Happenings of the Week Chronicle of War and Trade
Russian aeronauts plan a military balloon service for the Transvaal as Pole Carew's forces push the Boers from Denetsdorp and lift the siege at Wepener. About 4,000 Boers flee northeast. Brabant enters Wepener. A Boer smokeless powder plant near Johannesburg is wrecked by an explosion leaving 23 dead and 82 injured. French Hamilton and Rundle with 23,000 British poised at Thaba N'chu but not drawn into battle. Bishop Hartzell in New York cites $39,000,000 cost, with $18,000 for stamps, as a forecast of conquest's goodwill. Chicago Board of Trade defeats a cut-rate policy. Neillsville furniture factory to reopen by Baltimore firm. National Linseed Oil seeks a receiver for about $100,000 in assets. Dun and Bradstreet report a trend to lower prices. New York Central strike leaders threaten to paralyze the road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transvaal
Pole-Carew
Denetsdorp
Wepener
Brabant
Free State
Johannesburg
Hamilton
Rundle
Thaba N’chu
Hartzell
New York City
Board of Trade
Chicago
Neillsville
Wis
Baltimore
Old National Linseed Oil Company
Dun
Philippine Insurrection Reported Narrowing to Small Bands
Official war reports say guerrilla action is limited to small robber bands. The Sumner transport reached Port Said with troops nurses and funds for Manila. General Bell warned he would burn towns harboring guerrillas as eighty Filipinos were killed on April 16. Otis and staff to depart Manila in May. U S casualties total 2256 with 69 officers and 2187 men killed or died of disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
United States
Sumner
Manila
Port Said
Egypt
Bell
Ilocos
Otis
Philippines
Senate Defers Quay Seating as Clark Plans Resignation
Senate votes 33 to 32 to refuse seating Mr Quay while Clark of Montana is said to resign to avoid expulsion. House approves post office appropriation with extra pay for long hours, and raises census director and supervisor pay. Senate backs Hawaiian bill conference report and agriculture appropriation. House also approves 91 private pension bills including $60 monthly for Colonel Stotsenberg's widow. U S note to Turkey fails of its aim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Quay
Clark
Montana
House
Stotsenberg
Nebraska
Philippines
United States
Turkey
Indiana and state conventions nominate candidates and delegates
The Twelfth Indiana district Democratic convention nominated James M. Robinson for a third term. Republican conventions in Indiana Ohio Wisconsin and Pennsylvania elected delegates at large and endorsed McKinley. Admiral Schley declines nominations. Indiana GOP names Winfield T. Durbin for governor with full ticket. Alabama Democrats nominate W. J. Samford for governor. Supreme Court hears Kentucky governor case. Roosevelt boosts Long for VP nomination. Wharton Barker predicts Bryan will not be nominated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
James M. Robinson
Ohio
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
McKinley
Admiral Schley
Winfield T. Durbin
Alabama
W. J. Samford
Kentucky
United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Secretary Long
Wharton Barker
Bryan
Crime and tragedy sweep Plattsburg and multiple defaults
Corporal Harry Matthews shot 125 rounds at a Plattsburg hotel wounding Stella Hamilton and killed himself. John Anderson of Chicago committed death by own action after his wife refused him. James Harris in Ot tumwa Kane confessed to murder of John H. Allen and implicated the widow. Oscar Schmidt killed himself in Chicago after Dreyer & Co. bank losses. Burglars robbed Coulterville bank of 5000 dollars. Frank Meyers confessed to leading an arson ring and burning a house for 35. Thomas J Hunter found guilty of embezzlement in Atlanta and sentenced to five years. Hugh B. Christy died after being shot by Lucy Messersmith who then killed herself. Letter-Carrier Boyd Blackshear arrested for stealing letters with marked money. Captain O M Carter to work as bookkeeper at Fort Leavenworth penitentiary. Police Sergeant Timothy S. O Connell assassinated in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Matthews
Stella Hamilton
Plattsburg
John Anderson
Chicago
James Harris
Ottumwa
Kane
John H. Allen
Oscar Schmidt
Dreyer & Co
Coulterville
Ills
Frank Meyers
Thomas J Hunter
Atlanta and
West Point
Atlanta
Hugh B. Christy
Lucy Messersmith
Youngstown
Christy
Messersmith
Boyd Blackshear
O. M. Carter
United States Penitentiary
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Timothy
O’connell
Blanket Mortgage Recorded by Atlantic Coast Line of Virginia
A blanket mortgage is to be recorded by the Atlantic Coast Line of Virginia. The notice outlines the security interest covering multiple properties or parcels, as described, and sets forth the filing and recording procedures for the lien. The action signals securing debts and arranging collateral for future financial obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Coast Line of
Virginia
Multiple Fatal Accidents Reported Across Cities and Events
A list of fatalities and severe injuries from varied incidents including a Chicago cable car accident killing Harry Miller, a race fatality of jockey Frank O'Leary, a mill shaft collapse in Stevens Point Wisconsin, children dying from ptomaine poisoning in Chicago, an explosion near Larimer Pa injuring several, a New York tenement fire suffocating three Liebowitz children, Texas flood deaths, a crane or derrick accident at Illinois Steel in Chicago, drownings near Lake Whitney New Haven, a Paris exposition bridge collapse, and a train collision in New Jersey plus farm fire deaths in Michigan with Mrs Brace dying and Mr Brace fatally injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Miller
Chicago
Frank O'Leary
Albert Myers
Stevens Point
Wis
Albert
Frank Krok
Larimer
Hannah Liebowitz
Amelie Liebowitz
Joseph Liebowitz
New York
Texas
Waco
Blackshear
John Kortas
Illinois Steel Mills
Vivian Clerise
J. W. Cardownie
Lake Whitney
New Haven
Conn
Bloomsburg
N. J
New Jersey Central Railroad
Philippsburg
Michael McNally
Lawton
Mich
William Brace
Notable deaths across nations and professions
George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll, Charles Chadwick former Kansas attorney general, Wilhelm Schring the poet, Charles G. Stachelberg cigar firm head, O K Spence Fisk University professor, Thomas Harland patent author, Laura Haygood missionary, Mrs M I Warfield Clay ex wife of Cassius Clay, James Litt McKean Union Trust president, Allan Rutherford Maryland court official all reported dead in distant locales with varied ages and roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Douglas Campbell
Duke of Argyll
Charles Chadwick
Lawrence
Kaw
Kansas
Wilhelm Schring
Carlsruhe
Germany
Charles G. Stachelberg
M. Stachelberg & Co
New York
O. K. Spence
Fisk University
Nashville, Tenn
Thomas Harland
Laura Haygood
Methodist Church
Shanghai
China
M. I. Warfield Clay
Cassius M. Clay
Whitehall
James Litt McKean
The
Union Trust Company
Destructive Fires Ravage Towns and Industries
A series of fires devastates Panther Mexico destroying the town, Hull Ontario and Ottawa with 15000 homeless and 20 million dollars in losses. A Philadelphia spool factory fire spreads to nearby properties causing 250000 in damage. Lomsville Kentucky witnesses the blaze of W S Matthews tobacco warehouse with 125000 stock and 50000 building losses. Chicago witnesses the St John’s Reformed Episcopal church fire. Freeport Illinois loses H Rosenstein Sons vinegar plant amounting to 20000. Atlas brewery fire causes 125000 in losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panther
Mex
Hull
Ont
Ottawa
Philadelphia
W. 8S
Matthews & Sons
Lomsville
St. John’s Reformed Episcopal Church
Chicago
H. Rosenstein & Sons
Freeport
Ills
Atlas Brewery
Imperial Buses to Enter Chicago Service Within Ninety Days
Fifty buses to be known as imperials are expected on Chicago streets within ninety days. Labor turmoil in Chicago prompts resignations from the civil service commission and police captain shake-ups. Five more items note Cuba politics and a variety of unrelated events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Russ Rivera
Wood
Cuba
Havana
Edward Carroll
Civil Service Commission
United Irish League
Newmarket
Louisville
Pingree
Michigan
Republican Party
Cape Nome
Germany
St. Louis
St. Peter
German murder suspect freed after twenty years in Iowa prison
Cornelius Moelchen, who served twenty two years for first degree murder in Anamosa penitentiary, gains executive clemency after a pardons committee review. He was born in Germany and came to Dubuque county in 1877, where his uncle was murdered. Moelchen is discharged and headed to Montezuma, Iowa for work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Cornelius Moelchen
Iowa
Moelchen
America
Germany
Dubuque County
John Moelchen
Cornelius
General Assembly
Committee On
Montezuma
Marriage in haste shocks Sioux City community
Willis E. Mayne aged 29 and Miss Eunice Arnson 27, both of Minnehaha County South Dakota, wed last week as Mayne’s first wife lay dead at home. Five motherless children seek solace with grandmother amid family turmoil and disputes over Mayne’s property. Arnson had been sent to Chicago to escape Mayne’s influence and returned to live with his family despite his wife and her mother’s objections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Willis E. Mayne
Eunice Arnson
Minnehaha County
Mayne
Miss Arnson
Proposition of the Sioux seeks self support ranching plan
The Lower Brule Sioux propose to the government through Indian Inspector Major James McLaughlin that they become self supporting. If accepted they would dispose of two sections of tribal land near Chamberlain South Dakota to buy 2,000 heifers and eighty graded bulls, fence the reservation, and enter ranching. Congressional action may be needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
James McLaughlin
Missouri
Chamberlain
Man fined for attempt to injure in fatal stabbing
In Sioux City Iowa on April 30 Ernest Meyer, brother-in-law of Christ Bauer, was found guilty of attempt to commit great bodily injury after stabbing Bauer in the jugular. Meyer, a farmer and son of a wealthy Scott county man, paid a $500 fine and remains in a dazed condition that could lead to insanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Christ Bauer
Ernest Meyer
Meyer
Bauer
Scott County
Iowa
Crystal Oil Sues Standard Oil Over Lost Business
Crystal Oil company of Des Moines files a 50 000 damage suit against Standard Oil claiming ruin of its business through predatory pricing and customer incentives to switch. The suit alleges Standard Oil is the county’s wealthiest firm and used its power to drive Crystal from the market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Crystal Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Crystal
Des Moines Set for 10 More Open Saloons This Year
Judge Bishop rules on certiorari petition allowing anti-saloon group a hearing at canvass. Court will review supervisors actions in the canvass as Des Moines considers adding ten new open saloons this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Bishop
Des Moines and Northern Iowa Railroad Incorporated
Des Moines Iowa April 28 The Des Moines and Northern Iowa Railroad company has been incorporated to build from Des Moines via Boone Webster City and Clarion 200 miles north to the Minnesota line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Des Moines and Northern Iowa Railroad Company
Boone, Webster City
Clarion
Minnesota
Teaching a horse the tricks of polite performance
A columnist explains methods to train a horse to bow kiss and even grin. The trainer uses a whip to elicit a bow then rewards with caresses and treats. Techniques include light taps on the withers to produce head shake and using apples or salt to shape mouth movements.
Archer avenue car near Ashland halts as mock holdup spooks riders
A wild eyed rider on an eastbound Archer avenue car frightened passengers when a man waved a revolver. He was about to take a fare near Ashland avenue as the train neared the switch. The alarm triggered a stampede until the conductor revealed the scene was a mistaken crime. The would be robber dashed for the rear door but the conductor blocked him and saved the money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archer Avenue
Ashland Avenue
Chicago
Colorado
St. Lonely
Lis
Pardner
New York Tribune
Behavior of Pitch Reveals Motion Dependence Study
The article explains pitch changes with motion speed. In cold weather it acts solid and resists pressure. A bullet sinks into pitch slowly, while cork floats upward through pitch given time. Pitch resists rapid motion but yields under sustained pressure.
Book Agent Hailed for Quick Fix in Comic Encounter
A book agent tries to sell a complete and concise war history to Mr. Bickerley. The scene ends with Mr. Bickerley tipping $10, insisting the agent be carried out, and a boy summoned to help. The Indianapolis Sun frames the moment as humorous and bold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bickerley
Indianapolis
Absentminded professor learns anniversary flowers
A German professor, oblivious to dates, is presented with flowers by his wife who marks their marriage anniversary. He politely questions the meaning and promises to reciprocate when his wife’s anniversary arrives, showcasing a gentle marital joke from Collier's Weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collier’s Weekly
Upsetting Arithmetical Tradition Pup Trade Joke
A New York Sun quip compares a bulldog pup sale to arithmetic. Dick claims losing over 100 percent on the deal after paying 10 dollars for the pup and an extra 1 dollars to a boy to drown it, prompting Jack to question the math.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
New York Sun
Honey varieties and regional production sources
The article notes that white clover and basswood yield the finest honey, but goldenrod and buckwheat produce larger quantities. It attributes most comb honey to New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont, while extracted honey mainly comes from Arizona and California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Arizona
California
A Colorado Miner’s Claim and a Bold Cash Offer
A Colorado tale recalls a miner who holds a worthless seeming claim. As despair grows his lone cabin scene changes when a stranger arrives and offers cash, proving the claim valuable with a shockingly low initial bid. The owner demands a fortune, and the deal unexpectedly closes for cash.
Sam Houston's Secret Mystery Of Cherokee Life
The piece recounts Samuel Houston's abrupt resignation as governor of Tennessee in 1820, his journey into the Cherokee Nation, and his fading from civilization. It notes his disguise, his later remarriage, and his death without ever revealing why he left his wife or the public life, a mystery the author cites as long unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Perrine
Samuel Houston
Sam’ [Houston
Tennessee
Head
Wiarness
Houston
Bel Vx
Indian Territory
Washington
Poaching Eggs With Toast and Cream Sauce
A recipe from New York West explains two poached egg methods. One uses beef tea and buttered toast with a cornstarch thicken, the other bakes an egg in a buttered teacup then serves over toast with a cream parsley sauce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York West
Bell Rung by Welsh Traveller Meets London Banter
A Welshman rings a door bell in a fashionable London street, prompting a powdered footman to joke about nannygoats on gooseberry bushes. The Welshman replies that London offers wonders, noting that a ring can cause a monkey to pop out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Taffy
London Telegraph
Plaster Purchase Sparks Plea for Remedy
A shopper explains buying a plaster weeks ago to ease rheumatism. The druggist notes hoped-for relief, and the customer now seeks another remedy to remove the plaster.
Philosophy notes on forgetting troubles through status
A reflective line suggests that people can ward off their troubles if they are fortunate enough to be somebody else. The idea implies social perspective and the relief of distance from personal hardship.
Apple Consumption in Nation Reaches Three Bushels Per Person
The article notes that on average each person in the country consumes about three bushels of apples annually. The figure implies widespread appetite and may reflect agricultural yields and pricing impacting households nationwide.
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Geo. Howell & Son
Southwest Corner Square
Sterling Remedy Company
Montreal
Parsons College
Fairfield, Lowa
Jtar
Daniel EB
Jenkins
We. Ley
Vin de Cinchona Co
Bradshaw & Thoma
Fairfield
Joose
HE Tribune
Bronte
Sterling Remedy Co
Pin
Ng Remedy Co
Western Rail
Hicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railay
John Sebastian
Telegraph
Washington News
Odds and
State News Notes
New Railway
Ether
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