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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1900
Page
2
France to send two cruisers to China and other global items include deaths and disasters from yellow fever outbreaks in the Caribbean and Dublin. A string of accidents, rail and road, injure or kill several, while politics and labor movements ripple across the United States.
London dispatches report foreign consuls say Pekin legations were safe on July 4 after initial fanatical riots near Nankin. Chinese forces near Tien Tsin range 80 000 to 100 000 with Russians at Taku and Japanese sending transports. Allies may reach 50 000 troops ashore with British India and Japanese contingents.
Deputy United States Marshal Howard Wilson was killed and Tip Day and Joseph Bush were fatally wounded in a clash near Marbo Menefee County after lawmen sought Day on Virginia charges including alleged Internal Revenue violations. William Stamper accompanied Wilson and survived. Day and Bush exchanged heavy fire with lawmen.
St Louis July 9 report says George Schoening and William Grab were killed and Fred Frige fatally injured when their buggy was struck and demolished by a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern train at a crossing near Columbia, N.
ST LOUIS July 9 The executive committee of the local branch of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes of America have decided to call a mass meeting to consider the relations existing between the St Louis Transit company and its employes. It is asserted by the executive committee that the agreement signed by President Whittaker of the Transit company and Chairman Ed wards of the strikers grievance committee whereby the strike was declared off has been violated by the former.
Three more bodies were found in the Saale wreck today, bringing total recovered to 146 with 29 in this update. Victims, likely stewards, were identified only by scene, found in the second cabin after the fire. A separate torso-like body was found at Rockaway Beach and taken to the morgue. No new bodies surfaced from Bremen or Main. dynamite near the wrecks failed to reveal more remains.
Late South Africa dispatches detail Boer assaults on General Butler’s escort between Standerton and Heidelburg repelled. Micksburg garrison driven off after midnight attack. Deernborg base used for convoy raids. Brigadier Brabant’s July 5 seizure of Deernborg noted. Strathcona Horse repelled near Standerton. Limmer failed to retake Rustenburg. Gazaland movement potential noted with Boer crossing into Portuguese territory.
Still fighting in Luzon on July 8 reports heavy casualties with eleven Americans killed and sixteen wounded. Filipino deaths reach 160 this week as rebels surrender eight Americans and 100 rifles are turned over to U S officials. The Third Infantry incurs nine losses on an expedition. a three hour running fight in Panay leaves seventy enemy dead or wounded. Americans report no casualties and note insurgents inch toward amnesty.
Two churchgoers among a group on South Twenty-seventh Street were killed when a freight train derailed at a switch on the Pittsburg Virginia and Charleston line. A third victim, Thomas Edwards, suffered severe injuries including leg amputation. Mrs. Edwards was fatally injured.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad gains control of the Coshocton and Southern railroad via receiver transfer and will operate both freight and passenger services starting July 15. The general superintendent’s office is abolished and operating duties shift to division superintendents.
London reports Russia grants Japan free hand to deploy troops in China to protect foreigners in Pekin. Japanese minister Hayashi predicts 20 000 more troops may be sent as rebels are pursued and the capital Pekin sees widespread slaughter of native Christians.
Dispatch from Gold Coast by Sir Frederick Hodgson reports a relief column halted by food shortages and rebel pursuit. Four hundred in the column including Base Mission members faced severe privation with Kumassi suffering extreme mortality. Hodgson hopes to reach the Gold Coast in ten days.
The US transport Sedgwick arrived in Boston with over 40 Cuban women teachers bound for Harvard University summer school. This marks the first group for a season of study and two more transports are expected to arrive.
The July 6 newspapers react to Lipido's trial verdict. The Daily Telegraph calls it monstrous, the Daily Chronicle an outrage on humanity, and the Daily Mail calls it a reproach on Belgium, reflecting widespread consternation in London.
The Northwestern Scandinavian Sangers association began its annual singing in St Paul with a grand concert tonight. Delegates arrived from North and South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota to attend.
Three people, Mrs ante Johnson and her son Al rt Johnson and G. J. Phelps, were drowned when a skiff sank during a rainstorm on Lake Charles today. The victims were aged 11 and the two adults, local authorities said.
The market shows 158 loads totaling 3453 cattle led by corn fed beeves, prices mostly steady to 10c lower with some declines. Hogs: 8000 head, 115 cars, demand steady with a 5.15 to 5.25 range, higher early then eased. Sheep: three loads, 702 head, firm on choice, slower on common with lambs 4.05 to 6.50.
Cattle receipts 2500 with steady to strong tone. Native steers 3.75 to 5.60, Texas steers 2.75 to 5.25, Texas cows 2.60 to 3.05, native cows and heifers 2.10 to 4.00, bulls 8.23. Hog receipts 9000 market strong to 10c higher, most sales 5.25 to 5.37. mixed 5.15 to 5.50, light 5.05 to 5.25. Sheep receipts 2000 market steady. lambs 3.00 to 5.90, muttons 3.00 to 5.00.
A lightning bolt struck the Standard Oil yard in Constable Hook causing an explosion that killed electrician Charles King and injured several others. Dozens worked as tanks burned with flames rising high and oil spreading toward the upper bay threatening adjacent properties. The blaze began around 1 PM and continued through the evening.
A sightseeing Edison car carrying over 100 passengers plunged sixty feet from a Tacoma bridge into a gulch during a parade crowd. The car rolled over, crushing many women and children as debris swept the slope, with the cause and exact death toll still uncertain.
Pittsburg reports two youths Cheater McHy aged 8 and Reuben Heater aged 9 drowned today while on an improvised raft watching men drag the river for the body of Clarence Lutz who was drowned yesterday. The bodies were recovered soon after.
London reports General Paget moving toward the heart of Dewet’s territory. A telegram from Lord Roberts dated July 6 notes Paget’s engagement on July 3 at Pleisfontein, driving the enemy from a strong position across Leeuwkop to Greenerfontein and for the night.
London dispatch reports that allied commanders say it would be suicidal to advance to Pekin with current forces. Chinese troops and Boxers hold the countryside between Tien Tsin and Pekin, with 12 000 international troops at Tien Tsin and 8 000 at Taku fight amid superior artillery.
Shanghai July 6 report says Emperor Kwang Su killed himself by opium under pressure from Prince Tuan. the empress dowager also took poison but survived though she is said to be insane from the drug. Two Manchus corroborate the palace visit and offer of poison or sword. The same day the Chinese customs bureau was destroyed and Sir Robert Hart fled to the legations.
In Birmingham on July 6 coal operators and miners of Alabama agreed on the wage question and signed a one year contract ending June 30, 1909 based on the just completed pact. Mine work will resume and blast furnaces idle since the suspension will restart early next week.
A blank cartridge fired by a black boy at close range into a display of highly explosive fireworks in front of Antenario Mammerello’s shop on Eighth Street injures and kills multiple people. Four children are left dead and up to twenty others damaged, with two adults among the injured. The blast occurred in a densely populated area as giant firecrackers torpedoes rockets and chasers exploded.
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