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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1900
Page
1
From Glasgow to Havana, reports show 13 plague cases in Glasgow and yellow fever fears in Havana. Rockefeller donates 180000 to a negro college in Atlanta, with new dormitories and facilities funded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Labor Day parades surge across major cities as Roosevelt and Bryan headline events.
Reports say American troops ready to depart Pekin while Li Hung Chang may attend a Pekin conference. France reluctantly accepts Russia’s proposal to evacuate the city as seven vessels wreck in Florida coast hurricane. Nevada restaurant brawl leaves two dead and one seriously hurt. Commandant Theron, Boer scout, found dead near Krugersport. Portland Oregon population rises to 90 426 from 46 385 in 1890.
London reports Germany refuses to withdraw from Pekin with a compromise that keeps troops there and withdraws most to Tianjin. Japan may pull troops if China asks and negotiations for peace begin. Li Hung Chang rumored to move, with pleas from Wu Chang Viceroy for British mediation.
The National party convened in Carnegie Hall New York and nominated Senator Donaldson Caffery of Louisiana for President and Archbald Murray Howe of Cambridge, Massachusetts for Vice President. A platform urged limits on imperialism, a single gold standard, merit based public service, and elimination of special privileges. Delegates were volunteers.
Captain Tuttle reports from Nome on July to August operations of the revenue cutter Bear. Measles and pneumonia ravage Alaska coast communities from Simrock to Cape York with high deaths at Teller Station. Desperate need for food, medicine, and pilot bread prompts government relief efforts and another northern voyage to Unalaska.
The Montana Republican state convention nominated David K. E. Folsom for governor by acclamation and A. J. Bennett for lieutenant governor with T. J. Porter for attorney general and A. N. Yoder for secretary of state. S. G. Murray was chosen for Congress. The platform debate centers on an eight hour work day as speeches by Knute Nelson and John L. Wilson frame the issues. Arthur Sewall dies at 64 in Bath Maine. Chinese troops withdraw rumor and British Indian forces totaling about 2,000 arrive at Shanghai with 1,000 camp followers.
A tropical hurricane struck the Florida coast with near 100 mph winds. Crews from two vessels are feared lost after boats were swept overboard about 80 miles south of Miami. The Culboon, loaded with lumber, is ashore and waterlogged while another lumber bark was stranded nearby. In Louisiana, the storm flood waters reach the Mississippi levees and two government officers are missing, with crop damage reported.
Mail advices from Australia report a brutal murder spree in New South Wales. A band of attackers killed young women at the Manley home in Gelgadia then fled on stolen horses, pursued by 1,000 volunteers and 12 bloodhounds. bodies were mutilated with hatchets. In Capetown a separate item notes orders for 800 coal trucks valued at $150,000 to Rand mining firms, with bids from British and American makers and concern over foreign participation.
The post office department issued a fraud order against the American Teachers' Agency the American Civil Service college L D Bass manager K H Himes secretary and treasurer and L D Bass and K M Himes in Washington D C for using mail to obtain money from teachers and exam prep applicants with false pretenses.
The steamer Bertha arrived from Valdes with about 50000 dollars in gold dust. Reports from Lituya Bay describe a deadly August earthquake sequence that drowned five Indians and displaced glaciers. A Copper River Dornix creek strike is being pursued, with a government trail 70 miles from Valdes to enable winter supply routes.
Reports from Sharpedale Colorado describe a cattlemen sheepmen feud intensifying as 85,000 sheep were driven over a 200 foot precipice near Mount Blanco. Water shortages and pasture disputes sparked armed clashes with 8,000 sheep culled and many killed as cowboys urged the plunge. The region is said to have taken up arms.
A New York committee to aid the South African republic met to discuss the Mar Harbor flag incident where a Boer flag raised by Edward Vannes was taken down by Bar Harbor authorities. A prepared letter praising Vannes action was read and ordered sent. Abd al Hamid 25th year jubilee in Constantinople dimmed by a life plot. 118 arrests made as secret inquiry proceeds.
Cy clone damaged crops in Casilda prompting a dispatch from Trinidad mayor to the military governor for relief. In Montana, Dallas Parrott was found murdered in his store near Dew Lodge county with tied hands and a towel over his face and the cash drawer empty. No leads are available.
Storm rips through the Texas coast with 80 mph winds and tidal surge. Galveston is reported devastated with thousands of homes destroyed and up to 4,000 residents left homeless or dead. Sabine Pass and Port Arthur report heavy losses as the Tremont Hotel hosts panic and refugees.
Houston Sept 11 A devastating inland and coastal storm leaves towns like Brookshire Hempstead and Sabine Pass reporting severe damage and loss of life. Four bodies recovered from a work train wreck at Brookshire, while Seabrooke and surrounding areas report missing persons and rising floodwaters near depots and streets.
Reports from Northern Labrador describe severe distress among shore men as ice remains long, vessels crushed in floes, supplies and gear lost, and the Labrador cod fishery declared a near total failure.
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