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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1899
Page
3
A broken town tale from Kirksport about a nine year old girl named Molly who prayed for a piano and a peaceful home. After a cyclone she survives and a plane crashes near the church, yet the girl proclaims God heard her prayer and credits Molly with sending the Kimball plane as proof of faith.
A distressed sale lists numerous grocery items with prices, including sugar, coffee, canned fruits, soap, oats, beans, syrups, hams, and bacon. The notice notes two large stores and numerous bargains as it markets stock at reduced rates.
In New York the Southern Pacific Railway announces a 1 percent dividend on common stock. A noisy jumble of transit and travel mentions includes Poebio trips, return validity to Qot.sist, and reservations for travel via the Tock Island route. The fragment hints at Holland’s concern and references Campbell’s shop on Wunsax Avenue with a 6 percent telephone contact.
Independence June 15 reports the first train over the Kansas Oklahoma Centract Southwestern line. R L Plunkett of Coffeyville won a contract to supply 289000 ties to Bartlesville for the southern extension. Telegraph lines rise with the track and a work train ran from Caney to Cotton Creek. A boy Todd Young saved the railroad from a fire scare and was rewarded with passes and a check. Railroad picnic set for July, with plans for games and crowds. switchman W E Hornbarger reinstated amid car brass theft at Reading siding.
At a St Louis meeting of Southwestern Lines executive officers plans were set to dissolve the Southwestern bureau. The prior decision to abolish the conference committee takes effect September 3 and a withdrawal notice from Southern Pacific prompts the bureau's end. A trade managers’ meeting will convene at headquarters on the second Tuesday in July for the monthly general rate conference.
Ottawa June 15 The parks committee met with Supt Barnes of the Santa Fe railway to discuss low hovercent tat. Barnes promised a twelve foot brick walk from the Santa Fe depot to the park entrance as part of Forest Park improvements including the Memorial Gateway to Co. K Twentieth Arabs.
The Hutchinson and Southern railroad rewarded a boy who alerted the company to a potential bridge danger after a wreck was narrowly averted on their line. The act highlights railroad gratitude for timely notices that prevent disasters.
Brakeman Chamberlain takes a short vacation while Mrs Ann Roberts visits Hutchleson and Charles Riley travels from Dodge City to attend a funeral. Engineers, switchmen and conductors operate at Newton yards with Zeal, 641 and 238 engines in service. several staff changes noted. Mrs William Riley dies in city. multiple city and Emporia notes list transfers, absences, and travel for Santa Fe personnel across Wichita Topeka and Little Rock.
A Memphis man Edward Gray, jailed in St. John parish for a series of burglaries and later released for lack of evidence, was lynched by a mob in a St. Peter parish incident. After wandering toward Reserve, he slept on a porch at an Outhowse when a mob seized him and hanged him from a tree.
Kansas woman chosen as superior chief of honor Adelia Harding of Hebron Nebraska and Pauline Rants of Girard Kansas named superior officers. The open meeting of the order heard remarks on growth and education as banner presented by the superior lodge and sent to Minnesota.
Rev Charles M Sheldon urged graduates to seek useful, humble work in law teaching and serving others. He urged young women to consider servant roles, music, or journalism with faith, integrity, and public service, urging social reform and personal character.
Judge William C. Hook of the U.S. district court issues a restraining order against striking miners in the southern Kansas district near Pittsburg while examining the mining operation scope. Attorneys for mining companies sought broad injunctions, but the judge limited action and ordered further hearing before a wide order. The Fort Scott division received updated text via wire as proceedings continued.
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