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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1901
Page
7
Wi-Hwa, second son of Corea's king, is in this country to study at our institutions. He is a graduate of a Japanese military academy.
An old fragment reflects on French wartime experiments and contrasts battle destruction with healing, noting Hostetter's Stomach Bitters claimed to cure dyspepsia indigestion constipation biliousness and prevent fever and ague after fifty years of use.
A rare 1410 manuscript of Wicliffe’s Bible in English black letter sold in London for 6000 dollars. The text aligns with the Later Version and 32 pages feature gold and color illumination. The work, scarce and complete only for the New Testament part, was produced amid penalties for Bible reproduction. A bad penny and a troubadour’s pants often appear in such markets.
Six physicians treated Mir J. Landeman of South Bend for kidney trouble over three years. Dr Landeman used two boxes of Pil’s Kidney Pills and is cured with improved health. The notice touts the cure and mentions local advertising of the product, along with unrelated ads for Allen’s Foot-Ease and various remedies and goods in Lincoln and LeRoy Nebraska.
An old newspaper snippet advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure for internal use with price 750 and mentions Wizard Oil for muscle care, Bale Blue Ball Blue at five cents, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething and soothing gums, and a sobering note about restaurant waiting rooms.
Widespread rainfall Saturday and Sunday drenched much of Nebraska and parts of Kansas and Missouri. Reports highlighted heavy falls near Ashland and Hampton, with towns from Ravenna to Beatrice and Lincoln area noting showers. Producers anticipate improved fodder, delayed yields, and a broadening wet spell as rail lines note rain extending toward Kansas City.
A small tornado near Hatfield in Sedgwick county Kansas destroyed farm property including fences outhouses barns stacks and wheat. After the wind died rain fell in torrents totaling about an inch and a half.
Peter Tillbury an iron worker from Muncie Indiana visited Kate Phinney’s home and threw carbolic acid into Mrs Mary Torrey a guest's face burning her eyes neck breast and arms. He had begged her to marry him for years.
Akxon Ohio dispatch reports a carriage carrying W G Matson his wife son and daughter struck by an Erie train at Old Forge. The vehicle was wrecked and the horse killed. The boy is two years old and the girl is three. The girl died and the boy was seriously injured. Mrs Matson is seriously hurt and Mr Matson has slight injuries.
President grants pardon to John F. Johnson former president of the State National Bank of Logers Port Ind He was convicted of misappropriating bank funds and other banking act violations and sentenced to ten years with five years already served resulting in clemency.
Fire destroyed the American Machine and Foundry shops at Hanover Pennsylvania. Loss estimated between 75600 and 127000 dollars. Plant was owned by American Furnace Company and used in machinery manufacture. About five hundred men are left unemployed.
In St Petersburg last Friday a senior police official told American author and lecturer George Kennan to depart Russia by 10 PM that night. Kennan was confined to his hotel room pending departure but treated courteously. The expulsion is described as permitted under a law empowering the interim government to expel undesirables, politically unreliable foreigners. Kennan informed the U.S. chargé d’affaires Charlemagne Tower but did not request intervention.
Formal negotiations for a settlement of the great steel strike begin in New York. President Shaffer and Secretary Williams of the Amalgamated Association meet with J P Morgan and associates of United States Steel. Movements of the conferees are secret and no result announced yet. A normal peace pact is expected in a few days.
Odo and Art Percival of Pawnee county Nebraska were found guilty by a county judge under the old game law for killing a deer last winter. The jury imposed a fine of 20 dollars on each. They appealed and will face the next district court term. The slain deer is believed to be the one that escaped from J C Atkinson's deer park years ago.
The Kansas treasury will end fiscal year 1903 with a deficit of about 400 000 dollars due to insufficient revenue to cover appropriations. For the next year appropriations total 4 633 214 dollars while revenue is projected at four million. The deficit of 633 214 dollars will be reduced somewhat by state department fees totaling 200 000 to 250 000 dollars.
J M Smallwood, a railway mail clerk of Indianapolis Indiana, was arrested for taking money from the mails. He operated on the Indianapolis to Pittsburgh route. He confessed guilt. Bail set at $2000. He is 45 years old and has long service in the mail division.
John Dann of Unadilla Nebraska died while boring a well on the Black farm southwest of town after a dynamite blast. He was working below ground and, it is believed, suffered a spell he often had, and was dead when pulled from the well. He left a wife and six children in very poor circumstances.
General George M. Randall and staff are ordered to Vancouver Barracks to take command of the merged Department of Columbia. The change is scheduled to take effect September 15.
Fragmentary lines note moral and retail quips about law and order, cosmetics, fishing slang, and a Red Cross product. The garbled text hints at advertisements and humorous quips typical of a historic newspaper page.
One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease powder makes tight new shoes comfortable. Cures swollen feet, burning, aching feet, ingrown nails, corns and bunions. Sold by druggists and stores for 25 cents. Trial package free by mail. Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY.
sensational incident in Hartford City Indiana as Mrs George Grey a society leader horsewhips Grace Harris in public on a city street. Grace Harris was with her husband when the attack occurred and the husband stood by without intervening.
Judge Wofford in the criminal court refused bond for Lulu Prince Kennedy who faces a ten year sentence for the murder of her husband. The $10,000 bond was offered with two businessmen as sureties, but the security was deemed unsatisfactory by the judge.
A four miles southeast of Windisay child of Ludwig Bhi ers dies while moving a team and wagon from the harvest field. Witnesses say the boy was shocked by heat and fell from the wagon as three wheels passed over his head, causing fatal injuries.
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