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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1899
Page
8
Local notes from Topeka reference Santa Fe offices, railcar repairs, and city life. Mentions J B Lewis returning from Colorado, Oswaldo and Topeka staffers, upcoming G A R reunion plans, and community events. Highlights include staff changes, weather effects on chores, and a distant tennis tournament.
Denver dispatch reports the national association of railroad commissioners passed a resolution urging Congress to revive the interstate commerce law. The measure, prepared by the resolution committee, was adopted without discussion, with Commissioner Osborne of Michigan voting against.
Aug 11 in Cleveland a non union motorman Wm T Capie shot at teamster William Little as his wagon passed. Little struck Capie with a hatchet and inflicted a severe head wound. Capie jailed on shooting to kill charge. Little hospitalized but not fatally hurt.
The state department reports imperial decree July 13, 1800 opens multiple Japanese ports to foreign commerce when new treaties take effect. Port of Muroran allows barley, wheat, rye and coal exports among designated commodities. if total trade at any port falls short of 60,000, the port is affected.
The king replied to the burgomaster’s address praising the canal as part of a larger national project. He said the government has firmly resolved to advance the broader plan and hopes to be in a position by year’s end to push the initiative further through the nation’s representatives.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania miners at Stevens colliery near Pittston have struck after the company refused a 34 percent wage increase. About 260 men are on strike and the union is determined to back the action until demands are granted. The strike in this district numbers around six thousand workers.
Madrid Aug Tis The Casette publishes the supreme court verdict acquitting Generals Torsis and Pureja of surrendering Santiago de Cubs without exhausting all means. An additional inquiry seeks responsibility for the lack of defense that led to the loss.
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