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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1902
Page
1
President Roosevelt travels with a floral horseshoe gift from Hartford workers and greets crowds in Willimantic and Providence. He urges cautious handling of industrial trusts, calling for real national government control, and thanks local officials for a warm reception.
Washington reports the private Elnora bank failed and proprietor Pleasant Durham and his wife fled. Deposits estimated between 8000 and 10000 dollars believed lost. Town erupts in wild excitement.
The Evening Post reports the governing committee will review Peter Power versus the Northern Pacific railroad amid alleged ties of several exchange members to the suit. Sections 8 and 6 allow suspension or expulsion for acts detrimental to the exchange or willful violations of its constitution or resolutions.
Rockport Massachusetts Aug 75 reports from signal stations indicate defenders prevail in the mimic war with no enemy sighted. Other items include a Frisco Southern Limited derailment near Junction injuring crew, severe storms in Puna Christian county totaling corn and hay losses, and a police inquiry into Carl Kohler's death near Eau Claire.
A brief quip notes that when a man wins office the role often feels too small, yet officeholders persist in squeezing into the position. The line reflects a common sentiment on ambition and fit within public roles.
Saratoga August 23 The racing firm of Mr Roslyn formed by Mrs Harry Payne Whitney and Mrs H P Duryea has decided to disband and sell its three horses two saddles and hay after five racing days It bought horses at a cost of about 12000 including Alsono Intervention and a yearling by St Blaise The plan aimed to race Irish Lad to beat him but the venture collapsed amid publicity and speculation about Whitney and Duryea and possible involvement of William C Whitney
Rutherford Stuyvesant, a New York clubman who married the Dutch countess, and his chauffeur were fined by a Kingston-on-Thames magistrate for furious motoring. A constable testified the car covered a quarter of a mile in thirty seconds, though Stuyvesant claimed it did not exceed ten miles per hour. The magistrate said he had a personal experience of the speed when the car narrowly avoided hitting him.
The Journal of Commerce notes Panama and Colon as foreign ports may invite low rate competition from foreign shipowners for canal construction cargoes. It cites material needing transport, mainly cement granite lumber and machinery, with cement and machinery of strategic concern. United States vessels face limited options without a coastwise law, and the balance of trade hinges on domestic versus foreign shipping in this large southbound trade.
Denver August 23 Edward Boyce former president of the Western Federation of Miners is nominated by the Socialist party for governor of Colorado by the state convention held in Colorado Springs on July 4 a full ticket including J C Provost and B E Morris. local organizations proceed to vote and near complete counts favor Boyce.
Wesley Sherber, a conductor on a local freight train, was shot by Brakeman Bishop at Milltown Indiana after Bishop, intoxicated and unable to work, refused to leave the train. Four shots were fired with a single bullet lodging in the lower back. fate of the wound unknown. Bishop, captured by Prosecuting Attorney Luckett and Sheriff Gilliland, had prior trouble including a prior penitentiary spell in Kentucky.
Kansas City report details a ninth street incline disaster as a gripman loses control of a crowded car. A deadly wreck follows with gripman W. B. Taylor dead and about twenty injured, several seriously, as eighty passengers tumble down the hill and onlookers flee the chaos.
At a meeting in Eldorado Illinois the Afro American Protective league condemned Jefferson D Alston as a traitor to the race and unfit to lead in honor or trust They also denounced James Mitchell Mount Vernon attorney over alleged riots at Eldorado and his account of a mob escape as slander against Saline county and its people.
Carrie Nation, visiting Ramona theater in Grand Rapids, engages crowds with blunt talk against saloons. After lectures she hosts a hatchet sale with pins costing ten cents or a quarter, claiming proceeds will pay Kansas fines and fund a home for families of drunkenness victims.
Edward R. Thomas, visiting Saratoga, rejects Attory Lamb’s claim he aided Lamb in the Northern Securities case and the Peter Power suit. He says the allegation is wholly false, has never met Lamb, and knows nothing of the Power matter despite recalling his name in print.
The TransMississippi congress resolutions favor statehood for Arizona Oklahoma and Indian Territory extend irrigation for arid lands demand a nine foot Mississippi channel from Missouri to Ohio bolster U S merchant marine support Duluth as naval training site and back a cabinet level commerce department They call for foreign consular reform and adopt an anti trust resolution urging the president and Congress to curb trust power in the republic.
R G Dun Review notes fuel scarcity remains the principal industrial handicap as protracted idleness at anthracite mines drives demand for soft coal and coke. Despite new output records, deliveries lag due to motive power issues while railway earnings rise. Textile and footwear sectors show activity, prices edge higher, and weekly US failures total 207 with 30 in Canada.
Residents in the tin district report swallows that summered on Seventh avenue and Thirty-eighth street gathering on telegraph wires to discuss migration. Elders say a decision to stay was defeated after noting a harsh season, sparrows encroaching, and the birds’ quicker departure signaling cold weather and an early squash harvest.
Frankfort Aug 23 The Kentucky penitentiary mutiny incident closed with the burial of Wallace Bishop, leader of the desperadoes. The body was interred in the prison graveyard at Thornhill. Warden Lillard received a letter from Mrs C E Bishop Hammond Ind mother of the dead man saying Kentucky murdered my boy Let her cry him.
The War Department’s Insular Affairs Bureau released a Bowen report denying charges that Philippine schools proselytize against Catholics. Bowen, acting public instruction head, refutes the allegations as unfounded. The findings note 20 division superintendents, only one a clergyman, with three chosen from the U S Catholic church’s list.
Prairie chicken crop ripe September 1 with ducks and geese allowed at same time. Open season for prairie chickens lasts thirty days through September. Reports say game conditions favorable despite heavy June rains washing out nests. railroads report a large chicken crop. Sportsmen prepare gear and move toward marshes as season nears.
Burdette J. Johnson a leading soap manufacturer known across the west died today after a lingering illness at age 76 in Milwaukee The Maine a new battleship left Boston harbor for a trial trip off Cape Ann with president roads underway for the voyage
The National Box and shook Manufacturers in Milwaukee opened its third summer meeting. William P. Powell spoke on lumber supply decline and trade questions, followed by an experience meeting led by F J Kress.
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