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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1900
Page
2
A week of disorder in New York neighborhoods saw mobs form in front of Policeman Brothert J Thorne’s home at Ninth Ave and 24th St. Attacks targeted Black residents amid racial tension. Rioters used bricks and stones from upper floors to strike, raising fires and fear across four precincts.
Loch is identified as a dynamiter tied to recent attacks on streetcar lines in the southern city. Police say the group operated through organized circles, with plans drawn by councils and executed by individuals connected to the Prossit Company incidents.
The passage notes extreme heat with a thermometer near a high marked degree. Farmer W. J. Everett displays corn ears popped by sun heat, showing parched conditions and unusually sunny days across Terrel Ceanty as lingering heat persists.
In a harsh address at Aldershot the British Army chief criticized the wartime maneuvers as failed and ill led. He stated the troops were unfit for overseas service and faulted leadership, drawing reactions from officers including General Montgomery Moore.
The foreign office announces Emperor William will receive the Brooklyn Sangerbund delegation in early September to thank him for his support. The emperor had planned to meet the delegation commissioner but scheduling conflicts prevented the talks.
Report says Sir Robert Hart director general of Chinese imperial Maritime customs left Pekin under Chinese escort with his staff. A cruiser will be sent to meet him on arrival at the coast.
In the Moore plantation four miles from Elkton Ka there are fourteen typhoid cases and five deaths. Officials believe the outbreak stems from cistern water used by residents.
A dispatch to the London Daily Express reports that General De Wet has successfully joined forces with Commandant Delarey. The note from Lorenzo Marquez cites a strategic development in the theater.
Rome correspondent reports fifteen Salan detectives have sailed for New York to shadow the dynamics of anarchist activity in the United States.
In Jamestown Ohio A G Bingham ton killed his wife and son in law James Bratter then took his own life. Officials say family troubles sparked the fatal sequence in a domestic tragedy.
General MacArthur cables the War Department with a health update from the Philippines. Sick in hospitals number 3860 and in quarters 1261, totaling 5129, or 47 percent of the army there.
The twelfth census records Old New York City population at 2,050. The count for Greater New York is incomplete and unfinished.
A wide range of incidents is noted including fires in Glens Falls and Rochester with significant losses, deaths of William Steinitz and Camacho, drownings of Miss Swetland, injuries from a boiler explosion, and a fatal train crash near Slatington. Bob Fitzsimmons knocks out Gus Ruhlin in New York, and mischief and crime stories surface among local sales and property events.
The item lists diverse incidents from the era including a proposed Seattle world’s fair in 1940, a smallpox outbreak among mountain communities, a city school superintendent election, shipwreck survivors with no water for days, a high-profile murder trial, a bankrupted figure in Chicago, arson at a Chicago factory, a deputy sheriff posse gunfight near Graham, a train robbery aftermath near Hugo and Goodland, a fatal bell accident in Missouri, and a will bequest to Lina Graf by Nathan H. Knapp in St. Louis.
A sprawling roundup of incidents from multiple cities reports estate disputes from Graf leaving daughter five dollars, a fire at St Louis factories, fatal shootings in Ohio Missouri and Kansas, a sewer discovery in Cincinnati, a sinking coal steamer in Detroit, a murder hearing in Wichita, a jealous husband suicide in Ohio, an escapee returning to serve time, a fatal train collision near Janesville, a stubborn undershirt man fined in St Louis, poison suspicions in Chicago, a bold train robbery in Columbus, a robbery tale in Salina, a San Francisco widow battle, a bridge collapse in Mound City, a Great Lakes tug rivalry disaster at Ashtabula, and a drowning lineman in a wreck.
The report lists several deaths and injuries including Leslie Goodpaster shot by Edgar Connor in Owingsville New York, Connor’s suicide, a Southern train wreck near Tennille Georgia injuring thirteen, two men shot in Cylvania Georgia by Alexander over a buggy collision, Erasmus Fenner Henderson’s suicide in New Orleans, Renick of Malling Springs West Virginia dying after repeated poison attempts and a fall at the Ohio statehouse, and W T Turner his wife and infant leaping from a moving train near Anniston Alabama.
A Southern Pacific passenger train at full speed crossed a trestle over the Lacassine bayou near Lake Charles Louisiana. The tender jumped the track, the engine continued, and nine coaches were thrown about as the trestle collapsed. Of 150 aboard only one boy is reported killed. Turner, his wife and baby are believed fatally injured. The passengers had never ridden a train before.
In a cabinet decision Madrid approved the extradition convention with the United States. Reports from special dispatches note broader European tensions, including Boer plots and naval incidents, while wartime dispatches describe ship collisions and casualties among American and French forces.
The report notes 100 typhoid cases in Winnipeg as Manitoba battles a raging outbreak. Other items include trade updates from Nicaragua, a potential Andree letter discovery near 47 35 north 43 27 west, and a shipboard incident on the Cymrie with a long cargo fire. The Yukon letter describes a marriage swap and a satirical note on marital entanglements. Additionally, Dun & Co reports cautious speculation, steady foreign loans, and China’s lost market affecting brown cottons with weekly global failures.
Regional price ranges cover cattle hogs sheep and grains across markets in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more. No. 2 wheat corn oats rye and dairy and eggs show mixed values with regional variations.
A Chefoo dispatch quotes Ed win Wildman that allied troops entered Pekin on Monday and the legations were relieved. The Chinese minister in Washington received Conger’s cable and Li Hung Chang urged armistice talks at Tang Chow, which the U S rejects. The cabinet reviewed Conger’s dispatch and notes marines killed in the legation assaults.
Predictions by T H Sterts of Van Buren Ya claim the United States will face a seven year war and global conflicts ending with a new world balance. Also noted is a Rochester meat market operator Miss Thomson who built a thriving business. San Francisco Chinese residents seek about 2 000 000 in damages for quarantine losses.
H. T. Vaughn and Henry Greenwell reportedly discovered gold near Libby Missouri worth about 2 million dollars. Meanwhile 30 000 people traveled on the Metropolitan Underground Railway in Paris on its opening day.
The act totals top $710 million in appropriations for 56th Congress with detailed bills and added contracts. Major items include Army, Navy, District of Columbia, post office, and sundry civil costs. Comparisons show a net increase of about $9.16 million since the prior session, with additional contract authorizations totaling around $18.6 million less than last session.
A morning head on collision near Pierson twenty nine miles north of Grand Rapids killed nine and injured many. The northbound express and passenger No 2 collided in fog blocking signals with engines and baggage cars demolished. Firemen and engineers died alongside five others as the rich Pullman train composition suffered extensive damage.
Theodore Roosevelt linked to Dutch Reformed Church. Cardinal Pole tomb restored by Catholic Truth Society in England. Michigan Advocate directors declaring a 4500 dollar dividend for Methodist conferences. Rabbi Max Heller opens a Jewish worship articles museum in New Orleans. Kansas City Jewish charities to federate under Rabbi H L Mayer with a home for the aged. Leicester to erect a 55000 dollar memorial chapel for Rev Robert Hall, 1807 to 1826. Sister Mary Joseph, founder of the Order of the Incarnate Word, dies in Galveston. Rev J M Rodwell dies in England at 95. translated the Koran and Job. Methodist Foreign Missionary Society receipts reach 1876899.07 dollars, largest in a single year. Benedictine priest at Maria Stein elected deputy to the Grand Council of Soicure Canton. Rev Dr Joseph Parker of London, author of 40 volumes, continues writing for ministers.
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