30 Jul 1903
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
1
The ad touts Dr Postingill's Kidney-Wort Tablets claiming to cure kidney and bladder inflammation and warns diabetes can be caused by alcohol in liquid remedies. It lists symptoms of kidney trouble and urges readers to test morning urine for bricks dust sediment or cloudiness, then take the tablets.
Carrie Nation was arrested in Scranton on a vending without a city license charge and paid a $10 fine in police court. She spoke at Nay Ang Park during a large newsboys picnic, amid cheers and police resistance as officers tried to force her onto a streetcar.
A pair of gunpowder magazines at Lowell Massachusetts exploded causing widespread destruction. Twenty one people were killed and about fifty injured as houses trees and debris were scattered for miles. The United States Cartridge Company owned the magazines located near the Concord River and the blast also set off fires and damaged roughly seventy properties.
Harmon Truman Coates, once jailed for drunkenness and long absent from home, confessed to police that he is a murderer. He claims the crime occurred at Spring Valley in May 1902, killing Louis Hull. A telegram from Spring Valley confirms the tale. Coates says he was born in Paterson New Jersey and posed as an umbrella mender while in town.
A tiger shot in India by a member of Viceroy Curzon's shooting party is described as a magnificent man eater. The animal, one of the largest killed in recent years, measured over ten feet from muzzle to tail and weighed about 500 pounds. Its hide will soon adorn a British country house.
Firemen discovered the bodies of four little boys near a powder magazine explosion. A fifth boy escaped injury by the river. The blast demolished a nearby house, injured Mrs. Riggs who died en route to hospital, and carved a 50 foot wide path through trees for nearly 300 yards. A second blast at Hoffmansville Rockdale Powder Company in Baltimore county reportedly killed two more.
Dr Joseph Kelvin of Carbondale Pa 34 died while attempting to rescue Miss Mearle Shannon 20 of Williamsport Pa from the surf off a jetty at Atlantic City N J where she vanished after being swept by 20 foot waters Lifeguards aided Kelvin who collapsed and could not be revived The crowd watched and Mrs Joan Kline mother of Kelvin learned of her son's death amid the rescue drama
Winnington Delaware July 30 R H Pearson and Charles McCreary miners operators of Alabama and William and Edward Flynn presidents of miners unions in that state who compose four members of four board of arbitration to settle a strike came to Wilmington to request Judge George Gray to appoint as the fifth member of the commission They had a conference at his chambers in the federal building and the subject was discussed He would announce his decision later and is understood to be favorable if not interfering with his judicial duties.
The board met in Pottsville and will hear grievances affecting the Gog region coal fields. Pending claims from Lehigh and 82 from Schuylkill, plus Red Ash strike near Wilkes Barre, are to be reviewed. Land miners idle since the strike plan to present a petition to Coxe Brothers and seek conciliator action if denied.
Washington July 30 The government will sue postal contractor William Weighel and Fidelity Trust and Deposit of Baltimore for about 200000 the excess costs the post office incurred in carrying New York City mails. George G Travis awarded the contract to serve the unexpired term beginning August 1
July 30 St Petersburg reports that American papers claim Russia altered passport viseing rules. The unchanged policy allows ambassadors and consuls general to vise passports while honorary consuls cannot. Also President Roosevelt pardons Emilio Villmore, convicted of murder and previously sentenced to death, later commuted to 10 years.
Chicago July 30 Judge Kavanagh rules in the habeas corpus case of four strikers that unions may place pickets about a plant during a strike and that workers may be persuaded to quit. He also holds sending jailed defendants on affidavits of injunction violation is valid, opposing Supreme Court opinions. A counterfeit United States note case in Washington notes a misprinted Buffalo stamp and altered plate numbers.
Rome scenes mix church rites and royal mourning as a conclave scene unfolds Cardinal Rampolia draws superstition, 62 cardinals prepare to vote with doors to conclave to be opened only during set hours Parliament of Rome mourns Humbert and Victor Emmanuel as public processions fill the city London eyeing Cuban loan while Birmingham inches toward a new hope for Felix Hall belief in identity disputes lingers over the fall of names tied to the deadly case
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