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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1903
Page
1
President Roosevelt signed at 1 PM the bill granting a full rebate of the duty on all imported coal. The measure, now law, aims to ease the nationwide fuel stringency and is expected to trigger immediate coal imports.
In Freehold New Jersey on January 15 Dr Hendricks and Justice of the Peace Station were convicted of conspiracy with actress Laura Biggar to gain a Bennett millions share and sentenced to two and a half years each. The actress was acquitted.
In New York on January 15 relatives gather at the steamship company office awaiting word on the American liner St Louis overdue with 550 passengers aboard. Officials warn weather delays and boiler leaks may be the cause as families seek updates.
In Hopkinsville Kentucky on January 14 13 year old Thomas Whitman shot and killed his aunt Miss May Phipps in a defense of his mother. Phipps reportedly struck Mrs Whitman and then began choking her before the boy used a revolver to stop her.
Two tramps killed in the Southern Pacific railroad wreck near Houston are identified as E. S S Flory and J. Hester. Hester is shown as a boilermaker who recently worked in Tucson Arizona.
The Live Stock association convention in Kansas City on January 15 adopted resolutions urging the St. Louis World's fair exhibit to be the greatest yet seen. It urged Congress to empower the inter state commerce commission to enforce its decrees and praised Secretary Wilson and Dr. Salmon for cattle disease work in New England. It recommended Senator Harris of Kansas as Isthmian canal commissioner and sought extended time for cattle on cars to forty hours. Jerry Simpson entertained with impromptu speeches and quipped about abandoning politics for socks instead of Gents shoes.
Rome reports Cardinal Paroceli died today aged 70. He was long noted as a possible official successor to Pope Leo and famed as a brilliant eloquent high church official.
A large crowd skating near the Washington monument Wednesday evening fell through the ice after the basin ice collapsed. Three people died, including Miss Jessie C. Thomas, Arthur Wasserbach, and Henry C. Hamill, with about 2000 skaters present. Rescue efforts saved others, and police believe all who were in the accident are accounted for.
Rear Admiral Lord Beresford criticizes the Venezuelan affair as an unwise Anglo German move. He says England and Germany erred aligning, urges American alignment with the Monroe Doctrine and predicts future British support for U S defense, stresses colonial responsibility and civility in conflict.
The forecast calls for clear to fair conditions tonight with continued warmth. Expect pleasant, mild weather into Friday with above average temperatures and light breezes.
The body of Mrs. Frank Hammond was shipped to Tire Ohio at noon today. Her daughter Nora Hammond of Omaha Neb consulted a fortune teller days earlier, who warned of illness at home and prompted Nora to rush to Sedalia where she learned her mother was dead.
Binghamton New York January 15 Mrs Arthur Mitchell of Glenwood Pennsylvania has exchanged her four year old daughter Lillie for a ton of coal with Mrs Cooper who had earlier sought to adopt the child.
Mrs J D Murphy entertained yesterday for Mrs Ed Rippey former Secalian now in Denver Colo. Guests sat around five tables for a Progressive Euchre session. Prizes went to Pat Curran first Mary Riley second and K F Sweeney consolation. Refreshments and punch followed in a cordial afternoon with Mrs C E Mellor assisting. Attendees included Mesdames Carroll Hogan Lennariz Cornmeier Mellor Sweeney Curran Vitt Schreubel Stein Kraus Klink Bloes Pehling Garvin Long and Misses Riley Hart and Mrs Rippey of Denver.
Word from Sedalia reports James Hopkins a prominent farmer two miles south of Hughesville lost his house to fire yesterday. No further details were available.
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