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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
8
Readable fragments mention a person named Bliskine and references to families and hired help. The garbled text also alludes to a Plain Dealer and a Dawson or Tabor. other lines are incomplete. No clear events or dates emerge from the OCR.
Prepare for the Grand Canon lecture at the First Christian church in January. The notice urges holiday excursions via the Santa Fe route and invites community members to participate.
A Washington report notes New York spent 328, US2,065 on schools that year, more than any state, with enrollment at 16.36 percent. Kansas shows a high enrollment rate of 27.87 percent, total enrollment 54,992 and 26.42 percent of population, with 25.48 teachers per 1000 people.
A Washington dispatch says the Interstate Commerce Commission will rule soon on charges for carload and fraction shipments, with final arguments set for April 15. St Louis hardware and grocery shippers allege New York rates are far higher than St Louis rates, aided by water competition around Cape Horn, affecting Rocky Mountain patrons and local jobbers.
Nickerson on December 27 faced a costly fire that damaged Lt. Heath’s feed store, Chas Riteha’s feed house, and Art Davis’s barbershop. The blaze started in baled hay outside Heath’s building and spread to three adjacent structures, with losses estimated between $500 and $1,000 for the Odd Fellows hall and extensive damage to the billiard hall.
Rev Father John Welg, a Catholic missionary, fled Boxer forces in China and reached San Remy to aid villages. Escorted by a native servant he boarded a junk toward the grand canal, but pirates stripped him and robbed him. He then fell ill with typhoid fever and narrowly escaped capture again by Boxer bands.
New York December 27 The Times reports Kadandre who escaped from Edsdale asylum at White Pine on November 2 never intends to return. Samu FonK, a witness, says Chanler plans to stay away for a month to gain freedom and hide with friends. He aims for West Virginia where he owns a farm. Dr Wood's Norway Pine cures coughs and colds. The State Journal is widely read.
The Earl of Clonmel and figures like Foxhall Keene weigh in on Sloan’s riding at Tanfaran amid talk of renewed licensing. Critics say he should stay low profile, while supporters argue a license could be granted if he behaves. Local turfmen predict caution and potential restrictions for his European return.
New York dispatch from December reports Minister Conger signed the agreement drafted by Pekin ministers with reservations. The United States would not be bound to join war actions or to maintain permanent guards in China. Additional reservations were noted but not disclosed by Secretary Hay pending the full text. President Wilson directed Conger to clarify the U.S. position.
New York officials report a sharp drop in wheat moved to New York via the Erie Canal during the season. Canal receipts show a decline from prior years while rail shipments rise, with total grain arrivals at the port exceeding 107.8 million bushels, though December figures total 90.6 million bushels when peas are excluded.
John Garvorisio, an Italian man, lies dying at home after a brutal assault that left his abdomen gored and shoulder cut. He refuses to disclose the attackers' names, despite grave injuries and a failing life condition.
Brethren report details a convoluted pursuit involving Gargorisio who hunted a cousin’s killer in Italy. After a Tuesday attack he dragged himself home and refused medical help, while neighbors say he had sought the murderer for weeks and believed a bridge meeting on the night marked his foe.
Philadelphia hosts the ninth annual convention with papers by Max J. Kohler on Israelites as ten tribes, Henry Necarsulmer on Lancaster settlement, J. D. Eisens tein on early congregations, Leon Huhiet on a Jewish soldier, and Rev. Geo Khout on Dan Luis De Carabijal. Officers include Dr Cyrua Adier as president and Simon Rouendale as vice president.
In New York on December 27 Judge Lacombe denied Rudyard Kipling’s request to stop R F Fenna from publishing editions using an elephant’s head as a title element. The court ruled Kipling had not proven a common law trademark and that authors’ protection lies in copyright statutes.
One woman died and two adults and a child were seriously injured in a mysterious West Monroe street blaze. Mrs Ty Mason suffered severe burns and may die while Mrs Louise Hannon and her nine month old child were overcome by smoke but expected to recover.
New service named the Hunea will link New York with South African ports and Calcutta with monthly departures. Ships will sail from New York to South Africa then to Calcutta before returning to New York. Hanse Lines currently operate routes from Hamburg to Antwerp Colombo Karachi Madras Calcutta Rangoon.
New York announces the death of Joseph Theodore Waite a longtime city merchant and Seventh regiment veteran born in 1812. He began business at 14 and by 16 ran an agency in New Orleans. He later joined the gold rush era ventures in San Francisco engaging in general merchandise trade.
Mrs D O Mears of Albany New York campaigns for dress reform urging adoption of short street skirts. She plans an endless chain to reach every woman in the United States through the New York Assembly of Mothers with Allon G.
A fragmentary archival summary notes long geological battles of life from the coal era to the tertiary. It traces ammonites and other organisms, Darwinian lines of ancestry, and the ascent of man from ancient toeed ancestors through gradual selection, images of extinction and progress across deep time.
In Constantinople on December 27 Turkish soldiers assaulted and maltreated the British chargé d’affaires Mr. De Bunsen and other embassy members near the magazine area. No immediate redress has been reported.
Leading chemists from across the country gather for the twenty second general annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago. The program opens with remarks by Dr W. R. Smith and includes papers by Arthur W. Palmers Rae fard Tremere J Parsons JM Lote aga Edward Pravkin and others. Reports and elections slated for Northwestern University venue with plans for president and councilors.
Evelyn B Baldwin, famed arctic explorer, arranges the Baldwin Zelgier expedition and upgrades equipment aboard the Fequinaux, once sought as a substitute by British Antarctic organizers. In New York, Jos Potter, head of the New York World, and Barineworth of the London Daily Star, reportedly left Liverpool aboard a May bail.
Lewiston Cor. Benton Advertiser details George Washington Jones of North Wakobora Lincoln County labeled The Terror of the Woods. He resists arrest, fights officers, and evades capture as neighbors fear him. His exploits include beating deputies, courting danger, and evading punishment while living in the woods.
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