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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1900
Page
2
The week’s highlights cover Boer actions in Hammonia repulsed, and US ships Brooklyn and Oregon involved in Far East duties. Reports cite wage disputes in Pittsburgh, fires at Port of Newark and Kalama drownings, and multiple accidents with significant property losses.
President Kruceria relocates to Neleprait while Chicago endures eight heat deaths. Lafayette statue unveiled in Paris as gifts from American schoolchildren. A Tacoma streetcar plunged into a gulch killing 36 and injuring 60. Salem pioneer Elizabeth Chapman dies at 81. Fireworks explosion in Philadelphia kills four children and injures three. Oil tank blast near Parkersburg claims six lives. Delaware Lackawanna & Western wreck near Henryville leaves three dead, one wounded. Western powers and Chinese resistance frame a tense global crisis with battleships and dispatches across Pekin, Pekoda, and Pearl River. The Dirigo arrives Seattle with gold dust. Rear-Admiral Bare named to command Suffolk yard. inventor Charles Dickensop dies at 77. Major cholera reports in Bombay presidency. Chinese army estimates reach 7,720,000. Orders note Keel Oregon safe, German monitor under siege, and Pekin foreign graves discussed as diplomatic leverage. Fourth of July events include Philadelphia arrival in Astoria and Danole voyage with 40 passengers and $7,000 in gold. A Klondike scandal emerges around land grants. Pennsylvaniar race wins. Grand Rapids reservoir causes $100 million water spill. Boxer war reports spread to Texas frontier. foreign forces in China total 68 officers and 3, etc.
The Democratic convention nominated William J. Bryan of Nebraska for the presidency on a free coinage platform opposing trusts and imperialism. The day featured a pro Bryan demonstration and speeches, with vice presidential picks deferred to tomorrow and Webster Davis declaring allegiance to the Democratic party.
Kansas City July 6. The Democratic platform reaffirms the Declaration of Independence and calls for government by consent, opposes imperialism and the Philippine war, and denounces the Dingley tariff. It pledges to combat private monopoly, supports a national financial plan with bimetalism, and favors direct democracy measures including direct election of senators. It supports Nicaragua canal ownership, land and water reforms, and Chinese exclusion policies, while endorsing arbitration and allied liberty struggles.
The Democratic national ticket was completed by the nomination of Adlai F. Stevenson for vice president. The nomination occurred on the first ballot with state after state joining in support, amid frenzied demonstrations unmatched by earlier conventions.
London reports that Ernest announces Japan to send forces to China, with foreign powers under pressure to concede Japan’s act. Dispatches from St. Petersburg indicate a cabinet inquiry into Japan’s China policy, while Shanghai letters describe rising bloodshed and the collapse of the Qing era.
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