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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
2
A band of wicked students roamed at night with a barber shop pole, trading it for their pay and dodging police. After a comic chase, a sergeant learns the pole is theirs, and the youths endure repeated returns to headquarters before the mischief ends.
A Chicago story follows Eugene Brockway, a Cuban campaign veteran, as he returns home and longs for a quiet life. Maime Hardman, captivated by his bravery, pursues him through social scenes until a carriage reunion reveals their bond. A double wedding follows later that fall with Horace Judson and Zella Raymond.
This account details the Luxor obelisk in the Place de la Concorde facing the Buileries and Champs Elysees, its 74 foot height and 500000 pound weight, its gift from Mohammed Ali and 1836 relocation to Paris, the costly move, and the square’s historic events from the Revolution to 1848, ending with a moral quip about young men and gossip.
A remark notes that married women often complain husbands lack compliments. It suggests trying good cooking as a possible remedy, framing it as a tongue in cheek question about domestic relations.
In Wotton, Surrey, a 1718 will of William Glanville directs burial six feet underground and annual 40 shillings to five or seven parish boys who recite prayers and read First Corinthians 15. This year sixteen offered, eleven attended, seven won, others received half a crown, and the five non competitors got two shillings each.
After Charles I’s execution and the Restoration, judges Edward Whalley and William Goffe fled England and hid in a rock cavern near New Haven, Connecticut. The site, once known as the Regicides cave, has become a noted local curiosity.
At Sioux Falls on Wednesday the national Populist convention elected Thomas Patterson of Colorado as permanent chairman after a two hour session. J H Curren Leon Vincent and William M Delaher were named permanent secretaries. Pettigrew withdrawn, Pettigrew selected, Weaver and Butler among earlier possibilities. Delegates and visitors numbered 500 to 800 with Bryan Towne banners amid enthusiastic greetings for Butler Heitfeld Adams and Lee. The welcome featured Bishop O Gorman prayers and a rousing reception for Gov Lee.
Delegates from across states gather in Cincinnati opera house at 2 pm as D Clem Deaver calls meeting to order. Ignatius Donnelly and Wharton Barker address fusionist tensions while credentials debate limits Kansas votes. Evening session chords toward Peck of Georgia for chairman after a split with Williams of Vincennes. Adjourn to 5 pm Thursday.
News briefs report Japs heading to Cape Nome for mining and a June visit planned by the Prince of Wales to Paris. It notes a Chicago man, William Edmunds, fatally shot his wife and himself, while an Eskimo ordained as a Swedish minister in Chicago. Also covered are Chicago socialists backing Debs Harriman, the death of Dr. G R C Todd, floods in Mississippi and Louisiana, Rufus Wright’s will leaving nearly 1 million, Funston’s expedition, Freany found dead in New York park, and a brutal murder case in Berwyck, Maine with a nude body found and a throat cut.
Wharton Barker of Philadelphia born May 1 1836, grandson of Jacob Barker. Educated at University of Pennsylvania class of 1866, trustee since 1880. Entered Barker Bros banking in 1869, later led American weekly paper for the People’s party after 1900. Residence at Wyncote. Decorated by Alexander I in 1878 with the Order of Stanislaus.
May 1 estimates from the Department of Agriculture place winter wheat area at about 26.6 million acres, down 11.8 percent from last fall. Major declines come from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Illinois due to winter kill and Hessian fly. Conditions for remaining belts remain favorable in Kansas, Missouri, Texas and other states, with almost half the acreage reporting normal or higher conditions. Spring plowing is late in many states, notably Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas.
The Populist national ticket was chosen at Sioux Falls with J. Bryan for president and Charles A. Towne for vice president. Towne was selected after a lengthy night of debate, while Bryan’s nomination came by acclamation. The platform featured free silver, inheritance tax, direct election of senators, and municipal ownership of utilities.
Railroads announce new shops at Port Richmond California and grading on Rock Island line near Mountain View Oklahoma. Northern Pacific takes St Paul and Duluth line, while Nickel Plate Lackawanna introduce Chicago to New York express in 27 hours. Illinois Eastern, Cotton Belt, and Thebes service to Arkansas and Texas. Topeka bond issue eyed for Santa Fe shops. Court ruling may alter county seat stops. Rock Island reports higher March earnings. extension contracts to Perkins Michigan and Whitefish river region.
Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania was nominated for President on the second ballot by the Populists at the Cincinnati convention. Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota was unanimously chosen for Vice President. The platform endorsed Omaha 1896 terms, free coinage of silver, income tax, initiative and referendum, and direct election of federal officers. National committee set Chicago HQ with Parker, McBride, and Park in key posts.
A scrambled set of early 20th century items reports deaths in Mobile and Lexington, a Chicago real estate trust, coal famine factory closures, large inheritances in New York, a fatal forest fire in Kentucky, a Chicago politician killed by a saloonkeeper, a self defense shooting in Lexington, a murdered Lake City postmaster, German war clarifications, and Helen Gould in New York receiving over a thousand financial letters weekly.
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