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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1900
Page
1
Fragmentary text indicates Senate proceedings and party maneuvers about seating and constitutional issues. References to Senator Emear, Mr Car, and anti factions suggest a political debate during a conference session.
A local freight train collided with a Chicago and Eastern Illinois miners train near Brasil at 6 30 PM killing Melvin Easter and injuring at least 100 others. The list of injured includes Thomas Barrowman Charles Kramp Brown Lumsden and many more with varying degrees of burns, fractures, and head injuries.
The president sent a special message to Congress noting duties collected on Porto Rican imports since Spain’s evacuation on October 18 1898 amounting to 2 095 455 88 and urging that this sum and future collections be appropriated for the island’s government and education without awaiting new legislation.
London dispatch reports Spencer Wilkinson in the Morning Post reviews front dispatches noting the Boers cannot field more than 40 000 against Lord Roberts without abandoning Natal. He cites two rear guards and examines Boer injury scope as not yet fixed. A mining train accident nearby killed Easter and Crampey with two coaches derailed and others damaged.
A proposed six month consolidation in Wheeling includes American Tin Plate Company National Steel Company American Hoop and Wire Company National Steel Sheet Company and another large entity. Total capitalization around 1 billion dollars to control most U S iron and steel except Standard and Carnegie interests. Temporary leadership to be set by the sheet steel trust with John A Topping as president until final consolidation.
Manitowoc Wisconsin report notes a local registrar of deeds file describing a peculiar certificate. The document claims the signer and his thirteen children were baptized as infants by letting them smell pure lager beer. He asserts this ritual will keep the child from becoming a drunkard or voting the Prohibition ticket.
A Port Huron report states David M. Robeson, ill with malaria, received an alcohol bath from his brother William and was placed to bed at midnight. Moments later William saw a flash and entered the room as David fell from the bed and perished almost immediately in a caving torch incident.
The House passed the Porto Rican tariff bill 172 to 161 after amendments reducing the tariff to 15 percent and limiting its life to two years. Six Republicans and four Democrats crossed party lines. The Senate stalled on related Hawaii-government bills, while Aldrich described changes to the finance measure. The day featured contests on election cases and a Loud bill handling second class mail. Senate reform moves and the Quay case dominated later sessions.
At a dance in Smallwood's resort near East Bernstadt Hamp Gragg Leonard Smallwood and others attacked Millard Hughes over a grudge. Hughes was shot, his head severed, and others injured before the assailants were jailed for a preliminary hearing. Edward Fretze was fatally stabbed near Pittsburg while walking railway tracks.
Leong Kay Ting, a prominent Chinese reformer linked to Yang Yu Wei and the movement to overthrow the Empress, has arrived in Victoria. He reports his brother Leong Kay Chew in Honolulu is guiding revolutionary interests and that a 26 man Empress loyalist posse pursues Yang Yu Wei. Ting says he is well guarded, despite the pursuit, as Yang Yu Wei visits Siam at the king’s invitation with a British government bodyguard provided.
President extends the vacant Philippine Commission seat to Prof. Bernard Moses of the University of California and Moses accepts. The commission members include Judge Taft president Dean Worcester Luke Wright Henry Ide and Bernard Moses.
The sermon urges youth to avoid companions who scoff at religion, idlers, and gatherers of pleasure. It warns that skepticism, idle living, and Sabbath breaking lead to ruin, urging firm but courteous dismissal of such influences to protect eternal prospects.
A poetic exhortation proclaims Religion as the daughter of God guiding a celestial banquet. The text paints heavenly fruit, music, wine, and hospitality as divine imagery, praising her peaceful paths and pleasantness.
The Major recalls a Kan sas tale of Elliott Hook whose steak was spoiled by a Mauser bullet at Caloocan. He vows to avenge the lost meat, drawing a parallel to Civil War grit as a German sergeant endures a near death at Stone River and later becomes the regiment’s top marksman in pursuit of Johnny.
The visit of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Webster Davis to South Africa has attracted worldwide notice. He reportedly accepted a ride in President Kruger's private carriage to Pretoria, fueling English speculation on state motives. Davis thrives on attention, and critics note his flair for being in the limelight rather than seeking subtle diplomacy.
A witty quip in the Philadelphia Bulletin notes the leading actress opens with a flourish using a duster and brief dialogue, then vanishes from the stage.
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