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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
2
Telegraph reports latest from overseas with short notes on Crimea and places abroad. Brief items cover military movements and international events as they unfold for readers.
The British tramp steamer Ariosto struck a shoal six miles south of Hatteras life saving station on Monday morning. Twenty one crewmen launched three lifeboats in a vain bid to reach shore as waves overwhelmed them. all perished before rescue efforts could reach them.
Secretary of State John Hay notified U S Ambassador Choate in London about the seizure off South Africa of three ships carrying American goods to Lorenzo Marquez Delagoa Bay. Exporter RK Geldart of South Williams Street seeks congressional redress, calling the act highhanded and unprecedented. Britain protests Boer support and the U S vows neutrality while watching a Baltimore to Philadelphia shipment bound for Lorenzo Marquez.
General Otis reports heavy rebel losses across several encounters in the Philippines. Mont Alban captured on the 1th with light American casualties and Col Bell defeats 150 rebels in northern Zambales. Brownell's company repels rebels near Jaro, taking 26 rifles. Insurgents in Romblon surrender. Five other rifle actions yield American victories.
Frank Morse and Warren Lee Goodwin were transferred from Raleigh New York to Ohio Penitentiary to serve counterfeiting sentences. They had previously escaped Raleigh prison by digging through a wall and were recaptured and retried for counterfeiting. The court ordered all penal service to be served in Ohio to settle debts to multiple institutions.
The Carnegie Steel Company Limited posts notices that from January 1, 1900 common labor at its works will earn $1.50 per day and all other day turn and tonnage labor will be increased in proportion, with certain exceptions.
A large blaze at Fort Wayne Indiana gutted the wholesale and retail dry goods firm George DeWald & Co. causing more than 200000 dollars in losses. Kasy & Co. chinaware dealers suffered heavy damage and the Masonic Temple also sustained flames. In January a Red Hobe show runs January 1 and Heart of Maryland on January 4.
Eastern D J Moody dies at East Northfield Mass. Philadelphias James M Munyon donates 2 million for orphaned girls college and home. Globe National Bank of Boston appoints Daniel G Wing temporary receiver. Georgetown dormitories burned with no injuries. Eastern Furniture Manufacturers Association advances 10 percent on selected lines in Philadelphia. Baltimore labor and immigration actions amid few details. Woman's National Sabbath Alliance to urge department stores to avoid Sunday ads. Two trolley cars collide in Brooklyn injuring many. Jesse Metcalf dies in Providence aged 73. he led Wunskuk Co. John Edgar Gardner shoots wife and kills himself in Binghamton Va. American Political League calls for national convention in Boston July 4 1900. William Mutter of Kimball Brothers & Co. shoots himself after losses in Wall Street. Hyde Park and Oxford collieries strike for 10 cent daily raise. William V Wilson Jr Co lumber firm in Baltimore assigns assets 80 000 liabilities 50 000. owner wounded in hospital.
A string of disasters and legal incidents include a Detroit Texas business district blaze at $30,000 loss and small insurance, a Dubuque car shop fire with $75,000 to $100,000 loss, and a cave-in trapping workers in Ange la Camp California. Also reported are trials, acquittals, robberies and a dramatic hotel shooting in Perry Kansas, a not guilty verdict in Marshall Michigan over ground glass poisoning, a boiler of hospital play tragedy in Quincy Indiana injuring many, and mining finds in California and South Dakota.
A kilnroom blaze at the Lanyon Zinc Company plant in Lanyonville near Iola Kansas killed two workers Jesse Matthews and J B Schaub and fatally burned a 10-year-old boy Clarence who dashed to a window then back inside. The 200 foot smokestack toppled, and a roof collapse destroyed part of the plant including four re roasting machines and two Corliss engines. About half the plant burned, with $250000 in property losses insured. The works employed about two men.
The Czar exonerates Finance Minister De Witte, Li Hung Chang named acting viceroy of Canton. Death of pianist Anton de Kontski reported in Saint Petersburg. Amalfi hotel rockslide sinks Cappuccini complex with many buried. Forty Belgian children drown on frozen Lys River. Yano Fumiio resigns as Japanese minister at Pekin to become Chinese foreign adviser.
Distinctive notes report Oscar Straus, U S minister to Turkey, has departed Constantinople for a foreign trip. Other items include a one percent rise in yellow ware prices and London Ontario clothing firm R Greene Manufacturing assigning.
A dense digest of regional commodity figures includes cattle, hogs, and sheep price ranges across major markets from Chicago to New York. Grains show No. 2 red wheat around 66 to 67 cents, No. 2 corn near 21 to 32 cents, oats around 21 to 28 cents, rye about 52 to 53 cents, with butter at 24 to 26 cents and eggs 16 to 18 cents.
Senate substituted the Senate for the House finance bill and received Aldrich’s notice to call up the former January 4, 1900, bill. Stewart’s resolution grants Commercial Cable Company Cuba cable rights. A five member commission to codify pension laws was created. Allen of Nebraska took the oath. The House sent the President’s message to committees while Grow spoke for Philippines policy and Bell criticized the President on prosperity remarks. De Armand’s resolution opposed Philippine retention. Senate tabled Smithsonian Regent Richard Olney appointment. Hoar noted Supreme Court vacancies. Butler’s constitutional amendment for popular election of chief justices and U.S. judges went to judiciary. Hoar’s resolution urged withdrawal from the Philippines. A President’s access to Army testimonies from the Spanish-American War was requested. The House adjourned to January 3, 1900 after a brief, quip-filled session with no quorum.
The new U S possession Guam marked its inaugural Fourth of July with gunfire until powder ran dry aside from military stores. Four goddesses of liberty rode a bullock cart but a brawl over honor caused a tiff, a hole in a cheek and a wheel to come loose. Still, inhabitants called the celebration splendid.
A writer from American Sportsman recalls watching a hummingbird nest on a butternut limb outside a window. During a heavy shower the bird placed a broad leaf over the nest to shield it, then returned after the rain and unhooked the leaf, leaving the nest dry.
A Maltese cat woke a sleeping librarian by scratching the couch after detecting smoke, enabling an effective early alarm at the Reading Public Library. In Nagga Sweden, a village fire crew comprises 150 women responsible for keeping water tubs full for firefighting. Ira Sankey recounts singing The Ninety and Nine in Edinburgh twenty six years earlier when emergency left him to improvise the melody.
A Friday afternoon fire at St Francis Catholic School in Quincy Iowa during a dress rehearsal for a Christmas program killed eleven girls aged 8 to 12 and fatally burned eight others. The disaster injured several adults including Father Andrew and Sisters Musholt Theotama Ludwiga Redultha and Ephren rescue efforts saved some children as the building became a makeshift hospital and morgue.
The Burlington fast mail achieved an average speed near eighty miles an hour on an 206 mile Chicago bound run from Burlington Iowa taking 209 minutes with all stops. Mendota to Chicago 83 miles in 76 minutes set a new best, Mendota to Aurora 46 miles in 39. Strong headwinds and heavy train loads reduced efficiency yet the pace neared ninety miles per hour in bursts.
A massive landslide near Amalfi Italy toppled the Osppuccini Hotel and Capuchin monastery, sending debris into the sea and sinking several boats. The disaster buried many people including monks and hotel occupants. about 50 000 cubic yards of earth slid away.
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