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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1902
Page
4
Boston is abuzz over a coal strike, party loyalties, and statewide bets. Col Gaston and J P Morgan loom large as influence sways in Newton and Boston, while Senate races in Suffolk and Essex districts shape up and Buzz mounts for the next Massachusetts governorship.
The Boston area reports a contest over the fifth district Democratic nomination after Alexander B. Bruce of Lawrence filed a certificate in error, claiming acceptance of nomination. Sparks of Dracut also filed a certificate as nominee, prompting the ballot law commission to schedule a hearing.
A religious exhortation urging confidence in God and President Roosevelt to resolve the era’s coal strikes and economic woes. The speaker calls for sanctification within government, business leaders, and the nation, arguing faith and prayer can empower Roosevelt to address avarice and restore harmony.
At St Pauls M E church Lynn representative Charles A Littlefield spoke to a good sized audience on the saloon evil using the text Wounds Without Cause. He said a drunken man harms his home and friends and urged a new united campaign to create public sentiment against the saloon. He noted temperance groups act separately and lack unity.
The speaker argues that public sentiment must be stirred to ban saloons, with laws enacted and trusted officials enforced to sustain change. He notes widespread anti saloon activity across states, claims over 1300 saloons expelled in New Hampshire, and asserts the church as the true temperance force behind durable reform.
Immanuel Baptist on Blossom Street held a Sunday school rally with a floral arch and harvest fruit displays. Rev. George W. Wright of Boston spoke on Gospel Temperance, urging practical truths with vivid life illustrations to a large, weather-delayed audience. the harvest concert drew a full house with children singing and recitations under Mr. W. J. Beaven’s direction.
Yesterday the Belvidere Young Men's Catholic Institute held a quarterly communion with about 350 members attending the 7:30 mass celebrated by Rev. Fr. Dorgan O M I. After mass breakfast followed and a musical program featured Noonan brothers piano duet red Shea and other songs and recitations. Fr. Dorgan filled for the absent Spiritual Director Fr. Lawrence.
In Lowell the Sunday services at First Congregational featured Rev. Charles Littlefield addressing the Anti-Saloon League effort in about 20 city churches and urging support for reducing liquor power. Rev. Ralph Gillam spoke on Is the Young Man Safe with Charles Estes providing evangelistic vocals to a large vestry audience.
From Colon Colombia Oct 12 Col Par sons arrives from Cartagena reporting government forces defeated the revolutionists at La Cienaga. No new news from Santa Marta. Uribe Uribe is said to have retreated with his forces toward the interior as the Magdalena River reopens to traffic.
Mrs Ellen Prescott a 50 year old widow living with her father George W Low on Guilford Centre road near Guilford Maine died after setting herself on fire while temporarily insane. Her father rushed to help and stripped her clothing, but she rolled naked in blazing kerosene oil and died despite physician efforts. Her father was badly injured.
Judge Penfield Archbishop Riordan and others return from The Hague where the international court hears the Pious fund dispute between United States and Mexico. He expects a decision within a week or this month. He notes the US produced most evidence while Mexico offered little, shaping a favorable view on the Res Judicatae question and the amount due, around a million dollars.
Miss Arcade Frazier aged 17 and Chester Hunt were badly burned when a kerosene lamp exploded in a Lynn house last night. Frazier, in a night robe, badly burned except on her face, and Hunt, a lodger, burned while smothering the flames with a rug. Both were placed on the dangerous list at Emergency hospital as their condition worsened.
Manila, Oct 12 The Sultan of Bacolod Mindanao rebuffed Gen Sumner and urged war. He declares he will defend Mohammedan religion and stop letters. Moros report fortifications and rifles. An American column from Camp Vicars may be sent to seize Bacolod holds, timing undecided.
New York reports the United States steamer Buffalo arriving this morning from Manila and Asiatic station with 42 officers and 56 men aboard. She left New York on June 5 with 80 midshipmen of the class of 1902, 750 men and 800 tons of stores for the Asiatic fleet, making stops at Gibraltar Malta Port Said Colombo and Singapore.
Washington reports Congressman John T. Sheppard of Texarkana Texas died today at Eureka Springs Arkansas after a long illness. The event closes a long political career and prompts congressional vacancy procedures.
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