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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1902
Page
2
Topeka records show a flood of marriage license applications this Christmas season with judges signing various couples. Names include Roy Nigdon and Litha Pearson, plus others from Tonka, Richmond, Topeka, and nearby towns as couples seek nuptial filings before year end.
In Grand Rapids during a heavy snow storm at 7 38 this morning Detroit train No 2 collided with the rear of Saginaw train No 32 at Mc Cordes flag station fifteen miles east. No 2 could not stop in time after the Saginaw train’s rear lights were seen too late. Platforms were smashed and passengers and crew thrown about. Injured include Mrs Jamies Grand Rapids with head and chest cuts and others listed with varying injuries.
A December 24 fire in Corning New York started by a lamp at Springs millinery store destroyed several blocks along Main Street including Wing Boetwick department store the Bustling block opera demise and Darling block. Loss exceeds fifty thousand dollars with numerous stores burned.
The Wednesday session featured a paper on college and high school supervision of students. Richard R. Price of Hutchinson urged broad responsibility, while Secretary George Washington Martin plans to gift Pilgrim’s Progress to relatives. Ensign Howard studies for Christmas despite a severe lung cold. The Atchison Globe reports Lee B. Miller disappeared from his Topeka home, with wife and two children left destitute, possibly seen in Atchison or Valley Falls. Miller’s movements trace from Atchison to Valley Falls and Topeka.
G W Frederick of Lookout Wyoming reported at the Santa Fe station that he lost or was robbed of about 200 dollars in a wallet from a Frisco train arriving Wichita at 3 20 p m from St Louis. He carried 180 in gold and the rest in currency and silver. Frederick, a Union Pacific employee, was to visit relatives near Wichita and plans Christmas travel were disrupted by the loss.
In Olivedale near Bradford, Mrs Edward Burebeek shot John Ryan dead as he forced entry in her absence. She retrieved a pistol from a drawer and fired once when attacked. A coroner's jury ruled the death justifiable. Ryan, a laborer employed near the pines, had been drinking heavily for days.
In Chichio December 24, doctors in Detroit attempt to revive William F. Muckutt after a gunshot wound by applying a neck-stretching apparatus to restore consciousness for an ante-mortem statement. Weights were used, but despite hours of effort there was no return of sustained life and the patient could not be revived.
New York reports Blanche Walsh the actress, on tour with The Daughter of Harilcar, married last week to Hugo Toland a member of her supporting company. Walsh and her company are in Chicago. Toland has long case on the stage and came from the west.
Katherine Willard as Aria in The Power Behind the Throne headlines Christmas performances at Grad Opera House with matinee and night shows. Crawford Theatre runs feature B. Hanfora, The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing. Also on deck are Circle Fitch’s Levere Lane in a nationally noted production, plus Adelaide Thurston in At Cozy Corners at New Crawford. December 30 brings Sis Hopkins at Grand Opera House with Rose Me Ville reprising Liz Hopkins and The Heart of Maryland set for New Crawford on December 2.</s>
Butte Montana reports Munroe will not face James J. Jeffries now citing poor condition. He vows to train diligently and invite challenges while Jeffries and manager push to arrange another bout, hinting the forfeit could rise to a high sum if needed.
Real estate transfers list multiple conveyances including G H Cozine to J H Alien and others, with parcel descriptions and prices. A separate notice details the death of E C Walker a trainer and writer in the trotting world after a horse accident on Broadway. Also included is a social note: Col Cody entertained British and American press guests in Olympian hall with toast responses from H Clay Evans and William J Bull.
A jailed suspect shouting seek ye the kingdom of heaven attacked Henry Garret Sr with a hatchet at his home in Moundsville on December 24. Garret wrestled the man, who escaped and fled, believed to be an escaped patient from the state insane hospital.
A passenger train arriving in Pine Bluff Ark from the south sparked a riot by drunken negro section hands at McNeal station. They refused fare and clashed with conductor Dave Ferguson and brakemen S S Pitman and H Ferguson, who were wounded. Four rioters were arrested and jailed at Camden.
New York reports Vanderbilt's condition showing slight improvement after a night of rest. The item mentions JaneWay Flint and politics with Booker Washington. it discusses Alabama Republicans and fusion in local elections, noting Washington’s unclear party status and possible independence. Also notes holiday rail rates via Santa Fe with one fare round trip within 200 miles and return by January 2.
A storekeeper at Tlamna Bay Alaska for the Trans Alaskan company on route to Iowa spends the winter as the project to build a railroad from Tlamna Bay to the Yukon river has been abandoned.
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