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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1902
Page
6
A marquis and Captain Livermore join to rescue the captain's wife Fedora amid a web of disguise and danger. A detective guards their path as they travel from London to the coast, suspecting Juanita's hidden motives and Fed ore's possible ploy. The tale blends romance, intrigue, and tropical peril.
In a Scotland Yard led chase, detectives follow a small steamer into a fierce Bay of Biscay storm. By dawn the sea calms as land appears on the Spanish coast, and the marquis prepares to confront the captain and seize the quest in Santander.
Twelve veiled members led by their captain raided Jim Hammond’s joint in Buddyville and damaged the liquor cases and his large looking glass. They gave Hammond one day to leave town under threat of tar and feathers. A Lexington citizen helped oversee the event.
Benjamin Jones a machinist from Portland Oregon died in Seattle from what coroner suspects was violent poison given by a woman he registered with as his wife at the Hotel York. She entered the hotel office announced illness and left, not returning. Jones was found unconscious, removed to a hospital and died hours later. valuables were taken from his clothing. Letters in his grip mention parents in Oskaloosa Iowa. He used the alias J H Sayre at the hotel. He was reputed to have left Oskaloosa eight years ago with a high standing as a skilled machinist and good salary. his brother John is a stationary engineer.
The Tennessee flood has caused extensive losses with damages estimated from 1 500 600 to 2 000 000 dollars. Hundreds of families are homeless and relief is urgently needed. Three African American children are reported dead. Only one bridge across the Duck River remains standing as steel bridges costing 50 000 dollars are washed away. Duck River is within its banks and Shelbyville town damage reaches about 200 000 dollars.
Philadelphia dispatch reports Mrs. Mary E. Clement sister of ex Governor Boyd killed herself in her North Broad Street residence. Disheartened by lack of success in litigation and failing to win custody of her son she used a gas jet and rubber tube causing death in a third story room.
Senator Stewart, chairman of the senate committee on Indian affairs, reported the Indian appropriation bill to the senate. The measure carries a total appropriation of $9,415,339, a net increase of $973,884 over the house passage. Authority is given to use tribal trust funds totaling $1,031,192 for settlement of obligations and other purposes.
A major mining lawsuit has been filed in Colorado Springs district court claiming mining property in the Cripple Creek district valued at more than 5 million dollars. The suit is brought by minority stockholders of the Mount Rosa Company against Woods Investment Company.
A Black man named Walter Allen faced criminal charges after an incident in Rome Georgia where a 15 year old girl Blossom Adamson was hurt. A mob of about four thousand people reportedly stormed the jail, battered doors, and an associate died in an electric chair related to the event.
Report of a clash between sheep herders and cattlemen on the Green River country range twenty miles east of Big Piney Wyoming. Cattlemen, armed and outnumbering the sheepmen five to one, disarmed and tied the herders and destroyed the outfit after gunfire. Names of those involved are withheld though rumors link John and Abe Hill. Further trouble anticipated in the upper Green River region.
A 10-year-old son of Sam Pinkerton in Custer County Nebraska was dragged by a horse until unconscious while herding cattle. He was found about eighty rods from home with a fractured skull and internal injuries, and experts fear recovery is unlikely.
Nebraska elections reveal many cities and towns voting on license issues. The list of communities includes Alma Ansley Beatrice Carroll Clarks Cozad Creighton David City Elgin Fairbury Gothenburg Geneva Havelock Holdrege Humboldt Kearney Lincoln Lyons Norfolk Newport Odell Osceola Silver Creek Shelby Stromsburg Syracuse Tekamah Wausa Wymore Adams Aurora Benkelman Broken Bow Cedar Rapids Clay Center Elgin Fullerton Gibbon Lexington Minden Nelson Ord Rising City Stella Tecumseh and more.
The New York Democratic Club board approved an at home on Monday evening April 14 inviting prominent national Democrats. Expected guests include ex president Grover Cleveland William Jennings Bryan William C Whitney David B Hill John G Carlisle Daniel S Lamont and Senator Arthur Pue Gorman along with all Democratic senators and representatives.
After mass meetings of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Company miners at Punxsutawney and Sykesville Pa the strike is formally declared. It involves 10000 miners and will curtail employment of nearly as many railroad workers for the Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad whose freight traffic will be paralyzed.
Mrs Anderson of the old charity home in Shenandoah Ja under dementia struck her 12 year old youngest son with a hammer with intent to kill. She said God commanded her to kill while he remained innocent. Overwork and worry unbalanced her mind. she was committed to the insane asylum in Clarinda. The boy will recover.
A Cheyenne special reports the death of Mrs Esther Morris a pioneer of Wyoming woman suffrage known as the mother of suffrage in the state She helped advance the equal suffrage amendment and served as justice of the peace guiding early rights and reforms in Wyoming.
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