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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1900
Page
2
The Weekly Record from Silver Lake Indiana published by The Record Publishing Co. serves as the local newspaper with notices, ads, and community items for residents and businesses in the Silver Lake area.
An Important Record of the Week gathers brief items from the Telegraph with updates on foreign shores crimes casualties and fires. It compiles quick notes on notable events and incidents across regions.
Comptroller Tracewell rules the Ilawaiian Islands are part of the United States under the May 21 1900 act. Navy officers there are within the US realm and not beyond seas. Therefore mudh officers receive regular officer pay, not the army-like increase from May 26 1900.
The government decided not to send any more troops to China. About 4,000 troops now at sea plus 3,000 more ordered for the Far East will be redirected to Manila after touching at Nagasaki, unless China developments require a different deployment.
Official dispatches in Washington report that Germany has rejected China's peace proposal in a move similar to the United States. The German foreign office handed its reply to the Chinese minister at Berlin, insisting no negotiations with Li Hung Chang unless his credentials prove authority from China's government.
Judge Carnell continues Henry Youtsey case due to ill health and postpones Coombs Whitaker and Davis cases to October term. Accused may post bail of 3000 dollars each.
The Rome correspondent of the London Daily Mail reports a surge in Italian duels. Over the past weeks up to four duelists were killed in separate towns and the last year saw about 2400 duels with roughly 480 deaths, mostly among army officers over trifling pretexts.
The twelfth census shows Omaha Neb population at 102,555 in 1900, down from 1890 figure of 140,952. The city records a decrease of 87,897 people, a 26.98 percent drop, marking the first decline in population among cities so far enumerated.
Seattle dispatch reports General Ran fall granted power to repatriate the destitute from the Nome gold district at government expense. More than 3,000 applicants for passage have been received, with several thousand more penniless and likely to seek aid.
Franix Wallace, a farmer living west of Popular Bluff Missouri, killed his wife by cutting her throat with a razor while insane, then killed himself by slashing his own throat.
Ed Patton of Knoxville Tennessee shot and killed Walter Williams of Nashville at Evansville Indiana and attempted to kill Patrolman Cooper who arrested him.
Georgetown Kentucky special report states Judge Can trill has overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of former Secretary of State Caleb Powers.
A Cleveland suburb, Chagrin Falls Ohio, saw a car wreck when a brakerod broke injuring twelve people. None of the injuries were fatal.
A farmer on Jefferson Street in Burlington, Iowa, saw his parasol ignite under sun heat and possible grease or oil. The blaze surprised many witnesses as he drove by on a hot day.
A blaze in the elevator at the American Cereal Company in Akron Ohio caused about 75000 dollars in losses. Fire and water ruined roughly 120000 bushels of grain, threatening supply and operations.
The text reports the official census for greater New York at 3 437 202 with multiple other items: marriage of George Cabot Lodge to Matilda Davis, Carnegie deal to control Lake Superior iron for 50 years, various crimes and accidents across several cities, a presidential assassination plot thwarted, and a near derailment on a Pennsylvania Railroad line.
Reports list a diverse set of 1890s notices and events: John J. Ingalls buried at Atchison. six men killed in a Guthrie Well collapse. Henry H. Hodgkins, Civil War naval veteran, dies in Marshall Minnesota. Census data give Chicago 1 698 575. Minneapolis 202 718 and St Paul 163 632. Dowell bankrupt in Stroud Ohio with liabilities 38 000 assets 20 000. Dowie elders jailed in Mansfield Ohio then removed. Nicholas Wolff Ohio brewer assigns assets 45 000. Hot winds devastate Kansas corn with crop loss up to 50 000 000 bushels. wheat shipments from Oklahoma surge but cars scarce. Eliza Ann Ingersoll committed to Joliet prison then sent to Kankakee insane asylum. Forest fires in Creston Canyon Grizzly Creek Sunset Peak Colorado threaten timber. Involuntary bankruptcy filed against T M Richardson & Son in Houston. B C Richardson shot by musician Cline in Alliance Nebraska after altercation. A missing $25 000 express package from Chicago to Burlington Iowa puzzles rail men. William McClelland pardoned by Governor Stanley after prior escape. married in Arkansas during liberty. Oregon Washington total wheat crop noted.
Reports from across the nation recount crop estimates in Minnesota, farm tragedies in Illinois, Arkansas lumber accidents, a fatal train collision near Ashley Ohio, and various urban disasters. Also noted are robberies, riots, a Santa Fe land claim ruling, shipwrecks, and international tensions including a Queen’s engagement and a Persian shah attack.
Foreign news notes Pekin occupied without combat, legations relieved and foreigners freed. Archbishop Ireland addresses the Pope praising American Catholic fidelity to the holy see. Reports say Lord Roberts to succeed Lord Wolseley as army chief. Czar’s wedding gift to Queen Dragina of Servia valued at 500000 francs. The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin adds details.
Structural iron and steel prices fall amid competitive interests. Geronimo to wed a young woman, 340000 in figures. Spain trade relations restored. Cuba exhibit at Paris fair wins 140 prizes. American Window Glass declares 314 percent dividend on 1 million stock, second this year. Tourists abandoned in Europe prompt complaints. Yacht St Francois capsizes near White Island. two missing, feared drowned. W Sprague Kerr, livestock dealer and secretary, drowned in Southlake. Union Pacific to inaugurate discipline by record Sept 1, suspensions ended. Bradstreet notes expansion in fall trade, better dry goods distribution, firmer steel demand, expected good crops, rising rail earnings. Wheat and corn shipments weekly totals.
A several thousand strong Akron crowd looted the city prison the county jail and the old court house in a riot over Louis Peck the assaulted suspect. Two deaths and many wounded followed as Columbia Hall burned and firemen were shot while trying to fight the blaze.
Regional commodity prices are listed for cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with cattle hogs sheep and grain figures across markets. Wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed are shown with bid ranges and quality descriptors.
A long State Department dispatch from Minister Conger describes June to July 1900 events in Pekin. He says Tsung-li-Yamen cut ministerial contact, imperial forces bombarded the legations for weeks, and only Marine guards held the line. He notes a planned massacre and a declared war with no peace unless surrender terms are complete.
Mabel Bouton the young New York actress is described as insane. Lawrence Turjanic of Cleveland is said to have killed Anthony Strauss. A train killed Wm. Doepke and one child in Cincinnati. Camden patrolmen may wear shirt waists on duty. Dr James E Kieler of Lick Observatory San Francisco died suddenly from apoplexy.
A wide survey of Indiana incidents reports smallpox in Merom and a lightning strike damaging Odd Fellows Hall in Cardonia. Other items include serious injuries from a cave-in near Lailand, a fatal freight-engine accident in Brookville, a mass of criminal and civic events across towns, and notes on local industry and weather.
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