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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1900
Page
1
Condensed telegraphic items report the death of the Duke of Argyle and a wide range of global and domestic events. Topics include Chicago plumbers strike, Japan curbing emigration, court martial plea, political resignations, senate votes, floods in the South, and other international developments.
Reports detail a Paria linen famine from washerwomen strikes, three drownings at Port Gamble, a Chicago Atlas Brewing fire causing $200000 loss, and mass giving at an Indian famine meeting in New York. Also noted are political, military, and economic updates worldwide.
A fire raging from 11 yesterday through midnight devoured five square miles across Hull and Ottawa. An estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people in both cities left homeless as 2,500 dwellings and many mills, stores, and churches burned. Government aid is provided from drill hall to exhibition buildings. Montreal and other towns sent fire equipment but could not halt the blaze.
The April 17 advices report the plague has disappeared in Honolulu and the United States consul issued the first clean bill of health to a vessel since December 12, the Bertha Miner sailing for Puget Sound on April 14. The Hawaii council seeks compensation for losses from health board actions and urges a new five member court of claims. Sixteen ships and three barks will move 1900 sugar around Cape Horn, with quarantine measures for infected Australian port calls and Hawaiian inspectors at three ports.
The long simmering Chile Peru dispute recalls the 10 year tacna and arica arrangement. Peru hints the treaty lacked a plebiscite and money exchange while the United States weighed peace efforts. Memorial Day observances and related clashes in chicago Racine and wellington avenues also reported.
A noon cloud burst in Waco Texas caused eight known deaths within city limits and left extensive property damage. Reports say two white women perished near city hall area while several others, mostly Black, drowned in rising Brazos and Barron’s branches. Emergency crews search for victims as rivers rise across the state.
Reports from Yokohama indicate a fresh Chinese crisis tied to the empress dowager with Western powers poised to act. The China Gazette cites plotting by Kang Yi Prince Ching Li Hung Chang and Hen Tong as danger grows and calls for upheaval in central and southern provinces. In Cambridge Maryland a German family was found dead by hanging in a farm house, with authorities suggesting strangulation and possible murder by son Carl Kernig who later killed himself.
C Cole seized his young daughter before her mother and placed her in a buggy. He then headed to the Southern Pacific depot and is now en route to the east, prompted by his wife's refusal to return home to Massachusetts.
An early estimate indicates over five square miles burned in Ottawa and Hull with more than 2,000 structures destroyed. Seven people died and about 7,000 residents were left homeless as insurance covers roughly half the estimated losses of seventeen million dollars. Firefighters gained control after burning ceased around noon today.
At the Marquette Club banquet in Chicago April 50 Theodore Roosevelt appeared as the 1904 presidential candidate with cheers from about 200 attendees. He urged practical action and high ideals in politics while noting he would prefer private life to vice presidency and spoke of renomination prospects for New York governor. He declined to discuss Admiral Dewey as a potential candidate.
A correspondent with General De Wet recounts the April 1 surrender of Reddersburg after 500 Irish Rifles entered De Wet's corps. The Irish resistance collapsed as De Wet encircled them on kopjes, forcing a sunrise shelling and the surrender of 459 men and 12 officers at Thahanchu, then moving toward Wepener.
Lewiston Idaho April 30 The Lewiston Sawmill Company plant burned at 2 am the loss amounted to 7000 dollars with no insurance. In Richmond Virginia April 30 burglars blew open the Massnotten bank vault at Strasberg and took 5000 dollars escaping by a handcart.
The steamship Olympia brings word that the Boxers face renewed trouble in Shan Tung and Chibli provinces. They are stirred up against foreigners by the empress dowager's reactionary policy.
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