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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1901
Page
5
Mrs Allan Brown died at 3 30 Sunday morning at 200s North Jackson Street from poisoning after taking 140 grains of powder on Saturday. Her husband Dr I M Powell found her dead. neighbors suspect suicide amid notes of mistaken bottle use.
Fragmented OCR notes describe President Roosevelt traveling to Oyster Bay with aides and a party, wife alongside Mrs Hoge and Secretary Carter, as a special train arrives in New York for a vote event.
Fragmented text references prophylactic claims about a presidential sequence, local cartel owners voting at a sale, and a mayoral forecast. It mentions Mrs Reoverett and an outcome tied to a return, with unclear locations and dates.
Government Weather Bureau warned of rain turning to snow as a sharp cold wave hit Sunday morning. Temperature plunged from 8 to 29 F with a 0.55 inch precipitation total. Winds shifted from SW to NW and the high barometer moved in from the west. Todays high was 4 F and the minimum 27 F at 7 am. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Portorin delegation from Porto Rico chamber seeks tariff relief in Washington.
The telegraph operator Mr Welch, long connected with the Western and commercial telegraph lines, died recently in Milwaukee. He was widely known in the field and is to be interred on Wednesday with services arranged locally.
In Seattle on November 4 officials locate the break in the June anbhasway cable off Bridges Point near Momer auiexs bey in Tyun Canal. Repair crews believe a mile long segment will require work as the insulation chafed off due to the cable sag in deep water.
Major General John Ardagh announced at the Afriven compensation commission session that the Netherlands accepted Britain's terms to settle the Ghana damages claim. The agreement follows a dispute over damages from actions in Africa.
A basin meeting of the Topeka oasis is set for Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the president Mrs. A H Thompson 607 West Tenth. A new card hub meets biweekly at young ladies homes. Gret regular meeting next Friday at Miss Octavia Greenwood's home. Readers include Mina Octavia Green Wood and others. Various social visits and travels noted among Topeka residents, with multiple hosting and home moves mentioned.
Glidis tert Sanday visits Charlton home with Mrs. Jewetts son Charles Taylor. G W Jones stays in Mound City. Proctor of Emporia visits relatives and trends in Topeka. E W Rowles spends Sunday in Kansas City. A Nooney and J H Taylor return from Washington DC trip. T J Anderson to host Modoc gathering at Clay Street. Nell Lincoln returns from Kansas City. Noble Miller spends Sunday in Topeka with Callahans grandparents. Ina Studevant returns from Maple Leaf area trip. Amasa Akera spends Sunday in Kansas City. Lottie Kelly visits from university to spend the day with parents.
Supreme Court Justice Ellis remains at his Beloit home and will not attend today or likely this week. Officials deny rumors of a split in the Parker Hughes case and suggest no decision yet, with possible recourse to Judge Ellin to resolve the matter if a rehearing is ordered.
Warden Jewett rejects active efforts to secure legislator endorsements for Emmett Dalton’s pardon. He states he spoke to only two people about the case, one asking if the governor would grant a pardon and another Montgomery county resident. He would not pardon anyone if he were governor.
At the Topeka Ministerial Union the talk centered on reading the Bible in public schools. Canon Bywater read a paper noting about 60 percent of teachers reportedly use Bible readings at opening exercises and urging school board action to standardize or expand such practice. Superintendent Davidson offered a conservative view, stating boards allow teachers to choose suitable selections for opening exercises and that five to ten minutes daily were commonly devoted to Bible readings and the Lord’s Prayer.
The Union discusses making Scriptural reading a daily school opening exercise and cites Moulton’s Bible In Literature as a teaching aid. Leaders urge Bible study over pagan writers and plan a committee to approach the school board. Lectures by Bible authorities are sought for upcoming winter.
President appoints John R Bonnell of Crawfordsville Indiana as collector of internal revenue for the Seventh Indiana district. The limited legible text references ongoing political appointments and Boer prisoner context appears garbled in the source.
The search for Willian Hale, who fired on a political reciter in Perrum killing two men, dragged into the night with authorities and bloodhounds tracking from mountains toward Ferrum. Hale and his brother in law Larkin Baunders were at large, while pursuers reported a double barreled shotgun and shells in Hale’s possession.
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