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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1899
Page
4
A jumbled column of ads and trivia cites Kemp's Balsam for coughs, notes on Russian illiteracy, and a London News quip about jingo, legends of the Great Macdermott, and ancient world population figures. It blends trade, humor, and demographics in a single readable fragment.
Mask Philippines Islands Malolos the Filipino capital fell Friday after a sharp fight General MacArthur's division crossed the river attacked the intrenchments and drove rebels from their trenches Aguinaldo escaped retreating into the interior while our troops advanced despite fierce resistance.
The steamer Stella on a Channel Islands excursion struck Casquet Rocks in dense fog near Alderney and sank in ten minutes. Over 70 passengers perished and about 200 crews and travelers were aboard from Southampton and London. Captain and most officers died, but a few crew survived by fleeing in boats as boilers exploded.
In Dinmixaway Troy area Thomas Johnson and Richard Hale two white men and Sam Rivers a Black man were hanged privately after a December 18 murder at Mrs Myers and her daughter in law near Josh. The trio killed the women with an ax and looted 98000. Sam Cook, sleeping nearby, survived and aided the victims. Rivers implicated Johnson and Hale claiming they planned the crime. All three condemned professed religion on the gallows. Families of the white men are noted.
Secretary of State Hay rejected any increase beyond the nine million dollars offered by the United States for Cuban soldiers. The Cuban Assembly delegates met privately with Hay who would not endorse bond issuance or consider higher sums. McKinley approved the decision after informing him of the interview.
Seattle dispatch reports Captain Aber crombies directing a government chartered steamer for an Alaskan expedition. About eighty men from the Interior and Post Office departments join to build a 330 mile trail from Copper River to Eagle City this season to open a new overland route and aid scurvy relief for miners.
President McKinley in Washington appoints George Gray former Delaware United States Senator as United States Circuit Judge for the Third Judicial Circuit.
A Washington Star excerpt describes a woman managing a mountain farm at the Cumberland River headwaters. She details 140 acres with 20 in wheat 60 in corn 10 in meadow and pasture the rest woods and scatter. She runs all duties herself with minimal hired help while her husband is kept in line.
A Nordrach sanitarium in the Black Forest provides open window living to outdoorsy air for consumptives. In Georgia, near Tifton, Mr. J. W. Overstreet reports a remarkable oak tree twelve feet four inches in circumference at four inches above ground, fifteen inches above ground, with a total reach of about seventy-five feet and a twenty year growth period.
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