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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1900
Page
1
A sweeping column highlights global finance and taxation trends, moral standards in the U S Congress, slumming reform, foreign missions, birth order theories, marriage norms, and language reform debates. It notes Hartford Seminary lectures, a New York blind institution report, and the Dutch submarine denial. It also covers France buying American locomotives, rising U S imperial exports, and the global shift in industry and technology.
A mountain flood devastates a Colorado valley as Sanny Lane and his family plan a market trip. Lanny Lane and campers chase a cloudburst while Sanny warns the valley. a flood swallows the canyon and claims Sanny. Mrs Lane saves others and mourns the boy’s death as help arrives.
Sanford Lane saved ten lives during the flood that claimed seventeen lives. Prince the horse carried victims seven miles before burial, where a camper carved an epitaph naming him a real hero. Sanny confronts the aftermath while John Lane and Lanny cope with gratitude and loss.
The article describes B F Gifford’s 32,001 acre property in Indiana, claimed as the largest single landholding and the world’s biggest cultivated swamp farm. It details extensive ditching, waterways between pastures, tile drainage, and rising productivity with hundreds of tenant houses and a rail spur to bring produce to market.
A March explosion at the Red Ash Coal Company drift mine near Thurmond West Virginia trapped 125 workers. Rescue efforts faced obstructions from fallen slate and debris, with the first bodies recovered by ten o clock. Governor Atkinson ordered investigations as officials and local relatives converged on the scene.
Elida Wilbur, a San Francisco woman, woke from a two year trance only to die Tuesday morning. Doctors failed to revive her with electricity hypnosis and osteopathy after she had slept since February 1893. Her mother discovered her extended arm as if reaching for a book, and a nurse noted she spoke as if from a dream days earlier before fading.
A record snow siege paralyzed Cleveland and New York State, with power and telegraph lines down, streets blocked by fallen poles and trees, and trolley networks crippled. Snowbound regions from Montreal to New England faced rail and road shutdowns, schools closed, and widespread business disruption across multiple states and provinces.
Chicago reports building material firms vote to close plants amid labor troubles paralyzing operations. About 10,009 workers in stone quarries brickyards and related plants idle, joining 30,000 idle in construction and 700 striking machinists, totaling around 50,039 unemployed in the city.
The Senate approved the currency and bond conference report by a 44 to 20 vote. The earlier passage of the currency bill on February 15 stood 46 to 29, showing a gain for gold standard advocates. Notable party splits included Chandler opposing his party, while Messia, Caffey of Louisiana, and Lindsay of Kentucky backed the report. Kyle of South Dakota was absent without a pair.
Conglomerate Harmer of the Fifth Pennsylvania District, known as the Father of the House, died at his Germantown home after illness since November. Born August 8 1825 in Germantown he was first elected to Congress in 1876 and served through most terms except the Forty-fourth. He left a wife three sons and two daughters.
In a delicate health update Rear Admiral Watson is ordered to transfer his flag to Baltimore and proceed home via the Suez Canal and Mediterranean ports, with stops at European cities as appropriate. Admiral Doway is noted to have acted in the same manner.
President McKinley sent a special message to Congress detailing Porto Rico's dire condition. He asked that the $82,095,455.88 collected in customs since American occupation and all further revenue from the tailed be applied for the benefit of the stands in the House. Mr Cannon of the Irrigation Committee prepared a bill. A twenty minute debate was proposed with Democratic Leader Reharidgon objecting. The bill was pagged byons 162, unys 107.
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