Entertainers Ready as Crowds Pour In for Endeavorers Event
Preparations for the entertainment of the Endeavorers are complete and crowds are arriving. The event area is busy with attendees and organizers coordinating activities.
06 Jul 1897
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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1897
Page
1
Preparations for the entertainment of the Endeavorers are complete and crowds are arriving. The event area is busy with attendees and organizers coordinating activities.
In San Prarietace on July 6, preparations are underway for the Christian Endeavor convention with about 6,000 delegates arriving today and many more tomorrow. A bell from an old California mission will ring five minutes before each session, signaling the faithful. The Mechanics pavilion hosts a display of mission history, a Triskion exhibit, and a banner from Foo Chow Chinese Endeavor Society. Delegates Miss BE Newton from Foo Chow and Miss Carmen Hostetter from Tokyo attend, with efforts to display ships in the harbor and a chart of the event’s grand plans.
Chicago Christian Endeavorers enjoyed a warm reception in Ogden Utah as hundreds gathered at the station. The group toured Wasatch mountains, rode in a touring car and horse drawn float, and sang gospel songs with Rev. A Bullock thanking them for the visit.
Foreman Patrick Heaban and an enthusiastic Endeavoree have painted the roundhouse roof with three foot letters reading Welcome, Christian on deevonere tae Speed Thee on Thy Away. Ten trains daily have been dared for here amid the enormous activity.
Chicago Christian Endeavorers touring Salt Lake entered Pleasant Valley where a group of Utah cowboys flaunted pistols. A scuffle broke out as two men fought, boarding officers intervened, and a porter was briefly lassoed before the train departed. Passengers then viewed trophies from the mountains including a rattlesnake and wild cactus specimens.
Col James F R Hallowell, long a top Kansas lawyer and politician, is dying from diabetes complications after months with family at a mineral spring resort. Once a Wichita resident and Seventh District figure, he served as a soldier with severe war wounds and had pension disputes. Washington announced a $99 monthly pension with back pay, aiding his distressed family.
Stockholm July 6 A dispatch from Date Island dated June 28 reports Prof Andree's balloon filing completed June 23 and readiness to launch in July to cross the Arctic region. Winds have been chiefly northerly.
The board of county commissioners again reject payment to defense attorneys Enamingé J McNary and W J Jamison in the Nevel murder case. Tried over two years ago, no funds exist to pay lawyers, and the men assert they deserve 44 dollars each for pretrial work. The commissioners say the county has no fund to pay lawyers and clerks have foregone wages.
Madrid reports the Bank of Spain rapidly increasing its note circulation to a record 19 million pesetas amid broad commentary on the bank's monetary expansion.
In Cleveang on July 8 a 60 year old man and a woman with a four year old child were on a boat. They rowed out on the lake and after a scuffle one person fell or jumped overboard and the other followed. The boat remained dry and a warden stated the incident.
New York reports William Astor complains that the Pall Mall Gazette was omitted from the guest list for a Windsor Castle party. The newspaper says London evening papers were invited elsewhere, leaving Pall Mall Gazette singled out in public chagrin.
A World Washington dispatch reports Marcus Hanna and John Sherman urging arbitration to end the miners strike. Sherman warns prolonged coal outages will raise prices and hurt business, while Hanna cautions politics should not intrude and that wages will rise with better times. In Brazil, Indiana, a miners mass meeting endorses Saturday’s suspension action and the operators form a committee amid renewed labor turmoil.
In a July Fourth speech, Jerry Simpson criticizes wages and labor oppression, denounces Congress and the Senate as dominated by wealth, and predicts a rising push by workers, including 250000 expected to strike, to resist starvation pay and political betrayal. He frames the era as one of free men facing economic coercion and servitude to a few wealthy interests.
Columbus Ohio July 6 President Rutchford of the United Mine Workers said today the strike is drawing national attention and that lawmakers and members are observing the movement closely.
The national cabinet expresses alarm yet hope regarding mining wage regulation and future trade disputes. President Batchford advocacy favors eight hour workday and minimum wage laws with national arbitration, urging workers to act. Labor groups and state and national parties pledge support to miners, signaling possible higher living standards and broader social benefits.
In Columbus Ohio in July at the General Hocking Coal home office manager B A Renhels says 150000 tons of coal are on hand in the northwest, enough to meet four months of demand. Railroads reportedly have coal to last about six weeks amid possible miners strike.
The Indiana labor commission sent letters to Ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia inviting them to meet in Indianapolis to consider possible arbitration of the coal miners strike. If honored, coal operators may also be invited to join to seek an early end to the dispute before it escalates.
Governor Leedy examines a pardon petition and protest for Monroe Campbell a negro serving 20 years for murder. Signatures from Senator Baker Mayor Hook and others appear on both sides hinting at petition manipulation and political pressure while entering case details and related Peru currency plan and a report on George Van Ness Lothrop's illness.
Special dispatches from London and New York report 600 to 2,000 rioters killed near Calcutta with officials tallying up to 1,500. Pamphlets incite anti-British sentiment in Poona and Bombay, urging revolt and condemning Queen Victoria’s government amid jubilee celebrations and famine, plague, and earthquakes.
Kansas City July 6 trainmen on a Santa Fe train from the west faced four tramps near Spearville. A fight broke out when the begimmings refused to disembark after the crew order. The air hose was cut, four men fled, three were captured by trainmen and passengers, one by the sheriff. all are jailed in Dodge City.
Chauncey Hill's son G Beriram Hill 6 died after a balloon ascent at Blair's Park Oakland. He clung to a guy rope as the balloon rose pulling Miss Olney guardian's daughter alongside. The parachute failed and the boy fell 4000 feet to the ground in a fatal crash.
President McKinley, here with Judge Day and kin, jokes that the presidency is not easy. He notes a 43 hour Fourth of July break and claims no summer plans, saying he feels rested yet tired after a taxing visit. His family gathers around him as he contemplates a quiet Washington return.
Journal interviews President Street on the water works fray outlining the franchise scope, fair compromise options, and the city’s court cases. Street notes the company seeks extensions and hydrant charges while favoring concessions to avoid further litigation and improve service.
Cincinnati reports 22 heat related deaths with a long list of victims including several children and adults. Detroit records 13 sunstroke fatalities as rescinds fade, while Fort Wayne notes another hot day with multiple prostrations and two broken legs after a fall.
A violent thunderstorm in the Lake St. John district damages property and causes casualties. Lightning struck the Canavan parish church as Mass continued, clipping roof sections, toppling altars, and injuring the priest before the building caught fire. A panicked rush caused one man’s death and multiple injuries as the church burned and collapsed within days.
Col W H Rossington leads a heated public appeal against prison overcrowding and neglect as Mrs L Case directs delegation for separate women's quarters and better staffing. He condemns the facility as inhumane, urging reforms and oversight, while the council weighs committee reports and funding for improved prison buildings.
Feffermar 5 a Fay Bale BUDE court notes Chief of Police Thomas XII Vallins of Katoee City removed from office amid investigations. Attorney Gyners Crowyt Manlitated proceedings about a month Wem Mankes City. July Sune of Police Walling won faminity Pinkerton detective service and there from Chirag. He faced abuse this spring to support Chint L. B. Irwin at the fettersleugh. The fight on him and local supporters aided the crackdown on gamblers. Walline’s help prompts the board to reappoint him.
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