Various Notable Snippets And Quips From The Express
A compilation notes New York smokers turning to madness and chickens without tuberculosis as consolation. North Dakota reports a season’s first death by freezing. Immigrant arrivals rise 58 percent year to date. The Van Wormer brothers face execution in Dannemora. Mace donia reforms move to Monastir. U S gold imports and exports totals. gold in circulation at 42 percent. Chicago’s age of risk contrasted with Fort Dearborn era. Helen Gould urged to publish a Kansas paper item about George Gould. A football hair lad spreads nationwide, casualties limited to players.
Scientist predicts radium glow fades in 50000 years
A scientist argues radium light will not endure forever but wear out in about 50 000 years. He says this would meet average demands and leaves future generations to decide if radium seems antiquated or silly.
Highwaymen Add Dynamite Method To Robbery Tactics
The article warns that dynamite murder for robbery is now listed among highwaymen methods. It urges severe suppression of these savage acts, contrasting modern outlaws with old pirates. Postmaster General Payne approves a new two cent stamp design to replace the criticized flag stamp, with 4,000,009,000 stamps planned for the next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Payne
Flae
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Chief Justice Lore Opposes Lynching and Capital Punishment
Lore of Deleizare condemns taking life and favors lasting restraint to reform criminals. Peary defends a pole bid with a claim that $960,000 for defending the cup could fund reach to the pole. Britain lifts embargo on American cattle after stamping out foot and mouth disease. praise for agricultural efforts and Uncle Sam’s stamping power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lore
Deleizare
Great Britain
Congress
Agricultural Department
Uncle Sam
Secretary Hitchcock Praises Irrigation Law Plan
Hitchcock explains the new irrigation law envisions government water development rented to landholders. After watering systems are built, improvements sold to landowners and proceeds reinvested to fund other districts. He calls the concept among the most important and promising economic ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitchcock
Latest Foreign Dispatches From Washington Dated Highlights
A weekly roundup reports Ian Maclaren predicting a major religious revival, talks of retroactive extradition treaties with England and France, resignations in the post office and attorney general offices, AFL leader Kidd warns of $300 million bank withdrawals if boycotts persist, Schwab faces suits tied to shipbuilding reveals, a White House reception for London Honorable Artillery and Boston Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and a government crop report notes corn conditions near normal with October improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ian Maclaren
Rome
England
France
Henry A. Castle
Post Office Department
G. A. C. Christianey
Thomas I. Kidd
American Federation of Labor
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel
Roosevelt
Honorable Artillery of
London
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Boston
Notable Deaths and Disasters Across 1903 Highlights
Chief Justice Fuller returns from Europe while Peter A Schnecker a church music composer is found dead in New York. Lancaster Railway president resigns after a 100000 discrepancy. Mudge & Son printing firm fails with 100000 assets and 50000 liabilities. Obsequies of Wilson Bissell held in Buffalo as courts adjourn in respect. A storm causes 23 deaths and millions in damage across the Northeast. James Mealey hanged in Danville for murder. Dwight Moody widow dies in Massachusetts. Floods hit Paterson leaving hundreds homeless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melville W. Fuller
New York
Europe
Peter A. Schnecker
William B. Given
Lancaster
Wilson S. Bissell
Buffalo
R. G. Dun
Bradstreet
Seth Low
Grout
Tammany
James Mealey
William Jones
Danville
Jacob Lee
Lee
New Jersey
Maryland
Richard Henry Savage
Roosevelt Hospital
New York City
Danvers
Mass
Edward Doheny
Pittsburg
Dwight L. Moody
East Northfield
Paterson
N. J
Passaic River
Roosevelt discussed extending extradition laws with bribers and embezzlers
Attorney Folk of St. Louis conferred with President Roosevelt on broadening extradition. San Francisco voters defeated municipal street railway ownership. Updyke train elevator at Missouri Valley burned, $200000 loss. Indictments in St. Louis for aiding fraudulent naturalization. Julius Myer, Sons & Co. bankruptcy filing with $160039 debt. Bedford Indiana lawyer A K Dye killed self amid health worries. Indiana trades officials approve 1,000,000 man building trades union measures. Salt Lake City convict shot, others wounded or fled. one bystander hurt. Lou Dillon and Major Delmar set new trotting records in Kentucky. Englewood Chicago suburbs form law and order league to curb Sunday saloons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attorney Folk
St. Louis
Roosevelt
San Francisco
Missouri Valley
Crand Jury
W. A. Morrow
A. K. Dockery
Thomas FE. Barrett
Indianapolis
National
Salt Lake City
Lexington
Lou Dillon
Major Delmar
Akron campaign rally opens with large Ohio turnout
Secretary of the Treasury launched the Republican campaign in Ohio at Akron, addressed a large crowd. Dowie announces final plans for his New York trip, with about three thousand followers to join the crusade. A tragedy in Cedar Rapids reports a mother hanging her infant and herself due to insanity linked to ill health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids, Jr
A. J. Smetena
Secretary of the Treasury
Ohio
Akron
Dowie
New York
Steamship Cedric sails from New York to England
Reports from Japan claim Russia’s stance makes peaceful settlement unlikely while St. Petersburg and Washington show little promise of immediate war. Russia plans move toward Corea to confront Japan with an ultimatum rumored. Germany hears from St. Petersburg that war may be used to safeguard Manchuria. Pius X signals changes in diplomatic posts. an American prelate may replace Mer. Falconio in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedric
Thomas Lipton
New York
England
Japan
Russia
St. Petersburg
Washington
Ritchie
Croydon
America
Canada
Port Arthur
Corea
Germany
Manchuria
Pius X
Mer. Falconio
Paterson flood damages estimated at two million dollars
A flood in Paterson New Jersey and nearby Passaic caused extensive damage with losses estimated at 2,000,000 dollars as water receded. Other notes report deaths in Decatur Milwaukee and Woolstock, a White House message on Taft, and various national incidents and inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paterson
N. J
Passaic
J. W. Butman
Decatur
White House
Gov. Taft
Bilboa
Spain
Sheridan
San Francisco
Manila
Fifth
Sixth Cavalry
L. Leavitt
Sioux Falls
S. D
Bernhard Schultz
Milwaukee
Foxhome
Minn
Standling
New Hampshire
Macedonia
Porte
Blackfoot
Montana
Parmers’ Cooperative Shipping Association
The
Farmers’ Trust
Nebraska
Chicago
C.D
Minor News Items Snapshot of 1900s Niche Events
Proposals to relocate 1000 Syracuse residents to a Montana town. Columbia Missouri claims Washington family coat of arms. Pittsburg Glass cuts prices for mirror glass. South Dakota judges deny divorce decree for Roland Molineux. George Howard aka gentleman burglar pleads guilty in Hackensack and gets 14 years. West Point reports cadet health good and no hazing. Rear Admiral Bradford resigns bureau post to command the battleship Illinois. Concordia Louisiana women give birth to three boys and five girls the same day. Queen Wilhelmina and the Turkish sultan noted as teetotal monarchs. St Louis expo to exhibit Tehuelche Indians of Patagonia. Nebraska Supreme Court upholds bloodhounds as witnesses. Carroll Wright says US workers' condition improving. Roosevelt appoints John P. Nields US district attorney for Delaware. Receiver Smith accuses Schwab and others in US Shipbuilding trust fraud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hazeltine
Syracuse
N. Y
Montana
Leland M. Finks
Columbia
Washington
Pittsburg Glass Company
South Dakota
Srs
Roland B. Molineux
New York
George Howard
Hackensack
N. J
Col
A. L. Mills
West Point Military Academy
Bradford
Illinois
Concordia Parish
Louisiana
Wilhelmina
Turkey
Patagonia
Supreme Court of
Nebraska
Carroll D. Wright
United States
Roosevelt
John P. Nields
Delaware
Schwab Hit With New Jersey Corporation Act Suit
The shipyard trust case moves toward suing Charles M Schwab to recover the difference between his paid price and par value of his stock. Lawyers say the New Jersey act could force original stockholders to cover debts, potentially affecting major New Jersey trusts and Bethlehem steel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Shipyard Trust
New Jersey
Charles M. Schwab
New Jersey Corporation Act
Schwab
Charlies M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel
Smith
Henry D. Oliphant
Methodist Episcopal Church Initiates Labor Peace Drive
The Methodist Episcopal Church in America plans a nationwide effort to settle labor troubles. Bishop E G Andrews chairs a committee on labor and capital from the Aurora conference with pastors Crawford Ward Whipple Jackson Dixon Young and Warren. A interdenominational convention may be held next summer if this effort succeeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Methodist Episcopal Church In America
E. G. Andrews
Fifth Avenue
R. S. MacArthur
Calvary Baptist Church
The
Baptist Association
Bishop Andrews
E. B. Crawford
H. F. Ward
J. A. J. Whipple
H. C. Jackson
William C. Dixon
G. 8. Young
Flood Ruins Hit Paterson and Passaic Mills City Faces Loss
Dramatized report details Passaic river flood near Paterson New Jersey with Spruce street hill dyke holding as thousands flee and 1,500 sheltered. Casualties include Lineman Horace Riley. widespread property damage across Paterson and Passaic with millions in losses and 8,000 workers unemployed. New York coast gale adds to devastation with drowned families and currency damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Riley
Spruce Street
Houses of Friends
Fire
Paterson
Passaic County
Passaic
Newark Bay
Weasel Brook
Erie
New York
Atlantic Coast
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Bloomfield
N. J
Port Jervis
N. Y
Delaware River
Matamoras
Here
Philadelphia
United States
Washington
Tragedy in Peszer: Seven Councillors Die After Forest Sale
In Peszer Hungary seven municipal councillors all related to one another died by their own hands after secretly selling municipal forest. The scheme collapsed when the sale was uncovered and the seven killed themselves rather than face consequences. Also reports of a boy’s death in Missouri, navy dispatch from Beirut, a Madrid protest clash with four deaths, and a judge’s gambling-house sentence in Mattoon Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Peszer
Hungary
Jailer’s Wife Hangs Infant Then Herself in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids on October 12, Mrs. A J Smetena wife of the night jailer at police headquarters hanged her one year old daughter and then hanged herself Friday night Insanity due to ill health was cited as the cause authorities said
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
A. J. Smetena
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the Express
Monticello
Iowa
North Dakota
Antony
Bureau of Immigration
van Wormer
Dannemora
Monastir
Fort Dearborn
Helen Gould
Kansas
George Gould
Hhair
Commander Peary
United States Navy
North Pole
Pole
Peary
East
Foreign Intelligence
James Smith
United States Shipbuilding Company
Free
Huntington
W. Va
Standard Oil Company
Wayne County
Echo
Daish & Sons
Hot Springs
Duchess of Newcastle
St. Joseph, Mo
George Grace
Lake Contrary
Navy Department
Cotton
Beirut
Madrid
Mattoon
Ill
Henley
Meneke
Alice M. Smith
Minneapolis, Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Alice M. Surry
Third Ave
South Minneapolis, Minn
Minneapolis Study Club
Lydia EK. Pinkham
Lidia E. Pinkham
Candy Cathartic
Oae Sasers
Sterling Remedy Co
Irywe
Ilane
Lane
Anne
le Roy
N.Y
Caldwell
Pepsin Syrup CO
Monticello, Ill
Anakesis
Tribune Building
O. Mivpolekauff
Spesbockze Fingerald &Co
Box Eaghington, D. O
Numior
California
Humitor Gold Mining Co
Diversey Bvd
Eben
Ad! Tower CO
USA
Tower Caraan Cluimited
Toronto
Cyertmiere
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