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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1900
Page
2
The Bowen Chronicle notes over 500 Portuguese immigrant grants arriving in New York recently as an outlander praises open doors in the U S. It also reports the entomological division warning of a kissing bug resurgence this year, prompting plans for additional emergency hospitals.
Across all classes of American manufactures foreign exports rose in the last eight months. In eleven of thirty-one classes the 1899-to-period increase ranges from 25 to 65 percent. The text credits American labor as the key to this advance.
Plans envision continuous trolley service by year end between New York and Boston with extensive New England connections. The network will offer scenic tours to the White Mountains and Lake Champlain, enhancing regional travel and attractions.
Three Prussian army officers reportedly traveled by military balloon from Berlin to Prague covering 500 miles in about three hours. The report hints at possible British countermeasures or improved scouting to counter such aerial progress and references an “invisible fire” they mention seeking aid to counter.
The latest signs suggest Russia and Korea may adjust terms to avoid war with Japan. Korea lacks power to resist. negotiations are between the Mikado's government. Great Britain will not interfere.
In Santiago Cuba factions met to pick candidates for the coming election. The colored element largely predominated, whites withdrew, and the gathering broke up in a row, suggesting the removal of United States troops is not imminent.
A colonial account notes that Col Broadwood’s defeat came from a deep spruit and terrain dangers. It warns that dongas drifts kopjes kraals and other landmarks pose hidden perils to British forces before reaching Pretoria.
The La Gloria colony in Cuba is likely to share the fate of similar ventures. It was promoted by people lacking money or credit and settlers were drawn in before deeds could be issued. Promises were made and as a result settlers face disappointment and financial loss.
The just punishment of two guerrilla chiefs in the Philippines is seen as a deterrent. The men had murdered peaceable Filipinos and would likely target Americans or other whites if given the chance. Most recent fighting has been against guerrillas, many of whom are described as bandits driven by plunder and murder.
The proposed annual appropriation of 4 000 000 dollars would finance each state to its full volunteer quota and maintain steady organization. It would equip the reserve army with regulation service arms for infantry cavalry and artillery and implement amobilization system by military divisions to ensure militant value.
A comic matrimonial tale follows three wealthy husbands who wed and then divorce Mrs Lettig Chilton Tuttle Wright. Each ex spouse funds her return to wealth, making the woman once again a millionaire as she enters the market anew.
The senate debates Puerto Rican tariff civil government bill and quays case. the house passes Hawaiian territorial bill and considers tax reforms. Kentucky court decisions limit governors’ actions, Brown University faculty resignations, Lodge amendments to army pay, and a New York canal survey funding bill.
The general fund balance excluding the $150 million gold reserve shows available cash of $156,775,803 and gold of $96,392,555 as of the 6th. By that date bonds deposited for the new two percent issue totaled 1,022,750, including $27,451,450 from nonbank individuals or institutions.
Telegrams report the senate spending most of the session on an amendment to Indian appropriation bills for contract Indian schools. The house considered if Magoon advised extending the constitution to Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Other items note eulogies for Richard Brand, a fatal stabbing in Peru, a Chicago factory fire, Capt. Sigsbee’s travels, postal rural free delivery expansion, and Puerto Rico executions amid relic-hunter activity with Pan American conference mentions.
The page lists varied items including efforts against Methodism in Rome, Hawaii's territorial government bill, a felony for food adulteration proposal, a fatal mill explosion in Oklahoma, LDS general conference in Lamont Iowa, a starvation death in Alto Pass Illinois, Newark banning The Degenerates, a Dallas man killed handling a live wire, Angora goat leasing near Springfield Missouri, Yale beating British golfer Harry Vardon, a fatal street shooting in Huntington West Virginia, a self-inflicted death in Garfield New Jersey, oil and mineral prospecting at Alto Pass, seizure of an Irish political paper, and a $20 900 legacy for a defeated Wade Township constable.
Recent Illinois State News lists deaths from Covington township to Waterloo and St. Augustine plus March reports from the Illinois State Soldiers Home. Notables include Ada Lawrence of Quincy and veteran Captain J P M Howard of Effingham while Wheat condition stands at 89 percent of a seasonable average as April begins. The Bloomington Presbyterian church calls Rev M H G Vite from Pasadena. The Peoria and Pekin Electric Railway opens a new depot in Pekin with a long Illinois river bridge and 45 minute train intervals.
Austin shrouded by flood as the Colorado river wrecks the $1.75 million powerhouse. The city faces weeks without water or light with widespread property loss, rail damage, and hundreds of drownings reported. Public life and commerce grind to a halt.
Ouston Texas reports rivers falling but widespread crop destruction and bridge losses. Colorado flood from Austin dam break reaches Smithville. 5000 acres of bottom-land crops inundated ten to fifteen feet with over fifty thousand dollars in losses. No deaths reported. rail traffic slow to resume.
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