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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1900
Page
7
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports for the year ending June 30 1899 on U.S. railroads show 51743 total casualties from accidents with 9123 deaths and 44690 injuries. Passenger deaths rose to 226 and injuries to 2142. railway workers killed numbered 2210 with 24923 injuries.
In Paris en route from Gastein to Brussels King Leopold passes Saion station where a lavish bouquet arrives with a ribbon reading From Your Faithful Little Friend, C. de Merode. Cabinet members and Loubet envoy misread it as Clea de Merode and the flowers are set aside in the waiting room before the royal train departs.
Army officers show interest in a Cleveland inventor's device that minimizes gun recoil. Tests reportedly support the inventor's claims. Gen Miles Col Michler and Capt Lewis observed firing with the recoil checker and issued a favorable report.
Anna Held travels from Paris with S Zieg field and a party of American actors aiming to coach to London. She plans to reach Nat Goodwin's English seat on Sunday as Goodwin returns from America amid a reported cross channel crossing recent days. The item mentions a scarcity of servants in Mexico City and a noting of public monuments in Chicago.
A vast surface ore body in the Ragged Top district is described with thicknesses from 4 to 40 feet and an average of 12 feet, spanning 6,000 feet north to south and 500 to 1,400 feet wide. Assays claim 3 to 20 dollars per ton, with potential for a 150 ton daily cyanide plant costing 50,900 dollars. Colorado Springs capitalists own the ground and plan development on the Carboniferous overlay region.
Col Mugham orders a new carpet for the White House red room while other summer repairs proceed. The red parlor bears heavy daily use from tourists and official visits, with minor upholstery, paint, and carpet updates planned. Steel floors are proposed for lasting durability in the historic building.
A New Jersey company secures 330 acres at Manasquan to create a giant hen industry promising scientific methods and guaranteed fresh eggs for New York. First year output targets 30 million eggs from a laying herd of 15000 to 26000 chickens, with plans to double capacity. General manager is J R Benson, noted authority on poultry.
A romance that began in Yellowstone National Park led Miss Rachel Kirby Read of Towanda and Walter L. Wiley of Peoria to wed in Towanda New York. Wiley served as assistant cashier at the Merchants National Bank in Peoria and the couple departed on a western trip after a hasty ceremony amid social excitement. A fragment of Shakespeare was also unearthed in York.
At Coney Island a crowd watched a lifeguard crew subdue a gray headed man accused of peeping at women and children. The detainee was dunked into a lifeboat, then dragged ashore and drenched, amid shouts of shame from onlookers and plans to continue duckings for similar misdeeds.
George Perry a Beaver Island resident near Clinton Ia fought a large storm driven eagle with a double barrel shotgun. The six foot long bird weighed 0 pounds with three inch claws and talons. Perry wounded it then finished with a shell, drawing public interest in Clinton for the unusual encounter.
A Dew eon City wedding will honor Mies Nel Ue Ryder of Fall River Massachusetts when she arrives to wed Ulyases Grant Myers, the United States weather observer in Eagle City. Myers left New Haven 90 months ago on orders from Washington to pioneer Klondike work. Ryder, 2% years old, athletic and fearless, has a Baldwin Locomotive family background.
John Findley Wallace at the American Society of Civil Engineers in London likens modern civil engineering to a child of the nineteenth century with roots tracing to Tubaj Cain Noah Joseph and Moses and Joshua. He praises the profession and asserts its graduates should increase human comfort.
A Columbia University gym class shows coed calisthenics run on a liberal, educational basis. A senior observer notes coeds in bloomers and loose waists performing marching drills to a rag time march, with hopping skipping and kicking as work on parallel bars begins. The senior is discovered but met with quiet acceptance.
General Greely complains the signal corps is overworked as congress created only ten volunteer lieutenants. Lack of officers delays establishing lines of communication, with none on duty in Washington. The enlisted force lacks 100 expert operators, Fort Myer schools strive to fill the gap while seven officers remain in Cuba.
Gov. Richards of Wyoming receives a curio portrait of President McKinley formed by mineral action in Big Horn hot springs at Thermopolia. The process leaves a stone image after months of soda water exposure, touted as a novelty.
An old notice urges travelers to use the Big Four Route for complete travel information including auto rates, tickets, and limits. It directs inquiries to Warren J. Lynch and the undersigned agents at Cincinnati offices for passes and ticket administration.
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