefferson Davis. Confederate forces retreated into Virginia as Meade’s Army of the Potomac failed to pursue. Morgan raiders plundered north of Cincinnati prompting martial law in Ohio. Indiana mobilized tens of thousands to resist the invasion while militia blocked Morgan at Vernon, Indiana.
The Spanish government revoked its edict sequestering Cuban property as part of conciliatory efforts. The United States commented on the first silver trade dollar. The Virginios reached Kingston ahead of Bazan and Kansas. Brig ham Young’s 700 Mormon colonists in Arizona returned to Salt Lake City, starving. The Spanish colonial minister proposed elevating Porto Rico to statehood. Large immigrant influx to Nebraska reached about 100,000 annually.
In Chicago Henry Ward Beecher argued that liquor selling should be regulated by morality rather than laws and that moral suasion is a stronger temperance promoter. The piece notes a cloudburst in London causing drownings and rain in Canada, with St John of Kansas predicting a Republican setback akin to the Whigs.
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