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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1903
Page
6
A compact survey reports on casualties and fires, political shifts, business failures, resumptions, and weather records. It sketches global incidents and notable events affecting nations, communities, and markets.
A roundup of US and world events notes railway mail totals, a counterfeit five dollar silver certificate case, Western bank failures, and a Montpelier Indiana fatal barn fire. It covers labor strikes, Panama recognition, explosions, arrests, and political shifts with multiple named places and figures.
Elections report R O Moon elected congressman in the Fourth Pennsylvania district and Edwin Warfield leads Maryland governor race with a 12375 plurality. Deaths include J Richard Barrett in New York and S W Osborn in Darlington. Other items note Mrs Eliza Hendricks funeral in Indianapolis and William J Bryan named executor in New Haven with bond set at 350000. Emperor William has larynx growth removal. Root returns from Alaska boundary work. Cannon elected House speaker in caucus. Cortelyou likely to be Commerce and Labor secretary again if Roosevelt re elected.
Peking reports say Russia threatens to assume sole charge of Manchuria's government. France plans a December 18 warship visit to New Orleans for the Louisiana transfer celebrations. German Usibis post captured with massacre of its garrison. News also cites an Atlantic alliance accord between Russia and Germany should Britain back Japan.
Berlin dispatches report Japan and Russia close to a peaceful settlement on questions in the far east. The United States of Colombia lodges a protest with the state department over U S actions relating to Panama events. Panama learns Colombia appoints Gen Reyes to arrange peace with the new republic.
The Fifty-eighth Congress meets in extraordinary session with Senator Frye presiding and 70 senators present. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon is elected. bills proposed cover army canteens, New Mexico statehood, trust regulation, rural carrier pay, injunction abolition, direct Senate elections, and harsher penalties for killing national leaders. News items include deaths, strikes, naval movements, and labor convention outcomes.
A collection of brief notes reports population and religious literacy facts across nations, aging and notable figures, and shipping and political events. Highlights include Berlin biblical reciters, a London sanitarium funded by Sir Edward Cassel, and a Worcester man planning electric rail projects in Manila.
Ohio voters oust Governor Herrick as Tom Johnson is repudiated. Herrick loses Cleveland by 115000. Hanna wins Senate. Iowa's Cummins reelected. Bates, Warfield, and Vardaman win governorships in Rhode Island and Mississippi. New Jersey legislative map favors Republicans. Virginia, Nebraska tilt Democrats.
A Bogota dispatch dated November 2 reports that congress has closed without initiating legislation on the canal project. The shutdown ends the current effort to advance canal talks, leaving the proposal in limbo despite prior negotiations.
The Railway Age notes Chicago’s centennial rail history from 1836 plan to Galena line and 1848 first run to Harlem. It details key figures William B. Ogden and the Galena & Chicago Union, the Dixon Air Line, and eventual consolidations creating the Chicago & Northwestern system with a commemorative tablet at the Northwestern Railway station marking Chicago's first depot site.
The Brooklyn Democratic boss Hugh Mc Laughlin, though wealthy, is described as frugal in dress. His ally James Shevlin offered to fit him with fine shoes, leading Mc Laughlin to accept and receive a $12 bill. He marked the bill "Collect from Shevlin, he's responsible" and returned it, then heard nothing more.
A review of a novel set in the era of Tiberius and Christ follows Aristarchus a Roman noble who meets Jesus at his execution and Bethsaida a dancing girl whose fate intertwines with his. The narrative centers on belief in miracles and the characters Pilate Claudia and Petronius with publication by G W Dillingham New York.
Mrs L C Glover of Milwaukee writes that after years with no children and a medical diagnosis of female troubles she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for three and a half months. Within twenty two months a child was born and she thanks the remedy and its testimonial. A $5000 forfeit is offered if the letter proving genuineness cannot be produced.
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