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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1898
Page
3
The advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for female disorders and weakness. It claims to relieve burning sensations, back pain, nervous exhaustion, and menstrual burdens, promising strength and restored vitality for married women. It urges readers to mail for a medical booklet and lists address in Buffalo New York.
London financiers with Philippine interests press Ambassador Hay to urge Washington to keep permanent possession. They argue stable rule would attract investment, citing Spanish misrule, bribe practices, and the hope of turning the colony into a richer asset. The native insurgency is seen as possible under any regime, with many dangers attributed to church influence and colonial administration.
Captain J G Waters offered his opinion on W E Stanleys gubernatorial nomination. He called Stanley a friend of the Methodists and in love with the saloon keeper. He described Stanley as in political purgatory between heaven and hell.
Department Commander Eastman of the GAL mails four circular letters to G. A. R. post commanders urging former members to renew and new recruits to join. He notes a Grand Army year with posts already growing since Wichita encampment and cites over two thousand five hundred drops in five years, urging reentry and new membership.
Ottawa sends notice of expulsion from Canude for Litoletust Carranza and Senor DeBoss. They were recently attached to the Spanteh Jocation 6 Wustdugion and are ordered to depart. authoritative dispatch reports the action from Montreal Que.
Chief Sha neh see leads forty five Pittawatombe Indians through Wichita on their way from Jackson county to Rail Rock to attend the spring dance and confer authority as medicine men. They will remain at Red Rock for a month.
Snaps from home news list items about state finance and personnel. The Santa Fe bill for transporting troops stood at 4156.12 dollars while officials in Miami county pursue farming. Other items note bicycle track delays, births, repairs, and staff movements including Dr J P Kuster and Dr J M Frankenburger visiting, recruiting Captain Towers, and railroad news. A lantern show by Topeka Camera Club, church notices, and social events fill the miscellany.
Dune alarms signal a statehood celebration in Madison Wir, with cannons, bells, and whistles. Nearly 10400 strangers arrive by special trains as decorations brighten the capitol and Governor Bustnell of Ohio and staff are guests of honor amid a festival that proves a success.
Atlanta reports Private Maps of the Eleventh United States Infantry admitted to malingering during the current war. After presenting a bloody finger stump and claiming accidental self injury at Mobile on May 10, he was court martialed, convicted of mutilating his body to avoid service, and sentenced to two years. He arrived at McPherson barracks to begin his term but later confessed to an old comrade that the wound was intentional to dodge Spanish fire.
The executive council plans a central chandelier to illuminate the state house dome with sixty gas jets and eighty incandescent globes. Additional jets and globes will surround the dome in clusters along the sides.
The Populist congressional convention in Cherryvale on June 9 renominated E. R. Ridgely for Congress in the Third Kansas district. The meeting drew strong attendance and lively enthusiasm throughout proceedings.
June 2 report says Carranza and Du Bose deny orders to depart yet preparations to leave are under way. De fective Relieves reliefs are set for argument in the practice court today.
Kingston Jamaica June 2 1898 AP report notes 2 million dollars in Spanish gold among Cuban refugees arriving in Jamaica over six weeks. Refugees spend money at hotels and shops boosting trade while anxious about homes and estates. Banks will lend to unsettled Cuba, but cable communication is limited and many sympathize with Insurgents.
Washington June 5 the president directs Admiral Sampson to prepare and forward a detailed report on Lieut Richmond Pearson Hobson and the Merrimac action. A vote of thanks and medals of honor are likely for Hobson and his crew with possible promotions for all. A formal message to Congress is expected next week once the report arrives.
The Reina Mercedes, sunk during the Santiago bombardment, is described as a transport vessel of over 200 tons, 218 feet long, 42 feet wide, and a 16 foot 5 inch draft. It carried a crew of about 22, had 2700 indicated horsepower, and propulsion by a single propeller, with engines out of use. Armament included 6.2 inch and 7 inch breech loading guns, multiple small guns, torpedo tubes, and machine guns. It lacked a protective deck, was rigged with a single mast and smokestack, and coal capacity around 500 to 600 tons, with an estimated speed near 17 knots.
San Francisco dispatch reports Chief J. W. Lees will be succeeded by Dedimen W. Keene following a secret meeting of Police Commissioners Al Avord Tobin and Gunst. Keeney, a longtime police surgeon, to take over, with J. Thomas S. Shamate to receive Lees’s current post as replacement.
Representatives from fourteen chapters attend the sixth annual session to be held at KP ball. A reception and public event occur Tuesday with a competitive drill among teams and a Wednesday night meeting continues the program with a large gathering expected.
A heavy morning shower caused a Topeka Railway wire to snap at Twelfth and Western, sending glowing fragments across wet ground. Bricks of track were out of service, repairs delayed by rain, highlighting a weak trolley system with multiple breaks noted at the same site.
To the Editor of the State Journal, a plea to mobilize in sending camp and hospital supplies to Kansas recruits. Mrs. Preston Plum of Emporia reports growing generosity to Bend as recruits depart. Citizens urged to match or exceed prior efforts, sending both goods and money to comfort the boys in California, Tennessee and Virginia. Local relief committees urged to unite and act swiftly.
Topeka fans plan a city team by June 20 led by Clarence Smith Dick Alden Lew Graham and FLE Nipps with Frank Fear as player manager. Fear a catcher and former San Antonio manager aims to assemble a first class squad from Kansas league prospects and backers will seek subscriptions to fund three opening games and build a four city Kansas league with Atchison Salina and Abilene.
N. E. Alt specials announce a July 4 train leaving Kansas City and Kansas via Santa Fe at 7 p.m. and arriving Chicago next morning. The route offers Allegheny scenery and the Home Shoe Curve, Blue Juniate, and Susquehanna views. A feature is the York to Gettysburg battlefield ride. apply to W. C. Garvey for itinerary and low rate options.
Last night at Washburn college the annual recital featured vocal selections by Miss Florence Townsley’s pupils and piano solos by Miss Helen Ingalls’s students. The program drew a small audience due to rain. performers included Miss Mildred Leland and Miss Lillien Sawyer with Viano solos, plus Miss May McAdams and Mr Milo Stove in vocal numbers. Also reported are relics found from Chickamauga and Theodore Thomas’s enlistment for the regular army, with mention of possible Roosevelt Rough Riders service. A weather note for Kansas predicts showers and thunder, while an odd ad promotes headache medicine from a local laundry.
The first exhibition of cinematograph pictures of the Passion play will be shown in connection with a concert by Marshall's band at Garfield park tonight. Over thirty pictures depict the play's scenes in a realistic way at Ober Ammennau. The band plays six numbers starting at o'clock. Show repeats tomorrow and Saturday evening.
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