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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1899
Page
6
Mills Dry Goods Co notes graduation outfits sold in early April for girls and their mothers. Two sorts of costumes offered as the season’s dress question is settled, sparing last minute rushes and resamplers. April is ample time to finalize costs and plans for graduation attire.
A catalog of graduating dress fabrics in linen section lists Monuseline de Soie in white and cream 500 Gaze de Soie white with colored silk stripes 50x Silk Finish Dimities Embroidered Swiss Novelties 50s 45d 75c Graduating Muslins with spots figures stripes Variety Plain Real Swiss Batiste Organdian The above in Linen Section Cream Mohair 750 54 1 Cashmere Cream 390 Henrietta Cream and White 75c Cream Albatross 500 Cream China Silk 50c White Habutai 500 755 1.00
April 10 reports two cities facing street car standoffs as crowds attack a Bay City car, drivers are pulled off and safety crews pulled to barn for repairs. In Wheeling, police resist proposed car patrols after governor troop request, while workers and managers clash over operations and new hires face intimidation.
In a district court at 10 40 this morning May Barnett faced perjury charges linked to the Collins murder case. Judge Garver presides after Judge Hazen stepped aside to avoid bias. The defense argues lack of a valid warrant and insufficient proof of material perjury, with a recess set to 2 pm. If convicted, penalties reach ten years or more in the penitentiary, one of the severest punishments on the statute book.
Manila April 10 Adjutant General Washington reports deaths since the tax list. Private John H Pender thigh wound. Private A J Porder fined. Fifty-first Iowa Eras. Also: George B Fargo First Washington dysentery wounds. Frank G Armstrong alias Frank O Keefe sergeant Twenty third infantry. Leonard E Phillippi corporal First Colorado. Wm Marshall First Montana. Arthur H Vickers First sergeant First Nebraska. Joseph J Mertz Third artillery. Wen Hi House private Twenty third infantry. Wim Tuffis private Fourth cavalry. Also Lawton takes Santa Cruz. Insurgents led by Pao Wah routed. six Americans wounded. rebels lose 65 killed, 40 wounded. Two Kansans wounded near Malolos. Bennington to Baler to relieve a besieged Spanish garrison of 47. German and Spanish policy shifts toward Filipino government noted.
Denver April 10 H. A. W. Tabor postmaster of Denver and ex senator died at 9 20 am of appendicitis after three days Horace A W Tabor born November 2 1830 in Vermont learned stone cutting worked until 25 studied in Kansas moved west to mining in Colorado 1880 placer mining at California Gulch Leadville He funded Little Pittsburg mine later sold for 1 000 000 made vast fortune built Tabor block and Opera House donated site for federal building elected lieutenant governor in 1880 appointed US senator for 30 days and later postmaster Denver 1898 wealth ruined by bad investments leaves widow a second wife and three children
A partial, era-specific letter discusses racial politics in the South urging white Democrats to form alliances with the Democratic party. It questions Governor Russell's protection of Black citizens and argues for opposing Southern white men who fail to safeguard interests, framing this as a core regional problem.
London April 10 A blue book on the Indian currency inquiry details a letter from United States Secretary of State John Hay to Lord Aldenham of the Bank of England dated November 25. The cabinet does not seek to reopen the bimetallic question now, though Lord Aldenham proposed Britain to press the United States for an agreement to reopen Indian mints at 22 to 1. Hay seemed favorable to the ratio but had no power as outgoing ambassador, and the letter followed discussions with Col May and prior talks with Hay.
County Attorney Johnson says Mrs New confessed guilt to Mrs Murphy after trial in presence of two others and that the confession is in his possession. Denials by Mrs New and Dobbs counsel are countered by witnesses and declarations from Levi Inox and Knox supporting Dobbs guilt and challenging Ballard and Allgood.
A Kansas Topeka pension office fund used to buy flowers for deceased workers grew large with no deaths in 18 months. A sick clerk meant to mock the fund by sending a flower delegation, surprising him with a harvest of roses and carnations. The incident ended with the sick man’s retort that he would recover to fool them all.
National league stars from Cleveland and St. Louis played two exhibition teams in Hot Springs Ark on April 10 for charity. Proceeds totaled $500 for St Josephs infirmary and the Catholic hospital as Young of Cleveland and Wilson of St Louis pitched well. The day also featured the Indians facing Indianapolis with Cleveland winning 6 to 4 amid wet grounds and strong fielding.
Admiral Dewey told Leslie's Weekly that he would not be a candidate for president in 1900. He said a sailor has no politics and that the administration is his party, with Vermont and the South shaping his potential alignment. He affirmed no interest in office, noting his health and lifelong career ruled him out.
Crowds line up at Chicago hotels as Gov. Theodore Roosevelt of New York arrives with Dr. Wm. R. Harpie and a delegation for a Chicago university address. Emory Smith joins the governor to greet Harvard alumni at a crowded University Club luncheon, with vivid Harvard cheers and carnations marking the welcome.
A prominent Salt Lake City businessman A J Smith drank chloroform and arsenic and was found dead in an Omaha hotel room. Police suspect suicide after a local clipping about a self death appeared, noting a will leaving various bequests to the Omaha Medical Society and others.
April market notes from the Associated Press to State Journal describe a weak start for wheat as investors weigh government crop reports. Early price movements show cautious selling with global shipments and European crop damage reports cited as factors influencing the day’s trading.
In Topeka Kansas J F Myers a local dealer is listed with Wyckoff Seamans Benedict at 105 W 9th St Kansas City Missouri. The document records mixed grain market actions including wheat corn oats and hogs with varied receipts and prices and notes from Minneapolis and Duluth and remarks on liquidation and market weakness.
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