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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1903
Page
6
A digest of global and domestic items: Bishop Hartzell sails on African mission inspection. Roosevelt defends coal strike actions. post office routes extended. Illinois robbers and indictments. fires in Aurora and Senecaville. Woodmen conventions and flood aid. rail and postal investigations. strikes, robberies, and political shifts across cities and countries. Multiple named people, places, and organizations appear.
Maj. Gen. Frank Wheaton retired dies in Washington at 70. Author John Paul Bocock passes away in Wayne Pennsylvania. A San Francisco paper claims Gen. U S Grant may seek the Republican vice presidency next year. Grover Cleveland says he does not plan to reenter public life. William C. Van Benthuysen of the World editorial staff dies in New York. Judge Oliver P. Shiras of the Iowa federal bench to retire November 1, aged 70 in October. Senator Hanna, in Cleveland, reiterates he is not or would not be a vice presidential candidate.
Russia warns the new Servian king to punish his predecessor’s murderers. Other items note fourteen killed and thirteen injured in a London Woolwich arsenal explosion, a Porto Rico woman supervisor killed in a Ponce runaway, and Greece/France updates including Pope Leo reception attempts and tensions over Jews, Catholics, and government.
A Yale address urges wealthy Americans to donate 14 million dollars to endow university professorships. Turkish palace security narrowly avoids dynamite attack. Postal fraud indictments rise with Lorenz of Toledo charged. Mrs. Lockey Perry dies at 101 in Waverly, Iowa. King Peter leaves Geneva for Belgrade to take the throne. George F. Baer reelected Reading Railroad president. Lehigh mine explosion fatal to six. Zenor Serbia cloudburst kills 30 and wrecks 54 homes. Vesuvian eruption reported from Naples. Massachusetts reports glanders deaths in humans. Reports claim 200,000 Chinese starving in Kwang-Si. George White mob lynching at Wilmington prison. St Stanislaus College burns at Bay St. Louis. Seven new cardinals named in Rome consistory. British Parliament repeals corn duty. Alfred Peats’ Greenwich mansion fire kills daughter. Four killed in Cole Junction rail wreck. New Mexico judge D H McMillan removed for immorality. successor appointed.
Washington reports Britain plans to cut diplomatic ties with Servia over the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga. Belgrade promotes Mischich and others in the military leadership while King Peter’s government faces international calls to punish those implicated.
A stormy morning near Senecaville Ohio caused lightning to strike a hut containing 3000 pounds of dynamite at a new mine. Six carpenters were killed and many others hurt as the blast shattered the barn and wrecked the mine shaft, with debris injuring residents in nearby Senecaville. The dead include William Mehoney Samuel Hartup Russell Hartup Hiram Wilson Hayes Hutchison and Robert Wison.
Miss Katie Atkins was shot and killed at her Salisbury home by Elmer Heath, her lover. Heath then shot himself, fell unconscious, and was taken to jail to avert a lynching. Both under 21, they planned marriage last Thursday after a prior theft dispute with Heath’s employer.
A physician’s letter collection presents endorsements from John W. Meng of Indianapolis and Willis Brewer of Alabama praising Peruna as a cure for stomach catarrh and indigestion. Meng credits six weeks of use with restored health and ongoing relief. Brewer calls Peruna a tonic and notes personal benefit after one bottle.
A Collier aphorism notes that arrogance signals a petty and unbenevolent temper, reflecting a lack of true greatness beyond a swelling, dropsy-like pride.
An advertisement invites readers to request Katy publications such as The Golden Square Timely Topics and Old Mexico. Free copies available from Katy at 512 Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri, with a light market quip from the Chicago Journal.
Wickets on sale July 2 3 4 with a single fare and third round trip via the Queen and Crescent Route. Tickets are good returning until July 8. Ask Kicket Agents for particulars. Honest labor is said to be a good remedy for bad luck.
One fare for round trip plug 25e from July 22 to 27 via Queen and Crescent Route. Ask ticket agent for particulars. The Overland Limited trains run daily from Chicago to the Coast on the Chicago Union Pacific and North Western Line. Worry is a good friend of the undertaker.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills as a remedy for skin and scalp humours including simple scrofulous and hereditary cases, claiming quick cure through a combination treatment. The copy emphasizes topical and internal preparations for general skin health.
Complete external and internal treatment advertised for skin and blood humours ailments including scrofula bad blood and related symptoms. Claims cures for infants and children and lists Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills with prices and distributors in multiple cities.
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