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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1902
Page
9
The work by St George Rathborne features adventures of a young heroine in mysterious Monte Ghalo with peril and intrigue. Aimed at juvenile readers, the tale blends danger and moral conflict through vivid scenes and imaginative plotting.
In a coastal page from 1900, Jones fights off boisterous sailors with Merrick, then spots a frightened stranger fleeing the shore. Jones suspects Merrick’s capture and watches the distant water for a clue as the pursuit ends.
A lone voice on shore calls out as a dusky boat glides away in a starlit sea. He hears muffled shouts and muttered oaths. the oars ply in regular rhythm as the mysterious vessel slips farther from sight.
Merrick, confined in a state room aboard a yacht near Nice, escapes by weakening a door with a broken blade. He meets Jones, who hints at a plan to flee on a boat held by a Corsican. They glimpse a distant figure described as the Rooshan, suggesting a link to a larger escape and unfolding danger.
In a dimly lit saloon on a luxury yacht, Merrick and Jones stalk hidden schemes. Constance Dare awakens to danger as Sir Lionel Dare and accomplices maneuver to seize her fortune or force a marriage, while Little Miss Millions seeks control and escape.
The London Daily Chronicle reports talks nearly finished may end war in South Africa but Britain withholds full amnesty and self government dates while parliament shifts to an educational bill. In Middleburg Transvaal Major Collett’s troopers clash with Boers on May 27. Commandant Mason mortally wounded. an armored train also engages Boers later that day.
Elmer J. Burkett of Lincoln, congressman from Nebraska's First District, was unanimously renominated at a Lincoln convention Tuesday evening. He arrived by B and M at 5 40 p m to a cheering crowd at the depot and auditorium, and thanked supporters while noting a 300000 post office appropriation secured with help from David Mercer and Nebraska's delegation.
A Washington dispatch notes senators paused from noon to 2 00 pm for the Pauncefote funeral. In the House Dalzell acted as speaker as a rules committee report sought to make the silver coinage measure special business. The resolution passed 99 to 75 authorizing the secretary of the treasury to coin subsidiary silver from bullion in Treasury holdings.
Thomas A. Edison announces the problem of electrical transport is solved. A twenty one cell storage battery powered a car for sixty two miles over hills on one charge with voltage from 29 to 22 per cell and no deterioration. A second test covered eighty five miles and Edison plans a thousand mile test next week. The battery weighs 332 pounds.
The Birmingham Post reports telegrams from Odessa and St. Petersburg indicating the Morgan syndicate seeks a Russian concession for thousands of square miles of iron bearing Siberian territory. Hamburg America Line shareholders at a Hamburg meeting ratified joining the Morgan shipping combine.
Senor Hipol Buencamino, a Philippine federal party founder and ex secretary of state for Aguinaldo, arrives from San Francisco. He will meet Secretary Root, appear before the Senate Philippine committee, visit his Berkeley students, and reportedly honor Mount Vernon and send regards to Mrs. McKinley and Mrs. Logan.
In Fort Dodge Iowa a kerosene can exploded while starting a fire. Mrs H L Hahn's clothing caught fire and her baby slept in the burning kitchen. Rescuers broke a window to reach the child which was unharmed. The mother was badly burned but to recover.
Abraham Slimmer of Waverly Indiana arranged to surrender his home and park to the Sisters of Mercy of Dubuque for a hospital to be operating by October first. An extensive addition will be made to the commodious building. The property is valued at $30,000 with a quit-claim deed to the Sisters of Mercy.
Thirty families of Lincoln fell ill after a church supper at the Second Presbyterian Church. One person, Dr. Hullhorst, is dangerously ill while others recover. Doctors cannot determine if the illness came from potted ham, fruit gelatin, potato salad, or ice cream.
B F Blount of Fort Wayne Indiana was killed by Topsy an elephant at Forepaugh and Sells circus in Brooklyn New York. Blount flashed a water glass before the beast and was crushed as the animal swung its trunk and dashed him to the ground breaking every bone in his body and beating his brains out.
Sarah Kuhn, a young woman, was denied a new trial by the supreme court this morning after being sentenced to life imprisonment for poisoning her aged husband in Delta. The murder occurred four months after their marriage. Kuhn’s husband was crippled and concealed his confirmed disability from her until after the wedding.
Willberger of Plattsmouth deserted his wife and two children last summer and married his wife's younger sister in Council Bluffs. He is suspected of kidnapping the children from their mother after she left them with a family for a few weeks and later found them missing.
A Paris dispatch reports Mrs. Thomas Kensett and her daughter Gertrude of Cornwall on Hudson New York were robbed of about 50000 dollars worth of jewelry from a hotel trunk near the Grand Opera. Heirlooms were among the stolen items.
The Lincoln library building funded by Andrew Carnegie was formally opened Tuesday. City officials conducted ceremonies and the completed structure was turned over to the city with formal and informal exercises marking the occasion.
After a long conference with premier Dr. Denitzer King Christian agrees to a one year extension for ratifying the Danish West Indian treaty. Berlin denies reports that Emperor William refused to receive Lt Cmdr Templin M Pots, who will replace Cmdr Beechler as naval attaché to the US embassy.
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