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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1902
Page
7
The seventeenth national encampment of the Union Veteran Legion was held in Chicago last week. Gen J Edwin Browne, who served under Gen Thomas in the Civil War, called the encampment to order after earning a high commission.
A new eighty foot air cushion elevator at Philadelphia City Hall was tested from a level with the clock face. The 2,500 pound car carried eggs rats and iron as weights. It descended at two miles per hour? two miles a minute with seven pounds per square inch. The car and mechanism remained intact with little damage. Architect Powell deemed the trial a success and noted no tremor at cushion arrival.
The wit Dunning badgered a witness asking if he lived near the court. The witness, likely a debtor, admitted yes to dodge creditors. Dunning pressed for the reason and the witness replied to avoid the rascally impertinence of dunning.
Bishop Cyrus D. Ross of Philadelphia presided over the Rock River Methodist conference at Austin last week. Bishop Foss also presided over the Rock River conference in 1883, marking a return to the role and underscoring continuity in church leadership.
A Grand Army of the Republic committee reports to President Roosevelt on H. Clay Evans's pension office administration. Gen. El Torrance leads, noting Evans resigned after the report. The panel finds many meritorious claims rejected by the medical division, while some complaints lacked merit.
Washington October 10 General I T Stewart has been elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic on the first ballot despite General Sickles withdrawal in favor of General Black. Vote totals: Stewart 467 Black 372 McElroy 83. Other officers named include Vice Commander in Chief William M Olin and Junior Vice Commander in Chief James M Averill.
In Butte Montana a twenty year old murder case tied to Thomas Hanley and Luke Kelly is reportedly solved as E W Tourney of Scranton Pennsylvania confessed from Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania. The 1900 era killing near Lucerne Pennsylvania involved a man named Rosencrant. both men were convicted on a woman's identification.
Lizzie Hillman a minor and Ernest Willman appeal a $400 judgment won by Lizzie Hillman against William R Mensinger farmer of Cooper township Monona county. The case arose from an alleged assault with damages sought at $3 00. The district court proceedings were hotly contested and now proceed to the supreme court.
A Useful Citizen Charles M. Calladay resigns after sixty years teaching in Philadelphia. He notes fifty years of service to the city’s public schools and expresses satisfaction with a long and good record.
A Denver judge supports the New York drive to ban baby buggies on sidewalks. He argues that if God meant babies to travel on wheels he would have given them wheels, presenting a provocative justification in the public debate.
A reminiscence story recounts Admiral Robley D. Evans hosting Iowa to honor his Santiago victory. Captain Evans praises a long-held whisky, but Hull chooses brandy kept in Evans’s house for over two decades as the preferred drink, prompting laughter and banter. The column also notes a Rome letter praising a pope’s cheerful life and warns of Devils Trap plant thongs used by Nicaragua natives to entrap dogs.
A clergyman ignorant of nautical life delivered a sermon to sailors on stormy passages of life and urged them to anchor. Laughter followed as he admitted he had not been at sea except perhaps while delivering the address.
Austrian engineer Herr Thormann has studied waterfalls in Switzerland and proposes using hydroelectric power to drive all Swiss trains. He identifies twenty two waterfalls with a potential of 86,000 horsepower, noting that 60,000 would suffice, and argues Switzerland would save on coal imports by adopting this system.
The article notes twenty eight languages in India with no language below 400000 speakers and a top language spoken by 85500000. It mentions dialects in remote areas with only a few hundred speakers and nine great creeds totaling from 208000000 Hindoos to 9250000 Animistics and many others.
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