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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
6
A Carey Times digest summarizes March Senate and House actions including the conference report on the financial bill, discussions of the Quay case, Aldrich robins contest in Alabama, Mason and Lindsay on Porto Rican tariff, and duties on Hawaii government provisions. It notes adjournment for Rep Harmer’s memory and key votes and seats in contested elections.
Congress will honor Harmer as a vacant seat triggers Henry Bingham to become father of the house after twenty years of service starting in the Forty-sixth Congress. The War Department orders Maj. Gem Otis to return to the U S in May with one battalion from each of the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantry regiments. The Navy Department recalls Marblehead from the isthmus of Panama while Detroit remains ordered to move down the east coast.
Elmira New York suffers near total destruction of the Hayne engine plant, a major local industry, with losses around 100000 dollars and 65000 dollars insured. Four firemen injured by a falling wall, one seriously. Andrew J Robinson of Robinson Wallace assigns in New York City. National Tube Co wages rise ten percent for 4000 workers at McKeesport. US weekly business failures total 205, Canada 33. Kingston boiler works Oswego destroyed for 80000. Consolidation talks for snuff firms lead to 25000000 new company. Potters wage classifica tion agreed for review. Glendale paper mill fire loses 65000. Lake Carriers' association blocks Kennedy from grain handling. Gambling house exposé shows 3005000 yearly bribes. NY clearing house banks show cash loss, deposits fall. Boston health board reports 19 deaths in week ending March 10 due to epidemic.
Early on the morning of the 7th the state insane asylum at St Peter Minnesota was badly burned but no lives were lost though 35 employees narrowly escaped in their night clothes. The loss is $40,000 and partially insured.
Governor Stanley issues a quarantine at the urging of the livestock sanitary commission to prevent tuberculosis in herds, effectively barring dairy cattle from entering Kansas. The measure follows floods in Illinois and waves of property damage across the American bottoms and Madison county.
An explosion in a Besegges coal mine on the ninth killed sixteen miners as mine galleries collapsed burying their bodies. In London on the tenth the English war loan was thrice covered, with US interest and provincial subscriptions, while Barba does faces arson, and Bridgetown frets over unrest amid starving workers. Dispatches from Ortiz report continued Indian raids in Sonora, Mexico, scarring villages and hamlets.
Cardinal Di Cannosa of Verona, the oldest member of the college of cardinals and Austria's candidate in the conclave that elected Pope Leo, has died. Oriental reports say 60 foreign insurers were refused permission to do business in Japan, mostly American, with officials citing noncompliance with Japanese insurance laws. Frank Ward was killed and several injured in a dynamite explosion at a Hazelton coal mine on the 12th as men were handling explosive. About 2,300 cigarmakers, including nearly 800 girls, strike in New York City against Kerbs Wertham & Schiffer demanding 20 to 30 percent wage increases and union control of the factory. In Omaha on the 12th, a fire gutted the Omaha Tent and Rubber Co mill and damaged other stock, total loss $150,000 fully insured. The Montgomery County Courthouse at Clarksville, Tenn., burned on the 10th. most records saved, loss about $125,000 with insurance. Work resumed on the 12th at the American Sugar Refining Co. in Jersey City after shutdowns overproduction, 1,100 workers returning. A Philadelphia conference between United States type founders and unions settled wage and hour terms. wage rise 15 to 20 percent effective April 1. In the Senate, Mr. Rawlins of Utah led a Philippine debate as opposition to holding the Philippines persisted. Eighty-six private pension bills passed for the second time in a week. a Democrat was unseated and a Republican seat vacant. BR. A. Wise seated in Virginia. An urgent deficiency appropriation list carried 1,489.38.
In Frankfort and Lexington a chaotic power struggle unfolds as Gov Beckham supporters move to organize a state guard. City officials enlist men as special police to shield Democratic officers. arrests and disguises surface as Powers and Davis evade capture aboard a train. Governor Taylor claims pardons and asserts constitutional battles over succession and authority continue.
A Potam Mexico dispatch reports four days of skirmishes near Cucorit, Mexico between Yaqui groups and Mexican troops. About 200 Indians killed. Mexican forces suffered minor losses with 25 soldiers wounded. Engagements were brief and only lasted a few hours before Indian forces withdrew.
Capt. A. T. Mahan argues in a Leslie's Weekly piece that a Pacific canal across Central America links Atlantic and Gulf coasts to Asia, making the isthmus and Caribbean crucial strategic areas. He calls for naval supremacy to deter European powers, noting Britain France and Germany as potential challengers and stressing moral and indispensable interests in protecting U.S. sea routes.
A Sunday morning fire at the Massachusetts Macaroni Co on North street in Boston killed PB. J. McCarthy senior bo’seman of Steamer No. 8 instantly. Firefighters faced a four story brick building loss with six hours of hard work. Christopher Curran of Steamer 9 was severely injured and may die. Lieut. Walter McLeam of Steamer No. 8 and Hosemen Galloway and Gavashan were injured. Loss estimated between 75000 and 150000.
In New York on March 12, Kes Wither led 144 persons including men women and a child through baptism at Mount Olivet Baptist Church. The dripping procession moved from the font to pews as women prayed and others prepared to dress for the cold March wind in a rear room.
New York March 12 George W Van Siciern forms the National Boer Relief Fund association to aid widows and orphans of Boers killed in the war. Bourke Cochran named chairman and sent a $500 check. Van Sielen chosen secretary treasurer and vows to raise $1,000,000 before the war ends.
In reports from Driefontein and Bloemfontein, British forces under Lord Roberts advance after hard fighting. Boers retreat from their center kopjes as 5 regiments and artillery clash. 40 prisoners taken, casualties mount. Dispatches note dissension among Kruger and Joubert, and calls for foreign intervention.
March 13 Daily News edits on the Hay Pauncefote convention demand firm stance from Lord Salisbury against American ideas of controlling the Nicaragua canal. It notes Monroe doctrine backlash and questions if McKinley can bend Senate without Salisbury yielding. The Daily Chronicle supports a strong understanding with America but warns against conceding key interests.
In a Troy Times item, Miss Skreecher notes Dr. Brown showed unusual interest in her singing last night. Miss Peppery retorts that his remark was less about the singing and more about studying tonsils, a quip to his specialty.
The Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route announce a series of low rate excursions to the West and Southwest with gate tickets on March 6 and 20, and April 3 and 17. Free pamphlets and time cards mailed upon request to H. C. Townsend in St. Louis. A London clergyman sends parishioners an at home invitation, while a district visitor jokes about four letters in the corner meaning Reply soon and victuals provided.
In the South the Garden spots awaken and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers round trip tickets at about half rates on the first and third Tuesdays of March and April to principal points in Tennessee Alabama Georgia and West Florida. Inquiries: P Sid Jones D P A Birmingham Alabama or Jackson Smith D P A Cincinnati Ohio.
The notice promotes Union Pacific and Northwestern Line services to California with The Overland Limited leaving Chicago at 6:30 P M and The Pacific Express at 10:30 P M. It highlights through cars dining, buffet and library services and through tourist sleepers with excursions, plus agent contact for pamphlets. Ads also include a drugstore pitch for Kemp’s Balsam and light, unrelated quips from Chicago Dispatch.
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