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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1900
Page
2
American evangelist Leonard Weaver announces a London crusade with eleven tents across the city. He promises nightly services supported by local choirs and orchestras, aiming to preach to 9,000 at one time and reach about 2,000,000 people overall.
Postmaster Baumhorff told United States Attorney Rosier that the injunction to stop interference with St. Louis Traction postal cars had been repeatedly violated. He urges that substantial federal aid is essential to ensure prompt mail car operation. The Governor and Police Board held a conference yielding no result.
West-bound fest mail train on Lake Shore Road derailed at Westfield New York while taking a sidetrack. Engineer Reagan and fireman William Leighbody were killed. The engine and wrecked locomotive blocked the main line. no passengers aboard.
An accidental discharge of a Winchester shotgun by performer Elmer Mendenhall during a Buckskin Wild West Company show at Terre Haute Indiana injures nine seriously and several others slightly. The incident occurred near the end of the performance.
Frankfort report notes Republican Auditor Sweeney informs Democratic Auditor Coulter he will turn over the State Records and office in the Statehouse immediately. Other Republican officials are expected to follow within a day or two.
A gale offshore Astoria Oregon capsized boats and four fishermen were confirmed drowned Mike Pelloma Albert Johnson John Varanzaug and Lakey IXorpela. It is believed others also perished as patrols scour the river for upturned hulls and missing crews.
The Gilead Indiana post office twelve miles from Peru was entered by burglars who wrecked the safe and stole blank money orders cash and stamps. The postmaster will not disclose the loss amount, but investigators deem the job professional in nature.
From Constantinople comes word that the United States has presented to the Turkish government a demand that the Armenian indemnity be settled at once. Secretary Hay confirms the report.
Commissioner Wilson of the Internal Revenue Bureau holds that bank checks issued by clerks of United States and state courts by court direction or authority are exempt from taxation.
Price McCormack Co a member of the New York stock cotton and produce exchanges has failed causing great excitement on the exchange with cotton values dropping thirteen points during the session.
President Kruger issues a proclamation in Cape Town declaring defense of Johannesburg and urging all Boers to take up arms for a bitter fight to the end.
The Peninsular Bank in Williamsburg Virginia was entered by robbers who blew open the safe and stole about $10,000. Police have no clues to the robbers.
A Mafeking dispatch dated May 17 reports the town wildly joyful at the relief by troops. Citizens wept while greeting the deliverers as they marched through the streets, a scene described as beyond description.
On May 15 the steamer Australia arrived with Honolulu news. No bubonic plague cases had occurred in fifty six days and commerce had returned to normal activity.
A severe storm day in Kansas reports fourteen tornadoes in a single day, with at least two deaths and twenty injuries. The storms split from one large funnel, reducing wind force by half and limiting overall destruction. Farmhouses, barns, crops, and livestock suffered heavy damage across Barton, Rice, Ellinwood area, Great Bend, Pawnee Rock, Claflin, and Eric.
The 665 votes with 444 needed selected Dr. David H. Moore and Rev. John W. Hamilton as bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Moore led with 534 votes and Hamilton 510, along with other ballots. The conference also abolished the pastoral time limit allowing ministers to remain in a charge beyond five years.
The article explains the census badge confers authority, and enumerators seek full cooperation to obtain exact cotton bale figures from every gin and press in the South. It notes the director aims to count all gins and presses, big or small, as the census work begins.
Messrs. Fischer Wessels and Wolmarans the three Boer envoys now in the United States visited the White House Tuesday morning by prior arrangement to offer their respects to the President. No official statement was given.
Envoys met in the blue parlor with President and Secretary Cortelyou. They affirmed U.S. noninterference in the South African conflict while praising Washington. The piece notes the church vote changing the word Igy man to lay member to admit women, signaling liberal progress. Also reports mutiny on the Texas and a forthcoming court martial, the cotton census effort, and Zhang Wu and census details.
The Senate spent days debating the post office appropriation bill and a 750000 extension for pneumatic tube service. Republicans and Democrats clashed over funding while other measures advanced, including war claims bills and a plan to pay ex Confederates. The House moved to extend the eight hour work day on Government contracts and curb prison made goods.
President McKinley pardoned H. S. Knickerbocker, a Chicago bank embezzler sentenced to five years in 1898. The Texan on a long cruise faced insubordination amid alleged rum involvement at Galveston, drawing Navy scrutiny. New York ice trust plans cheap sales, while U.S. meat exports and Indian corn crops drive a global trade surge.
An Arctic installation at the Paris exposition burned, sending smoke over the fairgrounds and prompting emergency crews to respond. No injuries were immediately reported, and investigators searched the wreckage for sources of the blaze.
Gen Silas M Bailey aged 64 member of the 806 veteran group nicknamed Old Guard who backed Gen Grant in 1880 died in Uniontown Pennsylvania. Names like Benjamin Harrison Grover Cleveland and Richard Olney were proposed for a permanent arbitration board under The Hague treaties. Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote signed a seven month extension to Aug 5 for exchange of the Hay Pauncefote canal treaty.
At the National Congress of Mothers in Des Moines 3000 women hissed Prof Oscar Chrisman as he claimed women are for love and men for reason. A female audience member led a sharp rebuttal proclaiming men do love and the crowd cheered as police managed the crush and delegates filled the sessions. Gov Shaw and his wife welcomed attendees at a State House reception.
A coal mine explosion at Cumnock in Chatham County North Carolina on a Tuesday afternoon killed twenty two miners ten white men and twelve negroes. Forty to fifty men were underground rescue work began within an hour and by night all bodies except one were recovered. This is the second fatal blast at the mine in four years following a December 28 1895 disaster that claimed forty three lives.
The report chronicles political organizing from Yates clubs in Ili nois to Republican headquarters in Chicago and the Oklahoma Young Men's Republican Club at Kingfisher. It notes fundraising bets on Bryan, party shifts in Hawaiians, and state actions on pensions and senator elections.
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