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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1903
Page
1
A jumbled column surveys Topeka gas issues Paola fortunes and Dodge City clubs while noting Rice County vacant houses Hamilton county grasshopper catchers and Chautauqua drilling outfits. It also cites a rain mishap in Pratt and quirky local curios in Marion Allen and beyond with cheeky asides on politics and culture.
A catastrophic Paris Metropolitan electric railway disaster left seven corpses recovered by 3 a.m. as two trains caught fire after being pushed to repairs. Panic spread at Les Couronnes with smoke filling the tunnel and many passengers suffocating, officials struggled to control the scene.
Thomas Sullivan of Jackson Nebraska and a neighbor with a shotgun held at bay ten crew members of the Towle sandboat after a dispute over lease payments and sand volumes. Owners L F Richardson and Charles Barlow threaten legal action for trespass and seek damages of 15000 dollars.
The populist county convention met in Broken Bow Nebraska with Hon. Tay elected permanent chairman and E B Wimmer as secretary. J J Tooley H M Sullivan E B James and C W Beal spoke. Attendance was the smallest since 1889 as four townships sent no delegates. Day was declared ineligible for coroner as a Democrat. new nominees include M E Schweigler for treasurer A Richardson for sheriff Ed Citler for clerk Jesse Gandy for judges Ed Foley for assessor Oscar Johnson for county superintendent J B Osborn for clerk M I Lamb for surveyor and Dr Robinson for coroner.
George 8 Clayton sold his elevator in Wood River Nebraska to the Welle Hord Grain Company of Central City for 6700 dollars. The buyers plan to feed several thousand sheep at the site and operate the grain business there in the near future.
The Nebraska Prohibition convention met Monday in St Pauls to choose committees and hear speeches. Samuel Lichty was named temporary chairman Emma Hedges temporary secretary. A slate for supreme judge and university regents was proposed, and a platform urged total prohibition public ownership of utilities and direct election of federal officials.
The arbitration commission will convene in Birmingham at 10 tomorrow to rule on the miners and operators wage scale contract. Judge Gray of Delaware will preside with E P Neill of Washington acting as recorder. other members include Charles McCreery and Robert H Peterson for the operators and William Fairley and T S Lewis for the United Mine Workers. Sessions open to the public, expected to last five hours daily for two weeks.
A thunderstorm four decades ago struck the large two story frame barn of A Hemhin ney 51 miles northeast of Ravenna Neb. The building ignited instantly and burned with two prized horses killed in the blaze. The loss totaled over 2000 dollars with about 1000 dollars insured.
The national garment workers union opened its annual session in Indianapolis with a seating dispute among delegates. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor arbitrated the matter and addressed the convention at length.
Rock Island appoints BE Pearson to act as chief engineer replacing W L Darling who resigns to accept a similar post at Rock Island. Pearson, currently assistant general superintendent, will operate from Livingston Montana as acting chief engineer under president Hellen.
The pope suffered a fainting spell during a Vatican mass, attributed to heart weakness and fatigue from coronation duties. Doctors advised rest and reduced audiences. he was cared for by Mgr Bres san and Dr Davenozia with Dr Lapponi summoned. He later regained consciousness and remained in his rooms.
Dr August Dreth a San Francisco aeronaut with twenty years experience built and piloted a dirigible balloon. He did not detach from the cable yet claimed full control steering up and down and around in light breeze. Dreth accompanied by Capt T S Baldwin and others aims to meet Santos Dumont in the St Louis exposition aerial race.
In August in the House of Commons a board of agriculture representative stated that the United States claim of free disease status could not justify withdrawing the ban on cattle imports to England. He noted that evidence was insufficient and more detailed information was expected soon.
The Nebraska section of the United States Weather Bureau reports cool week, below normal rainfall with some showers. Harvesting nears completion in northern counties while eastern areas stall. western counties progress quickly. Barley yields well. rye and spring wheat disappointing. oats fair to good. haying excellent. sugar beets growing well. corn growing but slow due to low temperature. late corn tasseling in some fields. overall good soil conditions expected with warm, sunny weather needed.
W S Stone of Eldon Iowa has been elected grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers to fill the unexpired term after the deaths of P M Arthur and A B Youngson. He is 44 and has 24 years on the Rock Island Missouri division, will move to Cleveland headquarters.
Nearly all Cripple Creek Colorado mines shut down on August 10 to protest conditions. About 2700 miners are on strike and many are leaving the camp for other locations. Headquarters claim ore shipments to United States Ref ining and Refining and American Smelting and Refining will stop until an eight hour day and union wages are agreed.
Eugene Hillman twelve year old son of J. D. Hillman was crushed to death Tuesday morning about 10 o clock in a stone quarry a mile west of Weeping Water Nebraska. He sought shelter under an undermined bank as rain began and the bank and rock caved in trapping him before his father and older brother could rescue him. The death is reported as a sad blow to his parents.
Missouri Kansas Colorado and New Mexico postal clerks met in Kansas City Tuesday and passed a resolution urging the government to require railroads to build steel frame mail cars. The convention blamed rotten mail cars for many railway clerks’ deaths and cited cars that collapse like egg shells when off the track.
The United States district court appointed a receiver for the firm of Charles Dempster & Co. Chicago manufacturers of hats and caps. The petition states the firm has assets not exceeding $60,000 in total and liabilities of about $10,000.
Governor Yates announces a $200 reward for the arrest and conviction of the unknown murderers of George Killam who was killed in Matoupin county on the night of July 5 1903.
Hans Anderson of Fremont, a section-man, was seriously injured when he stood on one track watching a train on another. The incident occurred as both trains operated near his location. He received prompt medical attention after the collision.
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