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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1900
Page
7
An item references Co. & C. Merriam Co. of Springfield Mass and Lanpher Finch Shiner. The snippet notes product lines and a claim about a pail looking well because it always flawed, indicating a catalog or trade notice context from a local business page.
Paris is described as bungled with widespread contracts and looting in the French and foreign sections. Officials and papers admit the exposition will struggle despite July and August expected crowds. A Californian observer calls the fair not worth the trip though finds some display curiosities and human types to study.
Ella Fontain Bleau, a leading actress, is enjoined by the New York Supreme Court from marrying. Edward A. Schiller, her manager, claimed a contract bars her marriage to preserve his costly lithographing and printing plans for next season. A Spaniard friend said Bleau is engaged to Adolphus Garcia of Madrid's diplomatic corps.
Capt A Smith of the Greenland bound bark Calcium from Lvigtut arrives in Philadelphia with Cryolite news. He notes an unusually harsh winter and spring in the far north, confirms no word from Perry, and says a rescue through the ice channel is nearly impossible this year.
A Victorian summary notes true famine zones in British India and native states totaling about 300000 square miles with 40000000 people, plus 145000 square miles with 21000000 in distress. It cites relief efforts before the next monsoon and compares area and population to October figures. It also states France freed over a million slaves in Madagascar in four years and reports Berlin University summer student numbers at 5105.
In Pranclaus Kas wick civil engineer Ostwick oversaw a road project opened a year ago. Free travel caused a disaster when a child was killed, prompting mob violence and the import of San Francisco motormen. The king then moved the queen’s remains and plans to relocate the cemetery fifteen miles inland, a costly royal undertaking with colossal tombs.
Workmen uncover a sealed stone cask twenty feet underground at Walnut Ridge Arkansas containing a red brown larger maize grain variant. Experts say the grain differs from any current corn and could be a preserved prehistoric variety likely sealed for a thousand years or more. Evidence of prehistoric race finds include store jars bones and giant human remains nearby.
Report details a wide counterfeit operation in Luzon with gangs in Manila and provinces. Criminals melt Mexican dollars to stamp as American silver dollars doubling value, plus fake five dollar notes. Raids found baskets of bad money and confessions link Chinese, Filipino, and several leaders including Americans or Europeans.
Navy department plans to supply submarine boats to key U S harbors under Judge Advocate General Lemly contract with the Holland company. Six vessels: four on the Atlantic coast two on the Pacific coast. Newport will host Holland. Plunger at Hampton Roads for Norfolk and Washington defense with possible Baltimore use. Pacific boats at San Francisco and Portland or Puget Sound.
The department of agriculture issued regulations to implement the Lacey Act for protection and importation of birds. A circular explains the department will supplement existing state efforts and not replace them, despite provisions for purchase and distribution. No appropriation funds distribution of quail pheasants or other game birds.
Professor Burckhalter of Chabot Observatory California demonstrates a new astronomical photography method during the May 28 eclipse in Georgia. The developed negatives yield the best corona photographs yet with inner corona exposures at one tenth of a second and outer corona at eight seconds. Meanwhile reports note experiments in torpedo control by Roentgen rays from Axel Orling and J T Armstron over long distances guided by balloons.
Indian girl Annie Truehart Dil lon aged fourteen inherits one million dollars from rancher John Dillon who was saved from death by her warning seven years ago Dillon left the fortune to the girl and her education will be arranged by the bishop of Monterey Dillon once faced an attempted murder by a native employe and a dummy in bed helped him survive the attack.
John Morino a Paterson Italian suffered injuries in a Passaic New Jersey shoe blocking plant explosion that killed two men Doctors later discovered several yards of shoe laces in his body The laces entered his left side and one twisted around a rib requiring a new incision to remove them He was hospitalized for nearly a week before the nature of his injuries was understood.
A London Times dispatch from Sydney reports the British cruiser Hingsrooma sank suddenly while training near the New Hebrides. Three divers attempted to reach a torpedo wreck but faced an active submarine volcano. Water beneath was extremely hot and the divers suffered injuries.
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