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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1900
Page
3
Reader notes express comfort in using Hiser's coal for a location. Describes it as tempering quickly, burning slowly with a bright clear glow and strong penetrating heat. Claims it is carefully prepared and leaves fine ashes, with orders filled promptly and carefully.
The Santa Clara provincial council protests restricted suffrage while General Wood backs universal suffrage. Drake of Chicago allegedly disrupts Cuban politics with private meetings and anti-American agitation. Officials warn such acts are crimes, as calls for elections loom and a municipal census order is issued to enroll votes for the coming election.
Pittsburg district miners gathered for their annual conference likely to run all week. Debate centers on wage differentials between thick and thin vein mines and adjustments for machine, lead work, and turning. An 21 percent addition to the old scale may be used, but the differential remains unsettled.
In South Lebanon township farmer David S. Long shot and killed an intruder, John Becker of Midway, who was detected by Long's family during a burglary. Long surrendered and was released on $1,000 bail. Long's daughter Eva woke him as Becker attempted to escape through a front window.
President Diaz orders two more regiments to Yucatan to join General Bravo in the Maya rebellion crackdown. One unit departs from San Luis Potosí and the other from Veracruz, with Colonel Fernando Gonzales placed to direct one division in the operation. Additionally a fatal railroad landslide near Black Mountain, North Carolina, kills two workers, and Montreal’s Grand Trunk ends pulp wood shipments to the United States.
London reports Lord Roberts plans to strike from the left of Magersfontein to lift the Kimberley siege. Colville is named to command the Ninth Division with Pole-Carew succeeding him. Censorship rules tighten while naval and war material mobilization accelerates, hinting at major operations to come. Kimberley endures high mortality and bombardment as Boer scouts probe lines near Magersfontein.
Maud S 26, famed harness trotter and Beasts at Bonner estate sale at Madison Square Garden. Despite age she remains fit and can trot a mile in 2 minutes 40 seconds or better. Maud S 208% record stands as best on record to a high wheel sulky.
President McKinley met with Lillian M. Stevens Anna A. Gordon and Margaret Dye Elis after the attorney general’s opinion on army canteen liquor sales. Stevens pressed for change on behalf of 300,000 WCTU members but McKinley said AG Griggs’s interpretation must stand and that Congress must speak plainly to alter the law.
Washington reports a House-passed bill making in bond transit universally allowed, enabling goods to move through U S territory to foreign ports and repealing the 1895 law restricting bond shipments to the Mexican free zone. Senate debate on the financial bill featured Elkins Wolcott and Butler arguing for and against currency proposals. Also covered: Bryan's Raleigh appearance and a Las Cruces bank robbery.
In Frankfort Kentucky on February 13 Republicans in the legislature informed Governor Taylor they would adjourn and await Judge Taft's Cincinnati ruling. Troop movements and a Goebel assassination bullet found in a capitol tree dominated the day as litigation over election matters loomed, with Judge Taft set to unveil a decision at 2 pm tomorrow.
Louisville reports say Democratic lawyers aimed to force Supreme Court style adjudication of Taylor and Beckham claims to Kentucky’s governor via state court suits or equity petitions. A Taeft federal-court option was considered but unlikely. Republicans may pursue federal action. A $100,000 reward for Goebel’s murderer was proposed in the legislature. Niagara Dam debate prompts opposition to Corliss bill to dam Niagara River and a Mather bridge proposal.
Springfield Illinois February 15 delegates from Lange ron county split the Republican convention with Cullom delegates leaving the hall and adjourning to the Opera House Two delegations will seek admission to the state and congressional conventions creating two Republican legislative tickets in the field In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania February 13 Patrick Quillan and Anthony Leger were entombed in the Maffett mine at Sugar Notch while mining pillars gave way Rescue workers are actively digging for survivors
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