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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1903
Page
1
Boston statisticians peg annual education cost per pupil at 31.12, a record high. The oar strike commission report draws双方. miners say they can endure, operators say they can endure. The public, as usual, bears the burden.
In forecasting the melodrama The Great Burdick Mystery Frank F. Tannehill Jr is engaged to write. An editor says Buffalo policemen hunting for crews will furnish the comedy element.
A medical expert states that ninety six percent of today’s athletic men suffer enlarged hearts. The remark is unlikely to deter golf enthusiasts from pursuing the sport.
A Illinois court rules a man imprisoned for his wife’s murder is legally dead, allowing his children to collect life insurance proceeds from the murdered wife even if the policy was assigned to the husband.
Between 1870 and 1901 Suez Canal traffic surged from 486 ships to 3,699 ships and gross receipts grew from 1.27 million dollars to 20 million. Gross tonnage increased more than twentyfold, reflecting rapid expansion and usage.
The passage notes that the United States bonds stand well above others, with British consols near the 90 mark and French securities around the 100 line. It underscores the credibility of the two great republics as superior to other nations.
Admiral Dewey declares every man in the United States navy is intelligent and knows what to do and when to do it. He notes the habit of US warships to engage an enemy when there is a fighting chance, a policy that strengthens American fleets.
The city braces for a large crowd at the fair's dedication at month end. The president and the only living ex-president will attend. A warship will anchor in the stream and fireworks costing 55000 dollars will be set off. The program promises similarly grand events throughout.
The man in Chicago claims he can perform every household task from cooking washing and ironing to sweeping porch laundry baby care and even marketing while ignoring friends. His boast covers chores from table service to cleaning and rug making.
A priest has established a farm school in Rutherford California for boys abandoned by their parents. The youths are systematically trained in all branches of agriculture to develop California's resources and meet the demand for better scientific farmers.
The world press has become more respectful toward Senor Castro. A Venezuelan congress vote restored his resignation and acknowledged his power, while Matos, the rebel leader, has remained quiet since Castro began his new term.
The upcoming anniversary of the Lexington battle prompts a Massachusetts legislature proposal to gift the drum beaten by William Dimon to the Historical Society of Lexington. The drum, stored for years in the adjutant general's office, faces no opposition and is likely to join other battle relics.
The passage argues that despite strike commission findings, consumers face renewed squeezes. It notes mine owners and miners pledge peaceful limits for higher profits and wages, while Americans grow weary of barriers to essential goods and steady supply.
Smelter strike at Colorado Springs settled. Beloit secretary chosen for United Society of Christian Endeavor. Macedonian committee reports massacre by Bashi Bazouks near Istib. Shaw speaks at Peoria banquet advocating capital on legitimate lines. Mrs. Olivia Worden dies at 83 in Lakewood New Jersey. Yale awards Henry James Ten Eyck prize to William Pickens of Little Rock. Dr Theodore Bluthardt appointed U S consul at Barmen Germany. Nicholas Senn to represent U S at Madrid International Medical Congress. Illinois Senate tables Parker resolution investigating Attorney General Hamlin. Santo Domingo reports government warships engaging revolutionaries land batteries. Col Edmund Bainbridge dies in Washington. Roosevelt begins 14000 mile tour in finest special train. Adams dissolves order against Wabash employees. arbitration urged. Cleveland denies Colorado coast visit. returns to Princeton.
On the 31st a man believed to be a Chicago clerk was discovered murdered in Belle Plaine Iowa. His throat was cut head crushed and leg broken. Separately flood conditions in the lower Mississippi valley began to ease. Berlin bank cashier robbed 70000 then repaid part with cash and a life pension. Effingham Illinois saw students wounded in a cannon dispute between photographers and Austin College. Ten thousand Indiana bituminous miners began a strike over shot firers in Clinton district. In Concordia Kansas Mrs. Sturms shot and wounded Albert Tatro and Charles Forknuer during a house attack. Martial law reported in Nicaragua. Seattle grand jury issued reports urging resignations of mayor police chief and possibly council members.
In Springfield on the first, a resolution to investigate the Chicago and Alton Railway Co. tax assessments was introduced. Also on the first, special trains carried troops to Macedonia amid a rebellion beginning, and the anthracite coal commission’s award took effect across the anthracite region.
The Illinois lower house passed a convict labor bill on the 2d prohibiting convict employment on contract and ordering a prison industries board to prevent convict products from competing with free labor.
The report covers a Baltic and American scene map with the Arkansas steamer voyage to St Louis, famine in Finland, a Monroe City burglary suspect hanging himself, a woman killed near Clarksville Texas, a Crum bond approval as port collector in Charleston, spring trade optimism per Bradstreet Dun, World’s Fair relics secured, Mrs Mary Wood Swift elected president at New Orleans convention, a Pittsburg plant death, a St Louis visitor fatally struck by a streetcar, new masonry widows and orphans home contract, Washington University offering four scholarships, a dynamite car collision in East St Louis that did not explode, and Monroe county Illinois fruit damage from cold spell.
Roosevelt urged to note a Chester birth filing showing Mary Ellen Phegley as mother of her sixteenth child at age 26. Napoleon B. Phegley, 67, claims she has had 12 children with her first husband and four with her present husband. Mrs. Phegley, born in Perry county, married at 14 after her first husband’s death.
Deputy Coroner Streeper of Upper Alton responded to a report of a body near the Chicago and Alton tracks east of town. Three assistants and a wagon transported the sunken figure, which appeared lifeless and train-posed. The man revived during loading and explained he had been-tramping, tired and footsore, then slept.
James Pullen arranged burial details with a Springfield undertaker for his apparently dead wife in Jacksonville. The hearse and carriages awaited the purported arrival of Mrs Pullen on the Wabash train, but her brother announced she was alive, with the “funeral” a misread by an intoxicated husband. Mrs Pullen is ill in Jacksonville.
The notice profiles several aging residents with ages and towns: Mrs. Margaret Wilson 78 at Sparta, Mrs. Calvin Schaeffer 75 near Virginia, Mrs. Susan Thompson 91 at Litchfield, Frederick W. Bahrs 80 at Waterloo, Charles H. Becker 58 at Springfield, and Mrs. H W Conklin 43 prominent in society circles at Springfield.
Fire at Trenton destroys the large furniture store and stock of J. A. Kuhn & Co. along with the residence and laboratory of Dr. I. G. Vogt. A dwelling owned by Jacob Kuhn, two stables and several outbuildings were damaged. Loss estimated at $20,000 with small insurance. Fire department was called and is under incendiary investigation.
Constable J. E. Angel of Wolf Lake is arrested on a charge of killing a black man who is reported alive and working in Murphysboro. The man was seized on suspicion of involvement in an attempted assault, escaped, vanished from Wolf Lake, and a circulating tale claims Angel shot him and dumped the body in the lake.
Deputy sheriff P. B. Campbell was stabbed to death by an insane man on a Burlington train near Champin. Campbell was escorting the suspect to the Central insane asylum in Jacksonville. The assailant seized Campbell’s revolver and, armed, defied passengers until overpowered by strategy.
One of the oldest Bibles, printed in London in 1613 by Robert Baker, is donated by Mrs. George Cullom to the Neoga Methodist church to aid in building a new house of worship. The volume is valued at $500 and bears on the title page the royal imprint of Anne.
The Illinois Senate advances a package raising death damages to 10,000, shortening filing time to one year, affecting county seat elections and conservatorship procedures, and tightening civil service certification. House actions cover a civil service bill, injunction rules in labor disputes, and appropriations for Gov Altgeld’s widow. Committee and session details note limited quorum and leadership changes.
Former President Cleveland states he will stop at St. Louis for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition dedicatory exercises and will return promptly by the direct route. He denies plans to tour the Pacific coast or visit California and Colorado, noting rumors have caused confusion and letters from concerned residents.
New York April 2. David Siegler wholesale confectioner sues board of directors of the New York Confectionery Jobbers' Association for 25000 damages alleging persecution and discrimination. The Manufacturers' Association is sued for a like amount for acting in concert with the jobbers. Siegler predicts more actions to follow. Six men killed and four burned in a Sandoval Illinois coal mine gas explosion with uncertain recovery for the injured.
In Santo Domingo City a three hour battle between government troops and revolutionists results in about a hundred dead or wounded. The US cruiser Atlanta landed 50 bluejackets to guard the US consulate general after a shell from the Dominican cruiser Presidente struck the German consulate. President Vasquez demands surrender as fighters vow to resist to the end.
The Atlanta anchors a signal station and may land marines. A severe clash near San Antonio De Guerra leaves 146 dead or wounded as government troops attack rebels crossing the river. Interior news is cut off and business is halted. rebels hold a gunboat with arms and ammunition for an unknown destination. The situation remains critical.
The navy department received a cable from Admiral Coghlan dated Guatemala April 1 noting Marietta en route Belize for stores Raleigh arriving Truxillo March 28 Panther returning from Puerto Cortez reports Truxillo captured by revolutionists March 24. Onur interests protected conditions unsettled communication uncertain and another collier needed Brutus nearly empty.
In Monterey on April 3 1867 a 15000 strong crowd loyal to Francisco Reyes attacked Gov Bernardo Reyes at his residence after a Puebla victory parade. Police dispersed the riot but two policemen and two citizens were killed and many wounded. The unrest follows Reyes’s waning popularity and Diaz’s hands off campaign approach.
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