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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1897
Page
4
A mixed issue from Lewellen Kansas and Lawrence headlines covers postal notices, subscription terms for The Gazette, and editorials on Nicaragua canal control, Kansas tax policy, wage strikes, tariffs, and politics. It notes McKinley on canal control, Bishop Millspaugh commentary, and a New England cotton mill closure amid tariff debates.
A 14 year old New York student committed suicide after failing college exams, leaving a letter about socialist aims and emancipation. Other items note eccentric names like One Too Many Harry, long lived preacher Elder The Spear, envelope tricks to deter thieves, machine wallpapering, and a Maine farmer paying two boys with a cent for cutting his bag.
A collage of notes on aging royalty, women designers, unusual local curiosities, and odd incidents from across towns. The column cites Queen Victoria’s age at Jubilee, Florence Cory’s carpet design breakthrough, a toy-like tale of toads and a dog, funeral transport trends in New York, and assorted quirky reports from New Jersey to Indiana.
A survey of summer forest fires crippling skies from Montana to Massachusetts notes vast timber losses funded by government action. It tells how Richard Leckey profited from the Diamond mine mispricings, a Goshen dog’s thunderstorm death, Cuban naturalization concerns, a Minnesota dentist tale, Philadelphia street rain, a chronothana telethon show, and odd local society notes from Cushing Connecticut including a marriage tidbit and a Tennessee girl’s jilting.
Senor Canovas del Castillo, premier of Spain, was shot dead at Santa Agueda by an anarchist named Rinaldi likely using an alias Michele Angino Golli. He died five hours after being struck in the head and chest as he waited for lunch with his wife. The assassin, arrested, claimed vengeance and said the act sprang from a vast anarchist conspiracy.
State Auditor Seibert tabulates 1897 assessments for railroad bridge and telegraph property. Total railroad mileage rose to 6,592,574 miles from 8,414,012. railroads, bridges and telegraph properties valued at 279,430,965.84, up 8,499,047.01 from 1896.
Silas Seaman, recently appointed assistant postmaster Mizpatrick, committed suicide yesterday afternoon at Salina. He stepped in front of a Union Pacific passenger train due at 4 PM, crushing the top of his head. He had been in the role one week and leaves a wife and four children.
Evangelist John Walstein, at Concord Christian church near Logansport, fired a pistol toward a window to defend himself from a threatened egging. A bullet struck the abdomen of a 3 year old girl, daughter of John Standiford, as she slept. she is reported dying as Walstein fled the scene.
In August 7 dispatch from San Francisco the head of St. Luke's Hospital, Dr. Fred W d Evelyn, announces a claimed cure for drunkenness and hereditary taint of alcoholia. The method uses horse blood treated with chloral to produce a pale fluid named equisine after freezing and shaking.
An Athens correspondent claims the frontier line allows Turkish possession of the Height on the Salambria river right bank west of Gunitza, plus deities of Kala makas and Xeriai, making the Larissa and Salambria valley defenses impassable and leaving Greece at Turkey's mercy.
Cameron Massachusetts Aug 7 Last night at 10 o clock Marshal Leonard was fired on in the yards of the Hannibal and St Joseph railroad a pistol placed against his breast discharged the bullet struck a pocketbook full of papers in his coat preventing injury Leonard fired twice but the assailant escaped The latest official estimate of the US population is 77 000 088 based on treasury actuary analysis using census data and birth and immigration rules.
Mrs Mollte Don Anos of Nedalla Missouri reports severe weakness and sickness improved after using Hood's Sarsaparilla. She says it restored strength and appetite and considers it excellent for weak women.
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