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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1898
Page
8
A garbled OCR excerpt mentions groups and names but is largely indecipherable. It references a Civil War era themed phraseology and potential organizations like CURA and Rivoltente, with stray words suggesting protest or irritation, yet no coherent event or facts emerge.
In Wyandotte County Wallace Gier conducted a post mortem on the young man Giler. The brain showed death from a bruise. improper initial treatment alleged. Gray and Downs involved in the medical case. jury considers that life might have been saved with proper surgical care.
A wartime policy note indicates limited quarreling over peacetime reductions. The administration plans decisive naval actions, accelerating ship readiness and reallocating luxury vessels to other uses. The report notes a shift in fleet support, with substantial additions and ongoing operational strengthening. Local endorsements highlight recovery efforts by merchants and public services, including a laundry note.
A runaway carriage driven by E H Biles tore along East Tenth to Ninth, wrecking a court fence and overturning the cart. A horse belonging to Constable MM SE Scott, struck by the cart, was shot by a bystander’s discharged gun, causing a breast wound but surviving. The Biles carriage was a total wreck.
Trial of Dr. Liuix C. Duncan at Thoroughface Gap Va resumes after Saturday start. Captain George B. Rose testifies Duncan allegedly supervised grave digging to probe Confederate officer remains. Kansas and New York regiments corroborate digging and artifact recovery. several soldiers present.
Readable fragments show mentions of Spain and France reacting to events in Cuba and a French minister praising government mood. A letter from Havens references General Blanco and American positions near vital locations, with notes on diplomatic exchanges and potential outcomes.
Yellow fever suspects arrive at Montauk Point from the transport Miami and face detention for at least three days. In the local hospital three suspects from the 81 Souls are treated. new song popularity rises with ragtime pieces like She's Spectable toirind Colored Lady and So Key Don't Fit This Lock. Also notices of musicians and carpenters meetings and eight hour day interest arise.
The weekly bulletin for the week ending August 15 reports warm days with smoky skies turning cooler nights, light to moderate rains across regions, and diverse corn frost safety dates. Early corn may be frost safe by September 1 in the south, later by mid-September in other areas, with northern counties delaying beyond September. Pasture and hay conditions improved, plowing active, grapes better in the south, but wheat damaged by wet weather and shocks scattered to dry.
Reports on Spain United States peace negotiations sparked stock gains in Havana. Cuban public securities, including railway shares, rose as rumors spread that preliminaries had been met and signed. The dispatches to Gen Blanco from the French ambassador intensified optimism for an eventual peace and end to the war.
In Eendon on August 12 the Times editorial stresses the vital lesson of sea power shown by the war and Spain United States. It warns that only vast sea strength could have averted catastrophe as U S expansion grows while Spain wanes, with far reaching consequences for both old and new worlds.
Aug 18. Adjutant general reports 4 companies from Houston ordered out after a negro murderer Peyton Burton is jailed in Harris County. Sheriff calls out a military unit at Camp Ball and four Fourth Texas infantry companies stand ready to guard Burton. President advised he would dispatch federal troops if governor calls for protection.
A drunken old soldier was captured last night near the sireeta, taken to a camp, and later escorted by solarized men to the city jail. Seven women prisoners are at the city jail as police, including Thorpe, conduct a busy crackdown. Local rumors mention concealed market and a cantaloupe sale. Weather forecast from Chicago notes partly cloudy skies in Kansas with storms and cooler temperatures tonight.
Police led by Chief Strauss and Bert Scant Owen raided Lemp Brewing storage at Topeka Cold Storage on Tyler and Curtis. Four men, including B J Putnam and RR L Conley, were arrested for maintaining a nuisance as 63 cases of beer, beers, whisky, and brandy were seized and locked in the city jail. Liquor in two more cold rooms remains to be opened for seizure.
D O McCray reports W E Stanley Republican nominee trusts a superstition linking campaign weight gain to election results. He says for every pound above 140 gained, he would gain votes, while a pound lost would widen Leedy’s margin. He has gained three pounds to 14, aided by meals that ease dyspepsia, and fears the road ahead.
Madrid reports the Cuban blockade has been raised and mail service restored. Spaniards who fled from Watson are returning as Spanish coast towns welcome peace news. Senor Sagastés hopes for ministry agreement. Weasels prepared in Spanien to aid Cuba provision runs. Duke Almodovar de Rio received intimation of restored communication.
General Joe Wheeler announces he will return immediately to Courtland Alabama from Montauk. An ovation is planned on his arrival and preparations are underway for a large crowd of citizens from the surrounding area and beyond.
Berlin reports that although secrecy was aimed for, Bismarck's memoirs have leaked, with first volume expected soon from Cotta's. In New York on August 16 a Nassau line trolley car derailed at Rogers Avenue and F Street injuring about thirty passengers.
Aug 16 New Orleans A Texas regiment ordered back to port while Crane’s unit sails for a Cuban port with no reason given. Aug 18 Newport News Fleet Sergeant McCue stabbed by a Private. prognosis poor. Aug 16 Lancaster wife of murdered man commits suicide. case linked to burglary claim. Canary Islands reports lights restored in Teneriffe harbor. Also travel sale announces round trip fare to Santa Fe Frente. contact North Topeka office for details.
Rough riders from Roosevelt's era suffered malarial fever and typhoid amid a Jersey City to Montauk Point voyage. Six men collapsed on the Brooklyn ferry and were rushed to Norwegian hospital after exhaustion and weak condition. Doctors condemned shipping unfit soldiers and warned W. C. Munger’s typhoid complicates his case as treatment begins.
Chicago August 1. The largest tunneling machine ever built is under construction at Thirty-ninth Street and Calumet Avenue. When complete in two months it will bore a 24 foot diameter passage. Invented by Chicagoan A Hastings, it weighs 74 tons and exerts 700 tons pressure, with 24 hydraulic rams powering the moving shield.
Aug 16 reports from Maynard Iowa reveal a brother of the dead boy confessing to causing the fatal shot. He claims the shooting was accidental and sought to pin it on a stranger encountered on a wheel to hide his act, even urging locals to chase a supposed wheelman. The admission followed cross questioning and fear of lynching an innocent man. Also noted are war department orders for Kentucky and Indian regiments to Porto Rico and Huntsville, and a Santa Fe Route train special with round trip fare details plus Bucklen's Arnica for various injuries.
Lute Freeland, a Salina pitcher, was injured when he fell from an excursion train near Wymore Nebraska. He explains in a letter to Topeka friends that unpaid salaries left him stranded after Atchison, and a crowd on the crowded train forced him to stand, causing a fall that fractured a rib and internal injuries.
A naval review and sail past for the fleet under Admiral Sampson were proposed in Washington with plans for a public viewing from Riverside. The committee favored a lead procession and a gun salute but sought to avoid crowds aboard ships, offering a safe promenade route for spectators to view the ships. The notice also calls for fraternal and societal reps to organize an internal parade during the Fall Festival. A travel feature promotes America's Great Resorts along the New York Central line and a Grain-O ad extols a coffee substitute.
An American, Evan Wael alias Sir Henry Qneaul, was sentenced to years in prison at London sessions for styling two girls in the Kine Cross galrsiey pot Wheeler area. He allegedly abducted Mrs. Nolin Shakespeare from Philadelphia to Reuland, then to Paris, where he used the name Haron Musgrave. He fled abruptly, leaving Shakespeare abandoned.
London Aug reports indicate Colonel Hay, United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, will succeed Day as Secretary of State. The Times notes this reflects entente strength and warns the change tests U.S. policy and delicate international questions.
Chairman J Mack Love of the Democratic state committee calls a meeting in August to decide on party headquarters. W F Supp C W Brandenburg and others of note have pressed for parties to refrain from taking part in the campaign. Pomavid Overmyer and John Murthy Tead lead a faction insisting the committee open headquarters or risk operating a rump under the Populist committee.
Fort Worth reports the state Republican convention opens tomorrow with HEVTY Green likely elected chairman of the state executive committee. The convention will decide whether to endorse the Populist state ticket or nominate its own, with Green favoring endorsement of the Populist candidate and indications that his view will prevail.
Niles Milling Co received order from Fernandez Herest Co of Havana Cuba for 1000 barrels of Hour flour. Company will work day and night to fill the order and ship the first car load within fifteen days.
Cincinnati August 16 report of a fatal shooting on the Bryanteville road four miles west of Here. Willem McCarl was killed instantly when a rider on horseback, believed to be Tiane Snow, approached and fired without warning, then rode away. Snow is still missing. The killing occurred about 6 o'clock last evening.
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