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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
2
President Roosevelt toured Salem and Portland Oregon, laying the cornerstone of the Lewis and Clark monument in Portland. Other notes report labor enforcement in Pennsylvania, post office deficit tied to misuse, strikes and weather disasters across the nation, and religious assembly creed amendments.
Edison named honorary chief consulting engineer at the St Louis world fair. A Bala Kansas cyclone kills two girls Daub. Bowling Green judge holds postmasters responsible for office thefts. Buffalo attorney Hallman Keep named assistant secretary of the treasury. Enid Oklahoma cloudburst leaves hundreds homeless with $300000 damage. Chicago sees 45000 workers pursue peaceful gains, laundry workers key, 165000 idle in New York from strikes. Wheat price push urged by American Society of Equity. Church leaders plan anti divorce campaign in New York with Arch bishop Farley asked to cooperate. John Kennedy dies in Gloversville from suspected trade secrets explosion. Northwest future eyed by Seattle. NY manufacturers to organize against labor demands. Black Ponto suspect in Rosa Waiser murder at Lawrenceburg. Reliance beats Columbia and Constitution in sail race off Long Island. race halted for breeze. Cyclone toll tops 15 dead, 100+ injured across five states. Hartmann found guilty of bribery in St Louis. six-year sentence. Auditors deny Tulloch post office charges. Chicago shops enforce strict dress rules to boost business.
J W Bailey longtime editor of the Bureau County Republican dies at his Princeton Illinois home at 73. The report notes Roosevelt likely to be renominated by acclamation and Senator Hanna reiterates he is not a 1904 candidate.
Tolstoi blames fanatical priests and officials for Kishineff massacres while Adler cites Russian bans on Jews. Croatia’s revolt grows. McCormick says Manchuria not alarming. Gorki faults Russian society for Kishineff. China famine drives child selling. Cuba US treaty signed with Platt amendment. Paris Madrid auto race ends in eight deaths. Renault wins Paris Vienna event. Philippines health crisis worsens American service members.
Reports from Yokohama claim 200 Russian troops crossed into Yongampho on the Korean side of the Yalu river. Paul Blouet died Sunday night in Paris. A huge Hyde Park mass meeting protested Parliament’s education bill, signaling strong rebuke to the government.
The report lists National League standings with Chicago .727 New York .700 Pittsburg .571 Brooklyn .500 Cincinnati .485 Boston .483 Philadelphia .281 St Louis .265 and a parallel American League tally showing Chicago .710 Detroit .552 Cleveland .538 Philadelphia .533 Boston .417 St Louis .500 New York .448 Washington .345.
The collection notes several brief items: a six mile fence planned around the St. Louis exposition grounds. Germany denounces a Pennsylvania press law as unfree. Wilkes Barre’s N Bertels gains a Japan government school post. Philadelphia work to bring 60 000 Jews fleeing Russia to the US. Netherlands to station a large warship in West Indies. Isabel Beecher Albert appears on lectures. Homeland free industrial school dedication in Homestead pauses business. New York principals seek rod discipline. French Senator Piot proposes medals for mothers. Wallace Nesbit named to Supreme Court bench at 44. ex President Harrison papers handed to John A. Griffiths. Carnegie says Washington should be English-speaking capital. Britain no longer leads US. William Devery candidate for New York mayor. Lafayette monument pedestal for Paris memorial shipped from New York.
President Roosevelt completed his California leg and moved toward Washington on a long cross country journey ending June 5. He spoke at Dunsmuir Sisson Montague and Portland and delivered a citizenship address in Salem while crowds cheered along the Willamette valley route. In Washington he addressed 10 000 in Olympia and urged a strong navy to secure peace and US Pacific dominance. He spoke again in Tacoma and Seattle stressing Alaska development and Pacific interests.
The Coban of the Black Diamond line from Sydney to Montreal reported a gas explosion that destroyed the saloon and blew up the poop deck off Marine Light Fireay. A waiter died and two steerage passengers are missing, likely thrown overboard.
Providence May 20 an extensive Mossberg and Granville Manufacturing plant has closed. Creditors were notified that a reorganization plan and agreement among all parties led to a bankruptcy petition filed in New York. Liabilities total about 1 269 000 with assets excluding patents around 200 000.
A heavy storm swept Indiana Thursday between three and four, with lightning severely damaging buildings and crops. The wire service was paralyzed, and several structures burned as occupants narrowly escaped.
Four killed and five or six injured when elevator ropes snapped at 1026 Fifth avenue after a cage dropped fifty feet. Victims were so badly masked by grime that identification was nearly impossible.
In Kokomo Indiana on May 20 the coroner's inquest into the Yeager murder case ended with a verdict of death by unknown hands. A woman seen with Yeager at the time of the crime is missing and cannot be located.
Chicago May 23 The Lorimer Durborow recount ends with William Lorimer declared the Sixth district representative. No fraud found and he leads Allan C. Durborow by 1,001 votes instead of the official 985.
Mrs. J. E. Finn of Buffalo profiles Peruna Medicine Co claiming dramatic improvement after social withdrawal due to health. The ad argues nervous female illness stems from catarrh, asserting Peruna cures catarrh and related female troubles.
A passenger and another discuss church sermons with one joking that he is the preacher. The exchange contrasts a pastor who preaches short sermons with a long-winded preacher, highlighting a witty line from the Chicago Tribune.
A Cincinnati Enquirer quip contrasts Meeker and Jeeker in a lighthearted exchange about courtship and persistence. The wives’ steadfastness is the punchline, reflecting domestic humor of the era.
Alston Michigan May 25. Houghton County reports a dramatic recovery of James Culet after twenty years of rheumatism and kidney trouble. After trying many doctors and medicines with no relief, he used 42 boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills and says they drove out all rheumatism. He now feels reborn and endorses the remedy.
Laura E Howey of the Montana State Historical Society received a Wells Fargo stage to New York ticket from C E Reese Virginia City. The eight coupon ticket shows a complex route from Virginia City to New York via Salt Lake City Omaha Council Bluffs Chicago Pittsburgh Harrisburg Allentown.
An editorial line from Ram's Horn argues that judging others by personal preferences is inappropriate and unjust. It stresses tolerance and respect for differing habits and viewpoints.
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