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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1901
Page
1
The Minnesota senate, with amendments, passes Chilton’s oil prohibition on marriage for epileptics and other affected groups and requires medical certification for all marriage license applicants.
The King and Queen of Italy bring to Rome a tortoise and gold cradle used for King Victor Emmanuel as a baby. An Erroll family possession also features a carved serpent and dove cradle symbolizing wisdom and harmlessness. American farmers received nearly $200 million more in 1900 for eight crops compared with 1899, with corn and hay driving the gain.
The writer notes a poet’s arrow lost and found in an oak and warns against careless firearms use echoed by Adirondack guides urging legislative action. It questions the spread of dangerous bullets, then shifts to inventors with Edison and Thomson leading patents, arguing for national recognition of enduring contributions to progress.
A long battle on the Chinwee front near Shanal Province ends with German and French forces sustaining over thirty casualties. Chinese troops retreat into Shansi but refuse surrender. The main German and French body withdraws, holding the passes into Shanal as foreign troops prepare potential further moves. Passes into Shanal remain under enemy control.
Elkhorn Wisconsin April 23 The new comet seen at Cape of Good Hope on the 83rd morning was observed yesterday at Yerkes Observatory Williams Bay by Professor K B Front Wo e. Twenty minutes before sunrise the comet appeared about fifteen degrees north of the sun plainly visible to the naked eye with orange color two tails of streamers prominent though head nucleus is faint. It stayed visible for about fifteen minutes after sunrise.
Edward Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee, states William J. Bryan is likely to be a Nebraska governor candidate next year. Rosewater believes Bryan would win a Democratic legislature and may seek the U.S. Senate, while not aiming for the presidential nomination in 1904. In Topeka the Populist State Central Committee backs a straight ticket for 1904 with 93 percent favoring it and 7 percent preferring Populists join Democratic primaries and control that party machinery.
A Beaumont to New Orleans telegram reports talks among twenty firms to form a single powerful concern with names tied to Pittsburg Beaumont Ft Worth Dallas and Chicago. Opinions differ on whether the Standard Oil link benefits or harms the merger effort.
After overnight deliberation the jury found James Callahan not guilty of kidnapping Edward Cudahy Jr. Judge Baker harshly rebuked the panel for its verdict and Callahan showed relief. Police plan to urge withdrawal of a $6000 reward for Pat Crowe, while $50,000 reward for conviction of three men remains in effect.
Chicago April 29. Letters from maids widows and grass widows flood Northwestern University professor Alzie R Crook with marriage proposals after he publicly claimed he never swore drank smoked or kissed. An intimate friend says Crook is not angry at the women but humiliated by undergraduates gossip.
A special expedition led by Capt. Chase of the 21st Infantry burned Gen. Caillee's arsenal and supply camp near Manila. Four rebels captured, fourteen men taken prisoner, and a large cache of correspondence found. Two soldiers drowned. A $10,000 bounty was placed on Capt. Edward N. Jones Jr. of the 8th Infantry.
A Cape Town dispatch reports 25 men of the Prince of Wales Light Horse held 400 Boers at bay for eight hours fifteen miles from Kroonstad. Fourteen Boer deaths, a man killed and a slight loss on the British side. The British surrendered only after ammunition ran out. Boers confiscated arms and personal effects before releasing them.
The official programme for the President's Western journey was released detailing a party of forty including the President and Mrs McKinley. It lists cabinet members, aides, reporters, and railway officials accompanying the President. Highlights note long railroad jumps from San Antonio El Paso 624 miles and Chicago Buffalo 540 miles with Rock Island Moline leg short, Leadville highest point, seven car palatial train inspected.
The Parker suit, filed in St Louis Circuit Clerk’s office, seeks to contest Rolla Wells’s mayoral victory. It lists seven counts alleging fraudulent and irregular ballots, improper counting, rejected Parker ballots, and thousands of false registrations, claiming many precincts had no legal election due to ineligible election officials.
Washington April 29 The administration has secured opinions from Senate leaders across parties to guide talks on a new canal treaty to replace Hay-Paunsettie The aim is a two thirds ratification while satisfying Britain A neutrality clause may be acceptable and two drafts are planned by late June after Hay returns from the West Final results likely not before autumn Berne April 29 A Berne amateur Adolphe Gartner claims discovery of color photography secret linked to bath process in a simple method discovered by accident
Will Kéneate Eleven. The Sedgwick sailed from San Juan de Puerto Rico on Friday evening for New York with nineteen Porto Rican youths onboard. They are bound for education in the United States including the Government Indian Training School at Carlisle, Pa. The Government will resume expenses for the eleven ardents. Captain John H. Goldman, a yachtsman who funded his way through the Missouri University, is noted as a governor in a Philippine province.
The State Board of Agriculture releases a 1909 yearbook showing tobacco at 4474 acres yielding 603 pounds per acre at 7 cents a pound. Peaches total 148,079 bushels at 70 cents per bushel. Wool clip 2,495,121 pounds at 20 cents. Beef cattle marketed 462,197 head, avg weight 1125 pounds, value $4.25 per hundredweight. Cholera reported in 29 counties.
A gasoline explosion at the Palace stables on Main Street in Quincy burned the building and most contents including hay harness and sixty four vehicles. Owner Henry Wiskirchen estimates nine thousand dollars loss, fully insured. Dr Grant Irwin residence damaged five hundred to one thousand dollars, fully insured. Twenty four horse rigs damaged one thousand to two thousand dollars, some insured. Stable employee William Williams suffered severe burns while refilling a lamp.
A second arrest in the Jackson County blackmail plot against wealthy Sout Murray Dean follows a confession by Frank Lynch. William Benson is jailed as part of the widening conspiracy. Officers believe the group also attempted to wreck the Mobile and Ohio fast mail and extort others, including a Fountain Bluff merchant. The accused are farmers with previously solid reputations.
State's Attorney A E Somers and Harrisburg authorities vow to stop illicit liquor sales. J H Kirkham a restaurant keeper was arrested on multiple counts, bond posted but he skipped, later reports say Elizabethtown Sheriff captured him then he escaped. Adductments target Codlieb Wiedeman and Pete Altinger. warrants issued for others. A mob in Springfield burned tents at Reservoir Park for smallpox patients. two tents damaged beyond repair. In Murphysboro, Rolla Robinson, 15, won 1000 damages from John Henry Jr for losing an eye after an accidental strike with a rat. Perry Dunmire blade-cut injuries. arms severed by static-cutter, expected recovery. Knox Beloit debate on labor unions at Galesburgfel, Knox wins against Beloit with judges unanimous, crowd of union members in attendance.
A sweeping roundup notes potential Hill railroad expansion to Southern California, a Canadian charter for an Independent Pacific Coast line, and Tehuantepec Railway versus canal debates. It covers a Prussian wheat slump, royal rumors in Lisbon, a monument for actor C. L. Girard in Australia, and Frisco rail circulars about St Louis to North Arkansas. It also mentions European tours, vaults used for Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Dawson Klondike expectations, and military relocations from Manila to San Francisco.
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