The Advocate Weekly in Cuba
The Advocate Weekly serves Cuba with local news and community notices. Readers find timely briefs on events, meetings, and public notices affecting residents and organizations in the area.
02 Aug 1901
Page 2
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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1901
Page
2
The Advocate Weekly serves Cuba with local news and community notices. Readers find timely briefs on events, meetings, and public notices affecting residents and organizations in the area.
Reports note Arabi Pasha in financial need with a £6 monthly allowance, Newberry library’s purchase of the Lucien Bonaparte collection for a lower price, and Emil Martel’s discovery of a vast cavern in Hautes Alpes. Observations on napthalone as a mosquito bite remedy, a German Tower of Remembrance blown up at Gravelotte, and New York City housing philanthropy highlight a wide range of topics.
The steel strike sweeps from New Jersey to the Mississippi, hitting Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois with offshoots in Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan and Maryland. Plants in thirty nine towns already affected and thousands of workers out in Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois. Leaders warn a broader strike may follow as unions press against United States Steel Corporation.
Princess Catherine Youriewski, daughter of the murdered Austrian emperor, becomes engaged to the Duke of Chaulnes, head of a junior French ducal branch. The piece notes Russian lineage through the duke’s mother and recounts a Paris slum saga of Princess Sophie Galitzia and hunger.
Press dispatches report New York Japanese anxious over Pacific coast calls for an act excluding their countrymen from the United States. San Francisco labor unions plan a strong anti-Japanese petition and consider counter-movement. General Fitzhugh Lee will retire to private life near Richmond with industrial work ahead and stays quiet on details. Herbert Crombie Howe named English professor at University of Oregon after years as secretary to Cornell president Schurman.
The article notes nearly 1,000,000 Spanish women work as day laborers and 200,000 registered as day servants. It cites cottonseed boosting cotton production in Russia and Asia, with 44 percent rise in Asiatic lands and 28 percent in Russia since 1899. It mentions Italian olive, almond, carob, and Mandarin farming, large orange tree cultivation, and the christening of the Maine by Miss Mary Preble Anderson, linking her to naval lineage. It also highlights 400 women pharmacists in the US and women-dominated apothecaries, plus a Socialist purchasing scheme in Chicago using collective buying to secure better prices.
Cresus, the world’s champion trotting stallion, trotted a mile in 2 02 3 4 at Cleveland before about 10 000 fans. The new world trotting record for both sexes eclipsed the 2 03 mark held by The Abbott. Cresus surged to the quarter in 0 10, the half in 1 01, and the three quarters in 1 31 8 as runners paced the outside. The crowd cheered as Ketcham and Cresus were lauded with an ontrack ovation.
Miss Maud Secord oldest daughter of Sheriff Secord of Clay Center Nebraska was badly burned in a fire that likely started when a match ignited her clothing Mrs Secord was severely burned and in critical condition while attempting to save her daughter Doctors held little hope for Maud recovery and could not determine the exact cause of the blaze
Wenzel Knoll an employee of the Argo stored factory in Nebraska City was struck by a lone engine backing east from the Burlington depot toward the round house. He died within fifteen minutes after the physician and coroner reached the scene.
On the last registration day in El Teun Oklahoma the combined total for both districts reached 1 673 000. The Lone Wolf faction and other dissatisfied Indians sought an injunction to halt opening Kiowa Comanche and Apache reservations to settlement. Judge Irwin said a decision would not be announced until Monday.
Reports from Blue Springs Nebraska describe a hotel fire triggered by a defective flue causing heavy damage and $1000 total loss with $750 insured. Other dispatches note the assassination of James Winters near Sandusky and a posse forming to pursue the killer, plus local incidents including insanity charges against George Staley and cattle theft around Hooper.
Reports say Saturday and Sunday rain fell across the Nebraska corn belt with heavy showers from Ashland to Hampton and along the Burlington line. Northern areas received one to two inches while Beatrice and Lincoln saw further downpours ending a long heat spell. Rain extended into Kansas and Missouri, promising late corn and fodder as streams rise and pastures recover.
Sedgwick county Kansas records a tornado that damaged farm property and caused widespread destruction. In Indiana, Peter Tilbury attacked Mrs. Mary Torrey with carbolic acid. An Erie train struck a carriage near Old Forge, killing a two year old and injuring others. Separate reports note a presidential pardon for John Johnson and factory fires in Hanover.
Russian authorities told American author George Kennan to depart within hours under an interior ministry expulsion order. Kennan remained confined to his hotel room while officials described him as politically untrustworthy. The U S ambassador to Russia, Charlemagne Tower, was informed but not asked to intervene.
Formal negotiations for a settlement of the steel strike began in New York with President Shaffer and Secretary Wille of the Amalgamated Association meeting J. P. Morgan and other U.S. Steel Corp figures. Movements of the conferees were kept secret and no announcement has been issued yet. a normal peace pact announcement is expected in a few days.
Vic and Art Petcival of Pawnee County were found guilty of killing a deer under an old game ban, fined $20 each, with the case to be appealed. The report also notes Kansas revenue deficits, theft from the mails case in Indiana, a death in a Well, military reorganization affecting Alaska, a Hartford City assault, a murder bond denial, a child crushed by a wagon, a man blighted by a horse kick, and Meade transport armament updates.
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