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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1903
Page
2
A wire summary notes Seth Low received backing as mayoral candidate at a New York fusion conference. Other items include Frederick Coudert gravely ill, Williams Central freight wreck deaths, and various appointments and notices across national figures, institutions, and organizations.
Lou Dillon breaks Maud S. trotting record with a mile in 2 05 on a high sulky, 8 pounds heavier than Maud S. used eighteen years ago. The Monk and Equity set a wagon mark, while Belle Hamlin and Honest George posted a 2 12 1 4 team record. Also reports at Milwaukee and New York: Igniter wins 25,000 champion stakes at Sheepshead Bay in 2 miles 2 1 4, and a Seventy-first NY regiment shooting event with Casey winning military championship finishing with gold medal and $54. First-place finishers listed in several matches.
Washington reports Russia asks China for a postponement of Manchuria evacuation beyond Oct. 5. Secretary Hay to consider after cable from Minister Conger. Authorities say the request concerns a small province and is for a short delay.
The Navy Department issued an order declaring the Star Spangled Banner the national anthem and directing all officers and men to stand at attention when it is played, unless duties prevent. The rule also applies to respect for any other nation's national air when played before its official representatives.
Chicago September 14 Congressman Cannon spoke to the Hamilton club but avoided committing on national issues likely to arise in the next congress. He said the United States has more currency than any nation except France, credited by our credit system, and that U S currency is better than that of any other country and will be kept good.
London reports that the foreign office told the Associated Press no proposal exists to appoint an Anglo American boundary commission to define the border between British Borneo and the Philippines and that such a body is not required.
Heavy snow and rain threaten crops in Montana North Dakota and Wisconsin with blizzards and washouts. Rail lines suffer several disruptions including a rock slide burying the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul track near Hastings Minnesota. Snow blankets Red Lodge and Pryor Mountain areas with eight inches to two feet reported.
Minneapolis reports extraordinary rains lowering wheat quality by 10 to 25 cents per bushel. Across Augusta Wisconsin a cloudburst floods town and surroundings. Railroads crippled by washouts and bridges swept away near Merrill and Mondovi with losses estimated at 30,060 dollars.
Rome reports the pope fulfilled a promise to Rev Dennis R OConnell rector of the Catholic University at Washington by sending a cordial letter advocating support for the university He warmly commends the institution to the American people trusting their generosity to sustain its aim of intellectual supremacy in the nation
Paris dispatches show official reports deem the plague threat at Marseilles not alarming while unofficial accounts claim 23 deaths. Quarantine measures are stated or suspected at Spanish ports and other entries linked to Marseille ships.
The Illinois fish commission steamer will voyage from Chicago to St Louis to test drainage canal waters for typhus and bacilli. The expert board for Illinois valley assessment includes prominent professors from Northwestern, Illinois, Chicago, Wisconsin, and other institutions, with authorities from Chicago health and engineering circles.
Washington reports the war department announced a program of regular and militia maneuvers to be staged around West Point Kentucky. General John C Bates directs the exercise with a Blue army base on the Ohio river at Louisville and a Brown army base on the Tennessee river at Nashville. The Brown army pushes toward Louisville as the Blue army, reenforced, resumes the offensive near the Muldraugh hills a Civil War site.
The Milwaukee Road reports gross earnings of 47,662,728 with net earnings of 16,004,563 and dividends balance of 10,473,259. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe shows total income of 63,668,390 with net income 13,898,329.
Rockford Beloit and Janesville Electric Railway company files a trust deed on all property to secure $1,000,000 in five percent gold bonds. Of this, $600,000 covers Beloit Delavan Lake Janesville debt, with the remainder for extension and improvements, including a planned extension to Madison Wisconsin.
New York Athletic Club dominates national amateur track events, scoring 50 points to Milwaukee 36 with Alex Grant and Schulte among winners. At Seagirt, infantry rifle team captures the Dryden trophy with 995 of 2000, District of Columbia second, and Private Cook of DC taking top Seabury match marks. Charlie Robert of NYAC sets fast swims of 550 and 770 yards, beating former records.
Wilkesbarre Pa Sept 11 The anthracite strike commission appointee Charles P Neill announced that mine workers and operators in the region are entitled to a five percent wage increase effective September The standard price for hard coal at New York harbor is 4 75 per ton and will guide rates for the next six months unless operators adjust the price list
Mining Congress closes at Deadwood South Carolina with Portland Oregon chosen as next meeting site and officers reelected led by J H Richards of Boise as president. A resolution thanks President Roosevelt for sending Secretary Shaw as his representative.
Van Ness, carrying 107 pounds, established a new world record at Sheepshead Bay by a six and a half furlong straightaway run in 1:18. The time beats the previous record of 1:18 3-5 set by Jane Holley at Washington Park, Chicago, this summer.
President Buchanan of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers annuls the charter of local Number 2, Housesmiths' and Bridgemen's union, led by Sam Parks, for violating the agreement between the international union and employers.
Secretary Shaw remained at the treasury late and declined to discuss the rush of certain banks to retire bonds for profit on U S bonds deposited with the treasury or to say whether he would take any action on the matter.
Secretary Hitchcock announced the removal of John A. Sterrer of Ohio as town site commissioner for the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory and named Dwight Tuttle of Conpect as his successor. The action follows charges against Sterrer's administration at his office.
Berlin Sept 12 The sergeant arrested at Metz with six privates for selling two bombs with a new fuse to a French agent confessed he would receive 800 dollars for the treasonable conduct. He was arrested before payment.
Cincinnati Ohio September 11 representatives of the National Association of Minor Baseball Leagues and the National Baseball Commission reached a new national agreement. The draft period shifts from August 15 to September 1 and Class A player price is set at 750 dollars. Players sent to majors under the Cincinnati pact last winter and still in minors must be recalled. A further meeting will ratify the agreement.
Chicago Macedonian society organizes a 75 man armed company to depart for Macedonia next week. Led by Boris Stanislaws Tevetkoff, a former Bulgarian army lieutenant, the unit will travel to New York to join a regiment forming to aid insurgent forces.
Berlin reports by Neufeld of Koch's institute that live bacilli injected into blood vessels of mules goats and cattle produced immunity against tuberculosis in animals. Dead creatures did not yield the same result. The experiments are deemed highly important for medicine.
Washington officials release interstate commerce commission statistics from a general 1902 report showing thirty states exercised railway control through commissions. The document notes a twelve year trend toward stricter rate regulation and more efficient oversight.
In Tuxedo New York on September 11 Edward Rushmore of the Tuxedo club was fatally injured and his niece Miss Cornelia Herrick of Southampton was instantly killed in a highway accident. The car stalled on a steep ascent and the brake failed causing the vehicle to roll backward down a sixty foot embankment.
In Halle Prussia on September 11 Emperor William halted military maneuvers after two hours in the field due to a large number of sick soldiers from overexertion and continuing storm, with wireless telegraphy and balloon signaling rendered impossible.
Forty men were trapped by flames after a gasoline engine exploded in the Bradley-Burr company carriage and wagon works. The last workers escaped as the roof collapsed. David Bergquist suffered severe cuts and bruises from a leap from a second story window. The loss is expected to reach $30,000.
Washington on September 11 reports that despite postal authorities’ confidence, no arrests have been made of those indicted. An announcement of arrests, expected to occur in a day or two, was not yet released.
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