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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1903
Page
6
Six masked men robbed the Douglass Oklahoma bank of 5077 dollars. The rest of the items cover trade outlook frost fears labor tensions and various regional incidents including a suicide in Michigan and a religious revival in Maryland.
Secretary Wilson and experts urged irrigation in Ogden Utah as frost fears lessen with warmer weather. An avalanche of items follows from trials of crime to fires, strikes, and storms across the nation, including a suicide in Wellington Kansas and major mining closures near Shamokin Pennsylvania.
Maryland Democrats nominate Edwin Warfield for governor with a white guardianship platform. Republicans in Baltimore nominate Stevenson A. Williams and back Roosevelt. The Fourth district Republicans name Reuben O. Moon to replace the late Foerderer. Massachusetts Prohibitionists nominate D. Oliver Cobb. AP board elects Frank B. Noyes president. Luzon native Crispulo Patajo arrives in San Francisco aboard the Sherman. Roosevelt visits Oyster Bay after Antietam. L. L. Whitman completes an auto trip New York to San Francisco. Dr. Egbert Guernsey of New York dies at 80.
Emperor Francis Joseph issues a positive order restricting use of Hungarian in the army amid ongoing language policy debates. A German road record and several international notes accompany this report with diverse political and military updates across Europe and the Americas.
A roundup notes Grover Cleveland and family returning to Princeton from Buzzard's Bay Massachusetts. John Paul Jones is buried in Paris tenement quarters with weeds over his grave. Roosevelt collects an unusual mouse on a western trip and gifts it to the Smithsonian. Booker T. Washington buys 88 cattle in Rockland New York for Tuskegee shipment. The Chinese empress dowager is ill and not expected to live a year. St Louis manufacturers attack railway ticket speculators to aid lower fair rates. Otto Sarony dies in New York after a 30 year career. Harry Smith of Jersey City goes barefoot year round due to perfect feet. A uniform birth registration law is drafted by the census bureau. Governors are urged to back it as statistics prove elusive. May Goelet marries Roxburghe, transferring 40 million to English hands. American brides have sent over 200 million to foreign coffers. Lincoln death mask by Prof. Holmes placed in the national museum. Commander Peary granted three years leave beginning April 1 to start for the north pole July 1. Postmaster General Payne states fourth class postmasters are political appointments not subject to civil service. Old Dominion steamer mutiny off New Jersey ends with officers forcing work at pistol point.
London reports September resignations from Joseph Chamberlain, C. T. Ritchie, and Lord George Hamilton accepted by King Edward. Chamberlain cites dispute over a food tax. Ritchie opposes retaliatory tariffs. Cracks widen as Austen Chamberlain and Earl of Selborne named potential successors amid talk of Liberal return.
Sharpsburg Maryland Sept 18 under lowering skies New Jersey dedicated a 40 foot granite monument on Antietam battlefield to its fallen volunteers The ceremony was attended by President Roosevelt Gov Murphy and other dignitaries The bronze figure represents Capt Irish of the Thirteenth New Jersey volunteers who died at Antietam Roosevelt urged national and civic rectitude in his remarks
Towanda Pennsylvania September 19 Ex Congress man Edward Overton died Friday night at his home after a ten day illness with pneumonia He was a native of Towanda and 67 years old.
Admiral Dewey attended the Saratoga races and met a small group of farmers who discussed an American invention. The Boston Post recounts a Chinese paper Dewey translated describing a hen nest with a trap door that allegedly increases egg production by creating disappearing eggs played by a spring mechanism.
An American newspaper recalls a cautious stance after a costly misreport and asks readers how they view a toe specimen. A dog, owned by an Atlantic avenue butcher, reportedly broke its chain and attacked Herman Jost’s daughter. The butcher had prior arrest for an assault on his wife and was pardoned after serving part of a two year term.
A dialogue from the Philadelphia Record depicts a manager telling a visitor the tattooed man is nearby but unrecognizable without decorations as firemen accidentally loosen the hose on him. The fragment preserves a quirky wartime tone with comic undertone.
A Texas note touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as a new remedy for kidney diseases. A Rural Route resident, Henry Vaughan, reports rapid improvement and says he is cured, urging others with kidney trouble to try the treatment.
An advertisement touts Numier Gold Mining Co offering shares in a California mine with gold bonds prepaid interest and capital refund via a bank, plus retained profit. It invites readers to request an illustrated booklet. The piece also includes two quotes and notes three daily Chicago to West Coast trains by the Union Pacific & Northwestern Line.
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