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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1901
Page
6
Piles of carpets linoleums curtains and dress goods flood the store with 200 plus styles from 5c upward. Special sales drive record department performance and invite customers to measure rooms and get price figures. carpets rems and yardage offered at deep discounts with assistance to figure room requirements.
The will of General Harrison, filed in Todlanapotle Indiana, leaves $15000 outright and furniture to a beneficiary, appoints a grandson to receive $10000 at majority, and makes numerous specific bequests to children, a wife, a son, and several charities. It also provides for residuary estate, real property, a home for a mother, and various trusts and guardianships alongside other charitable gifts and personal effects.
A garbled sale notice advertises a revived line of silk foulards and satin gilt fabrics with prices around 74 cents, calling out bright colors and decorative trims. It mentions Madagascar fabrics, georgette styles, and new trims in Belle of Snamel and Satin Gilt, plus spiced yarns and novelty items like piquant bows and beauty pins offered at low prices.
Washington March 20 The following residential appointments were announced today Robert Roads to be supervising the bureau of revenue cutter in F. Tierrartt to be proprietor of the Munaciion ot capia City Be
An advertisement highlights a dress skirt proposition with waist and material costs 2 shillings and upwards per yard. It promotes wool Droca goods and black stuffs noted for attractiveness, offering guaranteed quality and a showcase line suitable for present day wear.
Sale notes offer over 50 ladies wraps sold Saturday with price points claimed right and styles approved. Special sale continues through the week featuring muslin underwear and table oil cloth at 15c. One day offer includes white satin bows and a facsimile Nation Hatchet items at 5e.
A list details John A. Oliphant to be register of the fam wilice at Mangum Oklahoma with rank of major US Army. It names numerous officers to volunteer ranks including captains and first lieutenants across cavalry and infantry units, with several names and positions noted in the record.
In Kansas City March two hundred girls and twenty women in the Swofford Broadly Goude rhetory overall department faced lockout after the firm cut price from 1.50 to 0.88 dollars per dozen. They threaten a sympathy strike, recalling a 1990 performance when workers resisted a price cut and won. The piece also mentions Welsh rabbit and a nocturnal sequel.
In Bridgeport Ohio operatore and minera of the fifth clue met to discuss wage issues. Talk of a strike looms as miners demand higher differentials and better terms. About 200 miners joined the conference the next morning seeking assurances on concessions.
Dramatic breakout at the state penitentiary led to a midnight mine assault where 284 convicts seized guards and held hostages for hours. A rescue by warden and officers followed, with eight guards freed and 15 prisoners left at large as the revolt collapsed.
The report details a dramatic prison uprising at Lansing led by convicts including Ralph Clark Hatfield and Floyd Graham. Guards were attacked at the shaft festooned with weapons, and volunteers such as G. W. Boner and J. W. Newall aided in the rescue effort. Tomlinson remains central as warden.
Reports connect a Sunday prison speech by Truce Lynch to a convicts’ uprising at the Gallees. Warden and officers deny blame on Lynch, calling it a coincidence, while others blame discipline slackness and subordination. A Lansing official notes Lynch’s talk may have prompted the prisoners, though the guard cites the golden rule contrast with current treatment as a trigger.
Market activity was uneven in the first hour as grain and livestock futures drifted with headlines from Texas weather. Receipts weighed on cattle and hogs with mixed demand. pork and beef futures rallied briefly before steadying. Reports from Minneapolis and Duluth pegged volumes around 278 cars with NY and Chicago sources noting quieting trade as conditions shifted.
Texas style chatter amid a rush of commodity notes from New York March 20 Money Market and grain prices. Reports cover prime mercantile paper rates and bank conditions with mentions of butter wheat and cotton futures, all reflecting market activity and commodity movement in New York and Chicago.
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