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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1902
Page
4
Full seased wire report notes daily edition delivery options and subscription terms. It outlines mail rates for one year three months and six months with post office handling and class matter. The piece explains the paper’s association with the Associated Press and exclusive telegraph coverage.
The item discusses summer mail subscriptions for the State Journal, mentions delays in corn reports, and cynically notes political and business snippets. It covers Capuin Oberlin M. Carter, various political figures, farm crops value, Missouri river improvements, and profits from a steel syndicate with commentary on accountability and potential indemnity. It also touches Neely and Cuban-U.S. legal questions and influence in politics.
The Indianapolis News reports New York discussions on using federal power to seize and run a portion of anthracite mines to secure government coal. The piece weighs wartime necessity versus ordinary supply, noting potential conflict with miners and the broader impact of such a drastic measure.
The piece argues against sudden coercive measures and urges careful use of law to compel arbitration with coal mine owners. It highlights a small group controlling anthracite for 76 million people, criticizing their treatment of miners and public, while insisting freedom expands gradually and laws will likely address the monopoly.
Rawlins county reports ripe choke cherries while Coffeyville hosts hay rides. Rooks county infants suffer whooping cough as a Howard expert promises a 90 second chicken kill and pack. Baldwin church stalls for carpenters. San Una experiences lightning. A fire alarm box is struck by lightning. Wellington electric plant lights the city but fails to illuminate the town hall. Ottawa laments turkey scarcity ahead of Thanksgiving. Jewell City man nets five stray wasps. Paradise resident misses a saint yet writes from Iowa, Copper Creek? A Stockton man’s tape line hints a 19 43 foot circumference cottonwood. Fifty Lysborg students harvest broom corn. Carbondale boys find nickels where a barber shop stood. Atwood notes Farmer Glad in town, while Harvey county woman stocks kraut for winter wedding. Cane mill demand from Cigud county unmet. Baxter offers band funding if players promise practice away from town. Hoxie merry-go-round and brick church announced. Jewell county old settlers hold August 27 redulon. crowd puzzled locating summer’s equal. Buckskin Bill leads Ottawa parade. a dusky forest child eats paint. A Conway Springs banker grows 40 acres of locust trees for posts. sizable bank potential. Two Hiattville Republicans quarrel and stab each other perhaps fatally. Bourbon county majorities shrink. Democrats urged to act. Independence laboring man battles for wages. worker shot after demanding pay. A Topeka politician is ousted from an Atchison office for trying to “hold up.” Shawnee mayors debate demands. Frog Creek’s seventy-five acre crow roost spawns seven crow cries per pet. neighborly concert noted. Some Shawnee women protest domestic abuse, threatening violent acts. Concordia residents seek cheaper river-channel excursions for amusement.
A fragmented column from the Atchison Globe delivers a collage of quips and aphorisms. It muses on gossip, vanity, aging, and social behavior with pithy lines about fools, dogs, wives, and the inevitability of remarks as one grows older.
A fragmented clip presents Quaker reflections from the Philadelphia Record along with a series of humorous exchanges and anecdotes. It includes quips about secrecy, banking, intellect, and social mishaps, featuring light dialogue between various characters and playful lines about engagements and domestic matters.
Toursville Aug 14 Robert Gray manager of the Southern Athletic club left for New York late last night responding to a request by Sam Harris acting for both McGovern and Young Corbett. Conference in New York to transfer the McGovern Corbett bout to Louisville amid Connecticut author ity antagonism to the proposed meeting.
Granteer and Oberly sold their grocery and meat market at Tenth and Topeka to B Nordquist. Pioneer Shirt company of Wichita granted a charter with capital stock of 15000 dollars. J H Odell, city library janitor, returned from a Colorado Springs outing. Santa Fe orders 150 electric headlights for passenger engines, 300 cars of 80000 pounds capacity, and 200 tank cars of 9500 gallon capacity. Brown to move into new 4000 dollar residence on Taylor street. J Blair recovering from appendicitis at Christ hospital. Taylor Bowman residence at 430 Tope avenue sold for 2250 dollars with two lots. A coal car fire in Santa Fe yards extinguished after being hauled to Second street. Frank Sillix purchases 26 Monroe Street property for 1000 dollars. Mrs W W Harrison moves from St John Sask to 1831 Tyler street for better education facilities. City engineers McCabe and councilmen Weber Wolf Snyder visited Leavenworth to inspect repainting viaduct with Reedy paint. T Osgood buys 40 acres near Topeka for 2000 dollars. plans move from Tic hols. Two Buckskin Billy horses injured en route from Lawrence to Topeka. Simtu Pe claim agents settle. Superintendent Hurley announces September 1 abolition of superintendent of bridges and buildings. EF McCann to become division superintendent. B J Northrup files July grain inspection fees of 32640 with expenses 2780.12, surplus 509.48. Wheat market rise boosts fees. Rev JC Ferrier of Ottawa undergoes operation at Christ hospital. bone removal from ankle to knee due to long-standing injury and gangrene risk.
Michigan City Ind August 14 Robert Huffman a Norwalk Obie and Charles G Ste Danough of Washington Pa college students were arrested on charges of stealing and held for trial. They claimed to canvass for atlases and rented two horses and two buggies to travel the countryside. Huffman listed Cleveland as home to avoid telling parents and McDonough sought to warn his father of trouble. Their diary details social life and travels across Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois and Iowa.
Paris reports say Mrs. Deacon, mother of Miss Gladys Deacon, sent a lawyer to Le Matinee threatening legal action. She asserts Gladys is to be married within six months and that romance with the German crown prince is false. Berlin circles mock the tale as ridiculous and unworthy of comment.
Major Strong and May Yohe plan marriage in the Avenida Palace hotel here after Strong sought divorce. Yohe departed Paris after Strong sent a wire asking her to come, claiming no collusion and denying interviews. he says they will wed and seek a decree of divorce on September 2, with future plans uncertain amid press inquiries.
The fragmentary text shows characters Mims Uphead Tid, Kis telegram to Lisbon, and a scene with Jane and Mic Yoke aboard a journey with Major Strong. They discuss staying for a few days, mobility issues, and hopes the papers will allow land travel.
From the London Times a discussion of slowed mine reopenings near Johannesburg caused by native labor shortages. Owners propose building three room cottages and offering free transport to attract English workers, hoping unskilled white labor will be easier to employ. The piece links white labor reliance, slavery’s abolition, and immigrant workers to South Africa’s racial labor dynamics and potential reforms.
Cincinnati August 14 The fight between the American Federation of Labor and the American Union dominated discussions at the International Typographers Union convention. A Denver cleaner letter urged restricting membership to printers only, excluding machine and other union members. the proposal failed. Other votes upheld women members, debated day to day foreman selections, and left strike rules to local unions for enforcement.
A chaotic incident follows a funeral when Higgins Fanty and mourners flee in a buggy. The wagon collides with a bridge in the sixity avenue area, injuring bystanders as the horses bolt toward Quincy street. Police and fire crews respond amid a suspicious, garbled call for bonfire fashion and local sales.
Aug 14 in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania a violent clash at Warneke Washery occurred as strikers tried to breach a barricade. Deputies fired into the crowd wounding four people, including a boy, before retreating the scene quieted.
In St Louis the Knights of Pythians held a council session to elect officers. Tracy Bunge of Grand Forks was chosen supreme chancellor and Charles E Bhively of Sichiy was named supreme vice chancellor. The session will resume later today with further officer selections. Union Pacific R R, 685 Kansas Ave.
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