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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1900
Page
1
An early spring scene describes a man with an ax striking at a dead tree. In a rush he harms a living branch and leaves the wound to fester, lamenting his hasty judgment and the failure to spare the budding spring. The tale is attributed to Edward Byrne.
In 1889 Aunt Honor Stoan moves her family to Oklahoma boomtown Guthrie with a fire extinguisher and barbed wire. When claim jumpers threaten, she defends her house with the extinguisher wounding no one but scaring off attackers as the family stakes two lots and builds a boarding house that thrives for years.
A Chicago News anecdote recalls a warm night when a hornet flew in waking a woman. She used a candle placed on the floor to lure and trap the insect, avoiding a dangerous flight outside. The next morning she recounted the unlikely plan with mixed pride and caution.
In a failed Boers roundup near Karee Siding, Colonel Eyre Crabbe of the Grenadier Guards was mortally wounded along with Colonel Codrington, Captain Trotter, Lieutenant Lygon, and an orderly. The Boers aided wounded British and buried Lygon, as a thousand men attended the funeral at the Glen. The incident follows broader reports of battlefield care and the bold, costly attack on the four riders.
A Native New Zealander vignette describes Maoris welcoming visitors with communal eating around a large dish of stuma ras potatoes and bread while a primitive fire pits cooks in a wooden grassy enclosure. The piece then shifts to Pearson's Weekly notes on earth’s interior, arguing a multi-layer model with extreme central pressures and a possible solid core, plus a profile of Ardmurchan’s longevity on Scotland’s coast with many residents living to over a hundred.
In the thirty fourth day of the St Louis street car strike three men were killed and four mortally wounded with about a half dozen others injured. The dead include Fred Boehm C Edward Thomas Ed Burkhart and a deputy shot by a strike guard. Riot guns discharged from the town posse and police followed a blocked procession at Sixth and Washington as rioters attacked a tram car. A horse was killed in a clash at Comp ton and Manchester and non union workers were hurt by a rock attack in South St Louis.
A trolley car with twenty two passengers jumped tracks on Park Avenue hill and crashed into Mrs. T. W. Betz’s residence at 110 Ashburton Avenue. The car demolished the wall and halted within the reception room. two passengers injured lightly, motorman and a bystander cut. Door and furniture damaged. Betz family shaken by the impact.
In a private rail car near Pretoria President Kruger and State Secretary Reitz insist the war continues. Kruger says burghers will fight to the end, rejects surrender, and predicts guerrilla warfare across a vast area with reinforcements from De Wet and Steyn. He denies fleeing to a Dutch warship and praises Mrs Kruger’s steadiness in Pretoria.
General Pio del Pilar, labeled as the most aggressive Filipino leader, was captured near Manula by Manila native police with help from the Twenty first regiment. Capt Lara and twelve officers surrounded a house after a tip, brought the general to Manila, where he was identified by the Provost Marshal Henry G. Young. Reading treasurer Henry C. Young died by suicide in Reading, Pennsylvania. The Wool Firm Daly failure totals $105000, linked to Koerner and Hayes of Buffalo.
Four persons were killed and twenty six injured when two carriages collided on a curve near Warwick station on the Providence and Warwick Electric Railroad. Motorman Edward Burroughs died. Victims include Louis C. Sanborn Arthur G. Liscomb George W. Baker a baby. Lieutenant-Governor Charles D. Kimball was among the injured. Rescue crews transported the wounded to Providence and East Greenwich hospitals.
The sheriff's posse reports the killing of Postmaster Alexander McArthur and four family members by his hired man John Morrison. Also wounded are three others. Morrison, deemed insane, was considered well behaved upcoming in the Philippines transport orders.
President issues recess commissions to Nelson A. Miles and LH Corbin for higher ranks under the Military Academy Act. Also reported are Chicago man Tony Stringer killed in an elevator accident, a Kansas tornado devastations near Faulkner, Kentish troops moving toward Lydenburg, a Virginia timber town fire causing $600,000 loss, Wyoming smallpox quarantine, a Philadelphia family shooting, and a Donovan bank robbery with $44,000 in cash.
Eighteen month old Alfred B Silth fell into a washtub at his parents home in Newark SN 4 and drowned while mother worked on an upper floor. Other items note General Kobvcks communications cut by Boers, General Roberts operations hampered, rain ending drought in Northwest Minnesota and Manitoba, ambush near Camarinas del Norte injuring Captain Steinhauer with multiple casualties, and earthquakes shaking Cumant Bermudez Venezuela damaging Caria cu.
An elderly Boston woman lay dead in a squalid room for months before burial in Potter's Field. Authorities found seven bank books totaling nearly $0,000, contradicting reports that she died of starvation and revealing she was secretly wealthy.
About twelve hundred workers in Faiture factories in New York City are on strike. Child labor in North Carolina mills has fallen fifty percent in three years. Yellow pine lumber grows scarce as Southern sawmills run two-thirds time. Building improvements worth millions are tied up by Chicago labor troubles and rising material costs. English statistics show 270,000 workers gained wages in April while 3,400 lost pay. City gardeners organized as Knights of Labor seek 875 monthly wages. Philadelphia women machinists plan to demand shorter hours and a 28 cent minimum wage on Labor Day, with strikes if unmet.
Washington reports extend ratification time for Barbadoes reciprocity to March next. Senators to name West Point cadetship candidates. Navy officers relieved and grants for more academy appointments. Cuba Cuba Cuba. Also notes on Hazel judge nomination, Dewey visit, and global events from 1900 era.
Tren ton Board of Health amends the Health Code to include consumption among contagious diseases, imposes fines and imprisonment on physicians who fail to report cases within thirty days, mandates isolation and disinfection, and requires burning clothing and bedding after death. Physicians must forward sputum for cultures, and hiding cases becomes a misdemeanor. hospitals remain subject to provisions.
Colorado's State Land Board plans to sell timber near Devil's Head Mountain in Douglas County, displacing a long established squirrel colony. A 250000 feet timber sale fetched $200,000, threatening the forest home of thousands of gray squirrels. Local notices mention a Bleak Mouse for sale and Yaqui activity near Turin with intermittent casualties.
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