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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
1
A satirical note describes a trend where women place trained monkeys on their left shoulders and loop the animals by their tails around the necks, a fashion fad reportedly seen in Monte Carlo. The edgy tone mocks the pursuit of being fashionable.
Theodore Schroeder of Salt Lake City has donated to the Wisconsin Historical Library a major collection on Mormon history. The archive includes 23 000 bound volumes pamphlets and newspaper files.
The passage notes Japan has only one orphanage yet ranks high in caring for fatherless children. It says every family tends to the ill, destitute, or orphans nearby and a superstition holds a childless home is cursed. People without children seek to adopt waifs until blessed.
A French general inaugurates a plan to permit and encourage soldiers to sing on the march. Soldiers may also receive a small instrument at state expense if they can play it. The report notes other varied curiosities including a tobacco ban in Abyssinia since 1642 and a possible landslide near Annecy.
A Boston benefactor and a Harvard graduate fund a new Harvard building on Foxcroft House land. The gift was initially 650000 dollars and has nearly doubled. The article also notes Seoul Korea's sunset curfew and Colombia treaty guarantees of Isthmus neutrality by the United States.
Large cases housing a sarcophagus of an Egyptian princess from around 4700 B C and other antiquities of high scientific interest are now stored in the Carnegie Institute basement in Pittsburg. They were shipped from Egypt via London and represent some of Abydos discoveries made in the past year in the desert hundreds of miles above Cairo.
French scientists demonstrate that an ant cannot drown. The tests measure how long insects resist asphyxiation after being submerged in water. An immersed ant folds up and becomes inert, then revives once back in air with recovery time depending on immersion length.
In north London a retired clergyman who wrote sermons for other clergy died suddenly leaving material. His widow, a educated woman, has carried on the business for about a year, a fact discovered only last month.
In extreme subzero cold, miners fashion snow fireplaces for cooking. Snow bricks form a two to three foot square hearth that melts when lit but refreezes into a damp layer when out. A snow fireplace used for cooking can last an entire winter without rebuild.
A roundup covers varied items from sharp industry notes to social curiosities. It notes Kraut violinist Kubelik commanding large fees, warship repair costs, Manila boundary extensions, a double headed snake in the New York Zoo, dodo egg finders, hair color fashion in Turkey, and diverse global trivia including explorers, royalty, and population wealth.
A British ship Nelson narrowly escapes wreck off the Columbia Bar as successive tugs fail to tow her to safety. the wreck is later taken in by the Walla Walla near Puget Sound after a savage gale. In Aberdeen, the French bark Ernest Reyer grounds near Quinault River mouth but all aboard reach shore safely.
Malvern Arkansas reports a head end crash of two passenger trains on the St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern near Malvern. Early toll lists three dead and 38 injured with later updates increasing fatalities and injuries among both colored and white passengers. Engineers Herriot and Campbell saved lives. wreckage destroyed engines and coaches filled with emigrants en route to Texas.
In Wyoming a combine of sheepmen forms near Hawlins to block Utah flock masters and cattlemen from Red Desert winter ranges. They propose leasing alternate sections from Union Pacific to control about 1,500,000 acres, offering $3,800 annually at one cent per acre. The proposal goes to the Union Pacific land office in Omaha for final action.
Washington in December reports Cuban commissioners have drafted a bill offering free entrance of Cuban molasses and raw sugar into the United States after January 1 and half-duty for other Cuban products. In exchange Cuba would admit U S products at half-duty for other nations.
The twenty first annual convention of the American Federation of Labor opened in St Thomas college hall with 285 delegates representing more than 1 56 million workers. Gompers reported a net gain of 313 local unions and 364 410 members. The session covered contested seats strikes and the formation of a separate Central Union for colored workers.
A large fire wrecked the National Starch Manufacturing Co plant in Des Moines Iowa causing about 8200 000 in losses. Water shortages hampered firefighting as hundreds of workers escaped safely and the plant was nearly leveled except for the grain elevator and engine house. The plant resided in the Trust with headquarters in New York City.
Kansas City police arrested Jacob Brill of Louisville Kentucky on aCharge of counterfeiting following a planned pass of fake gold pieces and silver dollars. A complete set of counterfeit tools was found in his room. Brill, recently released from a penitentiary, claimed no confederates and said he passed many purses for money locally.
Sheriff Bradshaw returned to Andalusia with 22 negro defendants accused of complicity in the Lithia murder case of J Oow Dorsey merchant and Fale Atkinson city marshal. Bloodhounds helped track the group as a mob fears violence against white men. The sheriff placed the prisoners in jail and prepared to guard against potential mob action.
H J Fleishman, cashier of Farmers and Merchants Bank in Los Angeles, disappeared with an estimated 100000. He was last seen at his club Saturday morning after telephoning illness. Bonds and collateral protect the bank. authorities pursue with no leads yet. The Nevada Bank president notes the loss won’t cripple the bank though the man is described as highly trusted.
The most serious riot in Scranton during the street car strike occurred Monday. Special Officer Frank Schofield and Detective Cosgrove attempted to arrest a man in a saloon. miners attacked with drills, clubs, and bottles. The officers fired in self defense and two shots were fired by the mob. Three mob members were wounded. Schofield and the officer fled, aided by a non union motor man. Magistrate Miller plans to press warrants once the strike ends.
The Washington Post reports Andrew Carnegie offers to endow a Washington higher education university that aims to be the world’s greatest in post graduate study and research. The government would hold the endowment as trustee with a governing board, funding comes from the endowment, no land request, and the project envisions a major campus in Washington alongside existing institutions.
La Pas Rotar Dee do the Bo Livan oconeress approved two treaties with the United States an extradition treaty and a post office money order pact between Bolivia and the United States A McKinley Day has been set aside among churches in the state A circular letter will urge ministers Sunday school superintendents and youth leaders to fund raise on McKinley Sunday Secretary Jones notes Senator Fairbanks started the fund with 1000 dollars and more gifts are expected.
The Journal and American reports that after multiple conferences the steel plate pooling agreement is now intact. It includes major steel plate manufacturers though initial plans to form a single company with United States Steel Corp failed, and options with Lukens Tron and Steel Co and Carbon Steel Co did not activate. The pool aims to meet higher demand than production this year.
In Managua on December 10 Dr Fernando Sanches Nicaraguan foreign minister and William B Merry United States minister to Nicaragua Salvador and Costa Rica signed a treaty by which Nicaragua agrees to lease a six mile wide strip of territory including the route of the Nicaragua canal to the United States in perpetuity.
Wichita dispatch reports Roy Mills and two other men killed in a street clash at Mangum 0T Sunday night. A fourth man was mortally wounded in the confrontation.
Senator Frye introduced a subsidy bill in the Senate on Monday that withholds American registry for foreign ships owned by Americans and does not distinguish between fast and slow steamers except for potential Moesia contracts. The bill creates seven classes of mail steamers and bases aid on shipbuilding progress and overseas mail needs over the past decade.
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