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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1904
Page
1
Che Troy Weekly Call France spends large sums to map possessions in West Africa. One man in seventeen Paris has issued orders for surveys in sixty parts. Alleged scientists claim the New York Subway harms health, while some World's fair show managers face moral scrutiny and shutdowns.
The speaker notes Carnegie is in good health despite talk of dying poor, but argues he should not advocate annexing the United States to Canada to dissipate his fortune. He contends such a move would impoverish Uncle Sam and is ill advised.
The Kansas City World reports Japanese seal fishers raided Russian caches, taking pelts valued at 1.4 million dollars while czarist police boats faced distractions. The quip notes Baltic fleet involvement and Rory’s on fishing boats.
A French sailing ship of 3000 tons on a voyage from France to San Francisco and back to Liverpool would receive from the French government a navigation bounty exceeding 25 000 dollars. The note compares such subsidies with English practices, illustrating the global reach of maritime support.
Vickers' Sons & Maxim completed the 2000-ton Manxman turbine driven merchant steamship on September 24. During a two day trial in the Firth of Clyde she achieved a maximum speed of 23.5 knots, the fastest yet for a turbine driven merchant vessel, about 1.5 knots faster than any previous example.
Unofficial figures indicate baseball’s 50 year history reached an attendance peak as the two major leagues and accompanying minor and state leagues drew nearly 6 million spectators. The New York tally suggests total attendance across all levels matched that vast figure.
Philadelphia delegate Joseph A. Osborn cited a difference among men at the Catholic Total Abstinence convention in St. Louis. He said some become honored citizens, others worthless and despised, then offered the marble slab as a metaphor for useful doorsills versus empty tombstones.
The piece notes over twenty thousand cars in France mainly for leisure and twenty thousand motorcycles. It cites France as the cradle of self mobility, but credits the United States with rapid advances in automobile manufacture and use, questioning future expansion limits.
Harper's Weekly notes Rudyard Kipling's Their Law ful Occasions features a torpedo boat working under fog and trawlers. The piece prompted Admiral Rodjestvensky to distrust trawlers and highlighted how British trawlers could be used in war, prompting questions about Kipling's role in the North Sea incident.
Six feet tall and near 300 pounds Marquis Oyama stands as a national idol of Japan's army. A renowned swordsman and samurai symbol, he is praised despite foreign trained generals like Kuroki and Nodzu. He is the youngest of the empire builders and remains a towering figure at age sixty two.
News in brief reports Gen. Lew Wallace is slowly dying at his Crawfordsville home after a prior surgical operation. The dispatch cites his memoirs as a focus of later life.
The report notes a fierce hurricane cutting New York off from the south and west on the 13th alongside a fatal rail collision near Azusa Wyoming that killed eight and injured five. Riots in Rio de Janeiro oppose compulsory vaccination with troops clashing and outages. World’s fair attendance totals rise, and funds repay federal loans. Labor unrest, mine disaster verdicts, and the Far East war front actions in Manchuria are reported, with Japan pursuing strategies around Kuropatkin's left.
Prince Sadamura Fushimi visits Washington conveying Mikado wishes for the president. Robbers hit Thermopolis Wyoming securing money watches and jewelry. Merinville renounces Catholicism. Gen Stoessel wounded yet refuses surrender. Gen Slocum wreck sale for 1800 dollars. French minister of war resigns. Berteaux nominated. Vermont bill to end capital punishment defeated. Japanese destroyer shadowed by a Russian unit at Che Foo. Wynne removes rural delivery inspector Hunter Arnold. Kuroki death rumor denied by Japanese staff. Capt Fisher and crew rescued from brig C C Sweaney after hurricane wreck. Perkins body found with signs of foul play. Indian school fight leaves two dead or wounded. Breckinridge paralyzed. Dublin Mississippi burned. $50,000 loss. Elm Dale collision injures several. Holliday arrested in Missouri. Gould shoots by accident. Chinese rebels repulse imperial troops. Liberty Bell travels from St. Louis to Philadelphia.
The Illinois results brought a republican landslide surprise to many while a CoolKCounty slate faced defeats. A 23 year old was elected to Congress, surprising all as he slept, and may face a possible seat eligibility issue due to the 25 year age requirement.
Albert Blome of Belleville, shot while quail hunting near Summerfield by George Krug, had his right leg amputated at the hip by Dr. A M Kohn. Blome, weak after surgery, remains hopeful for recovery. Krug stood across a ravine when the gun misfired as the trigger snagged on shrubs. Blome is a young business man with a wife and several children.
William Mayer of Mount Carroll left home for news on the election and did not return. His body was found hanging in his stable with a memorandum of a wager in his pocket. He had staked his home against other property on Parker's election, a fact his family did not know.
East St Louis City Council plans an ordinance to build a sewer system with an outlet into the river three miles below and about a mile north of Cahokia. Corporation Counsel Freels has prepared the measure to resist attacks as work continues.
Hugh McCandless and Louis Kane of East St. Louis pleaded guilty to the murder of Robert Nielson in Belleville circuit court before Judge R. W. Holder and were sentenced to life imprisonment. Ford Brandenberg of near Weaver chapel was robbed at home by three masked men who demanded his money and took 150.
In Shiloh tabernacle Chicago Alexander Dowie condemned all church fairs and money-making schemes originating with churches. Rev J M Zimmerman died at Kurten aged 82, Kentucky native Texas resident for 50 years Confederate soldier and Baptist preacher for 30 years. Thomas O Neil fatally shot by Arthur Grimes in Cairo. they were brothers-in-law and quarreled. Grimes fled. Capt Maurice J McGrath civil war veteran and long-time Chicago post office mail superintendent died of Bright's disease.
Capt A Leonard Hay, brother of the secretary of state and a former mayor of Warsaw, died in that town. He had retired from the army 12 years ago.
A Cody bank robbery suspect was captured near Owl Creek six miles below Thermopolis after a Tuesday morning hold up of Deputy Edwards saloon. The outlaw admits Edwards place theft and matches the Cody bank desperado description but claims no Cody hold up. He is guarded as townsfolk threaten lynching if he is the killer of Cashier Middaugh. posses continue hunting the remaining gang members.
Washington reports President Roosevelt has removed Frank H. Richards as United States marshal for the Nome district Alaska and asked Judge Melville C Brown of the Juneau district to resign The Alfred S Moore case is held in abeyance following an Alaska judiciary investigation by Assistant Attorney General Day Brown faced charges of personal mining case interest and appointing his secretary as receiver in ongoing litigation
The Liberty Bell arrived in Springfield on Wednesday evening en route from the World's Fair to Philadelphia. Mayor Weaver and Philadelphia council members led the escort, greeted by Mayor Deveraux and local business and automobile groups. The bell will depart Thursday for Decatur.
In South Bend Indiana on November 17 neighbors discovered the body of John R. Perkins among the ruins of his burned home. The head was crushed and the body dismembered. Police believe Perkins was murdered after reports that he kept large sums of money at the house and had been in ill health for several days.
The Liberty Bell left the Pennsylvania building at 9 30 joining a procession to Transportation building escorted by Philippine constabulary battalion. Addresses were delivered by Francis Wells Weaver and Henry Clay as Philadelphia officials and citizens accompanied the bell home to Philadelphia after impressive ceremonies.
A five story Bowery building housed three hundred workers from several firms and a coat factory. Fire from defective insulation swept floors as firemen and volunteers rescued all. Women on the third floor were moved to safety by a living chain. upper floors collapsed as flames raged.
A pair of rescues occurred after a midnight blaze at 2639 Olive street in St Louis. Mrs Fannie Williams escaped from an upper window to a neighboring roof and was saved by Sergt Nolte and Patrolmen Maguire and Donohue while bartender Lee Burt aided Mary McNamara who clung to a window sill as the crowd urged her to hold.
Milwaukee November 17 The Wisconsin Supreme Court confirms the right of over one hundred families to occupy land on Jones Island, dating back twenty years. The property, tied to Jacob Muze, is valued around two million dollars and could affect related claims by Florence Wellington Street in Chicago.
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