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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
6
A brief digest surveys global events including casualties and fires, political developments, business failures and resumptions, and weather records. It highlights notable incidents, market shifts, and climate notes from various regions and times.
Congress meets to consider reciprocity for Cuba and other affairs. The Cuban bill sits in the Senate while the House adjourns to December 1. Reports include Philippine slavery abolition, militia pay, and mine strike tensions in Colorado. A lynching near St. George South Carolina, post office burglary, and other crime notes also appear.
Reports note patriots marking the 120th anniversary of New York’s evacuation by British forces. Other items recount a Cincinnati fire fatality, a town marshal shot in Fairmount, Indiana, and various political and criminal incidents across the United States.
Justice John C. Pollock of the Kansas Supreme Court is named to replace United States District Judge Hook, who was recently elevated to the United States circuit court for Kansas. The Iowa governor canvass shows Cummins with a plurality of 79,090 and a majority of 59,644. Massachusetts reelects Gov Bates with a 35,984 plurality.
The flood in St Petersburg is described as the largest since 1824, with severe hardship for the homeless and residents in cellars amid extreme cold. Reports from Panama note junta ratifying the canal treaty once received. Russo Manchuria tensions and other global upheavals are listed with various casualties and political moves.
Russia dispatches battleship and torpedo destroyers to Chemulpo to press a demand on Japan. The Dreyfus case is reopened in Paris by the justice minister who asserts false evidence surfaced at the prior trial. British plans for a Thibet advance are under Indian coordination with Gen. Macdonald to lead. Russian assistance expected to fend off the invaders.
A mixed set of notes covers diverse 1903 events: Germany recognizes Panama as a sovereign state. a Grand Rapids bribery case cites sums paid to newspapers and ex mayor Perry. bank robberies in Hayti and Dundee bank embezzlement allegations. deer hunting fatalities and injuries. a college steer showing entry by Iowa Agricultural College. a Jewell Lutheran college fire. textile wages cuts in Massachusetts. a Cook county death toll. a historic Brooklyn Academy of Music fire. lynching near Belcher Louisiana. and the Kansas eight hour law upheld by the U S supreme court. agriculture secretary Wilson reviews progress against animal diseases and fruit-tree pests.
J Wayne Amos who resembled Lincoln died at Redlands California. Canadian livestock breeders will not exhibit at St Louis due to tariff restrictions. An agent for the Louisiana Purchase exposition heads to Africa to recruit Pygmies for display. Former Queen Liliuokalani returns to Washington to press compensation for Hawaii crown lands. Albert D James returns to New York after seven months in the Andes. Wie reports his party pursued by cannibals but escaped by floating 1000 miles down a wild river. An Anti saloon league goal is a corps of 400 workers and up to a million dollars a year. Gen Booth suggests a non agression alliance between two great nations for universal peace. An international physical culture show in New York offers 1000 dollars to top man and woman. Secretary Wilson proclaims pure food standards by states. Six Louisville firemen are accused of looting at the Masonic temple fire. President Carter of the Louisiana Purchase exposition says foreign patronage will exceed Chicago 1893. Former Queen Natalie of Servia declines gifts after outmarrying Queen Draga, renouncing a gold mine valued at 400000 dollars.
Desperadoes Har vey Van Dine Peter Niedermeier Emil Roeski and Gustav Marx, linked to six killings, were captured after a snowbound pursuit from Miller's Station Indiana to Tolleson. A brakeman was killed and two policemen wounded before the gang was stopped by Chicago and Indiana officers.
Grover Cleveland stated in a handwritten Princeton letter that under no circumstances will he accept the presidential nomination for a third term. The missive accompanied an editorial from St Clair McKelway of the Brooklyn Eagle suggesting Judge Alton B Parker as the Democratic nominee. Cleveland's decision is final and unalterable.
Miss Muriel Armitage of Detroit writes of five years of uterine irregularities, hysteria, and relief after using Peruna. She says fifteen bottles cured her and notes Peruna treats catarrh of the pelvic organs as it does the head.
An advertisement claims female weakness stems from pelvic catarrh and that Peruna can permanently cure catarrh including chronic cases. It offers free medical advice from Dr. Hartman of the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio.
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