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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1900
Page
1
Report details a tense siege with armed parties, hastily built defenses, barbed wire, and an American flag as factions clash in Chicago. Witnesses describe police and civic leaders struggling to control the confrontation and restore order amid chaos and confusion.
Topeka State Journal notes show forecasts for next two days with showers tonight and variable winds. Also reports on city events including streetcar strike, war coverage in Chicago, Presbyterian Assembly adjournment, street fair plans, and local society notes.
Chicago May 26 nearly all the editors were reelected at the Methodist general conference with four exceptions. The conference elected officers for the next quadrennial including secretaries and editors of church publications. A report on entertainment prohibitions was debated and actions on licensing preachers discussed. Additional notes covered episcopal residences and appointments and a large slate of standing committees.
St Louis May turning point in the Presbyterian general assembly as it adjourns after a long meeting at Cone Avenue Presbyterian Church. The report on territorial oversight under Teoria overtitte outlines commissioners and new duties. attendees list governors from New York to California, Kansas, and Texas. Diamonds stolen from Mrs FM Beriek’s home. a suspect arrested. Flora Thomas wins the Xavier championship medal in Mexico. Townes makes an appointment as sergeant for the Silver Republica.
At a session in an auditorium crowding with spectators, a dispute over a committee report on dancing and other amusements sparked an uproar. Debate centered on whether the church should ban amusements during Lent. a minority report ultimately appeared likely to carry after a close vote.
Prof Robert Wigiarde a young author and composer from Kansas City killed himself in St Joseph by cutting his wrists with a razor. He left no note. Wigiarde wrote a curtain raiser for actress Julia Marlowe and hoped to write a melodrama for her. He is survived by a wife and two children.
Archbishop Keane of the Catholic university, sent by Pope Pius XI, completed a Western fundraising tour in St. Louis Kansas City Chicago and Milwaukee. He reports about one fifth of the seven hundred fifty thousand dollars goal raised and notes a benefactor donated three hundred sixty thousand dollars to fund new scholarships and support future sessions. He plans further visits to remaining bishoprics to extend support.
A gift between 150,990 and 390,000 dollars from August Belmont will fund one of seven chapels for the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York in memory of his wife. Trustees announced the donation at a meeting today.
Trained animals and their keepers arrive for a grand midway opening on Monday with a 1 o'clock formal start. General admission is ten cents. The Oriental American Midway features Bronco Bocatela, Madam Pauline, Sultana Wallace and other acts, with tents rising for Cairo street, German village, Moulin Rouge and more. Probate Judge Dolman offers free licenses and marriages on the Midway, bands will play the wedding march, and crowds gather as a week of events begins across the street exposition and midway.
San Francisco notes indicate a Honolulu office will be established as Hawaii joins the California district. Internal revenue laws take effect June 24, with deputies to be Hawaii residents and goods stamped for shipment after June. Beer wine spirits cigars and tobacco stocks will be inventoried.
John G was appointed enumerator for First ward to fill the vacancy caused by Charles Lewis resignation. Enumerators enter homes to take the enumeration with police authority, penalties for refusals. Government also penalties for enumerators who neglect duties after sworn in. Work begins June 1.
In St Louis during the early hours cars ran on most lines but were halted at 10 after police guarding them were reassigned to Democratic primary duties. A riot the day before left three men wounded and one fatality, motor man Harry Potts. Labor leaders plan to summons national and international unions to support the strike effort and request AFL aid. A formal repudiation of a telegram opposing the world’s air bill was issued by H W Brembles, secretary treasurer of the Local 3 Building Trades Council.
Manila reports a government ward at the port has quarantined due to four suspected bubonic plague cases among teamsters in crowded alleys to be burned. Fear of a steamer El Cano repeat leads authorities to offer guards for ships, rejected by captains. Three commercial steamers remain in the bay with Spanish crews unwilling to sail. Col Pachin, rebel Nueva Ecija governor, was captured during the Nueva Ecija sleighing episode and is currently in custody.
New York May 26 Commissioner of Immigration Fuehle sent an inspector to board the Cunard liner Licanin to detain James Pitzharria known as Skin-the-Goat and Joseph Stallett, recently freed from Ene Heh pivets, suspected of complicity in the Phoenix Park murders of 1882. Their admission is not yet certain and they will be examined by regular officials at the barge office.
New York May 26 Sailors aboard Commodore Gerry's yacht Electra were discharged after refusing to forgo playing cards on Sunday. They complained of harsh treatment by First Mate Rein and said work hours were intolerable. The dispute arose from orders banning Sabbath card games aboard the vessel near Fifty sixth Street Bay Ridge. The news also notes a presidential decision regarding an Industrial Commission appointment.
London reports May updates on Lord Roberts forces crossing the Vaal on Queen's Birthday and burgher capitulations near Newcastle. British troop sendings to South Africa, with Gen. Hamilton and Maartison columns at Beschtenlk and Vrede, amid rumors of Pretoria changes and Belt movement toward Bethlehem.
National Populist Committee plans to set up in Kansas City for the Democratic National Convention. John W. Ttrekdenthatta will arrive to secure a headquarters in connection with the event in Missouri. The party aims to influence Bourbon allies and may withdraw its vice presidential candidate, with broad authority to arrange plans for the convention.
Williamsport Pennsylvania May 2 The murderer William Hummel fixed for execution June 5 has sold his body to a theater manager for display. The price is a new suit of clothes a coffin and a grave for the final reception of the remains. Oklahoma and Kansas Banks Washington May 20 The abstract of the conviction of the rational lack of Kansas at the cles of Positions of April 25 reports the currency reserve and discounts figures. Weather Indications Chicago May 1 For fatal showers today variable winds.
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