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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1900
Page
1
Telegraph tales report China news cautiously reassuring withDelcasse plan and Li Hung Chang talks. We learn of executions and punishments for Boxer allies, a deadly Biwabik tornado with nine dead, and assorted dispatches on Boer, Chicago labor, and Persia plots.
Terre Haute Indiana experiences a transport halt as streetcars and electric power vanish due to a strike by electrical railway workers. Workers seek shorter hours and higher pay amid tensions over wages and conditions.
Elmer Merrill of Lowell Massachusetts and Judith Tallman Smith announced their engagement after a mental proposal accepted through telepathy. The couple reportedly communicated without exchange of addresses and despite rivals, with Merrill later sending a love letter confirming his feelings.
In northern British Columbia the Indian Desculiah of the Taantele tribe is acquitted of a murder he confessed to. The case centers on Naas Dick's illness and a ward of the house Aquanta who allegedly bewitched him. Witnesses testified Desculiah threw a 14 year old boy through a hole in the ice but a defense argued the tribesman acted under a head of house mandate. Desculiah was discharged.
A major blaze in Williamsport Pennsylvania destroyed the four story J E Dayton & Co factory and damaged nearby buildings. Firemen sustained injuries from falling walls as the Royse Heald Company and Te EB Whitman & Co suffered total losses. The $800000 loss was largely uninsured, with the church chapel and adjacent structures harmed.
Vody Lirred at Rochester New York remains were found after a man who visited his mother with money vanished and died at midnight. another segment reports a Kansas City to Burlington railroad holdup where Express Messenger Charles Stew killed one robber and a second fled. a Geneva Ohio woman died after a cellar fall during a visit with relatives, Mrs Sprague collapsed from a broken neck.
A romance culminates in a wedding at Hotel Raleigh Washington with Miss Anne Grahm Miller of Chicago and George Wirwhind Boe. The couple had planned a Chicago ceremony but a recent injury halted rail travel. Father Henry B. Ledyard seeks help from officials and the State Department to locate his daughter amid family concerns.
Lieut Andrip’s Greenhut expedition arrives aboard the Antarctic after mapping a new land stretch from Capetown at 60 7S to Agusalz Land at 67 21 north. Explosion at Beary powder mills near Shamokin Pa injures Burke Halebush and De Witt fatally burned.
A railroad surveying party reports a new boundary monument near Chilliwack Lake in the Mount Baker area, placing Red Mountain and much of the disputed strip on the U S side. Dominion officials may review the line, raising questions about the forty ninth parallel and possible international ramifications for many mines in the region.
KH G Dan Coos review notes prices slightly lower for iron wool coal and sugar while produce and textile markets hold firm. Steel rail markers seek contracts for about 2.4 million tons. sterling exchange falls another cent to complete two cent drop in two weeks. US failures total 208 this week versus 400 last year and 28 in Canada against 10 last year.
The Burlington Railway commends Express Messenger Charles E. Baxter of Kansas City for his bold handling of a train robbery near Council Bluffs. A dead robber was killed during the incident. The railway sent a letter of commendation and a draft for reward to Baxter as evidence of appreciation. The dead bandit was identified as Alber Toone of Po pelo, Mas, by Mes Nes of South St. Joseph. The New says Baxter has known Poote for about twenty years.
A tornado ripped through a Pike River area near Biwabik Minnesota killing ten people and injuring about thirty others. Entire families were wiped out as houses and village structures were wrecked and moved toward the railroad. Homes were slid onto skids and dragged to the tracks by locomotives as villages Old Etatee Old Sathya Gosha Bloomington and Balgerton were being evacuated or relocated to new routes.
The report describes a massive explosion at the Spasnce mine with seven thousand pounds of dynamite detonating, causing widespread destruction in the surrounding city and mine facilities. It notes hundreds killed or injured and lists interim casualty estimates and resulting chaos reported in Evanston. The text also announces Northwestern University officers appointments with Rev. William A. Bureh named administrative agent and Robert J. Sheppard named president.
Thomas Tolliver, a gambler, was shot and killed on Main Street in Washington Tod by a stranger who vanished into a dense crowd during a street scene. The murder is linked to a craps game involving loaded dice.
A blaze swept a North River dock of the Atlantic Transport line in New York, burning a pier and its merchandise. Contained in about an hour, losses are estimated from 50 000 to 75 000. Separately a honeymoon robbery hit Dr and Mrs Yeatman Wardlaw of Columbus, Ohio, with jewels valued at 82 000, cash 840 in drafts, at their New York hotel during their moonlit trip.
The National Tobacco Workers' Union of America with St Louis division and local cigar makers unions vow to remove the union label from factories employing anyone under 16. Factories nationwide receive notices with a May 1 deadline to comply. Officials estimate Missouri cigar factories could add 4 000 to 7 000 workers if child labor ends.
Anarchist Robert A. Guidelly of Newark after twenty one years of promoting the red doctrine burned his library of anarchistic books smashed busts of the ideals he once hated and the other night married his common new wife in a church wedding now follows church rites.
The steamer Swallow laden with cedar bonds went down after being struck by an unknown up bound steamer two miles below Marine City Michigan. The crew escaped to shoal water before sinking. no lives were lost though the vessel’s port bow was crushed.
Arrangements advance to present Richmond Pearson Hobson of Merrimac fame with a silver service donated by the people of Alabama. A Pennsylvania contractor, B O L Egle, fails with liabilities around 250000 and assets about 200000. Democratic Clubs convention in Indianapolis features speakers including William Jennings Bryan and Rowe Cochran. Georgia Democrats claim victory with Coudier named governor candidate and ticket elected by a large majority. United States accepts Germany's terms for peace in China.
Regional and national price quotes for cattle hogs sheep and grains across cities such as Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York. Prices cover cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed with ranges and specific grades listed.
Clara Barton as president of the National Red Cross appeals to manufacturers and businessmen for aid in materials to build homes for the homeless from the Galveston storm. She cites about 8 000 homeless, approaching winter, and danger from snow ice and northern winds. The Red Cross and local committee seek estimates from architects on needed labor and building materials to shelter about 600 people in weatherproof one story or tenement style houses.
Zionist leader Dowie spoke at Holborn town hall in London announcing a relentless campaign against the Church of England. He denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury as incompetent, vowing to replace him, and lost his temper when listeners interrupted prompting ejection of one man. He promised a baptismal event later, saying London churches barred baptismal fonts and he would use a bathtub guarded by police if needed.
The article notes progress toward a Chinese settlement with Russian backed terms and the promise of a broad European accord, though China faces tough tasks in punishing officials and shouldering indemnities. It also reports British voters favoring Chamberlain and Salisbury, endorsing conduct of the South Africa war and the annexation of Boer republics, while Kruger heads to the Netherlands to meet Queen Wilhelmina.
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