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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1899
Page
4
A garbled collection of editorial comments and satirical notes from various papers. Mentions Boston Traveler on Massachusetts senate, Funston and Dewey, Bryan, Populists and Republicans, Aguinaldo, and general political theater with humorous asides about horse sense and social mores.
The Atchison Globe fragment mentions women crying, aging roles, marital expectations, and the home fireside. It touches on sympathy after a wife's death, men’s duties, and social occasions like luncheons and parties, reflecting era attitudes toward gender and family dynamics.
A collage of wry maxims on fame love health and behavior from the Chicago News and the New York Press. It ponders luck estimates temperament dress health laziness and romance with pointed observations and literary quips. Deals with social behavior and personal conduct in a magazine style vignette.
Editor notes claim to prize by Major Mallones and wife. mentions their large Kansas family of eighteen children and fifteen living, with twelve natives, including three sons in military service. Mallonee, a Civil War veteran, aged 85, and his wife show deep local ties after moving from Ohio to Garden City, Kansas in 1st J. Mt. Brown.
Reports from Cincinnati dated May 19 show committees agreeing to present plans for the next national conference to be held in Topeka Kansas Col Faulkner of Milwaukee named as the next president of the association for the year ahead
Springfield Ohio May 19 The Witt enberg college board of directors voted to admit women to the theological seminary and confer the degree of B D upon completion, the same as men receive, with one dissenting vote.
A syndicate led by Dick Kerr & Co has awarded the contract for an electric plant and works to a Belgian firm. The Belgian firm undertakes to construct the works within six months, with no guarantee for completion in less than a year. Contracts for the machine tools will be placed in the United States, where the principal superintendents will be engaged.
Fort Scott reports a Brooklyn hotel keeper’s claim of a $150,000 suit against Colombia is challenged by letters and a Washington telegram. Archie McCarter, a 19th century engineer and former local politician, details brutal detention in Cucuta including chained ankles and suspension, then escape to Venezuela and the United States. The story notes possible U S pay arrangements and a pending embassy action.
A spectacular fire struck Neosho Falls on Wednesday night around 11 20 at Chiles Snodgrass clothing store. Property losses exceed 10 000 with numerous adjacent businesses damaged or destroyed but most contents saved. The post office and several shops suffered heavy losses while origin remains undetermined.
Universal prosperity has favored Hill City with no empty residences in six months. A new bank and lumber yard are secured, J W Rowe builds a 50 by 60 foot business block, Revenue office expands, Farmers and Merchants Bank to add a stone building, Dr V Parker to erect a modern residence. Several new firms arrive, more planned. assessor reports over 500 gain in population in Graham County.
In Grahapt county district court Tom Goff faced two trials for violating the prohibitory liquor law. One count ended in conviction for keeping a nuisance, and a separate county case was pursued. A witness testified the whisky was bad, and the jury deliberated about six hours before verdicts. A similar case against Goff is expected this term.
Attendance at the Hutchinson Jubilee opens with magicians and visitors on the strand. The Senor solo contest features eight entrants including EB Kerr and JW Wilcox of Ottawa and EW Bowker.
The soprano solo contest with eleven entries will take place today. The prize winners will be announced Saturday and awaited by musicians’ friends across Kansas.
John Martin aged about 40 died last evening by hanging himself in his bedroom using baling wire tied to the ceiling above his bed. He had been drinking for three weeks and fought with Alec Hopper earlier, returning home bloodied before the fatal act, while his wife was in the kitchen.
Inlow and Emmons publishers of Tevellie seek statistical information from the immigration office and Northwestern Fairroad in St Paul about locating several German families in Graham County. They are gathering details for a planned settlement.
Hill City imposes strict quarantine after suspected smallpox case in Lenora. City guards block travelers from Lenora and bar lodging for anyone who has been there since the week of May. Travel trade and visiting locals restricted until public health is assured.
The funeral of Mrs Lucinda Smith Buchan wife of Captain Fred E Buchan of Company B Twenders Kansas will be held in Lawrence Saturday afternoon at the Episcopal church. A large number of friends from Kansas City Kansas will attend. Pallbearers include Maurice Alden W I TH Pratt Edward Meyer Percy Hill from Kansas City Raw Lute Lewis of Lawrence and Albert B Bates of Kansas City.
Heavy rains across western Kansas fail to save wheat in St John area as heat approaches harvest. Affected counties expect a near half crop. Corn gains a start thanks to the moisture breaking the drought.
May 18 Atchison reports Thomas Sherman son of a railroad man disappeared after being seen in a wagon with an unknown man heading west. Authorities believe he was enticed away as search efforts continue. Nearby notes list pension grants in Kansas and a sheriff's funeral in Washington with large attendance. A youth named Huxletz is hospitalized and later due for district court hearing in June.
Butler County central committees met today and called three conventions the Populist Democrat and Free Silver Republican to be held Monday June 2 to form a county ticket. Infant child of E G Steel killed by Frisco train seven miles south of Newton this morning. Lora Hilton fourteen year old boy kicked on head by horse last night and remains unconscious and likely to die.
Lincoln Neb May 19 Col Visquain of the Third Nebraska says President McKinley declined the offer to deploy the Third Nebraska to the Philippines to replace the First Nebraska. He promised future volunteers from the Third would be chosen first if more are sent. Some men object the offer was made without privates’ consultation. Officers plan a conference. Visquain says ready to sail in three weeks. Also an ad note about Campbun’s repair on Kansas Avenue.
Nelson M. Jones found guilty as an accessory to the kidnapping and murder of Lincoln McGessey and Palmer Sampson by a mob near Maud Oklahoma. Jones, then a deputy US marshal, aided the mob instead of arresting the captives. Jury deliberated three hours. Judge Thoriss to sentence Jones next week. The case is among thirty indictments against mob members.
The Serenade and The Bos ton ians will be heard at Crawford theater next Monday night. The program features Yvonne with Alice Neilsen and Helen Bertram in principal roles. The Olivier Colby Vaudeville company opens Garfield Park next Tuesday with ten cent admission and free entry for ladies with a reserved seat holder.
In Wilburton Oklahoma May 19 John Deneere Jr foreman of the Choctaw railway dies suddenly as he moves to embrace a relative, likely from joy and heat disease. He was well known in Parsons and will be buried there. Ranger is ready for commissioning after overhaul and gun batteries positioned. Charles W Briggs ex mayor of Rochester dies at 73, founder of Briggs Bros. & Co.
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