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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1901
Page
1
In Beatrice Nebraska a man and a younger farmhand were repairing an unused cave on Mrs. Philip Graff’s farm when a timber failed trapping the older man. The body was recovered hours later. He was to wed the daughter of Mrs. Graff, and plans to move to the Ostarr residence were mentioned.
U S commissioner W. W. Rockhill, returning from xianghua conference with the Chinese and powers, lands at Victoria, B C, aboard the Empress of Japan. He carries the protocol and plans to proceed to Washington. He sees affairs in China as returning to normal with no expected further outbreak, noting local uprisings in Kan Su and Manchuria were greatly exaggerated.
The navy department made public the fiscal year 1903 estimates totaling 77,924,535 dollars. Major increases include 2,500,000 for construction 2,000,000 for armor and 129,355 for yards and docks. Secretary Long said the figures meet navy needs and have administration approval.
Li Hung Chang again presses Russia to cede Manchuria back to China with Li visiting N and Paul Lessar proposing a Chinese envoy to St Petersburg. Reports mention Gi pressure and Chang Chi Tung as a likely envoy candidate, though details remain uncertain.
London dispatch reports a violent clash between the Worcesters and Durhams in armory quarters. Fixed bayonets and ball cartridges led to severe fighting with many injured and several bayonet wounds among the Durhams.
George Pease, a Plattsmouth man, has almost recovered from a gunshot wound suffered returning from a dance weeks ago. Doctors removed a bullet from his neck despite fears of blood poisoning. Charles Sitzman, charged with the shooting, remains jailed awaiting district court trial in November.
The Postmaster General issues a sweeping first list excluding a number of well known serial publications from second class mail privileges under recent amendments to second class matter regulations.
A blaze at the Garden City hotel 46 48 Sherman Street Chicago traps guests on upper floors. Levi Whitman of Indiana is identified as the deceased. Three others escape narrowly while many guests are rescued by firefighters. Fire spreads rapidly and ends with a small property loss.
New York dispatch reports all litigation over the late Jacobse Rogers will settled. The Metropolitan Museum of Art receives the bulk of the estate valued at 5 million dollars. The settlement payment was 250000 dollars, about 5 percent of the amount involved and roughly a year of normal income on the property.
The Nebraska City Daily News publishers honored B. I. Morden, foreman for twenty seven years, as he leaves for Portland Oregon to settle. A farewell reception by the M. E. church ladies presented him and his wife with a handsome silver tea service.
The Berlin Tageblatt reports mutinous conduct aboard the coast ironclad Hagen with sailors cutting a fire hose and damaging fire equipment. The unrest is attributed to discontent over curtailed furloughs, similar to recent incidents on the cruiser Gaselle.
Burglars blew open the Bluffton Milling Co office with a large charge of pynamite in Bluffton Ohio. The resulting fire destroyed the entire plant. Loss estimated at 25000 dollars. Police say the safe contained nothing. Two shots were fired at Night Operator Greer as he tried to raise the alarm before the burglars escaped.
H. C. Herterson who has been serving time in Dallas for a year and a half and who claims involvement in the Eddie Cudahy kidnapping at Omaha was moved from Dallas to the state penitentiary. He was convicted a year ago of swindling in several cases and now faces thirteen years in prison.
Mrs Parmenter wife of Lieutenant Henry E Parmenter on duty in Washington fell from a fourth story Portland flats window and struck a stone sidewalk sustaining probable fatal injuries.
A dispatch from Sofia Bulgaria notes a late night letter from Ellen M Stone's companion Mime Tsilka indicating Mme Tsilka has given birth. The infant and mother are reported to be well according to the posted notice on the parents door.
Three men pretending to be gas inspectors entered a Scio street house in Rochester New York and beat Mrs L M French and Mrs A A Gardiner aged around sixty, then looted jewelry valued at about 3000 dollars before escaping.
A War Department dispatch from Dutch Harbor Alaska states the Department of Alaska was discontinued September 30 and personnel leave tonight for Valdez and Skaguay. The Alaska department was merged into the Department of Columbia.
Brigadier General Jacob H. Smith orders suppression of the Samar uprising. Lieutenant Thomas M. Baines uncovers a jail cell escape plan with bolomen and a priest and president arrested. Reinforcements, including 333 Marines under Col. Mancel C. Goodwill aboard the New York, and two battalions of the Twelfth Infantry, are rushed to Samar as officers report widespread but uncelebrated native delight at American setbacks.
Judge Kohlsat of the United States circuit court in Chicago issues a permanent injunction against the International Association of Machinists from picketing Allis Chalmers plants or intimidating workers. He calls striker assaults civil warfare and says workers may quit work individually or in a group if not forming a conspiracy to injure property.
Governor Beckham directs Adjutant General Murray to disband the state troops guarding Hopkins county coal mines and return them home. Officials report no further danger to mine property from miners or any class agitation in the mining district.
A two year old accessed carbolic acid and poured it into a baby’s mouth at the Carter hotel in Hyannis Nebraska. Medical aid arrived too late and the infant Ed Ashley died several hours after the incident.
Col. W. L. Nelson owner of the Kansas City Star has bought the Kansas City Times and will keep both papers in publication. The Star will issue as an evening paper and the Times as a morning paper. Both papers will be independent in politics.
Dol F Holman renowned inventor of the Holman railway track layer was struck and killed by an electric car at Oak Park Chicago. He was seventy years old and a well known figure in railroad circles.
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway, incorporated in Burlington in October 1917, was fully organized at a meeting held the next day. Officers elected were President Wy Baldwin of Burlington and Vice President and Treasurer G Peasley of Chicago. Officials declined to disclose further details, stating only that the company was fully organized.
M Santos Dumont attempted the 100 000 francs prize by launching at 2 42 p m from St Cloud in a balloon headed for the Eiffel Tower. Observers watched the craft reach the tower after eight minutes forty five seconds and return to St Cloud in twenty nine minutes fifteen seconds despite a favorable wind turning against the craft.
A Pretoria letter describes General De Wet's presumed status due to inactivity amid Boer hardships. It notes severe field suffering and a shoulder wound that gangrened after being dressed with dirty rags, illustrating a dire medical situation for Boer fighters.
The national world’s fair commission in session at St Louis selected additional members for the board of lady managers. Mrs W M E Andrews Hastings Neb and Mrs Helen Boise Hunsicker Philadelphia were nominated by Senator Thurston of Nebraska and Mrs Jas J Blair St Louis was chosen as a member at large.
H Ewing of Plattsmouth Nebraska traveling for Eureka Electric had a grip stolen at Norfolk containing papers and letters. He later received the grip contents by express prepaid from Omaha, but the grip itself remains missing.
Joseph Pabst escaped convict caused a friend to betray his location in Hutchinson Kansas so the $50 reward could be collected and sent to his wife and children who needed the money. Pabst was recaptured and returned to prison.
A fast mail train collided head on with a freight train four miles below De Soto Missouri. One man was killed and many others injured as all cars were hurled off the tracks in the wreck.
Charles and Doe Lind were convicted in the Winfield Kansas police court on forty liquor selling counts. They received six months in jail and fines of $100 per count, totaling twenty years and $4,000. The report also notes Dickinson County discussions about a Solomon post office.
A Santa Fe brakeman A Hackett died from injuries after switching at Wakarusa. J M Bentson of Ragok Kan lost his 13 year old son who was killed when thrown from a pony while herding cattle. H R Cloughley and W S Hannum of Chemrvyues Run visited Pekoa for an automobile factory site. Charles Cathers, 13, son of Topeka resident R R Cathers, suffered severe injuries after falling two stories in an elevator shaft at Wolff packing plant.
After a prolonged contest the Carbondale council votes five to three to repeal the saloon license and close all saloons in the city by November. A special city election preceded the action.
Congressman Representative Small of North Carolina focuses on fish studies and seeks establishment of a marine fisheries research station on the state's coast to study related problems.
Report notes community praise for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a life saver and remedy for dyspepsia indigestion biliousness nervousness and liver and kidney troubles. A Lyndonstown baby faces possible lockjaw as a small key is suspected in the illness.
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Base as a cure for swollen burning feet and bunions with Allen's Foot-Ease powder sold by druggists. A Garfield Headache Powder tout claims quick relief for nervous women, claiming monetary relief with a small change in spending.
An excerpt touts Defiance Starch as uniquely better through a different process claiming one third more for 10 cen. The fragment notes a contrast to stingy promises, implying consumer value and reliability.
An old advertisement urges buying Defiance starch and Red Cross Ball Blue for laundry. It notes 16 oz for ten cents and large 2 oz for five cents. The piece mentions current race question interest with a tepid social cue.
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