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The June 8 1900 issue from Denit and Weluze publishers notes the newspaper details with contact phone number 6.
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Newspaper
Salem Times Register
Location
Salem, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1900
Page
2
The June 8 1900 issue from Denit and Weluze publishers notes the newspaper details with contact phone number 6.
The Times-Register marks its thirty-fifth year and thanks patrons as it begins another year. A question about ending the Philippine war prompts a quip from ex Speaker Reed. Reports claim Aguinaldo is killed, though such boasts recur and prove unreliable. A Bristol Press critique mocks race bias in suffrage debate, while noting good colored citizens exist in Virginia despite prejudice.
Governor Tyler will not call an extra legislative session this fall. Democratic leaders at the Norfolk convention favor an extra session in January. He prefers to defer constitutional convention matters to the regular session to avoid entangling state affairs with the presidential contest.
Bro. John Wanamaker says he is out of politics while Quay had done so earlier. Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee and the Misses Lee will spend the summer at Capon Springs. A kissing bug is said to have been captured in Richmond. Capt. W. T. White, longtime assistant superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary, died after a brief typhoid illness. Census takers face hostility in Norfolk's negro district amid fears of disfranchisement under a constitutional convention and Democratic plans. A Trafalgar anecdote recalls a sailor’s defiant prayer before battle.
Topeka Kansas farmers will begin harvest of the largest wheat crop in state history. Secretary Corbin of the State Board of Agriculture says the 1893 winter wheat acreage is 4,085,519 and the per acre yield should exceed 15 bushels, producing as much as 86,000,000 bushels if averages match 1892.
A man struck by a southbound freight train near Hollins station Sunday night was ground to pieces with parts found along the track for about a mile. Witness L Nininger said the victim seemed intelligent and was headed to Pittsburgh. No coffin, ceremony, or coroner’s inquest was held. remains dumped beside the rail. The notice also advertises the Free Street Fair and the Roanoke Carnival July 2 to 7.
Louis Klopsch of New York returned from a tour of Bombay presidency famine areas detailing cholera and smallpox outbreaks. He cites 3,000 deaths at Godhra and 2,500 at Dohad in four days, severe hospital death rates, extreme heat, and widespread decimation of the population.
Secretary Root sent to the Senate an extended report showing nearly 2,000 soldiers killed or died of wounds in the Philippines. He notes insanity and self-inflicted death rates since 1890 remain about the same per thousand as in peacetime before the Spanish American War.
The Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Co moves to hedge and closes furnaces and works in Max Meadows and nearby sites, with several hundred workers affected. Pulaski plant operations to halt as part of cost concerns from high transportation charges and falling iron prices.
A carload of girls traveling through Denver en route to Utah converted to Mormonism. The twenty brides-elect, aged up to 22, came from Missouri Iowa and Illinois under a deacon and his wife. They plan to marry rich Mormons and one, Jennie Hodges of Peoria, says she will not marry unless a suitable partner appears. Young men are also converting and moving to Utah.
At a Saturday meeting the Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted resolutions mourning the death of W P Moomaw long a member and chairman. They praised his zeal and fidelity, offered sympathy to his family, and ordered the resolutions recorded and copies sent to the family and local newspapers.
Samuel Hill a 388 year old resident of Brooklyn was found waiting on Miss Helen Gould’s stoop claiming she is his half sister and that he owns money. He was taken to Bellevue after a Yorkville Court magistrate ordered mental examination following custody at Bellevue.
A Norfolk barber named Reed, a Black man, reportedly uttered a wish that the sun never shine again during the eclipse on Monday. He collapsed and has been unable to speak or move since, despite once being among the city’s healthiest residents. Attend Roanoke Carnival, July to 7.
The case of Rev J E Riddick, accused of shooting Dr W H Temple after a suspected insult to his wife, dominates proceedings. Defense argues insanity supported by expert testimony from Hodges and Drewry, with Riddick displaying marked mental disturbances, poems written in prison, and fluctuating prospects for conviction. Bryan leads New York delegation toward a Democratic nomination.
British troops under Lord Roberts occupied Pretoria yesterday, ending a major campaign. Boers offered stubborn resistance at Six Mile Spruit 10 miles south, retreating after artillery exchanges and concealed cannon fire. Reinforcements under Gen Hamilton arrived, the defenders pulled back, and fighting continued until dusk.
Reports from Shanghai state Boxers intensify assaults on foreigners and missionaries with several American victims. Foreign powers urge Pekin blockades of the Pei Ho and Tien Tsin corridors while the State Department limits to protecting American interests. Dowager Empress defies European meddling. Viceroy orders troops to halt foreign landings at Taku and marines on Pekin risk. In other news, Homer Garvin of Quincy, ill after his wedding trip, is sent to asylum after escalating mania in Denver.
An advertisement touts Young Jean UDanted as a high quality school offering telegraphy railroad accounting and typewriting courses with admission of ladies. It claims endorsed by leading companies and that graduates receive placement assistance. Free catalogue invitation includes Fat. Team Ovens Avovar 15th.
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