Kansas Notes and City Cranks From Topeka Dispatches
A brisk Kansas roundup notes recent local oddities and civic chatter. Items include changes in state librarianship, a 12-year-old Osborne County boy’s odd claim, a Topeka civic improvement effort, twin households on Massachusetts in Lawrence, Ottawa’s 13000 tobacco tag swap for a buggy, and wind and scent reports from Central Kansas. Also covered are school staffing shifts, insurance uncertainty, and various regional anecdotes spanning Kingman, Paola, Clay Center, and Chanute.
Blackmail Suspects Target Night Clubs Near Grand Island
Two men claim membership in clubs called The Midway and Lion Grove near Grand Island and pressure proprietors to pay bribes for not reporting unauthorised tavern activity. One man demanded $10 from Sanders of a Midway venue, then reappeared at Lion Grove with similar threats. Authorities expect arrests for blackmail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Jones
Sanders
Liongrove
Grand Island
Nebraska union backs irrigation bill change
Representatives Stark Neville and Robinson conferred with Mr Mondell and Mr Shafroth of the Irrigation Committee proposing an addition to the irrigation bill. The clause would bar water diversion from the South and North Platte watersheds for works promoted by the secretary of the interior. If adopted, Nebraska fusion members expect action and a larger share of project benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stark, Neville and
Robinson
Mondell
Shafroth
Irrigation Committee
Secretary of the Interior
South
North Platte River
Nebraska
Opposition Candidate Challenges Speaker for Congress Nomination
Senator O B Courtright of Waterloo Iowa announces as a Republican candidate against Speaker Henderson for the congressional nomination. He vows to contest the coming convention, ending Henderson’s decade of unopposed control since 1882.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. B. Courtright
Waterloo
Henderson
Congress
Third
Lost Baby Finds Way Home in Grand Island
A young girl, daughter of Mr and Mrs Greenfield living five miles from town, wandered from a relative’s house in Grand Island. Police aided a two hour search before a messenger reached the Greenfield home confirming she had walked back home. The child, briefly lost in town, knew the country path to her home.
Manila Mission Nomination Reported for Archbishop See
Manila's archbishopric is reportedly nominated to Bishop Sebastian Gebhard Essmer of Green Bay Wisconsin. Mgr Nozelada de Vila has resigned the Manila see and will retire to Spain following similar steps by Spanish prelates in Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Rome
Sebastian Gebhard “Essmer
Green Bay
Wis
Associated Press
Mgr
Nozelada de Vila
Spain
Cuba
United States
Statue of McKinley Delivered for Bronze Casting
The first statue of President McKinley has arrived in plaster at a Florence foundry where it will be bronze cast. It is to be unveiled in Muskegon Michigan on Memorial Day. The sculptor already has a bust and measurements from a sitting with Major McKinley.
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McKinley
Florence
Muskegon
Mich
Cuban President-Elect I Estrada Palma Meets Roosevelt
The Cuban president elect I Estrada Palma met President Roosevelt at the White House in an informal dinner. Palma attended as guest of honor and expressed gratitude for the courtesy shown by the U.S. leader.
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White# “House
I. Estrada Palma
Cuba
Roosevelt
White House
Elect Palma
Exposures Predicted Hit Treasury and Immigration Bureaus
An official predicts sweeping exposures across government bureaus including the treasury and immigration offices. Alleged scandals involve contracting lines and officials such as Taylor and Powderly. Republicans plan to urge the president to clarify the situation and seek removal of Taylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Treasury Department
Immigration Bureau
Taylor
Immigration
Upoh
Pureau Affairs
Ellis Island
Liveryman Fleck Arraigned in Platte River Drowning
Madison Fleck a Linwood liveryman was arraigned before County Judge Wells in Schuyler Nebraska on a charge of carelessness in pushing two women from the Platte river bridge causing their deaths and was bound over to the next district court term. Nearly 200 people attended the preliminary hearing including victims’ friends and Fleck’s supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Fleck
Linwood
Platte River
Wells
Schuyler
Neb
Butler County
Young Fleck
Death of Richard Rock Scout and Frontiersman Near Henrys Lake
News of the death of Richard Rock a renowned scout and frontiersman at his ranch near Henrys Lake Montana. He was gored by a buffalo he had raised and was said to have advised General Custer to delay until Reno arrived. Rock once counted buffalo in Yellowstone Park for the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Rock
Henry’s Lake
Montana
Rock
Custer
Sitting Bull
Reno
Yellowstone Park
Funston Heads to Denver for Colorado Headquarters
General Frederick Funston arrives from the east and plans trips to Iola Kansas to visit relatives. He will then go to Kansas City and depart for Oakland California to bring Mrs Funston and the baby to Denver where he will set up headquarters at the department of the Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Funston
Denver
Genera Frederick Funston
Iola
Kan
General Funston
Kansas City
Oakland
Cal
Department of the Colorado
Bicycle crash kills Kansas woman in Kansas City race
Katy Cragg aged 30 of Erie Kansas died instantly after being struck by a bicycle ridden at high speed by Charles Johnson aged 16 who was racing another cyclist. Lydia Schaeffer aged 18 of Paolo Kansas suffered internal injuries in the same incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katy Cragg
Erie
Kan
Lydia Schaeffer
Paolo
Kansas City
Charles Johnson
Miss Clagg
Boy Hangs Himself Near Benkleman Neb
Roscoe Wilson seventeen son of Robert Wilson living five miles west of Benkleman Neb committed suicide while plowing in a field. He hanged himself with a halter rope on a hayrock and left the house in what relatives describe as good spirits. cause unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe Wilson
Robert Wilson
Benkleman
Neb
Boer Delegates Sail for Europe on J A Gascogne
Salil for Europe reports that delegates Wolmarans Wessels and Debruyan sailed to Europe aboard the steamer J A Gascogne. Officials in Washington offered limited comfort, but the delegates feel supported by a strong undercurrent of sympathy among the American people for their cause.
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Wolmarans
Wessels
Debruyan
Europe
J.a Gascogne
Washington
Woman Shot by Ex-Tax Collector in Alabama Tragedy
E. J. Armsted, once a Montgomery tax collector and prominent Alabama figure, shot and killed Mary Hansen, a Black woman, before dying by suicide. Authorities suspect intoxication and temporary insanity as factors in the fatal incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J. Armsted
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Mary“ Hansen
Armsted
Train kills two men at Valparaiso crossing
An eastbound Baltimore & Ohio passenger train struck a buggy carrying Ed Carlson and Nels Nelson at a road crossing west of Valparaiso Indiana. The collision occurred when the horse balked on the track, killing both men instantly.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ed Carlson
Nels Nelson
Valparaiso
Ind
Fort Scott man kills himself with dynamite
A Fort Scott man identified as John Lesher placed a stick of dynamite under his chin and detonated it while intoxicated. He had told his wife he planned to kill himself and then went to a vacant house where the fatal blast occurred, blowing off his head and an arm in a suicide act.
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John
Lesher
Fort Scott
Kan
German surgeons discover membrane to heal open wounds
A German surgeon reports discovering a delicate membrane that covers and helps heal exposed contents of a wound. The membrane, claimed to be skin from a human being, supposedly accelerates healing of otherwise nonhealing open wounds and has already been successfully tested.
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Nave
Acre
Defiance Starch Boasts Superior Value for Homes
A fragment advertising Defiance starch promotes it as a household staple. The copy claims the product provides superior cold water starch at a lower price, emphasizing better quality for four to seven cents per unit.
Fragmented OCR item on nerve remedy trial in Philadelphia
An unclear OCR snippet describes a product named Nerve Restorer and a trial reference in Philadelphia. The text also mentions market conditions and a proverb about the wind and a shorn lamb, but specifics are missing.
Stops the Cough and Works. Of the Cold
Laxativé Bromo Quinine Tablets advertised as a remedy. The quirky ad copy markets a product promising cough relief and cold relief. It promotes vigor and ambition for a rising young man over an older man drinking beer.
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Prince
Great Gold Find Promises Vast Wealth This Year
Fragmented text reports a six by three mile ground strip rich in gold. It cites a value of 20 million dollars in gold to be taken this year and mentions Defiance State as a location or term in a package deal.
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Ts' Ek ‘Istou Rae
Fragmentary OCR Note on Medicines and Ads
The readable text references Hamlin’s Wizard Oil as a pain cure and mentions a kitchen utensils dealer with pan American associations. The passage is garbled with quotes and archaic phrasing, offering no clear event or outcome. The fragment notes opinions on cures and remedies without verifiable details.
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Osborne
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Jim
King
Dean Jib
de B
Kaye
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Lawrence
Ottawa
Texas
China
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Dr. Gray
Chicago
Garden’ City
Blue Mound
Cole Younger
P. P. Bilder
Paola
Tami
Prince “Henry
Salina
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H.L. “Wilson
A. L. “Willian
Puck
Kingman County
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Itawa
Clay Center
D. M
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Nation
Chanute
Mojave Desert
Henry Allen
Ajman
St. Joseph
Bling Lamb
Concordia
Fulton
Ill
Collin
Supreme ‘Court
Hazen
Collins
Dan Contractor
Grand Islands
Benkleman,Neb
Colatabas Elopers
Wood Liverman
Treasury
Salil
Philadephia
Defiance Statelifs
Hamlin
Iso
J. W
Q Brien
Lycee
Sophie
Binns
Young
Tydia
Pinkham’s
Ofite
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Grand Rapids, Mich
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