Record of the Week: Gales From Foreign Shores Told
Telegraph desk reports gusts and late news from overseas in a brisk weekly record. Scattered dispatches cover crimes, nautical events, fires and notable incidents from distant lands.
29 Jun 1899
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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1899
Page
1
Telegraph desk reports gusts and late news from overseas in a brisk weekly record. Scattered dispatches cover crimes, nautical events, fires and notable incidents from distant lands.
Paris reports that France’s Third Republic sits on dangerous ground as Waldeck-Rousseau forms a cabinet amid alarm and hope. The Temps notes the unlikely alliance between socialist leaders and former Commune enforcers, united only by a drive to restore law and defend the republic.
Several hundred farmers in Southwestern Michigan who contracted with Kalama zoo and Benton Harbor beet sugar factories to raise beets face costly setbacks. Seed rotted due to cold and rain forcing replanting about half the acreage, and a new small yellow and black striped bug damages young beet plants, especially the second seeding, eating leaves. The crop is expected to fall short by about half.
Gov. Pingree and Gen. Alger unite for Alger’s senatorial bid. Alger vows no withdrawal or funding, pledging a platform opposing trusts and favoring direct popular elections. Secretary of War Alger confirms he will seek the U.S. Senate.
Governor Roosevelt orders recommencement of action against Armour & Co for selling oleomargarine in New York. Two years prior the case paused with Armour promising $20,000 and suspending sale of inflation butter. Governor demands full penalties of 1.5 million or exemption after a fair trial.
General Horace Porter hosted a grand party at the American embassy in Paris with 1300 invitations. Cabinet ministers, Venezuela arbitration officials, and leading American colony members attended as the embassy sparkled with decoration and illumination and the evening ended in dancing.
The steamer Humboldt reached Seattle with about twenty five passengers from Dawson and interior Alaska carrying roughly 1 250 000 dollars in gold dust.
Mrs. Harvey Ramsey is accused of cutting her husband’s throat with a razor while he slept, claiming his snoring was intolerable. Authorities believe she is insane.
Burglars blew open the Wilton postoffice safe securing 500 dollars worth of tamp a and money.
Gen Wheaton with American forces advancing on Perez das Marinas engaged insurgents in heavy fighting. Maj Bubb's 300 man unit, aided by a reinvigorated Third battalion, faced about 2000 Filipino fighters with brutal casualties on both sides. Officials reported harsh sanitation conditions and mutilated American dead after the action near Imus and Manila.
Chicago inventor E. D. Betts announces a cyclone annihilator offered to the U S Government. The device is a small cannon with a weather vane and air trigger on a vertical pivot. Aiming vane directs the cannon at a funnel cloud. at sixty five mile per hour wind the trigger fires, scattering the cyclone into a harmless zephyr.
Ex President Benjamin Harrison represents Venezuela in Paris at an international arbitration on the boundary dispute with Great Britain. The quarrel centers on a 60,000 square mile border including rich gold mines, with Venezuela seeking the 59th parallel as the line and Britain favoring the 63rd. The 1880s conflict drew US calls for arbitration and resulted in a treaty backing a tribunal's decision.
A New Yorker dies from excessive tea drinking at 83. Dr George W Chittenden dies in Janesville Wisconsin at 79, Wisconsin’s oldest practicing physician. Mrs Mary P Coats of Philadelphia ages 102 celebrates birthday. her family served in every American war from Revolution to Civil War. Miss Mary Baterman aged 70 dies in Sparkill New York. pallbearers were all young bachelors by her request. Mrs Julia A Hedges age 98 dies in Indianapolis of senile decay. husband age 100 is alive, memory failing. couple had 70 years of marriage and pension support remains their only income. several children survive.
Five hundred homeless residents of Herman Nebraska endure a primitive existence after a cyclone. They shelter in tents or cellar pits while the church serves as morgue hospital and relief depot. Damage runs to two hundred thousand dollars with little insurance as volunteers and nearby farmers provide food clothing and aid.
Advices report yellow fever in Tehuantepec and other Isthmus of Tehuantepec locations with fears for American coffee planters. The epidemic extends from Vera Cruz to the Guatemalan border with hundreds of deaths. Vera Cruz reports over 500 cases and rapid spread. American marines in Havana also face the disease, amid alarm. Private Kehr is the only reported death so far.
The article notes that total exports for the eleven months of fiscal year 1899 reached $1,130,620,572, only a little below 1898 as the best year. Declines are mostly in agricultural products with farm exports about $50 million lower than last year, while live cattle exports drop 25 percent from 1898.
New York observers call the Western victory in Speaker race a blow to Eastern control, predicting increased Western influence in coming Congress. The piece notes tax burdens on nations and recalls Lynn Mass School Board curbing bicycles attire, plus Johnstown flood ten years earlier with lasting devastation.
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