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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1900
Page
1
A concise weekly roundup outlines notable global events and happenings across science, exploration, technology, and culture. It surveys discoveries, milestones, and emerging trends shaping the world over the past seven days.
Mindanao advices report 1 200 Tavalos attacked Case battalion headquarters at Caya yan on April 17. They killed three American sentries and overran the town. The garrison fought the attackers for three and a half hours. Tagalos reported fifty killed and thirty wounded, while twelve Americans were wounded.
Fire tore through the butter dish department of the Escanaba Woodenware Company in Escanaba Michigan. The blaze began in a dry kiln in the north wing and spread quickly. Four female workers on the second floor had to jump from windows amid the panic and several others lost their wraps in the scramble.
The seventy fourth Ohio Legislature adjourned after a quiet three and a half month session. A million dollar Toledo Exposition appropriation died as the House refused to take up the Senate resolution. Filipino Village Captured by Manila special forces. Captain Dodd and Third Cavalry surrounded Benguet Province village catching 200 insurgents in barracks. 53 killed, 44 captured, village burned, one American wounded.
Four people dead and two wounded after a drunken fight in a disorderly house at Indder Pennsylvania. An Italian was charged but may evade justice after a man answering his description was killed by a train at South Fork.
Police seized letters from Paris and America in Ancona anarchy plot. Recipients of the missives were arrested. Fort Wayne Masonic Temple reports April 8 Chicago Opera Company presents The Belle of New York.
The Cherokee delegation in Washington signed a Dawes commission treaty granting each citizen eighty acres in fee simple valued at $520 on average. Land valued above $520 yields excess to a common fund while under $520 yields more land. Forty acres are inalienable and non taxable. the U S may sue in the court of claims. 157,000 acres reverses under Curtis act. Cherokee debt paid and all citizens become U S citizens upon deed delivery.
A Texas college graduate Roy Davis aged 17 working as a bell boy at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis survived a four story fall after mis manipulating an elevator rope. He struck a wooden bar at the fourth floor breaking it and was knocked back into the shaft but suffered only a fractured limb and a shake up.
R G Dun weekly review notes heavy wholesale dry goods trading while cotton goods face retail uncertainty. Iron furnaces produced 289 482 tons weekly as unsold stocks rise, and consumer stock declines mislead about overall supply. Money is abundant in New York with low rates, while interior conditions improve and failures rise to 193 in the U S and 41 in Canada.
An overpressured gas main at Chicago Pipe Line Company four miles southeast of Logansport Indiana caused a massive blast. Michael Ellison Jr was killed instantly as he bent over a tool. George Morrison escaped serious harm but suffered injuries and debris covered him. A heavy component weighing 1000 pounds flew fifty feet away taking part of George Nelsons hat.
Two masked robbers broke into the Sullivan sisters home four miles west of West Toledo Ohio shortly before midnight. Johanna was struck and killed while Kate suffered severe injuries and mental collapse after being beaten and bound. The thieves escaped with $200.
Daisy McDowell aged 14 left home near Edwards Missouri March 21 to visit relatives in Phillips Nebraska arriving Sedalia March 22 her trunk reached Phillips but she vanished since March 22 brother Jay searched Sedalia and Phillips with no result.
James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad, and other officials escaped injury when their special train derailed on the Northern Pacific track in Silver Bow Canyon Montana. Minnesota Auditorium Damaged. Northfield facility valued at 20,000 dollars sustained 10,000 dollars in fire loss. Switzerland Will Not Mediate. Swiss Federal Council refused Boers England mediation request.
Chicago to Buffalo and beyond list cattle hogs sheep and grain quotes. Prices vary by city with cattle $2.50 to $6.60, hogs $3.00 to $8.00, sheep $2.50 to $7.00, wheat No. 2 ranges, corn and oats quoted by grade, butter and eggs listed with small unit prices.
Unanimous consent allowed a April 24 vote to seat M. Qay as Pennsylvania senator. Senators Cullom Lodge Morgan named conferees on Hawaiian civil government. Pacifi a cable bill moves to $2 million for San Francisco to Honolulu. House endorses Porto Rico tariff changes and pension improvements while DC, Alaska code debates continue.
This and That notes a postal appropriation of 115 dollars and a rise in left handedness as observed by a Washington physician. It mentions a women only hotel in New York with 400000 capital and reports Brewster and Preaidio Texas with under 8000 inhabitants across 600 square miles. It cites 200 Rue siens spending more in a month than 1000 Englishmen and women and records 2000 thousand tons of sugar eaten by Americans last year, with 1885000 tons produced by the American Sugar Refining Company. It also notes rising naval armaments increasing demand for experienced seamen amid sailor shortages affecting navies and steamship lines.
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