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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
4
A quirky note describes discarded U S government cannon balls becoming useful in rock quarries as improvised rollers. It recalls Tennyson at Oxford, where mishaps at a Mish sauce dinner and a joke about the Laureateship stem from a London Chronicle item.
The Des Moines News notes the prairie dog’s disruption of grazing land in western Nebraska and eastern Colorado. It reports President Wilson backing measures to remove the species, predicting increased grass, cattle viability, and fewer pony injuries. The piece contrasts practicality with conservation in a cautious tone.
In Rossville Illinois a cat named Susan is described as a prophet by John J Seguine. She supposedly predicts changes in wind direction by scratching toward the corner opposite the wind shift, notably proving accurate when the southeast wind moved toward the northwest as observed at a store room.
The President outlines U S aims in China and the Philippines, calls for peace with foreign powers, supports reciprocity and tariff reforms, urges anti lynching measures, and addresses finance army and navy in a broad national policy brief. He notes Alaska boundary, Spanish treaty issues, and calls for canal progress and Indian and Porto Rico administration.
At Parkdale Arkansas two Killian brothers and Station Agent Philips confronted each other over railroad business. After a heated exchange all three drew pistols and were killed almost instantly with a wall collapse causing further convict deaths and injuries in Nashville and Fulton Kentucky. The disasters stretch from a Parkdale feud to a Fulton fire damaging the business district including the post office and hotel.
Reports describe Boer families seeking cile life at Lorenzo Marques to learn if the United States would welcome settlers. A Navajo and Apache group forced from the Gila forest reservation by twenty mounted police, amid rising tensions in Arizona. Alfred Bell of London pursues a vast gold consolidation plan moving to Utah. Utah Democrats debate party lines over Mormon influence. A volcanic eruption near Bethestand triggers a deadly upheaval with many natives drowned.
The second session of the Fifty Fifth Congress opens with Hanna and Jones meeting near the Senate door. Senate elects and swears in new members while reading the President's message. Congress considers army reorganization and census based representation.
Oscar J Booz a former West Point cadet dies at his Bristol home after two years of alleged hazing injuries. His father accuses tabasco pepper hot grease and other torture while Colonel Mills calls the charges untrue and ridiculous.
A blast in the Chicago and Northwestern Rail road power house on Kinvale Street killed five people and badly injured seventeen. The building and a railroad coach were destroyed with the electric plant nearly ruined. The cause remains a mystery despite recent boiler inspections by insurance firms.
Johnstown football captain UT frumbull Kelly died in Johnstown Pennsylvania from a fractured skull after a game with Indiana Normal School. The dispatch covers political moves, labor strikes, and international treaty talks including the Hay treaty and Nicaragua canal arrangements.
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