15 Aug 1899
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1899
Page
1
Labori recovers from wounds and is out of danger as doctors deem him stable at Rennes. He discusses the trial while his wife stays by his bed. A correspondent confirms Labori’s pockets were rifled. he kept the wallet under his head during the struggle, protecting notes for cross examination.
Aug 15 Paris reports a Matin note that Labor leader after injury worsened by the shooting states Chamaio, keeper of secret papers in the Dreyfus case, uncovered a new forgery in the doselet. Le Journal Du Peuple, the anarchist organ, vows retaliation and names Merclee, Drumead, Rochefot, and Hutt as responsible for actions against the anarchists.
Parle August 18 An arrest warrant has been issued for Guerin president of the Anti Semite league. Guerin is considered an outlaw in ongoing unrest. Three of his associates trying to flee the league’s offices were arrested. They carried revolvers and hatchets.
A jumble of wartime rhetoric cites women inciting to insurrection in Poland, with a Warsaw salon scene where a faithless guest reveals plans for a rising. The piece references Baroness Verfiner's North American Review anecdote and notes Big Ben’s toll halted by a thunderstorm and nearby destruction.
London reports Mrs Lily Langtry married Hugo Gerald de Bathe at Jersey on July 27. A vault theft at Guatave Shuket yielded 612,000 in fur goods, valued by witnesses and police notes, with Langtry stating the haul was heavily overstated and modern storage explained some losses.
State Auditor Seibert completed the tabulation of the values used by the state board of equalization for railroad, bridge, telegraph property taxes. Railroads show increases in assessments with steam railroads at 8 84 0 0009 and bridges plus telegraph lines rising across categories. mileage figures indicate a year over year rise in railroad and nonsteam mileage.
Atlanta mayor James G. Woodward faced impeachment talk and resignation pleas yet vowed at a city council meeting to abstain from drinking during his tenure. He pledged to cease indiscretions and resign if he failed, leading the council to dismiss the probe committee and reconcile differences. United States volunteer regiments for the Philippines gain Kansas officers of the Spanish War era, while unions and local events unfold in Topeka, Nevada, Chicago, and Wabash with weathered reports of tragedy.
The Missouri Press association will hold meetings in Kansas City on Tuesday and Wednesday. President H J Graves will open with an annual address. Papers will be read by W B Bowles H T Burchard L W Graves Irving Gilmore J N M Sheplar H J Wiggington E W Stephens R M White O P Sturm and Miss Josephine Conger. Evening talks include Congressman Cowherd Noble L Prentin and D B E Anthony. The Canada trip plan was dropped and a Ounda outing plus a St Paul visit are planned.
Pretoria reports the executive committee ordered Mauser rifles exchanged for modern arms as crowds gathered at the armory. Talks of war with Great Britain dominate the scene while other items note Senator Haywood's collapse in Brownville and yellow fever outbreaks along the Mexican coast near Vera Cruz and Tampico.
London Aug 18 The Birmingham Post says the US and British governments have agreed that American citizens in Transvaal will be looked after by Britain in case of hostilities with the Boers. An understanding has been reached by Sir Julian Pauncefote and Ambassador Choate.
In Joplin Missouri Kid McCoy defeated Jim Carter the heavyweight champion of Alabama in the eleventh round. The report notes political chatter ahead of a Van Wyck presidential conference in New York Friday. In Webb City Missouri Justice Frankenberger ordered Ida Thornton held for trial without bail for her husband’s murder, with details continuing on the case.
The giant mam moth tulip poplar on Poplar Hill near Enston to Trappe, Talbot County, is dead after lasting for about a thousand years. The tree, once over 50 feet high with a broad trunk, endured lightning and storms and was a local landmark for two centuries, its decline attributed to a severe aging and repeated bolt damage.
In a New Orleans Times-Democrat tale a colonel quietly supports Titus Hark, a crabbed, illiterate old man with a new revenue source from charity. The colonel shields him from talk and never chides him, while others in the city pity or resent the arrangement, noting the old man’s sour nature and private drinking. Another dispatch recalls a telegraph operator’s youth era in Arizona, describing long-distance sound via rail telegraph and a lonely desert station.
An 1899 Chicago Chronicle article extols cleanliness as a pathway to beauty and health. It details hot, warm, and cold baths, aromatic mixtures, ammonia additions, sponge and dry baths, and various professional baths, plus skin care tools and daily routines. It also notes canine licensing costs in Chicago and a travel itinerary via Union Pacific.
KaweanCrrr Mo Ang 5 Warat Wheat prices noted with mixed cash and futures quotes. Kansas City live stock report shows receipts around 11,000 natives and 11,000 cattle with active, steady to higher bids. Texa steers and stockers cited along with bulls and lambs demand.
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