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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1904
Page
1
The public learns the department of commerce and labor role as Secretary Cortelyou investigates the Slocum disaster. Elijah Dowie boasted of world evangelization after a brief London trip, yet found it impossible to succeed in the great metropolis.
Across the world students in various regions report waning confidence in carrier pigeons used near Port Arthur. Many birds flying toward the czar's palace appear unreliable and prone to misdirection like parrots.
A gaunt woman at the World's Fair lifeboat demonstration scorns the breeches buoy, declaring she would rather drown than be saved by it as a passenger rides the apparatus on display.
Writers on sea power note that Japanese fleet fire on the left flank enabled infantry to pierce that section and win the battle. They concede a strong navy plays a key role in all branches of military art.
All the windows remain open in St Louis for every twenty four hour period unless a rainstorm drifts toward a specific window or windows. The message suggests visitors need not wait for warmer weather to attend the World's Fair.
A Philadelphia newspaper advocates extending the annual prize program for best essays on museum collections to the citys historical societies. The suggestion aims to encourage student research on local objects of interest and broaden engagement with Philadelphia history.
The fair is repaying what was borrowed, with electric and steam railways carrying crowds. Food and shelter are affordable, and the grand exposition deserves full appreciation by Americans and the world for its significance.
Russell Sage warned of vacation evils but politicians in Washington appear unfazed and remain focused on their terms. Officials reportedly plan to visit the World’s Fair when their time comes, while Sage lacks time and funds for such frivolity.
The text notes several Alpine post offices at 6000 to 7000 feet elevation and a summit letter box on Laugaud near 10 000 feet where a postman makes four daily collections. It suggests one office or a reminder could be found at the Pike during the World's Fair.
The author notes that a gentle people can become formidable fighters when driven by duty and principle. The passage suggests soldiers fight from conviction, and in that mindset are often successful, reflecting on Japanese wartime conduct.
The piece condemns the captain and officers responsible for the Slo cum disaster and accuses those who sent the boat out daily with thousands of excursionists lacking proper safety gear. It calls for public opinion to demand honest, capable inspectors who will perform duties without fear or favor.
Mary McCann a seventeen year old Irish girl who saved four children from the burning General Slocum in Long Island Sound is hailed for bravery. Working as a maitress at North Brothers Island she swam to the wreck four times returning each time with a child in her arms. She attempted a fifth trip before a doctor stopped her as exhaustion threatened her life. All in all, a fearless heroic rescue.
Robert McElrath of Denmark Illinois dies from milk sickness, sparking illness for all five children with two deaths. Zach Mulhall shoots three men near the World's Fair. A sheriff is killed on an Omaha train. Tokyo critics press Kamimura over Russian Vladivostok actions. Roosevelt visits Valley Forge and Washington memorial chapel. Colorado upholds inheritance tax. James Gentry fights in Japanese army. John Sullivan dies in New York. Philip Krantz survives Brooklyn Bridge jump. Bryan ordered to pay $75,000 dower. Skyrdlof reports Vladivostok return. Elijah Stone dies in Charlottesville. Kansas City building collapse injures several. St Louis wheat first arrival brings $1.03 per bushel.
The No 2 hoist at the Ontario mine near Park City Utah perished in a fire on the 20th, leaving 200 men jobless and causing an estimated loss of about 400000 dollars. Elsewhere Jacob Both was jailed in Lincoln Nebraska on charges of attempting to wreck the Denver flyer near Denton. In Ainsworth Nebraska two Ellis children were killed and another injured by a switch engine in Burlington yards. Pugilists Jeffries and Monroe secured 2500 each as guarantees for a San Francisco bout, with 2500 more to follow August 1. Far East reports say a Russian Japanese clash near Kai Ping with Kuropatkin in command. Confederate Day observed at the World’s Fair Missouri building with 500 attendees. By night of the 20th, 726 bodies from the General Slocum disaster were recovered with 326 still missing.
Mrs Nan Patterson pleaded not guilty when arraigned in the New York court of general sessions on the 21st for the murder of Caesar Young the bookmaker. Her counsel signaled an early trial demand and a motion for court direction.
Startling new testimony emerges as coroner questions U S inspector Lundberg about life preservers and hull. Bail posted to await next hearing while crews recover 112 more bodies, total 845 found with over 300 still missing.
In a June 22 storm near Hinton nine miles west of Columbia Missouri Mrs Pearl Alspaugh was struck by lightning while in her yard and died instantly as the current traveled from a tree to a clothes line above her. A nearby daughter was stunned but is expected to recover. Lightning also struck posts and trees around Columbia with no other fatalities reported.
A Tuesday melee at J. B. Mills Lumber Co. Crown City pits striking white workers against Black laborers who had filled in. Whites attacked the colored workers with stones and clubs. After two hours Sheriff Manning quelled the riot and jailed six white leaders.
The Daughter of the Confederacy organizes the first Illinois chapter in Alton under a Nashville charter. Twenty local women join to care for the North Alton Confederate burying grounds, with officers led by President Mrs J N Drummond and other vice presidents, secretary, and treasurer. The St Louis chapter prompted the move by raising funds for cemetery reclamation.
One man died and several were slightly injured in a crash in the terminal yards of the Illinois Central railroad at Carbondale. The Chicago limited passenger train rammed an engine, was derailed, and John Hamilton, a Memphis cigar-maker, was crushed between the engine and the baggage car. For five hours his body remained pinned amid the wreck while crowds viewed the scene.
Daniel G Burr aged 84, a survivor of Company H Fourth Regiment, who enlisted at Paris June 4 1846, held a solo reunion at Paris fair grounds for forty years. He read his company roll from his penned copy, meditated through the day, ate a picnic dinner alone, then rode back to town with a friend in the evening.
Mrs. Mary Farris aged resident of Belleville was arrested on a warrant by neighbor Mrs. Mary Marley charging her with pulling up 67 hills of young corn. At arraignment she admitted the act but said an evil spirit compelled her. She was fined $67 with the sentence stayed on good behavior.
G. H. Barbour, executive engineer for the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Co., has leased Springfield ground to install an intermediate station between St. Louis and Chicago. The unit will handle both commercial and newspaper business and should be operational within ten days.
Junius Meredith and John Barth, noted locals, dueled with pistols at the cafe entrance in Marion. Both were fatally wounded as they fired simultaneously, stirring intense town excitement and fear of further feuds spreading.
The Alton Light and Traction Company with one million dollars capital merges into the Alton Granite City and St. Louis Traction Company with three million dollars. The merger advances the plan to build the Alton to St. Louis electric line, now under construction.
Governor Yates appoints J. E. Mc Clure, editor of the Carlinville Democrat, to the board of commissioners of the Southern Illinois penitentiary at Chester to fill the vacancy caused by J. R. Blackburn's removal of Salem.
Gov. Yates commuted the sentence of Edward Lawson who was to be hanged at Belleville for the murder of Edward Lawson a one armed white man in East St. Louis last June. The sentence now stands as life imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The Hancock County board of supervisors unanimously adopted a resolution to submit to county voters a proposition to bond the county for a new courthouse costing $100,000.
The Centralia board of public improvements awarded the contract for the sewerage system construction to D. W. Norton & Co. of Terre Haute.
New York authorities press on with death toll nearing a thousand from the Gen Slocum catastrophe. About 100 German speaking officers will conduct a house to house canvass to verify the missing list as bodies continue to be recovered and 883 identified.
A man believed to be the Sheriff Harris killer is surrounded between Black River Falls and Merrill. Sheriff McMillan reported the fugitive, who has robbed farmers and forced them to give horses, is near capture after pursuers closed within gunshot but the shots did not stop him.
Terre Haute Indiana reports a 53 year old man, John Stahl, who has pursued the prescribed course irregularly for 27 years, will finally receive his diploma at graduation. The piece notes the unusual duration and ongoing study as he completes the state program.
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