Our Town 100+Years Ago... January 1900

January 1900. The 1800s have slipped into the past and a new century is dawning, but politics and other noteworthy news did not change much when 18 turned over to 19.

On the national scene, there was a rift in the Republican party on who would be McKinley's running mate. The Japanese appeared to be preparing for war with Russia. India was facing a major drought and widespread plague. Civil marriages were now allowed in the Philippines which finally gave protestants and non-Christians the right to get married. The cold winter weather caused the Mississippi river at St. Louis to freeze over. In...