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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1900
Page
1
Palmer argues for valuing enlightenment and comfort over wealth as a criterion. The piece surveys urban growth in New Land with focus on lakeside and manufacturing cities, farm consolidation in North Dakota, and the rise of the creamery system transforming butter production. It notes aging wisdom and the dairy industry shift, plus literary excerpts reflecting societal change.
The text notes the Chinese fighter's enhanced combat skills and marks a claim that European instructors taught them to shoot. It suggests future European nations may reconsider allowing their officers to train such a people, implying lessons learned from the recent war with Japan.
In a Waverley Magazine snippet Carol Minot frets over rumors of Jack Belmont's engagement to Miss Stuart. A chance park meeting rekindles old feelings as Belmont professes love, hints at a forthcoming club dinner engagement reveal, and Carol confronts trust, fate, and a possible reconciliation.
Henry Hangell recounts a twelve hour misadventure in the catacombs of St. Domitilla Rome with a companion as they strayed from eighty students. After hours of darkness and fear, rescue came by torchlight from Professor Bovignani and four guides at four in the morning.
Albert Jeffries of Ouray California reports a hatchery mishap on Beaver Creek five miles above Guonlson. A screening setup trapped and released Tens of thousands of trout after liver scraps drew them through. The school followed Jeffries along the bank then back to the original pool trapped again by lowered screens.
William Schrieber a junior clerk at Elizabethport Banking Company vanished August 2 and is believed to be in Europe after stealing more than 50 000 dollars over three years. Bank officers say the loss could reach 75 000 with ongoing audits. The beardless 25 year old led a fast life in New York City and fled on vacation leaving accounts manipulated to mask the theft. Directors have hired a detective agency to pursue him.
Chicago special reports a life insurance swindle that cost Marie Offenbach her life and led to arrests of Tor Unger Wayland Brown and F L Smiley. Smiley claims a written confession exists and says Dr Unger and Brown masterminded the plot, with Smiley as a tool and engagements with Offenbach a ruse.
Charles Steinbrink was convicted on forty nine counts of selling whisky in violation of the prohibitory law. He owed $2,400 and received a 49 month jail term. With fines unpaid at fifty cents a day the sentence stretches to about 30 years and nine months, though release is possible after about a year if county funds permit. In other news, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed government suits against North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana over World War II era fund settlements. A mine power plant in Eleventh Minnesota exploded, shattering windows but causing no deaths.
Former Army Captain M Carter serving five year Fort Leavenworth sentence for embezzlement mortgaged his New Fork residence for 23000 dollars to raise funds to continue his legal fight. Also, Martin Fosnes, Geneva Acting Director, reports Fosnes removed to Las Animas Hospital with suspected yellow fever in Havana.
In Georgetown Kentucky Henry E Youtsey erupted in the courtroom during the Goebel murder case declaring Arthur Goebel a liar and then attacked his wife striking her and causing a collapse. The scene ended with Youtsey restrained and his health described as perilous, while presiding judge Cantril warned measures if disorder continued.
L K Hanna cousin of Senator Mark Tanna and Arizona New Mexico forest reserves chief, and A F Herman Grand Canyon Colorado Forest Reserve supervisor, nearly perish from thirst and hunger forty miles south of Lees Ferry while crossing the desert. Horses escape, water scarce, Herman finds sustenance then returns to Hanna who lies unconscious. They are later found by a cowboy wandering the plain.
Peklo China reports a summary of imperial replies to German demands naming officials slated for decapitation including Ying Nien Kang Yi and Chao Shu Chiao. Princes Chung Tsai Lien Yue Tuan and Ching Hu receive various penalties, with Tuan banished to the Siberian frontier.
Oceanic steamer Queenstown avoided wreck when a lifting fog revealed land ahead near the Irish coast. The ship backed clear of danger after touching bottom, four miles north of its course. On board were 88 passengers. Wealthy Marquis of Bute dies. Details include notable figures and era news.
William Marsh Rice estate scheme unfolds with attorney A. T. Patrick and valet Charles F. Jones accused of forging checks totaling at least 455000 alongside alleged will forgery. Police see a conspiracy to seize millions with strong box assets valued near 2 million and possible murder linkage.
Washington prohibits rolling hoops in the streets after a girl’s hoop was electrified in a streetcar incident. Police will seize hoops and watch for children. Meanwhile soldiers reported to have died from exposure after escape in Laguna Province.
Farmer Haliwin Dea and Horace Baldwin, longtime Unionville residents, were involved in a deadly incident when former servant Thomas Doyle fired a revolver during an attempted break in aimed at harming Miss Grace Baldwin. Dea died from wounds. Doyle’s assault ended in the fatal confrontation.
The Census Bureau in Washington announced Arkansas as the first state enumerated. The population, per the latest census, shows an increase of 183,385 people over 1800, a 16.25 percent rise.
The Democratic State ticket in Georgia won by a 65 000 plus plurality. The Populist party failed to poll half the votes. Governor John Candler was re elected amid murder allegations surrounding his brother Stephen Canter of Jeffersonville Indiana. The claim states John killed Stephen after a rabbit hunting quarrel. Also note Bay City Michigan ships cabbages to Germany via New York with a weak crop in Germany this year yielding about three dollars per ton.
In a Washington report Captain Samuel C. Lemly urges extending naval court-martial summons power and reclassifying ships. He highlights overcrowded naval prisons at Boston and Mare Island and calls for reforms to ease crowded facilities. Maximilian Harden, a Berlin socialist editor, receives six months imprisonment for lèse-majesté. In Farmington Missouri a shooting suicide follows a murder as 1 P. Meek kills Frederick Trappe over jealousy. Trappe's death occurs before a crowd, Meek leaves a widow and three children.
Four cavalry troops and two infantry companies have reinforced General Young in Northern Luzon where insurgents led by Aghipay, an excommunicated priest and renegade, concentrate forces.
The piece notes Lord Strathcona of Canada as the oldest colonial representative in London and mentions Hobson, famed for Merrimac, on duty at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It also references President Eliot of Harvard, General Woodford’s marriage to Isabel Hanson, and John Sherman returning to Washington. Other items include the Duke and Duchess of York visiting Australia and Justin McCarthy's retirement from Parliament.
The article notes that estimates for the coming fiscal year will surpass 200 million dollars for the Army and Navy. It highlights a push to raise West Point admissions standards and reports on various global and domestic items from 1900s era news, including Marconi negotiations, colonial affairs, and incidents in the United States and abroad.
Edward Douglass, thirteen, saved seven year old John Barnard from drowning at the Gloucester pier. He plunged in without hesitation, fought strong currents, and landed the boy safely as onlookers applauded. Both boys were exhausted but cared for at home.
Kansas railroads clash with a growing tramp and hoboe influx near Independence as hundreds seek winter quarters around Dium and the capephideaus area. An old gas well leaks enough fuel for the tramps. Memoirs of Detty the Loyal Spy belong to John Phillips Reynolds of Boston and may be published.
The 1900 Poor manual notes that total U S rail mileage reached 00,893 miles on December 30, 1899 with a net increase of 308 miles during the year. Passenger volume for 1899 stood near 638 million people carried.
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