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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1903
Page
5
Fire and water damaged W. T. Cole man’s store and hardware stock in McCook last Tuesday to about $3,000, roughly split between the building and inventory.
State Superintendent Fowler designates Friday October 23 as Library day and will issue a proclamation for a general observance in every public school in the state.
Emil Johnson, a thriving young farmer from five miles north of Ax Tell, was found dead in a corn field on Thursday. Authorities suspect he was kicked by a horse. The coroner will conduct an inquest.
Warrants were sworn out Tuesday for the arrest of Pearl Butler and Bid Trosper for shooting through the windows of a country school house just above the heads of the scholars. The bullets struck the desks.
Early Tuesday morning two would be robbers cut out a panel at the rear entrance of the Oakland post office. They were thwarted by passers by before completing the break in.
Dan Kiser of near Murray reports selling more than 600 bushels of peaches this year with many more sales possible. Prices ranged from 1.50 to 2.00 dollars per bushel for the best fruit.
The Lancaster county bridge fund has been exhausted by an unprecedented flood season. It is likely a proposition to vote bond for bridge purposes totaling $100,000 will be submitted to voters at the upcoming election.
Charles Blakely a Beatrice clerk and bookkeeper filed a bankruptcy petition. His liabilities total 37 134 31 mostly from securing bonds. Assets amount to 8 497 including 8 000 invested in stocks and securities.
Fire discovered Wednesday after the train headed north consumed 300 feet of corn-cribs and bins and 1 500 bushels of corn along with 300 bushels of oats. Wind direction saved Tobias from total destruction.
Fritz Schneider suffered serious injuries Monday in Saunders county near the Platte river when a team of colts hitched to a lumber wagon bolted while being broken. The wagon struck a wire fence as they pulled free.
A man named Fred Schultz in a rural area near Goehner was operating a mowing machine when his five year old daughter wandered into the cane. Both her legs were severed and she died shortly afterward. the child was the family's only daughter among four children.
A prairie fire started by an ash heap from a steam threshing outfit blew west of Moorefield on a windy Wednesday afternoon. It scorched about 240 acres of wheat and rye, 80 acres of pasture owned by George Robinson, 25 acres of wheat owned by John Atwood, plus additional pasture and fencing losses.
A prairie fire eight miles south of Bassett Thursday afternoon swept the area under a strong west wind. The blaze burned hundreds of tons of hay and consumed stacks, causing losses to A. M. Jacox, Mr. Armaket, Mr. Finlayson, and Mr. Burgett.
A Wednesday blaze two miles west of Cozad destroyed 200 tons of hay owned by multiple parties led by Brownfield Bros with losses near 800 dollars. High winds at about 100 miles per hour were blamed on sparks from a passing engine. A 3,000-head sheep herd was saved by prompt men who moved the flock to safety.
Alabama legislature approves a bill barring labor unions from all forms of boycotts with penalties. Labor organizations condemn the measure as harmful to workers and free speech.
At Niagara Falls last week the Farmers' National Congress with 300 delegates from 38 states adopted resolutions backing a graduated income tax direct election of senators parcel post postal telegraph and savings bank laws to curb trusts expanded rural delivery the referendum and an agricultural census every ten years starting next year.
Governor Cummins spoke to a large Des Moines audience stressing tariff changes only if they do not cut wages or threaten the home market. He argued protection is essential and likened free commerce to free booting or killing, saying tariff laws are national weapons. He said no tariff changes would occur in the next Congress session amid presidential campaign fervor.
A 100 foot ledge was located near Lost river in the Cape York district north of Cape Nome Alaska. Reports describe the discovery as brought in by former Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson of Idaho.
Exports and imports for the Philippines through May 31 totaled 60 576 245 dollars, rising by about 10 million from the previous year. Analysts estimate roughly one fifth of this trade came from American interests in the period.
The market dipped to a low with railroad securities tumbling amid undigested trust holdings last Monday. The next day bulls regained control and standard stocks rose 2 to 4 points as gains spread across the exchange.
The New Orleans clique led by W. P. Brown won a major gain as September cotton rose 7.5 cents per bale, closing at 13 1 5 cents per pound. Brown reportedly cleared about a half million dollars in a minute in New York, while the overall corner has netted over 7 million in profits.
A union named the Independent Association of Brassworkers was organized in St. Louis by brassworkers from Chicago New York Philadelphia Cleveland and other eastern cities to prevent strikes and resolve disputes through arbitration.
Eastern railroads weigh substituting gasoline engines for steam locomotives on branch suburban lines. The experiment has been tried with success in Iowa on the Taber and Northwestern, with Western paper predicting naptha motors will soon be common on elevated and surface street car lines.
United States Steel Corp. keeps its tow barges on the Great Lakes despite a strike by the Masters and Pi lots' Association, signaling ongoing operations and labor tensions in hulls and hauls.
The Indiana Federation of Labor, meeting in South Bend, urged unions to undertake missionary work and voted to raise member dues to fund a campaign against employers for supremacy.
Foreman Haas testified before Judge Chytraus that the union offered a $25 reward for each slugging case involving non union workers hired by John M. Stiles. The legal clash centers on labor leaders in Chicago and the Painting Contractor.
The American Writing Paper Company enforces an advanced wage schedule after a strike ended with workers returning to old pay. The move aims to prevent future walkouts at Holyoke by altering compensation despite previously rejected terms.
IF M Hubbell of Des Moines conveyed to trustees property valued at five million dollars to be used after death of trustees and heirs named for the creation of a university at Des Moines.
The Columbia University board of trustees named Miss Margaret E H Maltby as the first woman professor on the faculty, taking the chair of physics. Columbia faces the anomaly of a woman teaching classes barred to other women.
John Huston Finley was inaugurated president of the College of the City of New York on Tuesday before a large gathering of educators and statesmen. Ex-President Cleveland, Mayor Low, E. M. Shepard and Senator Depew spoke, and many college presidents were in attendance.
Public schools in New Jersey are unsettled as a court ruling voids the general school law passed two years ago. Law deemed unequal across the state triggers an extra session of the legislature to address the issue.
In Grant county Indiana public schools opened three weeks ago but ten country schools closed after parents refused vaccination. Trustees now plan to reopen without requiring vaccine certificates, keeping pupils in class while avoiding vaccine mandates.
Chancellor Irong announces a practical journalism program at Kansas State University. Students will study and analyze leading national newspapers daily, grounded in strong rhetoric as the foundation.
President Schurman spoke to the largest Cornell student body ever 2346 enrolled warning that hazing will invite permanent expulsion. He stressed the university remains non sectarian yet upholds religious worship as a positive force.
Prof. Dugan reports the discovery of a small planet located nine degrees north of the equator. The unnamed observer notes the finding as a notable addition to celestial knowledge.
Professor von Behring announced in Berlin a method to immunize humans against consumption by inoculating a harmless cattle tuberculosis serum. He aligns with Koch that the disease is not inherited and argues dairy milk from tuberculous cows spreads consumption.
Count de la Vaulx and Count d Outremont cross the English Channel from Paris to Hull on September 27. The 360 mile trip took seventeen hours and forty-five minutes amid dangerous cross currents.
Professor A L Garner departs Philadelphia bound for West Africa to study monkeys in the jungle. He carries Edison phonographs in a delicate iron cage to record the vocal sounds of the simians, which he believes may reveal articulate speech.
A United States Army volunteer group at Washington undergoes a nine month trial at Sheffield Scientific School Yale to determine the least proteid and albuminous food needed for health under normal life conditions. Prof R H Chittenden leads the experiment and says no special theories are involved and that people typically consume more food than necessary, excess harming health and defeating the aim.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit company reports paying 1,578,059 dollars for the stocks of underlying companies. The sum is believed to reflect amounts paid to holders of the stolen streetcar franchises of 1901 in Philadelphia.
Judge Shiras in a Du Buque Iowa opinion reversed a Missouri federal court ruling in Chicago Grain & Stock Co. versus Chicago Board of Trade. The court held the board of trade has no exclusive right to its stock or quotations despite evidence of bucket shops.
Dr Car Ballod contends at a Berlin statistical meeting that cities with populations around one million are healthier due to better sanitary measures. Berlin tops health rankings, followed by London, with Paris last. Country folk generally least healthy but urban migrants improve.
In the October Century, Ann Bowman Dodd notes monogamous marriage grows in Turkey due to financial and social reasons. She observes that a majority of the Upper Ten favor adopting European customs in this regard.
The imperial health office at Berlin presents statistics indicating expenses of about 35 dollars per person over 15 years old. Health authorities issue a pamphlet urging temperance and noting that total abstinence is not harmful to health.
Paris Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals asks the imperial court to decide if a fly is a domestic animal or a wild beast. The issue arises with certain self-moving cardboard toys powered by concealed flies, prompting cruelty complaints.
Walter H. Page, editor of the October World's Work, declares that the conduct of an independent and successful journal of serious aim is a public trust and that greater success increases the obligation to ring true in purpose and thought.
The October World's Work ridicules deporting or pensioning black people. It argues for delaying debates on the race problem and advocates calm, just action over theories that have dominated discussions for a century.
An endurance test for 1903 automobiles is set for October 6 to 14. The route covers about 79414 miles from New York to Pittsburg via Kingston Binghampton Oswego Corning Buffalo Cleveland and Youngstown. Each car must carry weight equal to 25 percent of its own weight. Perfection earns 6000 points.
Miss Emma Goddard daughter of Chicago millionaire L O Goddard has left luxury to live in a bare room in the stock yards district as part of a University Settlement project. She already aids poor mothers and sick children finding the work more meaningful than social calls and receptions. She seeks sincerity over martyrdom and rejects martyrdom labels.
Prof. Walter D. Scott of Northwestern University argues that successful advertising acts as hypnotism. He bases this on psychology and belief that people are naturally obedient. Direct command is the most effective form, with unconscious influence via suggestion. Illustration matters as people think concretely, and ads must present either new or novelly presented old ideas.
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