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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1903
Page
2
President Roosevelt in Chicago defends the Monroe doctrine as a cornerstone of U.S. policy. He cites successful treaties and arbitration efforts, urges a strong navy, and argues that a prepared force ensures peace and limits European intervention in the Western Hemisphere.
An expert compares locomotive lifetimes in England and the United States. English practice shows longer engine lifespans per class, with express engines lasting about twenty-five years and freight engines around twenty-seven, while American roads push power to exhaustion and retire after about fifteen years for most engines. Data from six American lines indicate express engines averaging eighteen years, freight sixteen, local passenger nineteen, with higher mileage than English counterparts, and overhaul shop visits roughly every year to a year and a half.
John Burroughs in Atlantic notes crows migrate in loose, silent bands with no observed leadership. They scout, respond to danger, and avoid predictable signals, contradicting Mr. Thompson-Seton on crow behavior after forty years of winter observations across the country.
Exchange features Bojax praising Brown as thrifty genius and Tomdix retorting that Brown borrows others stumbling blocks for stepping stones. The dialogue reflects sharp wit and strategic humor in a competitive discourse.
A misfit query references Mr Jones and a burial with melancholy remarks about a mother. The fragment mentions Michigan and a noted wrinkle but offers little concrete action or detail. The piece reads as a clipped, reflective aside within a broader conversation.
The population of the United States increases from 5,308,483 in 1900 to about 70,003,000 by 1902 marking significant growth during the period.
Col Cody known as Buffalo Bill suffers an injury when his horse rears and falls during the opening performance in Manchester England. He is moved to a hotel after the incident and had long built the Wild West show with Nat Salsbury touring Europe and America.
Nebraska notes recount a 12 to 15 score in favor of Superior after a Saturday basketball game between Superior and Oak High. The item also lists local events including Boone county fair dates, leadership changes, a sentencing, and a jail escape in Stanton county.
William Vallance, famed as a lightning calculator who could mentally solve any sum, has died at age thirty after a week at the state hospital suffering from mental strain. He could instantly date historical events and perform rapid arithmetic feats, including large multiplications.
Five Missouri packing companies sent a draft for 27136 to the state supreme court through their attorney Frank Hagerman in payment of fines and costs. The firms fined March 20 include Armour Packing company Cudaby Packing company Hammond Packing company Swift Co and Schwarzschild and Sulzberger.
The east bound Boston express from St John New Brunswick collided with a fast freight at Windsor Junction Nova Scotia at 1 30 this afternoon. The engineer and fireman of both trains were killed and five people were injured. Driver Nelson Copeland and Fireman Hill rode the freight while William Wal and Fireman M Oakley rode the express. Both trains left wrecked in the ditch and telegraph wires down.
A peculiars condition of affairs at Shreman Institute a government Indian school in Riverdale California led teachers to quit in a pony until July 1 due to inadequate funds for employment. Superintendent Harwood and his wife teach the five hundred Indian boys and girls assisted by older pupils until funds improve.
Manila report states the Reina Christina flagship of Admiral Monejo sunk by Dewey has been floated and beached. About eighty crew skeletons were found, including an officer with a sword. Debate over whether to bury in American naval funeral or ship remains to Spain via Suez in June. A wrecking company works to raise sunken Spanish warships.
A roundup of bills signed by the governor over Friday and Saturday includes H. R. 136 authorizing county treasurers to deposit county funds in out of county banks with a 2 percent interest rate, H. R. 275 requiring mutual bail insurers to retain half gross income for losses, A. R. 31 cutting Omaha school district warrants interest to 5 percent, H. R. 79 limiting expenditures in sparse school districts, S. F. 254 detailing protest money disposition and irrigation district tax receipt filings, and S. F. 185 allowing relief commission members a $300 surplus. Also on Saturday, House rolls funding Hastings asylum land purchase, sewerage systems for small cities, counterfeit ticket penalties, agricultural drainage, a state fair comfort building, and Senate file 239 read improvement bill.
In Denver April 15 the court held employers who fail to warn workers taking places of strikers may be liable for damages if harm occurs. William Hochschauer, hired by Denver Gas and Electric, was shot by striking workers. Justice Thompson notes the employer knowingly exposed the employee to danger and concealed it.
April 15. Five men were killed and two were badly burned by a gas explosion in mine 77 of the Kansas and Texas Coal company at Carbon I T. Seventy five men were in the mine but all escaped injury except the seven in the chamber where the blast occurred. The cause is unknown. All except one had families.
The Sidney village board has two or three proposals under advisement and expects to close a deal soon. The planned electric lighting will be welcomed as Sidney most desires and the new company will be liberally patronized by residents.
Dr Charles Lowrey secretary of the state board of health travels to Rica county to probe bubonic plague rumors among railroad laborers. A recently hired tramp spread a disease leading to several deaths and a surrounding area placed under strict quarantine. Smallpox cases are noted as fatal.
A fatal shooting in a California town claims James McKinney and two police officers. Reports describe a clash with bandits at a Chinese joss house, with authorities investigating whether the incident was tied to a hostage or robbery attempt.
Authorities report the death of outlaw James McKinney in Bakersfield after a siege in a Chinese joss house. Deputy Will Tibbets and City Marshal Packard were fatally wounded, with additional injuries to officers and a surrounding mob attempting to free a prisoner. The fugitive, known as Kitch McKinney, had a lengthy history of killings and escapes across several states.
Sousa and his band opened at the Noveau theatre this evening to a crowded house and scored a marked success. Most numbers received encores with Sousa replying with his own compositions. The performance ended with plantation songs and dance music that brought down the house.
In Newcastle Wyoming on April 20 the man known as Slim Clifton confessed to killing J W Church and his wife formerly of Omaha and recently living near Tanching. Clifton admitted the murders and indicated the burial site, following new evidence unearthed by Lew Jenney of Gillette.
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