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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1902
Page
1
President Roosevelt greeted 8 100 guests at the White House in a New Year reception noted for length and cheer. Mrs Roosevelt appeared in a white silk gown as Alice Roosevelt and invited young friends assisted in the Blue Room. The event featured elaborate decorations and a pink and purple orchid banquet.
Chinese Japanese and Korean legations greet visitors as diplomats host open houses for New Year. Wu of China participates with tea hospitality. Takahira and wife observe European calendar celebrations. A Korean dinner is noted with male guests only as women stay away.
Paris reports the czar telegraphed President Loubet and the reply was friendly. In Mexico City Diaz welcomed many callers including Pan-American delegates and congressmen. Berlin notes a New Year service and a lively reception as Kaiser Wilhelm spoke highly of Roosevelt.
Lieutenant Charles D. Rhodes of the Sixth cavalry with two orderlies encountered twenty insurgents near Manila. He retreated in appearance but flank attacked the cuartel, expelled the insurgents, seized two rifles three revolvers and ammunition, then burned the barracks and moved to Manila.
Victoria reports United States sealers will claim damages from the U S government for loss of their share in the sealing industry due to statutes banning pelagic sealing by U S vessels. Some schooner operators seek data in Victoria to support their claims.
Sioux City Iowa January 2 The Omaha railroad has bought sixty acres in central Sioux City and begun large machine shops serving the Northern Iowa and Dakota divisions. A major terminal system is planned with a Union station for northwest lines. A link to Le Mars and a Merrill Indiana to Centerville South Dakota line are also anticipated. Northwestern plans imply about 1 000 000 dollars in expenditure.
Michigan University blanked Stanford 49 to 0 in Pasadena yesterday. The game showcased Michigan’s superior football knowledge and the eastern team’s dominance, while Stanford mounted desperate but futile efforts throughout.
Passengers saw an unconscious woman beside the track in Richmond Michigan on Monday. She was carried to the Commercial House and revived, giving her name as Mrs Louis Frost of Romeo. She had been hit by a train but could not explain how.
Mrs Jennie T Hobart widow of the late Vice President Hobart donates a land plot measuring 100 125 feet in Paterson plus 25000 for a modern building and full furnishings for the Paterson N 4 Children’s Day nursery.
In Malispell Montana on January 2 a section foreman Sullivan in a drunken rage killed his daughter and badly injured his wife at Jennings. A special medical train from Great Northern collided in a ditch, killing the engineer and seriously injuring the fireman brakeman and doctor.
The Gazette reports Lord Marcus Beresford chosen to oversee King Edward’s breeding stud at Sandringham. He will manage the famed racing stallions Florizel II Parsimmon and Diamond Jubilee, signaling renewed royal patronage of the turf.
The annual clearing house report shows 1901 clearances at £9,561,169,000, up £600,099,000 from 1900 and £410,900,000 from 1899, the record year. The largest daily total was £109,143,000 on May 15.
Michael Shannon aged 78, a prominent miller who built the first mill in Joseph, Missouri, died Tuesday night. A peculiar feature of the obituary notes his pride in his paternal ancestry and his place in local industry history.
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train derailed on a steep grade near Glencoe, causing a fire after wreckage. One engineer and a fireman died, with seventeen others injured, several severely. Rescue teams rushed to save passengers as gas tanks exploded and the blaze spread.
Frederick Hanniman an 80 year old Lakefield township farmer near Merris vanished from home after a September loan. His son John Tannaman and another associate, a junk peddler, are jailed in Saginaw on charges of kidnapping and being an accomplice. The elder man cashed a $700 loan check in Merrill on September 7 and has not been seen since September 15.
The Michigan City health office reports 1000 to 2000 residents afflicted with water cholera amid cold weather. Officials blame the city water company for supplying harbor pumped water near the sewer outlet.
Emperor William wants his new yacht christened by Miss Alice Roosevelt at the christening ceremony. He asked United States Ambassador White to request President Roosevelt to permit Miss Roosevelt to christen the vessel during a New Year reception at the Old Palace.
In Way side fifteen miles north of Spokane George Vroman postmaster and merchant shot his six year old daughter and then killed himself. Both died within minutes. Vroman's wife had secured a divorce last week.
The Candid Friend reports M de Blowitz has resigned from the Paris desk of the London Times and retired to private life. Arthur Fullerton, an American, is said to have succeeded him in the post.
Smallpox cases increase in Crawfordsville Indiana with three new infections reported since the initial case last week.
On January 2 in Franklin township Milwaukee county farmer L Busch struck water at 267 feet while drilling. A geyser erupted from the bore, shooting a 30 foot column into the air for hours, as machinery nearby could not be moved to escape the spray.
Farmers who faced a long drought now confront an unexpected flood as water overflows the land up to four miles in several directions, reshaping fields and prompting concern over its impact and duration.
Rufus Brodas a Black resident near Charlestown Ind faces legal pressure over school attendance. Despite separate schools for whites and blacks, he refused to send his children to a black teacher because he claims the instructor is a Democrat. He was fined under truancy law with suspended judgment if he complies. He tried to enroll his children with white teacher Miss Kittie Bower, who refused him, forcing Brodas to use the colored teacher.
In Pana Illinois on January 2 the Pleasant township sparrow hunt ended with 24 000 birds killed by two farmer groups. Twenty men per side competed for a banquet awarded to the side with more birds. the victors had 12 000 sparrows while the losers 11 000, averaging four ounces each for a total weight exceeding three tons.
James Hidlicka, local representative of a machine company, died after collecting accounts Sunday evening. He fell ill while walking home and died a few hours later. A postmortem was withheld by Dr Gowdy as theories of suicide and murder circulate amid suspicious circumstances.
J P Morgan and Company will purchase at par all Northern Pacific preferred shares presented at their New York office. Dispatches from Alabama and Georgia report rivers that caused widespread damage over the weekend have fallen. Ballard Sewards, a Hamlin West Virginia farmer, fatally shot his cousin Walter Sewards. Colonel Thomas C Herndon, late New Orleans clearing house manager and Confederate veteran, aged 72, is dead. The Italian government declines invitation to participate in the St Louis exposition. Boiler explosion at Britts Switen Arkansas kills Timothy Moore James Hegue and A T Calhoun.
Chicago markets show hog receipts around 44 000 with steers up to 7 55 and heavy packing at 6 40. cattle quotations range from 3 75 to 7 55 with fancy beeves near the top. sheep and lambs receipts near 15 000 with western lambs at 5 80 and native lambs up to 6 00. East Buffalo deals list hogs from 5 50 to 6 90 and sheep tops around 6 25. grain markets note mixed declines in wheat and corn with regional price variations.
Chicago Jan 2 The Tribune's year in review reports benevolence at 123 888 732 surpassing 1900s record with education institutions receiving 68 550 001 and churches 620 489 while crimes rise with 185 lynchings 7245 personal crisis reports 7842 murders 8752 epidemics and accidents causing vast losses including 160 million in fire damage and 27 681 war losses.
Mrs. Charles Fox of Rattle Creek Michigan learned Monday night her son Frank Crossgrove, long thought drowned in the Johnstown flood, had survived and tracked his mother after years apart. Frank left Wallacetown Pennsylvania in 1866 and later moved to Ohio and then to Sebring where he owned a pottery. He traced his mother’s whereabouts and surprised her with the reunion.
Des Moines Iowa January 2 Governor elect Cummins called on Governor Shaw to pay respects and congratulate him on his appointment to the treasury portfolio. The meeting was described as cordial with no disagreements reported as Shaw prepared to read his message to the incoming executive before leaving for Washington.
Reports from the Illinois asylum for feebleminded children in Lincoln say over 100 pronounced cases of smallpox among 1,000 inmates and 185 employees, with no new cases discovered and patients afflicted being well. The epidemic originated from a boy sent from Chicago.
Richard Malle of Kewanee Wisconsin vanished after creditors and Chicago firms moved to seize stock in his two stores. Officers closed the shops Tuesday as inquiries continue into his whereabouts, with Malle’s principal creditors identified as Chicago firms.
In Dillsboro Indiana a house cat placed its paws in a woman’s lap at the supper table. The cat’s claw pierced a large artery near the knee causing severe bleeding. Mrs. Vidito of Ripley County nearly died from loss of blood after the incident.
Fort Wayne Indiana January 2 Mrs Melinda Witt an 84 year old widow died after falling down stairs at her home Her nephew is WW Leonard Republican chairman of the Twelfth district The accident kept him from the love feast Tuesday
Salt has been discovered while boring for oil at Britton in Adrian county. The brine is pronounced the strongest in the state by experts. A company with twenty thousand dollars has been organized to carry on the work.
New York dispatch reports rumors of engagement between Senator Platt and Mrs. Lillian Janeway. He declares the claim false and asserts he will never marry again.
Wealthy farmer Kara Alex son near Audubon Iowa was found dead with a crushed skull in what police call a murder. No motive yet known and Sioux City reported the crime on January 2.
Chicago reports no market action as New Year’s Day closes exchanges nationwide and leaves investors awaiting resumption of trading.
John Duff, a Chicago youth of 16, attempted suicide on New Year’s Day to object to working. The reports note this self harm act amid other early 20th century brief items.
Chicago Jan. 2 Professor Jacques Loeb of Chicago University proclaims life is electrodynamic in nature and that electrical energy in charged molecules powers muscles and organs. He cites jelly fish experiments showing rhythmic muscle contractions in electrified solutions and links ions to parthenogenesis and nerve action.
New York reports to R G Dun show 1901 mercantile failures at 11 002 with 115 002 376 liabilities. Banking insolvencies stood at 74 totalling 18 015 774. Manufacturing failures reached 244 with 44 000 083 liabilities, while 740 trader suspensions amounted to 24 000 040. Domestic Canada failures were fewer, with 1041 and liabilites of 10 000 000.
Speaker David B. Henderson traveled through Chicago on Tuesday from Tubique to Washington. He expressed pleasure with Governor Shaw of Iowa receiving a place in the president's cabinet.
King Edward appoints the Prince of Wales to represent Britain at Kaiser Wilhelm's birthday celebration in Berlin on January 27. The move is seen as strengthening Anglo German ties and signaling friendly relations between the two nations.
The Official Gazette prints a decree signed by President Castro declaring the steamer Libertador formerly the Banrigh to be a pirate. A New York theater fire caused by a lit cigarette from a Merry Maidens performer is noted. Leavenworth votes 400000 for municipal waterworks ownership. Massachusetts seeks funds for a McKinley memorial in Canton. Nova Scotia failures in 1801 total 119 with liabilities of 583337 and assets of 220040.
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