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Newspaper
El Paso Daily Herald
Location
El Paso, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1900
Page
1
A compact reminiscence or column items on editorial roles in religion driven publications. The piece contrasts pulpit authority with editorial craft and notes shifts in style and influence across Church and press. It highlights figures connected to preaching and editing, framing a dialog between sermon and newspaper page.
Dr Joseph Parker, pastor of City Temple, begins a six day experiment editing the Evening Sun. His first issue features religious notes, Boer War columns, a crime column, and a sportsless page. He aims for a religious daily and urges flogging to deter crime. He opposes sectarianism and favors buying Denver mining shares.
A romantic triangle ends with a quiet El Paso wedding between a southern city young lady and a Washington suitor. A New York admirer travels across the continent to attend, then travels back after learning of the elopement brief. The incident evokes sympathy and congratulations for the couple.
The Times correspondent in Pekin says Li Hung Chang telegraphed the czar, via Prince Ukhtomsky, thanking Russia for resuming civil government in Manchuria. A second message supposedly from Emperor Kwang Su repeats charges of Russian duplicity and warns Manchuria will become a Russian protectorate.
Report from Malaga Spain confirms dozens drowned as 461 aboard the German school ship Gneisanau go down off Malaga. Telegram to the minister of marine cites forty drowned, while press dispatches suggest about one hundred lost. One hundred ninety survivors are in care with 271 missing.
A devastating blaze at the Brown Hoisting and Conveying Machine Co plant in Cleveland today destroyed the works and left about a thousand workers unemployed. Officials estimate property losses near one million dollars and say restoration will take time.
General Dewet and part of his force pierced the British lines at Theba N'Chu Basutoland after heavy fighting. Boer casualties along the northern front were repulsed.
A town meeting in Eldorado Kansas on December 17 saw about twenty women demand action against Jessie Morrison, accused of killing Mrs. Olin Castle. The crowd floated a lynching plan but failed to appoint a leader. Morrison vowed safety, claiming enemies bluff and stating she will not leave town.
James Sheehan shot his daughter on a Porcupine district mining claim in Boise Idaho. The girl in male attire stole his gold dust to elope with a neighboring miner, and was fatally wounded.
El Paso to become a major outfitting point as the El Paso Mine and Smelter Supply House, the El Paso foundry, and the Pass City Foundry and Machine Company consider a consolidation. The plan envisions a single strong firm handling heavy machinery engines and boilers for the southwest and Mexico with a large local manufacturing plant and thousands employed. Juan A. Creel and Mr. Small are key figures, with broad support expected for the venture.
Chicago December 17 The industrial arbitration conference opened in Steinway hall with many prominent delegates present. The group favors the goal of forming a national board to unite great industries, promote agreements, settle disputes, and seek necessary legislation, though immediate results are not expected.
A Boer force surrounded a Bra bant Lord Horse unit in the sea strong district and compelled 120 to surrender. Three British soldiers were killed and sixteen wounded, with 120 taken prisoner. Northumberland Fusiliers and other prisoners freed at Nooitgedacht reached Rustenburg as fighting split into two bodies heading west and south.
Report from Leutschau area in Hungary describes famine sweeping 200 square miles with rampant disease. Eight bubonic plague cases and thousands of typhus infections are reported, and district mortality ranges from 300 to 1,000.
An American miner near Parral repels two bandits in a dawn encounter. The assailants are driven off, leaving no injuries, as the miner ensures local safety and prevents robbery in the frontier area.
General freight agent A. D. Shepard of the Southern Pacific Pacific system meets El Paso shippers and merchants at the chamber of commerce at four o'clock to discuss freight rate issues west of the city amid changes and a new competing line. The meeting follows prior complaints and promises to investigate. Also reported is a Parral Mexico robbery attempt ending in two bandits killed after confronting a mine owner with three thousand dollars.
A thousand sailors and marines from China arrived in Berlin from Kiel this afternoon. They marched through the Brandenburg Gate with banners from the Taku forts and flags captured from the Chinese, meeting the emperor, empress, and Prince Henry. The emperor praised their courage and said the army and navy are now one.
Idaho miners claim to hold sway in the legislature and threaten to block U S senators until martial law in the Coeur d Alene mining district is abolished.
A Republican member of Congress reports President McKinley has decided to call an extra session of Congress in March. The statement was made in Washington on December 17 and is said to be highly reliable given the insider’s usual accuracy.
The remains of the last missing person in the Fredonia normal school fire have been recovered and identified as G. Morris the janitor. Earlier, five girl students were found, bringing total recovered to seven.
President Kruger, replying to an invitation to visit Grand Rapids Michigan, says he has no plans for the future and cannot accept now. He has moved into a private house in The Hague with apparent intention of a lengthy stay.
In Columbus Ohio this morning the sixth hearing of the Sells divorce case resumed. Attorneys indicated Mrs Sells may not testify before Thursday or later as the trial moves toward what is hoped to be its final week.
The metal market notes bar silver at 64 and Mexican money quotations in El Paso at 49 1/2 today. These prices reflect ongoing market activity and currency valuation across the border regions.
Indiana Governor Mount fears a mob will rule tonight and orders the Rockport sheriff to swear in a posse to protect Whistling Joe at all hazards.
George Acres and Miss Olive Vigges wed quietly at Las Cruces yesterday. They plan to return to El Paso in a few days to establish their future home.
K Hiyama representing Japan arrives in El Paso to promote cotton goods trade. He says Japan runs 60 large mills, sources cheaper American cotton, and intends to buy more U S machinery. He notes growing US Japan China commerce and aims to expand shipping links and closer commercial ties through Galveston New Orleans and Atlanta.
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