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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1900
Page
2
The column lists varied Kansas notes: Kingman girls play hockey. saloons in Ellinwood carry ads. nine men rejected for enlistment in Emporia. rail payrolls, deaths, thefts, and local headlines from across the state. It also cites political appointments, bonds, school enrollment, and remarks by William Allen White.
A London dispatch reports Sir Redvers Buller remains trusted and vows to prevail at the next battle. The Boer position is strong with trench lines and 12 000 Boers, sixteen miles of rough country to Ladysmith, while Dutch disaffection grows in Griqualand West and colonial Dutch sympathy shifts toward the republics.
Colonel Lockett with 2 500 troops including artillery reports a Manila dispatch stating a strong insurgent force near Montalban was completely routed after a three hour barrage. Four Americans wounded. Filipino losses large. Units included Forty sixth Volunteer Infantry and cavalry. insurgents likely from San Mateo withdrawal after General Lawton death.
The American Negro Academy, a group of educators clergy and other prominent men, gathered at Lincoln Memorial Congregational church in Washington. W S Scarborough and Peter H Clark delivered papers while W E B Du Bois gave his annual address on The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind. Col William J Volkmar has been relieved from duty in Colorado and sent to New York then Havana for assignment as adjutant general of the division of Cuba.
Congress will be asked for an appropriation of $50,009 after reconvening to stamp out the smallpox epidemic in Indian Territory, Crow Creek agency in South Dakota, and other reservations.
San Jacinto Cal scene of devastation as earthquake destroys every building. Six squaws killed and two die later at Sabaha reservation after an adobe shelter collapsed. Main street wrecked, electric wires down, county hospital walls damaged from the disaster.
An application for clemency for Jo seph Wilkins and Howard Butler, jailed in Moyamensing Prison for violating oleomargerine laws, has reached President McKinley and the attorney general. West oleomargerine interests push the appeal after three years of court battles. The men were caught by internal revenue agents removing stamps from over one hundred oleomargerine packages in Philadelphia warehouses.
News from Victoria reports a major snowslide on the White Pass and Yukon railroad. A rotary and two engines were buried, later freed, but the rotary damaged by rock striking and losing fourteen of its twenty knives. The trailing train escaped damage. P Oregon, attempting to walk to Skagway, was found unconscious with frostbitten face and hands. Glacier operator notes track buried by five to twenty feet of snow, with telegraph lines down beyond Glacier.
Paul Morton, third vice president of the Santa Fe, may be asked to become president of the reorganized Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf system. A meeting of the executive committee seriously considered his name as plans discussed would create a near continental railroad from Atlantic to Pacific via the Gulf of Mexico. The proposed transcontinental system calls for a combination between the Harriman syndicate and James J Hill.
In St Etenne miners report calm yet guarded pits as only 25 percent descend. Lace workers meet and vow to continue the strike while the Elysee cabinet discusses the coal shortage. Premier Waldeck Rousseau and Public Works Minister Baudin pledge measures to avert a coal shortage.
Franklin B Livingstone a fifty six year old blind man claims self defense after choking his wife Rosie Livingstone to death at their Baltimore home. He surrendered to police and says she attempted to smother him with a feather bed. Jealousy suspected as motive. He lost sight in Fair Oaks battle and drew a $12 monthly pension.
Stephen Whitmore of Cass county vanished after visiting a St Louis acquaintance. His bloated body was recovered from the Eel River near Fourth Street, prompting murder suspicions, a large-scale search, and a $500 reward as detectives press on.
From New Zealand comes a tale that Raglan Maoris captured a taniwha about fourteen to fifteen feet long with huge teeth and broad body. They feed it birds and fish and plan to exhibit it once a transport is found. Local scientists doubt the details yet acknowledge a possibly unique specimen.
In a chatty Stray Storis item, Nellie and Jack clash over a breakup with jocular barbs about a girl athlete named Joe. The brief quotes hint at romantic tension and evolving friendships.
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