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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1900
Page
2
The United Mine Workers prepare for an 80th inst meeting of anthracite miners to seek fairer treatment. Leaders urge wise counsels, urging adherence to state laws on dockage and miners’ supplies, while appealing for factual statements over demagoguery to win public sympathy.
A reflective piece notes famine in India, the Philippine and Boer wars, Chinese massacres, and a budding conflict in China. It contrasts present public interest with posterity’s ability to judge, urging rulers to act rightly in humanity’s interests.
The opening of streets north from North Street should occur before summer ends. Upper Lehigh workers face hardship and merchants fear reduced business travel. The print cloth trust plans a one month shutdown to boost prices, affecting about twenty thousand jobs.
Major General Leonard Wood has landed in New York with his family aboard the Havana. He is to report to the secretary of war regarding Cuban affairs and will proceed to Washington after releasing his family from quarantine. Wood notes Cuba’s improving conditions, orderly elections, rising agricultural output, growing rail and farm activity, and optimistic immigration prospects for industrious, small-capital Americans.
First Assistant Postmaster General Heath will depart for Chicago to open the Republican national committee headquarters and supervise the western literary bureau. An eastern bureau head has not been chosen, with Senator N B Scott and Henry Hedges directing eastern and western divisions from New York and Chicago respectively.
Tohn J. Wilson, Indiana member of the national gold standard committee, returns from a state tour and announces that Gold Democrats of Indiana are united in opposition to nominating a third ticket. Wilson held talks with Gold Democrats to gauge their wishes for informed comment. Brighter prospects in famine areas of India via telegraphs from Bugnda dated July 17 report recent rains improving outlook in Madras Gujarat Rajputana and central India.
A fierce storm swept Batavia Genesee County last night with thunder rain and hail. A barn was struck and burned a horse killed a harness a bolt felled Miss Laila Ryan, daughter of a prominent merchant, who was knocked unconscious but expected to recover.
An enraged mob attacked a Chinese laundry in Virden Illinois ten miles from Carlinville. The front of the building was demolished and six shots were fired at the two Chinese laundrymen with no injuries. The men have appealed to authorities for protection.
The large wooden steamer Edward Smith No 2 of Buffalo caught fire early last evening about 12 miles off Avon point in Lake Erie. By midnight she was still burning and doomed to total loss. The crew escaped in the yaw while abandoning two barges she towed.
Four travelers arrive aboard the Coptic direct from Tien-tain recounting a perilous escape from Peking via armored train. Rev. Robert Coltman his Denver wife W L Ireland and A Mathes engineer survived bombardment, witnessing Forts at Taku and Monocacy damage before fleeing toward Shanghai. Dr Coltman’s son had been Li Hong Chang’s physician in Peking.
Baseball scores from Brooklyn Philadelphia Pittsburg and Chicago games with battery lines and standings show Brooklyn 44 25.08 leading in the National League while Cleveland Kansas City and others feature in the American and Eastern Leagues. Cigar Makers strike costs 9000 workers idle across New York as unions aid strikers and contribute funds. Yerkes nominated for Kentucky governor by Republicans highlighting the Goebel election law issue.
General W P Hazen died at Thonotosassa Florida after several weeks of illness. Born in Marion Ohio he was 84 and a wealthy landowner with large estates across the country.
Arrest in Ballston jail for setting fire to Galway farmers barns. Garrante steamship from Nome arrives at Port Townsend with about 75000 in dust and 9 bones. 300 passengers. Delaware Lackawanna buys Bangor and Port Landling railway for about 4 million dollars. Collision near Spruce Creek, Pa kills engineer Stewart Groninger and injures fireman K H Cram. Canada and US Britain Russia reach arbitration terms for seizure of sealing vessels in 1892. Kumassi relieved by Gold Coast forces. Sir Frederic Hodgson governor had escaped. Colonel Willcocks expects relief by July 18.
Li Hung Chang departs Blagoveshchensk bound for Peking with aims to protect foreign ministers and seek peace terms, claiming no call for fighting while fearing for ministers' safety. Dispatches report China declares war on Russia, fighting escalates across Manchuria and Amur, and allied forces breach and seize Tientsin forts with heavy losses.
Washington reports high Allied losses in action at Tientsin with American, French, and Japanese casualties. Admiral Remey lists killed and wounded including Captains Day and Lenily and Lt. Buter, with 215 total casualties. Transports sail for Nagasaki. other items note a Chicago fire death and the Asbury Park train wreck with injuries.
The report notes that Pininia remains under government control up to July 1 and rebels nearby may begin operations. Government forces have draft reinforcements from Colon, with claims a rebel leader is an American expert. A New Jersey item recalls Thomas Cleary killed crossing tracks near Elizabeth while aiding a colleague.
A telegram from Paris reports an undamaged buoy marked Andree's Polar Expedition No 8, found July 7 at latitude 63 42 north and longitude 20 48 west in the Atlantic near Teehund, indicating the buoy's trajectory from the failed expedition. Earlier reports noted a Norwegian cutter recovering an anchor buoy bearing the same expedition name on King Charles Land's north coast.
The Mallory Line steamship Colorado, en route from New York, ran aground on Long Island near Brunswick. Three tugs have been sent to pull her off, and the beachhead is described as one of the coast’s most dangerous spots.
New York reports July 18 that Frank Gould and Henry A Tavemeyer bought Berkeley Oval at auction for 214000 dollars. They will keep it as an athletic field and run it much as it has been managed previously.
Longshoremen on every grain deck in Portland walk out demanding 40 cents an hour and 50 cents overtime. About 150 men are on strike. current pay is 80 cents an hour.
Trains run from Drifton and Hazleton Junction to Jeddo Kukiey Hare Brook Stockton Beaver Meadow Road and other points with varied daily and Sunday timings. Electric connections at Hazleton Junction link to the Traction Company line. Special notes on sectioning with Deringer and accommodations at way stations. Superintendent Lutter C Smith signs.
A digest of odd bits notes the London flower trade surpasses ten million dollars annually and other curiosities. It mentions the first Indian regiment in khaki dubbed dust men, marriage taboos, Mrs Vlaine collecting letters, Wheeler’s Philippine curios, skin perforation observed microscopically, and various social and scientific snippets from transport to literature.
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