20 Jul 1899
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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1899
Page
1
A collage of curiosities from science, geography and history. Notable notes include mentions of the Suez Canal distance, kidney about cannery trade, and various trivia about mortality rates, taxes, horses, and vegetables. Multiple short items reference places like Berlin, Holland, Austria, and America, with scattered data on depths, lifespans, and daily wages.
Shipping news from Tacoma reports riots near Kiao Chou on June 26 with nine killed as peasants attacked the German railway line. Other dispatches note Russian engineers slain by brigands, Kobe floods causing major losses, and Italian naval movements on the Yellow Sea. British and American residents in Kinning district flee Foo Chow. Additional items cover Tokyo and Seoul incidents, consular tensions, and weapons contracts with Germany for armor clads and cruisers.
In Libertyville area Sunday a family quarrel ended in a mother in law and wife killing spree. Mrs. George Treider shot her mother Mrs. Christian Foss dead and wounded her husband, then killed herself. Treider's husband survived with three gunshot wounds. The couple’s two children, ages 7 and 5, are left in care. The incident occurred at the Treider home northwest of Long Grove. The article also reports Manila censorship protests by American correspondents fighting for freer telegraphic reporting from the Philippines under Gen. Otis during the ongoing conflict.
A fragmentary report notes an exodus from Hong Kong toward Labian and Leb ian areas as American officials monitor insurgent movements. The message mentions transport routes via Grant and Morro, with arrival planned at San Francisco aboard the China.
Charles Garges, who disappeared sixteen years ago after leaving his wife and two children in Zanesville Ohio, has returned home. He currently lives with his mother across the street but gives no explanation for his long wanderings and offers no reconciliation with his family.
In Gainesville a group of armed men entered a building where Sar Smith was held. The sheriff, confronted by the mob, pursued into the stairs. Smith was found shot six times and dead in the confinement cage as the intrusion unfolded.
A major fire in Gallatin Tennessee on Sunday night gutted the A D Fitzgerald wholesale and retail grocery, with flames spreading to M Wiles dry goods F P Dillards bookstore and the opera house block. Losses are estimated at 125000 with about 60000 insured. the post office and several grocers suffered major damage.
A London Kentucky report details a New feud in Clay County that left five men dead near Little Goose Creek by Manchester. The Philpots and Griffins allied with Bakers and Whites, sparking a mountain-wide wave of violence with arrests, shootings, and a looming possibility of further battles as residents flee and deputies struggle to restore order.
The steam er Perthshire arrived at Port Jackson in tow of the Talume after 50 days adrift between Australia and New Zealand. The Oahu foundered with 26 lost on a Greymouth to Dunedin voyage. The disaster was caused by overloading.
Denver July 18 The supreme court decided the eight hour law is unconstitutional. The opinion is not yet written and will be filed later. The act applied only to mines smelters and mills for ore reduction.
In Dallas on July 18 two Moore children aged 8 and 10 died after drinking poison from a water pitcher in their mother Mrs. Moore’s house. Authorities say the poison was intended for Mrs. Moore, an important state witness in the Humphries lynching case. The girls were daughters of the widow of John Moore and perished after their mother served them drinks.
London report cites Buenos Ayres Times note that the new agreement lowers duties between Argentina and the United States. Reductions apply to Argentine sugar hides and wool and to American canned goods timber and certain foods.
Gen Joe Wheeler spent a quiet Sunday with his daughter Miss Annié Wheeler in San Francisco. He was busy much of the day with extensive correspondence.
James Maguire, cashier of the National State Bank of Elizabeth New Jersey, was appointed Monday as receiver of the Middlesex County Bank of Perth Amboy New Jersey, a failure caused by cashier George M Valentine.
In a brief note the National treasurer position for the Little Miami Railroad Company is referenced with terse OCR text reading as ARN Es Treas. Little Miami R.R.Co. ee, signaling a historical corporate identity and a missing formal name.
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