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Newspaper
Unionville Republican
Location
Unionville, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1900
Page
3
A health ad compares water as a universal extinguisher for fires in any part of a house to Peruna a medicine claimed to cure Catarrh everywhere in the body. It asserts Catarrh spans head to pelvis, listing symptoms and organs, and promotes Peruna as the sole true Catarrh cure known to medical science.
Mr. Robert J. Thompson secretary of the Lafayette Monument Commission presented to President Loubet the first Lafayette dollar in a casket costing 1000. The event at the Elysee Palace included Gen Porter and officials. Loubet praised US-France friendship and Lafayette’s memorial.
Information arrives of the death Saturday evening in Springfield South Dakota of Rev Charles Secombe aged 88 a pioneer missionary of the northwest who established the First Congregational church at Stanley Falls.
Sioux City report says Jack McCrystal was arrested March 6 on murder charges for killing John Robson a prominent pioneer and bridge contractor December 30. Authorities suspect robbery as motive. McCrystal is noted as a police court character.
A Corphill Magazine feature describes a Patagonia eagle skull model at the Natural History Museum, noting its massive head and beak, and comparing its wings and feeding power to today’s eagles. It highlights the bird’s broad hunting range across land, sea, and air, preying on diverse animals from serpents to seals and beyond.
A stray, eerie cry-like sound echoed during a church service, sounding like a child but traced to the organ malfunction. A soprano asks the robes attendant about the noise as the choir processes out, and the attendant replies she could almost understand the words.
In a St Louis Globe-Democrat report a small boy on a car becomes agitated then calms. The conductor asks for fares and the boy blurts a stilted plea to charge it to his papa saying he swallowed the money.
This readable text fragment mentions unclear names and vague terms such as Bowals, Cathartic, constipation cure and refunds. No coherent event or identifiable organizations are established, leaving the context and scope indeterminate.
Dispatches from Gen. Buller report Dundonald with Natal carbineers entering Lady Smith and Buller moving to Neithorpe after relieving the besieged garrison. Roberts previously won at Cronje. experts estimate three thousand casualties in the recent operations.
The senate and house exchange votes and speeches on Puerto Rican tariff reform and a Hawaiian government bill. Key actions include passage of a tariff measure reducing duties to 15 percent, and the unfinished business handling of the Puerto Rican issue. The House honors Representative Epes with resolutions and adjourns after the day.
dispatch from Nelthorpe dated March 1 at 5 20 p m reports the enemy besieging Ladysmith has withdrawn in haste except for a small guard and that the area north of Surprise Hill is clear to the south the countryside is free of them The garrison is on half a pound of meal per man per day and substituting meat with horse and mule flesh awaiting rest and recovery before returning to action
Kansas City detectives shot and killed Louie Logan also known as Lou Curry while he attempted to flee. Logan was one of six men who robbed a Union Pacific train of 34 dollars near Rock Creek Wyoming on June 2, and had been tracked from Cripple Creek. He was visiting relatives Mrs Lee and Miss Lizzie Lee when killed, becoming the gang's fifth member to die.
Nine miners are trapped after a air supply pipe broke at Big Cave Mountain mine on Wednesday. Rescue teams communicate by knocks as they search for survivors, with hope of at least some men being rescued alive. In Chicago, Dr. J D Shepard, medical director for the Chicago Burlington and Quincy relief department, accepts a regular army surgeon post and leaves for Manila on April 1.
San Francisco reports a new export route sending large quantities of rice from Louisiana to Honolulu and other outside ports. The development highlights Louisiana rice supply reaching Pacific markets via San Francisco.
Congressman Sydney Eves of Virginia died at Garfield hospital after an appendicitis operation. He had been ill only a short time and passed away Friday night.
Washington March 2 The monthly public debt report for February 28 1900 shows total debt 1 417 248 882 with cash in treasury 1 097 457 038 and net balance 294 362 52 after subtracting demand liabilities. It notes a decrease of 6 750 165 since February 1 largely due to cash on hand.
Maj. John Davis, surgeon US volunteers and Havana sanitary chief, sent War Department data on births marriages deaths and immigration for the decade ending December 1 last. There were 40 509 births 9 596 marriages and 101 932 deaths with 61 323 more deaths than births. yellow fever caused 5 413 deaths and other causes 96 519. Of births 31 493 were white 2 248 black and 3 763 mulatto.
A Madrid dispatch reports a special Aguinaldo envoy will visit Paris London and Berlin in March to seek European money for anti American resistance. Guerilla warfare is to continue and money assurances are hinted to have been obtained. Will retire in a month Lord Pauncefote to leave as British ambassador in Washington.
A. L. Breckinridge, longtime secretary of the Perpetual Building and Loan Association in Waterloo Iowa, has been arrested on charges of embezzling nearly twenty thousand dollars. The case marks a major local financial scandal investigation beginning March 2.
Distressing kidney and bladder disease relieved in six hours by Monroe and Howard of Missouri. The advertisement claims immediate relief from urinary retention and back pain for both men and women, touting extraordinary promotional reach and fast cures.
President McKinley urges Congress to appropriate duties collected from Puerto Rico for island government needs and education. The House quickly passes a bill to implement the plan amid party debate, 162 to 107 with several Democrats siding with Republicans.
Lexington Kentucky March 3 John Morgan the noted mountain detective and deputy United States marshal says he knows who fired the shot that killed William Goebel. He claims the assassin was hired by gamblers hoping to prevent Goebel from becoming governor. Morgan says the killer is in western Kentucky and he knows the names of accomplices and would arrest him if a 100000 reward were guaranteed.
General Cronje and his party reached Simonstown today and were greeted by General Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker and a delegate of Sir Alfred Milner, the Cape Colony governor, as reports from Cape Town dated March 3 indicate. Russia fixes next sugar crop at 54,014,708 poods with 18,514,708 exportable.
Boston March 2 The large wholesale grocery firm of John A Andre & Co has assigned its assets.
G Vacher of 157 Osgood Bt Chicago reports his wife suffered a severe la grippe with a persistent cough. She used Foley's Honey and Tar and received immediate relief with a 50 cent bottle claimed to cure the cough. Price 26c and 50c Nosh Martin.
In the Manila encounter near San Fernando de la Union a small party of American Third Cavalry escorting a provision train engaged insurgents. One American was killed and four Filipinos captured along with provisions. Reconnaissance shows entrenched positions and about 100 Filipino defenders. The Third Cavalry plans a drive to eject them. The naval transport Alava returned with 500 detainees including priests officers soldiers and civilians from Ragay in the Gulf of Liberate.
Five people were burned to death and three injured in a seven story Bowery lodging house fire. Victims named include Charles Buitie 40 John Clark 50 Edward Doyle 35 Henry Jackson about 35 Stephen Carney 75 Martin Gallagher 53 Edward Walker 47.
Manila reports Col. Anderson with the Thirty-eighth Infantry ambushing insurgents near Bataigas using their tactics. Spies alerted a passing detachment, camouflage troops fired on arrival and killed 24, wounded 30, with several captured. Several arms and ammunition seized and the enemy in that locality is dismayed.
In Cairo on March 5 a revolt by about 70 convicts at Tourah prison nearly drew in 600 inmates. Blank cartridges failed to deter mutineers, and a volley fired from a window opposite the room ended the outbreak. Five mutineers were shot and two fatally wounded before surrendering and being confined.
State Health Officer Blunt received a telegram from Surgeon General Wyman confirming the bubonic plague on Calumel Island in Yucatan, Mexico. Gulf coast and Rio Grande quarantine stations were notified to take necessary precautions.
Archbishop Hennessy died at 2 25 p m Sunday in Dubuque Iowa He was renowned as a great orator and theologian and earned the title The Apostle of American Catholic parochial schools for his zeal in education His death marks a significant event in American Catholic education and religious leadership.
On March 4 in Rome Pope Leo XIII celebrated his 90th birthday. The greetings came from the Sacred College and the Roman prelates who formally presented congratulations.
Memphis March 4 The jury acquits Harry L Armstrong cashier of the defunct Continental National Bank of making illegal entries in reports to the government.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler writes from Washington that he will resign his brigadier generalship in the army as soon as he arrives in the capital, signaling an imminent departure from active duty.
Gen Otis reports to the war department that Second Lieut John R Waugh of the Thirty ninth infantry shot himself through the heart while temporarily deranged from extreme nervousness in Washington on March 2.
Cape Town dispatch reports Cecil Rhodes is in the city and ready to sail for England on Wednesday with the voyage expected to be undertaken from Cape Town.
An advertisement extols Grain-O as a grain based drink claimed to aid digestion and strengthen the body. It targets children and mentions a price of 25 cents per package and 34 cents elsewhere with Rogers advised for purchase.
A broad digest reports fires destroying houses near Cameron Osborn and Richmond, property losses in Macon County, a fatality from a railroad incident near Santa Fe, and police and legal cases across Missouri. It notes a Carnegie library gift for Jefferson City, fraud arrests in Joplin, and a Red Men council session in St. Joseph.
Fragmentary note links digestion faults to liver disorders and blood purity. Mentions a price of 50 etg and a term deranged, with unclear product or remedy references. Noabr.
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