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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1900
Page
4
A bright new star for Texas is La Porte on Galveston Bay between Houston and Galveston. Public works include wharfs docks and water front facilities. The U S Government plans to deepen the channel for ocean vessels to service La Porte. An automatic photography device is noted for entry points to shops.
A collage of 19th century ads and notes references a Humane Home and Sanitar ium, a beet sugar venture in Ontario, a nerve restorer remedy, an Arch Street Philadelphia address, apple shipments in Huron County, Magnetic Starch as laundry staple, long French bread, Welter Baker products, January thaw chatter, Greenland illnesses, Mrs. Winslow’s Syrup for teething, Buddhists population estimate, and Canada’s $90 million waterways spend.
General Otis reports successful operations in northwest Luzon with the rescue of American prisoners. Captains Hare and Howe arrived from Vigan with detainees. The Albany gunboat raised a flag on Sibutu island marking a new seizure near Borneo as the Sultan of Jolo may claim jurisdiction.
The executive committee of the trunk line association met in New York and adopted a resolution for a joint meeting of official classification committees of roads using the classification. The hearing to consider classification No 20 will be held in New York on Monday January 22. Shippers should present written statements, and public notice will be given through the press. Traffic managers east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio attended.
A boiler blast at Charles Stout’s sawmill eight miles east of Anna Illinois killed engineer John Adams and two others, Matt McGinniss and Nelson McGinniss, and severely injured Stout who may die. Also noted is a Chicago school board plan to remove Histories of England from grades seven and eight readings and replace them with books not referencing England as mother country.
An Austrian named Mapture arrived in Boston as a stowaway on the British steamer Fitz Clarence and is reported to be suffering from bubonic plague.
Santa Fe headquarters in Chicago reports American Beet Sugar company will build a sugar beet plant at Rocky Ford in the Arkansas valley. The facility, costing about 1.5 million dollars, will be among the largest, with 18 000 tons yearly refined sugar capacity and use 100 000 tons of beets. Farmers near Rocky Ford plan to plant 80 000 acres, expecting about 40 dollars per acre profit, and irrigation has turned the area fertile. Two more large plants are anticipated in the valley within two to three years.
N S Harwood a prominent Lincoln lawyer and banker died after a stroke at 5 PM Friday three hours later at his home 1618 L Street He had suffered a lighter stroke three months earlier but recovered His fatal seizure occurred while he was going down stairs to the bathrooms at Eleventh and P Streets and he did not regain consciousness This obituary notes his long service and state-wide recognition.
Mrs Matilda B Carse proposes a financial plan to save the Chicago woman's temple if Marshall Field delays foreclosure and allows trustees another chance. The plan will be reviewed by trustees and a bondholders committee. National WCTU officers move to Evanston as the temperance publishing association plans a ten year agreement to cede publications to an outside firm per stockholders demand for dividends.
U S District Attorney Summers in Omaha seeks federal writ for Corporal Fair and Private Jockens jailed at Papillion after state court order. Judge Howard bound them to $1000 bonds which were not posted. War Department reportedly directed action. Soldiers acquitted by military court martial for shooting a deserter not on a military reservation. state rights issue noted.
The St Louis circuit court rooms and related offices will receive electric lighting after each judge signed separate contracts with Missouri Edison. City institutions had been dark since January due to a lapse in a temporary contract pending a new agreement set for April 30. In a separate matter, Edward Winch won a $650 verdict in Buffalo against Typographical Union No. 9 over alleged conspiracy to oust him for not joining the union.
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