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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1903
Page
6
A compact digest of casualties and fires, political and personal notes, business failures and resumptions, plus weather records. Readers receive a snapshot of global events and local impacts across multiple domains in a concise column.
Reports say a passenger train hit an electric car near Hawthorne track in Chicago killing six and injuring nine, part of 53 Chicago railroad deaths in September. Walter Davis (colored) lynched at Marshall Texas for murder of Constable Hayes. Public debt fell $6.17 million in September with cash in treasury at $389.4 million. Willis and Burton Van Wormer executed in Dannemora for their uncle’s murder. Mayor Seth Low appealed for national civic unity. September coinage reached $2.626 million and national bank notes in circulation rose to $420.4 million. Government receipts showed a September surplus of $6.54 million. A deputy sheriff faced a mob at Oxford Ohio, where four were fatally wounded in a riot. Doctor engineer Clarence B Schultz received Berlin degree as first American engineer. Ellis Island saw 47,852 aliens arrive in September. Fifteen smuggled Chinese arrested at Weehawken. Nine months’ business failures liabilities totaled $101.7 million. Stern extradition case progresses to U.S. authorities. French jewelry exhibit in St. Louis valued at $4 million, including a $500k pearl collar. Armadale Minnesota shootout leaves one dead and others wounded. Elliott W. Shanklin died suddenly in Louisville. J Loeser robbed of $2,000 at Paducah.
Maj. Gen. Corbin is assigned to command the Department of the East with headquarters at Governors Island New York. The exhibit notes and broader federal decisions include Roosevelt aiming for an extraordinary session in November and the Cuban reciprocity treaty push. The midwest economy shows mixed signals with pig iron cuts balanced by rising other industries.
Rhode Island Democrats nominate Cumberland resident L. F. Carvin for state governor. Massachusetts Democrats nominate William A. Gaston of Boston for governor. National League of Republican Clubs endorses Roosevelt and picks Indianapolis for its next convention. Baltimore obituary notes 84 year old Benjamin F. Zimmerman, oldest grand past master of Maryland Odd Fellows. Massachusetts Republicans renominate Bates Guild and other officers. Ohio ex-congressman Lewis B. Gunckel dies in Dayton at 77. Ruth Bryan Bryan marries William Homer Leavitt of Newport, Nebraska. Pioneer Abel Washburn dies in Quasqueton Iowa aged 105.
Reports describe extensive killings in Razlog Macedonia by Turkish forces and martial law after a trainload of Consolidated Lakes Superior workers arrived in Canada. Turks threaten further destruction of rebel homes in Monastir while Premier Balfour appeals for tariffs in Sheffield. The Czernowitz notes 300 Jews and 100 Christians killed near Kishineff in Mohilev Podolsky.
China insists Russia must evacuate Manchuria by October 8. The Mehomia massacre reports claim Turks killed the town’s entire Christian population. Premier Balfour at Sheffield notes Lord Milner cannot take the colonial secretary post. Sir Michael Herbert, British ambassador to the United States, dies in Davos Switzerland at 46.
Peter Elliott a noted anarchist fighter from Minneapolis battled white house police to force entry to President Roosevelt's room. He and an officer were wounded amid the clash.
Senator Quay celebrated his seventy birthday in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. The widow of General Noyes presented his sword to the state. Porto Rico opened twelve hundred schools with sixty thousand pupils enrolled. Rabbi Glazier of Des Moines is compiling a history of Iowa Jewry. Fish Commissioner Bernit of Honolulu plans a fish exhibit for St. Louis fair. Harry Hon Let enters Baltimore City College freshman class. Philippines trade rapidly rising per insular affairs. Annapolis cadets vow to refrain from hazing. U S church seeks organized provinces of dioceses. R H Lake of Washington patents a curved ball pneumatic gun. German universities grant first doctorates to deaf mutes. Leipsic awards Ph D to Dr Walter Kuntze. Thomas E Sauls, aged 100, has met all presidents except Washington and Roosevelt. New York builders back labor reform to curb walking delegates and strikes. Baltimore hosts insurers convention seeking congressional help against wild cat companies. $3,000,000 in funds moved from Washington to New York by clerk Marion E Beall in a dress suitcase.
A South bound Southern railway fast mail smoke abated train No 97 ran off a 75 foot trestle near Danville Virginia killing nine of its sixteen crew and injuring seven. Names of the deceased include J A Broady and A G Clapp among others. A second report notes five killed and nine injured in a Wisconsin Central collision with an electric car in Milwaukee.
Cornell professor George Lincoln Burr, famed for witchcraft history and cycling tours, recalls a Tennessee visit. A hospitable mountaineer feeds him well and keeps his glass full, then complains why the guest cannot eat pie with a knife instead of a fork.
Washington Oct 3 Maj Gen Corbin adjutant general of the army is assigned to command the department of the east with headquarters at Governors Island New York The order takes effect at once recognizing his service in the Spanish American Chinese and Philippine campaigns Gen Chaffee to move to the war department to learn duties of chief of staff upon Gen Youngs January retirement.
In Hamburg on Oct 3 the women’s congress debated propriety of corsets and jewelry. Both practices were deemed barbarous by prevailing opinion, but no vote was taken. The assembly cheered the fact that women vote in five U.S. states.
Off duty Prof Richards of Yale indulges students with jokes and witticisms. A pupil asks for a rabbit catching recipe and the professor retorts with a quip about hiding behind a wall and sounding like a turnip, then suggesting a cabbage bed as a better tactic.
The Four Track News is praised for energizing ticket agents and readers to explore distant parts of the country. It highlights articles and illustrations intended to inspire travel and showcase varied scenery and climates, supporting travel, hotels, and transportation.
An old Chicago line promotes Antiseptic Cleanser for carpets clothes and fabrics. It claims universal cleaning power including ink and gum removal without harming varnish or woodwork and suggests tailor and cleaner use. The ad notes Bereda Manufacturing Co. and a quotation about trouble-peddlers from the Times Democrat.
A collage of ads notes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets priced at 25 cents and praises Piso’s Cure for Consumption. It also promotes three daily trains from Chicago to California and the Chicago Union Pacific North Western Line, with various proverbs and humor from period publications.
Veteran Joshua Heller of Urbana Illinois testifies Doan's Kidney Pills relieved kidney trouble back pain and warned of future attacks. The ad promises a free trial and offers medical advice as well as nationwide mail order via Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York with price 50 cents per box.
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