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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
2
The readable fragments reference people such as Fred Menting and Major W I ented, scattered items like sheet music, a flying torpedo, cannons, analromancers, and various streets and authorities. The passage blends dialogue, derailed topics, and garbled terms without a coherent event or clear news focus.
The piece lauds A F I Smith rising through railroad ranks from office boy to division superintendent and then to a top post, illustrating merit over sentiment. It extols Dr. D. K. Pearsons for funding small colleges to aid poor students, arguing democracy in learning depends on smaller near-home institutions.
The Sultan of Turkey, once a prince, kept up active carpentry and runs a joiners’ factory at Yildiz. He sent a hidden-spring table to the Russian embassy for the Czar, with secret compartments, silver plate, and a bronze medallion bearing the Sultan’s arms and a portrait of the sultan.
A devastating fire in Jacksonville Florida City left 130 blocks of property in ashes, destroying 180 blocks and about 1 300 houses. Six lives were lost and 10 000 were left homeless as flames swept through the business and residential district in hours aided by high winds and dry wood. Major buildings including armory city hall and courthouse were wiped out along with churches hotels and archives.
Dispatch from Paris reports Mount Vesuvius erupting with vivid lava flows and smoke columns. Italian authorities warn residents and curious travelers, including Americans, to evacuate as tremors occur and lava begins to flow. The crater blaze lights the night as trains fill for Naples.
A Manila civil government is formed as a preliminary to a general civil government. The Philippine Commission resists allowing elections in Manila for now, while Taft notes a municipal government will be set soon. Health census reports 24 782. other brief notes mention appointments and steel company assets.
The census bulletin reviews the U S center of population, noting June 1 1900 position six miles southeast of Columbus Indiana and a decade of westward and slight southern movement. It traces movements since 1790 totaling about 519 miles west, and places the geographic center near northern Kansas at latitude 39 55 N and longitude 98 50 W.
Wall Street volume of business reaches unprecedented levels with brokers stretched to their limits. New York dispatch notes that the surge in stock market activity strains bookkeeping systems and may require a separate night force for clerks. Demand for accountants far outpaces supply as values surge.
The Pan American Exposition gates opened at 8 30 am with President McKinley pressing the electric button in Vicks City. The first day of a six month term saw unfinished exhibits, hammering and saws heard as workers rushed to ready the site for the public.
A Chinese massacre report recounts 45 foreign missionaries hurt or killed during a brutal raid in Taiyuan. Yung Cheng, a Baptist convert, witnessed executions of Rev. Pigott and colleagues and describes the torture of priests, nuns, and families as soldiers and locals terrorized the group.
The St Paul county board of control will check requisition papers to compel the return to Minnesota of about thirty husbands who deserted their wives. A law passed by the Legislature makes wife desertion a felony punishable by one to three years in the penitentiary with possible suspended sentence if the husband bonds to support his wife and family. The deserters are in various states, and the effort may raise novel legal complications.
Subscriptions totaling ten thousand dollars were raised for the Victoria monument with gold and silver offerings noted. A Dry Goods firm in Portsmouth near Don Creek and Mexico City liabilities appear in a separate report. A Chicago cable car conductor John McConachie was assaulted, losing a year’s pay. The Tennessee Legislature passed a bill taxing corporate cars not railroads. United Salt Company in Pomeroy and Henry inquiry are also listed.
Cuban delegates returned from Washington after consultations with the President and Secretary of War. They sought assurances on sugar and tobacco duties and closer trade with the United States while preserving Cuba’s independence. Venezuela apologized to the US over the Baiz incident, promising restitution, as diplomatic tensions eased. Secretary Root orders strict civilian-friendly military spending. Gage accepts Margaret Coleman’s Treasury resignation. a postwar relief plan follows.
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