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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1899
Page
1
Marcia Andrews moves from country to Chicago and finds city school life hard. She expects quick friendship but classmates are absorbed with their own circles. After three months at Hammond School she remains lonely, sensing they overlook strangers, until a turning incident changes her view.
Marcia finds Evelyn Gorton’s diamond ring in a school dressing room and keeps it overnight. After a weekend and a family illness, she contemplates returning it but procrastinates. Evelyn’s father posts ads offering a reward, yet both notice no one claims the ring until time passes and the ring remains with Marcia.
Evelyn accuses Marcia of stealing a diamond ring at Hammond school causing uproar among students. Principal Miss Strong reveals the ring was returned by Miss Andrews, clears Marcia, and Evelyn apologizes. The two girls reconcile and become close friends.
Beech Woods farmer Adolph Schmitt in Sullivan County New York found a large rat perched on a hog one cold morning. The rat spends much time on the hog’s back and the animals share a curious bond. The hog defends its friend when others snap at it, while the rat scratches the hog’s briny back and gently nibbles its ears, eliciting hearty grunts of pleasure.
A mother instructs her daughter Nellie to inquire Mrs. Smith about her age. Nellie reports the reply that it is none of her business, revealing the mother's request and the child's innocent compliance in a small domestic exchange.
A Sun column tells of Joe Lathrop’s famed Pueblo stage robbery nerve aided by a crawling centipede, a Nevada posse pursuit, and a black bear ordeal with Peter Steinholtz. It also recalls Boston fire heroics by Chief Grady and Lieutenant Taber as they saved a copper powder chest, plus a Port Townsend cat that woke a drowning man.
A tale from a Pittsburg hospital recalls a West Virginian who gave his worn uniform to a dying Union soldier after the Spanish American War. The story, told by Youth's Companion, ends with the giver returning home in his own ragged garb, proud of serving his country.
King Oscar, nearing seventy, resigns provisional control of Sweden and Norway to Crown Prince Gustaf. Reports say the abdication may be permanent due to long feeble health, though courtiers insist the king will not return to the throne. The government is to be run by the eldest son as the new ruler, described in bold terms as iron will.
Orders of the court reveal Privaielgus facing limits on public life as changes appear since December. King Oscar’s regime is praised for peace and goodwill while Crown Prince Gustaf, born June 1858, stands as a forceful successor. Victoria of Baden noted for languages and charity. Oscar has left Stockholm for Baltojn, Daden for the winter.
The Rev Newell Dwight Hillis of Chicago is named to succeed Lyman Abbott at Plymouth Church Brooklyn. At thirty six he previously led Central Church Chicago and drew large crowds, with Hillis seen as a rising city pastor. He will assume duties in March, after Abbott's resignation and Beecher's legacy.
Jobert M Keller wed the widow of his brother Henry in Mas ecutab Illinois just days ago. Henry on his deathbed asked Robert to care for his wife and business, a promise Robert also made to marry Henry if his own wife would. His wife fulfilled that arrangement months earlier and Robert now completes all prem ges to honor his dying brother.
The British schooner Loader is a total loss at Mosors River on the Nova Scotia coast. Captain James Silver and ten crew members died. A shore berth bearing John Westhaver of Lunenberg identified the vessel. Westhaver had been aboard Leader two years earlier and had named the berth. The Leader, weighing ninety nine tons, carried frozen herring from Newfoundland. Owned by Captain Bilver and Lunenberg parties, all crew were from Lunenburg.
Reports from Germany, Britain, and the United States describe booming union activity and employer countermeasures. Krupp plants employ 26 000 as unions push labor builds while San Francisco and Colorado unions influence local policy. The AFL plans to organize southern colored workers and Britain contemplates large employer coalitions. Oxford hosts a college for labor leaders while a British bill creates a state inspection role for minors.
The House Committee on the election of President and Vice-President approved the wave of voting machines and ordered a favorable report on the bill amending statutes to permit machine ballots where state law authorizes them. Other items note detachments, appointments, and various measures in domestic and international affairs.
Secretary to Aguinaldo lodges a protest at the State Department asking whether America plans war or recognition for the Philippine Republic. He cites 20 000 American troops around Manila and naval reinforcements, urging assurances to ease Filipino fears of losing liberty. The government will not officially comment.
Reports from the interior indicate Aguinaldo’s authority is broadly recognized as every available male is being recruited. Arm depots have been set up at Fernandino, Union, Trinidad and other towns. Filipinos number about 30,000 under arms, with friction noted between civil and military authorities yet unity on independence.
John Kean of Elizabeth elected United States Senator to succeed James Smith of Newark. Kean gains fourteen Republican votes to six for Smith in the Senate and thirty seven Republican votes to Smith’s twenty in the House. Legislative picks also reported in Wyoming Nevada and Texas with Stewart re elected and Culberson chosen by acclamation.
The An Houl rebels under Nui captured Ku Yuot and another city in Ho Nan, ordering civilian and military officers to evacuate. Rebels besiege Chau Chau and Kon Chau while gate openings aid insurgents. In the Philadelphia area, painter George Ayres killed his wife Mary Ayres and wounded John Wilson before killing himself. The cruiser Newark is ordered from Brooklyn Navy Yard to Pactite Station.
The piece mentions Lord Salisbury avoiding walking and General Whorler using wartime tactics from the Civil War. It notes a Foreign War Order presenting gold to Admiral Dewey and references Senator Painebanks, William Tatiana, and Abe optiony as avid readers. It highlights Howard University figures amid disputes and cites General Ludkow as Havana's military governor and a top sanitary expert in the U.S.
The Spanish cruiser Giralda brought Columbus bones to Seville from Veragua. A royal descendant stood for the King and Queen Regent as the coffin entered the Cathedral of Seville. A salute marked the procession and a large crowd witnessed the solemn interment.
Special report from Cancton Ohio says Grand Jury charges Annie E. George with four counts of murder for the October 7 shooting of George D. Saxton, brother of Mrs. McKinley. Damaging testimony cited from an attorney who testified before the Grand Jury about George’s alleged statements of self defense and plans to discard revolvers.
Kovisonne Kentucky report says Tammie Church and cousin Florence Johnson, both sixteen, attempted suicide with morphine at Miss Johnson's home. Church died, Johnson survived. Church had been despondent after heartbreak and following a suicide death of a well known man. Miss Church had lived in Gallatin, Taon and was visiting.
The US transport Grant carrying General Lawton and units of the Fourth Army and Seventeenth Infantry sailed from New York for the Philippines. Salutes spoke at Governors Island and the Narrows, with Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth firing on the voyage. The Grant becomes the first troopship to convoy American soldiers through the Suez Canal to the Pacific.
Lizzie Taylor a fourteen year old Bristol adopted daughter has been committed to the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane suffering from acute mania. She confessed to setting seven fires in Bristol over eighteen months, two burning barns and a home while one fire was detected in the attic.
Moffett, a ten year old Italian boy, confined at headquarters on burglary charges. He admitted breaking into four or five stores after a misdemeanor arrest, then burglarized the Italian bunking house of Jobo Oprand by breaking a late glass window. He entered the bank through a hole, opened the cash drawer, and took $5.95, saying tobacco cravings drove the robberies.
While walking near his Indiana home ex president Benjamin Harrison pursued two thieves after neighbor Mrs. Sith cried that they robbed her house. Harrison halted one robber at a passing buggy and held him, but the other escaped.
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