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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1898
Page
4
Recent social items from Topeka and vicinities list planned travels eastern trips, parties, and entertainments. Many residents, including Miss Sin Mums, Mike Altes Siminone, and Mrs. Henry Williams, prepare for visits. several families plan summer outings, camping trips, and visits to Indianapolis, Chicago, and Cedar Rapids, while others announce weddings, visits, or hosting duties as summer continues.
In Omaha and Midwest packing plants a strike spreads as Central Labor Union threatens all packers to honor sympathy walkouts if local managers fail to grant wage increases. Chicago and Kansas City firms respond while many yards remain closed and only partial operations continue. Armours plans to delay reopening until the dispute ends as speculation grows over broader union action.
General Brooke and Secretary Alger discussed preparations for the Porto idea expedition. An army of occupation about 21,000 men is planned, with New port News as the likely departure port to ensure a strong force lands without risking rearguard delays and bloodshed.
Correspondent dispatch from Southampton notes a Fourth of July concert aboard the North German Lloyd steamer Treye under Captain C Thalenhorst. Passengers and crew sang the Star Spangled Banner, praising Old Glory. The event, organized by A B Elin and others, showed German respect for the United States amid Hispano American War era sentiment.
London reports the Berlin Daily News correspondent says friction between the foreign price and the admiralty could hinder a tense detachment. The German cabinet aims to avoid trouble with the United States. A Manila letter mocks exaggerated insurgent savagery reports.
A Brussels dispatch reports Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, remains in Brussels with confirmed movements toward London. The note mentions railway tickets and a promotional offer for a steam launcher, plus a promotional price of 512 dollars for Spence with tickets available at Santa Fe depot.
A Topeka local items page records a special meeting next Thursday and adjourned city council, park pavilion work at Garfield Park, and a state tennis tournament in the city next month. Dusty streets hinder attendance at a band concert. various residents and officials move or return from trips, while the city contends with water supply, lawn parching, and a controversial mayoral claim. An Angora cat strolls the church aisle, and police arrest a man for concealed weapons as Swedish Guards plan a meeting at Kansas Avenue hall.
Madrid correspondent reports riots in Huelva the capital of Hayles province in Andalusia as thousands march on municipal buildings demanding cheap bread. Rioters looted private homes before dispersal by the ministry. measures to prevent further disturbances will be taken. Republican leader Emilio Cestelar plans return to Madrid this summer with Gem Polvieja also en route from a French resort.
Justice Brewer stopped in Topeka to visit Pelatices and friends then spent time with Eurens P. Ware and A. F. Jeune d before heading to Colorado. He flew on for Washington early the following morning to address duties.
Prof Beals of the University of Washington and companion Mallory fell through an open hatch on the steamer Arizona. Beals was killed. Mallory was seriously injured. The Arizona, recently purchased at Tacoma by the government for a transport ship, opened to the public with a small admission fee for Red Cross funds.
In Topeka the town marshal enforces a new pullet system closing major gin joints amid a surge of establishments shut or scaled back. Public drinking fountains vanish, leaving two remain in North Topeka and at Sixth and Kankita avenues while saloons and soda-water stands fear dwindling trade and thirsty residents seek alternative water sources.
Rev G D Olden, pastor of First African Baptist in Topeka, describes his anti vice sermons and says he may need to carry a pistol to protect himself and supporters as he confronts moral decay on Kansas avenue. He laments lack of colored brethren support and cites white wealth and law as obstacles. He urges the community to stand with God and address disreputable influences among some women and men.
Shanghai dispatch reports Chinese rioters killed and French naval forces sent to quell disturbances. Casualties include a Times correspondent and a Chinese official. authorities seek arbitration and compensation. Activists deny wider anti foreign violence as tension eases with military presence.
Brown University president Dr E Benjamin Andrews resigns to become Chicago superintendent of schools. Rev Thomas D Anderson Brown University secretary confirms resignation as final. Andrews led Brown since 1880s after serving at Cornell. he previously held Brown’s history chair for six years.
London July report notes Conservative MP Thomas Giteon Bowles as Kings Inn member and a parliamentary inquiry into Admiral Dewes’s squadron exhibition. It cites alleged September twenty tenth in the state of mind and remarks by Mr. Cunningham, claiming many guns were British-made.
A dispatch reports editors outraged as bindle column pieces from several newspapers protest censorship. Lieutenant General J Chinchilla meets publishers to discuss new regulations. Papers say censorship escalates, with ships like Emperador Canton V and others presented as show pieces, while tensions rise across Tarragona Valencia Seville and beyond.
London July 18 The Gibraltar correspondent of the Daily News reports a Havana letter claiming a Gomez Blanes compact. The letter says Blanco after peace will be ousted president of Cuba, akin to Dom Pedro's Brazil Viceroy placement. An English yachtsman says the Spanish consul offered command of a cruiser.
Real estate transfers filed in the register of deeds include Sunnyside Congregational Church receiving a $1 transfer of part southwest quarter from Wm. D. Paul and wife. Gratton Street lot transfers between R. J. Curdy and Joan E. B. Johnson for $100. Sunnyside Congregational Church to Wm. De Paul for $1 of Euclid Park addition property. Thos. P. Hotcratt and wife selling Lot 73-5-79 in Yeale's addition to Auguste Renker for $225.
The Missionary Union of the Presbyterian Church will hold its regular quarterly greeting on July 20 at 10 a.m. at Garfell Park. If rain, gathering moved to North Presbyterian Church between Laurent and Gonian streets on Gainian A hashes. Picnic costs seven pence to St. Louis tomorrow via Sant Route.
Feeds at Kimball Pte Co deadline before 1 elock. Gem Bakery. Clothing stock moved to this side. Mr. and Mrs. B I Courtney spent Sunday in Bivir Laie. Miss Beith Pains leaves for month visit near Horton. Rev. A. S. Palmer organized Toys Uneide A imeeinge to be held Wednesday. Harmony Rebekah note quicetig tidings Tuesday. Florence Anderson, N.G.. Agnes Gun, secretary. Mrs. Nancy J. Harding of Rochester improving after illness. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson and Mr. and Mrs. Charles at Rochester for Mrs. Hutchinson’s birthday. Lizzie Petro to Gunnison for summer visits. Mrs. Milter hosted guests last night including German Muptat male quartet from Rochester. Postmaster Hewitt’s son Dan Hewitt earns army order signed by Colonel Funston. Iman Stover dies. funeral held at Proirle lgme church. interment at Prairie Home cemetery. Stover ill several months.
Saturday morning a man visited his mother's house then suffered a congestive illness in the afternoon and died later. He leaves a wife and several children. He was a brother of Luther Stover of Wind of Mev. Mr Graver aided Churion over, who live north of the reform School.
Buck Sawyer a colored man known as Harber fights and causes a disturbance in Stinks Row. He clashes with officers and is taken to Hollow Station after a struggle. The incident led to his detention and removal by Hendricks and Henderson.
Tourists in Colorado Utah and New Mexico offered the Beenie Line routes through the Rocky Mountains with direct trips to Cripple Creek the famed gold camp and daily through sleepers between Denver and San Francisco. The Ogden gateway route goes to Utah Montana Oregon and Washington with scenic grandeur for continental travelers. Weather notes from Chicago indicate generally fair weather for Kaneas with southerly winds tonight and Tuesday.
The Canary Islands form a Spain held archipelago near Africa with Teneriffe as the highest peak. Principal trade has shifted from wine to other goods after 1863, with growing ties to the United States and England. The main city is Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a fortified harbor hub.
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