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Brimfield News

Location

Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Oct 18, 1900

Page

2

Week's News Record Highlights Financing and Fires

Bernard Kats of Katz Brothers Paterson N J says Rogers locomotive works sold to New York capitalists and Paterson's wealthy residents. Burton Brothers department store burned at Sulivan Ind loss about 100000 with insurance. The Fire started in basement from an unrturned candle. Dawes commission finished enrolling Cherokees at Bartlesville I T total enrolled Cherokees 17502 Delawares 524 doubtful 2336 rejected 1010. A family blown to atoms at Sells Ark during supper by dynamite explosion. suspected homestead dispute. Prohibitionists in Douglas County Kan face ballot exclusion after intoxicated messenger failed filing. Prince Arthur steamer rescued three Waube crew from capsized schooner after exposure. LAK Erie and Western train collision near St Marys Ohio. Conductor Treath injured. Flying machine factory cornerstone laid at Freedom labor colony Kaw. Rev Rowland Hills English bigamy convict sentenced Blair Neb four years. Typhoon toll in Formosa and S China with thousands dead and Taipei inundated. Rev Father William H. Ketcham appointed head of US Catholic Indian missions in Washington. Dollie Richardson jostles St Louis policeman with hatpin. officer injured. Eastbound B&O train robberies near Athens Ohio. passenger John Kapte German national robbed of 100.

Burton Brothers Sullivan Ind People’s Theater Rre Dawes Commission Bartlesville I. T Sells Ark Douglas County Kan Prohibition Prince Arthur Boston Waube Lake Erie Western Road St. Mary's Ohio A. L. Treath Lima Carl Dryden Browne Freedom Labor Colony Fort Scott Kaw Rowland Hills Blair Neb Formosa China Taipei William H. Ketcham Antlers, L.T United States Washington, D. C Ketcham Museure

Eastern news highlights industrial strife and crime across the U S

The item catalogues labor strikes and wage disputes at Tiffany & Co. copper plate engravers, Reading iron mills, and various plants, plus accidents and crimes nationwide. Notable entries include Sophia Holmes’s death in Washington, a breakdown of population gains in Connecticut, rail and canal disruptions, and a bitter Rockefeller family quarrel over child burials at Lakeview cemetery.

Floods Cause Stork Loss in Argentina News Nugget

Serious flood damage in Argentina results in the loss of a large number of storks. Other items note James Gordon Bennett in New York after three years in Europe, Russia seeking loans in New York and Paris, and various international reports.

Shorter creed favored by Chicago Presbytery report

A mixed set of brief items notes a Chicago Presbytery vote in favor of a shorter creed, a Kansas flour mill fire with heavy losses, a snowbound convention crew on Pike’s Peak, thefts, legal rulings, dismissals, strikes, deaths, fires, accidents, and various criminal incidents across several states, including Utah.

Chicago Hoover Cherrydale Kan Manitou Colo Pike's Peak Topeka Presbytery Kansas City Bart. Ramsey & Co Cleveland South Dakota

National Fire Chiefs pick Indianapolis as meeting site

In Charleston D C the Southern federation of fire chiefs chose Indianapolis as the best future meeting place. News from across the nation reports a series of violent incidents including a Norfolk man killing his sweetheart and wounding a boarder in Columbia Pennsylvania and a farmer Richardson killed by his son in Bridgeton Georgia. Two convicts escaped Tennessee penitentiary by sliding from a three story building and were recaptured. A jail break in Louisville involved James Howard and others as a turnkey halted the dig. The Russell Alger syndicate plans a Foshee Alabama to Pensacola Florida railroad with a mill at Foshee and a factory near Moline Fra. An 18-year-old student Thomas Harnes died from stage fright at Ashburn Georgia after a brief speech.

William M. Mott Norfolk Mme Alberto Columbia Mott S. Richardson Bridgeton David Richardson Richardson Tennessee Penitentiary James Howard Louisville Howard Russell A. Alger Syndicate Foshee Ala Pensacola Fla American Car Company Moline Fra Thomas Harnes Ashburn Collegiate Institute

Changes in tariff excise duties and new currency note detected

Consul General Holloway reports an excise duty on spirits and tobacco in Russia alongside tariff changes. The Treasury notes a new $10 silver certificate from 1891 with Hendricks portrait, described as a flawed photographic print lacking silk fiber. Paris expo results show the United States with 2,475 awards, leading Germany 1,82, Great Britain 1,727, and Russia 7,493. census notes indicate forty to fifty Americans arrested for refusing census questions.

State Department Holloway St. Petersburg Treasury Department Washington Hendricks Peck Paris United States Germany Great Britain Rrussia

Fragmentary OCR Text on Culprits and Enumerators

The readable portion shows a discussion of villains or culprits and their choice to respond to enumerators questions. The text is incomplete and lacks clear names dates places or actions. More context is needed to form a precise news item.

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Plague in Glasgow and World News Briefs

Reports from Glasgow say the plague outbreak has been checked while Empire honors Paris exposition leaders. Boxers form large south China armies amid warned outbreaks as British cabinet resignations are tendered to Salisbury. Bute dies at Dumfries House from paralysis. Oceanic narrowly escapes shipwreck in Irish fog. Austria seeks a US loan near 20 million dollars amid monetary shocks. British militia to disband about 50 000 men. Victor Emmanuel III faces death within the year. Monastic pilgrims flood St Nikander as a upper floor collapse kills four men and thirty six women.

Glasgow William China Salisbury John Patrick Crichton-Stuart Marquis of Bute Dumfries House Ayreshire Hogland White Star Oceanic Ireland Austria United States British War Office Victor Emmanuel III Italy Robert A. Gaildelly St. Nikander Forkhoff Russia

Eight Americans seek indemnity from Britain over Transvaal exit

Reports from various fronts note eight Americans driven from the Transvaal urge the U S government to demand indemnity from Great Britain. Other items cover the Windward reaching Godhaven, the Windom Glacier slipping into the Arctic, Cuba customs receipts for 1900, and veterans electing Gen. Hulings as commander in chief.

Transvaal Great Britain Peary Windward Godhaven Greenland Taku Inlet Alaska Arctic Ocean Cuba

Market Reports Reveal Widespread Grain and Livestock Prices

Regional market summaries list cattle hogs sheep and grain values from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with prices for beef pork and lamb and for wheat corn oats rye butter and eggs across multiple cities and market grades. Highlights include cattle around 3.00 to 5.85 dollars hogs 3.00 to 5.69 dollars and wheat No 2 values near 16 to 78 cents.

Chicago Indianapolis St. Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee New York

Desolate Coal Regions See Strike Paralyze Economy

The coal towns in Luzerne and Schuylkill districts suffer as President Mitchell’s strike halts mining. Mines idle, merchants cancel orders, travelers divert routes, theaters lose crowds, and hotels face losses while strikers endure hardship. The United Mine Workers face appeals for relief funds as supply and commerce decline.

Mitchell Lichawanna Wyoming Schuylkill Lehigh Panther Creek United Mine Workers Tamaqua United Mine Workers’ Organization

Marriage as shield against self-destruction and relief aid noted

Goldwin Smith argues marriage protects against suicide amid rising self harm, while the Red Cross reports 31 million dollars in relief donations for food, including 750 thousand for Galveston debris cleanup. Reports from Hubbard, Gompers, Wheeler, and others cover travel, politics, and war era concerns.

Galveston Stephen E Burton The Red Cross Society

Odds and Exan census cost and war news snapshot

Odds and Exan estimate the twelfth census at 15000000 dollars. The Daly faction blocked the Democratic state convention in Montana. New York contributed 216016 to the Galveston relief fund. Lord Roberts reports Gen Barton captured livestock near Krugersdorp. Minnie Patterson refused a farewell kiss and a man shot her dead. A team plunged into the Kanawha river causing drownings. Walter Townsend and Wm DeWeese died of typhoid in Yokohama. Penn and Whitlock settled differences Kentucky style. the latter is dead.

Odds Exan Daly Tate Montana New York Galveston Lord Roberts Barton Krugersdorp Minnie Patterson Bessemer Ala George Sims Kanawha W. Va Wm. DeWeese Walter E. Townsend Yokohama Pekin B. W. Penn J. L. Whitlock Rollings Kentucky

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