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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1898
Page
7
The Star Grocery promotes wholesale and retail sales at 112 East Sixth Street with low prices on candies nuts evaporated fruits canned goods and fresh meats. It highlights Butterine flour dinnerware china and decorative patterns in queensware and china with a wide range of kitchen and tableware items.
Digby Bell the comedian faced weak lines and uneven farcical tones in a new piece titled Dr Willow, with supporting players including a chorus and Herman Hirshberg. The review notes Bell's natural delivery despite flawed material, criticizes the Whitecap scene as misplaced, and mentions next week’s Hoosier Beckton engagement.
A Consolidated Gas tank at First Avenue and Twenty-first Street collapsed during a water pressure test, sending a torrent through Avenue A. Buildings and streets were ripped apart, two coal barges parted from moorings, and a steamer moored at Twenty-first Street was driven free. Debris filled streets as workers searched for missing crew and the tank’s collapsed pit is described amid widespread destruction.
In Topeka the Topeka Camera Club opened its exhibition of prints to the public with free admittance at the Masonic hall. The collection includes Velox, bromide, cyanotype, and other processes by artists such as John Atrickrott, Harry Seery, W. Culver, A. W. Taster, and Mrs. D. J. Hatin. Notable works depict The Kansas lumbered river, Old Mexico, and English cathedrals including Stratford on Avon.
An advertisement touts Schiffmans Asthma Cure by Dr Rudolf Schifmann claiming instant relief and cure for asthma. It cites a Cavalier North Dakota town clerk, W Severus, stating long standing asthma improvements after using the preparation.
The exhibition will be open this evening and tomorrow afternoon. The event is free and members of the club will attend to explain the pictures.
Adjutant General Corbin told the house military affairs committee that the Cuban evacuation commission and generals Wade Butler and Admiral Sampson recommended an army of 50 000 to maintain order in Cuba. The Dec 14 hearing in Washington focused on the force required for occupation and stabilization.
In Tacoma on December 14 the New York Security and Trust Company won a ruling upholding warrants holders. The court held that possession of a warrant is prima facie evidence of title and signatures need not be proven. Plaintiffs showed warrants totaling 140000 dollars with funds verified by the city treasurer. The city moved for a non-suit. the motion was overruled and trial continues tomorrow amid claims warrants issued mainly in 1885 were paid and reissued through treasurer collusion.
A 12 year old boy, Joe Mack, was fatally struck by a horse. His mother drove 43 miles through snowdrifts to reach him after a fatal head injury. The incident occurred near Barnesville with the father previously murdered near Bartlesville.
London officials declined to prosecute Kate Lyon and Mrs Mille for alleged unlawful conduct in Harold Frederic death and the defendants were discharged. New Hampshire Democratic Press assn of Concord assigned to George L Danforth. assets not stated. In San Juan de Porto Rico the insular cabinet chose General John Eston as American superintendent for education. Springer, N M reports 11 degrees below zero at 7 am.
Local notice states Bennett R Wheeler should be in the new Graves Cathedral vestrymen list. It also records W J Haskins and family moving from Topeka to Emporia after many years, and Mr Hicking planning to open a restaurant in Emporia and move toward managing land near Emporia. It mentions Ely Brothers mail order nasal cure, Chamberlains remedies, and Chamberlain dry goods store advertisements. An unrelated fragment references street names and local services.
Washington reports plans for a 2 million fund to support a new church alliance. The effort seeks 1,000 preachers each pledging 1,000 toward a general endowment and a separate women's guild to raise equal funds. Key leaders include Bishop Charles H. F. and Bishop McCabe, with Dr. W. L. Davidson named field secretary to drive Ohio and Pennsylvania construction pledges.
Digby Bell ends The Hoosier Doctor January 7 to tour Frances Hodgson Burnett’s comedy drama Joe Hurst Gentleman. Openings set for Washington in February, then Chicago and possibly New York. plot follows a retired showman and his Paris-educated daughter who misread each other, leading to a staged deception until the truth emerges.
Report from Wrangel Alaska via Victoria December reveals Captain James Nelson of the halibut sloop Caroline and fisherman Barney Phale went ashore to hunt deer. Captain Nelson claimed an attack by Indians, a story the Halibut owners accept. The Halibut schooner Two Brothers has been missing six weeks with feared loss. one boat was found battered. An advertisement promotes holiday rail fares and preserved food products from Otto Kuehne & Co.
On December and M1 94 the Han 828 City Fort Scott Memphis R R Co will sell round trip tickets from Kansas City and sit coupon offices on its fines to points in Georgia Florida Alabama the Southeast generally at rate of one fare with return limit to thirty days On December 34 25 BS 1 and January 1 and 2 tickets will be sold at one fare between all KC F S M stations
Kansas Municipal association members from Grat class cities crowd Fort Scott for annual session. Wichita and Manhattan send the largest delegations as talks hint at recommending new laws to reshape first class city governance. Ottawa editor Frank Finch notes a consolidation with P Elder's Ottowa Times into a Populist daily, while various want ads and listings clutter the page.
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