30 Aug 1902
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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1902
Page
1
If exporters raise tea by ten cents a pound once the duty is removed, the key issue shifts from who pays the tax to who bears the loss when the tax disappears, affecting consumers and traders differently.
Gen Funston, praised by Mark Twain as a tin horn soldier, has just undergone a second operation to ease lingering effects of a Cuban gunshot wound and bears additional honorable scars from prior service.
Every state has reason to testify to the value of work at agricultural experiment stations. With stations in each state, problems facing farmers fruit growers stock raisers and kin-based trades are constantly and faithfully investigated.
For years Siegel linked to St Louis education and Civil War service in Missouri. He dies in New York at an advanced age. His life, spanning two continents, promises to add a notable chapter to history.
For a pittance the Italian secretary of the navy purchases the exclusive right to the invention of Massimo Telellino, a day laborer who, after long experiments, developed a process for soldering aluminum. Telellino retains the patent and all other rights, claiming a revolution for the aluminum industry.
President Hill argues spending 40 million dollars to deepen the Mississippi channel between St Louis and New Orleans would yield greater advantage than an isthmian canal, though both projects are immensely valuable and closely linked to future commercial facilities.
Hard coal has reached the highest price in living memory at $11 per ton in New York. The current supply may exhaust before miners return to work, even if the strike ends soon, ensuring high prices for the coming winter.
The German ruler, proud of his Turkish policy, hopes to repeat the success in America. His open friendship with the sultan opened lines for German merchants, with consular reports noting imports to Turkey rising from 8,000,000 francs in 1880 to 84,500,000 francs in 1901, and 1902 likely near 100,000,000 francs.
It is understood the cause of Senor Terry's resignation from the Cuban cabinet is the rising activity of extremists on the island. These men seek to erase all trace of American occupation and sever Cuba from social ties with the United States. They disregard Platt restrictions and would govern on radical lines.
The Venezuela rebellion reports the seaport Cumana abandoned by Castro and taken by rebels. The conquest is described as essential to the rebels' aim of controlling the country. Castro rose to power in an uprising years ago and may depart similarly.
The enemy has been beaten in its attack on the American coast as Commodore Pillsbury’s white squadron launches a skillful assault on Salem harbor Massachusetts under favorable conditions for the attackers but is theoretically beaten under the rules by Admiral Higginson. This ends in their first phase the most interesting maneuvers ever given by American fleets and the combined naval attack on the coast defenses with army participation promises an even more interesting exhibition.
News in brief reports a Pratt Kansas death from lumpy jaw and a hospital case, marriages in San Francisco and Chattanooga, and various political and legal items. Included are Roosevelt’s Bangor visit with Bill Sewall, Boer leaders in Holland denying rifts, Iowa congressional nomination, a California governor race, a Kansas anti trust suit, and a New York harbor collision with no casualties.
A mining expert reports the Nazine silver district in Alaska holds the world’s richest copper property. Other items note a new brewing plant fire in South Seattle, a Majorca cyclone, gold near Lily Illinois, Mindanao quakes with Moros killed, Navajo starvation fears in four states, and H H Brinker’s arrest in Pittsburgh for defalcation.
The U S Court of Appeals at St Paul Minn denied habeas corpus relief for Thomas Nevitt and Samuel Peden, county judges in St Clair County Mo, jailed for defying a federal order on Civil War era bonds. Also reported are Western Union firing Chicago messengers for girls and men, a Kemper Ill freight wreck with presumed deaths, Whitecaps firing on James Rolan near Ellis Neb, Roosevelt Jr starting a west hunting trip, identification of Jordan Stamer found in Davenport Ia, Holmes and Shute bodies found in Bridgeton N J, Old Home Week speakers Cleveland and Joe Jefferson in Sandwich Mass, Mrs Wagoner and three children killed in North Little Rock Ark, and M A Carmichael dies in Colony Kan.
Gov Taft arrived at Manila on a holiday. A Brookfield man was killed by a train near Chillicothe. Quantrell’s guerrilla band survivors reunite at Independence. John Koehler dies of sunstroke in Evansville. Mr and Mrs John Johnson celebrate golden wedding in St Louis. Mrs Mary Collier’s family and 14 boarders poisoned by cookies. 9 in serious condition. The US government holds $182 million in bank deposits. Evansville company hits oil at Bird’s Eye, 12 bbls daily from 900 feet. A Kansas City cable train runs wild. 20 injured, gripman killed.
Johnson county reports outbreak of blackleg among cattle as farmers fear early frost amid cool rains slowing corn. New corn sells at Murphysboro for 50 cents a bushel. Southern Illinois Lutherans hold five day session at Chester. Miss Jessie Casper shoots self in Cobden while bed-making. pistol found in bed. Northern Illinois apples improve. bitter rot noted in the south. Mascoutah miner Wm. G. Parker dies from injuries. Carthage man Wm. Hicks commits suicide by carbolic acid. wife had died two years earlier. Belleville couple Martins Herr celebrate golden anniversary. Treasury approves sites for government buildings at Champaign and Sterling. James D. Pulley found dead in Marion hotel. carbolic acid indicates self-inflicted death. Gold discovery causes commotion in Farewell County. Madison County to prosecute Theodore O Connor for theft of soap. State auditor approves Joliet Trust and Savings Bank charter with $100,000 capital. Mount Vernon Ernest Miller dies from burns. George Brady dies after scaffolding fall in Pana.
A long list of deceased individuals from Illinois is given with ages and hometowns including Otto Braumdort of Shumway Effingham county, Mrs Lyle McMorris near Casey, Mrs Charles Meyer Beardstown, Moses Beasley 70 Murphysboro, Mrs Sarah Anderson Griffith 87 Madison county, her great grandchild city clerk of Edwardsville, Mrs Hiram Filkins 75 Centralia, Miss Bertha Bowen near Mt Sterling, Mrs P D Gain 70 near Salem daughter of Judge Dunham, John Bell 62 near Flora, Mrs B F Mason Ford county, Mrs Nannie C Crain 65 near Mounds, Martin Ruch Sr Madison county resident, J A Berry alderman Mattoon, Mrs Lois Jeanette Walker Winchester, Mrs James Davison Westfield, Mrs E J McRaven 70 Cairo, Dr M S Wheeler Sangamon county veteran practitioner, Frank Adams 90 Teutopolis, Wm Buchanan 73 Fayette county former treasurer, John Feezer Fayette county farmer, George Ross 45 near Clay City, Mathew Drips 94 Staunton, Mrs Farnetta Turner Moxey 88 Springfield Daughter of the Revolution, Mrs Nancy W Afflack 85 Rich view, Mrs Wm H Smith 62 Jonesboro, husband known in labor circles.
In Spaulding seven miles east of Springfield, a quarrel over winnings in a crap game led to a fatal shooting. Jean Cooley, a Black man, was killed by Harry Riley, another Black man, who was captured.
The four-year-old daughter of W. H. Skelton, an agent for the Wabash at Tay lorville, was burned to death while she and a younger brother were striking witches.
The city council of Arcola voted an appropriation of 14000 dollars for paving Locust Street, the town's main residential thoroughfare.
Bloomington city council approves resolution barring free lunches in saloons and pledges strict enforcement of the order.
The president's Maine visit features a Bangor encounter with old guide Bill Sewall, a muskrat tale, and a Bangor greeting by orphans. He addresses crowds at Augusta and Waterville, dines with Senator Hald, and departs for Nashua after a day of civic pageantry and safety appeals. In New York Harbor a daylight collision injures no one aboard the Liguria or Peconic, with minor damage to the Peconic and a blamed fault on the Peconic.
In New York at Bellevue hospital Lizzie Hall aged 2? years and Joseph Campbell are dead, with an unknown man dying, following a quarrel in a woman's East Twenty Fifth Street apartments. Police say four shots were fired after two men entered the dwelling, marking a fatal home altercation.
Gen Chaffee in Manila reports a series of earthquakes on Mindanao near Camp Vickers by Lanao lake. Twenty Moros killed by collapsing walls. American troops nearby uninjured. Shocks disturbed mountains rivers and streams. total damage not yet detailed. Date of event not specified, believed to be about five days earlier.
The remains of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Fair, killed August 14 in an automobile crash near Evreux, France, were removed from the Madeleine church after a brief service. Secrecy surrounded the shipment details as officials weighed whether to ship from Cherbourg or Havre, possibly to Southampton for the American liner St. Louis to New York.
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