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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1900
Page
8
Fifty cent prices and bargains on ladies black hose and children's fancy plaid hose offered up to 75 cents. Gent's half hose priced per pair. Black all wool serge offered per yard at 55 cents. Includes options for yokes and sleeves at 25 cents per yard.
J W Johnson and family and Mrs Mary Mosser, missionaries of the Christian alliance in India, arrived in New York. They report famine in Central India with 6 million on relief, cholera, water shortages, and drouth. They say grain exists but price and government action constrain supplies. They note water scarcity, rail shortages, and looming floods risk.
The widow Adam Derepeugh, known as the widow of the Smee Showmen, marries Walter Nagie in a ceremony at a New Age church led by Rev. Wilson Poe Carey. The Rialto notes the union as a complete surprise to many friends amid lingering talk of journeys to Europe.
Adolph Rothstein a Russian banker stated his mission in the United States was successful and he arranged a loan with New York bankers. The loan, for the Russian government, totals 100000000 dollars with a possible 50000000 dollar increase and 4 percent interest, designed to appear as a private accommodation.
London hosts swell with Americans who cannot find hotel rooms as steamer crowds face four cab queues. Hotels reap rich profits from U S travelers while they await Paris departures. Sir Henry M Manley plans retirement ending a modest Commons career. South Africa war reported with 42000 horses sent for the army by April.
At the convention of rough riders in Oklahoma City the first arrivals were hauled by a train piloted by two heiresses Josephine Reynolds and Elizabeth Van Buren with Col. Alexander Brodie and Mrs. James Banks Reynolds aboard. They took the throttle to thrill crew and passengers, misadventure averted as the engine sped toward the city.
Prof A Eey from the Agricultural Station in Texas visited Hoboken to view the engine room of the Bremen which burned alongside two other German ships. He slipped into the hold with a Hungarian engineer friend to reach a hatchway as flames cut off escape and recounted the perilous attempt to exit.
American explorer Dr. Donaldson Smith returns to London after a year, recounting a new Central African tract from Lake Rudolf to the Nile valley. He led 60 men through Boran country to Lake Rudolf, then west to the Nile south of Gondokoro, noting varied terrain and encounters with elephants and natives.
A crew member clings to a rope and is rescued by a passing tub in the hold as 30 to 40 others share misery. The man reaches air, jumps overboard, and is saved by a tug then taken to hospital with the rest.
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