13 Nov 1900
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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1900
Page
1
A catastrophic river disaster results in about twelve thousand deaths, including many women and children. Emergency responders contend with mass casualties as communities mourn and search efforts continue amidst chaotic scenes.
A Belgian traveler describing September events along the Amur river after Blagovetchensk depicts mass drownings and large villages decimated. He cites 12 000 corpses, with thousands of women and children, amid ruined navigation. Russians capture an arsenal near Yeng Teun and tensions rise around Tong Ku housing foreigners.
In Sergent Kentucky on Sunday night three masked robbers entered Mina Hall's home and shot her after a demand for money was refused. Her son was fatally wounded. The robbers perished. In Converse Indiana last night robbers stole $1000 from Kellar and W Leon's implement store.
North Forest fires in San Bernardino destroy Brooking's mill the largest in southern California. The blaze consumes over 10,000,000 feet of lumber causing about 400000 dollars in damage. The mill is owned by Michigan ines near the San Senapding range.
A fierce gale swept the English Channel causing multiple wrecks. The ketch Georgiana was lost off Hayling Island with all aboard drowned.
New York November 18 Recorder granted a motion to dismiss indictments against Chief of Police Bevery charging violation of the election law. Also reports Grant Brothers stock brokers assigned as a result of the alleged defalcation of a trusted employee.
Report details a widening conspiracy involving bank staff with $356,000 allegedly falsified over five years. Arrests target Connor and Brady and a bookkeeper Lea who vanished on leave. New charges include conspiracy and bank fraud as investigations continue in Somerset and nearby areas.
Indiana mine action stalls as coal operators refuse to adopt the Illinois wage standard. About 6,000 workers idle nationwide. hoisting engineers resist labor rule, limiting output. Other notes include deaths of Mrs Serel ds and Capt John B Hart, with regional reports on creamery federation plans in Milwaukee.
Rough notes place population center seven miles north of Coluntins Indiana. References to naval and military topics, Portugal, South Africa, and Missouri court matters appear in fragmentary form with uncertain dates and scattered names.
Paris reports the 1900 Exposition closed after a night fete despite cold rain. Attendance topped 50.9 million, double the 1889 expo, with 60,000 visitors on the best day. Officials consider demolishing most pavilions, keeping only features like the Champ de Mars border and Seine riverside.
New York reports the deaths of Henry Villard and Marcus Daly. Villard, once boss of the Northern Pacific, died of apoplexy after a weeks long illness at his Thornwood Park home near Dobbs Ferry. Daly, founder of the Amalgamated Copper Co, died at the Netherland Hotel in New York after a grave illness, leaving a fortune estimated at 20 to 30 million.
The text notes a large rise in treasury receipts this year, nearly 100,000,000 francs, from Parisian petrol duties and surpluses aiding state works. It cites remaining monuments, quays, bridges, improved transport from the exposition, and a general city toilette enhancing brilliance and beauty.
Chattanooga Nov 1 Annie Norton a city resident shot herself in the breast with a pistol a few days ago and was thought unlikely to live now in fair condition. Dr Shot who treated the case says the bullet penetrated the heart a rare survival case.
A chaotic Chicago news page reports Mrs. Peter Schutt shooting her husband at North Marshfield Avenue, the Isadore hotel death of Mary Barnett after a night with a man, a dog at a lake and police dragging for a body, plus miscellaneous notices and local events across several towns with scattered details. The item includes a mix of crime, a hotel death, a public police drag search and other brief regional notices.
President McKinley told a cabinet meeting that he hopes all cabinet members will remain in their posts for the next four years. He called the election results an endorsement of his ideas and each department's administration as well as his own policies.
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