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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1901
Page
2
A mosaic of local items from Kansas towns. droughts, marriages, crimes, politics, and curiosities shape a snapshot. Highlights include Elmwood district notes on taxation and schools, Atchison’s real estate and newspapers, and Pratt officials locating a pest house in a cemetery, with humor and regional color throughout.
Deputy U S Marshal Fred Milans killed Dave Luse at his Ainsworth home while Luse resisted arrest after a year of criminal activity including arson murder and robberies. A reward had been posted for Luse, and a hired detective had gathered evidence linking him to past crimes. Milans fired after Luse grabbed a Winchester. the shell was empty and Milans followed with a fatal shot to the heart.
Postmaster General Smith issues an order banning creation or maintenance of any surplus or emergency fund in post offices derived from fines or salary withholdings. The department requires all such money to be regularly reported. The action follows reports that some offices kept funds for supplies, deemed irregular and prone to abuse.
Paul Warren of troop C, Roosevelt Rough Riders, identified as the San Francisco Cliff House death victim. Warren, a Quincy native and son of New Mexico Chief Justice Tate William Warren, recently discharged after serving in the Philippines with the Eleventh Cavalry. His death was ruled a death by his own action, ending a period of dissipation.
In Yuma Arizona Deputy Sheriff Alexander was fatally shot while being escorted from the courthouse after a life sentence for the murder of Mrs. J J Burns. Samuel King, brother of Mrs Burns, is under arrest on suspicion of firing the shot.
At the Tincoln home of William Carroll a lamp exploded as Mrs Ellen Carroll, aged sixty, moved between rooms tripping at her invalid husband on a couch. Firefighters and passersby found her body burned severely and the husband gravely burned. He is sixty five.
Lawrence Neb residents face the strongest quarantine rules as officials push surveillance and mobility limits to curb disease. Local leaders believe the measure will drive the ailment under control and hasten its end.
The Nebraska supreme court named ten commissioners for two years at 2500 dollars annually. John H. Ames Lincoln gold democrat W G Hastings Wilber I Le Alber Columbus populist Sr édgwick York républican Ly R Baie Omaha democrat S Kirkpatrick Lincoln populist George Av Day Onidha republican W D Oldham Kearney democrat Roscoe Pound Lincoln republican No stenographers were named. The panel includes three Republicans three Democrats five populists and one gold democrat after lengthy talks. Original list reportedly had four Republicans.
A mob of about fifty men in Ponen Neb seized Alva Smith as he walked home from the theater tarred and feathered him and ordered him to leave town within 24 hours. He is accused of raping Minnie Ellum an eighteen year old girl who died in an Omaha hospital two weeks earlier.
Varied items from the era report on the Platt amendment delay, border arrests of nineteen Chinamen, and political moves in Iowa and Illinois. Notable notes include Aguinaldo’s unsettled manifesto, Filipino distrust of leadership, a Nebraska flour mill expansion, Pine Ridge storm impacts, a normal university merger vote, a boundary homicide arrest, Navy enlistment orders for the Philippines, a wreck near Wells, gunfire in Wichita, jealous suspicion and a new Chicago city administration with Honore Palmer sworn in.
Mrs. Sarah Kinkead, eighty two, died hours after a kitchen fire in Plattsmouth. A Hastings man was dangerously injured in machinery belting. Neighbors heard a scream as Mrs. Kinkead burst into flames, clothing catching from a lit match and wind fanning the blaze. She leaves four grown children.
Gen E Moore who left Ricront Nob recently on a westbound freight train on the Elkhorn railroad was killed between Tilden and Oakdale by falling from the top of a car. He was with tramp printer T P McKinney who had been at Tremont. They aimed for Casper to find work. Moore claimed to be from Council Bluffs and had stayed in Tremont twenty four hours before meeting McKinney and others.
J F Fairman owner of a large tank factory and planing mill on South Lincoln Avenue Hastings tripped in his factory and was dragged into a heavy belt. He was crushed between the pulley and belt until freed. He lay in critical condition with severe injuries to the left shoulder and side as a thirty horsepower engine ran at full speed.
An American notes that the best guardian for poultry is a Scotch collie. The dog can be taught to guide ducks and other fowl to feeding grounds and bring them back, offering reliable protection and training benefits.
A fragment advertises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for indigestion constipation kidney and liver troubles and malaria and fever. It promotes the tonic for nervous affections and seasonal weakness. Also includes scattered real estate ads with rates per acre and contact names in Texas and Louisiana.
Mrs. Margaret Hossack of Indianola Iowa was found guilty of murdering her husband on December 1. The jury fixed the sentence at life imprisonment after a trial in Warren County conducted with prominent state attorneys. The evidence was circumstantial.
M. E. Ingalls of the Big Four road spoke at a Knife and Fork Club dinner in Kansas City advocating an income tax and a franchise tax. He argued the franchise tax is the easiest collected and lamented the Supreme Court ruling against the income tax as unfortunate.
In Hartford Connecticut Mrs Helen Pottshall of New York filed suit in the United States court seeking her alleged share of the late George F Gilman of Bridgeport. She claims to be his adopted daughter and sues Bridgeport Trust Company as administrator and George W Smith of Bridgeport as receiver.
Alexander McRobie, 71, longtime St Joseph figure in business circles, was found shot in the woods near Graham Missouri. Authorities believe the death resulted from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot while hunting.
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