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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
2
Reports from Madison Square Garden outline fierce wagering and opinions on a pit plan between Fitzsimmons and Rubin. Pete Maher, Jim Jeffries and Joe Choynski are linked to August bouts. Ongoing talks include McFadden vs Walcott and Smith’s challenge to Walcott, with odds and bets discussed by promoters.
A New York player, catcher Warner, was seriously injured in a game with Chicago. He sustained a fracture of the ulna on a high foul and was carried to the hospital. It is feared he will miss the remainder of the season.
Teddy Hare finishes a grueling schedule of 100 miles daily except Sundays, claiming a four year run across England, Scotland, Wales, and the United States. His total mileage reaches 3 479 miles, surpassing a Philadelphia cyclist record, while doctors note heart enlargement and weight loss of seven pounds.
Fragmented scores and brief notes mix from multiple games and places. Mentions Brooklyn Boston New York Philadelphia Milwaukee Minneapolis Indianapolis and Kansas with scattered inning counts and player names, plus scattered local results and upcoming events.
Fragmentary OCR style text recalls early baseball figures and team names. Mentions Artie Latham Crawford Belding Megraw Dan Moran and Fred Clarke with scattered phrases about pitchers hitters and guardian figures, but lacks coherent narrative or dates.
Republican voters in Smith County held a county convention at Mankaty yesterday. Dering J. W. Bowen was named for represent, and the senatorial delegation was chosen by Hays White. The district includes Smith, Phillips, and Norton counties. The convention did not address any United States senator issue.
The Populists and Democrats of Clay aided Dickineon supporters to nominate Hoffman of Enterprise for state senate. George W Hanna was named on an informal ballot but declined, urging Kings county to name the senator. The convention then unanimously backed Hoffman of Clay Center with A Ludial Whee as chairman and secretary of the new central committee.
Kansas City Democrats pursue two Torlors plan to secure the Democratic state machinery. A committee works on strategy and tomorrow meets to decide a location for the party’s headquarters, aiming to revive organization and press on with the campaign.
The Burlington-Northern Ex pres adds a daily through train from Grand Island to the Northwest region including Black Hills and Puget Sound. Through coaches and sleepers, mining cars, and rapid connections to Billings and Lincoln. new routes extend to Oregon and Washington. Also boasts improved splits to Chicago and St Louis markets. A second item notes Mrs George of New Stuttgart Ohio avoided tragedy after timely cough treatment with King’s New Discovery. testimonials claim pneumonia relief and throat cures.
Leavenworth Aug 2 A J Schilling son of Capt John Schilling of Hiawatha Kan was made defendant in a suit for 2000 damages Thomas wine of this city asks for personal injuries sustained by him Both are employees of the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron works and were skylarking when Schilling allegedly jer ked a stool from under Thomas causing a fall that injured his spine and left him unfit for future work.
Nellie D Cross of Junction City came to Newton seeking her two year old child taken by the father after a separation. She has a court order for possession and traced leads to Hutchinson where relatives of the father were believed to reside. The case is described as sad and the mother is described as poor but determined to recover her child.
Wichita August 2 fraternal orders challenge city tax on paid solicitors under a new occupation levy. Knights of the Protected Ark secretary E Binning was arrested on a warrant. trial postponed to August 8 as council plans to seek ordinance revision to cover fraternal groups.
Forecasts from Hicks call for a sizzling start in August with very hot spell followed by cooler days. Expect storms from late week to mid month, with electrical activity, high winds, and cloudiness across western regions as the period shifts from the 24th to the 6th and again around the 9th to 22nd.
A weather forecast suggests possible storms from August 1st to 18th with a major West India hurricane likely around the 9th. If active, equatorial disturbances may advance from polar regions toward the south coasts and inland states between the 25th and 29th. Heat may ease in late August as winds shift to northerly and northeasterly, bringing cooler conditions and heavy rains along the southern coast.
Hutchinson Aug 2 Pretty Prairie prepares for county conventions with the Seventh district Sunday schools meeting August 11. A laborate programme features speakers from across the county including C. D. Wood Hutchinson Reverend Breck Partridge and Reverend Trippe Summer County.
H. T. Parker, who last week obtained warrants against eight druggists for violating the prohibition law, is jailed on a perjury charge. Dr. H. G. Green names the false affidavit, as Parker allegedly swore he bought whisky from Green. Bail set at $1,000. Parker plans to sue the city after council refused $25 per conviction.
Leavenworth officials gathered at the M C A chapel after a meeting to plan a citywide evangelistic event from August 19 to 26. National figure Mrs Edith Hill Booker of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will conduct, noted as a renowned evangelist.
Postmaster Peters appoints David Reever as mounted carrier for Newton delivering to Broadway residents and areas west to the Perryman house. The route spans about fifteen miles with mail placed only in boxes reachable without dismounting, requiring box placement for efficiency.
W W Van Gundy, 70, an inmate of the Leavenworth Soldiers Home, died in a wagon near Emporia on a family camping trip. A cancer ended his life. He served in Iowa’s Twenty third Infantry, was born in Madison county Ohio, moved to Iowa before the Civil War, and lived in Missouri Oklahoma and Winfield Kansas after 1878. His daughter Washington Miranda and her husband accompanied him. He belonged to the Friends church in Oklahoma.
Indica Feater development in Kanane gas and oil fields accelerates in coming months as Coffeyville Mining and Gas Company seeks eastern investors to fund drilling near Coffeyville, and Gam Company with $1,500 capital leases land in the county. It has contracted ten wells six miles southeast of the city, aiming for twenty five by October 1.
A Lucas man, A. P. Colter, reports his wife and three children vanished while traveling from Lucas toward Kansas City. He traveled separately, planning to meet near Salina, but arrived alone as the family remains missing with no clear explanation of their whereabouts.
The Rock Island board offers a second chance to De Swenseon as candidate for Augustana College presidency. He declines again, stating no need for immediate decision or removal from Bethany. The board delays Bethany’s fate while awaiting further arrangements.
The advertisement from Paersiz Syrup Co. Monticello promotes Dr Caldwell l s Syrup Pepsin as a remedy for infant indigestion. Testimonials from Mas Gro Huw Dana and R W Squires along with local distributors Swift Holliday Drug Co A S Kane Co and Family Drug Store list their addresses on Kansas Avenue and Topeka Avenue.
Local press from Rock Tatand and Moline praises Bethany and Kansae. Dr. Pearson offers a conditional endowment and the board will vigorously advance the project. The college seeks a $100000 endowment next January if the plan succeeds. Subscription efforts begin in Europe and Atchison County features a notable wheat yield report by County Commissioner Arthur Leacy. John Welch reports Mt. Pleasant township averaged 39 bushels per acre. Henry Dornon near Lancaster claims 40 bushels per acre on land farmed for forty years.
Washington reports pension grants including Abraham Morley of Columbus and Mary E Moore of Neodeshre with varied amounts. In Hutchinson a man Edward Baard of Blackwell was robbed at Santa Fe depot by two colored girls, Delia Owens and Mary Hooker, who are charged.
At a town meeting in Chetopa the eighth annual reunion of old soldiers and veterans of recent wars was linked to a street fair. The feature from the previous year will be repeated during the entire week starting October 1.
Central Finnsas Log Rolling association, gathering camps from Harvey, McPherson, Stafford, Rice, Barton, Pawnee, and Edwards counties, plans its fourth annual log rolling at Halstead on Tuesday September 11. Abilene reports T Gorman, a Wading farmer from Chapman, in town after completing wheat breeding and noting twenty notes of cornstalk wheat owed twenty bushels and 110 of other wheat yielding 412 bushels, over thirty one bushels per acre.
Newtons new Presbyterian church is now assured to be built on the Hotel Madrid site at the corner of Severith and Main Streets. The plans describe a magnificent structure, with contingencies noted.
The Harvey county Old Settlers club has secured A W Smith of McPherson county to attend Halstead on Thursday August 9 and deliver the gation.
War department reports complaints from San Francisco merchants about the new Philippine tariff. A Philippine board examines the tariff for technical faults and expected revisions aim to align with U S rates. A movement seeks lower duties on goods manufactured in the United States to boost American exports.
A fragmented discussion speaks of disease as a form of slavery binding body and limbs, with references to remedies and healing, and a note about subscribing to the Journal. The text names George D. Williams and various terms, but lacks clear events or outcomes.
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