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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1900
Page
2
A collection of aphorisms and opinion snippets touching on military figures like Buller and Dewey, religious debates within Presbyterian circles, diet and health perspectives, and demographic notes on South Africa. The piece weaves social commentary with scattered factual claims about diets, natives, and colonial populations. It reflects a late 19th to early 20th century tone with varied topics from faith to foreign affairs.
A citywide street car strike paralyses service as 7 425 Amalgamated Association members refuse to operate. Cars face mob attacks and are stoned while park avenue line wrecked by rocks. Arbitration attempts fail and citizens find other transport amid the chaos.
The week ending Tuesday May has warm days with little rain on workdays and heavy showers on weekend. Temperatures ran 2 to 5 degrees above normal, rainfall above normal in the east and below in the west, with inches of precipitation in southeastern counties. Plowing for corn advanced, corn ground ready for planting, and planting begun across most sections despite limited prior sowing. Grass, wheat and oats thrived. fruit trees are in blossom with minimal frost damage.
A young colored woman, Etta Mays, created a stir at a friend’s home near Seventh and F streets in Lincoln by firing a revolver close to her face. She claimed the shot was accidental, and powder burns on her face were later deemed non fatal. Fire forces at Geneseo’s American hotel killed two men and possibly a woman, with $15,000 loss.
Dubuque church authorities say they have no information that Archbishop Keane has been appointed to succeed the late Archbishop Hennessy. It is believed the appointment has not been decided upon.
Mrs Anna Pokorney of 1223 Williams Street, Omaha, died after attempting to kindle a kitchen fire with kerosene. Her husband Anton and son Anton Jr were burned trying to help. The family, including seven children, faced a tragic accident as the fire spread and medical staff pronounced her death at St. Joseph's hospital.
Adjutant General Barry reports Congressman Stark says the House passed an appropriation bill providing $1,000,000 annually for the national guard of states. The Nebraska guard now gets $6,900 in supplies yearly, with the bill rising to $17,290 per year, or $24,500 for two years, for modern arms and ordnance. General Harry will start for Sioux Falls after wiring Stark thanks for passing House roll No. 9510.
The two men who triggered the gas in a Henderson house on Farnum Street are now identified. David Ridnour of Nordaway Iowa claims the remains of AR Wilgus, who had lived with Ridnour’s father. Swan survived the gas for forty hours. his origins remain unknown and telegrams to Minneapolis have not brought a reply. He may be buried at the county's expense.
Two young sisters Martha and Pheba Watkins aged five and four living above a Twentieth Street restaurant in Lincoln Nebraska were allegedly assaulted last Monday. A physician confirmed the abuse after an examination prompted by their mother's report of sickness. Police are pursuing the suspect as the investigation continues.
A special from Omaha says a Union Pacific wreck near Cheyenne has caused five deaths. Other items note military shell development claimed to surpass all current armor and a Terré Haute steel mill closure, plus a May 28 Plainview Nebraska school building bond election and auditor Pool's health report in California.
Joseph Brychter, a Pullman station and Chicago postoffice clerk, has been arrested. He admits securing 5400 dollars by means of fraudulent forged orders at Ontario.
A historical survey traces Democratic conventions from 1800 as caucus to 1896 Chicago gathering. It lists Baltimore and New York sites, names like Jackson Van Buren Polk Cass Pierce Buchanan Breckinridge and Cleveland, and notes ballots and pivotal outcomes across years.
The Press Bureau, led by William J. Abbott, distributes Democratic reading matter through syndicates to about 4500 newspapers nationwide. It publishes the Press Bulletin weekly to Democratic Silver Republican and Populist papers. The agency aimed to unify party action, built since 1897 under Jones. A Chicago incident over Carter Harrison’s mayoral platform prompted a rebuke of P Bureau head Devlin, but he was not removed.
The piece traces the shift from congressional caucuses to national nominating conventions from 1825 to 1831. It notes Tennessee’s legislative nominations for Andrew Jackson, the rise of state conventions, and the Baltimore 1831 caucus that shaped modern conventions. Col. John I. Martin of St. Louis is named sergeant at arms for the upcoming national convention, a role he held in 1896.
A new convention hall in Kansas City will seat about 20 000 for Democratic events on July 4. The two story cream brick building rises on Thirteenth and Central Streets with a 314 by 200 foot footprint, costing 225 000 dollars and praised for renaissance style first floor and perletyle second floor design.
The United States consumes about 4,000,000 bushels of peanuts annually at a cost near $10,000,000. Domestic peanut farming is rising though much is still imported from Spain, Egypt and Japan. Growth across the Atlantic seaboard and lower Mississippi Valley shows peanut cultivation yields around sixty bushels per acre.
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