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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
6
Brief digest of international happenings including weather, incidents, and reports from distant shores. Highlights cover notable events and lessons from abroad, presented in a concise telegraph style for local readers.
Chicago traders report a corn shortage for November delivery as George H. Phillips and several elevator firms reach a settlement. November corn traded near 60 cents, closing around 40 cents after a rush to sell. Phillips allegedly amassed over two million bushels at about 55 cents, with profits potentially in the hundreds of thousands, a figure Phillips declined to confirm.
Lord Roberts reports from Johaniesture that the DeWetsdorp garrison. of two guns from Sixty-eight battery with Gloucestershire regiment infantry and others totaling 400 surrendered on Nov 24 at 4:90 p m. The engagement left five men dead and 42 wounded including Major Hansen and Captain Ingby. Enemy force estimated at 2,509. Edenburg relief failed. London special notes Great Britain alarm.
A Washington dispute over Cuba's final status leaves the Isle of Pines under U S control. It lies south of Cuba and guards key Gulf approaches and the Nicaragua canal outpost. The State Department and Secretary of State regard the island as U S property under the peace treaty.
The Cleveland and Pittsburgh night express on the Cleveland & Pittsburg road was wrecked two miles below Beaver Pa. One man is dead and four others are badly hurt. High water washed out fill under the track causing engine and five cars to plunge into the Ohio River. Passengers escaped by breaking windows and reaching the riverbank.
Thirteen people died and seventy were injured when a roof collapsed on spectators at a football game beside the Pacific Glass Works in San Francisco. About eighty-five fell into red hot furnaces and glass vats, leaving survivors horribly burned and feared more fatalities among the wounded.
Special edition reports a conspiracy by twenty foreigners to blow a mine as Lord Roberts attended church in Johannesburg. Police and bodyguards thwarted the plan. Ten men, mostly Italians, are in custody.
The battleship Kentucky has reached Smyrna and will remain until new instructions arrive. Officials hope its presence speeds settlement of the Turkish indemnity of 79 000 dollars owed to the United States.
The revenue cutter McCulloch has arrived in Seattle from Alaska. Officers report Nome is entirely cut off by ice and isolation will last seven months.
United States Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations died at his St Paul Minnesota home after a two month illness. He sank gradually and was unconscious for hours before death. Also noted New York publisher Robert Dorr of the New York Mail and Express died at his Hat City residence.
The passage notes the British steamer Margaret Jones running aground near Ocean City Maryland and the launch of torpedo boat Blakely at George Lawley & Son in South Boston. It also mentions a Union League banquet in Philadelphia attended by President McKinley and Cabinet, canal damage near Rome New York, a Vanderbilt heiress birth, fires in Rochester, a child's death in Greensburg Pennsylvania, and multiple crime and business notices including swindler arrests and an assignment by The Real Estate Investment Company of Philadelphia.
A string of violent incidents, accidents and legal moves dot the nation. Killed in Minnesota while at a hotel, a man linked to a lumber family dies in a midnight brawl. A Spokane divorce settles a large sum for Mrs. Harris. A string of fires wrecks stores in Beatrice and threats loom in San Diego counties as hunger and crime ripple across cities.
Southern industry announces ten plants to be erected to manufacture common cotton seed hulls into paper of various grades. Pearl Newnan was convicted of murder in the first degree for killing William J. McCauley, an actor from Philadelphia, at Huntington West Virginia last October. Kentucky Court of Appeals submitted Caleb v Powers to the Commonwealth without argument. Powers remains under a life sentence as an accessory to the Goebel murder. Ben Heflin, a 10 year old boy, stabbed
A 13 year old boy died after a quarrel with J F Pennell in West Union West Virginia. In Texas La Salle County ranchers organize a hunt to kill panthers and wolves. Sixteen hundred Hopkins County miners defy United Mine Workers by keeping old wage rates. Flood casualties reported in west Tennessee with drownings near Dyersburg and Caney Creek. Bingamon Creek West Virginia sees a hillside collapse destroying five coal mines and altering the stream course.
The Cuban constitutional convention votes to hold public sessions. Reports note U S military and transport developments including brigades patrolling reconstructions and a steamship wreck in Labrador. Bradstreet’s broadcasts warns of unsettled weather curbing trade while staple prices edge higher with grain and cotton movements.
Chicago cattle quoted 3.00 to 5.85, hogs 3.00 to 5.05, wheat No 2 red 0 to 10c, corn 48c to 49c. Indianapolis hogs 4.00 to 4.85, cattle 3.00 to 5.60. St Louis cattle 3.25 to 5.65, hogs 3.00 to 4.85. New York butter 24c to 25c, eggs 25c to 26c.
Cushman Kellogg Davis former governor and long time chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee died at his St Paul home after a two month illness that began with an ankle abrasion and progressed to blood poisoning and nephritis. He was born June 16, 1838 in New York and rose to national prominence as a Republican leader guiding annexation of Hawaii and roles on the Paris Peace Commission. His death leaves the Foreign Relations chair vacant and may trigger a reshuffling of Senate committees as McKinley’s administration faces foreign policy challenges.
The notes detail instructions to Minister Conger to not approve the Pekin accord as is, and to seek major modifications. Washington and foreign ministers discuss reshaping terms to allow Chinese compliance, with Britain Russia Japan and France expressing views supporting a moderated policy and altered conditions.
Mary F E Lease plans to file in Wichita District Court for divorce from Charles T Lease citing incompatibility and failure to provide. He will not contest. The couple has not lived together for three years, and prior seven years she pursued politics and lecturing, raising three children during a wider national role with the Populist movement.
Ex Judge T S Caswell of San Francisco is dead. Annie Roedde a nurse aged 28 from San Francisco died of bubonic plague. Amos Shalluuss 18 of Philadelphia is still missing. Fourteenth infantry returns to Manila from China. Censorship on Manila dispatches to the U S is removed. Finnland Gazette reports Finnish emigration to the United States has ceased.
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