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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
1
Parisian fire departments abandon horses and steam engines selling old gear to towns. Electric fire engines, manned by two technicians, arrive with quieter operation and faster response. The electric ladder extends automatically, reducing accidents and noise while boosting reliability. Municipal leaders praise the shift and expect rivals in other continents to follow.
Private Charles Kappeler of Portland Maine registered at the Hotel Denechaud claiming deafness and dumbness after a field flashback in the Philippines. He served in Funston's Twentieth Kansas Company A and collapsed unconscious during a forced rain march as Filipino fire opened.
At the international congress in Vincennes Paris the electric fire apparatus impressed visitors with an electric hose engine electric wagon and a hose reel system that saves time by auto unwinding water flow and rapid set up. Firemen operate six man ladder crews and carry three mouthpieces for regulating pressure while a large reservoir supplies water in minutes.
A tramp on a park bench recalls a wild incident in New England. He fled a bull in New Hampshire and claims authorities arrested him for trespass and inciting the bull to mischief. He says he was jailed eleven months with possible extra time for the farmer’s wife fainting.
The article notes European tubes are small and london has three pipes in diameter. It claims the United States handles most mail via seven points, with New York’s system extending three and a half miles to Brooklyn and eight inches in diameter. A pouch can hold about 600 letters and move in seven minutes. The text ends with an unrelated fragment about a wedding gift and theft.
Washington marks the 100th anniversary of the capital, with a gala day in a city decked in red white and blue. President McKinley hosts a morning reception for state governors, unveiling a model of a future enlarged Executive Mansion. A parade, joint Senate and House exercises, and a Corcoran Gallery reception conclude the observance.
A fierce typhoon struck the Chinese coast November 10, sinking ships, wrecking buildings, and causing hundreds of deaths. The American ship Benjamin Sewall ran ashore while the English gunboat Sandpiper foundered with most crew lost. Canton River dredge capsized, leaving only a dozen of sixty rescued. News reached Victoria by the Empress of India with vivid reports of devastation and brave rescues along Hong Kong and nearby towns. The storm roared for forty eight hours then moved north with continued fury.
A clipped News front in a humorous tone notes the Chicago fat stock show had no entries from blind pigs and mocks frontier debates and wartime news, mentioning the Boer war and other global affairs with satirical asides.
After nearly four days of deliberation the Morrison jury in Eldora Kansas failed to reach a verdict. Jessie Morrison, accused of killing Mrs Castle in a razor duel with Clara Wiley the bride, is to be retried as the case lingers.
The piece threads a Maine congressman's isolation and his daughter Grace nursing him at home with a Salt Lake City preacher Francis Hermans linked to multiple murders and embezzlement charges. It also notes Mrs Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, Sir Arthur Sullivan’s ally, and conjoins Frank M Brown’s embezzlement case with naval orders involving Captain Dickens and the Indiana under a Rhode Island coast deployment.
Secretary of the Interior E A Hitchcock says about 1,000,000 pensioners will be on the roll next year with total pension payments of 142 million dollars. Last year paid 138 million, an increase due to an amendment allowing widows with incomes of less than 600 to receive pensions.
More than five million farmers signed petitions urging Congress to pass the Grout bill governing oleomargarine. The industry shows accelerated growth with last year’s oleo sales at 104 million pounds, a 25 million increase, while oil margarine factories rose from seventeen to twenty six.
A plan proposes reducing the tax on uncolored oleomargarine to a quarter of a cent per pound while raising the tax to ten cents per pound for colored oleomargarine to curb fraud against consumers and dairymen. References to political warnings, a Chicago exposition sale, a note on a British submarine plan, and irrigation potential in New Mexico appear in the same clipping.
The measure provides a tonnage bounty on sail and steam vessels with a sliding scale by size and speed. Bounties require cargo at least half capacity, vessels rated A1, US crew quotas, cadet mandates, mail service, and 10 to 20 year subsidies. Foreign built ships can share half, but must build US tonnage first. Objections say it favors European trade and fast ships over cargoes and South American needs.
A Qing dynasty crisis rumor centers on Prince Muat’s fate if China yields to Powers’ demands. The joint note would send a Chinese mission to Berlin to express regret for Baron von Ketteler’s murder, with monument plans and executions for Boxer leaders, plus halting arms, reparations, guarded legations, port razing, and reforms.
Texas official population listed at 3 048 710 while the Salvation Army operates 765 corps with 2 535 officers in America. Canada looks to a 6 000 000 population in next year’s census returns. Hannibal Missouri’s site sold in 1828 for 640 dollars. Arlington New Jersey copper mines resume after years idle.
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