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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1901
Page
3
Fragmented report sketches French military manpower, desertions and exile ideas, plus European views by Knad yerent. It mentions artificial nutmegs from Belgium, a burglary tale from a down east town, and sponge classification moving above protozoa. Also notes on Wabash railroad equipment and travel schedules.
Self confessed embezzler Alfred Norlin, former Kearney county treasurer, pleaded guilty in a special district court session at Minden and was sentenced to six years hard labor plus a $5,400 fine. He was arrested on the 9th, tried and sentenced within four hours, with a packed courthouse and mixed reactions from supporters. The court appointed Mike O'Meara as interim treasurer to finish the term.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of War plans to inspect Fort Leavenworth Fort Riley and Jefferson Barracks soon. The aim is to make these posts principal troop rendezvous and supply depots with expanded education for West Point graduates and larger forces for field exercises. Nearly a million dollars will fund new quarters and improvements this fiscal year with cooperative maneuvers of regulars and National Guardsmen planned next year.
Standing wheat harvested at noon Saturday near Great Bend Kansas, ground into flour and baked into bread by a local bakery. A combined harvester and thresher operates in Californian style, moving several bushels to Moses Mill and Elevator for grinding, then to Moore bakery for sale.
Evelyn B Baldwin leads the Baldwin Zeigler Artic expedition arriving at Tromsog Norway and will use the refitted Artic whaler America as headquarters. Preparations for the voyage proceed quickly as new appointments are announced for federal posts in Kansas.
A west bound Chicago and Alton passenger collided with a livestock freight near Norton Missouri on the morning of the 10th. Sixteen people died and many were injured as survivors were moved to Kansas City hospitals. Initial reports said four trainmen and two passengers were killed with deaths rising as wounded died at hospitals. The passenger train ran in three sections due to Epworth League business. the freight conductor failed to meet the first section as planned.
Returns from township assessors and county clerks to the Kansas board of agriculture show corn seeding well below last year. Seventy county returns indicate zero percent of 1900 acreage with a roughly even drop across the district. The decrease does not imply land abandonment as other crops rise, led by wheat.
The Minnesota State Pardon Board in St Paul approved paroles for Coleman and James Younger, longtime inmates in Stillwater for alleged robbery and murder tied to the Northfield bank raid. Reports also note Ambassador White’s anticipated resignation next year after his son’s death, and other legal and public notices from Eldorado to St Louis including a five million dollar allocation for the World’s Fair buildings.
Cora Vandiver of Cummings Kansas attempted suicide by morphine after a disappointed lover vanished months ago. She was found soon after and three doctors saved her. Also in brief news Martha Patterson Johnsons daughter in Greenville Tennessee near dying, fire outbreaks in Richmond Kansas, and other local incidents with damages and indemnity notes.
Ex state treasurer J Bartley, serving twenty years for embezzling state funds, left the penitentiary Saturday night after a governor signed parole. He will live outside the prison under conditions including monthly reports on work, earnings, and expenditures, with his attorney acting as employer. The embezzlement involved a 201000 state warrant and a large alleged shortage. a bank suit remains in suspense with the state pursuing recovery.
ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN Dr. Mable Dunn of Syracuse was appointed by the governor to succeed Dr. Minerva Newhecker at the Lincoln hospital for the insane. The change takes effect August 1 when Newhecker resigns for a postgraduate course in Ohio. Dunn comes from Kankakee and won the appointment by competitive exam. She is praised as an expert in mental disease treatment. State Treasurer Stuefer returned from Colorado and issued a call for 575,000 state warrants for July 33.
Daniel Drum of the C. E. Vierge farm near Weeping Water Nebraska was repairing a threshing cylinder when his foot sank through straw blocking a door and became entangled. He died from the shock occurring after the accident.
A crowd saw Governor Allen depart San Juan aboard the Mayflower for New York. He indicated no plan to return to Puerto Rico and rumors say he may enter the diplomatic service. Secret Service investigates a possible cash vault robbery at the San Francisco mint. time window unclear between 3 PM and the following morning. Also reported, Judge James H Sellars committed suicide in Crawfordsville after debt and service in state government. Wheat on George Kimball’s Hastings farm burned. sparks from a railroad engine blamed. Frantz G Bruckner, a Denver piano tuner, was crushed stepping from a train near North Platte. amputation below the knee deemed necessary.
The coroner's jury, summoned to investigate the deaths of three men in the Smugger Mine attack at Selluride, Colorado, returned a verdict that death resulted from gunshot wounds.
United States minister to China B W Conger has arrived in San Francisco en route to Pekin. He plans to sail in a few days on the steamer for China as the official mission proceeds.
In Newport Rhode Island the Columbia defeats the Constitution in a tense race marred by the Boston yacht Independence losing its topmast at the start. Independence trailed after a long repair, yet Columbia led at the first mark by seven minutes forty two seconds and beat the field on the second leg. The four contest series among the three boats leaves doubt about their relative merits in light air.
Lord Kitchener advised the British government that many infantry regiments could be withdrawn from South Africa while more mounted troops were needed. The plan contemplates concentrating forces along the Natal railway from Durban to Pietermaritzburg and between Johannesburg and Pretoria. This would shorten supply routes for gold and provisions, possibly abandoning part of the Cape Town route.
Lincoln woman Mrs. Jane C. Perry was held in $2,000 cash in Magistrate Rice's Denver court after a preliminary hearing for the May 3 shooting death of her son in law James Devore at a restaurant where he worked as a waiter. Her defense plans to plead temporary insanity at trial.
Alfred Norlin of Kearney County confessed to a ten thousand dollar shortage and after a guilty plea received his sentence. Governor Savage appointed six special deputy game and fish wardens to enforce laws. Ohio Democrats move toward a Bryan aligned state ticket with a new party entry. John Faiman, a seventeen year old, attempted suicide at Plattsmouth by shooting himself. he survived after medical care.
Report states officers of the International Molders Union may sanction a strike in Chicago. A local walkout of about 2,000 molders could start Monday, with employers allegedly willing to concede a minimum wage of 2.85 dollars per day.
A compact clipping lists a French dressing formula with onion juice vinegar oil and pepper. It veers through notes on South Africa's Chemical and Metallurgical Society, Queensland Governor Lamington’s impending return to England, and various short items about frogs lighting, fish prices, and health remedies.
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