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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
2
A concise foreign and domestic news digest reports latest telegraph updates from distant shores. It covers crimes, casualties, fires and notable incidents with emphasis on timely dispatches and regional summaries.
The board of trade announced a settlement of the November corn shortage with George IL Phillips for 6 cents, amid a price swing from around 60 cents to 1? and traders rushing to sell. Phillips reportedly amassed over two million bushels at about 35 cents, with profits possibly in the hundreds of thousands, though he remained noncommittal.
Report from Johannesburg dated Mov. 30 states the DeWetsdorp garrison of two guns with 400 men from Gloucestershire Highland Light Infantry and Irish Rifles surrendered at 5 30 p m. Our force suffered 15 killed and 42 wounded including Major Jlansen and Captain Digby. Enemy strength about 2500. Edenbure relief mission failed to reach in time. London notes the disaster sent a thrill of alarm through Great Britain.
The semi official note on Mr Kruger's possible visit to Berlin is treated cautiously a sign that Emperor William may not receive him yet. Papers caution against sentiment and warn of clashes with the government policy as Germany's position in the Transvaal remains unsettled. Also a Jeffersonville wedding ends with mules wrecking a dining room as Thomas O Neil's sons interrupt the feast and threaten prosecution.
A stadium crowd of men and boys watched a football game when the roof of Vacille Glass Works in San Francisco fell into red hot furnaces and glass vats. About eighty five people fell through the collapsing roof and many were horribly burned. thirteen deaths are confirmed with fears of more.
Emma Van Liew on trial at Vin Wert Ohio pleaded guilty to manslaughter for causing the death of Alice Hummell by throwing a trial in her face. She received a ten year sentence and was taken to the Columbus penitentiary immediately.
The battleship Kentucky has docked at Smyrna and will remain there until new instructions are received. The move is intended to accelerate payment of the Turkish indemnity owed to the United States, amounting to 90000 dollars.
Canadian railway employees petition the government opposing importing United States labor while they face entry bans into the United States, highlighting cross border job restrictions and labor protection concerns.
Fort Wayne Masonic Temple listings show events including Ward and Voices on December 6, the play Uncle Tom's Cabin on December 7, and Devil's Auction scheduled for December 10.
Mr. Samuel Morrill third secretary of the United States embassy at Berlin is very ill.
An explosion at a boiler eight miles west of Belefontaine Ohio injures three farmers Upton Moore aged 40 Henry Heaton 22 and leaves Charles Mott dying. The men were shredding fodder at the time and are all local farmers.
J. N. Pax, a Toledo Ohio real estate dealer, was robbed while away from his office. Thieves took a box from his desk containing about 500 dollars in cash and checks and 20 000 dollars in negotiable paper. There were no workers or crew present.
The East pick up flares include the Margaret Jones grounding near Ocean City Md and a raft of notices: 25 Tanagra statues in Boston deemed rank. will of Charles N Bloyt leaves estate to Lambs Club. Mei and Cabinet attend Union League banquet in Philadelphia. Also reports of a ruined Erie lake bank, a Newark embezzlement sentence, a Rochester fire destroying plants, a boy’s death in Pennsylvania, and arrests of swindlers and a West Point punishment, plus stock offers and a wandering mother in New York seeking her husband.
Reports from across the Midwest and South note floods in the Ohio valley with widespread property damage. Sugar City Colorado breaks ground on a 1 million refinery. Senator Cushman Davis dies in St Paul at 62. Texas population rises to 3,045,710. A Minnesota heir dies in a hotel brawl. Akron boards push bathrooms in schools. A lighter exploded killing three and wounding six. Beatrice Nebraska store fire causes 85,000 loss. The Mamee Valley crew perishes near Toledo. Akron deaths from energized wire. Disarray surrounds Solon Arnold and the Quantrell family noted.
A rush of reports covers the era including the Guion Pacific fast mail record from Grand Island to Omaha, the Moler dry goods firm assignment in Columbus, a Phoenix insane asylum case, a Cleveland house burglary with fatal injuries, a murder and an arrest in Chicago, a strangled youth in Chicago, and a fire in Titling Ohio. Other items cite a botanist in St Louis, a Los Angeles bicycle race world record, a murder in Nebraska, an Iowa doctor shot, Edison Jr divorce actions, Atikokan mine negotiations, Indiana gas piping ruling, Mesher son hotel collapse injuries, and a Pagosa Springs corpse found in a hot spring.
Pearl Newman is convicted of first degree murder for killing actor William J. McCauley in Huntington West Virginia last October. Caleb v Powers v Commonwealth argued in Kentucky Court of Appeals. Ben Heffin, 10, fatally stabs 13 year old son of J I Pennell in West Union West Virginia after Pennell tossed Heffin's hat. Panthers kill two children in La Salle County Texas spurring a large hunt by ranchers and cowboys.
Reports describe violent floods and drownings in Tennessee and Kentucky as 1600 miners resist wage-cut demands led by John Mitchell. In West Virginia a hillside cave-in destroys five coal mines. A Mississippi levee breach drowns a woman and two children, while a mail carrier dies near Caney Creek.
News item reports Somali forces in Jubalnand killing Sub commissioner Jenner. The item notes broader regional turmoil and international tensions affecting European and Middle Eastern powers, including trade and diplomatic disputes.
The Union Pacific Railroad adopts armed guards on trains carrying large sums of money. The Fife steamship wreck on the Straits of Belle Isle results in total loss and $100000 value. St Olef wreck at Labrador coast claims 26 lives. Coal deposits traced along Chiquik bay Alaska with miner claims by Thomas Mayon. Lace workers admitted to U.S. by Treasury reversal of prior policy. Bradstreet notes unsettled weather dampening retail and jobbing, with mixed commodity shifts and weekly grain exports.
Regional price data capture cattle hogs and sheep across cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with bid ranges for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes. Highlights include Chicago cattle 3.00 to 5.85 and New York butter 24 to 25 cents per pound.
Cushman Kellogg Davis longtime chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Paris Peace Commission died at his St. Paul home after a brief illness that began with a foot abrasion. Born 1838 in Henderson New York he served in the Civil War and entered Minnesota politics before rising to the U.S. Senate in 1887. He helped annex the Hawaiian Islands and shaped policy on Spain after the Maine disaster. His death opens the foreign relations chair amid Hay Pauncefote treaty concerns and reshuffles in committee leadership.
Rev. W. C. Jones of the First Congregational Church in Sharon Pennsylvania has resigned accusing a deacon of sleeping through fifteen of sixteen Sundays. He interrupted a sermon last Sunday to dismiss the congregation before resigning.
Workmen digging a ditch near Round Prairie Ohio uncover a near pristine mastodon skeleton a tusk damaged before the find was identified The 9 foot diameter tusk at the socket end underscores the size of the fossil The report notes over ten years and more than 10 million dollars spent on U S agricultural experiment stations with seven million provided by the federal government
A sweeping storm devastated the Monongahela Allegheny and Ohio rivers regions. Pennsylvania West Virginia and Ohio report extensive property loss with thousands unemployed as floods and wind wreck homes rail lines and bridges. Damages run into hundreds of thousands of dollars in some areas and rail traffic faces severe delays.
Secretary of the Navy Long presents a moderate request to Congress for two new battleships, two armored cruisers, six gunboats and several smaller vessels. The plan would cost at least 10 million dollars, with additional recommendations including reviving the grade of vice admiral, a national reserve, a public records hall, a large dry dock in the Philippines, and a statue to Admiral Porter.
Uncle Eben Lancaster of Bowdoinham Maine cast his first vote for James Madison in 1817 and, at 101, has voted for every president since. William Zimmer of Clinton Iowa born April 1799 cast his first ballot for James Monroe in 1820 and remains active in town life.
Mrs. Lillian T. Edgerton of Plantsville Ohio inherited an $80,000 estate and $10,000 life insurance under her late husband’s will but kept the funds only if she remained single. She chose love for farm hand Frank Baredon, her employee, marrying him this week and forfeiting the provisions that would favor their children if she remarries.
Brig. Gen. George R. Sterrberg, surgeon general, notes in his annual report that American soldiers in the Spanish American and Philippine wars suffered less deadly results from small caliber bullets than the Civil War musket ball. He cites comparative records to support the conclusion.
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