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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1897
Page
2
Kansas notes recounts varied items from Galena to Hutchinson, including a murder witness marriage, a bank failure and jail sentence, lodge announcements, railroad disputes, fakirs selling goods, a telephone number 13 unused, a couple’s wedding en route, bonds approved for a railroad, banking real estate cautions, and local oddities across towns. Numerous named places and people appear, with brief incidents and community concerns.
Havana business leaders and Cuban planters discuss the collapse of autonomy as a path to peace. They favor annexation by the United States, arguing Washington could safeguard life and property, while Autonomists and Reformists face opposition and risk of unrest.
A massive blaze in Windsor Nova Scotia yesterday morning lasted nearly six hours fanned by a strong northwest gale. The fire destroyed about a square mile of the town's area reducing 400 buildings to scorched ruins leaving most residents homeless. Estimated loss stands around 8 million with insured value modest at roughly 5 hundred thousand and overall property damage about 3 million.
Adolph L. Luet gert, on trial for wife murder, proposes to buy a downtown saloon and open it himself if acquitted. He would exhibit the Great Dane dogs and a steam pipe side show while serving beer, asking $3,000 for a month. State's Attorney Deneen began closing, then told the judge he felt ill. court adjourned.
A Chinese paper cites Foochow plague victims near 40 000. Lima reports a Peru bill to legalize non-Catholic marriages and Civil Register with one year for registration, likely to pass. Chicago Alderman Haberkorn shot in saloon quarrel. assailant Jensen under arrest claiming self defense. Lancaster New York boxing tragedy ends in death as Kazewski dies from a heart blow after KO. Kansas Redmond convention note
Charles A. Dana died at 1 40 p m Sunday at his Glen Cove home after months of declining health. The New York editor was 78 and survived by wife Miss MacDaniel and children Mrs Underhill Mrs Draper and Paul. Cirrhosis of the liver was given as the cause. He had long served as assistant secretary of war and edited the New York Sun and later the American Cyclopedia.
A mixed tally of global and U S items includes Ex Senator George term uncertain Queen Liliuokalani ill in Washington with a severe cold. A trolley derailment near Watseoo, Indiana kills a traveler and injures others. Luengert murder trial moves toward jury, Mrs Nack may plead manslaughter. Japan to attend sealing conference with broader scope. Irish national league holds first general session in Dublin. Private Charles Hammond begins solitary confinement. Yellow fever fears ease in New Orleans, Galveston and Mobile report progress. Condensed reports from Spain Cuba and Canada also noted with various political and legal developments.
In St. Joseph Missouri Mrs Grace G Travers a former actress and teacher instructed junior girls at Joseph High School to provide wand drills and calisthenics. The girls and their parents object and threaten to appeal to the board of education if the order remains. Principal Miller supports Mrs Travers, signaling a likely ensuing dispute.
A dispatch from Dantzle reports Arthur Dix, a young German journalist, was killed in a duel this morning by a lieutenant of Hussars. The incident occurred amid reports of Cuban Volunteers banquets and military honors in Havana and Matanzas.
A scattered report from Dyes Alaska notes Lara Richards appointed post mistress. Pine Ridge Agency Indians object to cattle driving across reservations. New York and Chicago capitalists form a sugar refining company with capital of 63 million. Chicago’s Corporation Counsel Thornton says streetcars cannot haul tail of the United States under current franchises. Washington hints supreme court decision on Nebraska freight rates may favor the state. A Chicago bank transfer 140 was lost between Craig and Deaver. an inspector is tracing it. In West Virginia, seven jurors in Governor Atkinson’s wife trial for forgery favor acquittal. case to be dropped. Archbishop Keane visits Washington with a banquet attended by Attorney General McKenna. Kansas social democrats plan to capture public schools via student clubs. Chief Justice Coster involved. A confrontation in New Orleans left Cummings dead. Griffin arrested. Evangeline Cisneros, escaped Cuban, arrives in New York. Cuban juntas plan reception at Delmonico’s. Nine deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans. Houston quiet, Mobile reports thirteen new cases, no deaths. Galveston reports no new cases with warnings. Mexico imposes ship quarantine on New Orleans.
Heavy Idaho snow injures grain and Jiverne while Lincoln Nebraska recorded the hottest temperature. The General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church met at St John’s Church Erle Pennsylvania with about 200 delegates present.
Havana police imprison Senorita Blancs Ortega and Senorita Virginia Castillanos for conspiring against the government. Also notes a Louisiana dispatch about Douglass Bolte’s alleged quarantine evasion and local political financial troubles in Indiana and a birth in a boxing family.
News items from October weekend recount deaths in Selma and Mobile and naval battles near Las Tua, with dispatches on Evangeline Cisneros citizenship, U S conference talks with Canada and Japan, and a theater show in Cincinnati. Updates cover yellow fever in New Orleans, gold outputs, Hawaii annexation notes, a Bedford shooting, and a leprosy conference finding the bacillus cause.
London rumor says Lord Salisbury may resign as premier amid ill health. A seven story Pitspatrick factory in New York burned for a 300000 loss. Windsor Nova Scotia suffered a devastating fire leaving over 2500 homeless and hundred million in damages. The Dauntless filibuster steamer departed Tybee for Cuba and did not return. Charles Dana of the New York Sun died at 78 in Glencoe Long Island from cirrhosis.
Fragmented OCR reveals a railway trial claiming a mile in 42 seconds on a Southern Jersey line with a two-coach train. Separate briefs report a choking death of a three year old after eating a cracker in Liberty Missouri and minor earthquake tremors felt in Granada Andalia with panicked residents.
The mint director reports fiscal year 1897 figures on gold and silver deposits at mints and assay offices, including domestic bullion, foreign material, and old plate. It covers coinage totals, seigniorage, bullion on hand, and world metal stocks with silver price ranges and the decline in silver since 1873 attributed to rising production.
Assistant Superintendent Avery Turner cites negligence in the Emporia wreck last month with all aboard dead except Conductor Alexander Verguson who remains on duty. The Kennedy jury acquits John F Kennedy of holding up a Chicago and Alton train near Blue Cut in December 1896, while other charges remain pending and a $20,000 bond stands.
London reports Edwin Stadd the poet and journalist and Daily Telegraph editor marrying a Japanese wife in London yesterday. A separate Missouri note notes drought reaching alarming levels with a thermometer at 90.8 degrees.
Burlington routes run weekly from Omaha at 4 35 p m with connections in Lincoln and Hastings to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Sleeper cars feature carpeted interiors and curtains with bedding towels soap. Uniformed conductors assist passengers and second class berths cost five dollars. For full details visit a Burlington ticket office or write I Frances Gen Pass Agent Omaha Neb.
A humorous exchange shows Ben Jonson and Sylvester disputing who crafts the quicker couplet. Sylvester boasts a rhyme while Jonson insists truth matters more and the company laughs at the clash. Separate paragraph notes a coffee health claim. Grain-O marketed as coffee substitute for 15 and 25 cent packages.
The Ramphorhynus remains were found in the Solenhofen quarries. It is described as a curious intermediate link between birds and reptiles. Its tail is a long reptile like appendage that dragged on the ground, while its footprints resemble birds.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a delightful medicine. It claims benefits for kidneys liver and bone cleansing and relief from headaches constipation fever and biliousness. It urges readers to buy a box priced 10 25 or 50 cents and promises guaranteed cure by all druggists.
The note urges readers to study ads as they offer excellent bargains and reliable advertisers who deliver what they advertise. It emphasizes the value of engaging with the publication's ads for worthwhile savings.
A fragmented ad column offers free health claims and cures. It touts a ten year medical recovery, declares no fraud or ties to dubious concerns, and asks for a postage stamp. Additional lines promote Laxative Bromo Quinine and Onacarets candy cathartic with refund guarantees.
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