Record of the Week World News From The Telegraph
A long telegram from Cromsoo Norway reports Stella Polare Arctic expedition reaching latitude 81 north, ice entrapment for eleven months, casualties, and sled dog consumption. Also covered are King Humbert’s assassination news, Boxer outrages, Russian railway plans, Ladybrand siege in Cape Colony, a burial dare case, mine fatalities, a silo collapse, and Judge Cantrill overruling Powers case in Kentucky.
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Naget
Humbert
Italy
Abruzzi
Rammenfest
Treasure Laden Umatilla Brings Million in Gold to San Francisco
The steamer Umatilla arrives in San Francisco from the north with about $1,500,000 in treasure from Kiondike and Douglass Island and some Nome nuggets. Obituary notes the death of William J. Morgan of Buffalo, the New York State Comptroller, who was renominated for the office and died on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uiatilla
San Francisco
Kiondike
Douglass Island
Nome
William J. Morgan
Buffalo
State of
New York
Tramp Injures Boy. Loots Home After Ball Game
Six farmers near Columbia Missouri play ball when a ball lands in trees. A tramp is found wounded and revived after a whisky drink. He departs with the remainder of the liquor a dozen shells and a breech loading shotgun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Davis
Columbia
Davis Base
Nation to Aid Gold Hunters Set to Air Supplies
Cabinet in Washington approves sending a transport to Cape Nome Alaska to rescue hundreds stranded miners many of whom fell behind in the gold district. Officials fear possible crime waves if help is delayed and plan to bring clothing and food to Masham Indians struck by plague and famine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washigeron
Cape Nome
Alaska
Hemk Tt
Renunire
Nome
Train Plunges Through Open Drawbridge Into Rouge River
Two Wabash locomotives and three freight cars of the fast Eastern freight No. 9 plunged into the Rouge River at Delray near Detroit after the bridge was not stopped. Engineers Wagner and McNab claim a signal to proceed. the tender crew and engine two crew escaped with no injuries. The river bottom is soft and the engines are submerged. the bridge area is blocked for Wabash traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern
Rouge River
Delray
Mich
Detroit
Wagner
McNab
Rouge
Michigan Central
Wabash Bridge
Mer Colored Maid Alec Brutally Beaten Four Villains Under Arrest
Mrs Julia Mollenhauer, wife of J W Mollenhauer, was assaulted and robbed of her diamonds by four men after a dancing party in a Wilson street stable. Her colored maid was beaten mentally. The suspects were arrested. Mrs Mollenhauer, 27, wealthy and living in Brooklyn, is separated from her husband, a sugar refiner relative.
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Alec
Ohio Regiment
Louisiana
Julia Mollenhauer
J. W. Mollenhauer
Hvery
North Tenth Street
Willamsburg
N. Y
Brooklyn
Mollenhauers
Colors of the Thirtieth Louisiana Reg returned to survivors
An incident at Worthington near Columbus Ohio saw the Thirtieth Louisiana regiment’s colors returned to a survivor committee. The flags had been captured at Ezra courthouse near Atlanta during the Civil War and stored in Columbus relic rooms for years. Judge David Muir spoke and handed the colors to a New Orleans committee led by Messrs Shepard JD Harris John A Landry and James H Brown with Gov. Nash in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Forty-sixth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Worthington
Columbus
Oho
Ezra Courthouse
Athuite
David Muir
Messrs. Shepard JD
Harris
John A. Landry
James H. Brown
New Orleans
Nash
Woman Rescued After A Week Afloat In Cleveland Lake
Mamie Porter of Youngstown lay in an open boat at the foot of Erie street Cleveland for seven days before rescue. She suffered typhoid fever after coming ashore at Lakeside hospital. a young man who left her in the boat telephoned for an ambulance and then disappeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stase Fisher
Wilmington
Del
Brandywine Park
Ohio
Millionaire’s heirs wed in Stratford Ontario
Miss Hattie Calvert and Thomas M Barr of Kansas City wed in Stratford Ontario as part of a sequel to a will case involving Charles G Hopkins a local capitalist who died October 20 1800 leaving an estate valued at 500000 with the entire sum left to Calvert Barr and Calverts sister Sarah. Hopkins sister Nareigan Nelson of Indianapolis contested the will but the dispute was settled out of court with most property going to the original beneficiaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Calvert
Thomas M. Barr
Kansas City
Charles G. Hopkins
Stratford
Ont
Hopkins
Miss Calvert
Sarah
Best Month of 1900 August Shows Trade Failures
R G Dun & Co reports August 1900 had 135 commercial failures totaling 87 823 003 in liabilities. Manufacturing failures reached 45 007 and trading failures 3 585 067 with 72 629 in other lines. Banks totaled two, with total assets 146 000. Weekly failures stood at 175 in the U S and 19 in Canada, up from the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
UTA
United States
Canada
New Orleans Fire Ravages Morris Building
A blaze gutted the Morris building a landmark in New Orleans while flames originated in the adjacent Tulane University property used by the Fairbanks State Company. Total losses from both structures are estimated near 250000 dollars.
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New Orleans
Morris
Tulane University
Fairbanks State Company
Fire Levels Town of Atlin and Other 1900s News
Fire devastates Atlin destroying ten major business blocks with losses around 40000 dollars. Pajama parade disrupts Beta Theta Pi duties at Put-in-Bay. Law student B Franklin Mertz found dead in New York from Detroit, believed natural causes. Ex Governor Lorenzo Lewelling dies in Arkansas City Kansas of heart failure. Negro minister Thomas Jones hanged in Raleigh for murder. Two thousand Boxers invited to feast. imperial troops slaughter them. Vermont Republicans win by 27000, Democrats gain seats. Presbyterian assembly debates creed revisions. Canadian Pacific Railway strike ends.
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B. Franklin Mertz
Columbia University
Mertz
New York
Detroit
Mich
Lewelling
Lorenzo D. Lewelling
Kansas
Arkansas City
Kan
Market quotations from Chicago to New York cattle and grain
A dense list of prices for cattle hogs sheep and grains across multiple markets. Entries include Chicago cattle 3.00 to 5.90, hogs 3.00 to 5.95, wheat No 2 red 7e to 9e, corn No 2 42c to 46c, oats No 2 20c to 22c, rye No 2 49c to 0c, with similar figures for St. Louis Cincinnati Detroit Buffalo and New York markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Forthern
Zoe
Mc Hurley
New York
Patrol Box Tragedy Kills Two Policemen in St Louis
Two St Louis policemen died and thirteen were injured by electric shock while attempting to call central station from patrol boxes. Wires recently added to the boxes connected with city circuits caused the shock when the transmitters were touched. First victim Nicholas Beckman died en route to hospital. John P Loving died on the scene. Injured officers suffered severe burns and flesh damage to fingers, with nails turning purple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Nicholas Beckman
John P. Loving
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Denver
Indiana
Norris & Woolley, Publishers
Take
Pao Ting Fa
Chi Li
Pekin
Lidlung Chang
Hu Nan
Tien Tsin
McArthur
Boho
Pedro Samson
Tagbil Aren
Ubay
Carmen
Levick
Ladybrand
Cape Town
Caris Outlette
Menominee
Iman
Oudette
Lackawanna Coal Company
Scranton
Christopher Robertson
James Brown
Moountain
Dunmoor
August Weichen
Peotone
Dik
Georgetown
Canrill
Caleb Powers
William Goebel
Deutchland
Stormer Deutschland
Faust
Atlantic
Cherbourg Harbor
Sandy Hook Llightship
Silver Lake
Akron
Henry Lerkins
Henry Cornell
Kentucky
Tennessee
Clarksville
Tenn
Perkins
de Wet
Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Great Britain
Christian de Wet
Ireland
Eb, Hy Sehioeman
Chaffee
Tien-tsin
Atlantic City
Hatfield
David Sinton
Bath
Daniel Beetle
Woodbury
N.J
Beetle
Herbert Clement
Francis Frohm
Strohm
Elizabethville
Frohm
Frank Winiski
Whitey
Streusser
Strayer
Hinckley
Minn
Memorial Cemetery
Moses E. Clapp
War Department
Philippines
Patrick Ryan
Freeport
Ridott Station
Wapella
Man
Louis Mot
J. A. Spriggs
Vallombrosd
Spriggs
Mot
Stephen Paden Company
Laramie
Wyo
W. I. Carroll
St. Peter and New Ulm
Mankato
Mann
Colgate Baker
Milwaukee
Ured
Atlin
Amur
Put-in- Bay
Beta Theta Vi
Thomas Jones
Raleigh
N. C
Vermmont
Vermont
Presbyterian General Assembly
Durel
Canadian Pacific Railway
Marget Quotations
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Shanghai
Mission Board
Chuchua
Che-kiang
Washington
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Centerville
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Nashville
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Wis
Omaha
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North Africa
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Berlin
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Jaffa
Palestine
Belgium
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