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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1902
Page
1
Herr Most’s year imprisonment has been upheld by New York courts. Upon release he faces a new congressional anti anarchy law, with a harsher potential sentence for future offenses.
If you plan a summer outing, wear old clothes and stay near home. Do not venture into the forest in attire you value or love, as that could ruin the whole excursion.
Havana reports 486000 tons of sugar held on the island to await the outcome of the reciprocity push with the United States. A duty reduction would lower costs for buyers, boost sugar sales, and could widen tax revenue and public spending potential benefiting the Cuban treasury and people overall.
The Minneapolis Times notes a Wisconsin man who tried hypnotizing a bull expects to be back in about six weeks. It adds that after severe injuries including seven or eight fractured ribs two shoulders collapsed and a face turned wrong side out he cannot expect to run foot races the next day.
While American Ambassador Choate hosted King Edward VII at dinner, observers saw not a praise of royalty but a sign of European trend toward honoring democracy. The remark framed American conduct as a measured display of republican values in a royal setting.
A Pretoria dispatch notes surrendering Boers include many youngsters of eleven years and up. Gen De Wet commends their fighting qualities, while Gen Smith once watched Filipinos often brandishing a holo. The piece comments on tropical youth ripening early.
The piece mocks Massachusetts decisions that a man cannot be held for drunkenness without proof of voluntary drinking. It notes that forcing an intoxicated person to drink is not common, yet the law is treated as if it happens often, a notion found humorous by locals.
The Automobile Club of America set a good example by suspending two members for pushing their cars to excessive speeds in an endurance run. It predicts that in months the horseless carriage will be made a safer vehicle for occupants and for all highway travelers nationwide.
The House passed the Senate’s irrigation measure by 146 to 55. The bill creates a reclamation fund from public land sales to finance irrigation works within the state or territory where the land lies, and does not commit the government to ongoing irrigation beyond that mechanism.
Countess de Rochambeau commends President Roosevelt for wit, judgment, and enthusiasm. She recalls sitting beside him at dinner in Washington and says few in France possess such manly characteristics. finds it charming if more men were like him.
Senor Buencamino, ex head of Aguinaldo's cabinet, after visiting St. Louis, says Filipinos are fast becoming Americanized with children in school. He notes unprecedented prosperity and widespread happiness as key signs, and strongly supports the Philippines remaining part of the United States and growing with it.
From outsiders cases it appears St Louis shares a disease of municipal corruption. Public office seems a synonym for private swap in many officials. It seems strange that men who pose publicly and raise families in respectable surroundings would join petty thieves and highway robbers in the same class.
The Senate held executive session and discussed reciprocal relations with Cuba, while the House passed the irrigation bill 146 to 65 and advanced private pension measures. Over days, discourse on the Nicaragua and Panama canal, isthmian routes, and related rail and pension issues continued, with debates, votes, and a Lincoln monument funding resolution. An accident near Mexico, Missouri killed engineer John Keller and injured others, and detonation sounds were heard at St Thomas, D W I.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood will stay several weeks with President Roosevelt at the White House. In London King Edward's doctors urge him to skip public duties due to coronation strain. E. J. Hinshaw wins the Fourth Nebraska district GOP convention on the 343rd ballot. Bland Memorial unveiling in Lebanon Missouri honors Richard Parks Bland with Virginia Bland presenting. Carey McAllister of Newark is detained at the White House over mental health questions after a gun remark. Estes Rathbone, once Cuba post director, freed then sails from Havana to New York after Cuba amnesty bill signing.
The Denver building trades council agreed to arbitration with the Contractors' association to resolve a four week strike that left about 4,000 workers idle and paralyzed the city’s building industry. The Ancient Order of United Workmen’s supreme lodge planned its next session for St Paul. W T McMichael, who shot E W Johnson in Oklahoma City, died from his wounds.
In the senate on the 19th the Spooner substitute for Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill passed 42 to 34 after two amendments, creating a construction commission and authorizing 130 million dollars in 2 percent gold bonds. The bill then passed 67 to 6 and a conference with the house on army appropriation amendments was requested. Also in the house week’s opening, Cooper of Wisconsin and Jones of Virginia spoke on Philippine government bill. Dispatch from Fort de France notes Mont Pelee eruption and mud flooding Basse Pointe and Le Precheur. A death in Oklahoma follows an alleged water cure on a four year old, while a mixed-train wreck in South Carolina killed one. Kilpatrick transport arrives San Francisco with troops and casualties. King Albert of Saxony died of cancer at age 74.
News item reports Murry Manus shot and killed Geo Breeden two miles north of Dean Arkansas on Friday. Other notes include Evans welcomed in London with Gen Wheeler present, Manewal of National Biscuit Co. dead, and a Philadelphia fire with twelve injured.
John Wanamaker rumored to open a large department store in Chicago. Mrs. Morris Heide, wife of a prominent farmer near Bunker Hill, died in a wagon runaway. Illinois Epworth League convention set for July 15 to 17 in Nashville. Heavy rain affects Havana area and wheat acres. P Steckel drowned at Crooked Creek in Hancock County. Mr. Boughen, 46, dies from horse injury in Kimndudy. Capt. Joseph B. Thorpe, 75, passes away in Jackson County. H Williams of Pittsfield dies suddenly of heart disease. George Page killed by a train near Kenney. A. E. Bell brick residence in Casey destroyed by fire. Rev. Henry W. Temple invited as president of Monmouth College. Lead deposits suspected near Ava. Charles Francis Adams urges statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Washington.
Obituaries list Levi Simmons 74 longtime O Fallon resident and Freemason, J T Atherton 65 of Grayville heart disease, Mrs Margery Cooper 73 Jacksonville, Anton Voss 58 Breese Township, Thomas H. Graham 63 Shelby County former county clerk, Noah Syfert 72 Shelby County resident, Mrs Margaret Thimmel 66 Red Bud, Mrs Anthony Kleber 72 Carlyle, David Johnson 93 Virginia Civil War veteran, David Clark wealthy Eureka resident, Mrs W D Deweese Bloominton, David R White 50 Sandoval Keysport, Mrs J P Baldwin Mulberry Grove heart failure. Democratic State Ticket listed for Springfield includes Clerk of Supreme Court John L Picisering, State Treasurer George W Duddleston, Supt of Public Instruction Anson L Bliss, Trustees Julia Holmes Smith, J A White, S S Maxwell, Clerk of Appellate Court Third District J H Baker. Henry Hamilton body found south of Quincy, burned clothes, coroner says lightning strike. For 19 years Mrs John Snyder Charleston deaf, shock from teaspoon revealed hearing restored.
Louise Oxley aged 12 daughter of R A Oxley of Clinton died at her grandmother Cen tralia home from lockjaw following a double arm fracture sustained two weeks earlier.
Governor Yates issues requisition to Kansas governor to extradite George W. Livingston wanted in Decatur on a grand larceny charge.
Charles Oller, son of prominent Pana businessman David Oller, drowned while swimming in a pond with companions in Pana. The incident occurred during a local recreation moment, with no further details on rescue attempts or casualties provided.
Miss Myrtle Scott, a Garment Workers union member, was elected carnival queen at Bloomington with backing from local unions.
Lord Kitchener telegrams to Generals Botha Delarey and De Wet praising burghers for surrender and urging record of progress. He says the British public welcomes burghers as fellow citizens and expects a new era of reconciliation in South Africa.
Lord Kitchener reports 915 Boers surrendered in Pretoria on June 16 completing Transvaal surrenders. He notes 700 more surrendered at Bloemfontein on June 17, totaling 11,225 in the Transvaal and 5,395 in the Orange River Colony with 10,813 and 5,280 rifles turned in respectively. Cape Colony figures pending. He says the South African constabulary is now handed to civil authorities as military operations end.
London dispatches from Lord Kitchener dated April 8, 1902 describe the defeat and capture of Gen. Metheun. Kitchener blames the bulk of mounted troops for weak resistance and notes infantry and guns faced superior numbers. He also praise for Canadian soldiers at Brakspruit, calling their stand among the finest heroism of the campaign.
London crowds pack streets near the Bank of England for coronation illuminations last night. Traffic halted, pedestrians fill Princess and Lombard streets as crowds display roughness suggesting possible coronation night events. In Denver, a $2000 post office robbery prompts a Washington inquiry into the theft, with clerks delaying vault placement and no bars at the break-in window.
Secretary Root answered a Senate request on war costs showing 170 326 586 dollars total spent through 1902 with 473 072 dollars liabilities. Expenditures by year are listed from 1898 to 1902, noting large reassignments and ships and supplies still on hand in the Philippines. Troop totals fell from about 70 000 to 23 000 and will reach 18 000 after planned withdrawals and transport home using American ships.
Gen Jacob H Smith, recently court martialed in Manila, is to proceed to San Francisco to await further orders. He had been ordered to command the vacant Texas department before the trial. The execution of that order is suspended pending court-martial proceedings, but no reason exists to detain him in the Philippines. Military circles privately accept reports of his acquittal.
Authorities in Pottawatomie County investigate the death of four year old Arthur Pecure near Shawnee Oklahoma, allegedly caused by companions' use of the water cure. The boy was submerged in the Canadian River until water filled his lungs and stomach, resurfacing days later to die.
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