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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1899
Page
4
The Topeka State Journal prints a jumbled column of editorials lampooning the Philippines affair and U S politics. It mocks McKinley backers, cites misgivings about the Philippine war, and notes Dawson City rumors as well as postal reform debates and local humor.
A garbled historical snippet mocks bureaucratic and social quirks with pithy, rambling lines about politics, publishing, and public life. The misread text presents a jumble of sayings and quips reflecting satire on officeholders and public discourse.
Fragmented text discusses romance and gender dynamics with a bashful male lead. It mentions a woman fearing a man not afraid of her and hints at a distant plot involving Joseph and a stocky figure in red stockings. The piece reads as a reflective or satirical monologue with unclear narrative flow.
A fragmentary quip filled column questions whether lawbreakers, conductors, actors, and officials would act with integrity. It ponders Memorial Day speeches, public work, parades, and voter candor, ending with a skeptical glance at party preservation and reform.
Charles Frohman has bought the English and American rights to the comedy Ma Bru. He will present the piece in London in September and at the Garrick in New York with the original stage setting, as at the Odéon. The cast includes Fabrice Carre and Paul Bitchen, and it was produced with success at the Odéon theater on May 2.
Lemuel L. Clemens arrives in Prague upon invitation of Prince Alexander of Thum and Taxis. He plans to attend events at Chateas Laitachen near Prague, then depart for Narmubers, passing Cologne and Brussels en route to London. Hobart grows stronger and plans outdoor drive, expecting departure to Long Branch in about ten days.
Conrad Voelker maintains a thriving plant collection of about 20 000 specimens. The article profiles his horticultural hobby and the scale of his indoor and outdoor growing spaces.
Atchison May 31 The most extensive cabbage grower in Kansas lives in Atchison county Conrad Voelker. He has 30 000 cabbage plants on the ground and the patch is without a weed. He has raised cabbages thirty years and never known curly cabbage to fail. He expects to bring first home grown cabbage to market June 15. Voelker puts plants in hot beds in February and can plant 1 500 in an hour. The average price is two cents a head and the crop never fails. Voelker ships nationwide including a car load to Butte Montana last season.
May 31 Leavenworth reports the federal prison holding the largest number of convicts ever confined. Three dozen were received today and yesterday, with 48 spaces still available. Officials expect the total to rise further before year’s end as additional inmates from Indian Territory and Oklahoma are anticipated. Most new arrivals are short term offenders awaiting sentences.
Ex soldier William T Maloney was shot and fatally wounded by Timothy Foran on a Leavenworth street yesterday. Foran, who had been drinking, fired at Maloney in a doorway without provocation and surrendered after police arrival. Maloney suffered a broad chest wound with little chance of survival. he served thirty years in the regular army. His father resides in Cincinnati Ohio.
I C Postlethwaite of Jewell City married Bertha Rastoriay in Titusburg Kansas at the bride’s parents home. The couple will reside in City with a reception at the father’s home. Postlethwaite is with the firm J C Postlethwaite & Son and has long resided in Kansas.
May 31 celebration in Wa Keeney Kansas by G A R post and Twentyfirst Kansas volunteers. Exercises at cemetery in forenoon and patriotic program at courthouse in afternoon. John S Dawson of Topeka delivered the address. Dr Dawson formerly resided here and led local school and newspaper work.
In Garden City the Memorial Day activities included a sermon by Rev. MT Stauber of Mankato at the M. church to a full house. Veterans and the Ladies Relief corps gathered at Fulton Post G.A.R. hall, led by a drum corps parade with about ten vehicles to the cemetery for decoration. An audience at the opera house heard Stauber describe the day as peaceful and cool.
Miners at Yale halt work and join the strike, leaving camps idle. The Karen and Texas Coal Co struggles to operate any fives as coal hoists remain minimal. Miners near Arnott and Cos cites refuse to work without signed agreements, while Nelson issues warnings to vacate company houses.
Reports from Lenora, Norton County, Kansas, state Dr. Fuller of Lenora died yesterday from smallpox after tending a patient three weeks earlier. Four men arrived in Lenora with the disease. Dr Fuller’s death follows. Dr Crown, the only other physician at Lenora, is ill with smallpox, as is Dr C F Howe of Atchison and about a dozen others with milder cases.
On May 21 in Troy a large crowd gathered for Decoration Day exercises. Grand Army events in the morning included the public square and cemetery, with afternoon at the LeLand Opera House. The Severance band supplied music while John Eliot of the Troy Times faced protest from veterans and was asked to quit, which he did not.
May 31met here as 150 men widen the Cheyenne ditch to 100 feet broad. Civil service engineers survey bottoms awaiting condemnation at Clatlin. Fort Scott hosts races with Libby 8, OM D, and Consolation winners. Decoration day observed with a patriotic address by Rev. W. B. Ellott. James T. Lassater of Safford is fatally shot through his window. no suspect named.
May 1 in New York the sarcophagus of Gen. Grant at Clarefunt was veiled with towers after ceremonies led by Governor Roosevelt and Gen. AW Close. A salute from the USS Brooklyn echoed as speakers urged the nation to honor Grant’s memory and uphold peace, order, and progress at home and abroad.
A Philadelphia wholesale grocer boss recalls a shrewd Irish customer who rejected a substitute flour and returned a whole barrel. After many exchanges, the customer insisted on the original brand, revealing a tale of misdirected exchanges and one saucer trick before she finally stopped trading with them for months.
Moritz Rosenthal, famed pianist and inventor, unveils an anti atmospheric, compact rosewood piano designed to resist heat and moisture. The instrument, five feet long with seven thousand hand assembled parts, will tour England, Germany, France, Italy and possibly Africa, traveling by train and wagon.
An engineer on a Western railroad refuses to move stakes at first but a woman reveals Nip is guarding a grave site. He relents and moves a mile of track to avoid disturbing paw's grave. The tale ends with Nip signaling a restraint and the railroad proceeding.
A collage of brief quips and anecdotes from various papers including Chicago Record and Chicago Post. Jests cover work, shopping, sarcasm about politics, fashion thoughts, and misquoted lines about marriage, with snippets from the Washington Star and Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka Armene association baseball team traveled to Scranton Thursday and lost 7 to 0. Southpaw Bryden pitched for Scranton while Al Mauck started for Topeka with Hogvboom catching. Howard Lawrence at first, Nimer Barnes second, Lawrence Banks third, Tick Alden in right, A Sherman center, and Joe Marewey left.
A minister, Rev Bruchios, moved out after disputes over a month's rent in advance and posted hauntings on the house window. He allegedly warned away renters with a talisman of seven spirits and frightening sounds. His wife travels to Boston. he remains in the country feeding the dog still tied to the house. He resigned from the German Reformed church to accept another call.
Washington May 31 The commission report on the Nicaraguan canal was made public this afternoon estimating the project cost at 808 118 700 Colonel Haines agrees with the report but proposes a personal estimate of 124 815 208 Contracts for stationery and state house supplies were not awarded as the executive council postponed bids until next Friday because Governor Stanley is out of town.
A group of young men in Peoria have formed a club to reimburse members who lose out in love and marriage. inspired by a recent incident involving a man who spent money and property on a woman who then jilted him. They seek a charter and plan to run the organization with seriousness.
Arthur Mills sells his Topeka based insurance agency to W D Gossett and C G Blakely. Gossett, formerly with the Santa Fe land department, and Blakely, ex actuary of Kanes Mutual Life, will run the firm immediately. Mills plans to move to Texas and New Mexico contracting work.
Professor Henry A Ward, head of Ward's Natural Science Establishment, returns to Rochester after a long journey exchanging meteorite specimens. He recounts visiting royal museums and universities across Europe and Asia Minor, highlighting a Vera Rubin fragment and the Shah’s meteorite. He also documents bringing back the Anhaltheim meteorite fragment and several palace photos from Teheran.
Leonidas Bryson transfers property to John C Kennedy valued at 71000 on Iota and 39 Quincey street. Carol Giles sells to C F Devlin in Ritchie’s addition, block 200 forth avenue cast. Charles Corkie and wife convey to Carrie Nye for 950 covering lot 162 and part of lot 100 Pillmare street.
The diet resolved that Prince Arthur of Cobnaught heir presumptive to Saxe Coburg and Gotha should take up residence in the duchies. He will receive a German education and become acquainted with his new home conditions. The Peerless Steam Laundry advertises a device for smoothing collar and cuff edges.
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