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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1901
Page
3
A collage of anecdotes features President Hayes dismissing a self-proclaimed emperor as insane, Polk's Boston reception with a market announcement, and witty quips about Ambassador Choate and Senator Depew. The colorful scenes include a verger’s half crown joke, a police commissioner’s in‑patty humor, and Roosevelt’s celebrated teeth as fodder for newspaper vanity.
A German physician describes entering a Cairo hasheesh den guided by a donkey boy who spoke German. In a smoke filled room the crowd smoked, joked, and admired wall inscriptions while a pipe shared among patrons circulated. The physician refused the pipe and ordered coffee as the scene shifted to a man seated with a blank, vacant smile.
The Lahore Civil and Military Gazette notes a yearly influx of at least 3,000,000 umbrellas into India. It states that about three-fourths come from England and sell wholesale at one rupee each, with foreign imports at eight annas per item, leaving the overall quality unspecified.
Citizens carry pledge cards to abstain from swearing. When hearing an oath, they present the card to the speaker who must sign a pledge or pay a small fine to charity. In Switzerland alone nearly 40,000 cards have been distributed.
Judge Chambers recalls a dying injunction over a Confederate flag brought to Samoa by a white visitor. The chief guarded the banner, sworn to keep it forever, passing it to successors. The piece also touches the fate of mustangs, their decline, and replacement by finer stock on western ranges.
Scientific American reports on higher education in the United States noting 629 institutions and three tech schools. Total property value $342,888,361 with endowment $154,587,590 and annual income $27,739,154. Degrees awarded totaled 15,087 with 735 honorary degrees and 1,196 students per million population in 1899.
The essay recalls the mustang and the jack rabbit as common pests of the West decades ago. It paints wide plains and mesas where cayuse horses and jack rabbits thrived, always alert and quick to flee riders crossing arid Southwest landscapes.
An elderly, fatherly looking man uses a job ads swindle. He talks applicants into work then asks for a small loan claiming later repayment, then vanishes at the stated address. The Philadelphia Record notes multiple similar cases tied to this benevolent con artist.
Will Mathis, accused of killing the Montgomery brothers in Mississippi, surrendered to officers in Dallas and confessed to the act. He claimed Orlando Lester did the shooting while Mathis held the lamp and pistol. A coroner’s jury found Mathis Lester Owens and George Jackson liable for the deaths. Mathis and Lester await trial with no bonds. The scene in Oxford was tense yet orderly with no lynching.
The New York Press discusses nine as a mystical number linked to Roosevelt's name. It claims nine equals a trinity of trinities and ties this to concepts of perfection in various contexts, listing many instances of the number nine across myth, science, and culture.
General Moreau visited England and attended a concert. He misread the choir refrain "To-morrow" as a cantata in his honor and saluted every repetition with bows, provoking bewildered laughter from the audience. The incident was recounted in London Tit-Bits.
A Textile World note describes a marking solution for iron and steel. Dissolve one ounce blue vitriol in four ounces water and a half teaspoonful of nitric acid. Applied to bright steel or iron the surface turns copper and a scratch mark becomes clearly visible.
Opinion snippet notes Dolly Dimples cherishes a kiss and permission as proper etiquette after ward. Cholly questions why she favors good form, Dolly replies it would have compelled refusal. The lines reflect early 20th century social humor from the Ghic State Journal.
The danger of living with consumptives is illustrated by 6,273 patients examined by the German imperial board of health, of whom 2,177 or 34.7 percent came from families with other tuberculosis victims.
A man says he likes a girl because there is no nonsense about her, implying straightforward honesty. The remark highlights a simple compliment about decency and directness in a young woman.
Pittsburg Nov 21 a unidentified man leaped into a furnace at Schoenberger's mills Fourteenth and Actna streets. The body was nearly cremated, left foot saved by bell, and identification unlikely. The victim, about thirty five, with sandy mustache and black laced shoes, was removed to the morgue.
Mrs Eliza beth Dale of Chicago was arraigned in Hoboken before Recorder Stanton on a charge of murdering her five year old daughter Emmeline. Police Captain Hayes asked for an adjournment for autopsy as County Physician Converse conducts the examination. The prisoner was taken to St Mary s hospital under guard pending further court action.
Sioux City reports a Sioux Falls jury awarded Mrs. Mary Garrigan 1800 damages against Samuel Kennedy a Dell Rapids saloon keeper. The husband of Garrigan died by his own hand after a long spree. This is the first case under the new state license law prohibiting liquor sales to habitual drunkards.
In Middlesboro Kentucky on November 22 a confrontation with Virginia hunters who crossed into Tennessee to hunt onJohn Smiths farm led to a fatality. Smith and his sons armed themselves after the intruders refused to leave. Thomas Wallace was killed during the clash.
Report from Madisonville Kentucky notes a clash at Providence where Garret Givens and Bud Couch were killed or mortally wounded. Battle involved union and non union men with at least 1000 shots fired. Soldiers guard Providence as Hopkinsville County braces for further violence with more troops expected.
Tomorrow at 10 in criminal court No 1 Judge Manderson will hear the case of Mrs Lolanda Henry Bonine charged with the murder of James Seymour Ayres Jr at the Kenmore hotel on May 15. Seventy three government witnesses have been summoned while no defense subpoenas have been issued.
Tonight Jacob J. Ulery, a Niles police officer, challenges F. W. Cook, editor of the Niles Daily Star, to mortal combat with a 38 calibre revolver at ten paces. Ulery had been enforcing saloon closing laws amid May or Baldwin’s broader anti saloon campaign and prompted Cook’s rebuttal in the newspaper.
Officer Wilbur S. Sherwell, of Evansville Indiana, was arrested on murder charges in the Lena Renner case. Coroner Walker issued a bench warrant and Sherwell awaits formal arraignment as authorities bring circumstantial testimony to the case.
Mary Mark, on trial for killing her baby born out of wedlock, was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary in Wichita Kansas. Her mother faces trial as a participant. The infant was born alive, strangled, and buried in the sand after being taken from the hospital.
Plattsmouth Neb November 19 Judge Jessen sentenced George Walker to four years in the state peniten tiary after a burglary conviction at Avoca. Frank Work alias Dr Koch received four years for grand larceny. He hired a livery team in Nebraska City, drove it to Weeping Water and sold it to Dave Woodward for 190 dollars.
Washington reports that Army officials wholly discredit the published story of a conspiracy to gain Alaska independence. General Randall’s only communication to the War Department from Vancouver concerns transfers of engineers from Valdez to Fort Egbert, with suggestions that the tale aims to lure soldiers back to Alaska.
Madisonville Kentucky November 25 The famous Nortonville camp of striking union miners is broken up. Most campers are jailed on charges of breach of the peace unlawfully assembling and banding together. Four tents and camp paraphernalia were seized as Adjutant General Murray and Kentucky state guards moved to enforce Judge Hall order. Only 25 to 30 men remained, arms and supplies removed, leaders Oates and Platt escaped. Federal judge Evans to hear injunction case tomorrow in Owensboro.
The national commission for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition announces that the opening must occur on April 30, 1903, and no postponement is planned. The secretary notes inquiries on postponement have no basis in law or action.
Ex President Cleveland, resting in Princeton, is reported much improved. Dr Wikoff says he is getting along nicely and appears entirely out of danger after a restful night and comfortable day.
President and Mrs Roosevelt arrived in Washington at about 5 PM after an outing down the Potomac River. The return marks a quiet end to the day with the couple back in the capital.
General Wood purchased the principal portion of the San Juan battlefield in Santiago de Cuba, including San Juan Hill, the blockhouse site, and Bloody Bend. The 200 acres cost $15,000 and will be a United States reservation with plans for a park on the old site.
Denver reports the suicide of former Colorado Supreme Court judge M A Rogers in Steamboat Springs. He laid on the ground with dynamite under him, lit a cigar, ignited the fuse, and calmly smoked until the explosion ended his life.
Excursion trains carried over two thousand people to the scene of the Baby mine disaster at Pocahontas Virginia. Miners and officials moved to recover bodies as crowds hindered access while water filled lower passages. Three bodies recovered yesterday were burned and interred. eight bodies are feared still inside the mine as relief funds are raised.
In Jewell and Republic counties northern Kansas farmers report sudden sinkholes in alfalfa fields reaching two to eight feet deep and up to 15 feet wide. A cow fell into one hole and could not climb out, while a fence line in Republic county dangled in air. Experts from Kansas State College discuss possible washout of dirt beneath the surface as a cause, though the level ground occurrences challenge this theory.
Safe blowers raided Milan Kansas early today hitting the Milan State bank and other stores. They blew two doors from the safe but the time lock door held. villagers armed with shotguns surged into the street, chasing off the robbers who escaped with only a few dollars. Bloodhounds failed to track them.
The barkentine Titania, sailing from Liverpool to St Johns, was wrecked yesterday morning off Cape Race. One man named Williams died while attempting to reach shore. The crew, badly injured, endured 36 hours on the wreck before rescue this afternoon.
In Homestead Pennsylvania on November 18 a group of workers at the Howard axle works were buried under molten slag when a dump above them released material. One man died and two were seriously burned as they gathered scrap below.
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