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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
8
A late Christmas Eve tale follows Daisy Gordon as a costly ball dress reveals marital strain, costly bills, and visions in a drawing room. Daisy and Charles confront infidelity, financial ruin, and redemption as the dress and dream guide their reunion.
A Balkan Christmas rite from Montenegro describes the family performing candle lit inspections of livestock, sprinkling wine on the oldest female of each species, and kissing the animal on the head. The feast features whole roasted meat, a hidden iron shovel, a fire stirred with wood, and protective superstitions to ward off misfortune. The piece notes Saxon legends as older traditions persist in the Black Mountain region.
Charles M. Miller assistant engineer for the Montana division of the Great Northern railway was struck and killed by an electric car in St Paul Minnesota his skull was fractured and he died while being carried to the hospital.
Cape Town reports martial law proclaimed in Britstown Victoria West Richmond Hanover Murray’sburg Graafreinet Aberdeen Middleburg Steynsburg Cradock Tarka Molteno as authorities extend control across more districts. The move follows unrest and aims to restore order and protect civilians under emergency powers.
Cedar Rapids Indiana December 21 A Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern passenger train struck a buggy carrying three young men named Repell near Shell Rock. Two were instantly killed and a third fatally injured.
In Manila on December 21 General Bates reports a detachment of the Fourth United States Cavalry aided by a gunboat attacked the town of Pantangan and dispersed the armed inhabitants, killing 13.
Thomias dmungen was found dead hanging head downward from a barb wire fence in Mason City Iowa on December 21. The body was stripped of clothing and the case points strongly to murder.
Washington December 21 The house committee on rivers and harbors completed their bill. It was vigorously pruned at the last moment. The total appropriations carried by the measure were about 360,900,000. The chief cuts hit the large program led by Congressman Burton, whose item of 1,000,000 was reduced.
A Tennessee possum hunter recalls hiding fourteen kegs of whisky in an iron mine shaft. He and his wife debated risk, then he retrieved the kegs after dark. A bear attacked as he climbed out, forcing a long night of fear and hard work. The tale segues into curiosity about Noah and the ark, with the hunter and his wife plotting further study into how animals entered the ark.
In a corner exchange crowd, Herr Hopf and his blue pitcher joined a shell game with three walnut shells and a pea. Hopf bets on all shells, wins twice, collects $2 after paying $3, then the shell man vanishes. Hopf remains convinced he was still ahead.
A Newcastle chronicle note explains how heat diffuses through radiation, conduction, and convection. It ranks metals by conductivity, with silver the best conductor, followed by gold, copper, zinc, tin, steel, and wrought iron, while glass, wood, gases, liquids, and resins are poor conductors. Water is so poor a conductor that heating the top boils it while the bottom stays cold.
The Weatherford Chronicle recounts a humorous item about a cow that died after drinking too much water. It notes the incident as a warning to other cows and recalls a farmer who once water-toted a cow and, after a comical sequence, fed her multiple buckets before scolding with an empty bucket.
In Philadelphia Record humor, a wife described as remarkable waited to exit a car and, with a single pull of the strap, stopped the vehicle and did not ring up any fares. The anecdote notes many women perform similar actions.
The dialogue centers on eye color and a remark about a boy's fighting ability. Mrs. Robinson notes he is generally dark eyed while Ms. Brown asks about her lit tle boy's eyes, highlighting a light social exchange without broader context.
In Atlanta a Christmas custom releases all prisoners charged with offenses against city ordinances. The event reflects local tradition of mercy and cleanup before the holidays. Only those held on ordinance charges are affected, highlighting the city’s symbolic gesture rather than a formal amnesty.
A fragmentary report describes bogs spreading into Sweden’s countryside, covering roughly 8,048000 acres with peatlands widening toward ten yards deep in places.
Fragments describe a night shower and rain over a shed which ignited a fire. The text notes heat and a flash, with unclear sequence but indicates a shed fire possibly caused by weather and heat. No clear dates, people, or places are identified in the readable portion.
Pacific coast shipping suffered in recent gales with wreck of the American bark Highland Light on Barclay Island shore and dismasting. The French bark Geneval Millenet was ashore at Astoria while the steamship Oswego swamped at moorings in ten feet of water. Several smaller ships also damaged.
In Tarpon Springs Florida on December 24 the body of W H Bigelow a wealthy Vermont winter resident was recovered from the bay after his sail boat capsized in the water. A colored sailor drowned as well and his body remains missing. In Queenstown a British bark named Pegasus arrived from San Francisco with deck damage after a crewman Arm field was killed by falling during the voyage.
A Aberdeen dispatch reports five Shetland fishing boats unaccounted for since last week’s storm. It is feared twenty seven fishermen have drowned. Initial search efforts are underway as authorities confirm the loss of life and vessels.
The sailing ship Sverra was wrecked last Friday near Goeteborg Sweden. Seven crew members drowned three reached an uninhabited island where two died and the third was rescued.
In Omaha a laborer Ed Johnson was arrested by police after Miss Maud Munshaw described the dark man involved in Eddie Cudahy’s kidnapping. Johnson admitted visiting the Grover street house to rent it to the alleged abductors but was released after questioning.
Citizens of Gulfport Miss. lynch a black man after a dispute with Town Marshal W H Richardson. Three other suspects flee as authorities pursue the real culprit and relatives amid tensions in a lumber town 75 miles from New Orleans.
Stockholm dispatch reports Finland moves toward deeper Russification with two more newspapers suppressed by the government. A Helsingfors wire notes censorship and loss of autonomy, a state church move toward Greek Orthodoxy, and the governor general empowered to declare siege and exile political suspects.
An elderly New Hampshire man humorously concedes his new wife is a stranger in town and asks local women to make her welcome on his second wedding day, joking about missing his first wife and the ceremony.
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