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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1898
Page
3
The Star Grocery offers wholesale and retail lines under J S Sprout with Christmas specials. Pine for candies, nuts, fruits, turkeys, cakes, and canned goods at reduced prices, plus tea, coffee, hams, flour, and syrups. Mail orders shipped promptly.
The Crawford theater lists showtimes including matinees and evening performances for Gaiety Girls and A Boy Wanted. A social gathering at Miss Kinadin’s Polk Street home featured many local guests and a prize deck event won by Mr Burdge. Further notes mention holiday visits, travel plans, and a Kellams exhibit of Miss Doster’s drawings.
A Daily Chronicle report details the first London to continent flight in a steerable balloon. Passengers included aeronaut Percival Spencer and Lawrence Swinburne of the Daily Chronicle staff. The balloon carried 56,000 cubic feet, with a drag rope and apparatus used to steer by wind. The craft reportedly landed near Havre at 4 25, with two descent maneuvers and a near sea incident, and both crew escaped without serious harm.
The report notes a fourteenth successful cross channel trip using a steerable balloon. It emphasizes the interest tied to Andree and the ominous fate of earlier attempts, highlighting a precisely tuning steering apparatus. Several prior efforts ended fatally.
Chicago December 21. Facing rising traffic, the Great Western Railway places a rush order with Baldwin Locomotive Works for ten 165,000 pound ten wheel engines. These will haul heavy loads and delivery is planned for early February. An additional order for five or ten more engines is expected, with 700 new box cars to be contracted next week.
Eastern and Chicago and New York expresses collide in dense fog near Rahway New Jersey. A Pullman porter dies and several passengers are injured including two women trapped in wreckage. Causes traced to heavy fog.
An elderly Topeka resident AH West shares a testimonial praising Morrow's Kid-ne-olds for back pain nervousness and general health. He claims rapid relief after trying the remedies alongside Liver Lax and other products sold by local druggists including Swift Holliday and John Co. Chemists.
Topeka city officials and merchants debate funding for a new convention hall. The Auditorium association names R. B. Brigham J. B. Billard and F. Menninger to explain that work will resume, as council considers a $50,000 special legislature bond issue. The coal hole fund debate and viaduct bond payments sparked renewed push to complete the hall this year.
A violent incident at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday afternoon left patrons terrified as a man named Pig fired a revolver and fled toward the kitchen while Brown claimed to defend his family honor. Police were summoned and the case unfolded with testimony from Brown and his wife, amid tense courtroom questioning.
Two men halted the southbound express near Pope's station at 10 30 last night and forced the engine to stop They fired several shots at the express car door but could not gain entry The robbers fled after firing with no casualties or passenger harm reported.
A Norfolk report says Fortress Monroe will be extended by at least a half mile on the Chesapeake Bay side to strengthen the Gibraltar of America. Cannon defenses will guard entrances to the Virginia capes and the approaches to Washington, with 1,000 tons of crushed stone arriving for the work.
A special dispatch reports a widespread grip epidemic in Cinnelon, with an estimated 5,000 people infected. In one factory 500 workers are confined to their homes with the illness and some families are affected. no fatalities reported at this time.
The Atchison Globe notes public backlash over Hobson kissing episodes in Kansas City and mocks local women involved while reporting Secretary of State elect George A. Clark naming A. J. Whitmore as chief clerk in his office and EH. Knight of Goodland as commission clerk, completing Clark’s clerk appointments unless further hires are approved by the new legislature.
Reports from Dawson City near Canon City indicate rich gold ore in the Copper King claim came from a small pocket. Experts entertain a copper mine possibility, while others note free gold finds in the vicinity. Town growth accelerates despite mixed ore news.
Reports from Samoa dated December 14 describe serious trouble over the selection to succeed the late King Malhioa. Mathifo supporters grow warlike while German consuls reportedly back Mutnufa despite an agreed feudal arrangement. Residents fear war upon the chief justice's Decison and seek naval protection.
Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain system circular sets new pay scales effective January 1 1900. Conductor salaries depend on train mileage with monthly or per mile rates and a maximum cap as existing levels are maintained beyond the highest tier. The notice appears in a St Louis Bee edition.
The naval hero Hobson is greeted by a Sons of the Revolution committee at the depot and welcomed to the Brown Palace hotel where a reception is held. He meets Governor Adare briefly and plans a motorcade through the city before departing for the west.
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