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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1903
Page
6
Brief international and domestic items report casualties fires and weather records along with political, business, and resume updates. Short items cover varied incidents and developments with concise notes suitable for a quick regard.
An explosion four miles southwest of Carthage Missouri wrecked the mixing room of the Independent Power company, killing three, injuring three others, one fatally. Other items note a push to form a national building trades federation and various national updates.
Three people drowned when a rowboat capsized on White Bear Lake near St Paul Minnesota Sunday night. Two men were killed and two wounded in a separate armed hold up at the Chicago City Railway barns at Sixty first and State streets. three masked men fled with $3000. Chicago nears full unionization with 120000 new members and 9500000 in wage gains. Mystic Connecticut hosts a Universal Peace union condemnation of a Maine coast mimic war as wasteful. Kansas broom corn belt farmers seek laborers to save the crop through the state employment bureau.
Obituaries report the deaths of David G. Williams of Cambria aged 63 from a blood poisoning after a rat bite and Frederick Law Olmstead at 81 in Massachusetts. Political items note Iowa populists in Des Moines nominating a full governor’s ticket headed by L H Weller, and James K Wardman’s likely Mississippi gubernatorial nomination. Also mentions retirement and new posts in government and a press note on naval yacht competition remarks by Sir Thomas Lipton.
United States Vice Consul W. G. Magerssen is killed in Beirut while Roosevelt moves European squadron to enforce US reparations. A bomb kills seven and injures 15 on a Buda Pesth to Constantinople express. Britannic sails end of an era as it is broken up. Turmoil, volcanic eruption, and military clashes ripple across Europe and the Mediterranean as incidents are reported.
Ira C. Bradley aged 60 pursuing a planned American settlement in Cuba called Bradley Colony was murdered near Honquin with robbery cited as the motive. William C. Magelssen, vice consul at Beirut, was shot at by an assassin but survived. The European squadron will stay in Turkish waters to reassure the safety of U.S. citizens.
August fire losses reach 6.5 million dollars, with 1902 total slightly higher. A Chicago plot to murder two railway workers and rob car barns is exposed by arrestee John Sleuder, naming Gustavo Malatesta as ringleader. Other items include racing setbacks, political pleas, trials, and local tragedies.
Summary of diverse notes including French president Loubet declining further office, a Shakespeare readings deal for Mary Anderson de Navarro, 1907 Woman’s Missionary Society convention in Naperville Illinois, Boer war talk by Col John F Y Blake, Zionist Palestine independence move, Edward Brunner saved from a fall in New York, Gompers under anti boycott surveillance, Xenia Ohio negro population study by Carroll D Wright, Carr ie Nation stage temperance play, Edward Fry on age of the world, Methodist defalcations hinting reforms, Edison on radium burns and cancer theory, and a Vernon Missouri woman Polly Card regaining childhood with new baby teeth.
Oyster Bay reports Secretary Root resigns accepted by the president with Root staying on as secretary of war until January. Taft to succeed Root. Wright to be secretary of war after Taft. Roosevelt to appoint Luke E. Wright governor general of the Philippines and Henry C. Ide as vice governor when Wright takes office.
Missouri Valley region from Missouri Valley to Pacific Junction becomes a lake as flooding swamps the area. Two men H. H. Larue of Corning and A. R. Fash of Clinton die while trying to rescue horses at the fair grounds. Darne is electrocuted near an electric light wire and three others are missing, presumed dead.
Damage from the cloudburst in Nemaha and Marshall counties climbed to about 500000. Large stocks of hay, wheat, oats, and grain were swept away and many farmers lost cattle and hogs. Reports from the flooded district describe extensive losses.
Wilkesbarre Pa August 27 A massive fall of top coal crushed No 5 colliery Delaware and Hudson Coal Co Plymouth instantly killing J W Stevers 52 a miner and Peter Kronok 32 a laborer Many tons of coal sand and rock buried them mangling their bodies.
In Estherwood Louisiana on August 28 a new rice pest called seaweed threatens fields. It grows rapidly and can destroy the best rice plots quickly once established. It appears only on land where salt water was applied last year. Hundreds of acres may be ruined by seaweed and grass.
New York Aug 29 Carl Rudolph Schultz age 27 elected president of the Equitable national bank. He is the youngest national bank president in New York and among the youngest in the United States. Schultz graduated from Yale at 21.
Editor claims a break in at the Richardson Texas plant damaged type and disrupted the issue. The note vows to replace the stolen metal with triple the amount by next Thursday and condemn the culprit as a petty thief bent on crippling a local newspaper.
A wife discovers a bill for her gown hidden by her husband who pretended to remove a letter from his pocket. The letter contained comments on extravagance, sparking anger and a tense domestic scene without confrontation.
A brief exchange features Good and Sufficient as a man and woman discuss marriage. She declares necessity to refuse, and the banter centers on poverty ears and aristocracy. The pair volley reasons, ending with a blunt self admission about not bearing the sight of the other.
Staunton Arkansas reports from Duff in Searcy County that Justice of the Peace Y. Ke Reeves writes a letter endorsing Dodd's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble. Fellow JP E B Cox confirms his own cure after using three boxes and sharing the remaining three with friends who also praise the remedy.
In Philadelphia, an entrepreneur says he now operates solo making automobiles and claims none of his machines have yet broken down on the road, while admitting he has not sold any units yet.
A newspaper notice promotes a $1.00 big 500-pound steel range with a three month free trial. Readers are told to mail to Sears Roebuck & Co. in Chicago to receive a free image and stove information. It asserts the offer is accessible to all families regardless of income.
The Overland Limited operates daily from Chicago to the Coast. Union Pacific and Northwestern lines run this solid train service.
A collage of quotes and slogans from early 20th century papers includes a warning about overpricing, a praise for Piso's Cure, a Minneapolis reader's address and date, a Dolly Lator remark, a claim that Chicago & North Western is the only double track railway to the Missouri River, and brief ad copy about quiet partners and office or home usage.
Advertisement copy alleges a cure for the cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and promises refunds if it fails. Mentions price of 25 cents and a Chicago Daily News quip about human conduct. Also notes butter color product June Tint and a Washington Democrat jab.
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt, irate heirs confront a life insurance office over a $10,000 policy on a relative who died three months ago. The president excuses the delay citing a difficult name, noting simpler names would have sped the settlement.
A Bible student compares ancient travel from Dan to Beersheba with a hypothetical Empire State Express journey. He claims the train would complete the trip in under three hours, contrasting with the Bible account. The note praises New York Central's daily passenger service as enriching knowledge.
A light exchange about modern ancestry between Mrs Upperton and Mrs Newridhe cited from London Tit-Bits. The jest mocks genealogists claiming the latest ancestors as fashion.
Mrs. P Brunzel of Everett Washington says fifteen years of back and groin pain ended after taking Dean's Kidney Pills. She reports rapid relief after five boxes and a later recurrence cured by a three day course. A free trial offer is available by mail from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY, 50 cents per box at all druggists.
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