November 1900 - November 16, 1900 (Friday)

November 16, 1900 (Friday)

• The Philadelphia Orchestra gave its first public concert, conducted by Fritz Scheel. From 1912 to 1938, the orchestra was conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
• In a gruesome lynching, 16-year old Preston Porter, Jr., was burned at the stake in Limon, Colorado, a week after he had killed 11 year old Louise Frost at the same location. At 3:45 p.m., a mob of 300 citizens stopped a train transporting Porter to the county jail and removed Porter from the train, with an intent to hang him. Richard W. Frost, the girl's father, was given a choice for the method of execution, and a 6:23 p.m., he set fire to a kerosene soaked pile of wood as the mob, and reporters, watched. Porter took 20 minutes to die.
• During a parade in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw), Poland, a woman threw a hatchet at the open carriage of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Selma Schnapke, later ruled to be insane, threw well enough that the "hand chopper" struck the imperial carriage, and was arrested.