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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1900
Page
1
A bustling miscellany from a Boston hotel menu to a witty critic and a burst of public figures. The piece notes a woman’s alleged invention of the alphabet, recalls a bold burglary, and mocks the solemn wedding father. It references arbitration, industrial war, Paris fair exhibitors, and profiles Alexander Ramsey and Nancy Jones. Hobson faces tougher press while Dewey’s victory remains disputed.
Seventeen Alaska mountains rise above ten thousand feet. Mount St Glafag, formerly thought highest, is found nearly a half mile lower than Mount McKinley, which soars over twenty thousand four hundred feet. The president can point to this presidential peak as the biggest of its kind in North America.
The account portrays Koreans as inferior to Japanese and Chinese, claiming their civilization lagged behind, worshiped devils, and were degraded by superstition. It asserts Shamanism as the ruling force, with wizards and witch doctors controlling Korea and Buddhism and Confucianism overthrown by sorcery.
The New York board of health plans a laboratory to study bubonic plague after the Santos plagueship arrival. A steel building with asbestos walls will have no chimney or windows, and electricity will power operations. The lab aims to strengthen port quarantine and aid scientific research amid the Gosigow outbreak.
United States Supreme Court resumes sittings as government plans to send cattle to Cuba and boost agriculture. Secretary Root back at work, while Brinkerhoff retires from active service. Navy budget presence, state department inquiries on Turkey, and Hay directives on political contributions. Reports of disasters, crimes, and notable deaths accompany broad domestic and international notes.
The London Daily News reports Fortign Noten will leave South Africa next week in October. A piano on foot tours German cities, starting with Berlin, to show the German exhibit at the Paris exposition. Mrs Langtry buys Imperial Theatre Westminster for renovation and spring reopening. The US won 2,475 prizes at the Puerto Rico exposition, surpassing all nations. City of London volunteers sail from Cape Town to England amid a scene of remarkable enthusiasm.
Pretoria reports Commandant Miller surrendered at Standerton to British forces. Boer units plan surrender by Sunday if reinforced by Americans. Boers burned English farms near Standerton and engaged forces at Zwartkop. British shelling and casualties noted. Generals Barton Clements and Roberta push operations. Natal force leadership shifted. railway at Wrakfentein disrupted. hundreds of prisoners sent to Cape Town as Dutch cruiser Gelderland with Kruger sails from Lourenzo Marques.
Scranton reports show tensions between coal operators and miners as President Mitchell travels toward Hogeton to urge restraint. Operators hint at a possible end to the strike by Saturday while officials in New York signal a conciliatory mood, aiming to settle the anthracite dispute swiftly.
A father Jeff Jones mother Maggie Jones and four children aged from eleven years to four months were killed by a dynamite blast at Sells in Montgomery county fourteen miles from Hot Springs Arkansas. Officials believe a homestead dispute sparked the attack and say they are close to identifying those responsible.
New York dated October 17 reports that National City Bank has entered 2 million dollars in gold for import. Bank officials said the gold was secured in South Africa and marks the first output from that country’s mines since the Boer War began.
A report from Stepney, a parish and suburb of London, notes a suspected bubonic plague case near the metropolis.
The article details courtroom testimony about Governor Taylor discussing a planned shooting with Dick Coombs and others. Arthur Goebel recounts Goebel's alleged statement that Taylor favored the act but objected to a Black man performing it. The narrative covers pardoning potential and the chain of access to Powers' office, including the unlocking of the door and distributing cartridges.
In Binghamton New York October 17 typhoid fever infections hit an orphanage after children ate apples sent to the home. Earlier a separate incident linked to corned beef caused illnesses with no fatalities. An investigation confirms the apples carried the germs.
Henry Wilkens proprietor of a Nashua Street saloon in New York killed himself after months of illness. He was found in the basement ice box, hanging from a ceiling hook, with a gas-filled ice box and two bullet wounds over his heart. A pistol hung by a string to a towel, and a rubber tube from a gas jet lay nearby.
William Swift Wright, once of Logansport Indiana and now confidential adviser to President Timinez, arrived from Santo Domingo to negotiate a loan to transfer bonded indebtedness from Belgian to American creditors. Wright cited Santo Domingo's 1890s debt rising from about seven million to roughly thirty million dollars.
Santa Fe freight wrecked near Lampasas Texas on October 12 killing wireman Baker and injuring engineer Saunders who lost a leg. Nineteen cattle burned and eight horses killed in the crash. Separately at Vincennes Indiana on October 17 investigators found the charred remains of Robert B Jerusalem a Vincennes merchant with estate valued at 10000 dollars. The Evansville and Terre Haute wreck burned eight miles south of Vincennes with nine cars of coal air two of gasoline and one of whiskey. A terrible conflagration followed as gasoline tanks exploded and burning oil flew in all directions. Three more bodies are said to be in the debris.
Annapolis Oct 17 The hazing trial of Naval Cadet John Abbott ended with no public order. Cadet Merlin Cook was found guilty of presence during hazing and given fifty demerits and confinement aboard the Bonito until further orders. Cook’s case, from the graduating class, is referred to the Secretary of the Navy for further punishment. In the first class one hundred elements “bilgca” a cadet.
An open switch on the Lake Shore line in Chicago caused a deadly wreck on the New York and Boston express. Five men died, three injured, and the engine and several cars were demolished after vandals reportedly broke three switch locks, obscuring signals in a dense fog. Engineer Lewis Reynolds and fireman H J Scrough among the injured and dead, with authorities investigating deliberate switch tampering.
Washington reports government officials fear a critical situation in Southern China with rising unrest on the Yangtse. They urge peace talks as the easiest path to quell agitation, noting limited progress and possible punitive measures against Chinese leaders. Li Hung Chang vows to push negotiations while Russians seize railway and tighten hold on Manchuria near Mukden.
A Shanghai dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger says an imperial decree dated October 4 reports a Boxer tried to murder the emperor during a court journey to Shnan-Fu. The would be regicide was decapitated. officials claim he was an anti imperial Manchu used to deflect blame from the Boxers in Pekin crimes.
Hogan Realy, treasurer of the Galveston relief fund, acknowledges receipts from Oct 1 to 12 totaling $198,552. This includes $125,000 via Gov Suyera and $21,621.73 via Mayor Jones. Previous total $781,043.83, grand total to date $979,055.63.
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