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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1898
Page
8
The special through train via Santa Fe to Cincinnati departs September 5 with round trip fares around 31610 in Pullman palace and tourist sleepers. Tickets include free chair cars and simplified routing, via Santa Fe Route, priced near 1610 for round trips. Contact Whitmere Brow at 735 Kasav for details.
About 60 Italian laborers were imported from Buffalo by Grand Trunk authorities to work on double tracking between Hamilton and Burlington. Eight Canadian workers were discharged to make room. Canadians asked MP T. H. McPherson to apply alien labor law and have the Italians sent back. McPherson said no officer in the district enforces the law yet and directed inquiries to ex mayor McMurtich of Toronto for investigation.
In Pana Illinois a large deputy force swore in 125 men at the city hall and formed lines to guard incoming black workers from Alabama sent to replace striking white miners. A special train carried 200 Black workers to the Springside coal mine under sheriff protection as miners gathered along the Illinois Central tracks. Governor Thayer said state mine inspectors would review the situation.
A Tangier dispatch relays that sultan's death rumors spark turmoil as embassies may visit Fez to receive officials. German influence grows with German officer undercover as a student. Italians threaten claims enforcement. warships may depart from Spain if no answer to ultimatum. Public mood undecided on the sultan's fate.
Madrid dispatch reports irritation in ministerial circles over insurgents failing to respect the ceasefire protocol. Spain may halt Cuban troop repatriation unless U S guarantees protection of Spanish interests from insurgent attacks. Cuban counsel Rubens cites bands still fighting inland with limited communications. London reports indicate routine clashes. casualties uncertain.
Detectives Burwick and Julcker of the West Chicago Avenue station posed as robbers to arrest alleged gamblers in a basement craps game on State Street. Names given by suspects include George Ugar, William Edwardes, Chicago McClure, Joseph Delaney, Joseph Lonyon, John Smith and Robert Hoeffman. More raids planned this week in the Fleves district to stop gambling.
Vienna reports official circles warn of Armenian massacres spreading from Asia Minor and Constantinople. Some 40,000 Romanians in Russia face expulsion as Moscow may bear moral responsibility for potential repeats. Turkish pressure pushes refugees toward the frontier, where Kurdish bands await.
Aug 4 New York report discusses ice cream dangers from impure water and contaminated vanilla. Dr Keech of Berlin links ice formed from unfiltered water to deadly germs, warns against eating raw ice, and notes vanilla substitutes and chemical additives used in production while investigations continue.
A vast New York crowd thronged Tompkinsville to view warships anchored offshore. The Oregon drew the largest turnout with steady lines of visitors, followed by the Brooklyn and Texas, as citizens toured the ships without incident in an orderly demonstration of patriotic interest.
The Wyoming irrigation congress opens with welcome remarks from Governor Tickards, Mayor Schnighter, and E. B. Smiley. Sessions cover water rights, storage reservoirs, national aid, arid public lands, and grazing land use with experts from Utah, Nebraska, Colorado, and California. Delegates will tour the Wheatland reservoirs.
The piece reports a U S Customs Collector Donaldson handling the broad ecclesiastical detachment in the province of Susuagy amid a payroll crisis. It notes clergy from archbishop to minor orders owed money, with treasury strains and payments routed from professors of the Institute. It also mentions General Shafter seeking Washington instructions and illnesses among troops, including Major Mostner.
In Ponce Porto Rico General James H Wilson assumes command over the district and orders saloons closed for three days to quell disorders. General Grant has established his headquarters there and the saloons will reopen later for special expeditions.
A New York unit under Lieutenant Coudert and Lieutenant Davenport rode twenty miles in two hours while scouting east of Ponce near Santa Isabel during a fire pursuit. They failed to locate the blaze after tapping telegraph wires and returned exhausted. Washington reports that General Miles may delay departure while awaiting cannon capture news near Santiago. The Union Pacific line to Denver via Salt Lake City Seattle is promoted with Pullman cars and through trains. A GAR ladies train trip to Cincinnati on September 3 costs 1610, offering a family outing opportunity.
Next Saturday evening tickets for "At Gay Coney Island" at Crawford theater go on sale at Bowley 4 Snows Army store with prices 1 dollar 7 cents for first row seats 50 cents for balcony and 2 cents for gallery Fouts. Electric fans will keep the audience comfortable. Manager Crawford must guarantee company money to secure the opening attraction, Topeka theatergoers urged for patronage. The show claims two seasons of popularity and promises new acts scenery and stars making it as new as ever with emphasis on comedy over plot.
The National Flower a pretty operetta was presented at Garfield Park Casino last evening under First Christian church auspices with Marshall's band. Amateurs performed well with a courtroom plot featuring judges lawyers and a jury of ladies. Various floral roles and comic parts drew hearty applause as the production was repeated with plans for another show tonight.
A compiled list reports county fair dates, locations, and secretaries across Kansas for 1248. Entries include Allen County Wheaton Garnett August-September 2, Anderson County Garnett September 2, Brown County Burlington September, Coffey County Burlington September, Franklin County Garden City September 2-5, Greenley Tribune October 1, Osage County September, and Wichita State Fair September 15.
Aug. Chicago report notes Spanish teaching to be added in city schools under new superintendent Dr E Benjamin Andrews. It praises bilingual instruction for future business and governance after shifts in colonial territories and emphasizes Spanish as essential for Chicago youth.
Berlin, Aus. 24. The expedition which started Wein Bt last to search for Herr Andree and to prosecute scientific investigation has returned to Hammerfest, in order to continue patrols and document further findings.
Lerner fails to locate the aeronaut prior to departure but reports notable geographic and scientific findings from the Heligoland refit.
Boston reports Captain A Mc Conkey of British steamer Arménian sighted three dead bodies from the La Bourgosne about 60 miles south of Stable Island last Sunday. Life belts circled the corpses. two were men and one a woman.
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