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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1899
Page
4
A wrapped collage of editorials discusses Republican brass, the trust question, and U.S. politics. It references Clyde Mather, Col Funston, Carter Harrison, Van Wyck, and the Philippines policy debate, critiquing party stance on trusts and reform while noting editorial tone of earlier years.
The Baltimore News reports widespread wage increases and improving conditions in mills and factories nationwide. Cotton mills in New England restore a 10 percent raise this year, lifting 130,100 workers to 140,00 in wages. Iron and steel plants also raise pay, with broader industrial gains indicating a healthy economy.
A satirical column riffs on marriage, widowhood, and social expectations. It paints widowers as empty houses awaiting renters and jokes about household opinions, wedding cakes, hats, and the cost of wives versus husbands in lighthearted moral observations.
A fragment from the Chicago Record presents a collage of humorous maxims and ironic aphorisms about life, marriage, happiness, and human nature. The quips poke at social roles, fortune, and the quirks of everyday behavior with a breezy, columnist tone.
An old adage proclaims a good paymaster starts not at assurances and Hood's Sarsaparilla is praised as the impure-blood remedy that dutifully cleanses and vitalizes the blood. Numerous testimonials claim relief from scrofula sores weakness grip eczema pneumonia and back pains after using the medicine.
Niagara Falls reports a major advance by Clarence Acheson in converting coke to graphite using a silicon carbide furnace. A $1,000,000 plant aims to produce vast graphite capacity by Jan 1, 1900, expanding markets for brushes, lubricants, and electrolytic rods while coining new terms graphitise and graphitication.
A Canada area police report describes a missing fortune tied to a Hebraic term for coin and diamonds. The woman, Mins Henne Thornton, allegedly left her car after a quarrel and police investigated a bag with jewelry following a note about a singing incident.
Miss Constance Ingalls daughter of a Kansas ex senator marries Robert Porter Shick in Washington at the Church of the Ascension next Wednesday at 6 oclock. The couple will travel to Bermuda for two months then summer at the Shick country home in the Alleghanies. Shick an attorney in Reading Pa and relatives plan the reception, with Band Marshall praised by Atchison.
Gen John W Turner died at his family residence in St Louis after a brief illness. He served with distinction in the Union Army during the Civil War and was aged 45 at his death aboard a steamer traveling between New York and Cuba.
John L. Guy named police judge and Dr A A Raub chosen city physician with others including Frank Snyder street commissioner and L C Bailey license collector. Mayor elect Drew plans public announcements at Monday night council meeting amid a broad reorganization and likely few confirmations contested.
Cleveland men alias James Coole and Wilson, electricians, are under arrest at the central section on charges of tapping Western Union telegraph wires along the Nickel Plate road. They were caught in the act under the Wilmon avenue bridge. A vacant house nearby held a complete outfit for a telegraph office. Police say they aimed to cut in on the wires carrying sporting news to beat pool rooms.
Real estate transfers filed include John J McClintock to Olive Parkdale and Burns to H R Blanchard with payments of 1180 for parcels on Quincy street and Paramore's subdivision plus W E Reed to Geo P Lug for 21400 on Kansas avenue. Tax deeds list J Thomas lot 27 and 78 Jefferson street To Rec Investment Trust lot 725 Harrison To J P Tobinson lot 733 Fulmore street Steele's addition and J B McAfee to Thomas A lots on Mid Queen. Maiden Cante r m by Apollo club at First Congregational church wedding April 11 with admission details.
Local briefs list visitors, church events, birthdays, and moves. Funeral services for John C. Cromwell and Miss Katharine M. Dolman are noted with lodge processions and interments at Topeka cemetery. Ads promote millinery, shoes, dry goods, steam laundry, and railroad fares to Portland Helena and Butte.
A Monday inauguration will install Mayor Charles Drew in Topeka. Judge Haren may administer the oath as outgoing Mayor Fellows delivers farewell remarks and introduces the new leader. City officers will be sworn in, appointments announced, and council adjourned for public handshakes.
Warden Harry Landis frees Alvin Ballard in the state penitentiary and escorts him to the governor. Ballard claims to know where counterfeit money linked to the All good gang is buried and offers to aid in proving their guilt. Sheriff Simmons then takes him to Wichita to search for the money.
The court of visitation convened with W A Johnson Garnett J C Eth waite Jewell City and TL 8 turn of Osween meeting today. John son elected presiding judge and A J Myatt the Helter was sworn in to prepare procedural forms for the court. Clerk and stenographer election postponed until Monday. Representative George W. Wiley of Meade arrived as a candidate for clerk and is expected to win.
Leavenworth April Notlee was received here today by Mr. Smith local manager that on May 1 the Well Fargo Express company will withdraw from the combine heretofore existing with the Adams the Pacific and the United States Express companies here and at other Kansas points thereby necessitating a complete reorganization.
England won the International football championship in Birmingham, England, today by a score of 210 amid a huge crowd. Scotland pressed early but failed to score after halftime as England secured the victory with a late goal.
Advices from Gen Otis report quiet in his command and that many Filipinos near Malolos display white flags as submission to the United States authority. From Copper River, Seattle reports the Exéelator arrival with fifty passengers and news that the scurvy epidemic is abating. Nineteen cases in Copper Center Hospital and ten elsewhere in the area, no deaths recently. Body of Rudolph Bilenkamp of Louisville, one of six who perished on the Valdes glacier February 27, brought down.
A Lone Carrington, Indiana farmer placed about seventy five pounds of dynamite under a stove to thaw it. He left to prepare to use it and the blast wrecked the house. His daughter and a young relative were killed in the explosion. Reconstructing details remain unclear.
In St. Louis on April 1 John Sullivan and his daughter Mrs Minnie Dunn were found dead at 1318 Biddle Street after Sullivan’s son Wim discovered the bodies. Police suspect poison in the food but have not ruled out criminal involvement. The family endured a tragic, unclear sequence as authorities detained other relatives for questioning.
Public notes reveal police formation about a fire that destroyed the Andrews household where a servant was dismissed before flames appeared. Threatening letters claim revenge against Mrs. St. John and the Andrews family, with nurse Mary Flanagan cited as a central figure in the alleged plot. Investigators pursue anonymous correspondence and motives tied to revenge and spite.
Charleston paper reports a large gathering of broom corn brokers from central Illinois and major cities including Chicago Kansas City St Louis Indianapolis and Urbana. They note a serious supply shortage prompting a price rise and plan another meeting in May to decide further action.
President Loubet arrived in Montemarin to a decorated native town. He was met by Premier Du Buy and a large crowd, shedding tears as he embraced his godmother on the platform. Loubet visited the hospital amid a celebratory atmosphere.
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