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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1900
Page
9
Active training notes show Bob Fitzsimmons preparing for a meeting with James Sharkey. The piece mentions efforts to build strength, conditioning drills, and planned exhibitions as he aims for a strong performance in the near future. The report also covers Philadelphia press events linked to Fitzsimmons including a proposal for a training establishment for businessmen seeking exercise and boxing instruction in a downtown district.
New York reports the August 25 showdown between Fitz and Sharkey at Cony Island will be decided Saturday night. The original plan to race Friday shifted to Saturday, with Futurity night drawing thousands from out of town and many turf bookmakers from Saratoga. Officials, after consultation with Sharkey and Fitz, decided to move the event to Futurity night.
Ted Sullivan is negotiating with Jim Burns in Chicago on behalf of President Hart to secure Pitcher Miller for a National League team. The effort involves Detroit and aug ii as Sullivan works to advance the plan for a key roster addition.
Detroit builds a pennant push while Burns contemplates selling Miller amid crisis. talk of arranging terms with President Hart who would have first claim on the pitcher’s services after the season.
Mise Bramble won the six furlong main event at Aztec fair grounds with Meddlesome second and Amelia Straightmore third. Time 113% for the winner. In the mile race Third-Malden, Milles Nye, Julietta B, Le Descrous, and The Thrush placed. Harlem meeting second race featured a tight finish among Irish Jewel Olekma and Tidy Ann with Olekma second and Tidy Ann third, Woodtrice four lengths back.
Washington reports release of colonel Robert J. Meade and Major J. W. T. Waller Marine Corps accounts of the Ten Tein fight near Tien Tsin. They describe early heavy fighting with Marines and Ninth Infantry, successive assaults, trench warfare, and the breakout into the city after the South Gate was opened.
An advertisement offers Paza Pile Ointment with a no cure no pay guarantee. It claims cures in six to fourteen days with instant relief from itching. The Paris Medicine Co markets the remedy from St. Louis Missouri and notes other products. A price appears as 25e per ton for coal.
Fort Scott news reports Captain W. A. Green, son of local residents, is offered captaincy of a four company guards unit to escort a French Sahara expedition led by Anson H. Inglis. The 300-strong convoy, to depart Paris in October 1901, aims to protect the journey from Algiers to Senegambia, lasting two years.
The Fort Scott Sugar plant, owned by Fort Scott Syrup Manufacturing, will resume operations about August 28. R Bent, son of the new owner, will run the plant for the season. Two grades of syrup will be produced, one for table use and one for mixers for glucose manufacture. About fifty men will be employed, with a daily capacity planned from 125 to 160 tons of cane, after converting the oil sugar facility.
In Salina on August 1 Mayor Ronen and Marshal Beard ordered Lafever's establishment shut and demanded sale closure by noon, with the face closed forever or custody. Dozens of disorderly houses were ordered closed and their inmates to leave town, as north end pleasure districts begin migrating. Mayor Roach warned the town must be cleaned up or he would resign.
A Cherokee county farmer named Miller, swindled by two men posing as Carthage real estate agents, paid $26 cash to bind a farm at 50.4 an acre, then faced a $65 per acre offer. The first buyer was paid $400 to cancel, but the man who offered the higher price vanished, and Miller seeks the confidence man who took the money.
Hays Aus 18 W8 opened Manhattan stereo scopes and views arousing city officials after being arrested and fined for peddling without a license. Underwood and Underwood of Ottawa have had agents annoyed by city officials and plan to test the case in district court through an appeal.
Wien August 18 A L Thompson was arrested last night by Officer Pryor and taken to the police station for obtaining money by impersonating a brakeman. He acted with another man as part of a circulating crew, securing funds from victims before being restrained.
A man claiming to be a brakeman offered two men a ride to Monett for a dollar and a quarter each. The victims paid but were left stranded. they instead contacted the police for assistance, seeking Thompson’s arrest.
Mrs Grant Gilett, wife of a cattle plunger, traveled from Chihuahua Mexico with Mrs M C Jailey of Abbé, Kan to register at the Savoy in Kansas City. She says she and her husband now live in Chihuahua where she runs a millinery store and declines to discuss their affair.
Several hundred county residents gathered at Holton for an old settlers reunion organized by ex Mayor Pormeroy. Speakers included Major Anderson, ex-Congressman Case Hroderick, J. W. Williams, and others. veterans shared memories from 25 to 45 years in the county as W. J. Fisher entertained with a jig and Horton Bard contributed music.
Wichita August 16 Herry Moore a Democratic county committee member and Moor Printing proprietor died after being overwhelmed by a street brawl. He aged 42. Coffeyville August 16 W E Ellwell of Poola Kan died from injuries at the Coffeyville fairgrounds after driving three heats following a fall. He won a heat then died within hours.
City residents prepare for a two day outdoor festival and farmers display on September 6 and 7 featuring ball games addresses races and large crowds expected. Pensions Grants Listed for Kansans include John Good Allen Young George W Betts Peter Staub and Hardy Jackson with varied amounts. A Wichita fire destroys parts of a warehouse causing $20 000 in damages and losses.
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