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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1900
Page
2
The St Louis Portland through express on the Burlington departing Lincoln at 11 10 Wednesday night was held up near Bradshaw Neb shortly after midnight. A number of passengers robbed and a single suspect confined himself to sleeper car occupants. A special train with officers rode from Lincoln toward the scene to pursue the case.
London reports from June 28 describe a 2300 strong composite brigade aiding Admiral Seymour at Tien Tsin. News states relief troops will boost Allied strength to about 60,000 within a month, with Japanese forces totaling 13 000 landed and 20 000 more prepared.
Charles Brock aged twenty seven a Hecla Neb laborer shot himself with a double barreled gun leaving a wife and child His father resides at Bromfield Neb He was insured for $2000 with the Highlanders Authorities note family troubles as alleged cause
Fort Wayne dispatch reports William Nabrwald, a 35 year old barber, shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself. Neighbors heard arguing minutes prior. Both led dissipated lives and were married in December.
County Judge Richard I Neal of Auburn Nebraska finds the defendants R E Miller and others not guilty in a State barbers board case. The ruling holds the state barber law unconstitutional for failing to meet constitutional requirements, thus clearing barbers in Auburn.
One of the worst windstorms in years swept Bancroft Nebraska on a Wednesday morning. The storm hit around six o clock and lasted an hour and a half. Strong winds caused trees to fall, as well as awnings outhouses and many smaller structures.
The state weather bureau reports week ending June 25 saw above normal temperatures with mostly showers on the 21st and light rainfall overall. Warm sunny days accelerated maturing of small grain and corn. wheat oats and rye harvests underway in the southeast with good yields. crops recovering from storms in the 16th with minimal further damage. hay and vegetables look good and alfalfa worms have largely disappeared.
The United States battleship Kentucky arrived at the naval anchorage off Tompkinsville eight should be eight? 8. S. shortly before noon Wednesday after completing her final acceptance trial. A special inspection board will report to Washington. The crew believes the trial was very satisfactory and the Kentucky will proceed to the navy yard for dry docking.
Iain John L Powers of Harlan Kentucky known as Coupe House was arrested charged as an accessory to the Goebel murder He filed habeas corpus proceedings at once He holds a Governor Taylor pardon and had been released previously on habeas corpus in Knox county He is a brother of Secretary of State Caleb Powers
A dustbox explosion in the packing department of Standard Starch in Kankakee Illinois injures six girls and a boy. Victoria Pepin is badly burned and feared dead while Lucy Pepin Bertha Greenwood Agnes Jones Blanche Prince and Rose Cogswell suffer minor burns. Charles Swanson is blown from a second story window with minor injuries. A spark in the dustbox caused the blast.
A Denver Idaho dispatch describes a severe hail storm that devastated wheat fields and orchards, killed small pigs and chickens, knocked down horses, and caused at least 50 000 dollars in crop and fruit damage with reports of further grain losses from other locations.
Fort Worth dispatch reports hundreds of prospectors flocking to the Wichita mountains seeking minerals. Kiowa and Comanche reservations face a serious situation as Indian police are ordered to eject invaders, with feared bloodshed if enforcement proceeds.
It is likely the labor college in America funded by British workingmen will be established in New York rather than St. Louis. A meeting of presidents and secretaries of all New York trades unions will be held July 8 as British delegates Bowerman and Sexton outline their plans.
A blaze that began among cotton bales on Pier 2 of the North German Lloyd line in Hoboken at 4 p.m. Saturday spread within minutes to four ocean liners and many harbor craft. Nearly 200 lives lost, about 10 million dollars in property destroyed, with 300 wounded and 1,500 imperiled.
Rat Portage Ontario reports a threatened Indian uprising on Rainy River with about a thousand Indians near the river mouth and Leach Lake groups said to incite killing and pillage of settlers. Fifteen hundred reportedly reached Rat Portage. A Third Minnesota regiment leaves Duluth for Rainy Lake to assist under Captain Eva with forty five men.
The non sectarian College of Primary and Secondary Education opens in Manila with Judge Taft and colleagues present. Taft lauds the event as significant as the first priest controlled educational enterprise seeking voluntary public support. Five hundred pupils enrolled. many more leaving priest schools to join. The American educational department provides textbooks on easy terms.
Authorities recover a large trove of jewels valued around 50000 pounds from the London apartments of Mr and Mrs Edwin Gould. The suspect, Charles W Blair, aged about eighty, arrested at Coney Island after attempting to sell gems at a prize fight, is in custody. Blair denies stealing the jewels, claiming they were given to him by a woman to dispose of.
Frank G. Simmons the Seward postmaster in Nebraska was sentenced in Dodge county United States court to twelve months in jail and a fifty dollar fine plus costs for embezzling 3062.38 from the Seward post office. He pleaded guilty earlier in the term. the judge noted his prior standing and community trust and said the bondholders’ loss was covered by others.
Washington dispatch reports advices expected at the papal legation on a petition from Iowa Catholics to raise Fort Dodge to a bishopric rather than Sioux City. Archbishop Martinelli forwarded the plea during his absence in Oregon, delaying transmission to the pope for final decision after Propaganda examine.
The navy department has received no further news of the battleship Oregon aground off the Chinese coast. No official updates or changes have been reported as of this bulletin.
Steamship Gustin from Dawson and Yukon ports reaches St Michael on June 165 carrying 200 passengers and 2 million dollars in gold dust largely belonging to Dawson banks. At Dutch Harbor on June 8 Colonel Noyes imposes martial law with Rush cutter sailors and Wheeling guns patrolling shore, closing saloons. Deserters from government vessels are captured. martial law is later lifted.
A man linked to a Burlington train robbery near Bradshaw was spotted with two accomplices three miles west of Reynolds driving a worn mule team. Bloodhound officers were closing in, thirty minutes behind, with a large reward fueling broad excitement.
A dead end collision on the B&O Southwestern near Remington Ohio injures Mrs Agnes Evan Feldt of Cincinnati with a forehead cut and ten others slightly hurt. Property damage is slight.
Rural free delivery service will be established at Sutton in Clay County Nebraska on July 16 with two carriers bias Speich and L L Ames. The new route covers seventy nine square miles and serves a population of about 2000 people.
Native accounts say Kumassi area is silent with no news. Reports from Prasu indicate the column advancing there has been fighting for two days.
Brigadier General Chaffee has departed San Francisco aboard the transport Grant. The move signals the officer's deployment as military actions proceed.
Cable from Admiral Kempff in Che Foo dated June 29 states Pekin relief expedition now in Tien Tsin with 20 sick and wounded. Ministers and Pekin party not with them. No news from them. Also Admiral Remey on the Brooklyn arrived at Hong Kong en route to Taku. London dispatch notes Seymour's allies near Pekin and retreat, with captured rice and stores aiding a defense until relief. President heads to Canton confident China situation improves, though officials split.
Benjamin Hill Snell aged 44, once a pension office clerk, was hanged at the district jail in Washington D C for killing 13 year old Lizzie Wiesberger who worked at his home. He was the jail's largest execution, weight 296 pounds at intake, six feet six inches tall, dropping to 237 pounds at the scaffold. The rope nearly severed his head due to his size.
St. Louis street car strikers push a parallel bus line plan to rival the train company. A committee reports $3,000 raised and twenty-two vehicles operating regularly. The city will be divided into districts to provide broad service and an appeal seeks public aid.
Reports from Shanghai say the United States battleship Oregon ran aground on the island of Hoo Kie in the Miao Tao group about fifty miles north of Che Foo. An Indo China Steam Navigation steamer has been sent to assist.
A blaze in the Best Manufacturing Company machine shop at Twenty fifth Street Pittsburg Pennsylvania killed one firefighter and injured eleven others. The fire destroyed nearly 400000 dollars in property and caused extensive damage to the plant.
The last unknown body from the McDonough wreck lies at an Atlanta undertaking establishment. It bears the name Elder W H Jensen of the Utah Mormon church, but no claim has been filed. A Mormon elder suggested it might be Elder Bennison of Chattanooga.
At a National Founders association meeting in Cleveland Ohio the group rejected the moulders demand for a 25 cent daily wage increase. The decision heightens the chance of a strike involving several thousand workers.
Bramwell Car Company employees in St. Louis go on strike. Belle Isle mines, site of a recent stoppage, close down as labor action expands. The Christian Reformed Church of North America reports the synod has concluded. Germany warns prolonged turmoil in China is likely.
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