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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1900
Page
2
Various global tensions and events are reported including Germany threatening China and American policy shifts. Major figures like General John M. Palmer are noted dead, while Galveston appeals for reconstruction aid and a deadly Iowa tornado claims four lives.
Reports note Count Waldersee reaching Tien Tsin while Prince Tuan faces degradation by China. Roosevelt speaks to 20,000 in Kansas City and Texas aid totals reach 672,476 dollars. Galveston reports 2,859 deaths. Mesa post office robbed of 1,000 dollars in stamps and 200 in cash. Prominent figures Sherman and Cochran appear in other items.
Washington reports General MacArthur dispatch from Manila noting Captain Devereaux Shields and 51 volunteers plus a hospital corpsman left Santa Cruz for Yorktjos on a gunboat mission and likely captured with heavy casualties. Yorktown and gunboats George Anderson and crew moved to Marinduque to locate Shields with no details available.
A press dispatch from Shanebhat reports China’s turmoil worsening with Boxer influence thwarting the throne and foreign powers divided. Russia controls forts and railways while Japan and Russia grow closer and France aligns with Moscow. The United States remains hopeful yet powerless as viceroys may decide China’s fate and vast trade hangs in the balance.
Mendocino Cal Oct 1 The Albion Lumber Company plant at Albion was ruined by fire along with 400000 feet of lumber 1000 cords of tan bark the dry kiln store hotel and several company dwellings also burned. Loss estimated between 125000 and 150000 dollars.
Fire in Hamburg and Mexico City causes extensive losses. In Hamburg Piginks and Tietgen's warehouse Robertson gresse warehouses and Bothees granary plus four residences burn. Loss exceeds 1,000,000 marks. In Mexico City La Valencia store owned by Sebastian, Robert & Co. burns with losses around 750,000.
A European downturn warned by Acting Consul General Hanauer cites a recession in industry and finance within two years, with coal booming but iron, steel, machinery, and small goods factories trimming output and wages amid possible political shocks. Rail and accident notes follow in separate datelines, including a Utah wreck and labor strife in Norwich.
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company offers a 10 percent wage increase to miners, hoping to ease strikes and restart operations across 39 collieries, 27 shuttered for lack of workers, though miners may follow union guidance to stay away. Reports from Schuylkill region suggest continued stoppages. In Beatrice Nebraska, W J Harn is fatally shot by Dr W F Lee after a dispute over a bill. Lee surrenders. Santa Fe express wreck near Guthrie Oklahoma injures and kills passengers. Elizabeth A Langley dies by carbolic acid in Seattle. S N Parent becomes Quebec premier.
Seth Abbott, father of the late Emma Abbott, has been adjudged insane in Chicago. A guardian petition was filed by his son Frederick Abbott, with Judge Walker setting October 22 for the hearing. The commitment orders he to a sanitarium at Wauwatosa. General Gomez criticizes delays in the Cuban situation.
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