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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1902
Page
1
Ansonia Connecticut a thriving manufacturing town is governed in every department by officials belonging to trades unions. Official meetings are held at night and no one is at the city hall during the day except the janitor.
Report from China describes runners and underlings who ate food prepared for the emperor and his officials on the court’s way to Pekin. To avoid disgrace they then took their own lives.
In New York, after Tammany vacated, four men and a foreman were found responsible for a single horse. The report notes efforts to hustle coal to keep tropical fish at the public aquarium from freezing, highlighting frugal measures amid upheaval.
A downtown New York mission purchases 750 acres of wooded land on Long Island to aid homeless men. After clearing, residents will cultivate gardens and raise chickens and livestock as part of a work program.
At a banquet in his honor by the St. Louis law school in Arkansas, Judge Rose proclaimed three kinds of lawyers have disappeared. The man who knows nothing but the law, the technical lawyer who searches every document for uncrossed T or undotted I, and the oratorical lawyer who was as dead as a door nail.
Reports from agricultural interests show total crop values exceed previous years despite drought in some sections. The higher values compensate farmers for losses, delivering optimism across farming communities amid the Prosperity era.
Miss Lizzie Miller sued Henry J. Henning after losing thirty pounds of weight from grief over a jilting. A Chicago jury awarded her $1,500, valuing the shrinkage at fifty dollars per pound as the measure of damages.
By a near unanimous vote the House approves the Hepburn bill to construct the Nicaragua canal. Public sentiment across the United States backs the action and further Senate debate is anticipated though a different outcome seems unlikely. The Panama route is dismissed as lobbyists are urged to yield.
Mrs. John L. Gardner's recently completed Boston gallery will be opened to the public. Her collection of art becomes community property, transforming private pictures into shared cultural wealth and enriching civic life.
The article portrays Rudyard Kipling as a powerful political singer whose sharp verse delivers biting critique of the British government. It argues Kipling’s influence hinges on how the English public accepts and considers his bold, surgical rhymes.
The text highlights the Carnegie institution as a uniquely broad educational factor driven by its large endowment. It notes that the corporators plan a scope commensurate with the $10,000,000 endowment and that the revenue’s purpose to aid public education and scientific research should stimulate higher education at all levels.
The passage praises British steadiness and frank self-critique, noting that few peoples face their own errors so openly and then press to correct them even amid disaster. It argues observers misjudge Britain's stance toward South Africa and European tensions.
Debates in both chambers cover a permanent census bureau pension funds and veterans homes. The House advances a general pension bill while debating Confederate home aid. The Senate discusses commerce department plans reciprocity with Cuba and naval reserve proposals, with routine matters and adjournments noted.
On the 12th Christopher Zug a pioneer iron manufacturer of western Pennsylvania died at his Pittsburg home at 95. He served as director of several financial and philanthropic institutions. Secretary of State Hay and Lord Pauncefote signed a one year extension to allow British colonies to adhere to the US Great Britain treaty. Booths kin resign from the Salvation Army to join John Alexander Dowie’s church. On the 14th Gen S G Griffin Civil War veteran died in Keene NH aged 77. Gov Shaw of Iowa pardoned A L Wood of Winterset for perjury, a former legislator editor and postmaster. On the 15th Delegate Griffith introduced a $3,000 bill to erect a life-size bust of Rear Admiral W S Schley in the Maryland state house.
On the 14th Luella Hacker at Boone laundry in Enid suffered a fatal arm injury after her dress caught in a wringer. On the 15th North Enid bank robbed of 2000 with safe blown by dynamite. Arapahoe fire wipes out business district with 50000 loss. Scotland Yard alerted on gang of swindlers heading to London. Bricklayers union endorses arbitration for disputes. Canada’s 1901 census: population 5,369,666. Commons seats drop to 210. Indiana Supreme Court rules employer cannot contract away statutory duties after miner injury suit.
The British foreign office released parliamentary correspondence on the Isthmian canal treaty, which added nothing new to the established facts. A certificate of incorporation was filed in Dover, Delaware, on the 15th for the Mineral Development Co. of Mexico with capital of £1,250,000 to buy lease and hold mining rights.
In the senate on the 16th the bill creating a department of commerce drew strong opposition and must be radically amended before approval. Objection centered on transferring bureaus from other departments, with claims the secretary of commerce would outrank the secretary of the treasury. Amends were announced as many pension bills passed. the senate adjourned to the 20th while the house did not meet. Wholesale census dismissals begin, with hundreds already discharged and 500 more to go on the 1st, and about 600 to depart in February to cut staff from 2600 to 600–700. The Leyland line steamer Victoria arrived at Halifax with Canadian troops, set to sail about the 23rd. Gov. Odell urged observing McKinley’s birthday on Jan 29. Capt. Eaton named to command the Oregon, to join the Pacific station. Gov. Minn of Colorado appointed Charles F. Wilson Denver police commissioner. A heavy snowstorm hit Germany on the 15th, Thuringia amidst three feet of snow and disrupted rail and telegraph services.
Mrs. Mary Fogwell dies at Paris aged over 100. Fire at Eldorado Springs Mo destroys a new business block and adjoining building valued at 20000 dollars. Railroads edging closer to prewar business levels per Dun and Bradstreet. French minister to China refuses credentials until France’s demands granted. Peoria dealer finds Continental Congress script from 1779 in scrap book. Fire at Mount Vernon Tex destroys Shields and Hill hotels plus six business houses, total loss about 100000 dollars.
Fifteen hundred quarts of nitroglycerine stored in two magazines near Marion Indiana exploded at 1 30 am on Wednesday. The blast shook the northeastern part of the state and left a yawning hole in the ravine. No injuries reported as residents fled and nearby houses were shaken up to miles away.
Neighbors find Vincens Visolek and his family in a blood soaked bedroom at 29 Springgiley Pittsburg. Mrs Visolek is dead from a crushed skull after a violent assault with a rail cutter. Their three children Della Frank and Anna aged eight five and two are gravely injured. Visolek, intoxicated, attacked wife then defended himself with a knife before collapsing. Neighbors hear moans, police alerted.
Tonight police tighten security as three Polish boarders and John Okenski, a missing boarder, face arrest amid a deadly crime at the Visulek house. A woman carried 1200 dollars and was found beaten, while Visolek and two children suffered fatal injuries. Okenski is accused of starting a mattress fire a week earlier.
A run of Illinois items shows George Hitcheccik killed by a mine fall at Penwell, Albert Foster burned by a gas lamp blast near Strassburg, and William Stack dying from gunshot wounds at Danville. Warren Brew and Clay Condon acquitted in the Edward Taylor murder case at Dewitt. Other notes mention rural free delivery planned for Peoria County, Mamie Barnes to stand trial in Jacksonville for homicide, Butcher crushed to death at Herrin mine, Murry McHaney sentenced for counterfeiting in Springfield, and the Black Hawk mine tower and shakers at Farmington burned, leaving 175 men unemployed with $10,000 in losses.
A colossal cottonwood on Charles Crickman’s farm near Flora was felled and sawn into 8000 feet of merchantable lumber. The seven foot diameter tree stood in the Little Wabash bottoms. a 12 foot first limb yielded 600 feet of lumber, box stuff sold for 110 dollars.
Miss Imogene Shaw of Murphysboro is aged 23, eldest daughter of M. W. Shaw. Mrs Kate Strickland, 65, of Murphysboro. Samuel H. Thompson, 68, of Chester, Civil War veteran in Co G of the Eightieth Minors infantry. Mrs Sarah E. Christie, 67, of Quincy. Mrs James Arnold, near Sandoval. Henry J. Dillon, 81, of Virginia. Charles C. Bennett, 27, known in Greenville. John S. Evey, 68, Shelby County resident. Mrs Caroline Arnold, 65, Marion County native and resident.
David M. Cline of Bloomington choked to death while eating pork in a saloon where he worked as porter. Once a prosperous physician with a Louisville education, he faded due to habitual drinking and lived a lonely life, unknown to his social circle.
Andrew Ponder a farmer living near Carmi was found unconscious beside a Chicago and Eastern train near Jefferson County and died shortly after. He could not explain the cause of his injuries. He leaves a widow and several children near Carmi and a brother in Ewing.
William Marshall Scribner, famed author of penmanship copybooks, died in Chicago. Myr Scribner, active in western education, reportedly had his name printed on 50 million copybooks over forty years. Born in Waterboro, Maine in 1824, he lived long in Boston, where his body will be interred.
Christian J Frevert of Bloomington, a successful restaurant owner who began with little and died wealthy, passed away recently. His career spanned decades of local dining, building a reputed eatery from modest beginnings.
A payment of 17816 dollars was made to Secretary of State James A. Rose by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway Company to conduct business in Illinois.
New York reports that the Imperial Yacht Meteor, a Kiel built schooner at Shooter's Island, has been approved by Captain Hubert von Rebeur naval attaché. Under Theodore E. Ferris, plating is rushed for launch around February 26, with water entry possible by February 20.
The imperial yacht Hohenzollern is completing preparations for its Saturday departure to the United States. It tested boilers and adjusted compasses in the outer fjord on Wednesday. Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, with top aides, dined aboard to bid farewell to Admiral Count Von Baudissin and staff. Prince Henry and his aide left Kiel Thursday for Berlin.
Berlin reports Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia arrived Thursday afternoon from Kiel and will stay ten days. Details of his landing in the United States and subsequent movements are being handled by Secretary Hay and German ambassador Dr. Von Holleben in Washington.
Ambassador Von Holleben informed Secretary Hay that Prince Henry and his suite will be entertained at the German embassy in Washington. Dr. Hill may represent the State Department in reception ceremonies due to his German language fluency. Ex-Gov. Francis urged a St. Louis stop to view Louisiana Purchase Exposition progress.
A great wind storm swept Vienna causing injuries to 100 plus, unroofed houses, blown chimneys, and debris clogging streets. People were knocked down, several horses were killed, a freight train derailed, and passenger traffic was disrupted.
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