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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
2
A compact dispatch approach highlights brief foreign shore updates, weather gust notes, and miscellaneous incidents. It catalogues foreign reports, local curiosities, and everyday hazards with terse summaries suitable for a quick scan.
The Chicago board of trade announced a settlement on corn shortfalls for November delivery to George H. Phillips. Short sellers and several elevator firms agreed to cover shortages at a set price, shocking traders who had backed the Phillips operation.
London reports a De Wettsdorp garrison of 400, with captive guns and Gloucestershire, Highland Light Infantry, and Irish Rifles detachments, surrender at 5 30 pm. Our losses total 15 killed and 42 wounded including Major Hansen and Captain Digby. German cautious notes and Kruger visit rumors swirl amid Transvaal tension. Wedding tale follows as Jeffersonville contractor Thomas O Neil wed Miss Elizabeth Wharton. mules disrupt the feast as his sons clash with the family.
A crowded football viewing at Pacific Glass Works in San Francisco ended when the roof collapsed onto hot furnaces and vats. About eighty five fell through, with thirteen dead and many injured. Rescue teams fear more deaths as details unfold. Mrs. Emma Van Liew pleaded guilty to manslaughter for throwing vitriol. she received ten years in the penitentiary and was moved to Columbus prison. The battleship Kentucky arrived at Smyrna seeking fresh orders and to aid Turkish indemnity talks of ninety thousand dollars. The McCulloch cutter reports Name cut off by sea ice for seven months near Seattle, isolating the crew.
Sir Samuel Morrill third secretary at the United States embassy in Berlin is reported very ill, with officials providing no further details. The brief notice notes his diplomatic posting and current health status.
Richard Weaver and his wife and child, once separated by scandal and divorce, reunite after a long search. The child, found near Aurora after boarding a Chicago train, is now in the care of a farmer who adopted her before the family reunion. The couple remarry and plan to move west to start anew.
R G Dun and Co weekly trade review notes modest improvement in activity and tone with no broad price surge. Manufactured goods rise due to better demand and warmer weather, while wool sales fall as mild weather and potential forced sales weigh on markets. Failures: 238 in the US, 20 in Canada.
Begole and Van Arsdale, a major Beatrice dry goods store, burned to the ground in Beatrice Nebraska with two explosions blowing the front. Stock valued around 75 000 dollars plus upper story offices and building bring total damage to about 100 000 dollars. Ruthven found guilty of murder in the first degree in Cleveland after the Indianapolis capture and threats to the prosecutor.
Word reached New York police that a Sea Board Air Line clerk was arrested in Fernandina Florida for stealing 550000. The theft allegedly arose from speculation with the firm C B Lawrence Co which failed in New York and whose principals are now under arrest.
A heavy gale devastated the Tiffin woolen mills causing extensive fire damage. The central business district faced threat as flames burned through the plant. Loss estimated over 100000 dollars with partial insurance, leaving 125 workers unemployed. Also reports Alaska coal beds traced along Chiquiak bay with mining claims filed by Thomas Mayon’s crew from Unga. A ferry tragedy follows with 26 lives lost aboard the St Oleg near Seven Islands bay, Labrador, no survivors.
Pearl Newman was convicted of murder in the first degree for killing William J. McCauley, an actor, at Huntington, West Virginia, last October. McCauley, a Philadelphia resident, was slain in his home.
The new steamship Fife went ashore in the Straits of Belle Isle Newfoundland and is a total loss. It is owned by D R Reid, a railroad contractor, and cost $100.
Four workers toppled from a scaffold at a South Chicago steel works high furnace. Andrew Anderson was saved when his coat caught on a protruding bolt, hanging eighty feet above ground until rescue after twenty minutes. Three others were seriously injured, with one likely to die.
Four Circuit Court judges in St Louis heard 100 divorce cases in one day. Fifty divorces were granted, the highest daily total on record, surpassing previous highs of 75 hearings and 30 separations.
Dr. A Hamilton, a Maryville Iowa physician, was shot dead by Alfred Ahn who accused him of causing the separation from his wife. Ahn is under arrest on the charge of firing the fatal shot. No witness to the shooting and the doctor died without speaking.
Three officers and one cadet at West Point were ordered into solitary confinement and degraded in rank after a recent breach of discipline. The officers are described as the most popular men in the first class.
The Mau mee Valley schooner with seven crew aboard sank in shallow water on the Point Annelee middle ground near Toledo Ohio. The entire crew including officers is reported lost in the incident.
John Hubbard died after a desperate fight in Middlesboro Kentucky as lawmen Lieutenant John Turner and Deputy Zack Steele killed him while attempting to arrest him on a concealed weapons charge. Commissioner George Washington Wilson of internal revenue died in Washington DC at 87 from pneumonia after a severe cold.
A bull diverted from a Maybaum's slaughter route in Newark destroys a John Gooren & Sons grocery interior and wrecks fixtures. It plowed through Charles Young's restaurant and John Hartman's greens shop, scattering debris, while Salvan Gere's barber shop was emptied as the animal caused panic before a final capture near an undertaking shop.
Meager flood reports from western Tennessee describe multiple deaths. A woman and two children drowned near Dyersburg after a buggy overturned in backwater from a levee spill. A Black laborer on Mindis Central drowned at Forked Deer River. A carrier drowned near Olynth in Cooney Creek when his buggy capsized while fording. Firemen buried after Merchants Hotel collapse at McPherson Kansas. five injured, six men buried, condition uncertain. Gambling describes Christopher Weiss’s ruin as he fled South River, New Jersey, after stealing $5,000 from American Enameled Brick and Tile Works.
Robert Crotty aged 16 was found dead hanging with a rope looped to a beam at the rear porch of his parents home in Chicago. Police consider the death possibly a murder. Big Fire in Rochester NS Losses at Citizens Light and Power plant and Washington flour mills estimated around 175000 dollars, with some insurance coverage.
The text notes First Lieutenant Solon S Arnold of the U S N from Port Orchard was found in Seattle in a state of madness after being stripped robbed and clubbed by thugs. It also states the United States will retain possession of the Isle of Pines with fortifications and a strong garrison for protection of U S interests despite Cuba's final disposition.
A blaze consumed the ink plant of the Sanford Manufacturing Company in Chicago, a facility known for producing ink, mucilage, and sealing wax, with extensive fire damage reported.
Senator Cushman J. Davis, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, died in St Paul from nephritis at age 62. In a separate item, Leonard Day, son of a Minnesota lumberman, was killed in a midnight brawl at the West Hotel in Minneapolis.
Chicago cattle range 3.00 to 5.85, hogs 3.00 to 5.00, sheep 3.00 to 4.00, with wheat at No. 2 red around 0 to 70c and corn No. 2 48 to 49c. Indy prices mirror cattle 3.00 to 5.00, hogs 4.00 to 4.85, wheat 2 70s, corn white 86c to 3Tc, oats white 24c. Milwaukee reports No. 2 wheat 72 to 73c, corn 87 to 38c, oats 25 to 26c, pork 10 to 11 dollars. Buffalo cattle 3.00 to 5.70, hogs 3.00 to 5.00. New York cattle 2.25 to 3.40, hogs 3.00 to 5.86, wheat No. 2 red around 9 to 11c, butter 2c to 2c, eggs 26c.
Secretary Wilson outlines major weather bureau expansions and farming supports. He highlights forecast improvements, timely Galveston warnings, wireless telegraphy tests, cattle movement during quarantine, extensive cattle and sheep inspections, and efforts against diseases. он Notes dairy shipments abroad and urges food adulteration laws to protect producers.
This dispatch reports the Doewetsdorp garrison surrender to Gen. De Wet, with 400 British prisoners taken. Royal alarm sweeps England as claims of guerrilla remnants persist and Knox pursues De Wet near Vaalbank Noy. Details on losses and movements are noted, including Edenburg relief efforts failing.
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