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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1899
Page
3
A Texas cloudburst caused rivers to overflow washing away two hamlets and vast fields. Reports from Austin Texas describe flooding destroying homes and crops with significant property losses. Nearby towns San Saha and Mhinordylite reportedly inundated as rivers breached banks.
The article outlines a belief that women stay young by managing menstruation. Irregularities, suppression, or scantiness are said to show in the face and aging. It discusses how menstrual health supposedly affects appearance and youthfulness.
Sixty counties report floods with San Sata and Manantville hardest hit by rising waters. In San Suba, eight drowned. thirteen houses swept away at Manardville. Valley towns submerged. many residents cut off at night. Widespread damage feared as Trinity River floods Dallas region. Kingsland partially swept. residents seek high ground as roads and rail lines fail.
Attorney General Griggs designs a Department of Justice building in Washington with an envisioned wartime budget and era details. The plan references a prior bank building project and mentions quartering, plans, and injuries tied to wartime resilience.
The fragment references a hotel of chilits moving to an art gallery, Congress Ravine resigning as rbelion of a new department, and Attorney General Arken exercising authority. It mentions Tinkered ambitions, a professional architect, and Willan Grimes with Senator Palmer of Michigan amid unclear political shifts.
Report states a landslide at Ross Hollow buried twenty eight people in a pass between small mountain ranges about twenty eight miles west of the Rock on the Choctaw and Memphis railway. A crew was clearing debris when further earth loosened trapping men and workers. Local farmers and a large excavation force battled to reach survivors.
Topeka will enter a ten day blackout as a new 300 horsepower Corliss engine is installed at the city plant. The upgrade replaces three 75 horsepower engines, expands capacity to 300 arc lights, and shifts existing dynamos. Ex Governor Leedy will receive the old engines for mining at Garden City. Plant work, delayed by wet weather, requires removing and realigning shafts and expanding the building onto the paving line on Adams street.
In Augusta Maine on June 9 Secretary Byron Holt and the private secretary say Governor Powers has not received any resignation notification from Thomas B Reed of Maine as congressman.
An explosion at Pain's Fireworks manufacturing plant in Greyntc Lacemgtdan injures several workers and damages a magazine containing ready goods. Gold a Globe Trotter Manpisk Cage Hayward noted for San ‘erancists reports insured value around £150.00 in gold. Thomas' Planing Mill advertises kiln dried house finishing and store fixtures with telephone numbers 422 and 423.
In Chicago the Rock Island directors elected T. E. B. Dixey as assistant treasurer in New York replacing the late L. G. Hastings. Dixey will arrive in Topeka soon to assume duties, relieving C. F. Jilson who returns to Chicago. Other officers were re elected including R. R. Cable as chairman and W. G. Par dy as president.
A Missouri Pacific rail regulator, E Myers, lost the first finger on his right hand at Lomax while supervising between here and Fort Scott. He is hospitalized in Kansas City. A prior winter accident nearly amputated part of his feet at the same location.
The Argentine building, three stories of brick with baths library trading rooms bowling alleys restaurant rest rooms and an auditorium, opened after popular subscription. Santa Fe donated a site and contributed one third of the project cost with its employer matching. The total cost was $12,904. Representatives from Kansas Sunflower state fighters drew strong applause at the ceremony ending with a prayer by Rev. Edward Rafferty.
The Wellington Journal reports Hart will hold the night trick at Ply mouth and that lineman Kise went to Crystal to remove wires as the telegraph station there has been discontinued. The Albuquerque Journal notes hiring of several new workers at local shops this week and transfers within the plant.
Colonel J G Rowland and Governor Stanley clash over attacks on old soldiers at Leavenworth Texort known as the Klondike. Reports say murders and injuries occur. Stanley cites local enforcement limits while promising state aid if local authorities fail to act.
Kansas City resident William Dietz petitions Governor Stanley for a pardon in a murder case. He claims the governor will grant clemency and says he has confided with the victim's mother, who declined to intervene. Dietz asserts he has profited from service and awaits the outcome of the pardon request. Chicago, June 6. David J. Wise, the attorney shot weeks ago by Mabel Burke, died last August of blood poisoning at about age 40.
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