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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1902
Page
8
A reference notes SEWARD W. Hopkins author of Jack Robbins of America In the China Sea Two Gentlemen of Hawaii On a Palse Charge and other works.
In 1895 New York a pursuit escalates as Maligni and Nita Bariloti escape aboard La Gascogne and head toward Sardinia to wed. The lion tamer Maubikeck and I pursue, facing danger and revealing secrets on a blistering ocean voyage while Major Simmons watches over events.
During a storm the narrator suffers severe seasickness as the Queen battles waves. The illness distracts Maubikeck from his plans to reveal confidences, while the lion tamer nearby tends to the traveler. By the third day the worst is over but the narrator remains weak.
Maubikeck remains a beacon of calm as a collision hurls the Lotus Club party into chaos. Wilberton clings to life on deck while Maubikeck guides him to a lifeboat, promises aid for Nita, and faces an abyss of shouting, darkness, and damp cold through a night of desperate struggle at sea.
A fragment reads a witty line warning that love abandoned leads to breach of promise, suggesting time lays bare deception and couples may face consequences for fleeting affection.
The Trans Mississippi congress discussed antitrust measures and suspending judgment on trusts. Col Moses C Wetmore urged decisive action to enforce laws, while F B Thurber sought to delay judgment pending experience. John N Kirby of Houston was elected president as delegates enjoyed a Commercial Club reception.
Adjutant General L W Colby says war department telegram fixes mobilization of Nebraska troops at Fort Riley Kansas between September 29 and October 8. Two regiments from Nebraska and probably one independent company will move. Formal order by mail awaits. Governor and general will discuss details after receipt.
William Hafner a Trempeleau area farmer died after eating fifty roasted ears of green corn across meals Wednesday night. He began with twenty four ears at dinner then fifteen for supper and eleven more when awake craving later, dying in apparent agony the next morning.
A bank defaulter once cashier at the National Shoe and Leather Bank is said to have amassed wealth after years in prison. He reportedly left for the West to engage in mining ventures and has now returned to Brooklyn introducing himself to old friends. He allegedly stole $350,000 from his former employer.
Belgian automobilists including a count killed an old man and two children in the Rhine province Germany. Angered crowds attempted to lynch the count and companions as tourists were rescued by police.
Patrick Ross colored of 112 South Fourteenth Street was fatally struck by lightning at 11 10 AM while directing five men loading hay near Lincoln park. Ernest Sexton was knocked unconscious. two work mules were killed instantly as a storm swept the field. Employer C T Boggs and a fourth man were uninjured.
Clarence Bond of Benkelman Nebraska was mortally wounded when a train struck him as he slept on a Wray Colorado platform. Four Benkelman boys were returning by train when two failed to reach the car and Bond, tired, dozed with feet on the rail, dying minutes before his parents arrived.
Two killed and several injured in a Belmar New Jersey wreck when an empty excursion train struck a Pennsylvania train at the depot. Richard Dearmond of Orange and Alice Bishop of Rahway were killed. Joseph Toal of Rahway is critically injured.
A Burlington West-bound freight train No. 29 switching on the quarry track at Cedar Creek Nebraska struck a man named Davis who was riding a flat car as a spectator. Davis was knocked off and instantly killed. The body was shipped to his home in Plattsmouth.
Congress voices charges against the secretary of public works amid tensions with President Palma. If Palma backs the secretary, impeachment proceedings against Palma may start, according to authoritative sources.
An open car descending a hill on the Union Railway jumped the track and plunged into a ditch. One person was killed and over twenty injured, many seriously. St. Keys died. John Palmer and William Hisener suffered probable fatal injuries.
Two women arrive in Ottumwa Iowa declaring marriage to Greeley Napier who was arrested there and sought in Harrison County Missouri for burglary. Report says eleven other women from several Iowa Missouri towns also claim to be Napier’s wives.
Six delegates and fifty others gathered in Mystic Conn on Wednesday for the thirty sixth annual anniversary of the Universal Peace Union. Alfred H Lowe was re elected president for his thirty seventh term. Other officers will be elected Saturday.
The Washington Times reports the engagement of Senator Frye president pro tem of the senate to Miss Ellen May of Portland Maine. Frye is seventy one, May about thirty years younger. The senator is a widower after the death of Mrs. Frye last year.
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