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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
6
A chaotic week report cites robberies, battles, and surrenders from Manila to Bechuanaland, a libel suit in Massachusetts, Cuban constitutional votes, frost and grasshopper strikes in France, and a dramatic Chicago sermon where a speaker claimed to be Elijah.
A wild squall off Charleston South Carolina on June 1 left fifteen fishermen missing from three Mosquito fleet boats Anna Julia Messenger Boy and Knife with eight boats at sea. The Forward searched thirty miles around the lightship but found no signs of wreckage. Captain Watson of the Messenger Boy is the only white skipper believed dead.
June 4 New York report says the Jersey colliery of the Lackawanna company in Wilkesbarre has burned for ten days and is now beyond control. Water flooding methods fail. officials convene to seek better extinguishing means. A shaft will be sunk to reach the back of the fire and attempt extinction there.
The war department reports by cable that General Chaffee and his troops on the transport Sumner reached Nagasaki while en route to Manila. The transport Kintnek, from Manila to Seattle, has arrived at Nagasaki.
Berlin report estimates Prussia’s crop shortage losses at 163,750,000 marks for wheat and 108,000,000 marks, in a June 2 release to Count von Buelow from the standing committee of the Prussian board of trade and agriculture.
Twenty one American delegates from New York chamber of commerce visited King Edward at Windsor. The group, in court mourning, impressed the king and queen and exchanged greetings with royal family members. The visit, arranged by the London chamber, highlighted close Anglo American ties and included a small garden tea and remarks of mutual goodwill. Trade report notes unseasonable weather hampering retail and crops, with textiles steady, iron and steel production strong, and wheat exports and failures detailed.
In Pekin Field Marshal Count von Waldersee leaves China after the Chinese government accepts an indemnity of 40,000,000 taels. The German force will be reduced to one brigade. Conger plans to sail July 7 for a two month leave expiry. London reports British America corp to liquidate with London & Globe links. Lord Dufferin was a director.
In Wheeling on June 4 the second section of a Pittsburg Ohio Valley and Cincinnati work train crashed into the first section near Powhatan killing two and wounding over twenty. The caboose of the first section carried 28 Italians when it was telescoped.
Pittsburg June 3 Benjamin Getty alias Watson aged 28 narrowly escaped lynching by a 500 strong mob in McKeesport Pa A new cabinet formed in Yokohama Viscount Kateura creating political shift June 4
A compact trade summary lists wheat quotes from Portland to Walla Walla and Tacoma, with blue stem at 61 64 cents and club at 59 63 cents. Poultry and eggs set old hens 10–11 cents per pound, ducks $4 per dozen, geese dressed 12 cents, turkeys live 10–12 cents and dressed 12–18 cents, eggs $5 per case. Vegetables show potatoes 65 cents per cwt and onions $3.50 per cwt. Live stock prices include beef and veal and hogs at market rates, with milled grain prices for delivered grain and hides and pelts values.
From Lincoln Nebraska on June 3 W J Bryan uses Emperor McKinley as his text to denounce the supreme court ruling in the insular cases He says the court has joined with the president and congress to alter our form of government and urges the people to repudiate the verdict in strong terms.
John D. Rockefeller has provided 200000 for an immediate start to a new medical research organization named The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The institute will be based in New York City and will involve eminent pathologists and other medical men in setting its initial program.
Washington June 3 Brigadier General Frederick Funston has been assigned to a new post move that signals a shift in command responsibilities and reflects ongoing organizational reassignments within the military leadership.
About two thousand workers at Petonee paper mills walk out after a wage dispute with the Workmen's unions. Pickets formed around mill gates as the strike began on June 3, affecting production and local economy.
On June 4 in Tientsin a fight broke out between international troops. British Fusiliers attempting to stop French soldiers from housebreaking were attacked. Fires ensued as 300 Germans joined the French. Five Fusiliers fired, killing one Frenchman and wounding three others. Four Fusiliers, five Germans, and a Japanese were later wounded. A German officer arrived with a guard to end the clash.
A Washington dispatch says the supreme court may decide the Philippine case in favor of the United States. The split bench is expected to ground that the U S has not declared permanent sovereignty and that wartime claims rested on military authority while the Philippines lacked actual possession. The decision would be another unusual ruling with broad implications.
Washington reports that Adjutant General Ward relayed General MacArthur's telegram stating the transport Logan has sailed from Manila for San Francisco via Nagasaki with two battalions of the Thirty-eighth volunteer infantry. Cable instructions were sent to MacArthur to speed movement. Under law volunteer pay ends June 30. if not mustered out by then Congress must provide extra service funds.
The Ladies' Home Journal will feature a series of views on St Augustine Jamestown Plymouth and New York illustrating time's changes on the Atlantic coast. Jamestown shows decay while St Augustine Plymouth and New York show development and growth.
Washington report on June 4 notes doctors expect gradual progress in Mrs McKinley after an hour long consultation including Dr William Osler of Baltimore. Osler, Johns Hopkins professor and renowned diagnostician, joins the session. The physicians say the outlook is encouraging following the consultation.
Mineral Point Wisconsin June 4. Several thousand dollars was found under a sidewalk near the former boarding place of Stewart Jellon held here on a charge of robbing the First National bank recently. Two bottles of nitroglycerin and a bunch of skeleton keys were also found by private citizens.
Governor Toole pardons Little Whirlwind, a young Cheyenne, for the 1808 murder of sheepman John Hoovey near the Cheyenne reservation, subject to state board of pardons approval. The action follows lengthy legal process and native jurisdiction concerns.
Princess Salm Salm, daughter of a harness maker and a half Indian herb doctor, left a Canadian town on Lake Champlain to join the circus as a rider and earned a captain’s commission for aiding sick soldiers in the Civil War. Her early life included service in an Episcopal minister’s family before fleeing the monotony and embracing the horse world.
The Whitcomb harness maker's daughter Mile. Agnes Leclerq married Prince Felix Salm Salm in Washington. They fought in Mexico under Maximilian, and her efforts to save the fallen emperor failed. She then moved to Germany, aiding soldiers in the Franco Prussian War. She was seen by King William, her husband died at St. Privat, and she is now respected in Bonn.
Milwaukee introduces a pallbearers association offering uniformed escorts for funerals when families lack arrangements. The outfit includes a black lace collar, knee breeches, buckled shoes, and a sword, with a heavy black cloak for bad weather. a knightly, ceremonial appearance aims to expand nationwide if successful.
After years of discussion building trades settle on a bronze label for union listed structures. The label design and general features were approved at the latest annual convention of the National Building Trades Council for distribution by the national body.
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