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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1898
Page
2
Edward Walls of Trike Crk Linoutn cits marries Ming Julia Hlono ker. He drinks five bottles of cinnamon extract to nerve himself for the ceremony and dies within twenty four hours. The incident unfolded on the wedding day in Parkersmre West Virginia, with a wealthy merchant family connected.
A fragmented notice describes canceled mortgages involving Parsons and Bye, a 15 A movement, and a forthcoming exhibition at the Tremontonsston in Omaha Seb next June. It invites townships to report available products relics and other items for a Regiey award process. Also mentions a court meeting at Canegn and a Nebraskan cough remedy advert. The text blends legal notices with homegrown ads and medical claims.
Fragmented ad style copy touts patent medicine for childbirth and female health. It promotes Dr Pierce products and a local retailer, claiming benefits for pregnancy discomfort, ease of birth, and general health, with testimonial like language amid garbled OCR text.
Madrid cabinet met to discuss the De Lome affair and decided to publish a decree resigning Senor Dupuy De Lome as minister at Washington and appointing Senor Louis Bernabe as his successor. The note from Madrid demanded formal disavowal of insults to President McKinley. Woodford advised a strong reply. Washington reports the State Department placed the De Lome letter in the hands of Canalejas to receive it legally.
Passengers from the steamer Ghelle report plans for a Japanese colony near San Benito adjacent to the Guatemalan boundary. Count Enomoto buys 100000 acres in Mexico under a treaty with Mexico, to be surveyed for colonists and coffee cultivation, with a steamship link to Acapulco via the Japanese Trans-Pacific Line.
Dispatches from the Herald report chaos across Guatemala fueled by a coalition of Barriga and Tendera to seize power. General Mendisibal is marching on Guatemala City with General Prospero Morales and General Gutecap, who led the February revolt, summoned by Cabrera to join the new cabinet. Morales was seen in Mexico. a party reportedly moves toward the capital.
A local paper backtracks a circulating claim of a cake walk at the Second Presbyterian church. Pastor Dr. Nicolls denies any such performance occurred. A Virginia merchant credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing a severe cough after all other remedies failed and recommends it for others. Swift & Co. offer free trials.
Tickets will be sold on the first and third Tuesdays of January February and March via the Union Pacific to points in Missouri Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas Louisiana Arizona and New Mexico with a minimum round trip rate of 7.60 or more at one fare for the round trip. For exact territory and fan information call or write agent FLA LE City. J C Fulton Depot Agent.
In New York on February 35 Miss Misa Dalay Lester and her mother deny engagement rumors with Robert Wallach. They insist the marriage certificate from Maryland is false and protest press intrusion. Mrs Wallach, mother of “Hob” Wallach, condemns the gossip and asserts her son is not married to Miss Leiter.
Ramitos, a famed matador, killed his bull Sunday in OuL Vile ie Serle across Bouora river from Fermossie, drawing a shower of silver from about 600 spectators. The event closed the Festa de Cendelara’s preliminaries as crowds watched with awe and reverence.
In the House of Commons Mr Balfour, lord of the treasury, said the government would be very ill to cooperate but had nothing new to add to what the house already holds about a potential international conference on currency.
The Crawford theater hosts the second performance of Hal Reid's Human Hearts tonight. Next Saturday, The Mysterious Mr Bugle with Joseph Holland and company is a farce praised for its wit and charm. Boston critics commend Holland's deft farcical touch and Gretchen Lyons as Betty. At the high school auditorium tomorrow night, the Welsh Prize Singers close the seventh concert in a course described as an enjoyable evening.
Mr C W Douglass of Topeka has been named assistant manager of the Press at Shanghai by the Presbyterian board of foreign missions. He and his family plan to leave for China via San Francisco around March 15 after arranging business affairs. The Shanghai Press is a large operation employing 1238 people, with extensive Bible and missionary publications and a Chinese type casting plant.
Alderman Raihville proposes a debt funding plan using bonds on a lottery model. Bonds pay 3 percent interest, offering citizens a safe investment with 3 percent yield and a chance at fortune, while the city would gain reduced debt service and an annual saving of about 209000. The plan may provoke opposition among groups long opposed to lotteries.
Reports from Bhanghal and central China describe widespread anti foreigner unrest, robberies, and attacks on Chinese merchants, churches, and missionaries. Riots spread from Hupen Totwan to Son Chow with arrests, court violence, and threats to foreign residents including a brutal assault on a missionary boat.
United States Sixth Circuit affirms that six cast iron pipe companies violated federal anti trust law. Court finds contract of association for cross state sales restrained interstate commerce and was void at common law. Injunction ordered to bar continuing business under the association.
An ad style notice touts Dr Ja Anticheadache and Druggrats as cures for headaches. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is praised as effective with testimonials from Glenville West Virginia. The piece also notes presidential nominations to land offices in Nebraska and South Dakota and mentions Lincoln and Watertown.
On February 15 at the Academy of Music Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr denounced Dupuy de Lôme and praised Spain's stance toward the United States. The audience roared with phrases like Let us get at the Spaniards and Down with the woman players as Dixon defended his fiery remarks with quotations from his manuscript.
Bennett Wheeler sails to New York to greet his daughter Marjorie returning from South America. Miss Wheeler lived with her uncle Captain Henjemin in Munton after going to Buenos Aires a year ago, then London, awaiting Brexit, before deciding to travel with a Harrisburg man to Amelia and Paris. Marjorie expected to arrive in Newark on Friday to a welcome.
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