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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1900
Page
1
The Weekly Wall notes Hawaii’s sparse 11 000 vote tally before statehood, sultanates debt concerns, Turkish fears of a first step in settling accounts, Gov. Sayers quietly giving to Galveston relief, Cuban constitutional debates, echoes of Philadelphia 1787, Chicago thugs assault a former Wisconsin chief of police, and governors’ participation in Washington’s centennial festivities marking the capital’s relocation era.
R J Ravold of Winston Salem pledged 5000 dollars to build a Negro hospital in the area with a 10000 dollar total target, the colored community to raise the remaining 5000. The piece then digresses into a note on why German silver is misnamed and linked to China.
The article notes the president will send the Cuban constitution to Congress as the Cuban convention plans adoption. It also cites Rev Heber Newton claiming women’s church influence is harmful because they are not fully created. It adds reports of abundant salmon catches in the northwest and potential effects on trusts and supply.
Twenty four women in Adrian Michigan have enrolled in a militia company and elected their officers. They receive weekly drill instruction and are said to have achieved notable efficiency.
Boston proposes erecting a monument to Edgar Allan Poe in the public gardens adjoining the historic common. The piece notes Poe was not a universally great man yet ranks him as a genius who outranked many Americans of his era and urges the memory to be celebrated while his flaws be forgotten.
A new supply for gutta percha appears in Zanzibar East Africa from a fruit resembling a peach but as large as a cantaloupe. Although inedible, experiments show its milky juice when boiled hardens into a material nearly indistinguishable from gutta percha. Nature seldom puts all her eggs in one basket.
Dec 7 in The Hague Mr Kruger arrived to a reception by the burgomaster and councilors. A 600-voice choir sang Psalm 72 as he met the royal waiting room and received a warm welcome from officials. Dr Spink of the South African Association delivered a long address praising Boer heroism and urging Allied powers to support right and liberty. Flowers welcomed him at the Des Indes hotel before a blossom-strewn reception by Baroness Van Harinxmin.
In London a short ceremony followed the speaker’s chairing as Gen. Michael Biddulph summoned the Commons to the Lords. The lord chancellor Earl of Halsbury read the queen's speech calling for special session to fund military actions in South Africa and China. A few dozen peers and royal commissioners attended, including the Duke of Marlborough. the ceremony was brief.
In Washington on December 7, Representative Kitchen of North Carolina introduced a house resolution seeking a constitutional amendment to repeal the Fifteenth Amendment. The measure targets the section guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race or color and the Congress enforcement clause.
The report notes Elizabeth Tulley aged 97 in Macon county near Decatur and E G Miner aged 92 a Winchester veteran resident for 68 years. Joliet attorney George House dies from toe abrasion related gangrene. former Sheriff William Schaefer of Clinton and Trenton postmaster is mentioned. Illinois millers at Springfield push Cullom bill to curb railroad power abuse and rate discrimination. Andrew Carnegie donates 10,000 for a Pekin public library building with city site purchase and 1,000 yearly upkeep.
An automobile carrying George H. Stahl and W. L. Ellis ran off the road at Quincy and was wrecked. Damage to the machine set at $1,000. Both occupants were cut and bruised. Farmer's wife burned to death in Red Bud incident when her dress caught fire while boiling a goose. Mrs. Joseph Dehn, 45, a prominent farmer's wife, died from the fire injury.
A gas line explosion aboard the boat Ethel Wells, owned by John Blickhaus at Quincey, sparked a fire that consumed the vessel. No casualties reported. In Chicago, 23 year old Preston Todd died after collapsing during a football game following a scrimmage. H.R. Wills lost an eye when a live coal from a furnace caused an injury. Jubilee marks 50th anniversary of Moline Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Augustana synod.
President McKinley’s comprehensive annual message centers on China and the Boxer crisis, urging united action by Western powers, safeguarding foreign rights, and promoting open trade. He details legation protection, indemnity concerns, and calls for reforms to preserve China’s integrity while expanding equal commerce.
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