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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1900
Page
3
San Francisco board of health adopts a resolution declaring bubonic plague exists in the city and county. Six deaths in recent months prompt quarantines and precautions while Chinatown residents resist inoculation efforts amid police-escorted exodus attempts. Officials deny immediate danger but vow vigilance and ongoing containment.
The report notes Marlborough sweetheart on sick leave, Portuguese authorities at Lorenzo Marques declare corsnd bow contra and of war, a jury acquits two men accused of assaulting Boers, four hundred burghers surrender near Brochstad in the Orange Free State, and general troop moves and governance changes under British pressure. It mentions Johannesburg mines, Kruger permission denial, proclamations on cross-border tensions, an explosion blamed on careless workers, and Sir Charles Warren named Military Governor of Cape Colony north of the Orange River.
Report from Pretoria states that after heavy bombardment the Mafeking siege was abandoned and a relief column seized the town. A British force from the south took possession while 6,000 troops surrounded Christiania and Dandroost officials were captured.
Early Saturday morning the bodies of Henry Reichmann of Memphis and Mrs. Lilly Badakib of Forest City Arkansas were found in Memphis Tennessee. Reichmann was shot three times and Mrs Badakib one bullet. The case is shrouded in mystery.
Deputy auditor W H Reeves admitted receiving 4500 from C F W Neely the chief postal financier and confessed to leaving for services the day he departed Havana Officials refuse to detail the confession saying one has been nude and the total defalcation is now believed to range from 100000 to 125000.
The general conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Columbus Ohio elected five new bishops. The appointees include M M DD Washington Evans Maner Nashville D Nashville C L Shaffer D D Sophia L Cosnen D D Philadelphia. With five more bishops elected the council now contains thirteen who are elected for life.
An eclipse totality on May 23 will be visible across many U S locations. John Hopkins University observatories and the United States Naval Observatory coordinate a nationwide effort with teams from Washington Pinehurst N C and the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
The report notes the Consul at Amsterdam will spend 450 dollars on Dutch books for the use of Noet prisoners at 8t Holan. Kruger replies to General Rob about British prisoners at Pretoria. colonial prisoners are mentioned. Boer women offer to guard railways or fight at the front. Imperial authorities in Cape Town have sent money to Pretoria for nonprisoners, British and colonial. Adelbert May, American Consul at Pretoria, will distribute the funds. A naval observatory party from Grima, Ga., and academics from Columbia, Northwestern, and other universities will conduct observations at Burneaville, Ga. A large university representation from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Penn, Virginia, Chicago, and others will participate. On May 24 a solar eclipse shadow will cross the earth from New Delhi to Gaye Honey, with about eighty miles wide. totality over a two minute span will occur at certain locations. The eclipse path and timing are detailed, with totality durations varying by location.
Locust swarms appear in Kansas while reports cover price hikes in coal mine output in England and a Danish offer to sell St John Island to the U.S. Other items note a new Bible translation amidst Old Testament precedence, American jockeys in England, German and Austrian meat trade moves, Puerto Rico experiments, Sunday rail services, land tax in Kyau Chau, Chicago Education Board backing playgrounds, streetcar brooming in South Chicago, a Berwick gold mine, Linon telegraph growth, daily Philippine word流, Argentine youths to U.S. agricultural schools, St Paul planning a 150 by 10 auditorium seating 15 000, Baltimore Park Bond automobile bans, White House Easter costs, and White House repairs.
Fragmentary note reports labor interference in the Northwest building work. It cites 1898 figures of 15,100 tobacco workers in France and 100,000 coolies shipped from Cline to Manaturin for Port Arthur railway construction. Mentions Kansas City boycott threats amid a strike and contractors seeking a nine hour workday.
In Arlington Ga a man killed his brother and partner J W Cowart in the store of J B Cowart and Bro during a dispute in a turpentine timber and merchandise business. The killer acted in defense of his life after a business misunderstanding arose between them.
United States district court judge John A Williams sentences Guy Miller and Alden Hoyer to six months and thirty days in jail for contempt of court. They blocked a street car and interfered with the non union motorman and conductor employed by the court appointed streetcar system receiver.
A fragmented, ornate meditation on salvation and the afterlife with a focus on heavenly visions and the transformation of earthly worship. It weaves classical imagery with apocalyptic prophecy and invokes biblical figures, churches, and cityscapes to depict a celestial procession and a transformed world.
An OCR damaged text fragment references the Paris Exposition and a court case with scattered names and phrases. It mentions various individuals and locations in a jumbled, partial description with no clear events, dates, or outcomes. The piece resembles a chaotic catalog of topics rather than a coherent report.
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