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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1900
Page
3
Local catalog style list shows B Ebert and Sons advertising lawn mowers freezers plow screens paint and hardware. Items include 70 cent plow screens 15 cent up, varnish stain 3s pint can 10 cents, ready mixed paints 95 cents to 1.20, and parity guarantee on mixed paints.
A plotted escape involving JC Boyd was thwarted when a supposed visitor in disguise attempted to pass a note to Boyd during a ten minute conference with a keeper at the Western penitentiary. The warden reported the note’s contents were revealing a daring escape plan. The incident may be linked to a recent tunnel attempt, suggesting allied plots. Railroad conference opens in Philadelphia with 1,56 delegates. Nicholas Reilinger, Russian czar representative, studies U S railway pensions and home life of railroad workers. Col John J. McCook presides.
Holbrook Nebraska October 11 a train struck a farm wagon carrying Mrs Herman Kielberk Jimmy and Lizzie Herman killing Miss Lizzie Herman Mrs Kielback and her baby girl and Mrs Charles Bartenbeck fatally injuring the latter's 18 month old daughter and seriously injuring her year old son The wagon was crushed and one horse killed Mrs Bartenbeck wife of Carl Bartenbeck was shot and killed nearby Monday night by his brother in law
Ex-President Harrison defends his retirement from campaigning and backs constitutional limits on Congress in puerto rico matters. He warns Bryan's election could destabilize the gold standard and urges voters to await Supreme Court decisions on territorial revenue and duties. He recalls Carnegie Hall views and stresses economic stability under McKinley era prosperity.
Shipping report from Jacksonville Florida on October 11 describes the first solid carload of oranges for the season. The decorated car was sent to a Chicago firm, carrying 300 boxes from Kissimmee Osceola County groves that had fully recovered from the 1894 freeze.
A violent strike confrontation in Hazleton Pennsylvania left Special Officer Ralph Mills dead and Officer George Kelper wounded as non union workers and strikers fought police at the Oneida area. Ten non union workers were seriously hurt.
Thousands of striking mine workers marched through Scranton on October 11 to protest operators’ wage proposal. John Mitchell attended the mass meeting with Mayor James Moir as crowds cheered the union leader and rejected a ten percent raise as insufficient. The parade, the largest in the Lehigh Valley in years, drew families from surrounding towns and filled streets for more than an hour.
A week of labor strife in the anthracite region stirs crowds in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre as speakers defend union rights, accuse mining interests, and report wage demands. Farmers near mining villages report nightly thefts. deputized sheriffs bolster patrols amid rising unrest and hunger. A naturalization ruling blocks a colored applicant. separate crime notes describe embezzlement, a bank clerk’s lavish accomplice, and a pending civil action over diamonds and funds.
Princeton defeated Pennsylvania State College by 26 points in Princeton. Bates College shut out New Haven Yale 50 to 0 in New Haven. Amherst beat Harvard 18 to 6 in Cambridge. Dickinson routed Pennsylvania 35 to 0 in Philadelphia. Williams 4 edged Columbia 0 in New York. Manhattan College defeated Lafayette 11 to 6 in Boston.
A morning dispatch reports German troops to occupy the Beijing line from Yanx-Tson to Pekin with Russian forces advancing north and toward the Amur region. French detachments move to relieve priests near Ching-Halen while others head toward Pao-Ting-Fu. The Moscow Moscow Standard notes Russians pushing the railway east from Khorbloe as Chinese forces mass near Mukden.
Berlin reports Britain's unreserved and unconditional acceptance of Germany's position on China. Britain directs its Pekin representative to act per Germany's second note. The French note is expected to be shelved, not affecting powers' harmony as Emperor Kuangsu regains authority. German press criticizes U S policy in China.
The body of Blanse Wetmore, three year old daughter of Byron Wetmore, keeper of the Plum Island lighthouse, was brought into Greenport on the Manhassett. The child and her sister were playing near the lighthouse when a scream drew the father upstairs. Blanche fell burning after her clothing caught fire, dying on the landing.
The Literals have performed better in counties than boroughs, gaining two seats yesterday. Ministerialists and opposition now hold 257 and 295 seats respectively, with Campbell Bannerman’s Stirlingburgh majority reduced and no other major developments. Admiral Sampson appeared in Washington showing a continued decline in health.
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