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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1900
Page
2
Eight men attempted a bank robbery in Ashley after stopping a Big Four freight at Marengo Ohio. They dynamited the safe but fled without loot as gunshots scattered the guards and a bank phone notified authorities. No casualties reported.
Disturbances at Kearney Military School in Nebraska split staff and cadets. Commandant Crittenden fined two students and faced a student-led uproar, with prisoners released and furniture damaged. Faculty and most students left campus, while Bishop Williams was called to arbitrate.
Great Northern orders two mammoth vessels of 20000 tons register and 33000 tons displacement built at Groton. The ships will carry 1000 passengers in three classes and have a speed of fourteen knots. Each steamer will hold over 4000 tons of coal and cost about 5 million dollars. They run Pacific coast to oriental ports in connection with the Great Northern Railway.
A woman named Selma Schnapke hurled an axe at Emperor William II and the hereditary prince of Bade-Meiningen as they rode in an open carriage in Breslau. The assault failed due to speed and police intervention. the assailant was arrested and deemed insane.
The fossil remains of three gigantic beings were uncovered near Montesano Missouri by C H Beehler a farmer at forty feet depth. Skulls suggest bodies at least ten feet tall and the bones resemble a human skeleton. Beehler plans to submit the finds to Washington University for verification while noting mastodons and extinct animals also abound in the area.
Bradstreet reports seasonably cold weather lifting demand for winter clothing and footwear with higher orders from Western Northwestern and Southern jobbers and improved wholesale tone East. Cereals market drags with few price changes though stock speculation remains strong. government armor plate contract may boost steel output by 15 million dollars. Wheat shipments for the week total 4 062 000 bushels, above last week and last year. corn exports reach 3 076 914 bushels, down from prior week and a year ago.
A catastrophe at the West Shore ore docks in Buffalo New York results in two men dead and massive property damage. 1 000 tons of iron ore and heavy unloading gear plunged into the canal as workers on the central tramway leaped to safety or died.
Two bridge builders James Degnan and Frank Morgan fought on a frail scaffold fifty feet high over politics in Sharon Pennsylvania. The clash lasted about thirty minutes with clinching kicking biting and near falls. Degnan finally forced Morgan to the edge and pushed him off but Morgan bit Degnan’s ear and swung hanging by it until coworkers saved him with a rope.
The St Paul road will raise wages for about 3,000 of its 4,000 engineers and firemen from seven to ten dollars a month after a conference with officials. Other engineers and firemen with switchmen will gain an hour less in their workday. The pay raise supports operation of the big ten wheel mogul locomotives on main lines.
A gas explosion on Carson Street South Side Pittsburg wrecked a house injuring three people seriously and fatally. a nearby fire consumed most of the structure. Estimated loss on the home is $3,000.
The markets show varied ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and others. Grain prices for wheat corn oats rye and related derivatives are listed with No 2 and white varieties and seed values noted.
Tafayette Mississippi resident Miss Mai L Leeton sues Senator Sullivan in Washington for 50000 damages alleging he promised to marry her. Sullivan denies the claim calling an extortion attempt. Leeton was married when first meeting the senator and later obtained a divorce.
The Paris fair ended with cannon at the Eiffel Tower as the crowd dispersed. Attendance reached over 50 million for the season despite drizzly weather, with 40 million paying admissions and 10 million more on free tickets. Merely weeks from closing, most exhibits were removed, leaving only the vast northern greenhouses and the art palace. Finance figures show France recovering costs through treasury gains and improved city infrastructure.
The Madrid Spanish American congress opens its first session with most South American republics present. France’s Parliament meets as Premier Waldeck Rousseau outlines policy including pensions and tax cuts while reform of religious bodies faces opposition. Talks between Pekin envoys and Li-Hung-Chang in China show little progress due to power-wide disagreements.
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