22 Oct 1904
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1904
Page
1
The Pittsburg Pa Automobile Club has launched a nationwide crusade promising a handsome reward for the arrest or conviction of anyone found exceeding the legal speed limits within its jurisdiction.
A historical remark notes that the secretary of war, referred to as Bill Taft by intimates, claims no judge on the supreme bench exceeds his dignity. A Lincoln quote about rulers and great men is cited to illustrate perceived authority.
Records in the office of the United States commissioner of labor indicate the first strike in the United States occurred in New York City in 1742. Journeymen bakers allegedly refused to bake until wages rose.
In the Mississippi section of the Mines and Metallurgy building at the World’s fair an exhibit of pottery asks for the price of each piece to be its exact weight in gold dollars. If this price is not forthcoming, Supt. C. H. Dobbs is instructed that not one piece must be sold.
In southern Nebraska valleys, two summers of floods have decimated mice rats and other pests. Stores factories and granaries, once overrun, now report unusually few rodents. High water, it seems, did some good for pest control.
As czarovitch he faced a fanatic attack in Otsu Japan. Two jinriksha men aided the rescue and have since received a pension from Russia. This year the pension was forwarded again, to their surprise.
Missouri governor in day address at the World’s Fair accuses St. Louis county officials of balking under pressure and says crime is rampant. He urges residents to take action and elect capable and honest leaders this year.
Prof. Oscar Lovell Triggs, formerly of the University of Chicago, will head a new industrial school for boys in the Chicago area. Triggs has long been linked with Chicago�s industrial movement and recently returned from a three month European tour studying industrial schools in England France and Belgium.
The launching of the battleship Nebraska at Moran Bros. in Seattle Washington marks a new era in Pacific coast shipbuilding. It is the first large government vessel built north of San Francisco and demonstrates the United States has a capable naval shipyard for vessels of any size or type.
Governor Bates appoints former Governor Winthrop Murray Crane to the U S Senate seat succeeding the late Geo F Hoar. Crane is young capable and popular, lacking Hoars scholarship but respected across parties and the community where he has long been a leading figure.
The article notes about 1,000,000 messages per day over global telegraph lines and a 1903 total of 64,848,474 telegrams sent. Great Britain leads with 92,471,000 dispatches, followed by the United States with 91,391,000 and France with 48,114,161.
Surgeon Charles B. Banks of the United States Marine hospital in Chicago told the Association of Military Surgeons at the St. Louis world fair that civilization drives the pneumonia death rate. He cited steam heated flats and ill ventilated tenements in crowded cities as the two main factors fueling the disease’s deadly spread. He called pneumonia highly contagious and infectious and admitted the medical profession feels powerless against its ravages.
News in brief reports Keller arrives in St. Louis with Miss Sullivan and a Day observed. Manchuria war talks and casualties cited from Mukden and Tokio dispatches. West Plains death by suicide. naturalization fraud convictions affirmed. Roche removals in steamboat service. Belgian Congo defense note. Parker to speak weekly to Dem clubs. peace hopes urged by Roosevelt. New York tenement fire kills and injures multiple. arson suspected. Kuroki army notes on Russia.
Thousands gathered at Orchard Knob near Chattanooga to dedicate a Connecticut memorial to the Fifth and Twentieth Connecticut volunteers. Reports from Mukden note ongoing Russian gains while Manchuria endures severe weather. The Episcopal Church in Boston approves a marriage and divorce canon. The New York Stock Exchange hits a yearly high as about 2,000,000 shares change hands. Russian forces capture Japanese cannon, with Port Arthur battles marked by stubborn courage. Mukden indicates Japanese retreats with heavy losses, while Stoessel protects his troops. Metcalf schedules a Washington meeting on October 25 to draft stricter steam vessel safety measures.
L. L. Haynes and B. Ziegler jailed after Warrensburg wreck pleaded guilty on the 18th to grand larceny. Haynes gets five years. Ziegler’s sentence was deferred.
Joseph Clancy a longtime East St. Louis resident died at his home aged 70 after months of illness. Four years earlier a man run over in the railroad yards near the Eads bridge had been identified as him and burial plans were made before he astonished relatives by walking in alive, pipe in mouth, with a cheerful greeting.
The Ili nois federation of women’s clubs met in Danville with delegates from across the state. Mrs. George E. Colby of Chicago attacked prodigality in dress and extravagant shop windows, urged restraint to curb fashion’s influence on girls and society, and denounced horse shows as misdirected. A labor dispute stirred debate, and it was decided that federation printed matter bear the union label.
John H. Wempen, 65, a well known Alton saloonkeeper, was found in his barn by his daughter, Carrie, hanging by a rope tied to a rafter. He had suffered a paralytic stroke two years earlier and, in ill health, chose to end his life after dinner.
In Chicago an apartment building steam pipe exploded killing Chris Larsen a steamfitter and fatally injuring Frederick Diamond an engineer and James Woods a fireman. William Holmes and Howard Beck were severely scalded but expected to recover Beck crawled to the engine and shut off the steam.
Four year old Minnie Young fell into a well in Centralia and was saved from drowning by Marion Warren who descended the wall to reach her. The child was afloat and unafraid, extending a hand which he seized to pull her to safety.
A 24 hour period records three fatalities on the Central Illinois traction company line near Springfield. The victims are Mathew Steel 45 of Girard John Palmer 65 of Springfield and George Brown 46 of Girard.
Albert Green, Charles Green and Charles Pearson, youths, drowned in the Mississippi River at Kingston Mines when a storm overturned their boat in midstream before they could reach shore.
D W Marshall a well to do farmer near Vandalia age 77 told his wife he would rather die than live and after feeding the horses hanged himself in the hay loft, authorities said.
Andrew Cunningham was acquitted at Sullivan of the murder of Wash Sloan, a constable who tried to force entry to collect a debt at Cunningham's home. Sloan’s actions led to the fatal confrontation, with Cunningham argued to have acted in self defense.
Grand Master Wright of the Kinois Masons laid the cornerstone of the new Methodist church in Decatur, with the edifice costing about $80,000.
The weather blocking Manchuria operations after heavy rains left both sides inactive. Reports suggest Kuropatkin is adjusting his flanks and preparing for renewed fighting when roads dry, while critics view the last week’s clash as a Russian defeat and anticipate a new battle with altered dispositions. Viceroy Alexieff’s Mukden conference Wednesday offers little reassurance.
London observers weigh Gen. Kuropatkin s Shahke river retreat as a possible Japanese cover for retreat from Bensihu. Critics split on whether Shakhe was a decisive win for Japan, with exhaustion preventing follow up. Special dispatches claim a Russian battalion crossed the Taitse river and was nearly annihilated by Japanese cavalry and entrenched machine guns.
It is officially stated that hand bombs recently adopted by the defenders of Port Arthur have been effective and have caused considerable loss of life in the Japanese ranks. A dispatch in official quarters says Wield Marshal Oyama's army remains opposed to Kuropatkin's forces with the Shahke river between the Japanese and Russians.
The Business Barometer notes the US postal service ended its fiscal year June 30 with receipts over 143 million dollars, up about 9 million from 1903. Administration officials say post office gains reflect nationwide prosperity, citing state totals from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and California.
A Wednesday blaze at Middlesworth children's home in Shelbyville Illinois killed Alfred Peterson nine and Charles Peterson eleven. Eighty one children slept upstairs as fire cut off escapes, with two believed to have perished in their beds from smoke.
Miss Helen Keller attended a reception at the Missouri building in St. Louis on Tuesday night and was surprised by a miniature of her grandfather David Keller of Tuscombie Alabama presented by Dr. J H Keller of Hot Springs Arkansas, depicting an 1818 era gentleman in period dress.
In San Francisco on October 20 plans to re establish the open shop system and remove the walking delegate from influence are forming. Business men and employers brace for what may be the greatest industrial struggle on the Pacific coast as unions are very strong, making a bitter conflict likely.
A Blossburg dispatch reports Morris Run Coal Mining Co plans to resume operations around December 1 if striking miners sever ties with the United Mine Workers and accept a 14 percent wage cut that sparked the walkout. Company tenants must return or vacate company housing as many strikers already found jobs elsewhere.
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