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Newspaper
Moulton Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
3
A column in the Moulton Tribune surveys snippets from Paris to Maine, noting fashion, politics, scandals, and oddities. It touches on Marconi, a Mexican cattle boast, census costs, weddings, divorces, Native figures, art, crime, and public figures like Sarah Bernhardt and Carnegie, all in a sharp, humorous tone.
A Kansas judge's opinion on burying a wife alive prompts criticism of suffrage fears. German students laud anti pistol duels while warnings of harm linger. Michael J. Cady, a Brooklyn contractor, lost $10 000 in Havana, paid by a Chicago man. A young American woman faces nose surgery risks and possible loss of her nose. Nature usually handles such changes better.
A U S patent is granted for an amidobenzoflavine produced by transforming a nitrotetraamideditol yiphenylmethan of amididitolyphenyl methan into a pentaaamid editol phenyl methan. The text notes that infringement seems impossible.
The Department of Agriculture announces a hardy orange variety that can be grown 260 miles farther north than Florida types. It cannot compete with the Yankee Baldwin apple in market appeal or performance.
Count Boni de Castellane has been expelled from the French Chamber of Deputies for not being legally elected. A thirst for vindication joins his already crowded list of ambitions and interests.
A work train wreck near Council Bluffs killed a stationary engineer Wm Hudell of Moberly Missouri and injured eight laborers. An Iowa Central engine strike injured 13 year old Ray Phillips near Os kaloosa. In Des Moines a libel suit over election fraud proceeds as Joseph Koskuba faces assault with intent to injure verdict and other court actions unfold. Police in Ottumwa link robberies to a fence gang, while a mad dog mauls Helen Kindler in Muscatine. Conductor Charles Holloway dies after a fall in Minneapolis. Clinton plans a new $100000 brewery by Andresen and Thiese.
The Iowa Agricultural College took first prize for shorthorn steer or swayed heifer two years old or under at the Chicago Live Stock Show. The report covers burglaries in Dubuque, federal district court actions in Des Moines, and a notable telephone line fixture ruling by Judge Smythe affecting farm property. It also notes a drowning near Ruthven, a Cedar Rapids cook surviving a self inflicted wound, and a water plant financing dispute in Ottumwa.
The internal revenue report shows Iowa with a single distillery producing fruit brandy and an output of 136 gallons for the year. Iowa has 21 rectifiers, 4,418 retail liquor dealers, 74 wholesalers, 24 breweries, and 665 malt goods dealers with 500 wholesalers. Tobacco production includes 22,750 pounds fine cut and 640,000 smoking tobacco, plus 110 cigar factories and 667 manufacturers. Oleomargarine taxes paid total 636 dollars. Seizures include 688 gallons of spirits and beer valued at 1,600 dollars, with 73 U S district attorney suits filed and most favoring the United States.
Ex Governor Larrabee donated a 7 foot 6 inch Lincoln statue and four bronze tablets for Clermonts park near the railroad station in a gift worth over 35000. The monument, shaped by Bissell of New York, honors Lincoln with Emancipation Proclamation scenes and Civil War tableaux. Local officials note the piece reflects strong community ties and regional history.
Official returns indicate total vote up nearly 5,000 from 1901 with a Republican plurality around 74,014, the highest in years outside 1900. Socialist gains to 6,360 boost ballot access. Prohibitionists fall to 9,816 though still over 2 percent.
The secretary of the treasury sent to Congress the 1904 government appropriation request totaling 589,189,112, down 21,698,576 from 1903 and 33,050,014 from 1902. It lists department totals and notable changes such as public works boosts in the State Department and naval establishment rise, with reductions in war and DC permanent appropriations, plus various increases across departments.
Captain Pershing and sixty men completed a march from Camp Vicars to Iligan, possibly the first white crossing of Mindanao. He addressed 500 Moros at Marahui and offered arbitration between Nato and Boycayutan tribes on his return trip.
Boston December 2 The Massachusetts executive council orders that all meat cattle sheep and swine on infected premises remain in quarantine until cleared by the cattle bureau chief No auctions or public sales may occur in infected localities Transport of herd animals is forbidden on public highways and only essential business may operate in infected territory Steamship movement is discouraged by a Canadian government order affecting tonnage and loading at Canadian ports
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