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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1900
Page
3
An advertisement touts Putnam Faceless Dyes claiming dyeing goods requires no experience and boiling in dye. It promises simple, fast results for home use. The rest of the note references varied topics from homestead rights to employment and a Yale study on head size and lung capacity, lacking cohesive reporting.
Washington reports outline New York's Platt joint resolution inviting Britain to join an international commission on waterway boundaries between nations. Utah's Rawlins seeks inquiry into polygamy. North Carolina rights linked to a proposed constitutional amendment. Philippine policy debates continue as Quay seating issue and Bates treaty questions surface. Roberts case dominates House floor amid applause and dramatic exchanges. Senate discusses Clare-Bulwer and Panama canal, deferrals on several resolutions. Eulogies for Vice President Hobart close the week.
News from Honolulu via the steamer Miowera reports a total of 29 deaths from 39 cases up to sailing time. The list includes two whites, one half caste, ten Hawaiians, three Japanese, and thirteen Chinese. The Red Cross society and local clergy have worked among the sick, with voluntary isolation to aid the afflicted.
In Washington on January 24 the Missouri case against the Chicago drainage canal ends with the Supreme Court permitting the Missouri attorney general to file a bill to make the summons defend ants returnable April 22. The court declines a temporary injunction against canal operation in the interim. London reports January 29 that north Cape Colony shows signs of force movements as Gen French reaches Gatacre, hinting at a possible joint action and concentration of forces forming Roberts's campaign groundwork.
Governor Wells issues a proclamation calling an April 2 election to fill a vacancy in the Fifty sixth Congress. Sarr Lane Utah.
Advices from Spearman's camp confirm General Woodgate was dangerously wounded in the Spion Kop action, with General Warren declaring the enemy's position untenable. News notes Buller's praise of the troops and discusses defenses and probable follow up as British forces hold the high ground near Spion Kop.
A thousand men with Winchester rifles arrived by special train in Frankfort from Bell Allen Knox Harlan Whitler Metcalf Edmundson counties. Ex Secretary of State Finley urged the legislature to act justly, warning that voters gave them authority to decide judicially. A committee drafted a remonstrance urging prudence and the will of the people be upheld. They departed at nine p.m.
Gen. Schwan's six companies with artillery repelled a 500-strong insurgent force at San Diego near San Pablo. enemy losses were 67 killed and wounded. American casualties 1 killed and 14 wounded. A second squad routed 100 rebels in a separate position, with 15 killed. Schwan then flanked Majayjay, La Guna province, by rope traversal, forcing evacuation. Part of his force then killed six at Santa Cruz. Japan may send 30,000–40,000 troops to aid Britain in the war against Russia, if allied and fleet assistance is arranged to free Britain for Africa and India.
Manila reports Gen Kobbe landed two companies near Legaspi after a two hour engagement with 600 insurgents who had destroyed piers and held trenches. Albay and Virac fell as Nashville's shells burned hemp stocks. 8,000 bales burned and 100,000 bales await shipment. Released Spanish prisoners transported for Spain. In Detroit a white girl aged 17 defies color lines by living with a Negro family after infatuation with a jailed thief.
Mary Fox heiress to 24500 from Henry Fox of St. Louis lives in a squalid Page street house with husband Samuel Mitchell a gray haired janitor. The story notes she eloped fifteen years ago and faded from wealth after her father’s deathbed relenting details of poverty in Denver.
Washington January 29 The funeral of Gen Lawton will be the most imposing military funeral here since Gen Sheridan General Shafter to accompany Mrs Lawton and the remains to the capital as a military escort Gen Merritt will command the cortege here with Generals Miles Brooke and Shafter as pallbearers and all general officers in attendance Senators and House military affairs committees officials from the War Department and the President and his Cabinet and Congress will attend the services.
Jan 29 Carrtown Ohio shooting match ends with John Kulp killed when a gun fired while John Willoughby of Hamilton stood at the trap. No blame on Willoughby. Other items note a London trolley plant via St Louis Car Co with $100000 cost and Jeremiah McMahon found guilty of murder in Chicago with a 14 year sentence.
Jan 29 Blgin Illinois report states the late Orlando Davidson left property valued near 50000 dollars. Hugin academy receives a bequest of 10000 dollars.
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