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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1902
Page
6
A column excerpt features a parlor trick using a paper arrow balanced on a needle and a glass to claim electricity from rubbing a cloth. It shifts to an essay on nature study tracing origins to Agassiz and independent inquiry. Also notes ultra fine wires in platinum and silver and a humorous quip from a New York newspaper.
In Hartshay England villagers formed a self help library from a pigsty near a canal bridge. Starting 1894 the Hartshay Reading Room grew from a tiny candlelit shed to a low whitewashed library with packed benches. Members read aloud on Wednesdays and Fridays and shared books through donations from neighbors.
A Boston Globe report describes making two cardboard figures blow through goose quills loaded with powder and phosphor. Lighting a candle, one quill’s powder end triggers an explosion and smoke that heats the phosphor to ignite it near the candle.
A design for a small family dwelling emphasizes comfort over excess, noting that cost hinges on ground area. The one story cottage features a front porch, vestibule, parlor, kitchen, pantry, five bedrooms, and a small bath, with 2x4 stud walls, shiplap, pine floors, and natural pine trim. Estimated construction cost ranges from $1,000 to $1,200. BE. A. Payne.
Cassier's Magazine notes the UK coal industry employs about 750,000 workers with roughly 600,000 underground, requiring 500 to 1,000 cubic feet of air per minute per person. Total consumption nears 18 billion cubic feet per hour, weighing over half a million tons, to dilute noxious gases and keep miners breathing a comparatively pure atmosphere.
An antiquity tale claims Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem, plated with gold, remained unscathed by lightning for a millennium atop a hill in a thunderous region. Nova Zembia expedition planned to study auroral displays under Prof. Birksland with six companions. Short items include editorial critiques and a couple of jokes from Town Topics, Chicago American, and Judge.
At Fort Riley Kansas on October 2 a simulated war problem tested attack and defense of a convoy. Blue forces based at Saline moved toward Topeka as a supply base while Brown forces attempted a cutting raid. The convoy stretched over two miles with artillery caissons included. Observers included Assistant Secretary of War Sanger Acting Adjutant General Carter and Russian Attache Col Raspopoff who actively watched the lively maneuver.
Emile Hartmann once a member of the house of delegates and a September fugitive from justice was captured in South McAlester I T by a deputy marshal at his brother-in-law's home. He admits his identity and faces bribery and perjury charges tied to the Suburban bill and fighting bill affairs. a $300 reward is offered. Hartmann is one of six fugitives indicted on the Murrell confession.
Victoria report lists several Australian vessels lost in south seas gales. The schooner Sybil with 110 aboard disappeared after leaving Solomon islands for Queensland in April. Steamer Quirang lost off the Australian coast with 30 dead. Mammbare, 2000 tons, stranded on a reef near Santoba, all hands saved to Noumea by H.M. Phoebe. Eclipse lost near Solomon islands. Father Rouillan drowned.
In Mindanao the Macia Moros offered slight resistance to Capt. Pershing's Fifteenth Cavalry column. After skirmishes, Moros retreated to six lake forts as artillery shelled their positions. Pershing's men seized three forts, with 19 American casualties and 20 Moros killed or wounded.
President Castro led 6,000 troops with 17 guns from Valencia toward Tocuyito to engage Gen Mendoza’s insurgents. Villages near Villa de Cura reported 1,400 local guerillas routed at San Juan de Los Moros. Barquisimeto's blockade worsens, 45 days without supplies, with yellow fever and typhus reported as Caracas market shows rising securities.
Secretary Moody released a cable from Commander McLean reporting tacit U S protection of the transit at Colon Panama. A Colombian gunboat fired on revolutionary forces near Panama. McLean says no gunboat action by either side will be allowed in the transit bay and anchorage area.
At Senator Morgan's request the state department plans to assess if recent seismic disturbances and volcanic activity changed water levels at Lake Managua and the San Juan River, within the surveyed Nicaraguan canal routes. James C. Jones of Alabama is chosen to conduct the investigation in Nicaragua.
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