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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1900
Page
6
The census bureau has completed listing all U S cities above 25 000 residents except four. The Mint director raised government silver purchase price from 55 to 57 cents per ounce due to silver price increases. Current purchases come from gold deposits in the Yukon and other gold regions.
Norwich workers strike after a 10 percent wage raise ends. Immigration surges in New York City as 4 000 prospective citizens pass through. Coal shortages hit Reading, Pennsylvania, and locomotives switch to bituminous fuel due to anthracite limits. Deaths include Thomas G. Shearman in Brooklyn. Hay’s health improves and he plans return. Chinese negotiations shaped by Advo. Boston approves Boston and Albany lease terms as Wachusett dam contract is awarded. Banking shows sharp deposits drop and reserve relief. Vanderbilt funds Marlborough's war return. Carnegie Steel eyes wage changes effective January 1. John Warrison dies in Newark. Train labor cuts threaten workers at Lowell plant.
George W. Welshong a prominent Pennsylvania newspaper man committed suicide in a Harrisburg restaurant bedroom by severing his arm with a penknife. He had been drinking heavily and believed he was pursued by enemies.
On the 27th Hon. Charles A Collier, Atlanta official and 1896 cotton exposition president, was found fatally shot near his home, believed to have killed himself during a burglary chase. Other notes report train wrecks in Michigan and Utah, the death of Col. John P. Jackson in San Francisco, Joliet plant suspensions, and a Minneapolis murder involving a sister and two children in China.
A secret circular from Joannicinus metropolitan of Kieff excommunicates Tolstoi as an avowed enemy of the church. Trish-Americans with the Boers moved from barracks to the India transport to avoid disturbances. Murray Bay residents face quarantine for scarlet fever with families unable to return home. Admiral James A. Smith arrives in Berlin to spend the winter.
Reports cite a major blaze at the Buffalo crematory outside the city line with 330000 in losses. Reading Coal and Iron Co. notes seven of 39 collieries reopened on the first despite a 10 percent wage offer, indicating reduced mining activity.
The September 24 M E conference in Youngstown named district appointments across Akron, Barnesville, Cambridge, Canton, Cleveland, Steubenville, Uhrichsville, Youngstown and more. Presiding elders and pastors receive assignments to Akron First, Grace Akron, Trinity Youngstown, Epworth and other churches.
Judge Lamson ruled the board of arbitration report was final in the dispute between James Corrigan and John D Rockefeller over 2,500 Standard Oil trust certificates. Corrigan could owe nearly 1,000,000 while Rockefeller gains the same amount if upheld in upper courts.
Cantoni September 27 report says 104 engravers at the Dueber Watch Co works are on strike seeking about a 1 percent wage increase. Apprentices earn about $8 weekly, skilled workers $12 to $14, with no extra pay for the hour previously granted Saturdays from 4:30 to 5:30. The firm refused the raise.
An attempt to wreck two electric line cars occurred Tuesday night near Millbury tunnel on the Toledo Fremont and Norwalk line. Obstructions were placed on the track and later removed by a motorman. A second set of blocks caused the eastbound car to crash, injuring no one and keeping the car on the rails.
The Ohio supreme court confirmed a report naming Kohler and Beery as trustees to wind up the Akron Underwriters Association under ouster proceedings. The case held the association to be a trust and ordered trustees to close its financial affairs after the underwriters offered no defense.
The advisory board of the national Knights of Honor is in session in Cincinnati to adjust finances and executive department features. Attending are D. S. Piggs, Boston supreme dictator. Samuel Klotz, Newark past supreme dictator. ex Gov J. S. C. Shepard, Edgefield member. W. R. Spooner, New York member. Sessions and results are executive.
Columbus reports Gov Nash sent a written reply to Rev H Barbour regarding resolutions from the First Baptist church of Columbus condemning assaults on religious liberty and free speech at Mansfield. The governor urged legal relief and peaceful adjudication rather than further protests. Also note: a separate Columbus item reports the Globe Building and Loan v Mykrantz case dismissed for missing printed records. In Cleveland, the Idler disaster victim Miss Jane Corrigan was recovered near Willoughby, badly decomposed but identifiable by clothing and jewelry.
Columbus reports the death of Prof. John E Guitner of Otterbein University from heart failure at his Westerville home. He had served 38 years as the Greek professor and was widely known.
The Republic Iron and Steel Co. started its new Bessemer mill in Youngstown with a capacity of 690 tons of billets daily and expected to employ 600 workers.
Springfield mourns as Judge John C. Miller of the common pleas court died here yesterday. He was a brother of retired Rear Admiral J. N. Miller.
Former Governor John Altgeld will depart Sunday for Ohio for four speeches. After Ohio he will tour New England states delivering additional talks.
Ed Ruthebon was arraigned in criminal court and pleaded not guilty to first degree murder in the death of Patrolman Rhipp. The Sept 25 arraignment occurred in Cleveland.
A visitor in Paris confronts a waiter over high prices at a prestigious restaurant in the exhibition grounds. The waiter argues about conscience and billing, saying if it exists it is on the bill, otherwise extra charges apply. The exchange illustrates rule bound pricing.
A collage of quotes critiques French in Paris and a joke culture from Indianapolis Journal Detroit Free Press and Carter's Ink boasts quality ink. The piece juxtaposes language mishaps and spelling debates while praising ink quality and poking at transatlantic interactions.
A promotional account extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a treatment for women with kidney and related ailments. Letters from Mrs. Edna Frederick and others in Troy and Chester praise relief and improved health after using the remedy.
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