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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1900
Page
3
Fragmented report from Shenandoah County on Porter and a guard’s transfer, with brief notes on a bank burglary acquittal in Strasburg and a Rockaway post office case. Also a lightweight New York snow flurry late yesterday, with intermittent light flurries from 7 to 9 PM.
Miss Loonie Yrken was sent to Auburn prison to serve four years and nine months for offering forged deeds for record. Lord Wolseley plans a future tour to campaign sites in Canada, South Africa, and Egypt, with dates noted in London dispatches.
Reports from Shanghai and Pekin describe Japanese and European pressure, German diplomacy, and Russian confluence amid court transfers rumors. News cites Knappe's Shanghai trip, viceroy meetings, and shortages of safe policy as allied troops clash with Chinese authorities.
At Driftwood Pennsylvania an explosion torn to atoms killed Herman Smith of Reading, foreman for Driftwood Water Company project, as he tried to thaw dynamite. Several workers injured. explosion shook town. Separate items note Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad stock option talks and czar Nicholas II illness rumors.
Newcomb once worth millions and former Louisville and Nashville president seeks to regain the remainder of his fortune after being declared insane. Secret hearings in New York over three days aim to prove sound mind with $275,000 at stake. He had assigned his assets to his wife and children before sanitarium confinement.
Stanford University economist Edward Ross resigns claiming he was forced out by commercial interests and power players in San Francisco. He cites support from Mrs Stanford’s circles and warns against bowing to Standard Oil and other entrenched forces. Also reports boxing match deals by James J Jeffries and a deadly derailment on the southern French railroad with multiple fatalities and missing passengers.
A mob of about a hundred cigar workers attacked the Mentaien Muia & Co factory in Tampa led by the International Labor union demanding wage changes. The plant was guarded as workers returned to work after a settlement set up by business leaders and union committees. The accord requires unions to form committees, post bonds, and recognize the Resistencia standard across affiliates. No arrests were made. violence cooled and factories gradually reopened.
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