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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1902
Page
1
Dr A S Sanderson dentist locates in Dalton offering full and partial sets of teeth dental fillings gold and silver. Short notice work with prices reasonable and guaranteed satisfaction. Office in Pioneer Block contact listed.
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent cites a Toledo street label Calle del Diablo Pertence al Ayuntamiento translating to The Devil Belongs to the Municipal Council. The odd phrasing highlights historic urban naming in Spain.
At Liscard Cheshire a room holds hundreds of picture frames from leather to tiger bones with frames nested by size to cover the surface. In Berlin at an international tuberculosis conference Dr Obertuschen urged teachers with consumption to receive sanatorium treatment and be withheld from duty until infection danger passes, while their salaries should continue during illness.
Report from near Bougle Algiers describes a mountain with hundreds of monkeys and thousands of rats. A cyclone raged there recently. the monkeys clung to trees while rats were swept into the town, seen by superstitious locals as a punishment from above.
A survey of mortuary bellrooms in German cities cites no recorded bell tolls. A Dutch postcard contains a squeaking crying doll in a baby’s cot. An English game called tap-nose replaces coin tosses with nose taps to decide who pays for drinks.
The International Society of Arboriculture plans to plant 25 000 catalpa trees in Southern Illinois to supply cross ties. They have contracts with 20 railroads to grow orchards. An orchard near Duquoin Illinois will serve the Illinois Central Railroad.
A novel method in the east uses building columns as air ducts. Columns are hollowed and connected at the base by a large fang to blow heated air upward. Openings on each floor regulate circulation for warm distribution.
Preparations for the American Transpacific cable from San Francisco to the Philippines progress smoothly. The route spans 8 000 miles via Hawaii and the Caroline Islands, with sections at depths of 16 000 feet. Construction used 12 000 tons steel wire and 4 300 tons hemp and tar, 2 308 tons jute, 1 980 tons copper and 1 260 tons gutta percha.
An old skipper notes seabirds obtain fresh water by drinking rain. He recalls birds at sea near storms, hovering under clouds and catching rain drops. They can sense rain squalls from far away and may endure long periods without water, though exact limits are unknown.
A large delegation of farmers under the German Agricultural Society arrives in April for a three month tour to study U S methods. The private group models its program on the U S Department of Agriculture and aims to implement similar practices in Germany. It has just completed a vast new building costing over 3600000 to house the forthcoming bureau.
An Indian legend recounts a prideful buzzard refused to eat carrion. While other birds scavenged, he boasted that nothing was good enough. The buffalo helped others punish him, stripping his topknot and most head feathers, teaching him to lose his pride.
A collage of miscellaneous facts cites wages, sugar yields, castle histories, labor unions, fish populations, emotions, and various global notes. It covers Eng land painter wages, Puget Sound fishermen unions, Swiss sanitariums, and imperial curiosities, with numerous statistics and curios.
Former speaker of the U S House of Representatives Thomas Brackett Reed died in Washington at 12 10 am Saturday after Brights disease and uraemia. He passed from life peacefully with wife and daughter at his side. Reed was born in Portland Maine October 18 1839 and had a long political career including 23 years in Congress and tenure as speaker noted for his strict control of the House and sharp precise parliamentary rulings. His body will be taken to Portland for simple funeral ceremonies.
President Ramsey of the Wabash Railroad Co reports the ultimatum to striking shopmen accepted. After seven weeks out, workers in Springfield Fort Wayne and Moberly will return Tuesday morning. A three-city striker committee met in Decatur and recommended settlement, though not with final authority. mass meeting planned to endorse the report.
Three dead including Max Manthey and his two children Hedwig age 9 and Edna age 3 after a fire gutted their store and dwelling at Colgate five miles from Menominee Falls Wisconsin. Six others injured in the Sunday night blaze. Local reports indicate a sudden, devastating blaze destroyed the Manthey home and business.
Chicago reports a heavy exodus of northwest and middle west Scandinavians returning to the motherland for Christmas. A special Chicago to New York train carried 600 excursionists bound for Norway and Sweden, decorated with U S and Nordic flags. Most will return to the United States and many plan to bring relatives on the return trip.
The tenth annual six day bicycle race begins at Madison Square Garden New York with eight thousand spectators. Teams from France Germany Belgium Alsace California and the United States compete in a 142 hour race where no rider may ride more than 12 hours in any 24 hour period.
Gen Bates argues restoration of the army canteen would reduce discipline breaches and fines. He cites paymaster records showing civil fines rose from 462,608 in a year with canteen to 632,125 the year after abolition among about 70,000 enlisted men. He attributes the rise to unregulated liquor traffic.
Boston Devt trial of Wilfrid Blondin on the charge of wife murder begins to take definite shape. It is shown that Mrs Blondin was killed by strangulation and her head cut off after death with a sharp instrument likely a jack knife. Attorney General Parker introduces evidence of the woman’s identity and a letter from her niece Miss Casey returned with the endorsement one to Canada in Blondin’s handwriting.
Judge Humphrey in the Springfield circuit court enjoined 40 bucketshop keepers in the southern district from obtaining receiving selling or distributing Chicago board of trade market quotations and from aiding others in distribution. Defendants must answer by January 1 1903.
The British steamer Darlington arrived at Savannah carrying Captain Rasmussen and crew from the Norwegian bark Ruth. The Ruth, en route from Demarara to Greenock, was wrecked in late October after 39 days adrift with dwindling provisions and near starvation before rescue.
Schenectady New York December 5 Supreme Court Justice Wesley C Howgcd has granted an injunction restraining Painters Union No 62 from treating William Potter as not a union member Potter was expelled for militia membership and the injunction halts further action.
The Picker Manufacturing Co. announces its failure in Lowell Massachusetts with liabilities listed above 300000 dollars. The firm produced all grades of knitted cotton underwear and faced a heavy financial setback last night.
In Cleveland the Likly Rocket plant fire on Case Avenue and Hamilton Street claims Fireman Patrick Joyce of engine 14 and injures four others, as a wind toppled bricks on the third floor forcing evacuation. Chief Delaney and Lieutenant McKenna survived by escaping to the street.
Columbus reports the state board of agriculture foresees a favorable year for Ohio farming. Wheat harvests are expected to exceed 90 percent of average, with growing crops in satisfactory condition and improvements since two months earlier. No county shows abnormally weak conditions. Hessian fly damage is minor and not expected to greatly weaken the crop.
Columbus report says W. W. O Hara the turf commissioner surrendered to federal authorities after being indicted by a U S grand jury for using the mails to promote a scheme to defraud. He ran a Cincinnati staff commission business until last June and allegedly diverted large sums to race track investments with promised high returns. He had evaded federal pursuit for six months.
Governor Nash granted a pardon to Frank Kostyo who was sentenced to life in the Cleveland prison for the 1895 murder of Damiel Giering. Kostyo, age 19, was described as a tool of others in the plan involving Louis Dehenes who sought to win a woman’s favor. The killing occurred at Shaker’s Bridge with involvement by John Méliner and Kostya.
The Ohio Supreme Court opinion in the attorney general versus Alva A. Hall of Guernsey County holds the winter term extension of the county clerk's term from August to January unconstitutional. Clerks elected henceforth will serve under the existing law.
Arcaniia Dec 9 An accident near Laura about 10 miles east of here killed five men and seriously injured one. George Corner 50 and his two sons 20 and 22 were hauling hogs when their wagon was struck by a Big Four engine at a crossing. The father was killed instantly, one son died about an hour later, the other son had legs broken and was not in dangerous condition.
Five workmen were burned after an explosion at the Newbury mills of the American Steel and Wire Co in Cleveland. A caldron of white hot metal reacting with snow caused the blast, wrecking the caldron and throwing workers to the ground while clothing caught fire.
Cleveland experts announce a new suburban electric railway extending about 20 miles from Rocky River to Lorain with plans to reach Elyria and enter Cleveland later. The Ridge road will run close to the Cleveland Elyria Western line parallel and four and a half miles away.
A Piwin Islandle work train and a Ohio engine and caboose collided one mile east of Coshocton early Thursday. Engineer Veo of Toledo died. Conductor Armstrong of Columbus was seriously hurt. Seven trainmen injured include J. O. McCormack Toledo W. Ophowakee Toledo W W Blake Dennison J C Lyon Newomnerstown and George Nichols Columbus. The cause is not yet determined.
Britain and Germany present ultimatums to Venezuela demanding settlement of Revolution era claims and loan interest. Caracas reports noted envoys departed for La Guaira with ships Retribution and Vineta, as legations close and no fixed deadline is given for response. The Venezuelan government dismisses Anglo American show of force as bluff.
A Santa Fe California limited passenger train derailed at Rosiville Missouri causing the death of Engineer Samuel Wine of Argentine Kansas and fireman Alexander Haviland of Topeka. Passenger John McKean of New York was injured along with three waiters and others. The wreck followed a derailment on an open switch after the engine had passed a separate section at high speed. Twenty three passengers were later moved to an accommodation train to continue their journey.
A Minnesota & International passenger train chair car left the track in Bemidji Minnesota last evening and rolled down an embankment. No fatalities but many passengers sustained injuries including Mrs W D Smith and her three young children with the youngest head injuries. The cause remains unknown as the car came off on a slow curve and wreckage followed.
A head on crash between a passenger train and local freight on the Pennsylvania line in Youngstown results in two deaths and two injuries. The dead are John Pilmer of Ashtabula and Frank Smith of Ashtebula, both aboard the passenger train. Conductor George McKinley of New Castle Pa is injured along with freight engineer Albert C Kaiser. The freight crew failed to flag the passenger train in time.
In Nashville Tennessee on December 9 a blast at Baker's Hill 13 miles north of the city on the Louisville and Nashville railroad killed two men outright and seriously injured many more. Officials say the victims were at work in a cut being built by the railroad crew. Communication is limited due to the remote location and details are sparse.
M W Savage of Minneapolis bought the famous unbeaten pacer Dan Patch from M E Sturgis of New York for 60000 dollars. The price is reported as the highest ever paid for a pacer.
Frederick W. Job resigns from the state board of arbitration to become secretary of the Employers Association of Chicago. The newly organized group, backed by Chicago’s leading employers, aims to unit labor troubles and draw national attention. Job notes plans remain private for now.
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