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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
1
Belfast city corporation approves installing shelters for consumptives in a public park. Pre test meetings are under way as Gen. C A Whittier, once head of U S customs Manila, returns via Liberia after a two week rail crossing.
The city received 1 636 274 dollars worth of bananas in the last year, with 2 862 000 bunches from the British West Indies, 1 152 000 from Costa Rica, 877 000 from Colombia, and 355 from Cuba. No duties were paid.
The crop figures show Alabama, Arkansas and South Carolina at about 1,000,000 bales of cotton worth $50 each, Georgia and Mississippi at 1,400,000 bales, and Texas at 2,400,000. Over half the cotton is grown west of the Mississippi. Japan planted 6,978,384 acres to rice in 1901, with 4,452,242 acres in barley and wheat. Average yields were 36.5 bushels per acre for rice, 22.3 for barley, and 18.4 for wheat.
A compact review notes Lord Salisbury's legacy including defeating home rule and keeping peace with France at Fashoda while Britain faced European involvement in the South African war. It contrasts this with rising US exports to the Dominion amid Canadian goods demand and British tariff preference.
The piece notes Britain consuming five million dollars in bananas yearly with three quarters from the Canary Islands and the West Indies supplying most of the rest over the past three years. It lists English import totals for 1902 1901 and 1900, and highlights several US female public officeholders including city treasurers in Colorado Wyoming Utah a woman clerk and recorder a Wyoming state superintendent of Indian schools and a Colorado state superintendent in office for a third term.
A New York magistrate proposes a relief fund for the wives and children left without support due to imprisonment. He argues that punishment should include consideration of the families, and that community welfare requires remedies beyond the wrongdoer’s penalty.
George R. Hill files for divorce claiming his wife refuses to live with him citing no biblical sanction for a second marriage. She had been married before, then after marrying Hill she fretted she violated the Lord's injunction. She urged him to leave and disappear.
A survey of varied notes includes Monday death counts, New York’s large Jewish population, British vessels manned by Chinese, 60 000 annual army recruits, golden wedding rarity, Lord Mount Edscombe as a top landscape gardener, and odd cures like baked oranges.
Carlisle Indians defeated Northwestern 28 to 0 in a snow-filled Chicago game as 3,000 spectators braved a blizzard. Absence of guard Phillips weakened Carlisle. he believed faster backs would have widened the margin.
Official notices at the Demmler mill of American Tin Plate Co announce the entire plant will start next Sunday at midnight. Employees are urged to meet Saturday morning to decide on the 20 percent pay reduction. Similar downsizing is offered at McKeesport Port Vue plant, with a weeklong start.
Washington November 26 leaders in the house refuse to adjourn the extra session until the Cuban bill is passed or rejected. Senate leadership understands this stance, suggesting no move to end the session before it lapses back on December 7.
In Lansing a jury after 12 hours of deliberation found ex Senator John Holbrook not guilty of attempted bribery of a talesman in the interest of EIR Sutton.
Compositor Robert Hale at the Government Printing Office shot and killed his wife yesterday and then took his own life. Hale had suspected his wife of involvement in a young woman’s death tied to a sanitarium operation. A newspaper report of the arrest of the doctor spurred the fatal act.
Maj. James E. Runcie of Havana testifies before the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Gen. Wood influenced a magazine article attacking Gen. Brooke and that Wood proposed the piece while they lived together in Santiago. Brooke later accuses Wood of insubordination and bypassing his superior in Santiago.
R. G. Dun & Co. reports in its Weekly Review of Trade that seasonable weather and holiday purchases boosted retail trade, with notable gains in heavy wearing apparel. Mills resume work amid idle capacity, wage reductions show working class cooperation, grain shipments rise as lake navigation ends, and railway earnings exceed last year by about 3.2 percent. Overall demand remains cautious with improved confidence but limited activity.
Probate Judge Cleveland announced the decree on the Philo S Bennett will. Executor William J Mryan had sought admission of two items, a sealed letter and an envelope, but both were excluded from probate. The will itself was admitted and ordered recorded.
Three deaths Sunday drive Butler Pennsylvania typhoid fever epidemic, with new cases reported daily. A public relief meeting raised 6208 dollars in under an hour as doctors and ministers mobilize. officials warn the worst may come and funds may not last until subsidence.
Washington reports figures from Daniel T. Phillips showing 1902 coal output in the United Kingdom 227,095,000 tons up 3,014,000. United States 268,685,000 tons up 6,84,000. Germany 107,446,000 tons down 1,103,000. France 2,574,000 tons with a decline. Belgium 29,769,000 tons up 556,000. Global known production about 700,000,000 tons. Employment totals: UK 787,700. US 455,954. Germany 448,000. France 150,057. Belgium 144,003. US worker output averages 539 tons per person vs 273 in the UK and 242 in Germany.
New York police detained Adolf Waltz a former servant of Mrs Harrison of Glenside near Philadelphia for the 200000 jewelry heist at Mrs Harrison s home during dinner on Thanksgiving Day. A pearl necklace valued at 15000 and many items were seized with two minor pieces remaining.
Providence reports the new cotton mills wage schedule reduces pay by one percent restoring two year old levels and goes into effect today. Thirty seven mills employing more than 17000 workers are affected. Louisville notes the northern coal miners strike has ended and work resumes today.
The last will and testament of Gen. Drake, ex governor of Iowa, was produced Sunday by the Des Moines consistory. He leaves his six children all his property except 359,000 to Drake University in Dog Momes. The will, dated 139? when he joined the consistory, was written in a single brief room by the member for his family duties.
Grand Rapids December report on ex City Attorney Lan t Salsbury naming a wide web of prominent figures in a six‑part water conspiracy. He testified with dates and sums paid to officials including Senator Burns and many aldermen, plus executives from newspapers and banks. The confession spurs a major public scandal as prosecutors push Burm s case forward while Come er disputes the claims.
New York December 1 A historic Academy of Music in Brooklyn the largest theatre in the borough was consumed by a fire Monday suspected to have been caused by an overheated event A roof collapse struck a neighboring saloon but no injuries were reported The estimated loss stands at 308000 dollars
In Quurthupge Missouri a mix house at the Independent Powder plant five miles southwest of Carthage exploded. Two mixers Lester Hidge and Bert Cobb were killed instantly and four other workers were seriously injured.
Cashel Francis B Wright was arrested December 1 in Chicago for embezzling $60,000 from the Fixred national bank of Lundee Illinois which closed November 22. He was brought to jail.
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