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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1900
Page
4
A London dispatch reviews Cape Colony unrest, Milner Schreiner politics, and the Transvaal war, noting potential constitutional crises and a push for vengeance versus conciliation. It comments on China’s crisis, Russia and Japan risks, and European powers, with reflections on Gladstone’s widow and Austria Italy.
The writer discusses who will succeed Constantino ple, warns of an unstable Europe with the Sick Man of Europe as a threat, and notes potential collapse of Austria and a scramble for Suleiman’s former European dominion. The Australia federation debate shifts as Clause 74 is demanded, provoking limited public interest.
The narrator reports Ashanti unrest remains unresolved as insurgents gain armed support, possibly from British suppliers. He notes colonial forces suffer setbacks, Governor and staff may be endangered, and Cham berlain seeks West Indies volunteers to reinforce West Africa. The outlook is grim.
Charles K. Landis founder of Vineland Sea Isle City and Hammonton is buried yesterday. The will disinherits two sons Richard W Meade Landis and James Montevert Landis and leaves the bulk of the estate to his sister Miss Matilda Landis. Small legacies go to trusted office employees and Vineland charities. The sons will contest the will with counsel.
Elizabeth New Jersey June 16 A suit for damages is about to be instituted by Policeman Frederick C Hess of this city against former Alderman Augustus G Pool who named Mr Hess as a co respondent in divorce proceedings against his wife now pending Hess was acquitted yesterday by Vice Chancellor Stevens of any complicity in the affair He at once instructed former Senator Frederick C Marsh his counsel to bring suit against Mr Pool for damages.
Twenty young members of the South Ferry Branch of the Little Mothers Aid Association served as waiters at the association holiday house in Pelham Park. The annual celebration marked nine years since Alma Calder Johnston first organized trips for these Battery children to the park, with a day of meals, games, music, and a charity collection. The event featured diverse nationalities among the waitresses and a village-hall play performed by Brooklyn youths, eliciting much laughter and community pride.
In Summit New Jersey a gunman and a knife attacker clash at 7 pm in the Italian quarter. Tony Roberts wounds Tomas De Longe who is mortally hurt. Giovanni Frasca escapes. A woman is lightly hurt by a bullet that pierced a partition. Police and firemen search for both suspects as De Longe dies of a neck wound.
Chicago and New York financiers back a plan to consolidate the Kansas City and Northern Connecting with the Omaha and St. Louis Quincy Omaha and Kansas City and Eastern Roads. A Bondholders' Committee holds a majority of bonds and seeks to deposit others with Provident Life and Trust. The system would span 406 miles radiating from Kansas City to key Gulf and Atlantic ports.
Ithaca Publishing Company, filed at Albany, elects Prof D C Lee of Cornell University as president. The firm capital is $15,000 and plans general publishing tied to The Ithaca News already under Lee’s influence.
A New York train collision near Willis Avenue involved a rear suburban car and the Hanover Square special. Two men were injured conductor W C Dickenson of 285W 138th Street and passenger Thomas Jones of 60W 132nd Street. Passengers recovered hats eyeglasses and car windows were damaged amid light injuries and brief delays.
A column lists staying guests at major city hotels including Albemarle Broadway Central Fifth Avenue Gilsey Grand Herald Square Hoffman Holland Imperial Manhattan Murray Hill Netherland Park Avenue Savoy Sturtevant Waldorf and attendees from multiple states and countries. Names include Henry May J Hobart Krum Daly Cramp Durham Silsby Stanton Pitkin Lamont Lancaster Knowles Elgin Babcock Hopkins Montgomery and others.
Carl Jensen a 30 year old Swede employed on James Baird's steam yacht Hus sar was dangerously shot when a signal gun discharged while being moved from cabin to deck near Larchmont. Wadding pierced his side. he was treated by Dr Skillman and later taken to New Rochelle Hospital where an operation removed the wadding. His condition is serious.
Yonkers Board of Boiler Inspectors adopts a rule requiring a licensed operator for every steam vehicle within city limits. The law takes effect tonight with police ordered to arrest unpermitted drivers. fines range from five to fifty dollars.
A small blaze at the top floor of a five story tenement on No 9 Essex Street triggers panic among residents. Abraham Goodman, a boarder, and a man in the hallway accidentally start a fire while reacting to a Rutgers Street fire story. They extinguish the flames but cause chaos as a Turkish bathhouse patron, misled by alarm, runs outside half clothed, creating a scene of frightened tenants and hurried firemen.
A large fire at Smyrna near Earlville wipes out every business in the 500 resident village. Firefighters from Earlville and Norwich battle the flames as dynamite is sent for to blow up still burning structures and halt the blaze. Dozens of shops and homes, including the Comstock drug store and Munson Opera House, are reported destroyed.
Justice Bischoff of the Supreme Court granted a special order allowing Al dace F. Walker, president of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, to file his New York lawyer's certificate after missing the 1898 act requirement. Walker claimed no active legal practice for years and acknowledged the oversight, with the order shielding him from penalties.
The Pennsylvania Railroad issued a booklet detailing summer excursion routes and fares to major East Coast resorts. The attractively illustrated poster cover includes photographs of famed resorts and a Jersey City station frontispiece.
The Pennsylvania Railroad abandons elevation of its tracks in New Brunswick New Jersey. A cut-off will be built around the city saving about five miles and avoiding curves. The new route leaves the old line near Metuchen and rejoins at Dean crossing the Raritan River two miles south of the present bridge. The cut-off will serve fast freight and through express trains only.
The New York Central aims to remove grade crossings in Utica at an estimated cost of about 1 million dollars with city authorities expected to approve soon. Erie Railroad shifts away from the Joint Passenger Committee after approval from President Thomas. Southern Pacific officers reshuffled with Huntington advancing to First VP and Tweed to Second VP. I. E. Gates named Secretary. Kansas City lines freight agents summoned to New York for a conference on restoring freight rates, likely next week under the Presidents' Conference.
Maritime notices list the day's sun and moon cycles, high water times, and ship sailing times. It covers outgoing steamships for Monday through Wednesday including vessels Navahoe Kaiserin Maria Theresia Leiden Neustria Southwark Teutonic City of Washington and others, with supplementary mails and Transpacific routes to Hawaii China Japan and Australia via San Francisco and Vancouver.
In Buffalo on June 16 the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Honor voted to exclude Christian Scientists and Faith Curists from life or medical insurance. The decision cites high risk and not beliefs as the issue.
Post office notices describe dispatch deadlines to Australia via steamship Dorkc and Moana, and list incoming ships and arrivals at the bar, with times, destinations, and vessels including SS La Champagne SS Gladiolus and SS Washington, detailing routes from Havre to New York and other ports.
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