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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1903
Page
2
A roundup of brief items notes Julius Fleischmann was renominated at the Republican city convention in Cincinnati Ohio. Other items include no immediate troop moves from Cuba, a Spokane strike threat, bids for a Manila street railway, and various political and labor developments across the U S.
Indianapolis report by Chris Evans to United Mine Workers describes preemptive arrests, a breakdown with Deputy Cunningham, and nighttime killings of four colored miners in Atkinsville. It details attacked houses, dead miners William Dodson William Clark Richard Clayton, and a mortally wounded Joseph Hizer as well as a remark attributed to Cunningham about women and children.
Herbert W Bowen, envoy of the Venezuelan government, and Mrs Bowen returned to Washington after attending his mother's funeral in Brooklyn. He will resume negotiations for signing protocols to settle foreign claims against Venezuela. The Belgium protocol is ready for signature by Baron Monchewr and Bowen, reflecting the US draft. After Belgium, five of eight peace power protocols and those with Britain, Germany and Italy will be addressed, with arbitration to follow.
In Havana the reciprocity treaty sparked a Senate debate with Senor Banquilly denouncing it as a United States scheme aimed at excluding European commerce from Cuba, and the session adjourned until Saturday.
Washington D C reports the Fifty-seventh congress saw 17 600 bills introduced with 3 918 reported and over 2 000 passed. The house calendar is clearer than ever with seventy eight bills undispensed. Comparisons show prior congresses with varying totals for bills reported and passed. Fifty members of the house died during the just closed congress.
Ithaca announces a pension scheme for Cornell University professors who retire at age 70. A $150,000 fund will grow to $250,000 by 1914. Retired professors will receive $1,600 annually, with three quarters from the fund and one quarter from the professors themselves. Provisions exist for those who reach 1914 age limit earlier to receive benefits.
Washington reports the public building bill passed both houses after battles over pork, with the House winning and the Senate conceding. It funds sites for Mason City and Webster City, adds ground for Council Bluffs, and boosts Centerville. The measure also allows national banks in larger towns to become reserve agents for government funds, aiding Sioux City, Dubuque, Davenport, Council Bluffs and Cedar Rapids. Other items include fire loss at Alba, a Fort Dodge hotel project, Spirit Lake camp meeting, and a golden wedding in Boone. News notes cover a railway damages suit, a clerk appointment in Washington, a Charales City fraternal insurer charter, and rail thefts in Cedar Rapids.
Complaint filed with the state department charges United States Consul W Maxwell Greene at Hamilton Bermuda with indifference to shipwrecked Madiana passengers and failure to aid in rescue. Greene, appointed from Rhode Island in 1898, faces prompt State Department inquiry after Bermuda papers.
In Topeka Kansas President Roosevelt will attend the International convention of the Railway Young Men’s Christian Association from April 30 to May 3. He has not fixed the visit date. An effort will seek his officiation at laying the corner stone of the new building, funded largely by President Ripley of the Santa Fe. Miss Helen Gould of New York and other notable people will attend. Delegates from around the world are expected.
The Western Retail Lumber Dealers association withdrew from affiliation with the National Association of Lumber Dealers. They will keep friendly relations with wholesalers, but could not meet the 1892 Boston agreement, noted as restraint of trade by western courts.
Mazatlan reports February deaths of 107 with bubonic plague responsible for fifty. From January 1 to March 1 authorities burned 291 houses of a cheap class, paying owners 73 thousand dollars in compensation.
TOCOMA Wash Contracts set for damming the Snake river twenty five miles above Shoshone Falls and building sixty five miles of canal on the south side and twenty four miles on the north side reclaiming about 840000 acres under the new government irrigation law. Dam cost about 400000 dollars or more and canal about 2500090 dollars.
Edward Madsen an 18 year old boy died after climbing an electric light pole at 112 Fourth Street in Council Bluffs. He touched the charged wires with both hands despite warnings from playmates and fell dead to the ground near the alley. He lived at 119 Bluff Street and had gathered with friends at Kenneth Harmon’s home before the fatal stunt. The incident involved a dare among several youths and occurred in the rear yard near Harmon's residence.
W O Finkbine of Des Moines writes to Colonel D J Palmer in the adjutant general's office seeking the old flag of the Thirty-ninth Mississippi regiment. He notes a letter from JR Bush of Braxton Mississippi, a Pinkbine Lumber employee who claims the flag is somewhere in Iowa and expresses eagerness to recover it.
In Cedar Rapids, two Rock Island mail pouches carrying letters to Vinton and Sioux Falls were stolen from trucks at the union station. Thousands of letters rifled, later found abandoned in a slough a half mile north. valuables missing.
The American Express report received by Secretary Davison shows capital of 18,000,000 with value totaling 29,160,000. Mileage remains nearly identical to last year as express company reports continue to arrive from all firms.
Emmet County fair association votes to discontinue fairs and exhibitions this year at LOWA FALLS Iowa. A meeting is scheduled for the 20th to plan steps and consider sale of assets or property. Local authorities and fair officials plan further action after the meeting.
Marvin Hughitt announced Chicago and Northwestern has purchased the Fremont Elkhorn and Missouri Valley railroad and will operate it as the Nebraska and Wyoming division. General Manager Gardner appointed CG Cairns as General Passenger Agent, with Omaha and Chicago offices. Other promotions included G F Bidwell to Nebraska Wyoming division manager, J A Kuhn as assistant general freight and passenger agent in Omaha, W H Jones as division freight agent, and J W Munn as division passenger agent in Omaha.
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