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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1901
Page
9
Secretary Hay provided a warrant for one hundred thousand dollars to the Duke D Arcos and the parties exchanged ratifications, detailing the transfer of funds and formal acknowledgments of the agreement.
Testimony of a Southerner before the Industrial Commission and a note on laws of interest to employers. In Washington, the Spanish minister Duke D Arcos received a treasury warrant for 100,000 dollars and the United States completed cession of Philippine islands outside the defined line. A protocol exchanging ratifications accompanied the ceremony.
Assistant Secretary Hackett reports completion of repairs to the Abarenda at Tutuila and strong health conditions aboard. Pago Pago construction advances while Tu tuila hosts the first girls school, Autoloma, modeled on Apia by the London Mission Society. Two hundred attend the opening. natives contributed about 6000 in money or copra and labor.
A Dutch measure approved by royal sanction requires employers in 61 labor classes using motor power to insure workers against job related losses. Employers must report to Amsterdam’s state insurance bank, fund medical care, cover funeral costs, and provide fixed relief to dependents on death. A council handles appeals. penalties range from 40 to 240 guilders.
R R Poole commissioner of agriculture for Alabama testified before the Industrial Commission on agricultural conditions in the state He said Alabama was prosperous and that in the last five or six years many mortgages on property have been lifted and farm lands have risen in price to ante bellum levels
Mr Poole described mineral wealth growth, more mills, rising cotton prices, and increased manufacturing profits in the state. He noted over five percent of white residents and many Black residents gained holdings in fifteen years, with labor-saving machinery and crop diversification boosting exports. He described the black belt, local ownership gains by former tenants, no labor law dissatisfactions after repeal, and praised industrial schools for colored youth as outperforming common schools.
Philadelphia March 23 Isaac Levy and Lewis Goldstein were arrested on charges of stealing government property valued at nearly 60 000. They worked on Schuylkill Arsenal contracts for over three years and are accused of diverting uniforms and other goods. Most items allegedly went to Samuel Weinstein who is bailed on the same charge. Canvas 10 000, silk 10 000, and cotton 10 000 traced. other materials missing. Bail set at 2 500 each for Tuesday hearing.
A Denver medical effort launches the Rocky Mountain Industrial Sanatorium to save tuberculosis patients from poor urban conditions. The plan centers on cottage endowments, auxiliary branches nationwide, and work programs for patients to fund and staff the facility twenty miles from Denver. The project aims for non profit operation with earnings reinvested for improvement and public backing from states with consumptive populations.
The plan provides a home for financially unable patients to benefit from a favorable climate while performing light work and achieving self support. It also offers a path for wealthier patients to contribute to the institution and engage in outdoor work suited to their abilities, uniting the facility on a broad usefulness mission.
Boston reports that forty three Fayum papyri have been distributed to Yale Harvard University Pennsylvania Columbia Hamilton Johns Hopkins Vassar Princeton and others. Contents include Iliad Odyssey and tax records from the first to mid second century with notes on taxation tied to Nile floods and a field not watered claiming no crops no taxes.
A Brussels dispatch reports William George Emmanuel, a Congo origin delegate representing 1500 liberated Afro Caribbean slaves, arrived in Antwerp en route to Brussels seeking an audience with King Leopold. He aims to have Belgians repatriate them as independent Congolese citizens and establish settlements, with hopes of farming tobacco rubber and cocoa upon return.
In a letter dated December 31 1900 Dr Eugene S Willard in Evanston relays two Alaska telegraph expeditions that nearly failed. Miscalculation left parties meeting at a stretch yet to be connected. A relay of thirty reindeer rescued the trapped squad after mule teams failed and frostbite struck front lines. The relief reached Unalalik as winter bit hard.
St Paul March 23 to smoke a cigarette is made a misdemeanor by a bill passed by both houses and awaiting the Governor's signature. The penalty is a fine of not less than a stated amount. The law, to take effect in May, bans sale or disposal of cigarettes or cigarette paper by any person, firm, or corporation and is expected to face constitutional challenges.
Managua March 2 The minister of Chile left Nicaragua after signing a treaty granting duty free entry into Nicaragua for wines fruits yeast products flour hay potatoes from Chile and coffee cocoa sugar and saltpeter from Nicaragua There is to be recom. iplomas which
In St Louis the first installment drive for the world’s fair subscriptions shows strong momentum with over fifty individuals paying and increasing their commitments. Agency space requests arrive at headquarters in large numbers, while prominent African American leaders urge a dedicated department to aid the cause. Separately, Columbia University Teachers College reports a $100 donor gift for a new public school in the nation’s youth college program.
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