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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1902
Page
8
The marquis, Fedora, Mazette, and Jack escape a Spanish sally by freeing Mazette and Mazette’s companion, while the nabob uses gold to scatter pursuers. They flee to the American steamer, fearing pursuit from the harbor, ending with a vow of brotherhood and a hopeful new life.
The marquis and Fortune plan a bold boarding of a steamer at night using a rope climb and disguise as port officers. Livermore enters unseen as the group reaches the cabin door. Fedora sits in a chair startled by the intruders.
A detective wards off a desperate attack as a tormented woman clashes for a revolver. Titanita fights to free herself, while the captain and crew confront Livermore and scudets on deck amid gunfire and chaos aboard the steamer. The detective seizes a key to separate Titanita, then stays back as others engage in a brutal melee with knives and pistols.
F Godfin a 63 year old bank bookkeeper at First National Falls City shot himself in his bank seat about 8 pm Wednesday. Frustration and lack of motive cited though his ledger entries were clean. He leaves a wife and two children after years of lodge work with A O U W.
Census Bureau figures show 2 053 912 farms produced 658 534 252 bushels of wheat on 52 588 514 acres with farm value 369 945 320 dollars. Barley on 4 471 228 acres yielded 119 632 827 bushels from 272 913 farms. Buckwheat produced 11 287 005 bushels on 209 460 farms and 4 697 799 farms grew 94 916 866 acres of corn yielding 2 666 438 279 bushels and value 830 257 726 dollars. Oats on 29 539 597 acres produced 943 387 375 bushels for 217 089 584 dollars from 2 114 559 farms. Rye on 2 064 269 acres yielded 25 570 360 bushels valued at 12 291 258 dollars from 295 108 farms. Total wheat exports plus seed and flour ground 666 436 141 bushels.
The Indianapolis special on the Big Four road wrecked through Walworth Run near Cleveland. Two men, engineer William E. McGrath and fireman Edward McNally, are dead. Three others are seriously hurt including A. R. Edmunds, Thomas Murphy, and J. R. Carr. The crash is blamed on a washed-out track from twelve hours of heavy rain. No passengers are reported injured.
In Nebraska state near Hear McCann boys exploring a bluff found a strange rock that resembled ore. It led to discovery of a ledge containing copper and fold ore in the vicinity, prompting local investigation and confirmation of the find.
Authorities in San Francisco have been alerted to a shipment of arms entering the country bound for Chinese insurgents. Details note revolts in southern provinces and ongoing delivery of warlike matériel from foreign sources fueling the uprising.
The vali of Adrianople reports that a band of Bulgarians killed and mutilated three Musselman peasants and a boy near Kirk-Kilissch, thirty two miles east northeast of Adrianople, aiming to provoke retaliation.
United States ambassador to Russia Charlemagne Tower is set to sail home and is expected to reach Washington early Friday. He will return after completing diplomatic duties and briefing sessions in Moscow.
A President's Day program in Charleston featured a grand procession through the principal streets, speeches in the exposition auditorium, a sword presentation to Major Micah Jenkins, and a luncheon at the women's building. The president praised heritage ties to South Carolina and spoke on national unity following the Civil War.
In Grant county near Wellington Kansas, Mrs. Peoples reportedly killed her husband, a farmer, by driving a nail into his head while he slept after an evening of drinking and abuse. The couple had quarrels over supper and his threats. she drove the nail from the opposite side of a pine partition to ensure his death.
Roy Hartman a car repairer for Rock Island at Fairbury Neb was crushed to death between the bumpers of two freight cars in the yards. He was working on a car on the repair track when another car was switched against it while he was off guard. A warning flag was not placed on the car under repair. Hartman leaves a wife and infant child.
Frank Malley of Edgar Nebraska was scuffling during a trip to a York declamatory contest when he was pitched headlong against an iron safe. His nose broke and he was unconscious for a time. Doctors expect a return home in a few days as he recovers.
The state fisheries commissioner reports word from the United States Fish Commission that two carloads of fish will be distributed in Kansas streams this year. A Manila dispatch notes cholera totals 175 cases and 137 deaths by noon Tuesday. Natives resist quarantine, one killed. The pope, despite Cardinal Rampolla's opposition, will send special missions to the coronation events of King Edward and King Alfonso's enthronement festivities in Spain.
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