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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1900
Page
7
Accompanying views show the progress on the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo next year. The Electricity and Machinery buildings rise near the Midway with 375 foot Electric Tower steelwork under way. Over 200,000 lamps will illuminate pools and fountains as work continues, with major buildings due for completion before winter weather.
Letter from Mrs. Sarah Pike Conger, wife of the Pekin minister, argues foreigners harm China. She calls the Chinese a sealed book to outsiders, notes growing anti-foreign sentiment, and describes organized bands called Boxers as a recent manifestation.
Chicago philanthropist Miss Jane Addams, famed for humanitarian work, is reported to shortly receive a decoration honoring her valuable services to humanity, photographed by Cox.
General Porfirio Diaz is re elected and to be inaugurated in December as president, after Congress declared the result in his favor. Diaz, who has presided nearly 25 years, is cited in debates on term limits, while Ping, a mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry figure, is described as a soldier, lawyer, and statesman with early war service.
The Austrian Countess Louise Taafe, daughter of Prime Minister Count Edward Taafe, is to wed Vienna physician Dr Jacob Feldman. The couple met at Carlsbad amid spa treatments and courtly constraints, Feldman from a poor Hebrew background, Taafe asked guidance before accepting. A titled friend advised she could choose freely, and they plan marriage now.
A fragmentary item notes Tolstoy facing a ban from the Russian Orthodox Church where he was born. It mentions Kreutzer Sonata as a famed work and hints at alleged secular dissent. A secret envoy is said to have urged arch bishops to act, threatening services if Tolstoy does not repent.
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