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Newspaper
The Fairbury Enterprise
Location
Fairbury, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1900
Page
3
A column of aphorisms on love gender roles and wit blends with curious world facts. It weighs in on couples, manners, and phrases, then shifts to statistics about stock yards eggs clergy and technology. Notable items include jokes about women and men and a note on paper’s invention by a Chinese-Israeli-like figure Isal-Loun.
Fragmentary lines suggest rural life and toil with metaphorical figures. No concrete events, dates, or names are clear. The text conveys endurance and affection amid labor, using botanical imagery to express resilience.
The king of Siam maintains about 500 trained elephants in an elephant corps led by a general. A decree of March 27, 1899, placed the force under royal command. The text notes 12,421 foreigners residing in the open port of China by year end 1998.
A Ram's Horn devotional declares a church void of prayer is heartless. It warns against giving place to the devil and notes the danger of preachers chasing salaries over service.
A rail engineer’s motive in travel is a locomotive and love carries symptoms. conscience differs from a pulled tooth as wit is tested. The piece muses on gendered thinking and calls itself homemade philosophy with pointed observations.
The speaker laments reliance on men and corporations, arguing against court battles and political sales pitches. He questions the value of wealth without accountability and warns that private enterprise may ruin itself through greed.
In executive session December 10 the Senate debated the Hay Pauncefote treaty. Senator Money of Mississippi called the treaty an insult to the American people not worth amendment while Senator Teller argued for broader implications. Senators Stewart Frye and others spoke as debates over Nicaragua and Costa Rica waterway control continued.
Thomas W. Lawson, financier and horse fancier of Boston, announced he will personally finance a new yacht to challenge Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock II for the American Cup. The design will be by B. B. Crowinshield of Boston, with George Lawley of South Boston likely to build, and Capt Nat Watson expected as sailing master.
The Philippine commission prepared a bill fixing duties on imports and exports with a public discussion planned. Provisions tax US imports. explosives adulterated wines false trademarks and gambling apparatus are banned. Duty rates not yet fixed. In Texas, 52 prisoners were captured in San Antonio and San Benito areas by the Thirty seventh regiment. some escaped but Laguna de Bay gunboat recaptured a portion.
Uriah C. Dunlap a prominent Brooklyn businessman aged sixty six was found dead in his study with a bullet wound and revolver beside him. Officials say melancholia worsened by worry over an ill daughter likely drove the suicide.
The London war office announces an annuity for every officer and man who served in South Africa since October 10, 1899. The minimum payment is five pounds, with an estimated total cost near one million pounds to complete the payments.
A Black man who attacked and fatally wounded Mrs. Joseph White, wife of a local farmer near Rome Georgia, was captured and lynched. Mrs. White did not survive her injuries.
General MacArthur informed the war department of deaths in the Philippines since the last report. The list includes dysentery, wounds, death by action, varioloid, killed by comrade, sentry mistake, drownings, typhoid fever, chloroform paralysis, and tuberculosis among several named soldiers. An earlier telegram misidentified John A. Dolan as deceased. correction notes Corporal Dolan in Company C of the Thirty-seventh Infantry.
The transport Belgian King arrived in San Francisco after a 35 day voyage from Manila marked by a deadly typhoon and near shipwrecks. Crew endured shifting coal bunkers and a beam reach of 48 hours. Seventeen days of repairs at Hong Kong followed a coal fire during loading before attempting Taku.
Professor J W Towne who left Nebraska for Georgia after a noted career as a college president died in the Chattahoochee state insane asylum. He and his wife were wealthy planters who had orange properties in Florida but losses from the 1695 freeze, then a house fire two months later, left Towne devastated and his wife dead.
A box car derailed on the Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore line at Gray's Ferry station in West Philadelphia injuring twenty passengers. Miss Emma Dougherty of Chester suffered both legs broken and is in critical condition, while Miss Ella Little of Chester is dangerously injured.
Rev P Daly an inmate at the soldiers' home at Hot Springs S D says after reading an obituary of Marcus Daly the Montana millionaire that Daly is his brother They were separated when boys and the family was poor Daly says he read of the rich Daly but never believed it was his brother who left home ragged and penniless
The Railroad School of Instruction with car No 106 of the International correspondence school of Scranton Pa led by Manager Coutts and W W White lecturer has left Chadron Neb for Cheyenne to instruct railroad employers and workers. The car carries the original mechanism of a fifty car freight train and a ten car passenger train and the course may continue by correspondence until students graduate and receive diplomas.
A blaze in Borlange near Falum Sweden has rendered about 300 people homeless and caused damage estimated at roughly half a million. Local emergency services fought the fire and investigated the cause as residents assessed losses and aid volunteers mobilized to assist affected families.
Wounded by gunshot, Engineer Hanselman of Louisville Evansville and St Louis sat in his cab as the train sped fifty miles an hour toward Gentryville Indiana. He was operating a passenger train when the event occurred and entered Gentryville amid mounting confusion.
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