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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1899
Page
1
The piece threads diverse notes from political satire to wealth inequality. It cites Cuban aims at provisional governance, praise for science, Vienna bicycle tracks, Finland's historic self rule, wealth concentration in the United States, and a comic Rome Royal scene with Frezoli mimicking King Humbert.
Consul Lyon at Osaka explainsJapan buys more electrical machinery from the United States as Japan increases purchases of electrical equipment while land use and cheap labor limit farm implement sales.
Harvey Cheyne, owner of sixty three million dollars, races across the continent to meet his son believed dead. A private car Constance is dispatched from San Diego to Chicago and Albany to Boston, with railroad men, engineers, and crews coordinating a record run and family reunion.
Halvor Johnson, a log scaler from Williama camp in Atkins County, Minnesota, fought a pack of 30 to 40 wolves while guarding a load of logs near Lake Washburn. Captured on top of a log pile, he defended himself with his scaling rule until rescuers arrived, suffering serious bites and gashes before being saved and transported to Minneapolis in grave condition.
The piece describes a Manila voyage account with a 22 foot six inch python captured after chloroform and brute force. It also recounts a rat attack on Frank Morgan at a Chicago police lodger station, followed by a sensational hotel escape and a domestic scene of a physician and his wife planning a cooking class for neighbors.
A collage of quirky vignettes from the Chicago Post and Westminster Journal features a quarrelsome infant, a pugnacious zoological tale about a black panther, and a playful Papa narrative. The pieces skew toward humorous domestic and animal anecdotes with light rebukes of modern childrearing.
A Washington Star verse reflects on letting go of troubles with the motto forgive it and move on. The poem urges readers to end endless fretting, accept hardship, and seek renewal as winter ends and spring begins.
A collage of quips and short anecdotes from various papers. Jests about pranks, language, hats, and a tale of a trained dog rider appear alongside humorous mishearings and tall tales. The piece blends quips from New York Ledger, Chicago Tribune, and other periodicals with light, era-typical color.
Treasury officials estimate total Spanish American War expenditures at about 275 million dollars to date. Including the Philippine insurrection, total war costs may reach around 300 million dollars by fiscal year’s end. Navy expenses are easing. War Department costs remain high with roughly 75,000 employed May 1898 to April 1899 and about 610 American deaths.
The dispatch notes General Lawton's column advancing west of Nor…ragay capturing Ballaog and nearby villages, routs insurgents with minimal casualties. It cites prisoners held by insurgents including Lieutenant Gilmore and seven enlisted men, plus Army captives among those wrongfully arrested in January.
In Stockton California a tragedy mirrors the Freda Ward case as Mrs Virginia Hassel, wife of a once wealthy Englishman, shoots her friend Mea William Hickman then kills herself with a pistol. The bodies are found by Hickman’s father as the weapon lies between them. Police theories abound, most plausible that Hassel killed Hickman in her sleep before turning the pistol on herself.
Bazurione Maryland special dispatch reports a Democratic landslide in Baltimore with Thomas G. Hayes elected mayor by nearly 900 votes over Republican incumbent William T. Maelster. Hayes’ running mates Skipwith Wilmer and James H. Smith won seats, and Democrats swept the second branch and eighteen of twenty four first-branch council positions.
The court convicted Herr mann of murder without premeditation for killing fifteen people including three wives and twelve children. He received fifteen years in prison and ten years of civil rights loss as the jury rejected full murder guilt amid heredity theories. Influenza epidemics spread in India. Reverend Dr. Carmon died from canned meat poisoning at Bradley Beach New Jersey. He was sixty five and survived by two sons and two daughters. The North Atlantic Squadron under Rear Admiral Sampson returned to New York after thirteen weeks in the West Indies. Diamond Notes cover baseball chatter on teams, players, injuries, and management moves across the majors.
Relieved Naval Retiring Board member Rear Admiral Howell is replaced by Admiral Bsohley. Major Francia Dodge to Havana for troop payments. President commutes Robert Eaton’s sentence. Secretary Alger to Michigan. Treasury warrant to Pennsylvania. Various crimes, accidents, and political notes from the era include a county jail death, a city fire, an earthquake, ship arrivals, Klondike reports, and international diplomacy updates.
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