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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
7
A brief shopper list from Star Grocery at 112 E 6th shows prices for canned salmon lemons parlor brooms crackers flour laundry soap rice quail oats mochas coffee veal meat peaches and various canned and bottled goods. Includes Uneeda Biscuits bread bulk pepper and salts with unit prices in cents.
A collection of short dispatches notes an alarm during King Alfonso’s journey near Oviedo as a saloon door breaks. Austen Chamberlain named postmaster general. Sir William Hood Walrond appointed chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Rudolf von Bennigsen dies at 38. July Board of Trade shows trade gains. a Vik ing ship unearthed on Karmone island. trolley strike talks in New Haven continue. Young People’s Christian and Educational Conference session in Atlanta discusses missionary and social topics. fire in Port au Prince destroys 61 buildings with $200,000 damage. St Louis-San Francisco railroad announces exchange deal for Whitey and Eastern railroads. stock actions and trust agreements involving Chicago & Eastern and related parties noted.
Disapproval from Vatican clouding the sale of lands held by Philippine friars. Church property status affirmed, with requirement the friars disclose funds received and reimburse the church.
Garfield park hosts a concert this evening with Corbin the Great Company and Herr Mann performing while Anne Eva Fay makes an equal admission to all. Admission is 10 cents. The event begins at p.m. with Marshall's Band performing as the main act tonight.
The Oregonian reports articles of incorporation for a new railroad from The Dalles to Biggs on the Columbia Southern line. Walter H. Moore of Moro, H. M. Williams and Joseph T. Peters of Portland named as organizers with $600,000 capital. The line would run along the O R N track about terror miles, offering water access at The Dalles and a portage past the un navigable Columbia stretch toward Higgs, with presumed connection to the Columbia Southern at Biggs.
The De Forest Wireless Telegraph company sues Marconi Wireless Telegraph for 91000 in damages. It claims Marconi officials misrepresented legal action and that such statements deterred investors and hindered its wireless telegram patent rights in the United States, including stations near Unicelty.
A 35 year old widow, Jane Walker, is accused of stealing two diamond earnings and two pearl pins from jeweler W H Beck. Police surrounded her home, she escaped fences and hid in a cellar before running into Detective Polis, where she confessed. She had been active in church and women's societies and sold the jewelry to Edward Walls, who was unaware of the theft.
Bride of three weeks confronts husband Wade Green of Newcastle as he plans to elope with Mabel Harter age 16. Police traced the couple to Muncie where officers arrested them before departure for Chicago. Groom jailed for thirty days. Miss Harter daughter of a Mount Vernon business leader.
Edward Cosler known as boy evangelist, 19, pursued a Parker City woman in Dublin Indiana. shouted that they were united by the Lord. she found refuge. authorities removed him by train and barred him from Christian church street corners. Worcester Regatta previews National Association of Amateur Oarsmen events at Lake Quinsigmond with heats and schedule changes for Pennsylvania Barge Club crews. Malta Vita cereal promotion touts a 72 ways book and household use.
Sermepiaige ityeson and Corbin, as Herrmann, announce Marshall's Band will perform at Garfield Park tonight at 3 m. City Ticket Office at 5 Kansas Ave handles tickets for the Talon Pacific RR event.
An official dispatch from Minister Allen reports that Frank Eckert, a subject of Kaiser Wilhelm, formed a Brass band of Coreans after a month of work and taught them airs like Anime Rooney and Two Little Girls in Blue. Eckert was ordered to write a national hymn for Corea and produced God save our emperor in German.
Chicago August 2 express companies plan to resist driver demands for higher pay and shorter hours. They aim to protect business should a strike occur and consider action by department store managers. Secret conference involved store leaders and seven large express firms.
North Topeka column notes diverse snippets: James Anderson Jr left for Ba attic Washington. George Krampman and Miss Jose Dickinson, both Meriden residents, were in town yesterday. Mr and Mrs Albert Richerter of Atl ver Lake visited today. Bergundthal recovering from appendicitis, still weak. Alice Dallas to Wa haunsee Monday for summer. Fred Hula of El Dorado visiting relatives. R C Douglas moved here from Sedalia Mo and rented 510 Garfield. Pearl Irwin returned from six weeks with aunt in New York. Jessie Priddy, Adele Sant Arthur Small, Oran Layton to Delavan Park for weekend. Florence Frith and Limale Alte man visiting Ever Lake with Wood and Williams families. Mrs S J Davis left for Colorado to visit relatives. Josephine and Mary Dart Bliss, Marie Putnam to Concordia to visit aunt E D Dunning. Cuthuth visiting Silver, E P Baker family to Margate Mich for month. Stan Lo-Dalhoun, Gallene Tie and Milier sister Park street: Kansas City guest of friends. Tsanc Sheets on homeward trip near San Pes past five morning. homing pigeons delivered from Gorham.
Fred Kennedy reports a letter from the Chinese Legation inviting Minister Wu Ting-fang to address union men on Labor Day in Binghamton North Carolina. It notes this would be the first invitation of its kind to a Chinese official by a labor union for a Labor Day event.
In St Louis Missouri on August, R L Hedges reports an American team challenges the national level, aiming to play a national club competition and prove its class. Local organizers and players gear up for the event amid growing regional interest.
A comic vignette shows Epochus the corn merchant lamenting twelve sacks stolen and six barley left, with neighbors offering sharp quips and a con man ready to fleece him for a sunburst diamond. A later tale frames a land dispute at Dog Creek, with two claimants arguing over a river-fed acre moved to a rival farm and the need for justice.
A narrator recounts a fable where a cadi settles land disputes with clever logic while Hafis the Wise dispenses aphorisms. A distressed wife pleads for ransom from brigands demanding 10 000 ecudi for her husband, and the exchange is treated with dry humor as outcomes balance in the end.
Classified notices show multiple rental offers including a six room house on Lincoln Street, a new modern room, and a nice three room dwelling with inquiries directed to Jefferson. Also listed are sales ads for real estate and miscellaneous items, plus livestock and farm equipment offers.
A railroad attorney recalls settling a farmer’s injury by labeling the crash as Providence. The farmer was badly hurt in a collision tied to the last car. The lawyer warned of a $10,000 suit if cash and beer could not be produced, prompting a quick, beer-fueled settlement.
A Philadelphia man describes a humorous misreading of climate variety in California. While visiting a fruit farm, he shivers at a shed and the farmer jokes about a “sellers’ warrant” for sixteen sorts of temperature within two miles, illustrating muddled weather talk.
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