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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1900
Page
1
In terse wires style the item notes no reduction for war taxes this session. It also lists other quick updates including the Puerto Rican bill passing Senate 40 to 31, debt decline in March, and plans to fortify Pearl Harbor for naval use.
Emily Coghlan dies in Stamford at 36. Proctorville Ohio suffers massive fire loss. A German iron melting compound shocks industry. Boers in Natal press Buller. U S Navy to HQ in Hong Kong. Texas flood kills forty. losses exceed 3 million. Ashantee unrest and gold stool stories. Adams Express cashier arrested in California. Paris exposition flags and U S building issues. Admiral Dewey runs for president. Queen Victoria visits Ireland. Trade, politics, and industry motions fill the day.
Special dispatch dated April 2 near Mafeking reports a garrison sortie and Col Plumer cavalry attacks repulsed with twenty British dead six prisoners. Plumer’s march toward Zecrust and Mafeking details follow, plus warnings of Boer horse forces threatening lines of communication and Roberts’ delayed pursuit.
A major derailment south of Magenta, north of Fort Worth, results in two deaths and several injuries. Mail clerk John F. Dane of Denver and passenger John J. Kuntz die in a fire-fed wreck after a full-speed impact and track washout. Firemen and brakemen are among the injured, with earlier reports on an Express Messenger uncertain.
Snow has fallen over Colorado for 24 hours with warm temperatures making snow cling to trees and wires. Telephones, lights, trolley lines and telegraph services are down in many areas, causing widespread disruption and halted streetcars in Denver.
Phoenix reports detailed ambush of Officers Scarborough of Deming New Mexico and Birchfield by three outlaws in the Chiracasa range. Fire opened at rifle range. Scarborough wounded in leg and Birchfield in arm. They fought, Birchfield built a rock fort, Scarborough saved, then evacuated to Deming. Wounds serious, posse pursues bandits amid snow and rain.
March 25 saw two plague cases in Honolulu one Japanese fisherman and one John Hurley with no further cases since then. The steamer Cleveland reached Ililo March 28 after 10 days at sea. A riot at Pauhana plantation on March 17 led to arrests of eight Japanese. later a cane fire swept 590 acres at Hawaiian Commercial sugar estate on March 20. In San Francisco April 7 the Interstate Commerce Commission heard the St Louis petition for lower freight differentials and heard testimony of Petaluma San Jose and Oakland hardware merchants alleging a Pacific coast cartel to restrain Eastern and Middle West competition.
Washington dispatch reports serious disturbances in Panama Colombia with street fighting and interrupted mail service. State Department inquiry yielded no details while US guarantees to keep free transit between Colon and Panama loom large amid Colombia unrest. A Cuban railroad syndicate led by Sir William C Van Horne plans a 400 mile line pending approvals and full capital.
Washington reports marine hospital service will lead smallpox containment on the Nez Perce settlement in Idaho. They will work with Indian bureau agents to establish detention camps and stamp out the disease.
Lord Roberta reports five British companies captured near Bethanie as Boers advance along the Bloemfontein line. Three Royal Irish Fusiliers and two Ninth Dragoons were encircled near Reddersburg after a 24 hour fight, with observers noting heavy action and disrupted rail communications.
War Office receipt of Lord Roberts dispatch dated Bloemfontein April 9 reports Methuen telegraphing from Boshof that General Villebois Marenti and seven Boers were killed in a surrounding action. Eight wounded and fifty prisoners taken.
Edward Gottfried former consul at Traxillo Peru files sworn statement with the state department alleging a 1898 incident at Hucamacho where 50 or 60 Peruvians dragged him to the public square and demanded 6,000 soles and 25 rifles within 15 minutes or face chastisement in the flying stocks. He says he was knocked down, bound, and suspended as his thumbs were tied and his elbows twisted. he became insensible from the pain. The administration will seek restitution and an apology.
Oriental papers report intensified Chinese hostility toward foreigners on the Burman Chinese frontier. A clash near the Barmah border left a medical officer and an assistant commissioner dead, with 84 Chinese killed and several wounded as Indian and Gurkha troops repelled raids.
TL Alexander, a farmer in St Helena California, killed his wife today and then took his own life by cutting his throat with a reser. Local authorities reported the tragedy in what appears to be a domestic violence case.
Reports from the Sannas Post ambuscade describe a ruse by burghers driving British through a drift before a disorderly fight. Commandant Dewet ordered shot after a compañero killed, with 389 prisoners and valuable British secret papers captured including maps and invasion plans. Rebels and junctions into the main Boer army signal expanding resistance and provisioning.
President Steyn told opening of the Free State hand that Bloemfontein surrender does not end the republican cause. He blamed British truce violations and Red Cross breaches, defended independence, and criticized dissension among burghers while noting missions to Europe and America to gain neutral support.
Washington April 0 The house after four days of debate passed the substitute for the senate bill providing a territorial form of government for Hawaii. The bill now goes to conference. Hill of Connecticut urged two amendments but both were defeated. Deboe of Kentucky announced a move to refer ex Senator Blackburns credentials to committee. The senate debated the Indian appropriation bill and Quay seating.
Cripple Creek Colorado April 9 two hundred miners have been laid off at the Portland mine due to high rates demanded by the smelters for treating gold ores.
Baxley Georgia locals say King and Louisa Gossby a colored pair executed in Baxley after admitting to killing Daniel Mima a farmer and his child near here during the night of March 6 last.
Reports from Austin describe a devastating flood along the Colorado river with a one mile wide swollen torrent inundating the city. The disaster followed a dam failure sending a torrent of water toward the lower town and causing extensive property loss and a rising death toll.
Shortly after 11 o clock a massive wedge broke from the dam center, 25 feet high and 600 feet wide, washing water into the powerhouse and drowning eight workers. South and west valleys flooded, the city dark and waterless, with extensive property loss and at least one drowning of a family of six and likely forty homeless tents. White campers below the dam are missing presumed swept away.
A northbound Great Northern train derailed near Twohig after rail spread. the entire train stopped in the ditch except the engine. Mail Agent Sobright and several passengers are seriously hurt. Rio Grande river rises to 26 feet flooding waterworks and crops. Also a fire in Chicago destroys the M. S. Schura piano and organ factory, loss about 50 000 dollars, cause believed spontaneous combustion.
Fire swept the Sana Jones Opera House block and the Schaffer building at Ballston in Saratoga today. Loss pegged at about 150000 dollars.
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