Retired Gloucester Teacher Leaves 42-Year Service
A Gloucester Mass teacher retires after 42 years in the school system with only two absences, marking a long career of dedication.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1902
Page
3
Virginia grand jury indicts man for murder after gun scare
The Virginia grand jury indicted a man for murder for frightening a woman to death by firing near her without warning. The article notes a pattern of shooters escaping punishment as a recurring theme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Italy Tops Ireland as Source of Immigrants to U S
Italy has surpassed Ireland as the leading supplier of immigrants to the United States. A quick look at public records shows Italy lags behind Ireland in other areas of public service and governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Ireland
United States
Emerald Isle
Flammarion Warns West Indies Volcanic Rise Menace
Paris scientist M. Camille Flammarion warns that renewed volcanic activity in the West Indies threatens all French and English Antilles. He predicts the northwestern part of Martinique may eventually vanish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Camille Flammarion
Paris
West Indies
Antilles
Tle
Martinique
Drugstore seller not liable for injuries from phosphorus without instructions
A druggist who sells phosphorus without handling instructions is not liable for injuries to a customer who is mature and able to handle the substance, with no evidence of the customer’s lack of trustworthiness.
Execution Outside Taiyuan Fu Gates Over Tips Demand
A telegraph messenger was executed outside Taiyuan fu for asking merchants for tips during a festival. The incident drew the provincial governor’s attention and led to swift action to suppress the nuisance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Taiyuanfu
Vermont Supreme Court Rules Newspaper Payoff Invalid
The Vermont Supreme Court declares a contract where a newspaper is paid to support a political candidate is contrary to public good and invalid. The newspaper cannot recover its fee by suit and stands no stronger in court than a gambler seeking to compel a victim to honor defrauded notes.
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Supreme Court of Vermont
Inventors Seek Ideal Fuel as Oil and Gas Patents Surge
The rising cost of anthracite coal spurs inventors to find substitutes. Patent records show 1,280 oil fuel patents and 2,700 gas and vapor patents. The Patent Office receives 25 weekly applications, 15 of them for crude oil burners for home use. An ideal fuel may be discovered soon.
Mosquitoes Plague World From Tropics to Poles
Across the globe mosquitoes persist from the tropics to the Arctic. They torment people and animals in Alaska and Kansas City alike. Extreme heat or cold does not halt their spread and their bites remain a daily burden worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equator
Arctic
Antarctic
Alaska
Kansas City
Brazil
Middle Africa
Blunderers to Wait in Shadowy Afterlife
A moral meditation contrasts imagined punishments for everyday mistakes. It imagines a remorseful future where a trolley operator, an elevator- door laisser, a careless boat rocker, and a door left open join a chorus of blunderers in a grim, humorous judgment.
Emigration to Transvaal Mirrors Alaskan Gold Rush
The Transvaal draws many seeking fortune as prices rise and wages tempt entrants. People find population growth outpacing housing and living costs rising, with hardship ahead. English papers warn against emigration until business stabilizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transvaal
Alaska
Klondike
South Africa
Lakes Freight Boom Doubles Traffic in 1902 Seven Months
Total freight receipts of 144 ports on the lakes reached 25,715,000 tons in the first seven months of 1902 up from 15,819,000 the prior year. Lake shipments totaled 26,876,000 tons versus 19,653,000 in 1901. Most traffic is in steel vessels. All ships between American ports are American due to the Republic’s shipping laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic
A Week's History In All Parts Of The Union
A roundup of national and international news items from Washington and abroad. Key figures include Charlemagne Tower the ambassador to Berlin and R S S McCormick moving from Austria to Russia. Secretary Shaw plans to buy five percent government bonds at 105 to ease the money situation. Eugene F Ware reports pension rolls at 999,446 with 137,504,268 paid in the year and total costs near 2.99 billion. President Roosevelt undergoes a scraping procedure after an abscess bone discovery. his temperature rises but officials deem the condition not serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlemagne Tower
Berlin
R. S&s. McCormick
Austria
Russia
Bellamy Storer
Spain
Austrian
Charles Page Bryan
Brazil
Switzerland
Shaw
Eugene F. Ware
Roosevelt
Coal strike toll and financial tension frame late January reports
Seven day totals show exchanges at 1.85 billion dollars, with a 5.7 percent rise year over year. A New York bequest to Princeton Seminary may reach 1.5 million. Wilkesbarre miners face threats to quit with home destruction and dynamite claims. US business failures drop from 227 to 207. Laura Biggar accused of conspiring to divert a 2 million dollar estate. A New York judge reports industrial activity steady despite money turmoil. Union leaders press Roosevelt to end the coal strike as 20 weeks of disruption cost 123.22 million. Public schools in Pawtucket close due to coal shortage. wage gaps favor soft coal miners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mary J. Winthrop
New York
Princeton Seminary
Wilkesbarre
Laura Biggar
Henry M. Bennett
Pittsburg
J. O. Moore
Count von Roden Kohsel
New York Trade Review
Wall Street
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Supreme Court
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Roosevelt
Pawtucket
R. T
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Baer
Republicans nominate Longworth in First Ohio district
The Republican convention nominated Nicholas Longworth for congress in the First Ohio district. In the Second district Judge W H T Gobel was chosen. Other races include Birdsall in the Third Indiana district and McGinnis in the same state. A murder, hangings, and rail accidents are noted along with labor and military topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Longworth
Congress
Ohio
W. H. T. Gobel
Princeton
Ill
B. P. Birdsall
Clarion
David B. Henderson
Michigan City
Ind
Lewis Russell
Perry Stout
FE. Robinson
News- Journal
Winchester
Tenn
Banks
Crocker Brigade
Muscating
Indiana
Tedmund A. McGinnis
J. M. Parsons
Rock Rapids
Tessex Powell Wallace Grant
Newport
Ark
Pensacola
Fla
South Africa
Port Riley
Kan
Kentucky
Spain
Union Pacific
Rawlins
Wyo
Cleveland
Louis Kossuth
Flour Mills
Minneapolis
Minn
Racial mob executes self confessed murderer in Mississippi
A man identified as Tom Clark alias Will Gibson is burned at the stake by a mob in Corinth Mississippi for the murder of Mrs Carey Whitfield a white woman. In Michigan Governor Bliss offers the US senate seat left by James McMillan's death to General Russell A Alger. Dexter Ferry withdraws from the race after a party leaders conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Clark
Will Gibson
Carey Whitfield
Corinth
Gov. Bliss
Michigan
United States
James McMillan
Russell A. Alger
Dexter M. Ferry
Boers appeal for funds to rebuild land ruined by war
Generals De Wet Botha and Delarey issue a manifesto urging global aid to bolster Boer lands devastated by fighting. Other items note Roumania blocking Jewish emigration to the United States and attacks on U S forces and disasters across the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Wet
Botha
Delarey
Way Roumania
United States
Panama
East Turkestan
Sicily
Turkestan
Lille
Paris
France
Miners Union Talks Strike Settlement In Philadelphia
Officers of the miners union met with a mine operators representative in Philadelphia where a settlement proposal from the mine owners was discussed. Roosevelt doctors report his leg wound in satisfactory condition. General Alger accepts ad interim US Senate post from Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miners’ Union
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
TK. A. Alger
Bliss
United States
Michigan
Little Haste
Massachusetts
Chicago
Indianapolis
Porto Rico
Detroit
New York
Shaw
Z. Seifeld
Spain
Maria Christina
Cosura
Garcia Montes
Lndeet
Odawara
Japan
Ohio Democrats
Thomas Bentham
Congress
Harry C. Bush
Harry Jordan
Sioux Falls
S. D
Emile Zola
Paris
Minor News Items and Global Notes About Reform And Tech
High meat prices in Germany may force repeal of import laws. Farconi claims a 1500 mile wireless link. Exorbitant eastern coal freights draw ICC scrutiny. New York mass meeting presses government ownership of coal mines and railroads. South Africa burgher discontent grows over reconstruction. Cuba’s treasury gains over a million. Roosevelt may be made a British colonel per rumor. The Christian convention will meet in Norfolk. Hay note deadlock as Europe powers argue. London patent for Marine propulsion engine by John Wills. Jerome cites unions’ role at settlement house. Capital could crush labor if aroused. Ohio sues to block American Farm Co. Indian treaty with Chickasaw approved, ending tribal government.
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Germany
Farconi
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
South Africa
Cuba
Republic
Wood
Palma
London Daily Chronicle
Roosevelt
The
Christian Church
Norfolk
Hay
Roumania
London
John Wills
Jerome
Sheets
Ohio
American Farm Company
Indian Territory
Burned at the stake for crime in Corinth Mississippi
A mob in Corinth Mississippi burned Tom Clark alias Will Gibson after he confessed to the murder of Mrs Carey Whitfield and other crimes. He asked for time to say goodbye to relatives, then was executed by fire as a large crowd watched. The report also notes a Paris Lille express train wreck with casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corinth
Miss
Tom Clark
Will Gibson
Mississippi
Carey Whitfield
Clark
French Camp
Memphis
Paris
Lille
Arleux
Embezzling Vienna Official Found Dead in Danube
The body of Eadmund Jellinek, a defaulting cashier from the Vienna Laender bank, was found in the Danube at Altenwoerth near Kremz after he disappeared on September 18. He allegedly embezzled about 1.15 million dollars from the bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Eadmund Jellinek
Vienna Laender (Real Estate Mortgage) Bank
Danube
Altenwoerth
Kremz
MITCHELL DEFENDS MINERS IN BAER PUBLISHES ATTACK
John Mitchell president of the United Mine Workers replies to President Baer and Mr Hewitt denying Baers wage figures and claims about output. He says hard coal miners earn 20 to 40 percent less and argue the strike will end only by arbitration. Also cited are riots exaggerated and pumpmen engineers and firemen striking on their own.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Baer
Hewitt
Mitchell
Boston
Pennsylvania
G. A. Litchfield
Supreme Court
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company
Delaware & Hudson Company
New York, Ontario & Western Railway Company
Erie Railroad Company
Philadelphia & Reading
Chicago
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Meriden
Conn
Economic League
Gov. Stone
Wilkesbarre
Re- Bioms
Teeta Edeetebeene
Strike Averts Strike At Minneapolis Flour Mills
Minneapolis workers avoid a walkout after agreeing to a new eight hour schedule with wage concessions. The mood remains positive as both sides report cordial relations and satisfaction with the proposed terms. Separately Mount Etna in Sicily vents steam after a major eruption in 1892 affecting the surrounding region. Detroit notices the death of William F. Mulkey a prominent local businessman tied to salt and mining interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Detroit
Mich
William F. Mulkey
Detroit Salt Company
Kingman Salt Mining Company
Kingman
Kan
Toledo & Monroe Electric Railroad
Mr. Mulkey
Hutchinson
Prominent Italian Death in Philadelphia
Count Guiseppe Dassi aged 80 a leading Italian figure in the United States dies at his Philadelphia home from congestion of the brain. Bulgarian forces in Vodena near Salonica incur 52 dead and 112 wounded after a surround and escape in a brutal fight with Turkish troops. Turks suffer heavy losses as Bulgarians continue pursuit. Paris reports three earthquake shocks felt in Moutiers En Tarentaise, Savoie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Guiseppi Dassi
United States
Constantinople
Vodena
Salonica
France
Paris
Moutiers-En-Tarantaise
Department of
Savoie
Pension Bureau reports near one million pensioners
Washington Sept 20 The annual report of Pension Commissioner Eugene S Ware shows 999 446 names on the pension rolls as of July 1 with 738 809 soldiers and 260 637 widows and dependents The bureau expects about 40 000 deaths next year and 6 000 losses from other causes Pension disbursements totaled 137 504 268 with operating costs 3 590 629 Since 1796 total pension disbursements amount to 2 992 509 019 including wars from Revolutionary to the War with Spain and the rebellion The average pension is about 132 with 188 626 applications filed and 117 268 granted
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
Eugene S. Ware
United States
Mexico
Spain
Brother's Shot Fires Tragedy in Chicago Home
Thomas Ward was killed by his brother Michael at 262 West Polk street after an alleged attack on their mother Maggie McNamee. The killer was arrested amid a night of revelry and family turmoil that involved multiple arrests in the Ward family. the victim’s death followed a separate confrontation with their mother. In Washington, the treasury circular on prepaying debt interest was amended to allow payment of interest due February and May 1903 from October 13 next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Thomas Ward
Michael
West Polk Street
Maggie McNamee
Thomas
Ward
West Side
Luke
McNamee
Washington
Treasury Department
Stage Manager Shoots Wife in New York
Harry Rose a theatrical stage manager shot and killed his wife then went to a police station and was placed under arrest officials say he confessed to the crime and was taken into custody in New York on September 29.
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New York
Harry Rose
Choctaw Oklahoma & Gulf shop strike in Shawnee
Four hundred machinists boilermakers blacksmiths and wood workers walk out at the Choctaw Oklahoma & Gulf railroad car shops in Shawnee Oklahoma demanding monthly pay promptness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Shawnee
Okla
Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad
Not Guilty in Indiana Husband Slashing Trial
Portland Indiana September 29 James W Ertle aged 60 was tried for cutting his wife’s throat with a razor but acquitted after 14 hours deliberation. The jury found the evidence showed the wife died by her own action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ind
James W. Ertle
Bargain Sale Visit Captures Curious shoppers
A Philadelphia Ledger note recounts Raust visiting a bargain sale where men waited for their wives. The scene captures the quirky mood of a frugal shopping event in a bustling urban setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raust
Philadelphia Ledger
Frisco System Trains Run Saint Louis and Kansas City
Frisco routes operate through chair car and Pullman Sleeper service from Saint Louis and Kansas City. Observation Cafe Cars managed by Fred Harvey offer library observation room and platform with chairs, writing materials, newspapers, electric lights and fans. Trains depart daily from Saint Louis and Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frisco
Saint Louis
Kansas City
Fred Harvey
Doctor prescribes raw vinions and whisky for malaria
A Mississippi doctor reportedly prescribes raw vinions and whisky as treatment for malaria. The remedy appears to relied on solitude as an accessory measure, according to the New York Mail and Express.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
N. Y
Mail and Express
Allen's Foot-Ease Ad Claims Five Uses
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder to ease tight shoes and cure swollen hot sweating aching feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. It notes a 25cc package sold at druggists and shoe stores with a trial package by mail addressed to Allen S Olmsted LeRoy NY. It also includes a Baltimore News quote about Scribbler ads in streetcars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Travel promo for Chesapeake and Ohio route via Rhine Alps
An advertising notice promotes a guided journey from Bates to Washington on the Chesapeake and Ohio route. It highlights scenic Rhine and Alps views and battlefield scenery, inviting readers to request illustrated maps by mailing W. E. Conklyn at 234 Clark St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
W. E. Conklyn
Clark St
Matrimonial merger charms readers across papers
A collection of quips and advertisements notes social contrasts from heiress to nobleman in a marriage joke. Patent remedies from Dr. Fowler and Burdock Blood Bitters advertise cures amid light commentary from Indianapolis and Detroit papers.
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