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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1901
Page
3
The notice outlines subscription terms for No. 8973, offering annual and six month mail rates and a weekly carrier price. It also states Sunday delivery and a Sunday weekly option priced at one year in advance.
The article cites Willett and Gray figures for US raw sugar consumption in 1900 and 1901 totaling about 2.36 million tons with a 6.34 percent annual rise. It breaks down production by Louisiana, domestic beet, Hawaii, and Porto Rico and details duties and revenue implications, noting Cuba sugar quotes and ad valorem duties.
A semi official letter from Mr Broderick, English secretary of war, echoed Longfellow on war costs. The South African conflict sees 200000 British troops, 450 guns, supply lines for 314000 people and 248000 horses and mules, with 100000 in training. Casualties in action total 6823 dead and 28032 wounded among soldiers, plus 8471 officers captured or killed. The war threatens a two year continuation with heavy losses for both sides.
The New York Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a conviction of Roland B. Molineux, finding due process was violated by evidence of an unindicted crime. The isolated delay and cost questions raise concerns about justice for the presumption of innocence and whether state resources should aid financially.
In Independence Kansas farmers plan a nationwide wheat boycott for 1902 to lift prices. B. H. Giger leads a sign up for one dollar per farmer to vow not to grow wheat, organized by townships and counties with no political aim cited.
Items mention President Roosevelt age 43, convict John Harris inherits 10000, Germany skeptical of Pan American congress in Mexico, Miss Henrietta Tice seeks 200000 for a monument to Czolgosz, John Redmond mission to U S unsettles, Cardinal Gibbons meets the president, Mrs Helma Buch found dead in Chicago, Waldeck Rousseau government strengthens by averting 10000 French miners strike, Secretary Long confirms Crowninshield to European station, Prince Alert sets track record in Memphis, Chicago drainage canal case unlikely before Supreme Court, French navy praised at Le Havre launch, new French multiple telegraph system transmits 16 messages, Rev J J Crowley refuses to retract charges against Chicago clergy.
A young runner in Memphis broke the world pacing record at Billings Park on Friday afternoon. He clocked 201 percent of the prior mark, surpassing the previous 201 percent record held by the same boy.
An OCR fragment lists Dr Le Due and a “KIDD DRUG” with medical claims and pricing, mentioning a realtor and several names. It hints at irregularities and a catalog of goods or services, but the text is garbled and lacks coherent events or outcomes.
In Milwaukee area, three people Mary Bonzel Joe Paulifski and Anne Kenter were killed when their car was hit by a Chicago Milwau kee and St Paul train at a grade crossing in Oakwood thirty miles south of Milwaukee. Martha Bonzel was seriously injured.
A Daily Mail dispatch from St Petersburg reports the town of Rothuisk in Minsk government burned with several lives lost. A fogbound Wabash collision near Lafayette injures no passengers, but both engines and platforms suffer damage. Tulsa police arrest escaped convict Morgan, sought for a Texas penitentiary escape. President appoints Ethelbert Watta US consul at Prague.
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