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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1903
Page
7
Market notes show heavy cattle receipts and a stationary to lower hog market. Wheat and corn futures dip while copper edges up. New York money market steady. Chicago and Kansas City livestock reports reflect steady cattle and mixed hog prices amid broad market interest.
Chicago authorities force prisoners from a Genvea jail amid threats by a 200 mixed crowd after a police arrest. Sheriff Burke leads 45 citizens to seize three suspects at a train stop and move them to safety amid tense scenes.
Miss Zisi Cooper, popular clerk at the Santa Fe transport office, reportedly to wed Henry Gard Mev Hobagi of Hobati. The upcoming marriage follows a joke about clerks leaving for weddings, with Cooper shown a celebratory card reading Houson’s Choice.
In a Monday afternoon burglary, Mrs Dye of 139 North Topeka Avenue reported items saved from a flood were stolen while the family was away. The robbers took a small amount of money, a clock, two brass parlor lamps, and several other articles. Elizabeth McAvoy, 16, of Boston, set a world record for swimming 100 yards at the street bath, but the time and notes do not warrant an official table revision. She also swam 100 yards in 70 strokes, an extraordinary feat, with a possible official record if she repeats the performance on August 28. Cotton market in New York and Galveston notes show steady prices, with local market updates from Galveston, Texas, and reported figures for the day.
Reedville, Mase. Sanders says the mare Dolly Dillon could break 1:59 as the season ends. Great staying power shown as she nears start-to-finish strength. The record history of trotting marks is reviewed, noting mares like Lady Suffolk and Maud S and the rise of Golden Malden and Crescents as leading performers. Sanders trains Dolly Dillon, aiming for two minutes and faster, with Sidney Dillon the sire of Low Dillon and a two-minute mare record holder.
Lieutenant General Nelson A Miles visited Chicago en route from San Francisco discussing national road policy with W H Moore head of the National Good Roads Association. A comprehensive plan for national and state legislation was outlined with Miles supporting an extensive system of modern highways. He declined to discuss politics.
Dawson Capt. Nesmith reports the last telegraph link between Seattle and St Michel completed. messages now go to Nome by mail marking a milestone in the American Alaskan land system. Treadgold faces evidence. backers unnamed, claims four million dollars for a Klondike water system. Peily river strike overblown. stampedes retreat, two weeks’ rest would save miners hundreds of thousands.
The weekly report shows heavy rains in the South Atlantic, but drought across the Valley Texas Rocky Mountains and Pacific districts. Corn progresses well in central western corn belt with Nebraska and Kansas leading gains. Ohio Valley corn suffers for rain while Iowa Missouri and Illinois await moisture. Wheat and spring wheat harvests rise in North Dakota and elsewhere. Cotton suffers from rain and sun deficit. boll weevil and boll worms appear in Texas south. Tobacco favorable in Tennessee and Kentucky. apples decline generally though southern Middle Atlantic fairs.
London August 25 Jockey Danny Maher the American rider won the Newgate Park selling plate at York on Rather Warm and then captured the chief event of the day the Mas of Wal Plate on Tranqueito Co. Whitney's Hands Down ridden by Martin was runner up in one race.
Reports from Constantinople state Circassians attacked Bulgars and locals amid tensions over sultan gifts to a Russian squadron off the eastern Turkish coast. In other news, divorce petitions arise in Arawe district and a Kentucky warrant leads to a Tamworth arrest as public conciliation boards convene in New York and medical operations are reported in New York and Georgetown trials unfold.
WASTED a competent girl wanted for washing and housekeeping duties. Call at 913 3 Kansas Ave. Family seeks a reliable helper, tone suggests a small domestic employment notice from Walnterr area.
Officials of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes union failed to unite restaurants as the 9000 members were called to strike but fewer than one percent responded. Non union staff filled positions, leaving establishments open and the strike likely short lived and damaging to the unions.
Aug. 25 New York reports Gustave BE, a representative of the New South Wales government, arrived from France and asked police help to locate his wife and two children who vanished after leaving a Greenwich Avenue corner grocery. The mother could not speak English and had little city knowledge.
The proclamation, issued this morning, outlines Labor Day as the first Monday in September each year. It calls the public to join in honoring labor and includes formal attestation by the governor and the state seal.
Argentine wheat exports rise sharply since January 1 reaching 52 401 000 bushels versus 17 724 000 a year ago signaling a potential record year. Climatic constraints limit cultivation and regional harvests remain uneven affecting export capacity.
In Nevada, J W Woods, an escapee from Folsom on July 27, was oriented Leeper shop after surrendering without resistance, despite having a revolver. In Newport News, rain postpones the national tennis finale, with remarks about provosen and Senator Bargham noted in Washington Star.
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