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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1901
Page
2
A fragment lists varied items from an issue of The Advocate Weekly including references to free Paris baths in ouba Kansas for all residents handling food, fashion notes on bathing dress colors, obituaries, and assorted global news. It mentions Matilde Weber’s death at Tubingen and Lord Curzon urging modern education in India.
James G. Stowe, United States consul general at Capetown, says he is marooned in London as all steamers to America are booked through September. He has resigned from the consular service but cannot speak officially until in Washington. He notes South Africa’s difficulty and Britain’s relief of prisoners and Boers’ families, and expects a longer war before peace and eventual South African prosperity.
Austin dispatch reports Texas treasurer orders cash payments only for state debts. The move, a response to 358000 dollars tied up by a failed First National Bank collection, bars checks for land and other state dues. Citizens must deliver cash to treasury to receive receipts, aligning with long-ignored state law.
German farmer Nicholas Kranz reports a theft on a Cottage Grove avenue train in Chicago after two men jostled him and escaped before he realized the loss. In Nebraska, anthrax spreads in Cuming county cattle near Fred Schmidt, killing hogs and a dog after hogs fed on skinned carcasses. Schmidt faces potential blood poisoning risk.
A cloudburst swept Carbondale causing extensive damage to fruit crops and trees. About 6000 birds drowned, 1500 birds found dead in Illinois Central railroad parks, and hundreds of rodents and animals perished. The storm damaged telephone and electric systems and blocked streets with fallen trees. One and a quarter inches of rain fell, with many homes damaged.
George Ulrich thirty two committed death by own action in a closet aboard a northbound Missouri Pacific coach shortly before Plattsmouth. The revolver shot entered the right temple, killing Ulrich and a nine year old son aboard the same train from Colby Kansas. The Shamrock and Erin voyage described follows on Sandy Hook, with multiple sails tested during light winds and a near calm spell.
A Duluth clerk Louis St Rogers drowned after insolent wager with a companion who challenged him to swim to shore from a steamer near the St Louis River. In Geneva and Seneca Falls New York quarrels left Apple badly hurt and Smelzer near death. In Kansas City a socialite Mrs S N Lee died in a runaway accident. Mrs Mary J Seaver and her son killed by a falling tree in Illinois. Fremont farmer Thomas McDonald reports six hogs stolen, with Detective Franklin tracking a neighbor.
Salvation Army founder General Booth will visit Chicago in November accompanied by about twenty prominent Salvation Army workers from England. The party plans a six month tour of the United States with visits to all major posts, especially in the West.
Windfat for Manon Grand Master Charles F Hitchcock of Illinois notified that Masons of Illinois hold 264 acres near Sullivan after R A Miller widow’s death. Will provides land revert to the order on wife’s passing with a proviso to establish one home for widows and orphans of Masons. Stanton Roller Mill Burned at Stanton Nebraska. J L Cookus’s mill was destroyed by fire Monday morning as flames engulfed interior and roof collapsed. will, building and machinery total loss.
Summary of scattered briefs: Nebraska and nearby reports include Governor Savage offering a $200 reward for murder suspects in Gillilan case, church construction plans in Superior, Amy Bergstrom robbed at Beatrice fair, steel strike talks and alleged outside pressure, BG I Ward arrested near Deadwood, Hast ings new resort idea, Copenhagen nearing Danish West Indies sale, electrocution in Peoria and a fatal Burlington wreck, Miss Mattie Jansen bound over for theft, J Harley Cave killing of Joe Sullivan in Correctionville, and James T Hoffman found dead in Omaha river with suicide note.
Hon Robert W Furnas arrives in Lincoln with A Hummer allied to the Nebraska State Fair and Exposition. Officials anticipate a grand livestock display with new barns and stronger entries.President E A Vance and H M Bushnell travel to Des Moines seeking attractions as prize herds pledge to attend Lincoln including A Rowland Rosehill Ia smallaways W Moody Atlantic Mo and others with Red Polled and Belgian cattle. Special feats such as fremen s races and fire department demonstrations will draw crowds to the rebuilt amphitheatre.
A New York special reports four boys aged 8 to 12 drowned at Long Branch after riding a raft far from shore. Harold Sherman son of H R Sherman of Citizens Bank Long Branch, Leon Gaskill son of Alex Gaskill, Raymond Blakeslee son of Professor Charles W Blakeslee of the Long Branch high school, and Walter Blakeslee brother of Raymond were swept into the sea by heavy waves.
Ex policeman James Wizer of Eureka Springs Missouri was shot and killed by Dr I D Fuller after being assaulted from behind at Calef fountain on Main street Fuller was wounded and said to be fatally injured A separate report notes Nicholas Rieblinger killed his wife with a razor then died by suicide in Chicago Also mentions the yacht Independence in Newport and a New York windstorm and heat waves in Kansas including Topeka 94 degrees and Wellington 110 degrees A Brooklyn socialite Mrs Ella Smith dies after ice fall and Stroud Stroud murder mob attacks against Black residents forcing them from town with arson and stabbing incident
The Birmingham Age-Herald asserts it is the only daily paper in Alabama and notes no other paper is issued more than six days a week. It also states Monday is often the day publication is omitted.
T Jenkins Haines author of seq tales owns a yacht of his own mostly at home. He has been captain of a merchantman and is consequently an expert sailor.
In a sermon on Paul from Damascus to Rome, Dr. Talmage tells how a single basket lowered Paul from a wall saved vast future work. He likens small acts of help to grand destinies, urges gratitude for unseen helpers, and notes how ordinary people held the rope that shaped history.
A New Orleans Times-Transcript piece notes that many who discuss masterpieces like Paradise Lost Iliad and Wealth of Nations have rarely read them fully. The speaker recalls meeting a confident talker who admitted never reading Smith and suggests most people cite classics without completing them. Readers are urged to read the originals rather than rely on criticism.
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