23 Aug 1900
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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
1
Denver Indiana marks a publisher note from Norris and Woolley. The fragment references the Trilime publication and credits Norris and Woolley as publishers in this local notice.
A mob of hundreds gathered before Policeman Brobert J. Thorgh's home at Ninth Avenue and street in New York to retaliate against local black residents for the officer's death. The crowd injured many while police and reserves kept order, firing revolvers and missiles at Negro tenements as clashes spread through the district.
Maurice Brennan jailed in St Louis on dynamiter charges linked to the southern city streetcar explosions. Police say a coordinated council formed a regular committee directed the attacks and supplied dynamite to operatives. Local heat wave reports note 100 degree temperatures and a Dawson Georgia farm feature about sun popped popcorn.
Field marshal Viscount Wolseley criticized the 80 000 men in late maneuvers at Aldershot saying they were unfit for abroad, poorly led and taught. Distinguished officers including General Montgomery Moore heard the remarks.
The foreign office reports Emperor William will receive the Brooklyn Sangerbund delegation in early September to thank him for the prize he gave the organization. The emperor had hoped to meet sooner but engagements delayed the visit.
News from Hong Kong reports Sir Robert Hart director general of Chinese maritime customs has left Pekin with his staff under Chinese escort. A cruiser is expected to meet him at the coast on arrival. Meanwhile four miles from Elkton Kentucky on the Bailey plantation fourteen typhoid cases with two deaths are attributed to cistern water.
A London dispatch quoted by the Jordan Daily Express from Lorenzo Marquez reports Boer General De Wet has joined forces with Commandant Delarey, signaling a strengthened alliance in the ongoing South African theater.
Rome correspondent of the London Daily Mail reports that fifteen Italian detectives have sailed for New York to shadow anarchist movements in America as mounting unrest draws international attention. In Jamestown Ohio A G Binghamp ton killed his wife and son in law James Bradley then committed suicide, a tragedy linked to family troubles.
Trade continues irregularly during the transition from midsummer to early fall. The hot wave dampens distributive demand while reports of corn crop damage arise. Wheat shipments for the week total 31 8 700 bushels amid improved export inquiry. corn exports reach 2 890 754 bushels compared with prior periods.
A LaCrosse gang of twenty two men attacked J. W. Van Sant's raft at Dresbach Minnesota and carried away several hundred logs valued at over $1,000. They used sixteen skiffs and sold the logs to a local lumberman in LaCrosse. Detectives are investigating. The piece notes a protective secrecy around log thieves.
Mrs Wu Ting Fang wife of the Chinese minister and six companions were saved from drowning at Cape May New Jersey after their yacht Martha sprang a leak. The party included her son two nephews Mrs A Nesmith Miss Nesmith and Mrs Barnard Hall who weresummering with Minister Wu's family. A rowboat reached the vessel in time as water flooded the hull several aboard showed distress signals.
Collis P Huntington longtime leader of the Southern Pacific Railroad dies at Pine Woot Lodge on Racquette Lake Adirondacks after a sudden heart illness. Born October 22 1821 in Harwinton Connecticut he helped form the Central Pacific with Stanford Cracker and others and later led the Southern Pacific for thirty five years also serving as president of the Mexican International Railroad and the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company.
Two masked men robbed the conductor on motor No. 79 of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway and Bridge Company near midnight. They took the conductor’s gold watch and about $50 in cash, then disappeared into the darkness as few passengers rode.
The Dakota Elevator in Buffalo burned with losses around 500000 after flames erupted in the machinery loft and spread to the cupola within fifteen minutes. Two Black people were fatally harmed in the blaze. Tasper Houston, master mechanic for Bigemann Hollerback, was murdered by William Fobbs and another Black man nicknamed Ragtime.
Two admitted using dynamite and five men were arrested by the St. Louis police in a probe into dynamite attacks on Transit Company property. Suspects Maurice Brennman and I W Northway were implicated as they confessed. An explosion damaged a bridge on the Big Four line near Mound City Indiana, an engine and caboose went through, one man died and four were injured.
In Green Springs Ohio Henry Gook was shot by Edward Trout after a hardware store meeting over a grudge. Gook died minutes later as a crowd threatened Lynching Trout who was moved to safety. Separately Judge Troutt ruled Mrs Nettie Craven not widow of Senator James G Fair or entitled to his estate.
Two outlaws who robbed a Union Pacific train in Colorado were killed near Goodland Kansas as local officers closed in. One burned to death in a sodhouse after refusing surrender, the other shot trying to flee.
The report lists cattle, hogs, sheep, and grains in markets from Chicago to New York. Prices span wide ranges: cattle 2.50 to 5.95, hogs 3.00 to 5.95, wheat No 2 red 54 to 82 cents, corn 39 to 43 cents, oats 20 to 29 cents, rye 40 to 52 cents, creamery butter 17 to 20 cents, eggs 15 to 17 cents, potatoes 20 to 38 cents per bushel.
A dispatch cites a Chinese source that the allied army entered Pekin on Monday and likely rescued envoys and friends. The Chinese minister in Washington received Conger’s cipher dispatch and Atlee, while Li Hung Chang urged stopping the advance at Tung-Chow.
The Chinese government will be empowered to negotiate an armistice while rejecting Li Hung Chang's proposal. The note follows demands from the U.S. government and cites Minister Conger and Secretary Root's positions. The cablegram to Conger is cited, and the dispatch lists marines killed in the legation assaults.
The article notes T. E. H. Storts of Van Buren Indiana claiming to have foreseen major conflicts. It cites his 1804 prediction that U S troops would fight in 1808 and the government would not cease from war for seven years, with a global war by 1900.
A reader cites a preacher who predicts ten more years of war and a collapse of nations after China is subdued with swords. He says the United States and England will face similar fates and urges strong government preparation citing Revelation. The text also notes Miss Thomson of Rochester runs a meat market after her father’s illness, showing business skill and market growth.
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