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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1898
Page
2
Our Fresh Meat Department touts cleanliness and first class standards. It rails against street meat, notes dust, germs, and danger, and advertises a wide range of groceries from coffee to cheese and potatoes. The listing includes sugar, consolidations, and local brands as bulk items for sale.
A dense Topeka dated miscellany recounts civic chatter, plans, and incidents. Mentions W. W. Manspeaker Mercantile Co on Kansas Avenue, local engagements, court cases, weathered wind damage, and ongoing political activity with candidates and meetings across the area.
Santa Fe issues a new equipment rental circular affecting daily rates for engines and passenger cars across the system. Changes vary by road. Rock Island and others consider adjustments while upgrading facilities at several yards. News notes hospital fund decisions, staffing moves, and upcoming railroad events including a grand ball and new appointments.
News from Rock Island officials visiting the city suggests plans to relocate Caldwell Division northward perhaps to Wellington and move Herington Division to Horton. Prairie fires near Jetmore and Larned threaten further damage as high winds whip dust across the region. Mrs Emil y Ford of Hardin County Iowa reports cure from scrofula sores with Reges German Salve.
A former beauty loses friends as her health fails from kidney disease. After a year she becomes vibrant again and surrounded by friends. The witness, Mrs Shawn Cameron, credits Warner's Safe Cure for relief and lasting health, praising its benefits.
Washington March 15 The senate passed a bill authorizing eight revenue cutters to be built at a total cost not exceeding 1 025 000 dollars. The ships include replacements for the Seward Lane Colfax Boutwell Washington Hamlin and Chandler plus ones for the Columbia river bar harbor service at Philadelphia Boston and New York with costs ranging from 45 000 to 250 000 dollars.
An epidemic of fires hits Pratt County with multiple blazes. A vacant house fire spread to Jackson’s livery barn on South Maine street, destroying barn, contents and sheds. Fire spread to nearby buildings but most were saved. Hildreth narrowly escaped a stable blaze. Three horses, a cow, buggies and feed were burned. No insurance. Origin unknown. A Dupont barn burned later, hogs lost. A Humphrey residence and horse barn burned Sunday. A sand storm hindered efforts. St Plunkard parade canceled.
A 86 foot steel span on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad draw bridge over the Mississippi fell today while shifted to let a train pass. Amber cribbing collapsed, injuring six men: James L. McDonald Frank Sawyer E. W. Wells Thomas Mungen Thomas Denton all of Chicago and Harry Wingate of Winona.
Abbeville D C March 15 The bank of Abbeville has been assigned with President Meeghen absent and cashier HT Lat ham leaving for Savannah after the assignment Max E Land appointed as sience The safe unopened and reports say the wrong combination was used Indignation runs among locals Jerdite Druggist Butler Mo endorses Beggarlood Purifier and Blood Maker as a top seller at druggists.
Information on round trip fares for the Santa Fe Route to Kansas Arizona Indian Territory Louisiana New Mexico Oklahoma Texas with samples of excursion tickets. Details for agents and through sleepers to California cities, plus notes on speed, comfort and new axle electric illumination for well-lit cars.
New York March 15 The Holland submarine torpedo boat completed a half hour test run off Perth Amboy behaving splendidly with no dive attempt. Mr Holland said the craft did as expected and could reach higher speeds. ballast will be adjusted to reach normal water line and further tests will follow in coming weeks.
The Brazilian minister confirmed the United States purchase of two Brazilian warships. Rear Admiral Bunce and Captain Gilmore reviewed the cable dispatch with satisfaction. The Navy expects to assign two captains and engineers along with seamen and coal heavers to bring the ships to Europe and then to the United States. Work on the Dolphin quickens at the coal dock while crews on Chicago and Atlanta stay busy. Recruiting officers ordered 460 men to enlist at the West Street station.
The 300 artillerymen from Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth moved to Sandy Hook today. Army engineers and laborers mount mortars and erect ramparts, creating formidable fortifications unseen since the Civil War. A 21-car train with a 12-inch steel mortar arrives, while pits conceal mortars and rifle artillery await mounting.
Col Myron Parker a Washington business leader said Americans in Cuba blamed the Maine disaster on Spanish influence and external explosion. He claimed no difference in opinion among Americans about the cause and predicted Cuban insurgents’ chances for independence, with Cubans likely to favor American guidance.
Berlin reports the North German Gazette issued an official denial regarding a Madrid correpondent statement. It claimed Emperor William did not state at a private dinner that the United States must not possess Cuba and rejected the reported claim as false.
Tacoma reports Debs Colony founders arriving from Chicago with family heads from Maine, Washington, St Louis and Michigan to join the Commonwealth settlement near Belfast in Skagit county. First Debs colony in the state shows progress, with families arriving April and May and a planned 200 residents by fall.
Edith Vance, secretary of the National Secular Society, writes for separate women smoking cars and post-dinner smoking rights for women. The same issue prompts Labouchere to label a feminine journalist a “she writer” in Truth.
A fragment ad touts Electric Bitters as a universal cure for nerves, stomach, and mood issues, claiming it restores vigor and pure blood. It cites Swift drug store and Geo B Secord of Towanda as sponsors and mentions other advertised items like wallpaper and gold rings in stock at The State Journal.
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