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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1901
Page
2
A collage of items from public notices to cultural notes including discussions of a Philadelphia money making theater venture, a St Louis forestry exhibit plan, Bavarian prince demotion controversy, an ornate Paris charity chapel, a Tennessee railway bed discovery of a 19 inch skeleton, and reflections on charity and poverty attributed to Jesus Christ.
May 20 Evansville Indiana reports Evert Conway killed W C Garrison and wife in Garrison stable fatally wounded patrolman and two others, then shot himself after police surrounded his home. He killed a police officer Benjamin Wallas and wounded Edward Davidson and Adam Crawford before dying.
Havana May 20 News from the Cuban Constitutional Convention shows the Committee on Relations will not report in favor of adopting the Platt amendments. The majority report proposes radical changes including limits on intervention and a definition that the United States shall never interfere with Cuban independence, while the minority opposes acceptance. Public opinion suggests annexationists seek a more favorable view in the next Congress.
The street railway employees strike launched two weeks ago along United Traction lines in Albany Troy Cohoes Rensselaer and Watervliet ends. An agreement lets representatives of organized labor file grievances while suspensions can be appealed to the company executive committee. Wages for motormen conductors and pitmen are set at 20 cents per hour and pitmen helpers at 17 1/2 cents. General summary: strike resolved with wage talks and grievance procedures in place.
In San Francisco on May 20 Mrs McKinley’s condition improved enough for her to sit up briefly. The President weighs return date to Washington noting duty to his wife over further travel. Doctors report a very good day and progress remains encouraging as inquiries from European leaders arrive.
Buffal o Fi at Opening Urgency notes the Pan American Exposition dedication today may see unfinished state and foreign buildings. Grounds are fair, main fountain delayed, Court of State and Foreign Nations torn for water mains, and half exhibits installed. Midway nearly complete with VIP attendance expected including Roosevelt and Senators.
About 70 percent or 105,000 of the 150,000 International machinists expected to strike, with 45,000 still in shops granted wage demands. Allied trades totaling 601,000 may halt work to support the action. President O Connell says harmony exists and denies lodge refusals to recognize the strike. Some doubt remains about a St Louis strike, as companies granted the demands there.
Miss Barber pressed the champagne bottle as the big battleship Ohio slid stern first into the water at San Francisco May 20. Fifty thousand people cheered while guns boomed and steam whistles cried out, the ship soon towed to dock for fitting. President and workers’ representatives attended, praising liberty and expansion as the flag carried blessings to new territories.
Washington May 2 Senator Chauncey Depew declares support for McKinley’s renomination and third term. He predicts McKinley will be nominated and elected, citing public satisfaction and business confidence. The talk signals early party canvassing for 1904 amid ongoing territorial issues.
Dead body of Bather E S Phillips of Hazleton Pa. was found in the rooms of Dr Stanley at 730 Ninth avenue New York. Stanley alleges he does not know the man and claims the corpse is not the priest. Police and coroner investigate a mysterious death linked to miners’ strike history and a UMW letter found on the victim.
London presses express sorrow for Mrs. McKinley amid her illness. The Chronicle notes British hope that the President will be spared the royal sadness felt earlier this year. The Telegraph extends Anglo-Saxon world sympathy to President McKinley as the nation waits.
San Francisco May 18 President McKinley described Mrs McKinley's improved condition as a transformation though cautious optimism persists. Early Thursday she showed marked gains but by night she sank again with restlessness and limited nourishment, oxygen support continued as doctors monitor her bone felon spread from another location.
In Chicago May 18 reports say Cincinnati headquarters will be the storm center as 7 smrh machinists threaten a striking action next Monday. The metal trades and machinists weigh wage demands and contracts while a general conference is sought to settle differences between the International Association of Machinists and the Metal Trades unions.
A powerful earthquake jolted parts of Abin and nearby areas yesterday morning, awakening most residents and rattling houseware and glass. Shocks traveled from the southwest, with locations including Zanes Portsmouth Joenson Huntington noted as distinctly affected. details are fragmented amid a chaotic report.
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