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Newspaper

Topeka State Journal

Location

Topeka, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Mar 12, 1900

Page

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Sheldon Confers on Capital Office Changes Plans

Editorial rooms close to them after suggestion. The Capital expects a six part Tepeke Capital ae featuring Charles M Sheldon. Correspondents will get proofs after approval with office headquarters and a question box for inquiries. Newsmen will report from New York and Chicago as the paper plans wide circulation and in type.

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Editorial Office Tensions and Smoking Policy Dialogue

A fragmented dialogue shows editors debating editorial scope and reader questions. Mr. Sheldon promises to outline the paper’s mission while addressing concerns about seriousness and transparency amid a smoke-filled room and shifting rules.

Editorial talk on publicity for Sheldon interview

Reverend Charles M Sheldon discusses fair access to interview material with Mr Chase and reporters. Mr Nye of the World and others weigh how much to publish and how to present the first page while preserving fairness to subscribers and the paper’s editors.

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Rules and Regulations Instructions for Capital Reporters

Mr Sheldon outlined how a Christian daily newspaper should publish. He urged reporters to avoid slang and sensational crime detail and to focus on clean reporting, interviews, and nonpartisan political coverage. He instructed handling interviews, suppressing theater, and avoiding tobacco ads while scheduling assignments and office visits. A separate brief reports a collision near Halifax with drownings on March 1.

Sheldon Iden Gen. Hudson Popenoe

Sermon on Satisfaction at Central Congregational Church

Visiting newspaper men attended the Sunday morning service at Central Congregational Church where the packed house heard Mr. Sheldon preach a simple sermon drawn from Psalmist words about being satisfied with life. He explained dissatisfaction sources including sickness, poverty, wealth, pessimism, envy, and the rewards of contentment through redemption and optimistic faith, noting the era’s social pressures and moral reflections.

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Frank Brown Arrested Again In Topeka Forgery Case

The notorious Frank Brown was arrested after passing a nine dollar check on Mrs Ray's grocery in North Topeka. The signature read John Jones. the bearer bought four dollars of groceries. Police surrounded his Curtis Street home. Brown hid in a cellar. He has a history of forgery and evasion.

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President Juger seeks great power intervention in Transvaal War

The Hague March 12 reports president Juger has appealed through consuls in Pretoria for intervention by major powers. He also asks Belgium, Holland and Switzerland governments to weigh in. The source stresses the move aims to influence the Transvaal conflict.

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Senate Reads Alaska Code Amid Deliberations In Washington

Washington March 12 The senate convened at 10 p m to devote two hours to reading the Alaska civil code bill with only a few senators present Clerks in both houses read 1123 pages of the bill Mr Allen Nebraska offered a resolution seeking from the president any communications with Pretoria mediation requests and copies if not against public interest Mr Rawlins Utah spoke on Philippine relations citing Spooner and colonial governance acts and Kent opinions in support of his view

Washington Senate Allen Nebraska Pretoria Preniceda Otaks Bouth Africad Ryle Great Britain Ravwlins Utah Philippines Spooner Congress Louisiana Rawlins Kent

Peacemaker role eyed for US mediation in war dispute

Washington believes the United States may offer mediation between Great Britain and the South African republic to end the conflict. The idea would be to transmit an appeal for peace and the terms needed for settlement, following prior successful US mediation in other wars. Adelbert Hay, the US consul at Pretoria, is named as the intermediary coordinating with the British government.

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Boer Camp Sightings At Lourenco Marques Visit

A Times correspondent reports from Lorenzo Marques about a Boer camp visit noting Gen Joubert and his secretary under canvas. The scene shows a tense mix of figures including Dutch, Irish, American, Italian and Greek visitors with camp routine tasks observed around a central justice figure.

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Plague Rumors Sparks San Francisco Health Meeting

At a special board of health session in San Francisco officials discussed plague exposure after animals on Angel Island fed on virus from a dead Chinese individual. Tests showed bubonic plague symptoms in all except a monkey, prompting calls for house to house inspections and strict fumigation of Chinatown. Officials urged calm and prepared for possible quarantine actions while noting no confirmed panic. The U S State Department later reported bubonic plague appearing at Buenos Aires.

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War scares in Kentucky as arrests rumors spread

Frankfort March 12 A political panic grips Kentucky as Republicans fear warrants may target legislators in the Goebel assassination case. Democratic officials deny or confirm actions while officers gather. Gov Taylor reportedly faced pressure to move offices to London but refuses. Militias patrol, legislature meets with little disruption as officers discuss warrants and troop movements.

Frankfort Tate Gov. Goebel Taylor Peake London Powers Davis Collier Loubeille

Beal State Guard Organization Moves Forward

Adjutant General Castleman met with Governor Beckham as talks continue on forming a new state guard. Several companies shift allegiance, with plans to arm and equip a unit under the governor and Castleman and to secure a $100,000 appropriation. Louisville dispatch notes Secretary of State Powers and Captain Daed are en route in custody from Lexington to Lawrenceburg.

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15 LIVES LOST IN MORTALLY FIRE AT NEWARK TENEMENT

A deadly fire at a Morris and Pourteently avenues tenement in Newark, New Jersey, killed about fifteen people, many children, in a three story former chapel converted building. Thirteen bodies recovered within hours. fire believed incendiary. Evacuation hampered by narrow halls and jammed stairways. several residents jumped from windows. Firemen battled the blaze for nearly an hour, rescuing and dousing flames as heat and smoke caused heavy casualties among occupants.

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Attacked by Tagals near river landing at Anetatast

Advices from the province of ae guyangaay say Major Ward and a company of the Sixteenth regiment were leading to a landing when attacked on the river bank opposite the Jews. Eight Americans, including Major Want, were wounded. The natives, the Tagals, are harassing the Ames deans.

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