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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1902
Page
11
A London message says continued eruptions drive ships away from the island due to lava flows. A New York dispatch notes the French Cable Company steamer reached St. Pierre with 450 survivors and sails again to search for more.
showers this afternoon and tonight with Sunday fair and warmer. Rocky Mountain region and north Pacific slope report showers. Mississippi River expected to rise slowly between Dubuque and Davenport. Temperature readings show 72 at 9 am, 54 at noon, and 65 at 3 pm.
Knox frames pictures and Mullane's offers bargains at 1612 2d Ave. Wilson's Cederberg sells fresh strawberries while Tri-City Tower Supply buys old houses. Turner Hill hosts Marine bantoonert and dane thon evening May 10. Novelty Tron works services and Han mowere orders. Clendenins tickets on Wednesday morn. Journal subscriptions at Union News Depot 1508 5th Ave. Open evenings to 10. Seat sale for A Noble Outcast listed.
The Agathenian society at St Marys church opens Wednesday with a concert and dance at Central Park postponed to May 17. L A Vinton stars in The Noble Outcast at St Marys next Thursday. Beehive stock market moves and rail wage talks appear alongside school theatricals and community notices.
A mother recounts three children contracting whooping cough last summer. She credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for keeping her baby three months old and the others well, contrasting with children whose parents did not use it. Jessie Pinkey Hall of Springville Alabama endorses the remedy sold by F. J. Clendenin and BE Heimbeck. Journal map advertised at 110 cents.
A Delagoa Bay dispatch reports South Africa’s peace likely from the Vereeniging conference of Boer leaders on May 15 with official proclamation on May 20. The Special to the Journal notes the plan hinges on the talks crossing into formal settlement.
Telegraph items report the destruction of St Pierre on Martinique by Mount Pelee with about 30 000 lives lost and 18 harbor vessels burned or sunk. US consul Ayme says only about 20 of 30 000 escaped death at St Pierre amid widespread devastation.
Guardianships for Lena Cloid George Gilmore Clarence Hanson Nellie Curtis Otto Geppert Henry Hakker Worthy Dart Carstenson and others reported approved. Estate of Theodore Busch Ida S Busch settlement approved and closed. Rachel M Tanner inventory approved. Real estate transfers listed. South Dakota land excursion announced by Fred R Young.
Paddy Lynch, longtime Rush Island resident and baseball player, receives a government post as assistant foreman in the Manila government shop after traveling to the Philippines. Accompanying him is Charles Hansen of Davenport, recently appointed in the arsenal carpenter shop. Fresh strawberries at Wilson's.
An advance of about 40 cents per barrel for beer is under discussion by top brewers as the National Association of Brewers prepares for its upcoming convention. A Chicago meeting of shipping brewers reportedly backed a one dollar per barrel increase prior to postwar tax repeal, and the plan now aims to cap the rise at 40 cents after the war revenue cut.
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