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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1903
Page
1
It is not improbable that the coal strike commission will be obliged to adjourn so its members can return home and tackle the fuel question from a domestic perspective.
President Castro has exhausted Venezuela funds as troops refuse to fight leaving him with no resources. With limited options, he resorts to summoning an auctioneer to liquidate assets and raise cash.
A New York dispatch proclaims that both the poor and rich may own automobiles as machines once priced at 1500 dollars will sell for 750. It suggests a poor man should buy five or six at this reduced figure.
A historical note states J P Morgan funded double salaries for last year and the Steel Trust adopted a profit sharing plan. The piece critiques plutocrats and their uphill labor in fault finding with the actions of the powerful.
London ministers union approves allowing congregants to wear full dress at evening services to attract larger attendance. This plan encourages vibrant attire to mark services and draw more parishioners.
Europe grows wary of the new torf and Moroccan affairs. Rebel successes threaten potential intervention by powers, with uncertainty over possible consequences. The Mediterranean is not as quiet as earlier believed, prompting concern among observers.
Officials say state exhibits at the St Louis World’s Fair will require at least 8.5 million dollars in appropriations with more than half already secured. Expansion in original plans continues as territories and foreign countries add to the display effort.
The text argues that men, soldiers or not, will obtain liquor by any means, and those who try to block army functions should recognize the outcome of prohibition laws even in Maine. It asserts American soldiers should not be treated as convicts or deprived of rights shared by all citizens.
The article notes a large part of Emperor William’s private wealth is invested in Disconto Gesellschaft, Vene zuela’s main German creditor. It claims this fact reached the U S government and helped persuade President Roosevelt to decline the Kaiser’s offer to serve as arbitrator in the dispute.
The article suggests a French sentiment that removing the German ambassador allowed the Kaiser to retreat from an untenable position. It notes the Kaiser now recognizes the Monroe Doctrine as a vital principle in American diplomacy and that it will not be challenged from that quarter for the time being.
The mint director reports 1902 gold production near 82 million dollars, the highest ever for the United States, and silver output with a commercial value of 31 million dollars. Silver figures have fluctuated little in recent years.
The Nation Good Roads association will convene in St Louis from April 27 to May 2. Fifty thousand invitations have been issued and governors are urged to attend and appoint delegates. Every county court judge in the United States is asked to name delegates and alternates from his county.
Citizens of Carlinville Illinois push to erect a monument to the late John M Palmer whose body lies in the local cemetery. Palmer is praised as a stalwart courageous American who served his country in war and peace and left a lasting public record.
News in brief covers legislative activity in the second session with private pension bills advancing in Congress, debates over coal duties, and a conference committee appointment. Obituary observance for Representative Tongue of Oregon precedes a brief session adjournment. Incidents include a burglary in Minneapolis stealing coal and a fatal shooting by a 14 year old in Hopkinsville, Wyoming.
The postmaster-general ends new free delivery routes on roads requiring toll payments. A Swiss letter reports Lord Rosebery engaged to marry Mrs. Chauncey Carr of Louisville. Champ Clark urged as speaker candidate. Tilden statue bill proposed. two drownings in Washington ice. Canute R. Matson dies. Smoot and Hopkins nominated for U.S. Senate by party caucuses.
Scarcity of cars causes a stop page at all coal mines except one at Danville Illinois on the 13th, throwing 1900 miners out of work. Also reported are 102 Coreans landed at Honolulu for plantation work, a Chicago grand jury session with testimony about a price set by a large dealer, a fatal fire at Tidiout Pennsylvania, ice blocking Baltimore waterways, and a Nanaimo powder mill explosion killing two whites and ten Chinese.
In the senate on the 15th Tol man denounced trusts and faulted the attorney general for inaction while Foraker pressed the statehood bill for Oklahoma Arizona and New Mexico. McLawrin denied threats by Indianola Mississippi residents against a colored postmaster. The senate adjourned until Monday. In the house army funds passed and commerce measures began amid democratic opposition. Major incidents include Colum bia shooting of editor Gonzales over long quarrels, Dust’s arrest in Missouri over a forged check, Montevideo captain reporting stormy voyage, Mitchell at Clover Leaf dinner, Missouri labor federation opposing arbitration law, and seventy burghers sailing to Somaliland.
Multistate note roundup covers a Kokomo Indiana call for 48 girls to wed farmer bachelors in North Dakota. Other items include a Missouri saloon case, Roosevelt guidance for Utah Republicans, and a Minnesota bequest ruling on priest education funds.
Springfield dispatch notes John H. Miller won the speakership in the Forty-third Illinois General Assembly, giving Southern Illinois its first speaker since 1563, during Gov. Yates’s second term. The session opens amid senatorial elections and broad reform moves.
Illinois state news details Jacob Judy of Atlanta who has voted for 20 presidents and his rival Frank Binnion of Vernon who has voted for 21. Binnion, born August 9, 1800 in Bedford County Virginia, moved to Illinois in 1842 and has never left within four miles of his first settlement. He first voted for James Monroe before turning 21. A lifelong Democrat and South M E Church member since 1861, he is a widower since 1858 and runs the only hotel in Vernon with his unmarried daughter. His lineage includes grandfathers who served in the Revolutionary War, his father in the second war with England, and three sons in the Civil War.
Company C Fifth Infantry and Minos national guard were summoned to Springfield to stop a prize fight advertised before the Olympic Athletic club. Gov Yates warned that military interference would follow any attempt, but promoters pressed ahead. Military orders halted the event as hundreds of sports and several legislators watched.
Jacob Judy, age 9 at his birthday celebration in Atlanta, is noted for voting for twenty presidents. Born January 9, 1804 in Green County, Illinois, he claims the longest current Illinois residence in Tazewell County since 1823. He is the sole living member of a twelve-child family, with 51 grandchildren, 67 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild. Of about 130 descendants, 109 are living and most attended the reunion.
Citizens of Arcola seized 16 coal cars from Illinois Central, taking fuel for personal use in ten lots. Clergy, bankers, and policemen were among the crowd. Farmers burn corn for fuel, gaining no benefit. At Tuscola, ten cars were seized as an echo of the action.
A St. Louis to Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis passenger train halted several miles north of Alton when the combination buffet and passenger car caught fire from a kerosene stove used for cooking meals. Trainmen extinguished the flames. buffet side walls were badly scorched.
In a wreck of Burlington passenger train No. 48 eight miles northeast of Aston, Engineer Frank Horn stayed at the throttle and was killed. Only two passengers were injured as the train, traveling at 90 miles an hour, rode on rails that spread.
Mr J B Jackson and his wife, prominent octogenarians near Bloomington, died within days of each other after a brief illness from pneumonia. He was 80, she 81, marking a simultaneous family loss in the community.
William Long aged 60 was found dead in his houseboat on the river front at Quincey. Death due to cold and starvation. A fisherman, he was well known along the entire length of the upper Mississippi.
The store of F. J. Schleper & Son in Duquoin was robbed. B. F. Herrington and Guy Porter were arrested, confessed, and are held for the grand jury.
Charles Fowler, 50, jailed in Bloomington on a charge of forging orders for commissions hanged himself to a window in his cell, authorities report.
About three hundred miners quit work at the Pana Coal Company declaring the operators would not furnish enough coal cars. The stoppage halted production and drew attention to rail and labor disputes affecting the mine operations.
Narcisso Gener Gonzales editor of The State lies in critical condition after a pistol wound inflicted by Lt. Gov. James H. Tillman in Columbia near Main and Gervais streets. Tillman was arrested at once and held at the county jail as the cause is traced to Gonzales’s harsh editorials against Tillman during the 1902 gubernatorial campaign.
In Columbia on January 16 Lieut. Gov. Tillman and editor N G Gonzales met near Main and Gervais after leaving the state house. Tillman drew a revolver and fired one shot into Gonzales’s right side, as Gonzales claimed no message preceded the act. Gonzales described Tillman’s warning and his own remark, then Tillman walked away.
At midnight surgeons issued a bulletin on Gonzales stating pulse 121 and respiration normal, resting easily. The report notes condition and ongoing care with no further details provided.
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