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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1898
Page
4
The Niagara River has eroded a channel through solid rock over 96 000 years. The newly formed passage stands about 200 feet deep, 2200 feet wide and seven miles long. The description illustrates the power of persistent flow shaping geology.
Special dispatch recounts President McKinley’s reception at Artaxia and Montgomery. A 20 003 strong parade lauded his visit and he spoke at Piedmont Driving Club and the Kimball House banquet. He praised national unity and urged progress. The tour then moved to Tuskegee to meet Booker T. Washington and students.
Four per 8008 were instantly killed and two fatally injured in a Pennsylvania Railroad crossing crash near Milenwood New Jersey. Victims include Mrs Ellen Allen and her daughter Bessie Allen, Mrs Allie Alger, and Jennie Crammer. Fatally injured are David Allen husband of Mrs Allen, Katie Allen and their daughter. Mrs Alger related child Alger, the accident followed a Christmas outing to Asbury Park. Mr Allen, a prominent Allenwood figure, left a wealthy estate and town leadership.
A major blaze in Terre Haute caused nearly 2 000 000 dollars in damage after a live electric wire ignited window decorations at Havens and Geddes. The fire quickly spread to evergreen decorations and consumed multiple wholesale and retail firms, with Havens and Geddes and Breinig and Miller among the heaviest losses.
A Porto Rico convention under General Henry urged free trade with the United States and territorial organization toward early statehood. Manoz Rivera, speaking for seventy five delegates, called for compulsory education, currency reforms, and literacy tests while opposing sugar duties. The assembly favored commercial and religious liberty with male taxable suffrage.
Near Dolomore, William Penny a reclusive widower who keeps a money hoard faces a deadly legacy after fires set by a trigger trap in his doorway. April intruder Gilbert Dorsey was killed and Nelson Wright died later from gunshot injuries. A September assault left another wounded. Penny’s harsh protection methods draw no criticism locally.
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad to discharge all women clerks and stenographers who have not been employed two years. Vacancies will be filled by men. An official says the move implements the firm’s promotion policy, emphasizing men in higher offices and questioning women’s prospects as executives.
An official agency reports William M. Ivins of New York has proposed to the Russian Ministry of Finance a large loan to Russia. Charge d Affaires H H D Peirce conveyed the proposal, with no group backing Ivins identified and Witte's decision not yet made.
Jose Ribert, who sailed from New York to Havre aboard La Champagne, received exile punishment pronounced by Judge Brubaker of Lancaster Pennsylvania. The condemned man, with a bad reputation and threats toward relatives, was banished from the land of the free. He hails from Byrevlona, Spala.
Trade data show the United States surpassing the United Kingdom in domestic merchandise exports. Reports from the Treasury and Board of Trade indicate the US export surge through 1898 outpaced England, with domestic exports for eight months reaching over 1.093 billion dollars and December likely lifting total annual exports above Britain’s.
Maine reports a shipbuilding boom boosting activity from Portland to Eastport after years of decline. The surge comes as yards and shops return to busier levels, signaling improved prospects despite earlier low tonnage in the 1890s.
A Florida Central and Peninsular passenger train collided with cattle near Madison, despite the engineer's efforts to stop. Six people died including E H Obsnodler the engineer James Evans John T Sullivan Rev B A Coleman a colored preacher from Jacksonville John A Rhoades of Pensacola and Alfred Autoy of Charrey.
Consul Monaghan to the State Department details a German manufacturers movement to unite against American iron and steel, citing quiet operations to avoid disrupting confidence. He also notes a German railroad tariff law that favors long haul rates, paralleling U S interstate law effects. The report includes Bradstreet’s view that yearly business volume surpassed all prior years, driven by population growth and rising foreign demand.
Major Menzies recounts a Vincennes jurist trial where a boy witness testifies against the defendant. The attorney shreds the boy as worthless, prompting the boy to retort that his father’s worth depends on the father’s own labor. The piece weaves in humorous schoolroom quips and provincial reflections on Napoleon era and Waterloo anecdotes.
A Brooklyn man, delayed by a Bath Beach blizzard, removes multiple layers in a shop to avoid catching cold. He explains weather hazards and slowly strips down from overcoat to leggings, noting wet feet common troubles.
Aboard school debate in a board school asks what horses roam America’s prairies. An observant London pupil replies with a witty answer about tram horses, reflecting urban perspective on distant landscapes.
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