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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1900
Page
2
A column picks a mix of items from a 1900s era paper, noting Europe’s coal shortage as a boon for U S miners. It quips about Osman Pasha’s death rumor and references a sermon-dialing service, a telephone romance, and Grace M Dodge critiquing business women.
A physician testifies at a legislative hearing that Boston once housed pauper lunatics in wheeled wooden cages moved from the almshouse for air. The new building led to freeing patients, under Dr Butler who improved care and ended such confinement.
An American traveler faced uneven mail service when a head postmaster charged eight cents for a periodical if sent by a good Mussulman but 75 cents back post for a heretic. A clerk outside dismissed the postmaster as an ass and offered to mail the magazine secretly, illustrating the need for reform.
Porto Rico exports more coffee than any native product and much is sold as genuine Mocha and Java. The average agriculturist tends a coffee patch for family needs, drying berries to a dark powder and boiling it into a coffee with ink like color. After the war some have adopted American methods, but most keep ancestral practices.
A long warning about the recurring Spanish priest swindle in which impostors abroad pose as Madrid clergy to lure victims with buried treasure stories. The scheme, run by American swindlers with a Madrid contact, asks for legal or other expenses and vanishes after remittances.
The Minneapolis Journal and land officials report a surge of immigration to Minnesota Dakotas and Montana with 8172 homestead claims filed in three months ending Feb 28 1900, up 128 percent from 1899. Great Northern Railway expects 50 percent higher immigration than 1899. total settlers may exceed 200000 this year.
A Longmans Magazine writer argues that modern prose and poetry overuse adjectives harming nouns. He cites vulgar, overdressed descriptors and notes the French critic Pierre Loti uses only simple terms yet orders sentences so adjectives sparkle.
Naval strategy talks to stay secret. Nebraska fusion of Democrats Populists and Silver Republicans reported. Fires kill four in Newcastle Pa. Steel mills near Chicago Joliet close amid labor strife. Hoar cites 6000 war deaths. A left handed cornet made for a boy. Notre Dame des Vortus looted and burned. Cavite navy yard shops to be run by Cowle. Montenegro surrenders in Pangasinan. Cigar factory closures raise strikers to 5000. Mindanao clash at Cauayan, 50 killed 30 wounded. Casualties in American actions five. Sultan of Turkey indemnity talks. Major Knight investigated over church duties. Congress to adjourn in June. war taxes unchanged. Britain to tax mines for war costs. Chehalis burglar steals 500. Johnstown riot kills four. Denver delays rail traffic. horse trainer Hannigan dies. Outlaws in Johnson kill four. Rutledge dead at 86. Trinidad rejects Canada trade offer. US pact favored. 14000 sail to Cape Nome. 1200 acres near Eugene planned colonization. St Simons church vault stolen in Toronto Easter offering. India famine flaws: 60M suffer, 30M needy, 5M aided. Carnegie Hall voice school grows. Minkoweky directs. Hoke Smith sells Atlanta Journal. Europe China railway talks hint Asia Minor split. Pearson plans London daily modeled on American lines.
A sweeping late news roundup notes ongoing unrest in Colombia and fierce plagues in Manila, with deaths including Benjamin Northrup of New York. Flood losses in Mississippi exceed a million, fires devastate the St. Louis Chronicle plant, and other global calamities affect Europe, Australia, and Canada.
Reports from Manila describe a deadly week with 378 Filipinos killed and 1,000 insurgents likely dead, nine Americans killed and 16 wounded. General Pio del Pilar's 300 men reappeared near San Miguel to clash with a San Miguel garrison, while other skirmishes near San Jose Baliuag and Nueva Cacoras left multiple wounded and several insurgents killed.
Reports from Winnipeg describe widespread fire damage in southeastern Manitoba with vast timber losses and scattered lumber outfits burned. About 200 drivers and bushmen fled, leaving only around 30 safe. fatalities unconfirmed while totals reach about 1 million dollars in losses. Separately Earl Russell and Mrs Cook wed in Chicago after a Nevada divorce, planning a London departure.
News from Acatlan Mexico reports the killing of Jordan L Cook who led a railroad construction crew. He stood with six men when a bandit rode up and fired several shots, fatally wounding Cook. Cook’s father, former Maverick County sheriff, has taken up the case with Mexican authorities.
Police report 18 cases against C. O. Charleston for taking money with worthless checks. He is described as a former Nebraska legislator. In Detroit, Charles G. Fleischmann, secretary of the Trust Security and Safe Deposit Company, hanged himself in a barn today.
Governors Lew of South Dakota and Poynter joined Western States in Salt Lake for a session on public lands. The majority backed resolutions opposing leasing by the federal government and supporting state cession if needed, with safeguards for homestead access and avoiding large corporate control. Governor Lee opposed cession, preferring to push it first, and a letter to other governors was approved.
San Francisco reports from Henry Headstey who returned from Sonora say 4000 Mexican troops hurry to the Yaqui front while about 6000 Yaquis with Remington and Mauser rifles hold the Sierra. The Yaquis reportedly command 15000 fighters in a population of 120000 Sonora, with cannons captured from 200 Mexicans. Wages fund a shared treasury as warriors alternate frontline duty with mining and ranch work. Several engagements recently favored government forces. in one clash 17 Yaquis died and only one Mexican officer was killed.
Chicago police arrest J H Smith president of Industrial Trades Union at 151-158 Michigan avenue on a warrant charging robbery and disorderly conduct. Accuser Frank Gustavson says Smith brandished a revolver, stole 46 dollars and papers, and coerced him signed a misleading document. Gustavson was later released, Smith to have a hearing this afternoon.
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