27 Dec 1902
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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1902
Page
1
A court ruling declares it lawful to give liquor away without a license. The piece suggests the decision may curb treating but notes that much liquor is dispensed this way. The tone likens Venezuela to Dick Swiveller, unable to leave due to creditors, urging cheerful coping under the circumstances.
The German Kaiser banishes all cats dogs and birds from his palaces to prevent disease. Fur rugs undergo thorough chemical cleaning as part of a broader war against microbes.
A provocative remark asks how Tecumseh, Pontiac, Powhattan and other chiefs would react if they learned a noble Red man now works as a railroad laborer for pale faces. It ponders whether the railway has replaced the warpath enough to rouse their graves.
A French paper argues that in a war with Germany and England the United States would gain Canada to compensate for losses to its navy. The comment dismisses the forecast as overconfident and evokes the 1812 story as a counterexample.
Hayti completed another revolution shorter and less destructive than recent averages. The turmoil, though, remains a hazard as Hayti’s actions discredit Latin American civilization and complicate the United States’ role as guardian of the continent.
President Ingalls of the Big Four Railroad Co. argues that franchise taxation is a fair revenue source. He acknowledges corporate objections but asserts that those protected by the state must bear their share of its burdens.
Premier Balfour says the pacific blockade is war and notes world consensus. He argues the Allies should have openly declared war earlier rather than pretending to pressure Castro into meeting their demands.
If the plans for two major colonization schemes succeed, the coming years will see a significant American invasion of Canada. One route targets Ontario with millions of acres of fertile land awaiting settlement, while the other pushes into Manitoba.
The Virginia legislature awards 50000 dollars for a World’s fair exhibit and a state organization plans to raise another 50000. The editor hails Virginia as richly endowed in history and resources, noting the state will spend four times as much at St Louis as at Chicago, with the investment expected to repay.
Fragmentary OCR reads Dr Adolf Lorenz, famed Vienna surgeon, addressing bankers at a New York banquet. He hints at experiences in health and an examination in Chicago, with unclear dialogue about knowledge and staying. The text is garbled and difficult to interpret.
In the 8th, the senate was not in session while the house passed a bill reducing Philippine island product duties from 76 to 25 percent under the Dingley rates. The pure food bill advanced with a 72 to 21 vote. The McCall resolution for Venezuela correspondence was adopted. The January 6 session adjourned until January 5. The senate on the 20th featured Morgan of Alabama advocating a Nicaragua canal route. A strike commission expenses item passed, then adjournment.
On the 23d John Armstrong former president of the South Dakota agricultural society was found dead in Aberdeen of heart disease. A man named Marsh was fatally shot at Toone Station Tennessee. Mrs Lena M Lillie was arrested at David City for murdering her husband Harvey Lillie in October. Grace Comb mother of ex Mayor John Comb died at St Joseph aged 71. Nathaniel Whipple son of Col Whipple USA committed suicide in San Francisco. James Peterson and his 15 year old daughter were found dead by coal gas at Racine. Mrs Charles A Davis and her four year old daughter burned to death near Frankfort Indiana. Daisy Carleton acquitted in self defense at Bloomington. Crown Princess Louise of Saxony located in Geneva under an assumed name with Prof Giron.
Ten seamen survivors from a schooner collision in Massachusetts bay were picked up on the 21st and landed in Boston on the 22nd after three days in an open boat. Eleven others died from cold or drowning. the incident caused widespread suffering.
Samuel Marlow a Chicago Central trackman was run over and killed by a train at Carbondale Illinois on the 23d. A towboat boiler exploded at Norfolk Virginia on the 23d killing two men and fatally injuring another. Wesley Watson of Detroit Michigan was shot and instantly killed at Middleport Ontario by his brother Samuel who mistook him for a burglar.
Reports of mob hanging in Pittsburg Kansas after a policeman shooting. Bloomington Illinois store fire with $75,000 loss. Kansas City Missouri domestic shooting and suicide. naval race near Port of Spain ending in a tie for $1,000 purse. Fort Assiniboine Montana soldiers wounded in a saloon shooting. Hot Springs Arkansas detective killed. Piercefield New York house fire with three children dead. Petersburg Illinois freight collision with fireman killed. South Omaha fire destroys barns with 500 sheep burned. Hot Springs pool room blast injuries. Ferguson Missouri house fire. Emil Engstrom found frozen in Moline Illinois. Eugene Oregon husband and wife killings.
Thompson Morton, who took poison after murdering John W. Barriger, at St Louis, will recover. The president will not send the Cuban reciprocity treaty to the House for ratification. A winter agricultural course for farmers sons opens at Missouri State University. Crowds fill Bloomington courtroom at Daisy Carleton murder trial. Representative Stephens introduces a bill opening 505000 acres of Kiowa land to settlement. Voltairine De Cleyre, anarchist, shot in Philadelphia by Herman Melscher, who claims heartbreak. New Hampshire adopts suffrage in one of nine constitutional amendments. Panama canal treaty delayed beyond Christmas. Lt Commander Sutherland loses $1,000,000 prize suit. World’s fair souvenir coins shipped to St Louis subtreasury. Lieut Col Jasper Morrison dies after appendix operation at Presidio. Dun and Bradstreet say holiday trade strong and year outlook bright. Iowa Louisiana Purchase Exposition commission selects Proudfoot Bird design for Iowa building.
The state reports 1 601 175 residents aged six to twenty one with 22 273 more boys than girls. Total enrollment 971 841 and daily attendance 765 057. Private schools hold 70 446 boys and 70 025 girls with 3 963 teachers. State school property valued at 52 764 922 and total bonded debt 5 520 085 25.
The Illinois Supreme Court rules that a building used solely for Sunday school is not exempt from taxation. The suit by the auditor against Will County Board of Review involved exempting property separated from Christchurch. a janitor and Sunday school building on that lot were exempted, prompting the ruling.
Figures from the state board of equalization set the total property valuation for 1902 at 5,151,779,180 dollars. One fifth, or 1,030,355,836 dollars, is the equalized value, up 31,124,007 dollars from last year. Increases are 25,269,533 dollars in Cook County and 5,854,485 dollars elsewhere in the state.
William Ferguson the Quincy man formerly sentenced for the murder of Dr. Joseph Barnes in Monticello died in Chester penitentiary of consumption. It is believed he contracted the disease from dust from the emery wheel where he worked, and he was buried at Chester.
Roy Colsen and Landers Parker exchanged revolver fire on a highway near Atlanta. Eight shots were fired leaving Parker hit five times and likely to die while Colsen suffered a jaw and arm wound. They met while driving wagons. Parker is hospitalized in Lincoln and Colsen jailed. The incident stems from an old quarrel.
Mrs. Marjorie Needles Donovan daughter of Judge H M Needles a prominent attorney was granted a divorce from Captain Kenneth Donovan in Belleville on grounds of drunkenness They eloped to Memphis September 14 and lived together until October 8 when they separated
Reports from Vienna say King George and Crown Prince Frederick accept the estrangement of Princess Louise as irreparable. A divorce decree is discussed after her flight from court. She cited court etiquette and a repugnant husband as reasons, with alleged infidelities and cruelty prompting the separation.
Vienna reports sensational royal intrigue as Crown Princess of Saxony travels with Archduke Leopold Ferdinand from Salzburg to Munich Brussels and Geneva amid secret letters and a tutor scandal. In Kansas, Montgomery Godley, a Black man, is lynched by a mob after killing a police officer, with mobs threatening further racial unrest.
Prominent Republican Ix Sheriff Samuel B. Glass of Reddick dies of cerebral hemorrhage. Warren George Oatway and Karl Kurth killed on Illinois Central tracks near Warren. Fire in Apple River destroys Woodman hall and adjacent blocks, $20 000 loss, no insurance. Crane Co to distribute 120000 among 4000 workers. Rev Michael Abbott, Catholic pastor at Farmer City, dies of typhoid at 38 after ten years there. Jacob Balbach, Chenoa merchant aged 71, dies. member of the Gold Fellows. Illinois Supreme Court rules Sunday school not a place of public worship, not tax-exempt. Mrs Mary King Price, 65, dies in Rock Falls. first white child born in Whiteside County.
Geneva December 24 The crown princess of Saxony stays at a Geneva hotel under the name Fraulein Von Oben. Her brother Archduke Leopold Ferdinand and Prof Giron are at the same hotel with the archduke using the alias DeBuriano. The group plans a quiet Christmas here.
Munich reports Archduke Leopold Ferdinand departed to seek his sister and the Bavarian court hopes the princess may still return to Dresden. The Munich court excuses her conduct, claiming she was terrorized by Prof Giron and yielded to his threats.
Hot Springs Arkansas reports William Helwig and Joe Kenney died overnight from Wednesday's pool room blast. Four more victims may die as investigators note the Turf Exchange rear building collapse. proprietor R C Chambers legs and wrists broken but set. Chicago visitor J C Church seriously injured. City doctors and staff provide care to the injured.
A man named Paul Ford was arrested during a Tuesday night performance at the Grand Opera House in San Antonio. Capt. Smith of the United States Army stationed at Fort Sam Houston ordered the arrest, and Ford was placed in the city jail Wednesday morning.
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