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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1899
Page
5
A sales notice highlights a splendid stock of laces available today. The feature item emphasizes quality and variety, inviting customers to inspect the full display and choose from a range of designs and prices.
This lace, popular last season, will be used lavishly on many materials. Purchases are three times larger than last season to meet demand. The assortment is bigger with patterns priced from 10 to 90 per dozen. Sixteen different patterns are shown at 25 cents per dozen.
New Black Crepons offered on sale this morning from Europe fashion houses. Includes mohair silhouettes on plain, poplin, or bengaline grounds with unfamiliar designs. Also featured new silks for waists and printed foulards.
An engineering feat moves the Lake Wawasee hotel two miles across the ice on a two foot solid sheet. The thirty room structure was relocated from its lakeside site as cottage development shifted. The massive building will be off the lake before spring breakup. Fire at Washington Street home destroys frame dwelling. insurance values listed. Robbery arrest tied to Ottawa incident. suspect denies guilt. Mormon Elder Speake discusses Capitol pest and church debate on polygamy views, urging calm discussion.
Kansas City February 20 A sensational trial opens as Young Jesse James stands charged in connection with the Leeds train robbery. The case tests motives and complicity amid connections to prominent locals and the famed outlaw lineage.
The report details confessions and arrests connected to a Macomb Missouri train robbery. Names include Jesse James, James, Ryan, Stone, Folk, Evans a mystery man, and a “big fellow.” Lowe’s October arrest and confession face scrutiny over fabrication claims. Defense lawyers push for broad jury and prolonged proceedings with many witnesses expected.
Santa Fe notes report Frank Gibson returning to Gallup after telegraph office work, Bert Powers moving health reasons to Topeka, and Whitehead overseeing yards. News covers new short lines planned in Oklahoma, staffing changes from Las Vegas to Tom, and El Paso & Northeastern expansion toward White Oaks. Legal dockets mention Judah damage cases related to a January Omahe junction accident. Rumors swirl about a Santa Fe steamship line linking California and Mexico to improve copper ore shipments from Guaymas to Galveston via San Pedro routes.
Constable Thornburg and a deputy from Justice Nagie's court went to Topeka to arrest Dennis Dumford for disturbing the peace. They found him at Royal Mert hall. he ripped the warrant and spat at the officers. Dumford, from a fighting family and a Hutchinson reformatory alum, surrendered after Policeman Hendricks arrived. He was booked for assault and waited in the county jail for trial.
Miss Lee Redden sailed from Bamburg aboard the Pretoria January 2% and endured a fifteen day storm before docking in Plymouth on February 15. Relatives in Topeka feared for her safety, telegrams confirmed all were well, and she would finish the voyage on the Pennsylvania. She plans a East Coast stay before returning to Topeka.
The article traces the global sources of quinine bark, noting Peru provides a small share while Madras and Ceylon dominate. It describes early transit from the Andes to ports, the distrust of natives toward bark, and the 1625 origin tale tied to Countess Chinchon in Lima. It mentions Peruvian bark rarity and early medicinal use.
Madison reports Rep Daggett of Bear Creek introduced a measure in the assembly to ban tight lacing citing health risks to women and posterity. He suggests a three member assembly and one senate panel to draft the bill and press for passage. A companion bill to prohibit skirts in fashion may also be introduced.
United States transport Manitoba arrived last evening and the Saratoga entered port this afternoon as Major Rathbone issued February 0 for the American administration of Cuba's postal system. Thirty offices including Sagus Santa Clara Cardenus and Mamagas are now in service. New methods will introduce a registered letter system tomorrow. An American inspector corps begins travel to enforce the changes. The Havana customs house construction is debated with merchants opposing the tax plan to fund duties. Five yellow fever suspects and two New York figures are under diagnostic review.
The British steamer Cardinal, sailing from Pentaroa to Antwerp with timber on deck, encountered severe gales off Newfoundland on February 15 16. The crew abandoned ship after bulwarks and grounding, as Lord Charlemont captained by Mec Vickar from Ardrossan arrived, rescued the Cardinal crew, and later found the two lifeboats abandoned.
A New York Times summary describes Germany's upcoming law to place habitual drunkards under a curator's interdict. The curator may direct treatment and restraint as long as the regime pleases, defining a drunkard as one unable to manage affairs or endangering others. Critics warn of potential tyranny.
David Overmyer will speak before the Kansas Democratic Lambeau club on Washingtons birthday the 22d on im berianlem. Wells Fargo depot agent H Griffiths resigns to become superintendent of Express Railway Employes Horticultural association at Grand Junction Del W L Griffiths of Kansas City to succeed him as depot agent. A special judge meeting is set for this evening to act on the funeral of Bro Eugene Welfe.
On February 11 the Santa Fe will sell tickets to points in Arkansas Arizona Indian Territory Louisiana New Mexico Oklahoma and Texas at one fare plus 200 for the round trip See Santa Fe agent for information.
The New York World notes Mrs. Shailer’s radical view that housework educates and sharpens judgment, arguing it could replace social and political economics. The piece warns such ideas are revolutionary and threaten traditional society, fearing a return to household primacy.
In Guanajuato Mexico the dry air mummified bodies in the cemetery vaults. Remains are placed along walls in passageways as immemorial sentinels. Officials ordered white gowns for the mummies to cover them as tourists watch.
Pekin is described as dirty by reputation yet comparatively clean for a Chinese city lacking municipal regulations. The piece compares Pekin favorably with Bombay Calcutta Singapore Canton and Shangha i while imagining a reformed Pekin with open spaces akin to London’s West End. It contemplates who might modernize Pekin, Mongolian Anglo-Saxon or Slavonic.
Mrs Ledyard Stevens, head of the Bureau of Social Requirements in the city, offers a house care service for clients wintering south or away for extended periods. She assigns servants, visits daily, oversees duties, and reports to the absent mistress by letter, ensuring smooth house management in her unique office.
A fragment discusses a house hold service hiring scene with references to openings, duties, and required personal details. It mentions secretaries, housekeepers, and servants, plus questions on occupation nationality marital status character and references. The tone hints at a broader push for handwriting and photo indexes as recruiter trends.
The New York Journal notes electricity from natural forces will replace coal as humanity’s energy base. It argues coal depletion is not an imminent extinction threat, but a shift to power from rivers will reduce reliance on steam power and wars linked to coal, while expanding scientific progress and economic resilience.
Mrs Cushman Davin, returning from Paris with her husband, recalls meeting ex Empress Eugenie at a hotel. She praises Eugenie’s grace, beauty, and decorum, notes her English fluency, and recounts the dignified sadness of the empress amid loss.
February 20 in Sioux City, Aleernen Sunde lost his tongue during a stable dispute with Merbert Heasecut. The injury came from a knife thrust through both cheeks, leaving the victim unable to speak clearly. Doctors may graft the tongue tissue from the calf stump to restore speech. The assailants were rival lovers.
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