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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1902
Page
1
California will produce about 190 million pounds of dried prunes this year. The report notes potential shortfall if Turkey does not export any of the selected fruit, but domestic supply remains sufficient for consumption.
Minneapolis condemns youth drinking and proposes stricter penalties for saloonkeepers who sell liquor to minors, aligning with actions taken against municipal boodlers. The piece notes drastic shifts in Southern agriculture with cotton yielding low, strawberries rising, and tobacco production hitting 466 million pounds.
Danes consider their approach to securing the Danish West Indies amid potential setbacks. A contemporaneous quip recalls resolve: if the plan sinks, so be it. if it succeeds, so be it as well.
Chicago authorities convict two boodlers with sentences ranging from six months in prison for one to two years and a $3500 fine for the other. The moves reflect mounting citywide efforts to punish boodling beyond St. Louis as reform sentiment grows.
Mr. Wu is recalled to China to head the national department of commerce. He advocates Yankee wrinkles as useful reforms and hints at the advent of Young America if nothing there corresponds to it.
Georgia chose Alexander H. Stephens as one of its two memorials for Statuary Hall in the national capitol. The state argues Stephens was among the most interesting figures in the South during the nation’s most critical era.
King Leopold of Belgium in 1904 is expected to meet not only Americans in St Louis as Europe and Asia’s crowned heads and heirs apparent promise to attend the World's Fair. The city is to be a general meeting place for world celebrities that year.
An old debate resurfaces alleging Columbus did not discover America, with competing claims of discovery by Madoc of Wales, Eric of Norway, or a nameless monk from Afghanistan, while some argue Christopher was a forger in a Shakespearean Baconian style controversy.
Indications point to immediate submission of the Panama canal treaty to the Senate upon its assembling. Attorney General Knox's opinion on the French company's power to transfer title to canal, franchises, and property to the United States will be handed to the president and is believed affirmative. If so, work in summer 1903 should be in active operation.
A pile-up scrimmage left a football player dead after collapsing beneath teammates. He had run twenty yards with the ball and fainted as officials prepared to resume play. His death marks the fifth fatality of the game and season amid a surge of serious injuries.
The Roosevelt appointed commission leans toward widening the inquiry beyond settling the 1902 strike to articulate principles for future disputes. It is hoped the panel can pursue this goal, with employers workers and the nation seeking continuous production free from irrational demands or oppression.
Mr Ford and W Peck express amazement at the advanced progress of construction on the St Louis World's Fair grounds. They arrived to see actual buildings rising rather than mere stake marks and congratulate the city on the rapid development of the exposition. Mr Peck is noted as an exposition expert.
The Columbian revolutionary generals Uribe Uribe and Castillo surrendered near Santa Marta, handing over arms and ammunition. Bishop Spalding of Peoria is likely, as Mrs. Roosevelt’s sister arrives ill. President Roosevelt plans an Oyster Bay vote and a November southern trip. Railroad and murder incidents across several states are noted, plus a cannonical typhoid report and a large Willkes-Barre protest. A ton cornice fell in Kansas City injuring workers. The American Bowling Congress tournament in Indianapolis is postponed to February.
Telegram summaries recount heavy early season snow in northern Michigan on the 25th and first snow in Hagerstown Maryland on the 29th. Ice house losses total 80 thousand dollars at Loon Lake Illinois on the 28th while European champagne vintages fail. Prices move as Indiana crude oil gains two cents to 92 cents per barrel. A severe trio of crimes includes a Guthrie Oklahoma mother flames that kill her three children and Wynne Arkansas girls murdered by an unknown assailant. A Sioux Falls Indian, George Baer, is convicted and sentenced to hang for murder.
Illinois state brief lists numerous deaths across counties including Waterloo Birdtownship Macoupin County Greenville Alma Ramsey Beardstown Salem Nashville Quincy Mound City Anskershell Thrush and others. Notables include Valentine Doellermann Sr 90 German-born pioneer. Mrs Georgia Sullens 24 wife of Luther Sullens. Dr O S Andrews 86. Rev Benjamin Mahon 86 pioneer minister. James A Dick 80 sheriff and educator. Capt John McDowell 72 bank president and industrial figure. John Henry Anskershell 87 early Washington county settler. George H Thrush 61 G A R member who served in Co A Tenth Missouri infantry. Civil war veteran context noted.
In Riverton William Bratton of Springfield died suddenly while firing at Riverton No. 1 mine. Daniel Ray, a miner there, was killed. Back taxes paid and Chicago Masonic Temple will not be sold. William and Sarah Taylor near Clay City celebrated their golden wedding. Mount Pulaski Grain Elevator Co at Illinois Central junction burned with injuries. Tr N McNutt of Pana died after falling into a coal shaft. Mrs McNutt died Monday evening. six children left. Alto Pass suffers water famine and sickness. A D Milhouse of Jackson County owns the first greenback No. 1 series A worth $5. Rev George G Gill, pastor of Edinburg German Reform Church, accepts call to Somerset Ohio and will move. W H Brown of Prentice killed by a Wabash train at age 4. Supreme Court upholds apportionment of Illinois congressional and senatorial districts.
Mrs. Margaret Hayes sued J. S. Cunningham Robert Ginn and Mattoon police chief Lyons for 5000 in Coles county circuit court. The court ruled insufficient damages and dismissed the case but Hayes promptly filed a 10000 slander suit against Robert Ginn. Ginn, a prominent stockman worth 100000, resides in Sullivan.
Frederick Larimore, son of Isaac Newton Larimore, a prominent Plainville resident in Adams county, was found dead in front of his home at night with a bullet wound to the breast. No weapon was found nearby making suicide unlikely. He had no known enemies and was about to marry.
Mrs. Eliza Hartwell aged 75 was found dead in her room at the Anna B. Milliken home in Decatur. She apparently opened a gas burner when turning out the light and suffocated.
Mrs. D A Russell aged 93 long time resident of Christian County died recently after a long marriage of 65 years. Her husband preceded her in death by several years.
In Wilkesbarre Pa on October 30 an all day Mitchell Day celebration closed mines to allow workers to attend. About 10 000 miners marched past President Mitchell in a lengthy procession amid flags and brass bands. A mass meeting at the YMCA park followed with Rev J F Powers praising Mitchell and Mitchell urging unity, no more strikes, and workers sticking with the union to avoid bearing the cost of labor conflicts.
The anthracite coal commissioners arrived in Scranton to inspect mines and miners homes. Headquarters are at the Hotel Jermyn with 14 rooms. managers and superintendents from big mining firms will attend. District President Nichols of the miners union leads the miners’ delegation, while President Mitchell may not visit unless summoned. The tour includes Forest City underground, a Carbondale breaker, and a stop at Olyphant to view more collieries and workers houses.
In Hazleton Pennsylvania on October 30 the United Mine Workers and neighboring towns celebrated Mitchell day with a parade drawing about eight thousand men. The event included addresses by local and visiting speakers at the Grand opera house while all collieries except Latimer operations of C Pardee and Co remained idle.
Reading Pa reports 24 hours saw long trains and nearly 20,000 tons of anthracite coal pass through. A Thursday run began Wednesday at 1 28 o clock from the collieries, comprising about seven hundred cars.
A seven member Roosevelt commission toured the upper coal field near Scranton on Oct 31 to observe coal production from blasting to market. They crawled through wet passages, endured coal dust, and questioned miners and operators as they followed the underground journey to No 2 shaft and through mine cars deep inside the Forest City area.
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