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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1900
Page
7
Advertisement fragment touts Piso’s Cure for throat and lung ailments with testimonials from Wm G Endsley of Van Buren Indiana dated February 10, 1900. It promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a one day cold cure guarantee and Grove’s signature on the box, price 25 cents.
A vast Marseilles crowd greets Mr. Kruger in a dramatic display of support while Boer leaders Fischer Wessels and Grobler stand with him. The event includes a cathedral procession and a later anti British outburst, police dispersal, and student demonstrations in front of Kruger's hotel.
A Paris committee of Boer Independence posts a placard urging Parisians to give Mr. Kruger a warm welcome. The appeal praises his mission and asks Paris to express solidarity with the Boers and the South African republics, while urging restraint to avoid hindering his work.
Abram Moore, a Nebraska traveling man, is denied appeal after being convicted a year ago of selling cattle he did not own from the Strahorn Vinton Evans company. He faces one year in jail and a $1,000 fine upon return to Chicago.
Washington reports that Minister Conger has not replied to the State Department for over a week. Officials advise against insisting on tough terms while noting the Pekin talks may fail without consensus among Russia France United States Germany Britain and Japan and may trigger new direct negotiations or power by powers with a German British plan existing.
In Hong Kong a Filipino junta convened on November 15 to defy deportation and aid insurgents. Aguinaldo reportedly alive but wounded in the stomach. The junta plans another arms shipment using a launch possibly under the German flag, led by Colonel Julio del Pilar with agents Heyes and Gardia at Macao. China’s General Pana, recently deported, met with the junta and then proceeded to Singapore. In Manila, Lt. Frederick W. Alstaetter, an American engineer captured near San Isidro, has been released and will head to Manila.
Chairman Burton said the House committee would meet Monday to begin work on a river and harbor bill and aims to push it through the House before the holidays. He noted no final decisions, but a strict public good versus private interest line would guide the bill and a policy on Mississippi River improvements would be determined.
The Interstate Commerce Commission finished sessions in Chicago on November 23 and left for Washington that evening. After completing work on discrimination cases, a special session examined complaints of under-billing freight to eastern points by several shippers. The inquiry began weeks ago with testimony heard in New York a week prior.
From Livadia in European Russia, Nov 22, Emperor Nicholas enjoyed a favorable day. He slept, felt at ease, and showed improved health with a temperature of 99.6 at 9 am and a pulse of 68 after a restful night. Earlier at 9 pm the temperature was 110.6 with a 64 pulse.
Natives report that Steyn and General Dewet with 1000 men attacked a British post between Alexandria and Warringham's store, then retreated along a road to Dewetsdorp in the Orange River colony. The report places the action near Maseru in Basutoland on November 20.
W F F Mellick once head of a National Bank in Pocatello Idaho and a noted cattle baron in Apache County now travels under an alias and is staying at Morris Plains New Jersey under an arrangement supported by his father R W Mellick a wealthy farmer from New Germantown New Jersey.
Ex Speaker Reed values punctuality and scolds an office boy who, after two weeks of lateness, arrives on time only to cite Reed’s claim that there is nothing like regularity to justify his own change in habit. The boy explains he kept his prior tardiness to stay consistent with his method.
Brigadier General Merriam notes foreign service strains on U S forces with Lieutenant Delamere Skerrett acting in multiple roles under the Missouri department. Gibraltar has sixty two miles of fortified rock tunnels. Includes asides on Magnetic Starch Jell O Cascargets and other ads and notes on education poetry and food products. The passage mixes military report with advertising filler and miscellaneous trivia.
The piece notes widespread smoking in Japan with women using long pipes and signaling favor by letting a gentleman smoke. It also reports that Charles Kendall Adams has retired from the presidency of the University of Wisconsin and will travel abroad for health reasons, though he has not formally resigned and Dean E A Birge will act in his stead.
A jumble of lines reflects themes of humor and satire, noting the perils of vanity and the inevitability of flaws. It mentions Germany importing 214,138 metric tons of potatoes and promotes Magnetic Starch as a preferred product, framing practicalities amid quips.
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