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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1902
Page
12
Vincennes relations report illness in Cairo and a potential transfer to Nice while Senator Beveridge heads to Indianapolis. Roosevelt blocks a planned Indiana appointee. A pension refusal from a Civil War veteran and Indiana staff departures mark a busy Washington to Indiana travel period with civic and diplomatic chatter.
Forecast for Sunday and Monday calls for rain and colder conditions in Indiana with general fair weather in the southwest. Illinois shows rain or snow in the north and fair to brisk days in the south. Ohio expects rain Sunday, colder in the southwest, Monday fair with snow in the northeast and brisk winds shifting from east to west overnight. Local observations note cloudy conditions and temperatures around mid forties.
Shipping news lists arrivals and departures of vessels at New York Cherbourg Havre and other ports. Kaiser Im Der Grosse from Bremen and Moltke from New York arrive. sailings include Minnetonka London Lucania Path Vaderland Noordam Ethiopa and others bound for Liverpool Hamburg Rotterdam and Halifax.
Blizzard rages from Cheyenne to Lincoln with snowdrifts up to thirteen feet. Rotary and wedge plows clear tracks as trains run behind schedule. reports of blockages and stock losses mount across Wyoming Colorado Nebraska and Missouri.
British cruiser Indefatigable captures Venezuelan schooner Julia en route to Higuerete. The cargo belongs to German firm Blohm. Tribune seizes French flag vessels Mercedes and Immaculada at Laguayra for allegedly lacking blockade notification. UK and US cruisers Retribution and Albany deploy. Troude heads toward Willemstad to avoid showing force. German charge d affaires Pilgrim-Baltazzi visits. Madame von Pilgrim-Baltazzi ill. Caracas fears panic as blockade effective notice disrupts markets.
The British sloop Fantome, sent to gate the Orinoco, ran aground near Barrancas 120 miles southwest of Port of Spain. Efforts to refloat are underway though the river's fall may keep her aground for months.
The London notice proclaims a blockade of Venezuelan ports Laguayra Carenero Guanta Cumana and Carupano and the Orinoco mouths effective Dec 2 with grace periods for ships. Berlin reports a Venezuelan coast blockade with ports Porto Cabello Maracaibo under blockade beginning Dec 2 and discusses arbitration between Germany Great Britain and the United States.
Berlin December 9 Chancellor Von Bulow was interviewed today. It was reported that a statement from the official source could not be confirmed in the current briefing.
The German steamship Siberia will depart Hamburg on December 23 carrying a full crew for the captured Venezuelan cruiser Restaurador, along with ammunition coal and several new officers for the German cruiser squadron in Venezuelan waters.
In Logansport Indiana Earl Shortridge was fatally shot during a general fight. John McDaniels fired the fatal shot and was later wounded in the leg by a fellow brawler. Police arrested McDaniels as crowds were dispersed.
Police raided a rear room at Reser's saloon on West New York Street last night at 10 o'clock. Nine Black individuals and one white man were arrested. The white man identified himself as William H. Craig and faces charges related to keeping the game in operation.
Naturalized Chinese in Evansville faced trial under the Chinese exclusion act for alleged lack of proper registration papers. Assistant U.S. Attorney J. M. Lafollette noted ministers and citizens intervened to prevent deportation. Cheong, about ten years in the U.S. and three in Evansville, had become Americanized, joined a Baptist church, and even cut his queue. He claimed arrival papers in San Francisco, voted locally after naturalization, and faced potential danger if deported. He was discharged with a certified copy for future defense.
Trustees of the institute will meet tomorrow afternoon to prepare a public statement and plan the collection of arsenal subscriptions. About 4 000 subscriptions exist from pennies to 10000 with subscribers of 5000 or more to be inscribed on a bronze tablet. donors include Hugh J McGowan George T McCulloch and A J Brunt each at 10000 and four others at 1000.
Sam Davis of Carson City recounts a Mackay anecdote about John Late Peters's widow with a dying joke on charity. The tale centers on a proposed $500 relief split, a charitable yet sly plan to front funds and conceal who provided the money, reflecting Mackay era humor and ethics.
A collection of stories recounts John Mackay and associates orchestrating deceitful generosity. Mackay fabricates charity, causing tears and gratitude from victims, while planning further schemes. A embezzlement rumor prompts the banker to expose a careless pose. A widow and a poor woman are briefly assisted by fake aid and a pocketed windfall.
The London Lancet reviews Dr Albert Moll’s pamphlet on Christian Science noting it cannot remove anatomical changes and will not treat infectious fevers as Mrs Eddy forbids. It contrasts faith influence with science, calling Christian Science a swindle and linking it to occultism and Gnosticism in critical terms. The piece discusses mental influence on illness and limits of biotherapy.
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