23 Aug 1900
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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
1
The text blends notes on pigeon protection with bamboo reed devices, agricultural claims, a police musket with the name Samuel H. Gammon carved in the stock, and opinions on a Peru Bolivia Argentina alliance with Chile. It also references rail distances and military readiness, all from disparate topics.
The full bench of the Massachusetts supreme court rules a bicycle is not a carriage under the statutes. Towns are not lawfully required to maintain roads for bicycle riders to travel safely. The decision arose from injuries to a cyclist and holds bikes as machines, denying damages while urging continued safety reform. The Paris Exhibition highlights Pasteur Institute hygiene exhibits with labeled bottles and demonstrations of microbes affecting silk, fruit, and wine materials.
Aug 20 dispatches describe the assault on Pekin beginning Aug 15 with gates at Cham Lang Tong Chi and Tong Quien captured. Japanese forces entered the capital and ligations were besieged. Allies reported legations safe with inmates alive though casualties among Chinese numbered in the hundreds. Emperor Kuang Hsu and Empress Dowager reportedly fled to Helan Fu amid conflicting accounts of palace entry.
Aug 20 dispatch reports Japanese forces blew open gates to enter Tung-Chow amid heavy opposition. Chinese defenders retreat toward Pekin as allies encamp near the city after a seven mile march under a terrifically arid condition. Many Americans and British are prostrated from the strain.
In Kokomo Indiana Mrs Pyke and four children arrive home from Tientsin China. Their husband and missionary remained. The group fled July 5 in small boats under fire. Gordon Hall shelter shelled. dead bodies reported, bullets found in streets. No Americans killed.
Men who went to China as missionaries at Wu Hu escaped to Japan. Dr and Mrs Borland, 200 miles upriver, are safe in Nagaki Japan. Reports from St Petersburg claim Nijat Novgorod tea is being detained as poisoned by free trade. Admiral Bruce notes Pechin fighting and Pekin bombardment as allies surround the city.
Georgetown Ky Aug 20 We the jury find the defendant Powers guilty and fit his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for the rest of his natural life This was the verdict in the case of ex Secretary of State pleb Powers charged as an accessory before the fact to the murder of Williams Goebel Jurors retired at 132 and returned at 2725 after fifty three minutes Juror Craig said the delay was due to reading the instructions
Reports from Liberty county and Johnston Station detail a race riot in Georgia with whites targeting blacks after officers Curtis and Gill were assaulted during arrests. Several black individuals killed, a white citizen injured, and property burned. Governor Candler ordered militia to restore order amid widespread fear and evacuations.
Veteran Dan Whipple of Traverse City, age 100, will attend the G A R week in Chicago. Temporary viaducts will permit pedestrians to cross the march route while festivities and concerts unfold. A general holiday proclamation is sought and railroads set low fares for the encampment attendees.
London Aug 20 anarchists must walk wary around European nobles as strict surveillance and doubled royal guards are ordered to prevent a Humbert tragedy. Detectors patrol routes abroad and in Hamburg 14 detectives backed by Scotland Yard, Queen Victoria guarded more closely. penalties threaten guards if emperors suffer accidents.
Chicago Aug 17 Many white black clashes erupt after riot talk. Vincent Streets colored and James Shane white arrested after a brawl. Alexander Robinson colored and a friend, pulled from a car, mob threatens lynching but police disperse crowd. Small arms trade flourishes in Tenderloin as crowds scour shops. A separate incident features a man named Fiqua fleeing with a revolver, chased by mob, later seized by police. authorities suspect him connected to a police officer shooting weeks prior.
Philadelphia Aug 18 five men were badly burned by a gas explosion at the Atlantic Reading Continental Breeze works while making a pipe connection between an oil tank and a United Gas Improvement station. One injured man died tonight and another cannot recover. Names include Joseph Jefferson William Burns ide Sharp Henderson and Wiley.
The ticket nominated by the Democrats at a state convention includes G. Crane for secretary of state JM Gibson for auditor H L Williams for treasurer C Harper for attorney general J W Freeland for judge supreme court J H Anderson for railroad commissioner Joseph Eiboeck and C H Mackey as electors at large, amid enthusiasm.
Mississippi River at La Crosse Wisconsin rose eight feet in twenty four hours due to heavy rains near the headwaters. The higher water allowed the West Newton rattier works to resume operations after several weeks of closure, providing employment to many men.
A 20 year old arrested in Leipsic in a Berlin dispatch admits conspiring to kill Albert of Saxony but claims lack of courage stopped him. A loaded pistol and dagger were found. speculation on a royal family member’s insanity follows. separate items report ex Senator Ingalls death from throat disease at East Las Vegas after long illness. family details and career summary included.
Announcement states that the publishing house of D Appleton and Co will sell items at 100 cents on the dollar for a public sale. The notice mentions the firm name and price as the main facts. No additional details are provided in the readable text.
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