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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
2
The commentary surveys political corruption and practical politics, noting ministers who sell votes while praising industrial workers including women in various trades. It reflects on colonial roles, global labor, and moral lessons from emigration and commerce with examples ranging from Africa to America.
The essay argues that the United States has transformed from a nation of small towns into a nation of great cities. It compares population, city counts, and regional distribution, noting New York as a leading example and predicting continued westward growth. It envisions a united nation with a single language and flag, linked by liberty and equality.
An invention offers a wall mounted or freestanding shoe polishing device to secure a shoe while brushes polish. Cast iron or wood frame with sliding jaws grips the sole edges, a rope tightens the jaws, and a lever fits into notches to hold the shoe for brushing or cloth polishing.
In Frankfurt the one street houses lean toward each other with roofs meeting over the road, one site where Lord Rothschild was born. Paris builders tilt houses back for stability, yet a central Saint building reportedly extends three and a half feet over the sidewalk yet remains deemed safe.
The annual report highlights major weather bureau expansions and improved forecasts, noting timely Galveston warnings and successful wireless experiments. It covers cattle and sheep inspections, hog cholera research, tuberculosis concern, dairy product shipments to Cuba and Porto Rico, and calls for food adulteration laws. It discusses wheat imports raising U.S. yields, buffalo hare risk, forestry, irrigation research, and growing farm exports to Asia and Oceania with farm produce valued at 80 million dollars of a 107 million dollar Orient trade in 1900.
Dispatch from Johannesburg reports the Dewetsdorp garrison of two guns and attached regiments surrendering at 5 30 p m on November 28 with 400 British prisoners. Casualties totaled fifteen killed and forty two wounded including Maj H J Anson and Capt Digby. News caused alarm in Britain.
Marie Schramm of Omaha won a divorce after alleging her husband kept mud on his boots in bed. The courtroom scene drew laughter until the judge granted the divorce as the wife testified she refused to clean mud off the bedding. A note mentions a new daily fast mail train recently introduced by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad for government service.
Thanksgiving Day games left the Western football scene in a muddle. Iowa may claim the title, but Minnesota Wisconsin Chicago Northwestern and others dispute dominance after a day of mixed results. Fatalities in 1900 games include Pierson Price Calhoun Duff Henaday Todd Watson Jaber Newschwander and McQuade.
Robert W. Wilcox won Hawaii’s delegate seat, defeating Samuel Parker. The 45 year old, son of a Newport sea captain and a Honolulu native woman, has a history in the Hawaiian Legislature and royal ties. He led monarchist factions and was jailed after the 1895 deposition of Lilivokalani.
The second session of the Forty sixth Congress opened with the President's message read and plans to adjourn March 4. Leaders push swift action on army reorganization steamship subsidy Nicaragua canal rivers and harbors and war tax amendments. Navy and army costs rise as government revenues grow and expansion fuels a push to govern the Philippines and other outposts.
Chicago police conduct a crusade against crime gathering 400 disreputables on day one. The effort will pause while new jails are built, with railroads urged to offer excursion rates for Chicago's carnival of crime and calls to add extra workers to offset police costs.
Reports note the Prince of Wales now wears spectacles while Odda and Erie are mentioned. Newfoundland cites a remarkably good caribou hunting season. Navy sold the Nantucket monitor and Cheyenne tug. US schoolchildren raised 17 266 74 for Galveston relief. Clara Clemens plans a professional singing career. A Galion Ohio man shot his wife then killed himself, she to recover. Revenue cutter Richard Rush reports Aleutian Island Indians dying rapidly. Rumors say Cuban nationalists may push Gomez toward exile as a republic is described.
Telegraph reports that Conger and colleagues at Peking pursue a modified agreement with foreign powers. Washington exchanges view with ambassadors to ease terms while Britain Russia Japan and France push for moderation and caution on indemnities and foreign control.
Mrs Mary E Lease plans to file for divorce from Charlies Lease in Wichita District Court citing incompatibility and non support. She has lived apart for three years, partly due to political differences and travel with her three children. Lease reportedly says she is bright but not witty and would not contest the suit.
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