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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1900
Page
2
A miscellany of opinions on virtue and vice, thrift and extravagance. It notes Massachusetts Patriots' Day on April 19 and a potential national holiday, plus a Pan American congress aim to discuss trade and arbitration. It also mocks superstitious luck boxes and highlights American economic prominence.
A Paris exposition accident on an unfinished footbridge over Avenue de Sufren caused six deaths and about forty injuries. Rescue crews, police, and soldiers cleared wreckage as a seven year old girl was among the victims. Other items note Carter in Leavenworth prison and a cab fatality at the Waldorf Astoria.
Four companies of university cadets will hold their annual encampment at Beatrice opening May 19 and closing May 2. A Hastings woman Sharon eye injury from air gun shot by her son. Porter, ex-secretary to McKinley, reportedly ill in New York. A mangled body on Union Pacific rails near Grand Island identified. sister and relatives located. Bey rout report says a torpedo boat was blown up near Constantinople.
A fashionably dressed Lincoln woman identified as Minnie M. Wray registered as L Gray at the Palmer House in Chicago and shot herself in her hotel room. Scraps of a torn letter to O N Ohler of Moline preceded the act. George B Wray of Lincoln said he had a sister Minnie M Wray, a former stenographer and mailing order clerk.
A Madison Nebraska district court judge denied a new trial motion in the state case against Leland Spaulding convicted of rape. The court sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary with suspended execution until June 1, keeping him in sheriff custody. The case moves to the supreme court.
Excitement in Hyannis Nebraska as reports say Ancel Connor shot Albert Calhoun county commissioner through the stomach. Condition unknown. dispute over possession of property believed to spark the incident. Sheriff notified of the crime.
A two year old child of Mr and Mrs Will Noble of three miles west of Peru Nebraska was fatally scalded when a tub of boiling water upset onto the child after the chair the tub rested on was pulled aside. The infant died after hours of severe suffering as Mrs Noble had poured hot water into clothes in the tub and left the room. In Newark New Jersey Edward Norley a 45 year old man attacked his wife with a razor inflicting seven gashes then cut his throat and died within an hour. The wife is expected to recover. Norley once had about eighteen thousand dollars but lost it and drank heavily. his wife left him two years ago.
At Nebraska City Neb about thirty packing house workers staged a 25 cent per day wage strike. Most returned to work leaving seven still out. Three of the seven received raises but were later told their services were no longer needed leaving several unemployed. Hail and rain touched parts of Cuming County with wheat and oats thriving and spring plowing underway.
Millington Michigan reports Mrs. dimes Simonds, living near Otter Lake, stepped in front of a Michigan Central Express with her two year old in her arms. Both died. Officials say Mrs Simonds had been mentally unbalanced for months.
An overhead crane malfunction toppled a hoisting machine into Main Street in Richmond Virginia. Three workers were killed and three injured in the incident.
William Holyard shot and killed his wife after separation then killed himself seven miles from Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Mrs Holyard had refused to live with him and the couple came from Paris Missouri. Josiah Carr, an elderly farmer five miles north of Ottawa, Iowa, was found murdered in a cellar by unknown assailants. he lived alone and was considered well to do.
A Central Park menagerie hippo named Miss Murphy delivered a fourth offspring. The newborn measures about fourteen inches long and eight inches high, weighing around twenty pounds. In a separate incident, 42-year-old Edmunds shot his wife Lane and then killed himself.
iTALMAGE speaks on patience and the evolution of living spaces from caves to modern homes. He notes the surge of house building while praising comfortable shelter and the idea of every person having a suitable home for worship and daily life. The sermon reflects on changing residences across life and a New York to Yonkers journey observing sold or vacant country estates and gardens.
The speaker argues permanent residence does not exist and moves blame on mobility. He mocks the nomadic race, calls moving day a comic trial, and urges prayers and faith to ease the burden of relocation. He notes fortune and size of home affect happiness but true contentment lies in God and Christian living.
The speaker likens death to moving from an earthly house to a heavenly home. Families prepare ahead, share with neighbors, and await reunion in a larger eternal mansion where joy, celebration, and divine abundance replace earthly toils. The talk contrasts earthly scarcity with celestial abundance.
Milwaukee Journal notes Sault Ste. Marie’s vast water power on St. Marys River, with canals and locks built by U S and Canada to boost commerce. A $3.506 million American project will develop 40,000 horsepower for calcium carbide and chemical plants, aiming to lift the city from about 10,000 residents to a major manufacturing center.
Judge James Fitzgerald of the New York supreme court embodies perseverance and purpose. A 40 year old self made man, he worked as a cash boy while studying at night, read law, and entered practice at an early age. He rose in politics and as an assistant district attorney earning 7500 yearly, then while on a wedding trip he returned to claim back pay and was asked to sign the payroll before receiving his due.
An Oregon report describes boiling pine needles and pressing pulp between wooden rollers to extract a juice marketed as pine needle oil with claimed medical properties. The pulp is used as medicated upholstery material said to deter pests, with ads touting household goods, prizes, and Magnetic Starch as a superior product.
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