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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1898
Page
4
A garbled miscellany reports on conflicts with Sventards and Vesuvius dangers, calls for action against annexation, and mentions Tom Reed, Sue Leiter, Brnce Blanco, and Aguinaldo. It reviews war tax effects on beer, U S political shifts, and Spain’s military status, with scattered notes on reporters at Atchison Globe and local figures.
A fragmented text mocks social behavior and etiquette with quips about marriage, flirtation, gossip, hypocrisy, and human quirks. It jests at compliment fatigue, Irish storytelling mimicry, and transactional female friendships, ending with a wry note on unequal share payments after business dealings.
A Rock Island paymaster receives a letter from Artificer John Haisch of company A Twentieth regiment Kansas volunteers in San Francisco. He describes a rough trip from Topeka, the generosity of California residents especially Catholic and Irish women providing clothing and underwear, shoes, socks, soap, and even 200 flannel shirts. He notes ample food, warm tents, flowers, and oranges, with praise for Mitchell Bundy and a defense against hunger rumors.
In Brooklyn's Lee Avenue police court a father and his 9 year old son faced charges. John Crofton, 47 South Third Street, is accused of beating his wife. George Crafton, 9, is charged with burglary and assault. The boy's partner in crime, 14 year old William Crawley, lived above Henry Brauenberg's grocery at 38 South Third Street. They planned to rob the store, forced a back window, stole $7.50, damaged a private desk, and sought jewelry and fruit preserves.
Brigadier General Joseph K. Hudson will leave Topeka Wednesday afternoon over the Santa Fe at 4 o’clock to join the army in Mobile Alabama. He said he was ready for order after suspense and will send his servant Albert Wilson to Mobile to take charge at his horse.
Seven members resigned following Major Tom Andersons call for only those willing to do hard work for the auditorium to stay. Names listed include Willie Green J W Thurston Tr Howe PD Henderson and Thomas secretary to be elected at the gathering held in the Fours at 0 percent.
Salina June 2 Rockwell J Phillips 22 son of Mrs Frances Le Phillips living beyond Westeyan was struck and killed by the weed cutter on the McPherson train while herding the family cow. He lay helpless as the machine passed tearing his spine and internal organs. he died about an hour later.
In a humorous Chicago Journal piece, Mr. Dooley mocks derisively the idea of American cavalry by imagining the Spanish camp at Tampa as a field of jackasses and mules led by a brash general. He riffs on war folly, pride, and the chaos of command with coastal color and satirical bite.
In Cincinnati on June 21 the Toboggan team defeated Atchison, with strong pitching from Dammann and Vaughn for Cincinnati while Salina fielded tightly. The day featured uneven hits, late-inning rallies, and a crowd noted for attendance. The following box score details were listed for Cincinnati vs Baltimore and other league results.
The Union Pacific halts central ranch division traffic until the nineteenth anniversary celebration in Downs on July 23. Special trains will run July 27 from Greenleaf Stockton and Lenora, with the Union Pacific pay car to visit and caboose No. 1 arriving freshly painted. Missouri Pacific purchases and cattle shipments to Weedston mark ongoing railway activity amid preparations for a countywide summer event. Local rail crews and residents rally for the celebration, while cyclones and past shipments color the town’s recent transport history.
Kansas Fruit Growers convene in Coffeyville for the summer meeting of the State Horticultural Society. Programs include papers on orchard practices, floriculture, grape culture, spraying, and county horticultural society value. Speakers include J. Winters P. Bowen Willam Parves E. Pavlie J. Lawhead and others.
In Fort Scott on June 21 Judge L. Stillwell began hearing an injunction by county commissioners regarding payments to the Sugar company. The case concerned about 40, indemnity for a roadway through Sugar War Farm and a bank petition for a receiver. A temporary function was granted after petition consideration, a plan was finally agreed to.
Abilene June 21 a temporary receiver for the sugar company's property was appointed to manage the site and the bank’s claim of about 108 dollars secured by a bond. Chas Nelson vice president of the bank was named temporary receiver. A Dickinson county man, Jabe rt Friedl of Jefferson town, is in the United States navy and recently sailed from Frisco, attached to the Pacific squadron as a gunner aboard a ship in Chinese waters during the China Japan war era.
A tramp in Marceline Missouri crushed brakeman Frank Doyle's skull with a rock as he tried to deter the intruder in the yards. Doyle died en route to Kansas City after the assault on trains out of Kansas City and Argentine. Trainmen demand protection amid rising injuries and deaths from tramps seeking harvest work and other vagrants.
Mankato on June 21 reports citizens bought 123 pounds of tobacco for Company D of the Twenty first Kansas at Chickamauga. Five boxes of cigars and smoking tobacco accompanied the shipment after recruits from Jewell Smith and Phillips counties. Jewell county contributed 1% of the target 26 recruits. Arkansas City prepares to celebrate waterworks return after the whistle at 6 45 am.
Reports say the water plant shut for four months is back on with the mains and sewers being flushed. Residents rush to use water while repairs and pending bondholder talks proceed. A girl named Georgia Hamill of Newton is fatally hurt by a Santa Fe engine. a boy named Bert Barsiil was killed nearby by the same engine 18 months ago. Mankato plans a grand Fourth of July with naval displays and a Dewey results show. Daniel R. Anthony Jr. is named postmaster at Leavenworth. Twenty-second Infantry recruits and enlistment updates fill Saturday notices. Santa Fe trains operate with revised schedules and final return limits.
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