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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1902
Page
6
Judge John J Jackson, a long time West Virginia and federal district court justice, has served forty years. At 77, he remains active and vigorous and says he expects to die in the harness, though that may be far off.
John M. Creed of Berkley California learned a Ohio woman posed as his widow and drew his pension for years. She is widow of a different John M. Creed who did serve, making him ineligible. Suspected that others used similar fraud to obtain pensions.
Two Barings hold now four peer ages two earldoms Northbrook and Cromer two baronies Ashburton and Revelstoke. And the founder of the family, like the first Rothschild, came from Germany. He was a Lutheran minister who settled with his son in Exeter about 200 years ago and started a cloth manufactory.
In 1900 W H Ketchum of Terre Haute Kansas suffers five months of back pain treated poorly until he uses Dodd's Kidney Pills. Six pills daily cure the soreness and he remains well for over a year. The ad cites other products and rural advertisements typical of the period.
Beginning March 1 1992 the Great Northern Railroad offers very low one way second class settlers tickets to most points on its main west of St Paul and Minneapolis. Rates from Chicago to Montana start at 23 dollars with higher costs to Washington. Tickets valid for ten days and may include stopovers west of Havre Montana with full land and climate information available from agents Max Bass and I I Whitney. Food for thought is sometimes supplied by the fish that gets away.
The ad extols Defiance starch as a lightening household aid, noting a 16 oz package for 10c and urging readers to have grocers stock it. It also mentions Magnetic Starch Co. of Omaha and includes a Garfield Tea Co. notice about remedies used by over three million families.
Kentucky congressman denounces what he calls European flunkeyism in comments on British policy during the Spanish American War. He faults Secretary Hay and urges shipping Lord Pauncefote home, criticizing official reception of Prince Henry and a proposed coronation visit.
The trial of W. E. West of Grand Forks Minn for killing Frank March concluded with an acquittal after a three weeks session in Ames.
Vienna February 15 The Nieus Wiener Journal publishes an unconfirmed rumor that Count Tolstoi is dead.
Delegate Flynn introduces legislation in Congress to create two additional judges in Oklahoma and to set territorial judicial salaries at five thousand dollars annually.
Senator Hoar offered an amendment to the Philippine tariff bill. It states no person in the Philippine islands shall be convicted of treason by any tribunal under U S authority unless two witnesses testify to the same overt act or confession in open court.
Officials of the St. Louis exposition board and prominent St. Louis men told the House committee on expositions that $800 600 is needed for the government exhibit, with a building cost around $450 000 and a possible $50 000 to $75 000 extra if the opening is rushed.
Austrian newspapers discuss the Anglo Japanese treaty and Russia's possible moves. Analysts think militant factions may spark disorders in Afghanistan while Moscow stays quiet until Japan and China act to drive out Europeans, leaving Russians secure in Manchuria. Some papers link the treaty release to Admiral Prince Henry's U S voyage and Britain's stance on German-US rapprochement.
Groton Mass February 14 The day at the Groton school ends with President Roosevelt leaving for Washington while son Theodore Roosevelt Jr. shows improvement. Doctors report the patient waking well and lungs clearing though pleuro pneumonia remains in the second stage.
The US cruiser Olympia under Captain Henry Lyman enters New York Harbor from Boston and drops anchor at Tompkinsville for the naval reception of Prince Henry. Afterward it will sail south to serve as flagship of Rear Admiral Higginson in the North Atlantic squadron in West Indian waters.
Harry Fields a taxi dermist at the state normal school was fined 125 dollars by Justice Hildebrant for shooting six quail. He plans to appeal claiming the killing was for scientific purposes.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones announced formal notice that new leases covering 480000 acres of Kiowa lands in Oklahoma bordering Texas will take effect April 17 after previous efforts to delay the date.
San Francisco report says the Adams American United States and Wells Fargo firms may combine into a single company. A private message indicates E. H. Harriman, president of the Southern Pacific, will become president of Wells Fargo Express at the next stockholders meeting.
The House unanimously approved a constitutional amendment for direct popular election of U.S. senators. It also passed a senate bill reimbursing Confederate officers and soldiers for lost side arms and baggage, with a $50,000 cap, a bill empowering the Spanish Claims Commission, and authorizing the White River Railroad to cross government lands in Arkansas. The session included bridge authorizations for Fort Gibson, St. Joseph, and river crossings for the Memphis, Helena and Louisiana railroad.
The Ohio House approved a measure penalizing parents who willfully deprive a sick child under 16 of care with fines from 31 to 200 dollars or up to six months in jail. The chamber also moved to appropriate 75000 dollars for a state exhibit at the St. Louis exposition and backed abandoning part of the Wabash and Erie canal in Paulding county with only two votes against.
Berlin Feb 14 The German Nautical Society of Hamburg passed a resolution urging widening of the Kiel canal which has reached its traffic capacity and can no longer handle increasing shipping.
The Association of German Swine Breeders gathered in Berlin to discuss a hog shortage for butchering. General secretary Herr Burkhart blamed unchecked American bacon and lard imports for dominating Germanys fattening industry and creating dependence on US hog markets.
Cattle receipts remained heavy with beef steers few and mostly butcher stock. Cows and heifers sold steady with good demand. bulls and calves mixed, stockers steady where weight and quality appeared. Hogs saw heavy receipts and slow sale with prices mostly lower. prime hogs at 8.30, typical weights 6.10 to 6.25, medium 5.90 to 6.14. Sheep and lambs remained active and steady. quality was fairly good and feeders sparse but demand was liberal.
The market shows cattle in various categories with prices ranging from calves at about $4 to heavy steers near $6.50 and hogs trading steady to lower before closing strong. Sheep and lambs move higher with western and native lambs noted plus yearlings and ewes in the mid single digits.
New York reports the Liberty Torch atop the bronze statue on Bedloe’s Island will be permanently extinguished. The lighthouse board says on March 1, 1902 the light will be discontinued due to lack of congressional funds. An electric plant remains unused while smaller lamps provide minimal illumination to passing mariners.
Seven men were killed and at least fourteen seriously injured when a fifteen ton boulder rolled onto the caboose of a work train on the Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf railroad twenty miles west of Little Rock at 1 AM.
Crete Nebraska February 15 E F Stephens of Crete received a bronze medal for the Nebraska apples exhibit at the Parish exposition. The medal bears inscriptions in French and English noting Exposition Universelle and Re publique Francaise.
London reports that under secretary Lord Cranborne will tell the house of commons that Lord Pauncefote acted only as dean of the diplomatic corps in calling the April 14, 1898 meeting and did so at others’ urging and on his own initiative.
At a public dinner in France honoring chemist Chevreul on his 100th birthday his son, a 67-year-old justice department official, corrected a slip in his father's anecdote. Chevreul then sharply told the son to be quiet, saying Hush youngster when I am talking, and the son remained silent.
The shah is described as an absolute monarch with vast control over lives and goods. Recent shahs have accumulated large private fortunes, and the present ruler is said to possess about 25 to 30 million dollars, mainly in diamonds.
Professor Rudolph Virchow, aged eighty, will celebrate his birthday in Berlin on Saturday October 12. He will personally receive delegates and congratulatory addresses from numerous scientific bodies both domestic and foreign. Despite his age he remains vigorous in thought.
Jesse Haney, founder of the New York Picayune in the 1850s, is dead. His work launched a lineage of comic publications that influenced later titles in American publishing.
Miss Anne Tracy Morgan daughter of J Pierpont Morgan is a systemat ic business woman keeping books of her expense and income and overseeing all her investments herself.
Spencer B. Mackey, a 24 year old Black man, serves as chief train dispatcher for the Colorado & Northwestern Railroad at Boulder Colorado. He is highlighted as capable and rising in the industry.
The president meets many visitors in the reception room and often speaks in a clear voice. A Supreme Court justice arrived with his son and whispered to the president. The president replied publicly that promotions must be on merit, leaving the justice and his son to depart quickly.
A Morristown New Jersey letter carrier is granted eighteen patent claims for a recording mechanism in post boxes. The device locks boxes to prevent nighttime tapping and uses an electrical time lock linked to the post office to allow morning access and record opening times.
A collection of aphoristic lines contrasts virtue and beauty with insight and folly. It notes how unlearning can lead to learning, happiness links to the mind, love as wisdom for fools, and amusing outcomes from rival pursuits.
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