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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
2
Fire at Blackfoot Idaho damaged the Great Northern railway roundhouse, a rotary snowplow, and other property. Several locomotives suffered severe damage with total losses near 200000 dollars. The report also notes wider national items from politics to sports and census figures.
Winona Minnesota reports over 300 smallpox cases, mild so far but feared to worsen with cold. Fulton Kentucky sees twenty business losses totaling 259000 dollars from a 1st of the month fire. burglar involvement suspected. Nashville old prison wall collapse kills four convicts, two white and two Black, injures several. Lackawanna Iron and Steel resuming five Lepanon Valley furnaces, employing about 4100. U.S. Mint November output 12,355,000 coins valued at 2,254,458.14 dollars. Costa Rica government gold coin portion 116,338.14. Frank Weisbacher assigns silk mill Allentown with 150 workers. mill to operate. Wisconsin population official tally 2,069,042 up 382,162 since 1890.
Robert E A Dorr longtime publisher and president of the Mail and Express Co died at his New York home on the 27th Sister Sanghamitta Buddhist nun arrives in San Francisco from Honolulu and plans national talks for Maha Bodhi society Countess De Canavarro former Portuguese minister’s wife born in Texas entered the order in 1897 New Jersey democrats discuss Grover Cleveland honorary US Senate nomination caucus December 7 19 democrats in legislature 62 Republicans Eugenia Washington Washington great grandniece of George Washington dies in Washington John Pynn resigns after 38 years as postmaster and assistant postmaster in St George Utah
A mine at Aniche near Douai France exploded trapping and killing twelve miners and injuring eight with eighteen unaccounted for. Beach Island New Britain volcanic upheaval caused drownings among natives gathering fish. Moldavian peasants revolt against prune spirit tax. military killed twenty, many jailed. Richard Croker assessed $100000 income tax in England tied to Boer War. tax applies to residents and citizens. Thirty-two earthquake shocks reported.
News brief recounts a populist push led by state officials ousted in the recent election to relocate to Indian Territory, citing minority status in Nebraska. Mentions land improvement group as plan driver and notes broader political and social items from the era including church campaigns, a hazing death, rail wreck, labor strikes, and congressional actions.
Paris reports Emperor William refuses to receive Paul Kruger triggering surprise and debate. Echo de Paris likens William to a follower of Bismarck. London papers praise the snub, noting improved Anglo German relations and Kruger's visit to France as contrast. Rumors say Kruger was asked to avoid Belgian territory.
Three child mascots from regiments were sent home from Manila aboard the transport Thomas. Fred Seagelstell, 13, from Cleveland, earned notice for capturing a Filipino soldier and was captured by Filipinos while escorting his prisoner. John Wolfling, 9, of Buffalo, and Sam Carter, a colored boy from the South, accompany him.
The Norwegian bark Bolivia, stranded after a 48 hour gale and a bad leak, was abandoned November 29 off Sapelo. Captain Haakonson and 14 seamen were rescued by the steamer Olbers, which found them aboard and towed to safety after the ship settled and listed in heavy seas.
Frank Tuscani was killed in Hackensack New Jersey after a fight with Gambola and his brothers. Gambola, badly stabbed by Tuscani’s friends as he was taken toward jail, is dying. About a dozen men were in a heated dispute after a quarrel over wine. Four Italians were arrested in connection with the killings.
St. Joseph Missouri reports that on December 3 William Halley former guerrilla ally of Quantrill and chief lieutenant in the Lawrence Kansas raids has been sent to the insane asylum. Doctors say he cannot recover.
Chicago reports the committee chosen by the last general assembly of the Presbyterian church to revise the creed will convene in Washington D C this week. Dr Herrick Johnson of McCormick Theological Seminary chairs and will preside after leaving Chicago tomorrow. The voting on Johnsons proposed plan shows 67 in favor of revision 67 for a supplementary creed 15 for a substitutional creed 11 for an explanatory statement and 45 for dismissal of the subject.
Jefferson City judge Ha zzell granted W. J. Ray a writ of habeas corpus freeing him from a Christian county prison sentence for second degree murder. The ruling holds that a pardon once recorded in the secretary of state cannot be recalled by the governor. The case cites Gov Stephens commutation later recalled after recording but not delivered.
The Secretary of War’s annual report covers Philippines insurrection and its posts policy murder of friendly Filipinos road building for mobility native troops under American officers China relief and transfer efforts and the move toward civil government in the Philippines. It details Cuban self government reforms census taking and municipal elections with limited suffrage due to widespread illiteracy.
Five men killed and twelve injured when a boiler in the Chicago and North Western power house exploded last evening. The blast hurled wreckage toward the Ashland Limited passenger train, injuring two couples returning from their bridal tour, but most passengers were unhurt. Railway traffic was halted for hours.
In Manila on December 4, Sunday in Vigan thousands attended a ceremony where about two thousand region fighters, mostly bolomen, pledged allegiance to the United States. The oath was given by a priest after a prolonged service that included Gen. Leung’s address.
An eight year old girl, daughter of farmer C. F. Riley, was seized by a large panther while walking along the road near Cartwright Minnesota. The animal carried her into a swamp and devoured her, shocking the local community.
The Corner in Eggs reports Chicago on December 4 saw another one cent rise per dozen amid market scarcity. Cold storage egg stocks stand at 160,000 cases, signaling tighter supply pressures and higher prices ahead.
In Van Wert Ohio Emma A Van Liew admitted guilty to manslaughter for poisoning Alice Hammell with vitriol. She withdrew a not guilty plea and accepted the charge with a ten year penitentiary sentence. Judge Money called the act most unpleasing. Sheriff Webster took her to Columbus with her husband.
Akron residents report that T. J. Ryan, jailed on a bribery witness charge tied a sheet into a rope and tried to hang himself in his cell. The attempt failed when he dropped to the floor as a watchful inmate and guards intervened. William Dewitt was convicted of rioting, the tenth such conviction related to the August 22 riot.
Cleveland December 4. Tickets worth 1500 dollars stolen from vaults of Little Consolidated Street Railway Co A trusted employee is charged with the robbery If not prosecuted the company will not reveal his name Flo was caught in the act by detectives in hiding He confessed and implicated conductors who bought tickets at half price The company will discharge the conductors
The body of Michael Casey, Cleveland express messenger, drowned in the C and P wreck at Beaver Pennsylvania last Wednesday, was recovered Monday by C and P employees who had searched since the accident. It will be brought to Cleveland for burial as the wreckage had held him at the river bottom until removal freed the body.
In Columbus on November 29 a secret gathering at the Emerson hotel launched John J. Lentz's campaign for governor. Only Lentz supporters were invited and precautions kept the meeting private. The purpose was to form a county league to control party machinery and aid in securing delegates to the state convention next summer.
Mansfield on December 1 reports a struggle between Pennsylvania section men and the Mansfield Short Line construction crew. Road Supervisor Wright from Alliance led 75 to 100 men to force a spur across the Short Line, sparking two hours of fierce fighting. Judge Wolfe issued a restraining injunction preventing Pennsylvania men from crossing the Short Line.
A six story Youngstown building housing the Stambaugh-Thompson Co. hardware firm burned last night. The loss is pegged at 100000 dollars with 75000 dollars covered by insurance. The blaze started from oils in the basement and whipped through floors, forcing several employees to flee from entrapment.
The annual meeting in Sandusky ended with a banquet followed by a tremendous row. The Inter-Lake Yachting Association delegates voted to hold the 1901 regatta in Detroit, amid a heated post banquet scene.
Coroner Trickler of Wood county is asked to exhume the body of Alex Collins for a stomach examination. Collins was found dead in an air tank near Bradner, and his brother Frank was later found dead in a pumping station near Rising Sun. The family fears murder and believes a surviving brother may know the killer.
A thief broke into I. N. Poe’s desk in the Produce Exchange building at Toledo on Friday afternoon taking a box with 500 dollars in cash and checks and 20000 dollars in negotiable paper from the desk drawer. The incident involved a prominent real estate dealer and is being investigated.
At the Willson avenue crossing of the Erie railway Don Navarro, a Spaniard about 30 years old with unknown home, was struck and killed instantly on Friday by a freight train. Police said the incident occurred at the crossing and the body was removed to the morgue.
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