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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1900
Page
7
Fireman James Bransigan rescues a boy in St Louis after a car strike. Moonshiner battles turn deadly in Tennessee. burglar sets fire in Marion. Legal battles settle Evans estate with 1.3 million distributed, plus 3 million to Philadelphia institute. Busier week features rail wrecks, drownings, and a theater figure released from asylum pending guardianship.
A collage of brief events reports unrest and incidents from across the world and U.S. battles, strikes, crimes, accidents, and political changes. Notable notes include Philippine civil affairs to begin Sept 1, railway labor disputes, a Union Pacific train holdup near Hugo Colorado, a Providence department store fire, and a fatal baseball injury in Homewood Pennsylvania.
Mansfield police eject four Zion elders from town amid disorder. Minnesota Supreme Court upholds St Paul city charter. Gilman Colorado burns, 100000 loss, over 200 homeless. Grass Valley California laundry fire costs 75000. Swift & Co. bans cigarette smoking in Chicago stockyards packing houses. Alexander Jester relocates to Norman ok and preaches after acquittal. Cincinnati population 325902, up 28904. Ismours Minnesota two armed robbers loot C M & St P station for 28.75. Klondike receipts reach 98500000 vs 7630000 last year. Hendricks and Warner drown attempting elopement. Jester acquitted in Gates murder trial after six ballots. William Lang suicide in Dallas. J S Richards schooner sinks after collision near Walkerville. two sailors drown. Muskegon Lake drowning claims three lives. boat capsizes. Democratic candidates Bryan and Stevenson attend Indianapolis event Sept 5. Duluth mayoralty ruling favors Hugo. D Burnham heads federal Indianapolis building plan panel. T Mu lumber firm mentioned.
A southern extra session proposes amending a Goebe election law while notes recount a Confederate monument dedication in Fort Mill South Carolina. Reports describe vigilante action at Shoal Creek North Carolina, yellow fever deaths in Tampa and quarantine in Alabama Georgia, a building collapse in Glasgow Kentucky injuring four, and a North Carolina electoral landslide for Democrats and white supremacy. A Murfreesboro fire causes one death and $100000 in losses. Three drownings occur near Saltillo Tennessee and a jail escape attempt in Mayfield Kentucky. A Georgia incident kills traveler Bascon L Wyatt on a train near Atlanta. Beckham signals a call for action.
Reports recount deaths among Swo Lascars in London amid plague fears, bread riots in Belize British Honduras, Moorish troops clashing with French forces, and mass executions of Chinese in Canton as authorities crush rebellions. A defamation case in France and a cargo milestone to Russia are also noted alongside railway developments.
A London firm Settee iCave faces liabilities of £300000 with assets of £47000. Dr Charles Tanner is suspended in Parliament for Cork Nationalist intrigue. Berlin memorial for the Biemarck mausoleum sees Emperor William send a wreath. Li Hung Chang defers direct ministerial talks with Washington. Edward I Dwyer, once wealthy, joins the marine corps. The British ship Rutherlandshire wrecks off Sumatra with thirteen dead. Rumors of an assassination attempt on King Alexander surface in Belgrade. Harcourt values African wars at £? and England’s global hatred cited. Nicaragua seizes Maritime Canal Co property. Chinese troops reach Pekin area, killing priests and Christians. An assassination bid on the Shah of Persia in Paris fails. A man tries to seize the Shah’s carriage before police intervene.
The cabinet offered to resign yet stayed on at the request of Lord Minto. In Nome about 100 prospectors clashed with troops over disputed claims while passengers faced flames aboard the channel steamer Connemara. Russia tests cruiser Varias at over twenty three knots on trial. The pension roll tops 993,528 names, up 2,010 from last year. Roger Walcott accepts the ambassador to Italy post after Draper’s resignation. United States grants landing rights for a German cable, hinting at direct transatlantic links. John Hay refuses terms on Pekin matters until Conger can communicate freely. Senator reaches Seattle with Nome advices carrying 175,000 dollars in Nome gold for about 375 passengers. Lake Bennett section of White Pass and Yukon Railroad completes, enabling through trains from Skaguay to Whitehorse, ending Bennett City’s era. War Dept orders Cuba general election for a convention to draft a new constitution in Havana.
Chicago cattle common to prime ranged 3.00 to 5.70 with hogs 3.00 to 5.70, sheep 3.00 to 4.90. Indianapolis hogs 5.00 to 5.35 for light stock, wheat No 2 red 77 to 78 cents, corn 37 to 38 cents, oats 2 dollars or 2? 47 to 48 cents. New York cattle 3.25 to 5.90, hogs 3.00 to 5.85, wheat 78 to 78 cents, corn about 44 cents, eggs 15 to 17 cents.
Dispatches to the Navy Department from Tientsin report a great Sunday battle near Peltsang six miles from Tientsin en route to Pekin. About 1,200 Allied casualties, mainly Russians and Japanese, with Chinese forces retreating in disorder. General Chaffee’s American troops in the action. Taussig signs the initial report on Yorktown at Chefoo.
Reports from Cheefoo indicate heavy fighting between allied troops and Chinese between Tientsin and Pekin. The U S insists on cipher communications for ministerial messages and the safe deportation of foreigners from Pekin to Tientsin. The Chinese defense appears stiff with likely heavy Chinese casualties and possible large foreign casualties.
New York trade conditions drift toward improvement as money remains easy despite impending crop season pressures. Banks in large centers show strong funds with regional money plentiful in the West and South, reducing Eastern bank pressure. Market tone strengthens gradually with stock activity small. Grain futures face mixed signals as corn and oats rise modestly amid promising corn yield and decent oats, while wheat faces uncertainty from Hessian fly damage and drought across winter and spring wheat regions.
Philadelphians Arthur and Mrs Arthur Sinclair fought a pistol duel at five yards outside their Daffryn Mawr villa Saturday evening. Mrs Sinclair, an ultra modern woman in riding dress, handed him a revolver and urged combat. both were shot, dying instantly. Deliberate, fatal confrontation described by servant Mary Clark.
The Taft led commission will become the insular legislative body with power to appropriate funds, establish courts and schools, and pass laws. It will appoint judges and officials while Gen. MacArthur serves as executive head enforcing laws until a civil governor is named. Insurgent attacks have risen recently with more ambushes on small parties.
News items note immense forest fires in California and varied world topics. England holds Colombia responsible for death of Reginald Paris. Prussian measures to save endangered trees. only two surviving American vice presidents Morton and Stevenson. estimates for military provisioning. a Platte City incident. arid northern Mexico to be irrigated by federal and state canals. Esterhazy rumor in Paris. Brooklyn's Mrs. Ann State turning 100 with a Twain connection.
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