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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1900
Page
3
B Ebert and Sons advertise as leaders in low prices offering Whits Wash Brushes step ladders screen doors and window screens varnish stain paints and top dressings. The copy emphasizes ready mixed paints and color options with guaranteed quality and wholesale style pricing etched in a period newspaper voice.
Philadelphia reports Charles Smith and Charles Perry, both colored, arrested on suspicion in the murder of Prof Ror Wilson White of the University of Pennsylvania. Smith says the watch belonged to Perry. Perry says it came from a stranger. Amos Stirling and Ivory’s alibi questioned as police confusion grows. In San Francisco, Judge Merrow blocks mandatory inoculation of Chinese for plague and prevents federal quarantine bans, prompting Chinatown quarantine plans.
Telegraph dispatches from Lourenzo Marques describe Lord Roberts marching toward Johannesburg with Parisian-style urgency. Boer leadership portrays demoralization, rail sabotage fears, and rising anti English sentiment as General Botha urges peace terms while rumors swirl of Salisbury retirement and British advances.
Washington May 29 Mr Wellington spoke in favor of a senate sympathy resolution for Beers noting a secret understanding between the United States and Great Britain. He said proof could be found in state department archives, while Mr Lodge cited government activity and the administration’s stance. The house adjournment loomed as the session cleaned up remaining business with Judiciary Committee items set for consideration.
A Bellefontaine line car on the Transit company track at New Housing Avenue and Twentieth street was wrecked by a dynamite explosion placed by unknown parties. Antered by an explosion. Officers Stefaine and O'Keefe injured. Passengers unharmed. Labor Commissioner Rixey demanded arbitration appointments from Transit President Whitaker and Strikers’ chairman Edwards within 24 hours per state law.
United States Consul General Guenther reports German capital active worldwide. Germany holds hundreds of millions in loans and investments across North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, totaling about 2.38 billion dollars. Major allocations include nearly 3 million in North Africa and hundreds of millions in the Transvaal and Americas.
Minneapolis May 29 Judge John P. Rea who served as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1887 88 died at his Nicollet Island home after a long illness described as hardening of the brain He was born in Lower Oxford Pa October 13 1840 and rose from private in the Eleventh Ohio to brevet major for gallantry in action at Cleveland Tenn He edited the Minneapolis Tribune briefly and served as judge in the Fourth Judicial District from 1886 to 1890.
Aes. Bonds exchanged at the treasury for the new 2 per cent bonds of 1930 total 282,850,700 dollars. Nebraska Attorney General Smith initiates action to dissolve Omaha’s ice trust. The U.S. Supreme Court adjourns for the term until October. Over 3,000 workers idle from a Calmet and Hecla No. 2 shaft fire in Michigan. Safe crackers steal 4,000 dollars from a Marshall post office. Two youths, Wesley Smith and Jessie Skaggs, die when a Mackinaw Falls bridge collapses during a school picnic. Fifteen workers die in molten iron exposure at Juenkerath, Germany. An Keng Su, ex Korea cabinet minister, executed by torture for 1895 killings. James Smith carries a sympathy message from Philadelphia and New York schoolboys to President Kruger in Lourenco Marques.
Paris May 29 crowded chamber of deputies debated Reinach interpellation in session over Dreyfus affair. De Gailiffet defended army against insubordination while Socialists cheered, Nationalists protested, and a pandemonium ended with suspending the session as leaders clashed and orders to leave were called.
Chicago May 29 The Methodist Episcopal conference closes sessions after a month of debate on temperance and amusements. Delegates conclude business with limited action, deferring verdicts on card playing dancing and theatre going while avoiding public critique of McKinley and Griggs.
The Interior Department approved Geological Survey plans to push Alaska explorations. Teams will search Copper River district for copper deposits on Ghettyna and river headwaters, and Cape Nome to map gold bearing areas on Seward Peninsula. Next year may include a follow up along the gold belt toward Good Hope Bay, with supplies shipped seasonally to Allen Hakar River mouth.
The total solar eclipse of 1887 drew observers across the nation, with notes from Washington to Barnesville. Prof Shaner at Pinehorse and Prof Brown at Griffin reported successful observations while weather in Washington limited direct data. Twilight-dimmed lighting and precise contact timings were recorded by multiple observers, amid a gathering of scientists and scholars at Hampton Roads and Newport News.
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