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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
9
A Seattle man's ardent letters to his sweetheart led to a breach of promise suit. Jurors awarded the woman $5,000 after testimony that the suitor ceased visits and writing, despite affectionate promises.
Powder kept in cold storage may cool magazines on warships to reduce explosion risk. Experiments have progressed, aided by plans from Rear Admiral O Neil, U S N. If successful, future ships will include magazine refrigerating apparatus alongside marine auxiliary machinery.
A March Ladies Home Journal note by Mrs. Burton Kingsland describes replacing rice with rose leaves or loose flowers at weddings. The custom avoids harm from scattering rice, with guests showering blooms and keeping them as souvenirs.
The sultan reportedly has about 2,000 horses in stables, with examples from nearly every breed. His Anest horses include Arabian bloodlines, and his favorite mount is an Arabian bay. He is also noted for firing at objects while galloping and insistence that army regiments ride Arabian horses of one color.
A listing notes thirty four great battles with twelve on Sunday six on Thursday five on Wednesday two on Friday and three on Monday Tuesday and Saturday. Sunday battles include Waterloo Inkerman and the fall of Delhi while Thursday hosts Gravelotte and Omdurman and Wednesday features Tel el Kebir Alma and Balaklava. Trafalgar occurred on Tuesday Sebastopol on Friday and Marengo and Abu Jbn Ware on Saturday.
The coal shortage in Wurape, linked to the South Africa war, benefits Maryland and West Virginia mines. Baltimore Lambert's Point and Newport News report unprecedented shipments to general trade. A French firm contracts 75,000 tons of Cumberland coal and Russia seeks terms for 2,009,000 tons.
A Greek woman living in England who runs an infant school near Athens has translated classic nursery rhymes such as Jack and Jill and Old Mother Hubbard into her language and set them to music, delighting Hellenic infants. A Sunny Slope vineyard near San Gabriel grows 725 acres of grapes among 12,000 orange trees and olives across 1,500 total acres, touted as the world’s largest vineyard.
In military sketching a prismatic compass is generally used but is practically useless beyond the Drakensberg. In Zululand iron in the earth renders the compass valueless for observations.
The bloodiest battle of the century occurred at Borodino near Moscow where Napoleon met the Russian army on September 7 1812. About 80000 soldiers were engaged in combat and suffered heavy casualties.
The Denver and Rio Grande railroad issues a second edition of The Fertile Lands of Colorado describing agricultural and grazing prospects along its line in Colorado and New Mexico Territory. It details stock interests, the beet industry, irrigation farming, and notes free copies by contacting DR&RG rail officials.
Senate attack on Ferdinand W. Peck over Paris exposition expenditures calls attention to only eleven items totaling 240000, with Peck having accounted for less than 400000 of 1400000 appropriated. House fights erupt over anti trust measures and tariff impacts as politics heats up. American troops land at Tien Tsin. Meade transport quarantined for smallpox in San Francisco.
A northbound street car rammed a loaded truck at Thirty second Street and Third Avenue at midnight, sending nine passengers to Bellevue Hospital with injuries and leaving the truck driver with a fractured skull. Motorman Arthur Becker also needed care. The conductor said Becker had complained of heat and may have driven into the truck in a heat-induced frenzy. Several passengers were thrown through front windows and cut by glass.
The largest airship ever built here aims to test how long a balloon stays aloft. It will hold 9,000 cubic centimeters and carry 125 crew. Ascenders include Herron Berson Zekeli Koering and Alexander with one more, planning to rise July 15 and remain aloft for weeks before descent.
Dunkard conference gathered in North Manchester Indiana with about 7500 people as trains from two railroads brought attendees. Miller of Elgin Indiana was named moderator and Hilder Samuel Hayes of Virginia elected general secretary.
A shooting on South Broadway left Albert Koenig dead and Officer Crane fatally wounded. Koenig fought with Crane over a shotgun and was shot by Officer Maher after a threatening move. The city mobilized a large posse with 700 riot guns.
New York June 1 great rejoicing among hundreds of cigar makers who struck Levy & Co East 62d street. Thousands of cigarmakers support the strikers as injunction blocking unions from aiding workers is vacated by Judge Andrews. He says money paid was to support the men and lawful.
In Media Pennsylvania on June 2 two children were pulled from a burning house on the Dos truck farm of T Steer Bicksloe by their eight year old brother After escaping the flames he tried to rescue his mother and a baby but the mother could not be saved with the weight of the baby in her arms The boy fled to safety as flames surrounded the doomed house
Goor Envoys Messia Wischer Wessels and Wolmarans met Mayor Hart at Boston City Hall and were then received at the state house. The mayor spoke of South Africa news and hoped Boer adversity might yield good. Wigcher expressed that justice for the patriots was all they sought, and the envoys remained hopeful despite Johannesburg and Pretoria reports.
Winnipeg June 2 government to introduce a prohibition bill tomorrow banning liquor sales by retailers in the province. First offense carries a 200 to 1000 dollar fine, second offense up to three months imprisonment without option of a fine. Manufacturers and wholesalers barred from selling in Manitoba. other restrictions apply.
Yaqui Indians once inactive have resumed attacks on Mexican troops near Turin Sonora causing casualties. Reports say a large force is regrouping in the mountains about sixty miles northwest of Turin as tensions rise in the region.
Tadleted Man Will Not Talk at Martinsville sanitarium W 8 Taylor of Kentucky here apprised of indictment by grand jury charging him as an accomplice in the Goebel murder. Several papers telephoned for a statement Luther declined to make any.
General Davila, commander of government troops, brings insurgent leader Gen Hernandez to Caracas after a victorious engagement near Tierra Negra last Sunday and will parade him in the capital streets.
Frederick T Knights of Venice in Denver conducts experiments on an alleged tuberculosis cure. The method involves pulverizing the bodies of dead butterflies to a powder claimed to cure consumption.
A new pest, the green louse or aphis, has appeared in wheat fields in parts of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. It infests tender shoots and rose buds as it spreads.
An old advertisement urges treating back pain and kidney trouble with Morley's Liver and Kidney Cordial. It claims the remedy renovates the system and prevents danger, selling through agents in every town.
A compilation of vintage medical and consumer ads, including Allen’s Toot- Ease foot powder promising relief for tight shoes and hot feet, Kemp’s Balsam cough remedy, Morley’s Liver and Kidney Cordial for wives, and dental quackery notes. Also mentions outdated racial language and evolving public health notions.
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for feminine disorders, claiming its long standing relief and urging women to write to Lydia E. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts for free counsel from a testament to practical, honest advice.
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