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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1899
Page
1
Dewey signs a 3 ship salvage contract for Manila bay wrecks at 3.5 million and a Chicago newsboy inherits $50,000 for 99 years. Denmark may adopt the metric system while China tests stone slinging for cadets. A Russian edict bans corsets in schools, provoking protests. Yale data show a shift from ministry to mercantile careers among graduates as English textile frauds draw scrutiny.
Two men journey life’s road to a distant goal. One rushed with energy and left a friend behind, but later fell by the roadside. The other, slow but sure, kept plodding and finally reached the end to realize what he sought was gone. Cleveland Leader.
In a September disaster near Hinckley Minnesota engineer James Root drove a passenger train through a blazing forest fire after fire and smoke forced hundreds to seek safety aboard. With his fireman tending his scorched body Root kept the lever, saved many lives, and guided the train to a pond where survivors escaped. Half a thousand perished, numbers uncertain, as the town burned and flames devoured coaches and woodwork.
A Vancouver to Hastings experiment near Hastings British Columbia based on Bellamyism failed as a co operative society. About 200 residents moved to the Packtess wilderness three years earlier investing 100000 dollars in common treasury but wages and production faltered. The board collapsed amid debt and internal strife, leaving the community "busted."
In Germany bicycling becomes fashionable among servant girls on small monthly payments, but housewives object citing service conduct rules. A court case arose after a girl was dismissed over bicycling. the first division ruled such preference by itself does not justify discharge. A crocodile caught in the Klang River was opened to reveal the muttering of a spectator’s father, identified by a ring and bell buckle.
An account from India describes a cobra attack on a Calcutta bound engine driver who burnt his arm to save himself. A Tennessee barnyard tale features a dog and a goat fending off a bear in a violent, comic farm clash. A Rochester boy survives hog attack thanks to a quick horse kick and hospital help. A dramatic sea tale recalls a lawyer’s life buoy rescue as the Ville de Havre sank after collision.
A driver torn from a piston wheel at Turkey Creek pumping station caused two workers to suffer severe injuries. Witness William Henderson described the mishap, but his own hand was torn off in the same self same incident, all three men rushed to hospital as witnesses recounted the strange sequence.
An historic cardinal hat once belonging to Cardinal Wolsey is presented to Christ Church, with a complete pedigee but tassels torn. It was allegedly stolen by Bishop Burnett, then passed to Horace Walpole, later owned by Charles Kean during his role as Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII.
General Leonard Wood heads to Washington after a Havana order to send weekly Santiago customs receipts. A mass meeting of 3000 business leaders denounces centralization, warns of civil unrest and possible U S troop deployment to Santiago.
General Maximo Gomez, chief of the Cuban Army, declines to visit Havana saying the city is at the army’s head. He urges swift action to form a civilian government and end American intervention while ensuring soldiers are paid and the government established.
An imperial editor cites China’s crisis as the Empress Dowager urges rapid reforms in military training, agriculture, and industry. She orders viceroys and governors to report within a month on reform progress, signaling a serious drive to stabilize and modernize the empire.
The The News epitomized reports the Woman's National Cuba Association will maintain a training school for Cubans at Ha youn named the Martha Thurston Industrial School in memory of Mrs Thurston wife of Senator Thurston. The piece also notes Navy actions and other 19th century events and people.
Havenville mayor Chase, elected on socialist principles, urges a minimum wage for city workers, union wages for brick masons, and public works to reduce unemployment. He also proposes land for food production, expanded City Farm fuel yard, and a city bicycle path network alongside park improvements.
In Evaxeville Indiana a police court handed public whippings to five boys aged ten to twelve for stealing old wash boilers. Judge Winfrey offered shipping them or sending to reform school. Each boy was lashed twenty five times as crowds heard their yells two blocks away. One boy collapsed from flogging after leaving the polls station.
War Department directs Major-General H. W. Lawton to Manila to assume command of U S forces in the Philippines. Major-General Elwell S. Otis designated Military Governor only after treaty ratification, with authorities expecting completion before Lawton arrives.
General Rios, Spanish commander, arrived in Manila aboard the Leon XIII after evacuating Visayas and northern Mindanao and destroying fourteen forts and the Lake Lanao fleet. He notes 1600 Spanish troops massed at Zamboanga under General Montero and warns insurgents he would raze Doile if they fired. He sails for Spain.
Warden Woodbridge of Hartford receives his son Kirk as prisoner at the state penitentiary after a Superior Court sentence of four years. Kirk, a former prison clerk, is said to have robbed the state of about $10 000 over five years. The warden refused to recognize his son at the gates and has since resigned.
Four miners died and a fifth was severely hurt at Jumiper Mine near Jameston California after an engineer released a lowering cage from the 600 to 700 foot levels. The victims named are Robert Jones F E Anderson Charles A Harney Rhine and Frank Kastellac survived significant injuries. The incident occurred when the engineer sent the cage down 180 feet after signaling two hollas, leaving Kastellac presumed alive.
A Birmingham England company starts caulking 10 000 000 cartridges for the United States at a rate of 1 000 000 per week. An American inspector tests the work and a special instal prevents cases from jamming in barrels. Thirty Danes expelled from North Sedleswieg Germany after their employees attended a meeting addressed by Herr Hanssen a Dagisn Deputy.
The vast Lat ter Day Sufety church in Independence Missouri with about 800 members opposes seating Congressman elect Roberts. McKinley in Washington signs Cuba financial reform on gold standard with 50 million for warships. John H W Gifford of Middletown Ohio killed by worker Philip Kueh and dies after a dispute.
Mrs. Kate J. Adams of New York died after taking a cyanide poison mistaken for headache remedy with bromo seltzer. The package was sent to Harry Coroish, manager of the Entokerbocker Athletic Club, amid jealous motive rumors. Police investigate parallels to the Botkin-Dunning case.
A Wells Fargo Express money package worth 260000 from Houston for a Southern Pacific payroll was handed to A. Beeler in San Axroxio Texas. Beeler began to the station and was seen on the route. Four hours later his wagon was found five miles west, the horse exhausted. No delivery occurred and no struggle found. Beeler, nine years with the company, had frontier cowboy background.
In a unique admiralty suit in US District Court Gloucester fishermen sue for salvage claiming 81 050 dollars from the body found aboard a derelict linked to the La Bourgogne disaster. The body remains unidentified and burial at sea occurred after the wreck. Judge Lowell took the matter under advisement.
Dr B L Gray killed Mea Lizzie Briloner on a street near the Bloomfield Indiana railroad station. He stabbed her four times with a surgical knife and she died instantly. Gray surrendered at once after the attack and has a history of threats against the woman. He is about thirty, son of J W Gray a prominent county physician.
Milwaukee dispatch reports Albert Funk and his wife confess to poisoning Chris Malga with rat poison in coffee to steal his money, earning a reward of 40 dollars. Malga, about 65 and an inmate at the Soldiers' Home, died two weeks after the alleged crime.
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