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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1904
Page
1
A jumble of saleable items including handkerchiefs blades combs and pins with prices like 10c to 70c. Items feature imitation ebony back pocket knives silk spools toilet soap linen damask gaudy tableware and dressmaker samples. The note urges quick take up and mentions drummer's samples and various cheap lots.
Coroner Bugan in Philadelphia says he is closing in on a gang selling bogus death certificates to bury deaths without suspicion. A verified certificate was obtained by writing under an assumed name and offering a cash bribe. Jacob Ramsey is charged as an accessory in the malpractice death of 22 year old Mrs Nannie Ramsey. a white male physician head is sought as the syndicate leader.
Russian and Chinese movements around the Yalu amid war worries. Families flee Manchuria due to shortages and high prices for troops provisions while railways strain to meet transport. Reports note Russian plans to fortify Harbin and shift base, with Japanese advances from Chemulpo and Seoul and a first land battle anticipated.
From Shinbashi station to Siblyet Park a garden party honored visiting sailors. Mayor Ozaki praised them as embodiments of enlightened western sympathy for Japan. American squadron expected at Chefoo with reports of possible marines landing amid German China tensions. Russia abolishes censorship freeing foreign dispatches though wartime censorship remains for military reports.
Chicago reports wild wheat trading with May delivery touching 1.03 a bushel as fear of war spreading to Russian and Japanese fronts drives frantic activity. Prices spiked to 1.08 before retracing, while pork for May jumped 62% cents per hundred pounds amid broad gains in provisions.
Benton Bowman of Harrisburg was arrested by City Detectives Morgan and Welsh on charges of making counterfeit silver dollars half dollars quarters and nickels sold to David A. Wilson at one third face value. Wilson, proprietor of a saloon, was later arrested and released on $100 bail for a hearing next week. Bowman was jailed after failing to post bail. Bowman confessed and said Wilson took $409 worth of spurious coin monthly. U S authorities have been on the case since December.
United States Consul Goldschmidt reports to the state department that Venezuela favors foreign merchants who stock only US goods unavailable elsewhere. US exports exceed imports from Venezuela despite high taxes on some US goods, while major Venezuelan products like coffee, cocoa, rubber, tobacco, balata and skins enter the US duty free.
Ogden Utah February 20 Two cars of dynamite attached to a work train on the Ogden Lucin cutoff of the Southern Pacific railroad exploded with terrific force at Jackson station eighty miles west of Ogden killing at least twenty four persons and injuring many more. A large amount of property was destroyed and the list of dead and injured is not yet complete. It is believed a large proportion of victims were Greek laborers. Conductor George Dermody of Ogden and his train crew were among the known dead. A fireman named Burt his wife and three children are reported killed. The explosion wrecked everything within a half mile radius.
Manila reports Lieutenant MacRae and six constabulary privates slain in a bolo rush by about 500 fanatics along Samar's east coast. Private Salaman of the 14th Cavalry stationed at Jolo also killed by bolo.
In a naval appropriation debate, Rep Fitzgerald of New York argued Roosevelt may drive the nation to war if given four more years, urging a stronger navy than Britain’s. He warned against inflammatory talk by officials, backed up by Admiral Dewey’s 48 battleships, and pressed for ship construction and canal safeguarding. Foss and Myer supported building a robust navy to deter conflict and protect the Panama Canal.
The War Department invites proposals for $3,000,000 of Philippine temporary certificates at 4 percent interest for one year, to be opened April 15. The issue aims to replace the May 1 due bonds to sustain island credit. terms similar to the first issue. Violated Mining Laws suit filed in Pittsburg against Charles Donnelly, president of Pittsburg Terminal Railroad and Coal Co., for injuries alleged in coal mines. bail set at $500 each. Two men stabbed in Huntington street fight linked to congressional delegate contest. another stabbing reported in Wayne County.
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