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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1901
Page
8
A box sent to a Prairie du Chien professor contained glowing lightning bugs from Mexico. The bugs were deemed unmailable but harmless, and the sender must claim the box. The tale was joined by a separate report of a tunnel engineer lifting a horse with a sling and trolley, drawing a cheering crowd.
A trolley car trapped a team of gray horses in a 40 foot deep trench on Fourth Avenue New York City between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets. A 4 teedley derrick lifted the animals and carried them to the surface like buckets of earth. A horse ambulance with slings ropes and bands was summoned as workers saved the animals.
General Frederick Funston and his followers endured a harsh trek to capture Aguinaldo, surviving on snails and octopus. A letter dated April 5 from San Isidro, Malate, via Capt. Adward Clark, recounts their grueling march and hunger, noting Funston even helped eat an octopus described as a devil fish with long arms.
The Moniteur Universel, one of France’s oldest journals founded in 1948 and once the government organ then royalist, announces it will stop appearing. In Kansas, river churches near Topeka report low business as harvests proceed amid extreme heat with 31,000 workers active in the fields.
Edward Walsh Jr president of the Mississippi Glass Co of St Louis died on the Knickerbocker Special of the Big Four near Mattoon Illinois on Sunday afternoon. He was traveling with his wife and son to Hot Springs for his health after a grip attack last January. Walsh and his brother Julius were delegates of World's fair directors aboard the train heading to Buffalo. the body was sent back to the city on Sunday night after the death was learned by a citizen's remark.
The Mark Lane Express surveys the East Indian wheat yield at 80,926,000 quarters with about 6,100,000 exportable. ground conditions limit exports to around 2,000,000. Continental crops show above average in Russia and Spain, average in Hungary and Romania, below in Germany and Poland. Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey contest with the United States and Argentina in grain markets. Detroit notes Andrew Carnegie pledges 570,000 toward a new public library in the city.
New York United States Commissioner Shields dismissed insufficiency of evidence in the Seventh National Bank drivers case. Receiver Frank Sullivan Smith said a schedule may be filed after days while an expert reviews Marquand & Co books. He stressed firm securities protect creditors and that assets could be realized with no loss if pursued, but could not estimate total liabilities or dollarlfor-dollar solvency yet.
The British transport Armenian brought 930 Boer prisoners to Bermuda, anchored off Darrel's Island with gunboats Medway and Medina as guards. Officials toured the deck while crowds in boats gathered around. Prisoners asked for fruit tobacco and grog and said they were treated acceptably as camps are prepared on the islands.
Twelve men die and a boy is fatally injured when a single lightning bolt strikes a pier at the foot of Montrose boulevard in Chicago. Survivors and rescuers pull victims from the water as authorities confirm one boy recovered and seek further details. The scene marks a tragic end to a summer afternoon on Lake Michigan drawing attention to severe weather risks near piers and waterways.
A garbled consumer note describes a tasteless mix of Tron and Quinine with claims of no cure and no pay. The fragment hints at a dubious remedy and a skeptical or evasive seller stance.
A garbled 19th century style dispatch from New York notes yellow fever combat efforts with reported progress. The text is incomplete and contains numerous misspellings and broken names, making exact details, dates, and responsible officials difficult to identify.
In Pittsburgh the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers declares a strike at American Sheet Steel Co and United States Steel Corp plants after rejection of workers demands. Initial impact involves over 36,000 workers with expected wider plant shutdowns and a months‑long battle for organization.
A dispatch from Mexico City reports the government refused to permit the transfer of antiquities bought for the New York City Museum of Natural History. Marshall Savile, assistant curator, says many items remain in Mexico awaiting permission, noting the contract allowed duplicates and claiming authorities may have overstepped. He expects a settled solution before September when he returns to Mexico.
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