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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1902
Page
2
The Massillon Lecture Course Association plans a next year program backed by a large citizen body. Low ticket prices aim to broaden access. Officials expect the course to educate and uplift, with broad local enthusiasm.
Henry W. Stratton reports study results on using music to foster moral progress among criminals. Prison officials’ views are mixed, and Stratton argues that prisons should be seen as schools for moral training rather than places of punishment. Newark council candidates praised as notable citizens. Judge Samuel M. Hunter and W. H. Davis noted among Ohio figures.
Newark, who has served as county treasurer, is described as a man of the highest integrity and worth several hundreds of thousands of dollars. Edward Kibler, an able lawyer linked with Judge Pugh, helped draft the municipal code bill now before the general assembly. Newark is setting a splendid example.
From a wooden track by Lackawanna creek where the first U S locomotive trialed in 1829, the rail network by seventy three years would form an eight fold girdle around the world. A new line expands twelve miles daily. five workers per five miles. 240 new hires daily. The system carries more tonnage than all seas ships and rival European railroads. One in fifteen workers depends on rail for a living, as locomotive builders, steel workers, and lumbermen supply ties for a vast annual timber harvest.
Hercules D. Viljoen, former Boer field cornet, spoke in Cleveland for the Boer relief fund. He said the Boer army is 25,000 strong, the English force 240,000, and lamented reconcentration camps with harsh conditions. He cited high death rates among women and children and urged U.S. recognition and Congress action, noting large petition drives led by Webster Davis and Bourke Cochran.
In a large London drapers firm with over thirty shops and about 1000 assistants, professional shoppers are used to test staff. Lady customers visit, cause trouble, inspect goods, and may depart without buying. Any lapse risks a report to headquarters and dismissal.
A fragmentary exchange from the Philadelphia Press notes light life annoyances. A corny joke references a hor net’s eating habit and the trivialities that sting daily living. The dialogue captures a period newspaper’s casual tone.
A historical note explains a simple nosebleed stop method using a small blotting paper wad placed inside the nostril. The paper, about the size of a lead pencil, fills the hollow space, aids breathing, and absorbs blood until clotting ceases the flow.
Ohio leaders reach compromise on Ohio State University funding with a 0.15 mill levy for two years plus $30,000 yearly interest, totaling over $460,000 annually. Legislative redistricting proposals aim to preserve party strength, with changes in the Twelfth district and potential cuts across other districts. A canal-funding debate looms at a joint session, while a new income tax proposal for counties, Stage's plan, garners interest. The legislature names McKinley’s birthday a state holiday and endorses the union label on state printing.
In Greensburg Pennsylvania a jury awarded Mrs Margaret Naley 2750 damages in the breach of promise case against Jacob Kepple a wealthy carriage manufacturer Measles epidemic hits Youngstown with 160 plus cases A laborer Jeremiah Johnson of Dawson Pennsylvania fatally burned by being shoved into a hot coke two African Americans involved A jury in the Cox murder case in Youngstown discharged after failing to reach a verdict Harrisburg legislative committee of the Pennsylvania State Grange condemns Agriculture Department for not producing an exhibit at the South Carolina exposition 5000 appropriation sought C C McCuea of Akron saves a woman's foot by cutting off her shoe as a train nears A severe flood in Maryland washes out 20 bridges in Garrett county including 13 over Bear creek
A broken rail wrecked a Southern Pacific train near Maxon Station twenty five miles west of Sanderson Texas on Friday morning. At least fifteen people were killed outright and twenty eight injured with a list of identified dead and injured including Chag Keel contractor San Antonio and engineer W W Price El Paso.
A private meeting of about 35 Republican representatives in the committee room of William Alden Smith discussed the Cuban reciprocity Ways and Means plan. They canvassed state standings and concluded a majority could oppose the plan, with postponement favored over immediate action and no vote planned next Tuesday. Several compromise options were considered but remained vague.
Washington March 8 The bill to classify rural free delivery service and place carriers under the contract system held the floor in the House yesterday. By an amicable arrangement general debate will be concluded today and the bill will be considered under the five minute rule Monday.
The New York market showed mixed emotions with some stocks advancing while others pulled back. Banks faced nearly 5 million in weekly cash losses including gold exports while a government suit against Northern Securities stirred caution.
Henry Smith, 88, a wealthy Winfield township farmer, was murdered by three masked robbers who broke into his Butler County home. His wife, 87, bound and gagged, later aided him as she tended him through the night unaware he was dead. Neighbors and a posse pursued suspects. three men from Bradford and St Marys were arrested but deemed innocent. The crime, brutal assault, and investigation dominated the local scene.
The Senate did not consider the ship subsidy bill due to absent speakers from Missouri and Florida. It passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill and then took up the bill for the protection of the President. Senator Bacon of Georgia continued his constitutional argument against it, and the body made the protection bill unfinished business after ship subsidies.
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