24 May 1900
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Newspaper
El Paso Daily Herald
Location
El Paso, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1900
Page
1
A brief entry notes marching orders or movement toward the Waal with a reference to Transvaal. The text emphasizes a march or advance in a historical or military context. Named places and brief action are implied.
London reports Lord Roberts has positioned forces to avoid tenable Boer rail positions. Cavalry drives ahead of the main British army on both flanks, threatening to reach the Vaal river with limited opposition. Boer rear guards may contest near river crossings but are not expected to stop the advance.
The Pennsylvania railroad will relocate its main offices from Philadelphia to New York. The entire sixteenth floor of the American Exchange Building is leased and to be finished before the move. The company has acquired interests in New York area including the Long Island railroad and plans extensive property improvements. Operations are reorganized from east and west divisions toward eastern central and western lines.
House rules committee Chairman Ray introduced a resolution to make Joint Resolution No. 138 a special order. General debate to run until 4 p.m. Friday June 1 as the measure is taken up immediately on adoption.
Delegates from across the country attend the fifth national convention in Chicago with many reports and discussions continuing into tomorrow night. Rev. M. M. Parkhurst and other officials will address topics on temperance as churches unite with the Anti-Saloon League in the effort.
Governor Stephens meets with police commissioners in St Louis to consider calling on the sheriff for a 1000 deputy posse to support order. The transit strike has lasted 17 days with five divisions abandoned and remaining lines running only a quarter of normal cars, none after 7 pm.
The House, meeting at 11, resolved into a committee of the whole to review the Alaskan Code bill. Representative Olmstead's amendment passed authorizing the secretary of war to issue permits to excavate for gold along Cape Nome beach outward from the tide line.
A convention in San Francisco outlines plans to protect fish and game, with sessions today and through Saturday. Proposals include tighter season restrictions and bagging methods, and requiring licenses for both harvesters and game dealers.
In Cleveland on May 24 Senator Foraker said he would place McKinley’s name before the Philadelphia convention. He announced there is no qualification and the plan for Dodge or Spooner to deliver the chief nominating speech has been abandoned.
Philadelphia May 24 Accords to statements here there will be an unusual struggle in the coming republican nations convention This struggle will be the attempt by members of the United States senate to force the nomination of a senate candidate for vice president Tim Woodruff New York lieutenant governor is said to precipitate the movement Mrs W D Howe El Paso soprano at the Lullaby Concert tonight
Dr C F Norton the quarantine inspector tightened checks at the city line turning back Prisco passengers daily. Through travelers from San Francisco to New York in the Pullman car were refused entry after failing to affidavit they had not been in San Francisco since midnight on the 19th. Names of quarantined include Mr and Mrs OB zle and three sons and Mr and Mrs J La Matrie and a niece, all of San Francisco.
A critical pamphlet accuses The News and The Hard Times of stealing dispatches from eastern exchanges and republishing them as telegraph news. It cites four examples where stories dated May 23 or similar were printed by multiple papers with identical wording and altered dates.
The cruiser Baltimore commanded by Watson departed Hong Kong today en route to Singapore and the Suez Canal as part of its return voyage.
The House committee on the St Louis world’s fair bill reported the $5,000,000 appropriation bill this afternoon without recommendation.
London sources report Sir Thomas Lipton will be honored with a dinner at the Hotel Cecil and presented a loving cup by friends and admirers from the United States during the Lullaby Concert tonight. Mrs Welch, the star contralto, is to perform at the event.
San Francisco passengers faced detention as a quarantine halted an entire Pullman train. Crews swapped engines across the state line into New Mexico, with baggage held and express shipments disrupted. Officials report no new plague cases in San Francisco, though Mexico-bound traffic remains blocked.
Reports from London Toronto and Washington describe widespread rejoicing for Queen Victoria's birthday. The London event includes her patronage to a national army charities bazaar. In Toronto the Dominion Gala Day marks spring opening and jubilee celebrations. Washington notes a presidential congratulations message conveyed through Choate to the Queen.
New York metal market update shows copper price data, silver at 60 percent, and lead quoted at 420 Mexican money in El Paso with a current level of 474 48.
A brief notice reports an event at Peter's in Rome. Details are limited in the readable text.
Crowds fill St Peter's Square as Pope Leo XIII hears requests for beatification and sanctification of Jean Baptiste De La Salle founder of the religious order and Augustinian nun Rita Di Caccia. High church dignitaries attend the ceremony amid papal procession and trumpets.
Cattle receipts 5 971 steady to strong with steers 4.50 5.40, hogs 5.00 5.10 typical, sheep receipts 2 249 about steady with spring lambs 6.50 7.50 and mutton prices around 4.50 5.00 as of May 23 in Kansas City.
Price McCormick and Company, a New York stock exchange member and cotton firm, suspended operations triggering upheaval. Reported extensive London contracts and large August positions suggesting a market dump. full extent unclear. The firm lists Theodore H. Price W G McCormick R M Stuart Wortley S Bernard J Harrison and George Crocker as special partner.
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