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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1903
Page
10
Treasury is empty the United States refuses recognition of Servia and King Peter revolts are quelled while Belgrade plans monarchy. Postage bribes and civil service tests feature as weathered items alongside railroad wrecks and political power plays across Ohio New York and Washington.
The Mississippi board of election commissioners ordered a state primary election to be held in August. The move allows the next United States senator from Mississippi to be chosen by popular ballot, with Senator Money and Governor Longino as candidates. Additional notes mention a San Francisco incident and various other brief items.
A scramble of reports details constitutional suspensions in 1897 by Britain, new European and Russian tensions, a deadly Polish anti Jewish attack, a Russian engineer survey drive, and a dramatic Woolwich factory explosion. Other items note Vatican cardinal appointments, a Bolivian Acre dispute extension to Oct 1, and a Venezuelan revolution storyline amid regional changes.
Capt John J Parsting reports in a letter on the storming of Lake Langa fort that a ditch was bridged under Mara attack and works captured by assault. A court martial has been ordered for First Lieutenant Hamilton Foley of the Fifth Cavalry on charges of embezzling soldiers pay, irregularities in pay accounts, improperly contracting debts, and deceiving superiors.
Obituary notices report the deaths of William Palst a Milwaukee flour miller Berbert Vaughan of London John Pal Tocock a writer in Wayne Pennsylvania Frof A F North educator and writer in Wisconsin died Pewaukee aged 86 Paul Du Chaillu explorer died in Russia funeral held in Meriden William Lymar Squire treasurer New York New Haven Hartford Railway died at age 12 Crazhan Dawson longtime Lexington resident stock shipper and others noted with fragmented details about Fitzsimmons and Bertha Darel.
Maj James B Pond died in Jersey City after leg amputation at 63. Rev Willand F Sprutil, a long time Wisconsin Methodist leader, 42 years in the church. William A Koch, 53, German native and furniture dealer, died of heart failure in Waukesha. Banders at Mayville, Ky. sentenced five years for assault. accomplices Morria and Man found guilty. Isabela Shepard of St Joseph, Mich. died by hanging, husband had committed suicide similarly two years earlier. Louis Hammersiough, 65, Kansas City dry goods pioneer, born Hanover, Germany. Mrs. Lockey Perry, 81, died at Waverly, Pa., recalling her Vermont birth. Judge Jurge Rauseldon Cooper, 81, Henderson Co., Mich., longtime county judge and state’s attorney. Samuel Vernon Steele, 60, Chicago newspaper veteran, tied to Chicago Times and Herald unions. General Wheaton, 58, U. S. Army retiree, died in Washington. Grant Jones, 58, former Evanston Chicago paper founder, died in Grand Encampment, Wyoming. Maj Stephen Johnson, 81, of Piqua, Ohio, paralysis. charter drafter of Columbus Piqua and Indiana railway. Will Van Benthuysen, 47, World editor in New York. long Chicago press career ending as World editor.
A man in a mackintosh admits to being the biggest fool in the United States after joking about a $1 ad promising worldwide fame. Another man recalls two options for Booker Washington’s room: refuse service or announce that he would be honored to arrange the room. The fragment contrasts gullibility with a staged honor and hints at pressure about public notice and opportunity.
Cleaning water bottles and carafes use salt and vinegar to remove stains. Add two parts vinegar and a small knob of soda, shake well until stains lift, rinse thoroughly. If stains persist, repeat with salt and vinegar until perfectly clean.
A weather bureau crop bulletin reports severe frost damage across Wisconsin with corn, winter wheat, and rye affected and some fields totally destroyed in limited areas. Oats and barley show slow growth, while strawberries and berries suffer, and frost recovery hinges on warmer weather.
The Sprinsfiell Republican notes the bicycle's decline from highways as suburban trolleys expand. Fewer riders on country roads, wheels replaced by trains and footpaths, with roads pre empted by electric lines and growing car use reducing urban bicycle culture.
Davie H Mason formerly of Chicago and age recently died in the Chicago office from pneumonia. Born in Philadelphia in 1876 he came to Chicago in 1868. He worked for the Tribune Herald and Inter Ocean at different periods and wrote several histories of the tariff question in the United States and foreign countries. His widow and three children survive.
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