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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1901
Page
4
A garbled newspaper clipping from Topeka State Journal mentions subscription details and a telephones section. It references the journal, volume, and pages with partial phrases about rates, offices, and possible subscription terms. The readable portion preserves institutional names while omitting coherent events or dates.
Fragmented readers notice seasonal home delivery option for the State Journal at thirty cents a month. The column braids scattered clippings about politics, weather, markets, and travel, mentioning figures like Kennedy and U.S. pensions while tangentially noting shipping routes and grain traffic across major ports.
The article reviews U S Spain trade in 1900 1901 including exports valued at 11 373 49 for nine months ending March 1901 and total yearly projections near 16 060 000. It notes cotton and manufactures lead exports while almonds oranges raisins and iron ore rise as imports. It cites prior years 1880 1881 and 1899 1900 as benchmarks and discusses the impact of war on trade balances.
The four western market regions report significant gains in cattle hogs and sheep receipts through April. Chicago Kansas City Omaha St Louis and St Joseph show a total increase of 59,417 head versus 1970. Higher corn prices drive stock to market as farmers turn feed into sale.
A jumble of garbled notes and quotes from the Atchison Glone style column. The text hints at social mores and romantic mishaps, mentioning a large man, marriage, party invitations, a workman, and a late night garden chat, but many phrases are unreadable or distorted.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a family and church involvement amid a case labeled Satcher Nae Atchison Sins. The text hints at customary actions by kin and church members and mentions vacancy and access concerns, though details are unclear.
A mixed set of quirky epigrams and reflections from a vintage newspaper page. It blends pithy lines about money and virtue with humorous snippets about travel customs and bachelor life. The tone mirrors early 20th century humor and social observation with crisp witticisms.
A Galen woman bears a badly swollen foot from an insect bite piercing her heel through leather. A Pratt county man keeps four well domesticated bull snakes claiming they outshine cats. Lense aims at Gotham politics while Our own Mary Billen stirs Bowery districts. Ten cents to enter Kusas penitentiary unless with a sheriff. £17,000 sent from Liberal to Krondike, one victim lacked funds or credit for a new shirt waist. Imaginative whisky sold near town. a Stranger leaped from a box car. Arctic Explorer Baldwin allegedly took poles from a father’s Labette pile to plant in cane. A Coalsman struck by lightning thought he saw beauty and heard music. Mulvane cement factory deposits dated out. This Kansas news notes quarrels and a walking out of Lejeune era figures in Jewell county.
A posse of farmers surrounds a woodland area near Chillicothe Ohio as sheriffs pursue a burglar who attacked three homes last night, including James Carroll’s and John Moss’s houses, attempting assaults on Carroll’s and Moss’s daughters. Residents arouse neighbors, and a heavy posse with armed men tracks the fugitive toward the woods awaiting Sheriff Dees to arrive.
The Kansan Milers association meets at the Throop hotel to conduct routine business and to wrestle with the freight rate problem affecting members. Strong entities include Kansan Milers and Throop hotel. no dates or places beyond those.
Chicago pool selling case continues as Harlem race track factions seek to dissolve a prior injunction. Judge Sun in superior court hears the motion, with anti-gambling interests challenging grounds for the injunction. next argument scheduled for Monday. Also brief notes from Georgia and New York items follow.
Ransome Pigg and Chas Humbert lie in Christ hospital after a late night escapade at Lanlean livery stable. A woman was found in a buggy near a cemetery east of town, the pair missing until early morning. Humbert drew a revolver during the dispute while the reason and exact events remain unclear.
A special meeting will study a Commercial Club proposal to back a sewing machine plant in Topeka. A dealer notes many buyers leave the state yearly unless a local factory operates, suggesting a $316 machine could be produced here and kept at home to reduce costs. He warns the plan has cautious support among those interested.
The steamship Northman, part of Hamburg Chicago service via the Great Lakes, arrived today in Antwerp to take on cargo and face her sister ship Northwestern from Liverpool to Chicago. The Northwestern left Chicago ahead but was detained by a repairs issue, losing first honors.
The Treasury issues correspondence on countervailing duties for beet sugar imports from Italy. It notes standard duty levels and concerns about direct export flows and enforcement, with reminders of evolving policy and investigations impacting U S sugar imports.
Mel Clemens killed Will Burgum with an iron bar in Hardin County at Thlon near the Eldora line after a feud. Burgum toppled from a box as Clemens struck, then Burgum was stabbed in the eye and died. Authorities guarded the scene. Mary Bolte, a New York heiress, was shot earlier. a legacy of 4100 would have gone to a former fiancé if she lived, but no relative claimed her body.
Frederick Driscoll addressed the Enpore cast Presamen's convention urging arbitration to settle cotilisation and changes in laws affecting printers. He said relief measures were granted by the International Typographical union. Chairman Bowman spoke for the association and the address was referred to the committee on We. Amendments to the union constitution were proposed and sent to committee.
Dayton Ohio June 18 The strike at the National Cash Register works has been settled and the factory will open tomorrow morning President Gompers of the National Federation of Labor announced today that the strike is settled and ends.
The Parker-Hughes recount narrows to final figures as Judge Larimer prepares a report for the supreme court. It will tally unobjected ballots per candidate and count challenged ballots, detailing the plan and arrangement of ballots in each class.
Adelbertin Woter, special agent of the U S Department of Labor, visits From Wasnington to compile Topeka statistics for a forthcoming Washington printed report. The study covers health, city departments, bonded indebtedness, assets and liabilities, and income and expenses for cities of 80 000 population and above.
A large ice and cold storage plant at Salina Kansas burned last night. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars, with about 100000 covered by insurance. The plant served towns from Salina to the Colorado line, along major rail lines.
The local labor bureau struggles to place harvest workers as requests for 100 men arrive from La Crosse and Rush Center with about half supplied. Ottawa county seeks 400 men but only a few have been sent, while the state employment department, organized recently, improves matching of workers and employers across the region.
Grand jury indicts C. W. Prine, Will Prince, and Bert Prince, brothers of Lulu Prince Kennedy, as accessories in the murder of Philly HB. Kennedy. Sirk Kongedy was previously found guilty last Saturday and sentenced to a year in prison. Princes were arrested earlier but Will Prince retained in custody.
Funeral from 1182 North Tyler Street Wednesday at 1 o clock. Services led by Rev J A Stavely and Rev J S Glendenning. Remains of William D Haverty who died Saturday at the home of his son in law Prof. [illegible] in mourning details and burial plans pending.
Beatrice excursion Sunday July 23 via Rock Island Route priced at 1.50 round trip. Special main departs Rock Island depot 7:20 Sunday morning returning to Topeka 10:15 p.m. Call 484 for full details. Domestic sewing machine sale advertised by Babcock and Frost, Kansas Avenue agents.
A disjointed report details insurgent attacks and burning of towns in Bohol after a corporal is killed by a native. Captain Rowan retaliates, Sampson resists, and U.S. soldiers protest discretionary authority of the civil service board over exams for old employees. General MacArthur requests rulings, Crowder delays, and resignations loom as troops rendezvous to defend positions while Pagasian and Lagune endure evacuation and closures.
Clemens says he will file fourteen damages actions against Police Judge F P Lindsay on behalf of jointists jailed without bond hearing. He claims the law requires the judge to be on duty at the jail to allow arrested persons to post bond, noting no provision lets morning arrestees bond until evening.
Washington June 13 cabinet meeting debated Chinese settlement and Philippine, Cuba and Porto Rico issues. President ready to issue proclamation ending duties with Porto Rico if insular legislature provides facts to support Hollander tax law revenues as self sustaining. Cabinet favors action. Hitchcock notes Kiowa Comanche Apache reservation case decision likely in days. until court acts no further steps.
A. H. Tastes known as a spotter for Chief Stahl was arrested on perjury charges in Osage City. He allegedly testified falsely in joint cases, with police noting his long involvement in the narcotics probe and sheriff’s efforts to curb crime in the community.
Wednesday at the post office an examination for Clerks and Carriers will be held. The Topyku Choral Society rehearses at the Lab on Kansog avenue for The Redemption at Ottawa Chautauqua. The Women’s Foreign Missionary Society meets Thursday at Avenue Methodist Episcopal church with plans, reports, and officer elections.
The bidding at Craig-y-Nos near London moved quickly with a final sale near £ 92,000. Sir George Lewis warned proceedings might be halted while Sn Lumley reopened the sale as bids climbed past £ 45,000 before Patti Massanne secured the property against a £ 90,000 reserve.
A Kansas City meeting of Populist state committee members and a few Free Silver Republicans debated forming a new third party to encompass Missouri and create a nucleus for growth. Attendees included Mariwether of Louie and 22 others en route to consult with William J Bryan and align with a proposed Bearts party platform.
A court order issued by the secretary of state ends the case in a matter involving Bindatey Gorpat and a list of statutes. The document references a trial setting and actions by the Seana nepigee and Fib8, with no further specifics available.
Tickets for a Fort Rusy excursion to Port Joy June Be on sale at Rowring Gow dii store corner 5th and Kansas. Children welcome. Fort features graves and other attractions. funds support committee. For details see Jenny Stew J. M. Miner Joe C. Smith.
Princess Hatefeld, adopted daughter of Collis B Huntington, reportedly will not contest the late railroad magnate’s estate. An interview in the Foxaminer states the executors’ plan and mentions Sacramenta as the mother. The print suggests the princess’s stance on challenging the will, with focus on the Huntington legacy and church ties.
A fragmented report notes that plows are discussed as instruments of art and natural machinery, with references to rising rates and government protest. It mentions a cyclone across a broad area causing extensive damage, including downed trees, torn fences, and broken lines, with limited county reports and injuries.
Prof. M. Daily of Seiphis presented a report on the term signals showing the subsection foe thin yar amounted bo. The fragmented text notes a forest area in Philadelphia and mentions a professor delivering findings on related signals and threats.
Rock Island depot opens at 7 30 sun for a round trip excursion aboard the Beatride train. Tickets priced at 1 50 cover travel to Topeka Tocaeum and return with information line 288 for full details.
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