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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1900
Page
3
Nagasaki port described as a busy anchor point with coaling from Nippon Maru and the Pacific Mail line. Noted are the Papenberg rock, Sampans, rampans, Buddhist temples, and the unique stern paddle propulsion. Reflections on Japanese culture, missions, and a brief note on the inverted Paris exhibition house.
Jockey Tod Sloan was crushed beneath the fallen horse Lilly Lang in a Liverpool cup race. The strong favorite Moluma rolled over Sloan amid a furious struggle, leaving spectators in Tattersall's ring and paddock in horror. Doctors rushed to the Adelphi hotel to treat Sloan, who survived but with serious injuries.
Faculty at Wellesley challenged the acceptance of John D. Rockefeller’s $100,000 gift at commencement, a moral probe in line with the college’s noted ethics. The controversy centered on the origins of endowments and whether moral standards should affect philanthropic support.
Rumor mill cites the penniless Duke of Manchester and Miss Helena Zimmerman of Cincinnati as an alleged engaged couple. Zimmerman, daughter of Eugene Zimmerman, reportedly valued at $1,000,000, is said to stand to inherit substantial sums from her father’s estate plus rail labor and street railway interests linked to her family.
Three Paris physicians Drs Rapelier Thebl anet and Broca announce an anti alcohol serum. They say it is effective and derived from horses fed alcohol and alcohol mixed food. The serum reportedly aided in a man indicted for alcohol use and another case with thirty two arrangements.
A seventeen year old Samuel Fritz Nave son of banker and merchant M Nave of St Joseph Missouri left a mansion for the United States Navy. He appeared at the Great Northern hotel in fine attire and claimed he was nineteen while giving his right name. He stated he had left a mansion behind.
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