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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
1
Family asks the daily question and suggests Jell-O as a quick no bake dessert option. Prepare with hot water, set to cool, and choose from lemon orange raspberry or strawberry flavors offered at grocers for 10 cents.
A committee appointed by the last general assembly of the Presbyterian Church to study revision of the confession met in Washington and planned to continue until completing their work. The panel, led by Dry. Roberts Lud as secretary, reported votes from 440 presbyteries supporting explanatory and supplemental statements, while 15 and 47 bodies favored other options. 45 dissented or did not respond. The group adjourned after hours of discussion and will reconvene today.
A Washington convention adopted resolutions urging the president to extend U S prohibition laws to the Philippine islands. A petition asks the war department or Philippine commission to prohibit sales of intoxicants and firearms to Aboriginal tribes, and seeks an international treaty to ban such goods in islands inhabited by native peoples.
Six dead and sixteen injured from the boiler explosion at Chicago and Northwestern railway lighting and heating plant. Hugh McChegor added to dead, others believed fatally injured include August Beck and Mrs Beck of Milwaukee, John Butterworth and A M Scully of Chicago, George Gillis of Chicago Kingston Jamaica, and seaman James Voss of Alabama aboard the gunboat Scar Won. Also reports of two children fatally burned in New York Essex Street tenement and general notes on dead in China.
In dense fog a west bound freight hit a five car work train and engine near Van den station, killing nine workers who slept in a car. About 20 others were injured. The dead include John Daly T Kelleher J Ahrin J B Lunnern J Hughes H Kermerhin T McCovern B A Mahoney. Mahoney died en route to hospital. Kelleher died while being carried.
London reports James G Stowe United States consul general at Cape Town recounts a near miss when Boer gunfire damaged his train near Pretoria His coat collar bears a bullet hole as he likens the war to Civil War closing scenes and predicts the conflict may end within four months He notes 1000 Boer prisoners in Wyoming St Helena and Cape Town and criticizes farm burnings as misapplied tactics
In a case in Franklin County, a minister from a nearby church was found guilty of crimes against a young girl. He received a term of one year and nine months in the Western penitentiary at Adegheny. The judge stated the punishment as warranted. The prisoner showed visible distress as the sentence was pronounced. He is married with two children.
New York December 5 The Mail and Telegraph reports a freight rate cut set for January 1 on pig iron and billets from Pittsburg to boards, about 40 cents per ton. Expected to extend to other manufacturing centers to aid foreign trade growth.
Latrobe Latrobe County Pa Dec 5 eight accused of assault and battery and rioting two deputies beaten others held prisoner for a time as miners clash over pay and car allocations at the Besse mer Cort and Coke mines. Deputies arrive to quell violence. several arrests follow as strife continues into December.
Berlin reports say German foreign office will withhold opinion on President Wilson until full text of his messages is released. Papers largely view a calm tone toward Germany compared with England and France. In New York, John Armstrong Chanler, former husband of Amelie Rives, escapes Bloomingdale asylum after February confinement. Also reports note Pittsbury’s Harry Beck killed after a fall on Marion Street steps.
In Bordentown on December 5 Alexander Unite, a baker's employee, was accidentally killed while handling a damaged telephone wire that touched an electric light wire, severing an arm. His wife mourns this tragedy as authorities investigate the incident.
Wall Street sees a sharp sugar stock drop after a 14 percent dividend is announced, sending prices down from early highs to 127 1/4 amid widespread weakness in specialties and steel. Rail shares show pockets of strength, while gold shipments and currency anxieties shape activity. overall volume remains heavy with bear pressure across equities.
Mrs Meitinles experiences a terrifying moment when a guard or bystander disrupts a ceremonial event. The crowd reacts as a man assists her and the procession resumes toward the elevator amid tense whispers and startled faces.
Washington reports say ex President Harrison and his wife and daughter are guests of Hon John Wy Foster in the capital. Harrison sits on the Presbyterian General Committee to study church reform and revisions to the Confession of Faith.
A report from Deithas states Corns Peter Bane died after his clothes were saturated with turpentine and hot lime, with a local mob threatening violence and the men involved jailed. Authorities fear an attempt to lynch them pending further action.
New Orleans reports an incident aboard the steamship Stillwater from Port Barrios Guatemala. Ki if May, an American citizen who once contracted for Guatemalan railroads, is accused of attempting to leave the republic without paying debts, amid a British arbitral ruling awarding $140,000 to the government. May sought medical treatment in the United States and faced arrest at the Port Barrios gangway.
Washington December 1 The senate's business session progressed with the ship subsidy measure discussed at length. The Nile contrast between Nicaragua and Panama routes dominated the debate as the committee on commerce reported the measure while the commission projected costs and feasibility for each route. A House resolution by Salzer urged U S action to end South African atrocities and support humanitarian intervention.
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