Kansas Notes Highlights From A Busy Kansas Week
Vitrified and brick walks appear at Harper. Attica girls go to church because they like the hymns. In Manhattan spring signs show with eggs in Amato and damp or inundated conditions in Wichita. Johnnie Bulls in the Transvaal Republic for Gray. Bourbon county to erect a new jail. A book of the writings of the late John J. Magalis to be issued within sixty days. Kingman hosts cattlemen’s picnic features. Cottonwood Falls tailor works late. Beloit Call questions fancy work by girls. Topeka teacher quips a pupil about slang for the Kaw. Checkers played by telephone from Erie to Paola. Salina sees chigger scalp bounty demand. West Point placement for Corporal Titus. Edward Wilder noted in Wichita. Oakley eggs used against tramps. Garnett liquor trial witness jailed for memory gaps. Robins and bluebirds hope for warm weather. Baldwin chaplain Moorhead suffers tongue paralysis. Shortgrass notes from the region include insect pests and alfalfa. Burglar steals $4.50 in Emporia. Thayer girls form a walking club. Olsburg section foreman’s release brings relief from hired feeling. W. Goodlander builds a sanitarium at Fort Scott. Episcopal debt drop and property value noted. Miltonvale plaintiff loses board bill suit. Peabody’s soap fakir causes chatter. Junction City campaign heat with Ten Nights in a Barroom revival. Carrie Nation’s influence noted as resubmission looms. Coolidge Enterprise claims useless vermiform appendix. Banquet in Wamego and a breakfast crook tale. West Water street skeleton mystery resurfaces. Eureka reports a Long-ago found skeleton. married smallpox hospital ceremony via megaphone noted.
Jewel theft and extortion alleged in Kansas City case
Twenty year old William Dearduff, a clerk at Edwards and Sloan wholesale jewelers, is arrested for stealing diamonds worth 3100 dollars. He confessed after rings were found in the firm's basement and admitted plotting the extortion letter to kidnap the jeweler's son for 1000 dollars. He says he acted alone and wounded himself. He faces grand larceny charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Dearduff
Kansas City
Edwards & Sloan
Dearduff
Edwards
Havana Gas stockholder accuses extortion in crude oil influence
A Havana Gas stockholder files a complaint alleging extortion by individuals claiming influence in crude oil. The company reportedly paid $40 000 in commissions over two years. Governor General Wood orders an investigation as Lt General Miles returns from Cuba. Miles says Cubans may approve the Platt amendment and notes strong batteries around Havana.
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Havana, Cuba
Thas
Wood
Miles
Washington
Cuba
Root
Havana
Trains Collide in Columbus Junction Crash
A Big Four freight car blocked a junction with the Baltimore and Ohio when a passenger train struck the coupling at twenty miles per hour. The impact split the freight train and caused only minor injuries to passengers. Fireman James Drake suffered a fractured skull and broken jaw and is expected to die.
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Columbus
Baltimore and Ohio
James Drake
New Bank to Start Up in Niles Michigan
Word from Niles Michigan says the suspended First National bank building and fixtures were sold to James Reynolds and D S Scoffon of New Carlisle Indiana and Charles F Pears of Lieman who will start the Niles City bank. Scoffon will be president and Pears cashier of the First National bank of Buchanan.
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Niles
Michigan
First National Bank
James Reynolds
D.S. Scoffon
New Carlisle
Ind
Charles. F. Pears
Lieman
Niles City Bank
Scoffon
First National Bank of Buchanan
Pears
Paris firm invites Kruger to lecture tour in America
Telegram from Amsterdam reports that Mr Kruger plans to sail for the United States next month at the invitation of an American pro Boer committee. The group aims to raise fifty million dollars and form a volunteer flotilla to transport men and ammunition to the Fransvadl.
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le Rappel
Paris
Amsterdam
Kruger
United ‘States
Fransvadl
Troops Sail for Philippines From Fort Sheridan
The second battalion of the Fifth United States Infantry, nine officers and 600 enlisted men under Lieutenant Colonel A. H. Bowman, left Fort Sheridan in two special trains along the Northwestern railroad bound for San Francisco on April 1 to sail for the Philippines where two battalions of the regiment are already serving.
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Fifth
United States
Infantry
A. H. Bowman
Ft.’ Sheridan
Northwestern
San Francisco
Philippines
Prison Edits Daily Democrat From Foot of bars
George M. Ray editor of the Shelbyville Indiana Daily Democrat begins a prison term and will edit his paper as a convict. He defends his policy line, claims political yes and echo caused his conviction for defrauding Shelby county against Viking contracts, and must perform day labor while drafting editorials at night.
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George M. Ray
Shelbyville
Ind
Daily Democrat
Shelby
County
Viking
Ray
Sultan Rules Sulu After April First Voting Ban
Manila dispatch reports municipal code bars rebellion participants after April 1 from voting or office. General Trias reports insurrection winding down as the Philippine commission extends the date to May 1. Commission sails from Iloilo to Jolo for talks with the sultan. no new legislation as treaty gives the sultan's government control over the Sulu group.
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Manila
Trias
Philippine Commission
Iloilo
Jolo
Kidnaping Reported Near Harvard Nebraska
A case of kidnaping is reported in Harvard Nebraska. A man named Lee from Inland married Stone of Harvard. After a separation a daughter was left with the mother’s parents and Lee allegedly abducted the child during a visit.
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Harvard
Neb
Lee
Stone
Kohlsaat Acquires Chicago Record to Form Record Herald
Victor F. Lawson sells the Chicago Record to Herman H. Kohlsaat who will publish jointly with the Times-Herald under the Chicago Record Herald title. Frank B. Noyes acquires an interest in the Record Herald and will be its publisher. H. H. Kohlsaat plans to devote full time to editorial work.
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Chicago Record
Victor F. Lawson
Lawson
Herman H. Kohlsaat
Times- Herald
Chicago ‘Record-Herald
Times-Herald
Record
Herald
Frank B. Noyes
Washington Star
Associated Press
Record-Herald
H. H. Kohlsaat
Kick of Horse Fatal Claims Life of Joel Hedman
The funeral for Joel Hedman aged nineteen was held at Stromsburg Nebraska from the mission church conducted by Revs Huttman and Hedbloom. Hedman, a son of Paret Hedman, was an industrious young man who died after being kicked by a horse. Remains interred in the city cemetery.
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Joel Hedman
Stromsburg
Neb
Mission Church
Huttman
Hedbloom
Hedman
Paret ‘Hedman
News in Brief: varied local and national notes
James A. Cruikshank of Lincoln named railway mail clerk. Duke and Duchess of York arrive in Malta with honors. Chadron Nebraska reports cattle perish in recent storm. Osceola Nebraska man may lose eye over shell forcing. Jewelry worth 12000 dollars stolen from Nathan Brill’s New York home. Wausa Nebraska to become presidential office April 1 with postmaster salary of 1000. President may offer attorney generalship to P C Knox of Pittsburg. Harold Hansen of Atlantic Iowa dies by self inflicted gunshot amid heavy drinking. Wisconsin experiences heavy rains and thaw causing high water and business suspensions due to flooded factories.
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Jerry Crouse
Osceola
Neb
Nathan Brill
New York
Wausa
P. C. Knox
Pittsburg
Harold Hansen
Harold Hansen & Co
Atlantic
Peruna praised by officials and customers nationwide
A letter from Congressman J D Botkin of Kansas lauds Peruna and Manalin for catarrh and stomach woes. Citizens like Frank Richter and Mrs Selina Tanner report relief, while L C Marble credits long-standing catarrh cure to Peruna. Hartman urges inquiries for free advice from Columbus Ohio's Hartman Sanitarium.
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Kansas Statesman
Peruna
Hartman
Cotelessman Botkin
Winfield, Kan
Manalin
Washington
J. D. Botkin
Ongressman Botkin
State of
Kansas
Frank Richter
Winona
Minn
Peruna Medicine Company
Agsa
Selina Tanner
Athens
L. O. Marble
Geneva
Neb
L. C
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus, O
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