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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1900
Page
5
A traveler reports curious southern Italian fashion where price marks stay on new suits to show neighbors they were bought on a set day for a stated price. He notes Paris boulevards bustle with dog barbers. Sweet potatoes draw rats, says a veteran dealer, who stores taters in a loft to repel other vegetables and uses a dry chest to test rodent behavior.
From Bryan's Own City a startling open letter is printed in Lincoln Nebraska detailing a man's ten year kidney illness and recovery after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. The piece endorses the remedy, naming A C Bonsor and the B M wallpaper firm on 2115 O Street. The Atlantic December issue features poetry by Lowell and notable fiction and Christmas tales.
Harvard students come from thirty nine of the forty five states and from distant regions including Aylona Oklahoma the District of Columbia Hawaii Porto Rico the Philippines Cuba Japan Nova Scotia New Brunswick Kamchatka Great Britain France Germany Spain Russia Bulgaria Norway and more, in the latest catalogue illustrating cosmopolitanism.
A clause in the dominion franchise act bans displaying political signs after nominations. A suspended street car conductor is not collecting fares. A saying notes ambition versus willingness to dwell in an attic.
Berlin reports the imperial chancellor and officials outlining Germany’s stance on Kruger mediation, British restraint, and French positions. He says mediation would have sparked war, while Germany’s neutrality and caution prevented entanglement. The Reichstag hears economic warnings and tax plans amid sugar bounty debates.
In Louisville Kentucky the American Federation of Labor resolutions committee reported the first measure reaffirming favor for the initiative and referendum, adopted by the convention 52 to 8 after debate. It also backed higher education funding, an eight hour post office work bill for Congress, and municipal ownership of public utilities.
From Washington reports Joseph Manley of Maine is to meet President McKinley this afternoon to discuss the vacant office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Legal objections to leaving the post vacant for months are noted, and Manley is not expected to accept the appointment.
A Shanghai dispatch reports Li Hung Chang's secretary Yiko was arrested by order of Field Marshal Count von Waldersee on suspicion of communicating with the Boxers.
Governors and high officials arrive for the centennial of the national capital. President McKinley will greet state leaders, unveiling of an enlarged executive mansion model, and addresses on district and state development. A grand afternoon parade and a late-night reception conclude the day's events.
The Hancock arrived in San Francisco from Manila via Nagasaki with about 1500 sailors and soldiers, deaths in battle or disease. Largest returning body count since the Spanish American War. Quarantine to follow at the Presidio before interment or shipment to homes. Ship took 25 days Manila to Honolulu leg and 17 days Nagasaki to San Francisco. Fifty two cabin passengers and 100 steerage passengers, 11 deaths on voyage.
J Willer Gleon, former cashier of the Prad ects Loan and Building association, jailed in Chicago on trial plea after disappearing last summer with about $20,000 unaccounted. He had worked in Rawlins and was then arrested in Chat. position. details show a complex chain of travel and alleged misappropriation.
Four masked men forced entry at the Mentor Knitting mills in Painesville Ohio this morning bound the watchman and his wife and blew the safe with nitro glycerine. They escaped with fifty dollars and were free within half an hour. Mrs Andrew freed herself and her husband and raised the alarm.
The Senate will focus on the Hay Pauncefote treaty and the ship subsidy bill, with priorities shifting between the two. Senator Morgan of the canal bill may delay until the treaty abrogating the Clayton Bulwer pact is resolved, while opponents plan speeches. In the House, the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill and war revenue tax cuts are planned, with centennial ceremonies Wednesday in commemorating the relocation of the seat of government. The beer tax faces possible amendment backed by brewing interests seeking a reduction from 1509 per barrel to 135 per barrel.
Report from Manila notes insurgents retreating at many points while American detachments clash briefly. Forty-seventh US volunteer infantry off Catandanes fails to land near Pandan after being fired upon, returning to Catanduanes with two killed and two wounded. Captain Richard T. Bliss captures Krag and Remington ammo, a signaling device, a press, and other gear in Barbari mountains. rifles and cartridges seized at Victoria.
Isaac Brock of McLennan county Texas claims lifelong health hinges on catarrh remedies and credits Dr Hartman’s Peruna for his extreme age and well being. He asserts Peruna treats coughs and catarrh as a single condition and praises it as essential for elderly people. A free book on catarrh is offered by The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus, Ohio.
WASILINGTON Dec 8 The House approved the Grout oleomargarine bill by 196 to 92 The minority substitute adding tighter sales restrictions and higher penalties failed 113 to 178 The bill covers oleomargarine butterine imitation butter and related products transported into states or territories for sale or consumption under state or territorial control.
It is authoritatively asserted that the duke of Westminster is engaged to Miss Shelugi West daughter of Colonel Cornwallis West. By the marriage the duke will become brother in law to Mrs George Cornwallis West Lady Randolph Churchill.
London dispatch reports Lord Roberts expected January 5 arrival in London. He will be greeted by the Prince and Princess of Wales and proceed in triumphal procession to St Paul’s Cathedral for a special service of thanks.
A 1900 Indiana note cites medical quackery claiming rheumatic gout cures with garfield tea and barb purkler, while warning that Piso’s Cure for Consumption has no equal for coughs and colds. The short adage about secrets underlines the trade in dubious remedies.
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