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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1900
Page
1
A London dispatch reports that a balloonist on February 9 observed a dozen Boer heavy guns with disappearing carriages masking positions on Doormkhoof. The British retreat from Tugela was prompted by these fortifications, which threatened a deadly trap if attacked.
Washington special Captain Frank Wells chaplain of the First Regiment of Volunteers has just returned from the Philippine Islands and spoke in Garfield Memorial Church. He stated that since American occupation Manila saw new liquor outlets while previously it had only three saloons. He noted Filipinos praised American soldiers except for drunkenness and recounted whisky problems in barracks and on transport Indiana.
London reports from Durban claim General Joubert marches with a large column to outflank General Buller near Chieveley while Buller reportedly retreats to Frere Camp. Churchill predicts another desperate Ladysmith push as Boers send guns to Kimberley to seize Cecil Rhodes. Minor skirmishes noted at Rensburg and light shelling of a British camp with limited damage.
Londen telegraph report from February 12 notes Boer forces occupy Bloy’s farm south of the Tugela within an hour of Chieveley. The farm houses ridges that command bridges over the river and Forts Wylie and Molyneux offering view of Bulwana and Ladysmith. Authorities remain on alert amid Boer advances.
London reports tensions around Ladysmith as the War Department allegedly shifts to flood defenses. Timber sandbags and hundreds of workers from Johannesburg and Pretoria are said to be flooding Kilp river to inundate the town and force troops and residents from bomb shelters.
A large Republican League meeting at Anderson celebrated Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with speeches by Booker T. Washington and others. Washington spoke on Lincoln’s emancipation, unity, and the progress of the negro in the South, urging black uplift and white cooperation, followed by two banquets and widespread praise of the event as a major Indiana Young Men's Republican League gathering.
More than 6000 city school pupils viewed the body in state at First Methodist church. Schools suspended all day and business paused in the afternoon. State officers including Judge Baker and Governor Mount paid tributes. Masonic lodge led funeral rites after services at the residence. Numerous civic and fraternal groups followed to the cemetery. Thompson was born June 9 1908 and died February 9 1900 at age 90.
War Office dispatch reports Kimberley bombardment through February 11 to 15 and a two hour Alexandersfontein engagement. Cecil Rhodes’s friends, alarmed by his possible fate, sent an emissary to Dr. Leyds. Boers say Rhodes would be held as a hostage until indemnity for the Jameson raid is paid, now doubled to 2,000,000 pounds.
The House passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill with minimal changes, carrying 3 742 906 dollars. In the Senate, Depew and Pettigrew clashed over Philippine issues and the South Africa war while Schurman and Dewey were cited in debates on mediation under The Hague treaty. The week featured Lawton funeral attendance, Nicaragua Canal advocacy, and a push for bi metalism and a government issued paper currency proposal.
John R. Haines of Topeka Kansas was found guilty of second degree murder for killing Charles G. Watson in a saloon on November 12 while intoxicated. The jury fixed a fifty year penitentiary term despite Haines claiming self defense. Watson had been a wealthy Cincinnati lumber merchant who had lost his fortune.
The New York feature highlights the city’s largest office building. Details focus on size, location, and architectural significance, with emphasis on its impact on business and skyline.
In London Kentucky on February 12 1900 Governor Taylor after hours of secret talks with 150 Republican leaders and legislators announced he would not sign the Louisville agreement. He reconvenes the General Assembly in Frankfort and issues a proclamation calling the body back to session noon today.
Chicago contractors announce use of nonunion workers to complete active projects to avoid city wide work stoppage. Union pickets around nearly a thousand workers will target sites where union men are striking, aiming to keep others from entering. Initial effort focuses on projects with imminent deadlines to resume progress.
Martin Grogan was served with a warrant on Sunday afternoon for assault and battery by Wm. Sanderson. Sanderson claimed Grogan beat and cut him over a watch dispute and demanded police protection. the warrant was written in the blood from Sanderson’s left hand.
New York special reports Representative Charles A. Chickering of Copenhagen New York was found dead outside the Grand Union Hotel on Forty first street. He apparently fell or jumped from his fourth story window around 5 a.m. a milk man on his rounds discovered the body on the sidewalk near his room.
Dr Horace R Allen Jr formerly of Indianapolis and proprietor of the H B R Allen Surgical Institute died in Chicago at 7 30 Tuesday morning from diabetes. Four years earlier he moved to Chicago and started another institute bearing his name in the Masonic Temple Building.
OCR reads as a market item listing oats No 3 white and 26 percent hay varieties with an unclear value 1250. The fragment references agricultural commodities and pricing but lacks complete details.
The sermon argues physical vigor does not ensure moral power. Samson’s feats contrast with misused strength, urging leaders to use body and mind for good. It warns against giants of wealth and influence misdirected by vice, and calls all sturdy souls to stand for God in judgment.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat recounts Capt Charley Hill a Georgia native and former US Army lieutenant who left mercantile life for daring schemes. In the 1890s Brazil crisis Admiral De Mello faced a threatened blockade by a dynamite cruiser built by New York speculators and commanded by Hill. Hill sailed from New York to Rio de Janeiro where panic grew aboard De Mello’s flagship and the Nichteroy avoided engagement. The vessel was later bought by the American government at the start of the Spanish American War.
A newly married couple argues about reading letters from home. The wife refuses to share her letters while hinting a sister, Phyllis, has one the husband must not read. Phyllis is hinted to be engaged to Radcliff, but details remain undisclosed.
The brief text notes electric signs found in front of nearly all the Sheaters and mentions their arrival or presence in a setting.
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