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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1901
Page
1
The highest medicaments paid to a Bristol blind physician Dr Geile brought him wealth as a cured and affluent knee disease patient rewarded him. The patient’s account rose by £60,000 through the electric treatment arrangement.
A storage reservoir with capacity to water 150 000 acres will be built by New York capitalists on the Verde river about 50 miles north of Phoenix Arizona. The project costs 2 000 000 dollars and includes a dam 386 feet long at the base 1250 feet at the crest and 150 feet high.
In Poland the rewards of literature are notable as novelist Henry Sienkiewicz receives a chateau and estate for his silver jubilee. He enjoys hunting and his Warsaw home walls display trophies, some from Africa.
A project envisions a Paris temple where the handsomest women from nations would be salaried and shown in costumes under famed artists. The plan implies ongoing recruitment due to temptations of good marriages causing frequent exhibitor turnover.
The anthracite coal trade forecasts a record year with about 10,000,000 tons more produced than in 1900. Last year’s production was 45,107,484 tons, with 47,666,000 in 1899 and 41,889,800 in 1898. Nine months into this year shipments totaled 40,209,786 tons, up from 34,202,710 in the same period last year, a rise of 6,107,076 tons.
A Philadelphia pro poses a 1000 foot suspended balloon voyage to cross the Atlantic. Prof Samuel A King, with 403 ascensions, says the trip could be made safely and is ready to attempt the feat for science at any time.
A 15 year old girl in Vienna met a fypsry woman who foretold she would wear a cornet. Two years later she wed her guardian M. Modjeska and they dismissed the prophecy. After his death she remarried Count Bozenta Chiopowski three years later, and the crown prophecy was fulfilled.
Germany leads world tobacco demand with cigars and cigarettes booming. Last year imports reached about 22 million dollars with the US supplying over a third. Cigarette consumption in Germany rose to 386 tons, about five times higher than a decade ago. Also a landmark suit against Lyons restaurant concerns a patron who lost false teeth after biting a mutton pie with a hidden button causing damage and distress.
The article notes wild dogs cannot bark while Eskimo dogs dingoes and wolves whine or howl. It claims dogs' bond with humans grown the barking call and mentions brain sizes with jackal 13 ounces collie 29 ounces fox hound near that. A Milan lodging house story reports clerks using rooms for 670% cents weekly with strict hours and self serve kitchens.
In 1762 Thomas Dimsdale journeyed to St Petersburg to vaccinate Empress Catherine. He stayed under a week and was paid £12,000 plus a life pension of £500 a year. Similar lavish sums were claimed by Dr Butler for vaccinating six Indian rajahs, each paid handsomely for a single day’s work.
A rapid collection reports Mark Twain smoking thousands of cigars yearly and many curiosities from science, industry, and science politics. It notes kings, researchers, and officials with numbers on windmills, measles cures, and railway electricity trials.
Detroit reports the Wabash rail line collision near Seneca Michigan involved two passenger trains, the Continental limited and a westbound immigrant car train. Early estimates claimed up to 150 killed or injured with reports of 80 dead, others say totals may be lower. Debris and burned cars, engines 4 and 13, and investigations by Coroner Hamilton begin as officials assess losses and numbers of Italians aboard.
London observers reported a peaceful Buller Sunday as thousands gathered along the Thames embankment with banners and a large Buller portrait. Police guarded the route to the war office while a plaster bust of Gen Buller was violently rejected at Charing Cross. Speeches at Fyde Park voiced broad sympathy for the general.
A Chinese government official plans an illustrated book for widespread circulation to show the empire the court bears responsibility for the Boxer uprising and to warn against repeating the humiliation. Christians rise at Kino Chow as the bow and arrow cease to be official arms and guns replace them per imperial edict read at Canton military exams.
A Dec 2 blaze at the Creamery Package Manufacturing Co supply house in Omaha caused $75,000 in damages. Lieut M. J. Cuff, George Trexeler, and J. Greenman sustained serious injuries after a wall collapse. Cuff was pulled from debris by comrades. Fire began from a falling wall. five stories high, gas-tank risk spotted but flames contained.
Reports from Mexico City on December 2 indicate the Pan American congress may extend its duration only if committee reports withstand plenary debate. Senator Davis proposes a Pan American railway with a neutrality declaration prompting sharp South American resistance and warnings of national sovereignty sacrificing.
Manila reports a shift toward Mexican currency as the peso parity with gold tightens. Ide warns of formal changes, banks charge 6 to 8 percent on exchange, stores accept two Mexican dollars per gold dollar, and American paper demands high premiums. Local officials seek congress authority to act amid unrest.
Five members of the Burke family perished in a house fire at Gwin Station three miles north of Altoona Pennsylvania. Mary Burke 42 and children Adam 16 Mary E Joanna 11 Joseph Victor and Carl Burke husband and surviving. The husband escaped with severe injuries. Fire started after Mrs Burke awoke to dense smoke and alarmed her husband.
Washington lawmakers push bills to acquire Valley, Fore and Hahn holdings for a national park. Governor and representative discuss funding of two hundred nine thousand dollars for park purposes amid a separate fatal shooting where a farmer, Thomas Wats, was shot by a son who was arrested and claimed self defense.
Berlin reports Count Von Bülow introducing a tariff bill that ignites the greatest parliamentary clash since empire birth. Despite internal opposition, the government argues the timing amid industrial hardship justifies higher food prices. The debate references America and bread costs as rallying points for manufacturers and socialists alike.
Alfred Brager and John Halloran aboard the King and Brunette tell how their tow steamer Wetmore drove ashore on Rabbit Island two miles below Tobermay light in snow. Twenty seven crew members swam to shore as rescuers arrived. Wetmore and Brunette likely total losses. sailors sent to Wharton and Collingwood with U.S. consul aid.
Manila papers received at the war department allege two deserters planned the massacre of Company I, Ninth Infantry, on Samar. Deserters supplied uniforms, and rumors say Ninth Cavalry deserters support insurgent clashes across Batangas. Reports also mention Capt Benjamin F. Tilley being acquitted by a Samoa naval court.
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