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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1901
Page
6
The piece notes Lester Morgan Spier of Glens Falls NY, a Yale senior, will receive a fortune of 3 million dollars at age 30. It cites his late father William E Spier and mentions figures and opinions on early business start ups, Schwab, and general commentary on wealth, power and society.
The commissioner's report covers 11 months ending May 31, with 466 pre Civil War pensions granted and 36,308 Civil War originals. Spain War grants total 2,309 invalid pensions and 1,156 widow/dep pensions, 43,874 total claims filed, plus 4,100 restored to rolls and 50,680 increases and reratings. Medical examination funds face a shortfall, with a $700,000 appropriation insufficient.
Minneapolis June 4. At the National Suffrage association convention delegates pledged five thousand dollars for next year’s work. A plan of campaign was adopted urging state organizers, junior suffrage clubs, county groups, sermons by clergy, women’s day fairs, literature distribution, press suppression, and petitions to raise the age of consent and grant mother guardianship.
D v Rieger, ex president of the Kansas City Missouri National Bank, reaches Jefferson City from New York with his wife to begin a six year sentence after commitment papers arrive. Mrs Rieger plans to stay until her husband is dressed in at the state penitentiary, then return to Kansas City. Their son Chump remains with grandparents in Colorado and is kept unaware of the affair.
June 4 Havana reports Senor Gener, a nationalist, leading in municipal elections. The fragment notes ongoing voting in Havana with early returns suggesting a nationalist victory.
At Minneapolis on June 5 a strong program at the women’s suffrage convention featured Miss Gail Laughlin of New York. Her address titled An Industrial Laggard argued household labor is an economic and industrial lag. She urged treating household work as a business, with defined hours and pay, on par with other industries.
Prof George D Herron former professor at Town College Grinnell was tried by Grinnell area ministers and elders for conduct unbecoming a Christian and a gentleman. Evidence showed cruel treatment of his wife leading to divorce and separation. Council sustained charges and expelled him unanimously.
Manila June 5 Guererra adjutant to Gen Cailles reports a three hour talk with Aguinaldo. Cailles doubts Aguinaldo’s capture and issues a proclamation saying the Filipino masses were misled by an American ruse. Aguinaldo through Gueverra urges Cailles to surrender now as Wade and Sumner demand a Pagasajan decision by Monday, with no guarantee of immunity from prosecution.
Miss Martha Hichborn wed James G Blaine youngest son of the Maine statesman Tuesday at her parents residence. A small gathering of relatives attended. They will reside in New York and plan a three month Europe visit. This is Blaine's second marriage. his first wife Marie Nevina later remarried.
Ralas brought beneficial rain to many Kansas counties over Monday night and Tuesday morning totaling relief for crops. The showers arrived too late to prevent continued damage to wheat, but helped other crops recover in places across Topeka and beyond.
Washington June 1 The administration rejects Cuba’s constitutional convention interpretations of the Platt amendment as beyond its fair meaning. Secretary Root will inform the convention that compliance therewith is not substantial. The cabinet notes addenda and insist the Monroe doctrine has no bearing on Cuba’s present situation.
Mrs Mary E W Goodman of Kansas City files divorce against her husband Dr Adolph Goodman. She is in Chicago. The next step will be a suit by Dr Goodman against J H Beckham and his son for 150000 damages over a horsewhipping incident involving the couple's daughter and Mrs Goodman. The petition cites indignities.
National American Woman Suffrage Association sessions reviewed officer and committee reports. Treasurer Harriet Taylor Utton of Ohio announced receipts for the year totaling 22,522, exceeding disbursements by 869. Kentucky’s Sarah Clay Bennett, federal suffrage chair, argued that the court rulings on the fourteenth amendment effectively erased the word male from constitutional and state laws restricting suffrage to men.
In Lookout Modoc county Calvin Hall and his three sons plus a young man living with Hall were hanged by a mob of about 50 after arrest for horse stealing. Hall notable for intelligence. wife described as a squaw. Denver June 1 Western Labor union resolutions say political parties are dominated by capitalists and urge reconsideration.
Washington reports Indian Commissioner Jones warns white children in Indian Territory face vice and ignorance as land titles prevent funding for schooling. With about 200,000 white residents and 60,000 children, many families are scattered across towns and fields, leaving orphans to drift into poverty and crime.
Washington June 5 The cabinet unanimously decided no extra session is needed this summer. Secretary Root and Attorney General Knox gave opinions that Spooner amendment power to govern the Philippines remains ample. Secretary Cortelyou issued a statement that the president will not call Congress or change policy on the Philippine islands this season.
Clarence G Bates was arrested early Tuesday morning as he broke into the wholesale drug store of George A Eddy in Leavenworth Kansas. He entered via the cellar and cut through a sheet iron door to the main storeroom. Bates carried burglar tools including smokeless powder and had a gas works clerk position with access to cellar layouts.
Emporia Kansas June 5 Norman Triplett of Clarke university will succeed Oscar Chrisman the state normal professor who resigned this month Chrisman is the professor who differed from the normal regents on the definition of love He claimed that men do not love but that women do.
Springfield news reports cadets camped on Wilson Creek received word that George Bryan accidentally shot and killed Irwin Everts, both from prominent families. Separately, President Taylor of the State Normal School in Emporia resigns to join the new James Milliken University in Decatur after 19 years leading the school.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Bales and Cale Yn Ching with audit and items of seizure influence. Readers should interpret as an incomplete legal or financial record with unnamed parties and vague actions.
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