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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1903
Page
3
An omnibus column surveys Hawaii rumors, social foibles, and moral debates. It muses on love, aging, marriage, and a wide range of curiosities from bachelors to oysters. The piece critiques modern life, trade, and science while sketching public attitudes toward progress and danger.
The Swatow glaze, named for the Chinese port near Chow-Chow-Foo, gains display in New York stores. Craftsmen mold wall pockets and bowls with sea life figures in gray earthenware and sea-green glazes, sometimes two tone. Vases, bowls, and decorative pieces imitate basket work and marine forms, with vivid crustacean and fish motifs. A Sunday-working woman bulletin note closes with a clash between weekday toil and Sunday chores.
In David City Nebraska the Lillie murder trial enters its third week with the state having presented twenty five witnesses of the forty six endorsed. Testimony details Mrs Lillie’s grain trading and margins while she urged secrecy and cautioned a broker to speak only what she approved.
The passage contrasts marriage with disappointment as wholesome, discusses life origin debates in scientific journals, and notes experiments showing germs survive under harsh conditions. It ponders whether life began from a star or a divine creation, noting ancient and modern attempts to explain life while acknowledging current uncertainties.
The obituary notes Bret Harte left a modest $1,800 estate yet a priceless legacy beyond price. It claims he surpassed contemporaries in imagination and humane insight, making him perhaps the greatest modern short story writer and ensuring his fame outshines industrial giants like Rockefeller or Carnegie.
Paul Grinstead editor of the Times, St Joseph, was fatally stabbed by a drunken negro, Frank Warner, in Wathena, Eas. The incident sparks talk of lynching if he dies. Grinstead previously served a year in jail in 1900 for libel and ran his paper from his cell.
A Nashville special reports two armed men who terrorized Union area residents during a bank robbery case are found to be wandering hunters seeking notoriety. The posse identified them as not William Rudolph or Fred Lewis, the alleged bank robbers.
Des Moines reports the Newton trial of Mrs Frank Levelleur for allegedly killing her husband last summer with an axe and burning the body in a barn to hide the crime. The second trial of Mrs Margaret Hossack for murdering her husband may go to the jury in Winterset tomorrow.
In New Orleans on February 24 Peter Farrell a top local Democratic politician and state coal gauger was shot and killed by his eldest son Edward following a report of a family quarrel. Edward wrested the pistol from Farrell and fired three shots. the other two brothers were involved in the dispute.
In David City Nebraska on February 25 the defense began calling witnesses after the state rested its case in the Lena M. Lillie murder trial. Mrs Georgie Leper testified detailing the morning of October 24 1902 and Lillies reaction to Harvey Lillies shooting with Ed Hall and others assisting. Other witnesses described Lillie’s behavior and scenes at the hospital and home while cross examinations continued.
City marks cornerstone ceremony for a 125000 dollar sea wall. U S Navy ships and local citizens gathered as construction progresses since October. The three mile wall aims to shield Galveston from tides equal to the 1900 disaster.
Enid Oklahoma February 25 Black Pearl a jailed Black man who killed James Jones in a saloon quarrel confessed today that he was the pugilist who fought Fitzsimmons in 1891 and who died in 1896 after killing a man in California in a street fight He said after the California crime he went to Cuba in 1896 but returned to the United States in 1900.
Albert Knapp, jailed in Hamilton, Ohio, confesses to five murders in Cincinnati Indianapolis and Hamilton. He along with two wives killed in Cincinnati and a child in Indianapolis, plus his third wife Jennie Connors Knapp, and a line of other crimes. The case widens with barn burnings and prior prison terms as investigators weigh his full criminal career.
Fremont resident Joseph Lower Smith left an estate valued at 150000. Adams Methodists dedicated a 7750 church. Rev. R M Stephenson to resume Bellevue College presidency. Edwin Clutter ended Johnson meetings and started one at Liberty Bridge. Reports from Platte, Loop, Elkhorn, and Niobrara rivers. Scotts Bluff to get a 1000 seat auditorium soon. Charles Thorson died by hanging, a respected Swede formerly in Platte County. Jessa Roate missing near Nemaha river after herding cattle. Irrigation table by J C Stevens shows 6854000 acre feet for 2457000 acres. Gotlieb Bartels seriously injured by barbed wire accident requiring 24 stitches.
James Orton, 35, a cook, shot and killed his wife Mollie Orton, 21, in front of Mollie’s mother Mrs. Mary Cronin’s home in Kansas City. He then killed himself as Cronin relatives witnessed the incident following a quarrel involving the couple and Mollie’s family.
Two masked robbers forced entry to Hubbard's private bank at Cedar Springs using keys and dynamite, escaping with between 4000 and 8500 dollars. They stole a team from a livery stable and were seen heading toward Grand Rapids. the sherif found the team abandoned in Grand Rapids this morning. No arrests reported yet.
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