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Newspaper
Kendallville Daily Sun
Location
Kendallville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1902
Page
3
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery as cures for female ailments restoring health and strength. A testimonial from Mary E. Lewis of Tanner Gilmer County West Virginia details long illness and weight gain after using the medicines, claiming renewed vigor and rosy cheeks.
Rail notice outlines daily trains to Grand Rapids Indiana with Sundays excluded. Trains 2 and 3 include a parlor car between Cincinnati and Grand Rapids while Trains 5 and 6 offer sleeping cars between Cincinnati and Grand Rapids. Kendallville agent A H Minor handles tickets.
Secretary Root assumed full responsibility for payments to General Gomez by General Wood during the Cuban occupation. The War Department notes Cuba faced precarious conditions, Gomez led the army without pay, and U S officials argued the pension and income were warranted as wartime costs. Congress had long been aware of Gomez’s payments.
Washington June 17. Senators expect adjournment by July 1 regardless of reciprocity progress with Cuba. Beet sugar interests plan to block the bill via Republican defections while some favor a treaty with the Cuban government, but leaders warn a treaty would doom any action this session. President Palma has called a rebate proposal on Cuban sugar expensive and hard to implement.
This morning the admiral was chosen to preside over the final ceremonies in this country for the removal of the late Lord Pauncefote’s remains. Admiral Coghlan will accompany the remains to England.
The House passed two pension bills expanding benefits for veterans. One restores pension rights to widows who remarry and rewidowed spouses, the other increases for total disability and for dependent wartime cases. Amendments trimmed some sums for limb losses.
Bodies of sergeant two corporals and four privates of the Fifth Cavalry recovered after capture May 30 by Ladrones at Bi Nangonan Rizal. Most victims partly hewn. nine men arrested identified as Ladrones members including two Teresa Morong police. Soldiers buried together. separate interments not possible.
Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania June 17 sixth week of the anthracite coal miners strike opened with rain keeping 150000 idle men indoors. Reports of assaults on workers and mine police reached from region but no serious injuries. Fire bosses were not greatly reduced in number at work. Kanawha field in West Virginia saw intensified strike activity with Winnefrede miners not reporting and three mines accepting concessions while others closed.
Reports from Altoona Roanoke Carbondale Indianapolis and Bronx City detail ongoing coal strikes. Workers claim full-time shifts continue in some districts while armed strikers threaten West Virginia mines. Officials cite agreements from Peoria and wage disputes with rail carriers.
London reports King Edward has improved after yesterday's Windsor trip, following a period of lumbago at Aldershot. Sir Francis Knollys and Sir Francis Laking counter alarmist rumors, noting a day of rest may restore him for remaining pre coronation duties.
Indianapolis reports Andrew Deiss of Peoria Illinois cut his sixteen year old wife at 445 West Washington Street and then killed himself by drinking carbolic acid. The woman is fatally injured and Deiss died in convulsions while under arrest awaiting a wagon. Motive cited as jealousy.
Senator Hanna of Ohio responds to Colonel Cutter Smith of Florence Alv by stating he cannot be considered a candidate for the presidential nomination in 1904. He thanks Smith for the friendship and confidence but declines the suggestion.
Chicago reports yesterday’s baseball marks across leagues with several scores including Brooklyn 2, St Louis 1 and Philadelphia 9, Chicago 4. Boston forfeited to Pittsburg 9 0 after crowd delays. In American and Association play similar results. notes include Denver Omaha 11 6 and Milwaukee Kansas City 7 6. Boston notes death of Rev Willis C Dewey Ph D in New York. born Canton Illinois and Beloit Chicago Theological Seminary graduate.
Across cities reporters note memorial actions and obituaries. In Peabody Massachusetts a tablet was unveiled by the Peabody Historical Society in front of the house where George Peabody was born. In Indianapolis Indiana Norman S. Byram longtime executive died aged 71 after fifty years in the city. Duluth Minnesota the ministerial association urged the mayor not to permit Sunday baseball. Portland Oregon official vote count shows Chamberlain Democrat won governor by 256 margin.
Louisville on June 17. Jacob Gerhard, 70, a well known citizen, died by his own hand in a suicide by hanging.
The Spanish government announced it will appoint a minister to the Cuban republic. Joseph KE Proffitt of West Virginia is nominated consul at Pretoria, South Africa. Minnie M Hanna, daughter of the senator, married Harry Parsons of Cleveland. The International Association of Boot and Shoe Workers meets in Detroit. Prince Henry of Prussia named Christopher Bunie godfather by proxy.
The long standing Chile Argentina dispute over the Andean boundary ends in a settlement by arbitration. The signings mark a clear triumph for amicable settlement and reflect a growing regional spirit of conciliation fostered by the pan American congress in Mexico City.
A collage of medical claims and political commentary. It touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for cures, praises Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets, and promotes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as liver and bowel remedies. It also references global issues and local figures such as President Palma, Mark Twain, and General De Wit.
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