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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1902
Page
10
Huber Li Tamer, listed as author of Jack Robbins of America and In the China Sea, is noted alongside Two Gentlemen of Hawaii and On a False Charge among other titles. The fragment cites multiple works attributed to the writer with varied international settings and themes.
Wilberton returns to New York with Nita Barlotti and Henry Thorlane to confront Graviscourt. He confers with Major and Superintendent Byrnes, reveals a locket and statements from Sigmotta and Dambo, plans to force a confession from Tortoni the druggist, and aims to free Edith from Graviscourt’s grasp.
In a tense interrogation, Sigmotta is confronted by a superintendent over charges of inciting Luigi Dambo to murder Nita Barlotti and Maligni. The suspect denies the accusations and recalls a prior attempt on Maligni’s life during the circus closing night.
The excerpt lists curious calendar based terms as a dictionary interest. Amphiscians live in the tropics with shadows north and south seasonally. Antiscians live north and south of the equator with noon shadows in opposite directions. Ascians have no noon shadows in a zone. Periscians inhabit the polar circle with shadows moving around daily.
An angry man confronts an acquaintance over a promised “man of absolutely steady habits” at a street meeting. He argues that D has been drunk for ten months, challenging the other’s assurance and exposing the contrast between claimed steadiness and daily intoxication.
A young aspiring writer asked for a chance at a Cincinnati paper. The editor challenged him to write about bread. He spent the night gathering material and the next day delivered a bright, newsy report on The Bakeries of Cincinnati and was hired.
A report notes John J Sullivan recently threw a handful of money into a crowd. The act is contrasted with his past boast of money to throw to the birds. The crowd received the cash with mixed reactions, highlighting a shift from bragging to generosity.
A Washington dispatch reports King Oscar of Sweden and Norway ruling the Samoan dispute in favor of Germany. The decision affects the 1899 landing at Apia by US and British forces and the related damages claims from German French British and American residents. The arbitration schedule and claim totals have been under review since 1900 with the king expected to disclose the scope of the award.
Paris observers including government officials and 5 000 spectators witnessed astronomer Camille Flammarion repeat the pendulum experiment to prove the earth's rotation. A 62 pound weight hung from a 78 yard wire produced a measurable deviation every 16 seconds confirming the moving planet. Flammarion calling the demonstration the grandest lesson in popular astronomy, asserting humanity lives as citizens of the heavens.
A wagon load of 1700 pounds of limburger cheese was stolen from the Zion cheese factory a mile west of Oriskany New York. No scent or scent of a crew has been found by officers. The tug vehicle drove up to the factory before daylight and entered through a window.
A young man named Harry Hammond died after a threshing machine cylinder collapsed as he stepped over it near Oak Nebraska. He fell into the separator where his legs were crushed and he bled to death despite aid.
Foreign firemen pumpmen blacksmiths timbermen and bosses return to work to keep mines in shape. Double shifts will run while timbering and shaft clearance are checked. No violence or hostile moves reported as union and non union men resume work. Railroads load cars and engines ready for a coal surge. By Saturday night 400000 tons expected. next week over 17000000 tons to be produced.
At Kansas City Union depot a large crowd rushed the box covering Jim Younger’s casket in a bid to take souvenirs.Police cleared the smashed box and guarded the remains as they moved to Lee's Summit for burial with pallbearers from Quantrell's guerrilla circle.
Full-blood Sioux Rev Sherman Coolidge and Grace Weatherbee of New York married at Fort Wa shakie by Rev F J Roberts. They met at the agency three years prior when Weatherbee visited the west with Bishop Talbott. Coolidge, taken captive by Shoshones as a youth, was educated by Captain Coolidge and at Hobart College and Fairbault. He has ministered to Shoshone and Arapahoe in central Wyoming since 1884. He is sixty, she twenty five. Weatherbee’s father owns the Manhattan hotel in New York and is wealthy.
Col Mosby, special agent for the land office in Washington, conferred with the secretary of the interior on removing fences in western Nebraska. Mosby, under pressure from cattlemen and the law, was asked to provide a viewpoint on the controversy and is expected to submit his report in a few days.
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