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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1904
Page
2
A brief notice lists a series of telegraph brief items including an arbitration treaty between Sweden and Norway signed at Brussels, public figures and events, election tallies, weather notes, and notable deaths across multiple countries.
President Nott’s message to be delivered during the first week of the session faces a light schedule. Roll calls, oaths, and the reading of the president’s message occupy the days, with possible minor legislation and the pension bills for private claims. Objections may delay Heflin’s oath and spark a party dispute. Senate honors for late senators precede adjournment, then focus on the Philippine government bill and its swift consideration.
Missouri Senator Cockrell, who faces retirement, met President Roosevelt in Washington. The president offered a federal appointment, either to the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Interstate Commerce Commission, based on Cockrells choice. He indicated he would not decide immediately, awaiting weeks of consideration.
Three Baltimore residents were arrested on bench warrants issued by United States Judge Morris for falsely swearing they resided long enough to qualify to vote. Max Cohen Jacob Reiner and Charles Einstein led the group that traveled to Westminster Maryland before the November election to obtain naturalization papers and have their names placed on polling lists.
Washington notes that reciprocity treaties face strong opposition and are unlikely to be seriously considered in the next three months. Tariff revision discussions linger amid revenue concerns, while Senate debate risks delay. House rules enable swift action if leaders permit, but major changes hinge on their will.
Union Pacific Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and B M Railways, aided by their lawyers, secured a temporary restraining order from Judge W H Munger preventing Nebraska county treasurers from collecting taxes on the railroads. Hearing set for December 26 or 27, 1904, due to new Nebraska revenue law making taxes delinquent December 1.
A Tokyo dispatch to the Standard reports an unofficial rumor that Japanese troops moved large guns to 203 meter hill overlooking Port Arthur harbor. The note cites renewed assaults, possible breaches, and tunneling from Laotie gorge as Japanese forces press toward decisive attacks.
In Christiania the finance minister raised a loan proposal from 7.5 million to 10 million dollars. An extra 2.5 million will be reserved for use when the country is in distress, a measure described as a potential war fund. Members pressed for details, but the minister would not elaborate.
News confirms Japanese capture of Two Hundred and Three-Meter hill and Russian attempts to retake it. General Stoessel vows to hold out to the last man, while ships at Port Arthur suffer damage and aim to block any breakout. Debate about reinforcing with the Black Sea fleet resurfaces amid treaty concerns.
Elverton Chapman, 25, of New York City, died after leaping from a Carlton Hotel third floor landing into the vestibule. He arrived with his valet last Saturday and, after dressing for dinner Monday, slipped the banister and fell three floors amid a crowd as the band played. Doctors rushed him to his room but he died within minutes.
Prominent New York financiers and merchants organize the first night and day bank and safe deposit company with capital stock of 250000 and a working surplus of 250000. The bank aims to provide cash access at any hour for travelers and emergencies, with Oakleigh Thorne favored to be president.
Secretary of War Taft and his party sent word that they would reach Pensacola aboard the cruiser Columbia on December 10. He plans to depart December 14 for Washington and rest of stay here is being prepared with entertainment for the distinguished visitors.
Washington reports for the year ended June 30 1904 internal revenue receipts reached 232 904 604 with collection costs at 8 9 percent and a projected 230 000 000 for 1905. Distilled spirits rose to 189 505 214 gallons while tobacco declined and beer output grew. Major spirit producers were Illinois Kentucky Indiana and Ohio. top fermented liquor states included New York and Pennsylvania. The note on wood alcohol warns of tax and regulatory gaps and calls for legislative action to equalize taxation with ethyl alcohol.
Washington begins the second session of the Fifty-eighth Congress with routine opening proceedings led by President Pro Tempore Frye and Speaker Cannon. The opening day will honor deceased senators Hoar and Quay with adjournment, while the session charts a full calendar through March 4, 1905, focusing on annual appropriation bills and numerous new measures.
The state election board canvassed Indiana votes showing Roosevelt with a 93,944 plurality. Totals: Republican 368,289. Democrat 274,345. Prohibition 23,496. People's 2,444. Socialist 12,013. Socialist Labor 1,598. total 682,185.
Senator Fairbanks of Rhode Island was at the White House in conference with the president. Senators Aldrich and Depew also called to pay respects to the president.
CAPE TOWN The body of the late president of the Transvaal republic Paul Kruger lies in state in the Huguenot Memorial Building where daily crowds visit to view the bier and pay respects to the national figure.
A farmer named A. A. Boyce from near Trenton Missouri describes severe kidney related pain and backache that left him unable to work. After taking Doan's Kidney Pills, the pain gradually disappeared and he recovered enough to stop using the medicine. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
A reflective line from the Chicago Tribune notes that men who have no religion outside their creed may find no heaven beyond their own imagination, underscoring the link between faith and afterlife beliefs.
The New York publication will draw attention with Thomas W. Lawson’s Brenzed Finance and strong fiction by Heath Tarkington O Henry Elizabeth Jordan Lindsay Denison Inez Haynes Gillmore and Hart Caine. Henry Van Dyke contributes Is the World Growing Better an article on peace and goodwill and the spread of kindness worldwide.
England shows a higher marriage rate of 15 per 1000, while most countries range 7 to 10 per 1000. Romania records the highest birth rate at 39 per 1000 and the highest death rate at 27.7 per 1000, with Sweden having the lowest marriage rate at 9 per 1000.
The Cuban soil is described as highly productive with large cabbages weighing about twenty pounds. All vegetables do well, radishes mature in fourteen to eighteen days after sowing, lettuce in five weeks, corn yields three crops per year, and sweet potatoes grow year round.
A Success Magazine quote urges readers to resist letting age govern appearance and mindset. It argues the body ages through mind's constant suggestions and calls for a decisive personal mindset shift to stay youthful.
A redstart is noted to eat 600 ales per hour and a blackcap removed 2000 green flies from a rose bush in a greenhouse in a few hours. A wren feeds its young thirty six times per hour.
A letter from Alabama praises Postum as a coffee substitute for sour stomach and nervousness. It describes children aged four and a half and two and a half years thriving on Postum with milk, cream, and no medicines. The advertisement claims Postum benefits adults and children, and invites readers to look for The Road to Wellville in the package.
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