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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1898
Page
4
A noisy mix of war talk, Spanish American War sentiments, and local politics roils Emporia and Kansas City scenes. Columns attack the Maine incident, praise Hood, and mock partisan papers while noting street cleaning funds and civic protests on Kansas avenues.
Fragmented prose lines reflect social commentary on fashion fame law and virtue. Odd aphorisms mingle about duty safety temptation money and wisdom with scattered references to costumes and manners. The piece reads like a satirical moral meditation from a bygone era.
A humorous column notes social quirks and pretenses in Atchison. It jokes about overdone kindness, bragging spouses, and women borrowing kitchen items for parties. It observes changes in hair, butter earnings on a farm, and local attitudes toward style and manners.
A garbled column lists scattered proverbs on life and behavior. The fragment mentions a tailor's bill, a crying woman, blows to a man, and outdated notions of superstition, with references to men, women, and seers in a disjointed fashion.
Kansas City Chief of Police Quarles faces trial on drunkenness and disorderly conduct charges filed by Populists. Witnesses include Commissioner King and Warden Landis discussed removal plots. Quarles was discharged after testimony. The piece also notes reform school parole costs shifting to counties and Missouri gubernatorial actions to extradite F. W. Glipin for a Crim. assault.
The federal grand jury was discharged after returning seventeen indictments. Defendants include Ottie Roberts for counterfeiting Thad Robbing for burglary at a post office and Joseph H Leach for murder at Fort Fe. Assistant U S Attorney H J Bore commented on the jury's work and the term's conduct.
May 18 launch date fixed for the battleship Alabama at Cramps shipyard Philadelphia April 18 reports say Miss Morgan daughter of Senator Morgan will christen the ship named for her state The Alabama the first of three linked battleships ordered in October 1886 with Wisconsin and Illinois under construction at San Francisco and Newport News The article details armor costs loads and the ship's dimensions and armament at length including engines boilers and guns
Key West April 13 reports the arrival of Companies A and G of the Twenty-third Infantry, 125 colored troops, who mustered on board City of Key West overnight. They are quartered at Fort Taylor after initial lodging at barracks. Despite local protests, the reception was praise not prejudice as wagons shuttle supplies. no fleet movements observed.
Washington reports Britain claiming coal as contraband of war with Jamaica dispatches noting the rule would let belligerent ships take coal to continue to a next port. Experts say contraband on board could be seized en route, while the vessel itself may be allowed to depart Kingston with enough coal to reach a belligerent port. The United States would likely seize cargo if ships depart Kingston with contraband coal bound for Cuba or Porto Rico. The rule would apply to Spain or other belligerents, but U S vessels need not rely on West Indies coal for their own operations.
The notice touts a new twenty minute after midnight train for Kansas City travel. Returning, passengers can wave Kansas City goodbye at 4 p.m. and reach Topeka by 6 10 p.m. An alternative Limited departs Kansas City at a later time and arrives Topeka at 8 30 p.m.
A daily Santa Fe train departs Topeka at 7 30 am designed for Topeka residents seeking travel and a lost gold watch feature mentioned in local want column.
Sporting News reports a chaotic Chicago win over the Browns with numerous errors and a large nighttime crowd at Sportsmen’s Park. Key plays include a crowd entailed hit to three bases and a notable home run by Dummy Hoy for the Reds, while multiple games across Cincinnati, St Louis, and Louisville sections are mentioned with crowd incidents and injuries from a late fire at the St Louis crumb stand.
Word reaches Dallas that famed prize fight promoter Dan A Stuart is seriously ill after a third appendicitis operation. He recently visited Key West and wrote of plans to cover the first naval clash with Spain if near land, awaiting recovery and safe return to health.
A private telegram from Philadelphia reports the death near Baltimore of Bobby Matthews, a renowned baseball pitcher who retired from the profession around 1890 after about 20 years of service. Born in the 1840s, he played for Keklangas of Fort Wayne, the Lord Baltimores, Boston, Mutuals of New York, and Athletics of Philadelphia, later suffering paresis and residing in a Baltimore hospital for treatment.
Visitors arrive in Wichita for the G A encampment with three campfire nights planned at the auditorium. April 19 reception and camp fire open with emphasis on city officials and veterans leaders. April 20 and 21 feature speeches by ex-members of Congress, state officials, and department commanders alongside music and talks. The grand parade is scheduled for Thursday at 1 PM.
Fort Scott April 13 Federal authorities in this city recovered plaster parix moulds and counterfeit coins after a young woman named Mrs. Warner confessed that her husband Jack H. Young and Pete Lee produced the counterfeit dollars half dollars and quarters at her home. Deputy Mar ial Shorts of Joplin arrested Young and Lee after finding moulds in an old mining shaft. Other gang members were being hunted.
Leavenworth April 18 an enterprise under contemplation by the Leavenworth Coal company will begin about May 1. The company has purchased the large transfer steamer Parker from a St Louis firm and will start shipping coal by river to Kansas City. Preparations include building new chutes at the top works and constructing 100 hopper bottom cars, ten tons each, to form a beat road. The Parker is expected to take three hours mine to chute and five hours for the return trip.
In Abilene on April 18 Prophet Andrew Kropf declares visions of a great crop year. He foresees abundant wheat oats and corn in the region except kite wheat which he says will suffer. He cannot explain why but notes many Gelds will scarcely pay for culling.
Newton resident Frank D. Kaufman adjutant of the second regiment of the Kansas National Guard owns a large steam laundry. He is so convinced war is coming that he sold his laundry business Saturday to show his patriotism. Also notes pensions granted in Washington with names and amounts for Jasper M. Churchill Truman B. Niles James A. Smith and James C. Marford.
Fabian Lagree, a southern county farmer, inherits a $50,000 fortune from a sister who died recently in a Montreal hospital after traveling from Montana. Lagree becomes residuary legatee of the estate, as editors plan a Concordia trip to join the North Central Kansas Editorial association meeting in June. Separately, Newton Masons dedicate a new temple at Peabody with prominent attendance from southern and central Kansas.
Madrid correspondent reports widespread public sacrifice for national defense. Families forego meals, officials offer extra pay, and even bullfighters consider serving in the army. A diplomat hints peace talks may ease hostilities, while asserting Europe may mediate under favorable terms, with Spain’s autonomy experiment suggested.
Madrid reports Epoca urges gentler government handling of rioters amid provincial outbreaks sparked by American news. It notes Barcelona students involved, Malaga tensions with America, and previews a forthcoming Spanish inquiry into the Maine disaster. Train schedules outline options between Topeka and Kansas City with Rock Island line.
North Topeka column records visitors and social updates. Mrs. Parker of Newton hosts in Oxon side circles. Miss Bertha Stewart of Kilmer visits Mrs. McCormick. photo ads and framing offered by Cromwell and Jefferson. neighbors travel, health concerns, and church news noted. A street collision near Laurent and Etnane is reported with minor injuries.
Local items report a divorce suit against J. J. Carr on abandonment grounds. County commissioners have paid 34,500 of 6,000 held back for a new bridge, with 3200 to repair sidewalks. An alley between Sixth Seventh streets and Kanans avenue and Quincey is nearly impassable. Transit options include Union Pacific trains to Topeka and a daily schedule for the Seneen Taped line.
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