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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1901
Page
2
A condensed survey lists events from turkey paying American claims to political shifts in Oklahoma and Ohio. Notable items include salmon and timber disputes, border tensions with Japan, a Chicago area collision, resignations in Porto Rico, and bank health reports. Also noted are labor strikes, lynching reports, and various disasters from floods to fires.
The State Department announces receipt of 95 000 dollars from Turkey as indemnity for American claims. Funds were sent through the Turkish government to Minister Leishman in Constantinople, placed in the Ottoman Imperial Bank, and drafted to Washington. Officials note total claims exceed the indemnity but express satisfaction with settlement and promise to distribute to claimants.
A Chicago and Alton vestibuled limited rear collided head on with a livestock train two miles west of Norton Missouri shortly after 7 80 this morning. Sixteen people died and about ninety were hospitalized in Kansas City. Fire and scalding steam hindered rescue as cars piled on engines and cattle mingled with gathered crowds. Bodies and injured lay beneath trees while heat reduced the scene to a blazing mass.
Commercial and financial notes cover mining output in Malheur and Grant counties, berry sales by C J Phimarth, and strawberry shipments to mining districts. Prices for crops, livestock, hay, and wool are listed alongside notes on rail shipping, oil hopes, and a September Ashland agricultural fair plan.
Vancouver reports a four hour arc of conflict as union fishermen gain the upper hand in Fraser river unrest. Fifteen or sixteen Japanese prisoners are reported after boats were overturned. a island hideaway is used to confine captives. Japanese boats and gear were sunk and six wharf fishermen arrested by provincial constables.
In Cincinnati on July 15 the twenty thousand strike began with about one thousand workers in the city. A mass meeting announced the strike was off and that strikers would return to work after securing assistance from headquarters and awaiting the July 16 hearing. The Trades Council in San Francisco reports on authority to back a machinists strike. Reports also mention fighting on Quelpart between missionaries and locals and a warship involvement.
A damaged notice reports drought grim prospects for corn in Kansas and Missouri. It cites a potential loss of up to 50,000,000 bushels and mentions high temperatures and dry conditions hurting the crop across the region.
Prince Chuan younger brother of Emperor Kwang Hsu sails from Shanghai July 20 en route to Berlin to apologize for Baron Von Ketteler murder. He leaves Pekin by train to Taku then steamer to Shanghai followed by rail to Genoa and Berlin. attended by staff, servants, and a German guard.
Acting Ad jutant General Ward reports from Major Scott that General Wood’s condition in Cuba is steadily improving. The cable message confirms ongoing recovery progress.
The secretary of the navy ordered the Minnesota stricken from the naval register and appraised at 15000 dollars. A board authorized sale at public auction in Boston where the vessel now lies. Built in 1886 in Washington it was flagship of Admiral Goldeborough in the Merrimac battle.
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