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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
3
Local ad copy highlights Ebert and Sons as leaders in low prices for lawn hewers and cream freezers. Mentions various items with price cues and a window screen and stone offerings.
Weather disruptions strain coastal transport as sleet and storms hamper travel from New York to Beverly Mass. A fast boat crew reports four shouted evacuations while others remain aboard. Quarantine stations at El Paso, Texas brace for bubonic plague risk amid noisy storms and shifting travel plans.
Debates in a senate over mobilization and invasion risks involving Mercier and Falliéras surface as France weighs England’s defenses. Also reported are the Jefferson era style crime cases, a shooting in Lexington, and updates from Pekin, San Juan, Newport and Shanghai including embezzlement probes and Imperial edicts.
Governor Pingree pardons Gen. William White and Gen. A F Marsh, exquartermaster general and ex inspector general, in the Michigan National Guard after they paid 5000 in fines each. Restitution was made by Henderson Ames firm. White and Marsh had faced lengthy sentences for involvement in a military clothing fraud.
New York cable indicates promoter James J. Corbett signed Syracuse boxer Tommy Ryan to face Jack Root in Cincinnati. Corbett seeks a Jordan versus McGovern bout and a possible rematch with Jeffries. McGovern agrees if money talks. others considered for the event.
A work train with 25 to 30 track repairers collided with a freight train near Suisun California. Nine men were killed and about twenty injured as wreckage blocked 200 feet of track. Fog limited visibility as engineers and firemen escaped. Victims include John Daly Y Kelieher J Abiin J B Lumera J Hughes H Kernerhan F McGovern BR A Mahoney and Liverpool Red.
John Chanler Chanler former husband of Amelie Rives now princess Troubetskoy and related to William Astor Chanler has escaped Bloomingdale asylum near White Plains after two years of confinement. He wandered in Westchester county while living under limited liberty with a private room.
A strong December gale spared ships in New York harbor but battered the Jersey coast. Manhattan and Brooklyn saw record tides and a glass window shattered by a gust on Nassau Street as rain eased. In Washington, ex-President Harrison and Mr Hartson arrive with their daughter to meet John W. Foster. Harrison aims to help oversee church committee work on a proposed confession revision.
A mob of about 500 miners attacked the Bessemer Coal Company works in Latrobe Pennsylvania, injuring deputies A K Baker and David Detrick among others. Sheriff May halted the violence, locking up leaders for riot and aggravated assault as the protest over the company Cannellyuz sctle raged.
The article details a long senate session with discussions on a ship subsidy amendment proposed by Selective Verve Rav e. It covers amendments to repeal or curb ships built abroad and the legal framework for United States vessels. It also notes the house brief session and the push to advance the army reorganization bill, plus other measures. The report includes unrelated items about a New York injunction to prevent cremation of George Everall and a forgery trial of Nathan Musher.
A corrected casualty list from Mondays boiler explosion at Chicago and Northwestern railway lighting plant shows six dead and 16 injured, five likely to die. Names include Hugh McGregor added to the dead and others from Milwaukee and Chicago. Becks were en route home from their wedding trip.
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