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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
2
The page reports brief foreign dispatches including updates from Crimea with casualty figures and battlefield conditions. It summarizes multiple overseas items as received by the Telegraph, highlighting recent developments and the global outlook.
State Department records show no new news on Baroness von Ketteler. The Berlin Embassy relayed that no special advices were received, but assumed she was well on the 4th inst as health in the German legation at Peking was reported good. Baroness von Ketteler is the daughter of President Ledyard of the Michigan Central Railroad Company.
Che Foo dispatch from Shanghai reports a terrible miscue during a Yangtsung operation. Russian artillery opened on American troops, causing many killed and wounded before the error was found. The Fourteenth assisted in the assault on Chinese trenches and occupied a Chinese position before a distant Russian battery misfired.
A large blast shattered Montpelier Indiana area after a nitro glycerine factory explosion. Albert Hayes and a Mr. Jones escaped unharmed though bruised with five hundred quarts released. No deaths, cause unknown, but homes, businesses, plate glass, and chimneys suffered extensive damage.
A passenger train on the Lehigh and New England railroad struck an omnibus containing twenty five passengers three miles east of Slatington Pennsylvania. Fifteen people were killed instantly and eleven others were seriously injured. All the dead and injured were in the omnibus and only three escaped unharmed. The party had just attended a funeral.
Mrs. Nettie K. Craven loses again in her bid to claim millions from the late Senator James G. Fair of California. Judge Troutt rules she is not his widow and rejects the forged pencil deeds and the alleged will claiming the estate for her.
Carpenters the strongest group in the Chicago Building Trades Council decide to withdraw from the central body. Most carpenters likely to return to work within two weeks, marking a second major split in the long feud between workmen and contractors.
A St. Louis dispatch reports the East St. Louis electric railway strike ended in a unanimous employee vote. The boycott against the company, ongoing since the strike began, is also lifted.
In Janesville Wisconsin a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul passenger train collided with a coal train in the yards. Engineers Albert Sehlater and August Abendroti were killed in the cab which was demolished. Passengers escaped injury.
Santiago de Cuba reports Parejita, a well known Cuban bandit, was killed at Palma Soriano after years of terror and numerous murders.
United States Courts in Hawaii opened at Honolulu with Judge N M Estee presiding. In St Joseph Missouri two wealthy stock men Joseph Phelpot and Frank Craig were fatally shot by robbers.
After a US visit by Rear Admiral Ahmed Pasha the sultan directs the minister of marine to press Germany for cruiser construction at Kiel Germania works. Ema Astronomer Dr I Kiler dies at age sixty five in San Francisco. notable American astronomer and director at Lick Observatory.
Police in Jamaica Queens arrest Victor Baldwin on charges tied to a prize fight that ended with a fatality. The incident involved a ransom plot concerning millionaire John D. Rockefeller and a dead opponent named Miller during the fight scene.
George H. Cutler and Anna C. Hansen, once married near Greenwood Nebraska, endured a desertion charge and farm mortgage hardship. Cutler struck it rich in Cape Nome sending $58,000 in gold, prompting a divorce and a later reconciliation. They remarried in St Paul and planned to spend winter in Seattle with their sons.
In Holy Cross cemetery Boston tomato plants appeared on Grace Savage’s grave as she loved tomatoes since infancy. Rev. D W Savage, her father, offers a reward for the thief who cut and removed the plants and many flowers from the grave. Grace died about a year and a half ago. The unusual growth and subsequent disappearance prompted the reward offer.
Bold thieves stole 500 dollars in jewelry from B. Winekerter in Akron Ohio. They phoned from Cleveland offering 3800 dollars to return the goods, provided a correct list of items, and sought attorney meetings. The jeweler declined to pay without seeing the jewels.
Report from Seattle via steamer Bertha describes a rich placer gold find in the Copper River district. Four men reportedly removed 32 ounces of coarse gold from bedrock at seven feet on Slate Creek. a single day processed clean-up. Also: wreck of an accommodation train near Knife River kills Fireman Bruley and injures Engineer Pettibone after a washout, six cars overturn.
The Harper & Brothers publishing firm plant was sold under foreclosure with Colonel Harvey acting as the receiver's agent for the Morton Trust Company. The sale includes the entire property and signals a step in rehabilitating the historic firm.
A regular cyclone sweeps the United Kingdom causing loss of life at sea and on land and heavy property damage. In Burlington Vermont two deaths and substantial property losses are reported as the storm lasts about an hour.
A note states that all fur naces producing Bessemer pig must exit bids on September 1 except the Brier Hill Iron and Coal Company furnace and the Hitchcock Company at Youngstown.
A reported group of twenty two LaCrosse men, log thieves by trade, attacked J. W. Van Sant’s raft at Dresbach Minnesota, seized several hundred logs worth over $1,000, took sixteen skiffs to LaCrosse, and sold them to a lumberman. Detectives investigate a silent protective network with threats of violence. Over twenty years logs valued at about one million dollars have been stolen.
Thresher Hall, a leading St. Louis businessman, shot J. B. Kendall at Kendall's home following an accusation of spreading a scandalous story. Kendall struck Hall with a billy, Hall fired once wounding him, then Hall drove to the Four Courts and surrendered, held over.
Two men who robbed a Union Pacific train in Colorado were killed near Goodland Kansas. One bandit died in a sodhouse set on fire after he refused to surrender and the other was shot while escaping. A posse watched the events.
William B. Leeds of New York, chair man of the American Tinplate Co, divorced his wife in Chicago in thirty minutes. Two days later he married again and presented his new wife with gifts worth half a million dollars. She is the daughter of the treasurer of the Forest City Stone Co of Cleveland.
In Churubusco Indiana Isaac Bear was shot and killed by his father Sol Bear who was said to be on his death bed. The son, aiding his ailing father, tried to flee as the shotgun discharged, the entire load striking him in the abdomen.
Traces of poison were found in the stomach of Edward P Werick after his sudden death in Chicago. The case ties to prior mysterious deaths of his wife and niece and illness of his daughter in law prompting police inquiry.
Charles A. Towne has sent a letter to the Populist National Committee indicating his acceptance of the nomination for Vice President. The move signals Towne’s bid to join the ticket in the upcoming election season.
Report notes the Ramapo Water Company holds chartered control of New York State natural water sheds. Also covered are China’s Sue for Peace initiative with Li Hung Chang, Gus Ruhlin knocked out by Bob Fitzsimmons in New York, Allies capture Yang-tsun, La Follette nominated for Wisconsin governor, and the death of Lord Chief Justice Killowen.
Regional commodity quotes list cattle hogs and sheep prices across cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed values. Prices show wide spreads by city and grade with No 2 red and No 2 mixed wheat and yellow corn alongside dairy and egg figures.
Chicago report analyzes campaign finance for the Presidential race, noting 25 million dollars spent in 1920 style estimates and a heavy share to National and State committees. It details speaker costs, distribution of funds, and the role of party leaders in fundraising and message control.
State speakers are warned to adjust arguments per new instructions as national chairmen monitor the canvass of voters. Both parties will canvass every precinct to gauge Bryan McKinley support, identify doubtful voters, and measure strengths and weaknesses before a final two week pre election tally.
The piece details rising costs of campaigns with 5,500 speakers plus state committee efforts, extensive printing and distribution of 100 million documents, and paralleled use of phonographs and stereopticons. It notes massive staff, free franked material, and strategic focus on weak spots as campaigns expand.
The passage explains a hierarchical campaign system where one hundred men oversee details and assign tasks to many workers. Report lines flow from lieutenant to captain, then major, colonel, and general, ultimately to Senators Hanes or Jones.
A young man in Auburn Maine paid a barber thirty five old fashioned cents to joke him. The barber later sold one of the coins for thirty five dollars drawing attention to the currency quirk and a separate note on financial trust in foreign paper money. A sheriff in McDonald County Missouri was killed by a prisoner, who used a pistol seized during entry to obtain clothing.
Shade trees are planted and then neglected as they bear no crops. Insects and diseases attack them, yet spray them to save hundreds of dollars in farm value.
Shallow cultivation conserves surface moisture by preventing runoff from hard soil. Rain soaking into loose soil enhances absorption while preventing upward water flow once capillary tubes seal. A loose Ohio topsoil retains more water after each shower.
The text discusses marketable fowl and how a three months old chicken should fatten for sales. It advises keeping birds in coops for fifteen to twenty days and feeding every three hours. Diet suggestions include buckwheat or corn meal with milk to crumbly dough consistency, with crude tallow and milk when available.
The American Cultivator notes that higher milk and butter yields and earlier beef maturity in the past fifty years align with increased grain feeding to dairy cows and cattle. It credits liberal feeding and better ration knowledge, while suggesting data from grain states could reveal dramatic changes since twenty five years ago.
Gooseberries can be marketed green or ripe. Some growers pick small fruits green and let the best ripen, reducing bush fatigue. Others market the entire crop green to speed market entry and reduce pest risk. Each grower should assess local conditions to choose the best method. Green berries are stripped quickly and may be run through a fanning mill, then packed per market demand.
A description of creaming milk by cooling it to thirty nine degrees while at rest in a sealed tin vessel, detailing the physics of contraction and water content, arguing against cooling below thirty nine degrees and explaining how external cooling creates currents that separate cream from milk.
Observations on milk show the watery portion remains on top and bulk persists as it moves with currents in glass vessels with black specks. American Agricultural.
The Boston Cultivator advises distinguishing between inferior and good hay at the start. Use idle or poor soil to grow rough cheap grasses like Hungarian and Orchard to supplement rather than replace high quality Timothy. Fine Timothy remains top price, but on some lands other grasses may yield better overall returns.
A series of questions guides dairymen to cleaner stables, proper milk handling, and better feeding. It stresses Babcock tests for cow value, orderly rations, proper composting, use of ice in hot weather, and ensuring profits from dairy cows, not just ownership.
A fortune teller holds a crucial role at a Chinese wedding, with the fate of the engagement possibly hinging on the fortunes given. Britain employs 96,900 foreign seamen in its merchant service, highlighting maritime labor scales.
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