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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
1
A short article notes New Jersey’s population shows a night base of 2,000,000 with 1,800,000 at noon and 200,000 at work or shopping in New York and Philadelphia. It also mentions a Philadelphia crusade against overuse of the word the and cites language rankings, listing French, English, Russian, and German speakers.
A peculiar faction called ionists in Ontario, with a doctrine that hogs are possessed by devils and must be destroyed, is noted. Zionist farmers reportedly joined together to drive hogs to a single location and kill them, refusing to use any meat for food.
A bizarre note describes underground scavengers and a new shaft with a rat colony to dispose of miners’ scraps. It also summarizes Belgium’s editorial law granting ballots by age and marital status, with extra ballots for real estate or financial income.
A quirky report notes last summer the senate received 46 boxes of lemons over a month. Each senator used about 6 lemons daily, yielding lemonade or rickeys, with ice use totaling 120,685 pounds in winter. Last year 106 cases of lithiu water and 2,510 pounds sugar were used.
The Street Railway Review argues Chicago faces little danger from autos overtaking electric railways for mass transit. It notes autos require heavy storage batteries, making them less efficient on pavement versus rail cars. It adds seasonal patterns for smallpox measles scarlet fever and typhoid, with smallpox higher Jan–Jun and typhoid in autumn.
Descriptions of the Ewing style street railways with single central rail support a balance load. Immigration to Hawaii in 199 year totals 27 442 with breakdowns by nationality and contract status. Ruins near Coblenz Germany reveal villas and a Mercury temple. A shell fired decades ago exploded recently near Sebastopol. unexploded shells remain highly dangerous.
A sweep of world items: Paris exposition with 7,000 exhibitors. Austrian factorys huge match output. American coal orders for the Med ports. French German Russian farming shares. Cape Colony ostriches beside trains. London cemeteries asset value. deer slaughter in Maine. Boer, Transvaal, and Russian military notes. black roses fascination. post office stamp sales decline.
President Schurman of Cornell, former head of the Philippine commission, told Armour Institute students that the United States will adopt a Jeffersonian style government for the Philippines. He said McKinley accepted the plan and a second committee would implement it, with Paperno Paterno's 1898 constitution published for comparison. He praised British Malay policy of ruling tribes and noted Spain's legacy left a leaderless, large population in the Visayan center.
A Big Four freight train traveling eastbound plunged through a bridge over the Wabash River at Terre Haute. Fireman Dan Ruddle and Brakeman John White are dead, Engineer Harry Adams severely injured. The 49-car train carried cotton lumber and wheat. 38 cars fell into the stream, with losses estimated at 200000 dollars. Conductor Short planned to sidetrack but rerouted to meet on the far side. Passenger service unaffected, using Terre Haute and Peoria route to Paris.
Dun and Company reports easing material shortages aid industry and speculation. New iron furnaces India’s hides and sheep, plus rising mining output, spur activity though pig and billet prices still pressuring mills. Mentions plans for a presentation by Mr. Frank Thompson and Lafayette manufacturing leader to President Lenbet next week.
A major fire yesterday leveled the Masonic temple in London Ontario leaving only the walls. The blaze destroyed the Great Northwestern Telegraph office wholesale store head offices of several firms and the Dominion Loan a Savings Co. building among others. Estimated loss around 200000.
London reports Cronje making a last stand at Paardeberg as British forces close in on the Orange Free State camp. Lord Roberts dispatches indicate heavy Boer losses and continued attempts to reach Cronje. Intelligence from Pretoria says Boers mass near Bloemfontein with 60 000 to 70 000 on the field.
The Building Material Trades Council decided Sunday to halt brick deliveries from all county yards to construction sites by United Contractors that employ non union workers. The move threatens to idle about 1 000 brick makers and at least 3 000 other workers as the city faces extended building industry disruption.
London reports an interview with E S Grogan who claims to have traveled cape to Cairo across Africa. He describes a region of active volcanoes with lava flows and forests devastated by fire, and a Baleka cannibal population of about 5000 preying on humanity. He recounts lines of skeletons in the jungle and cauldrons of liquid with skulls and infant bodies. Grogan says his party was attacked and he fired on the attackers, causing the cannibals to retreat.
The United States Milling Co known as the flour trust collapsed Saturday and judges appointed three receivers Daniel Thomas of New York Charles I Kimball of Summit New Jersey and Albert C Loring of Minneapolis The firm organized last May with 16 mills and faced capital shortages after acquiring Northwestern Co mills in Minnesota A reorganization plan was under way with the Hecker Jones Jewell stockholders seeking withdrawal from consolidation and the receivership described as aiding reorganization Minneapolis Feb 27 receiver Loring said the move aims to put business on a stronger footing
Frankfort February 27 State contest yesterday awarded credentials to Democratic contestants for minor state offices. The sworn in officials demanded possession from Republican incumbents, but the demand was rejected. Immediately after, lawsuits were filed to oust incumbents and bar them from acting. The installation stalls government pending court decisions.
The World reports twenty five men will be indicted by a special grand jury following the probe into a bear raid against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Indictments may allege violation of the penal code, obstructing stock values, and falsifying inserts to damage shares.
In Fenton Kentucky on February 27 a brutal crime occurred as John James and June Greer abducted an African American man named John Thouvis, forced him at gunpoint to drive a wagon carrying whisky and wine, beat him, tied him to a wagon wheel, dragged him, threw him in a creek, shot him three times, and hung him from a fence before he was found.
Stockholders of the H C Frick Coke Co file a bill in common pleas court to annul the January 1 1899 contract with Carnegie Steel Co for 2 500 000 tons a year at 135 a ton. Plaintiffs accuse board majority of fraud and seek an accounting and injunction against further deliveries or settlements.
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