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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1900
Page
5
The Star Grocery offers Saturday bargains on Armoure White Lord olives canned goods Cassava potatoes Minnesota potatoes and other pantry staples. Also features New York gin May and Jeering’s Cane, Colombo Tiger Salmon, California peaches apricots crackers mince meat and extracts. Promises 20 cents per 100 Premium Stamps in cash trade.
Labor tensions rise as union miners and mining companies in southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, and adjacent districts face a proposed 10 percent wage reduction. Labor Commissioner Lee Johnson to arbitrate. a conference set for Saturday includes union miners, with imported workers from the Indian Territory at risk. If talks fail, miners threaten to strike and imported laborers may be forced to accept the cut to remain competitive.
March 2 report shows granite cutters and employers near agreement after threats of a strike. Several quarries, including Moston, set May 1 as the date to readjust wages while unions seek written terms. In other news, a two foot snowstorm in Buffalo delays rail travel and Atlantic City theater schedules note free admission Monday at Crawford.
A Washington dispatch reports the senate committee on foreign relations favorably approved a 320000 appropriation for US commissioners. They would study the diversion of waters between Canada and the United States and the Niagara river. The inquiry links to projects from New York and Ontario affecting Niagara Falls and regional water power, impacting the Great Lakes levels.
Washington March S The president will send a message to Congress praising the appropriation of funds Bayebean received from Porto Rico customs since the United States gained possession under the treaty. The amount is about 2,000,000 dollars for general relief of Porto Ricans.
Cincinnati March 2 The closing week of the winter packing season shows fairly liberal marketing for this time of year with western hog slaughter around 40,009 head, up from 4,750 the prior week and 4,704 two weeks earlier. For the season to date totals run about 2,200,000 hogs in the west, down from 2,365,000 last year, with average hog price about 22 percent higher and weights up. The season ends with better meat quality and fewer sickness incidents than typical, suggesting healthier operations and favorable feeding conditions.
The Breconshire arrives from Yokohama with 2,000 tons of oriental goods including silk and tea. 90 Chinese passengers disembark at Victoria and three Japanese travelers join at Tacoma. Captain Killett notes stormy seas and strong easterly winds on the voyage and unloading began at dawn. In a separate note, C. Schaaffer of the University of Pennsylvania wins the 18 yard sprint at a Sportsmen’s show event in Boston with a time of 1 28.
At Talladega Alabama the mutilated body of Pinckney Dobbins a wealthy planter was found in front of the Talladega female college with throat cut from ear to ear. Elbert Curry a young negro was arrested and confessed taking money from the victim amid rising agitation and fear of lynching.
The post office department plans a new shorter overland mail route across Alaska from Katmai to Cape Nome via Hushagak. Messengers will begin March 36 with four hundred pounds of mail, aiming for Cape Nome by mid May. If feasible, a permanent relay road with shelters every 75 to 100 miles may be built for year round service.
San Francisco ships rice to Honolulu and Hilo marking a new export. Up to now 25,000 bags have been sent since the start of the plague period. Previously Hawaii relied on rice from Japan. Atlante City Crawford theater appears with a March 5 and 6 event and a Monday night free admission for ladies.
A severe snow storm disrupts Cleveland area service with 4000 phones out of use, hundreds of poles down and thousands of miles of wire down. Rail traffic runs late with trains from Uteenet delayed up to seven hours due to weather, and only some streetcar routes resume. Officials expect repair crews to finish by nightfall.
Montreal crowds protest Ladysmith victory with demands for holidays and flags. Laval University is targeted as 14,000 gather in Bonfire Square to mark the event. Police use water, night sticks, and tear gas as clashes flare with McGill and British supporters leaving several injured.
The A O U W grand rouge adjourned after the evening session in Representative ball. Officers installed include Past grand master workman T A Beck of Topeka and grand master workman John H Crider of Port Sept. Also named were grand fure chattel Galena grand W Priedenbirg Atchison grand recorder F M Porte Emporia grand receiver B Light Winheld representative to supreme lodge E E Murphy Leavenworth W M Wallace Sigeman grand trister John Daum rand medical examiner George H Brown Chapute eraod zulde von McKibben grand guide watchman James Newton Sel-
Brief dispatches from New York and overseas summarize creditor proceedings for former Wall Street broker Anthony W. Dimond, wartime reports from Berlin and St John's, and local business and social notes. Items mention loan schedules, naval and military movements, a manufacturing wage rise, and notable obituaries and appointments.
Charles Rittenhouse and Gus Baugh led six dogs in a cross country pursuit starting at the Dudley farm and ending near Pauline where the gray wolf was bayed and killed after a hard fight. Another wolf may remain. a new party will be formed to hunt it.
In New York George W. Helme head of Helme Sought and Tobacco works Helmetta New Jersey reportedly travels to Louisville to meet stockholders and weigh accepting Continental Tobacco Company overtures to absorb the Helmetta snuff works the second largest in the United States. The plan would fuse Continental Tobacco American Tobacco and Atlantic Snuff. The Helme firm has resisted the trust. In Fort Scott Kansas on March 21 B Dibins a railroad van operator prominent in Mobile and Ohio trade circles met Alla Van Bunkirk a daughter of a Puerto Colorado trading architect and they wed that evening at the Christian church home of her uncle WR Mitchell the couple left for Columbus no family members present.
Savannah steamer Gate City ran ashore three miles west of Moriches on February 4 and broke in two early the next morning despite salvage efforts to save cargo. Atlantic City theater at Crawford hosts Atlantic event March 5 and 6, with Ladies Frye Monday night scheduling.
Level and credibility of reports on Grover Cleveland’s health are questioned by his physician. He reportedly suffered another rheumatism attack confining him to the house, though observers in Princeton think his health is robust after months of improvement.
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