29 Jan 1903
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1903
Page
1
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for womanly diseases and change of life. It claims it prevents or cures the pains of the critical period, cites a testimonial from Mrs. Lizzie A. Bowman, and endorses Pleasant Pellets to keep bowels healthy.
President Roosevelt and party arrived in Washington from Canton at 5 o clock yesterday. He shook hands with the engineer and Streman, rode to the White House, and voiced his pleasure with the trip. At Harrisburg he reviewed a reception on the platform and saluted railway workers.
A boiler in the Southern Car and Foundry foundry at Anniston Alabama exploded destroying parts of the plant. Six workers died three whites and three negroes and about twenty others were injured with several expected to die. The victim F fom Bitch was blown sixty feet into the air and J A Forte was blown to the top of a shed. Ike Hardy was struck by debris seventy feet away. The boom sent ton weight pieces across the area and the cause remains unknown.
Trenton, Jan 29. Laura Biggar the actress filed with the Prerogative court clerk an appeal from the Orphans Court of Monmouth county for allowing 4000 to each of the three lawyers who represented the proponents for probating Henry M. Bennett s will and settling the estate the actress contends the fees are excessive.
In Washington on January 29 a Senate debate intensified as Rawlins urged a resolution to obtain war court martial records from the Philippines. Beveridge defended the army against insinuations, while Carmack called attacks the dirtiest of the debate as the scene shifted to other issues and a statehood measure.
Poughkeepsie January 29 reports a singular case of memory loss tied to St Stephen's Theological College Annandale Samuel A Chapman a Boston student lay semiconscious for over a week after an icy sidewalk fall he is believed to have injured his spine. In Boston John D Long Former Secretary of the Navy was described as comfortable at St Margarets Hospital with pneumonia symptoms gone and his kidney trouble showing progress.
Vice Chancellor Grey heard argument in the Glass Blowers Association of the United States versus Jonas Glass Company of Minotola New Jersey. The union seeks to restrain interference with persuasive labor efforts. No decision given. Quay pledges canal treaty ratification. Morgan opposes by delaying action.
General C Hasbrouck U S A recently became brigadier general and retired from active duty. He left Fort Adams for his home in Newburgh and was given military honors by station officers as he departed. Vesuvius erupts again Rome reports lava and smoke from the crater with incandescent lava streams.
Philadelphia reports a Rhodes trust conference at the University of Pennsylvania with Dr George R Parkin, President Woodrow Wilson, Provost Harrison and Ira Remsen. Pennsylvania's nominees will be chosen by a Pennsylvanian college faculty committee, New Jersey by Princeton faculties, and Maryland by Johns Hopkins faculties. Candidates must be 19 to 23 years old.
Italian laborer Lindro Francesco, 35, broke a Gallitzin post office window with a stone and attempted a robbery. Surrounded by police, he fatally shot himself in the head after realizing escape was impossible. About $1,909 had been sent to that office from Tuesday by fellow Italians. The second item reports Special Policeman John Hayes wounded in Norfolk and eight suspected robbers. one suspect James Jackson fatally wounded, others escaped. A third item notes John Mitchell declining Illinois arbitration board seat due to Mine Workers’ time demands.
New York reports twenty dead from the Tuesday night collision on the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Graceland New Jersey. Engineer Davis and Fireman McCarthy are hospitalized, with others badly hurt. authorities blame Davis for the disaster as an investigation and inquest continue in Plainfield and Cranford.
Two Southern Pacific passenger trains collided head on near Valls 13 miles east of Tucson. Twenty bodies were recovered from burned cars. several more are feared buried. Engines fireman and one fireman killed. eighteen others killed or injured. A tourst car broke away and was captured in Tucson. Prince Athrobald Stuart de Modena disappearance noted in London. Lion bite death in North Carolina reports.
In Wilkes Barre the anthracite commission heard arguments on who should testify about production limits. Darrow urged coal road presidents be summoned to explain market control, while Gray and Dickson pressed for cautious handling. The session debated whether operators or miners bear responsibility for restricted output and how to balance conservation with fair labor.
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