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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1898
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss social attitudes toward widows and crops as parts of vegetation. The text is garbled and contains incomplete phrases about a man who tries to nullify people and mentions chimes and the word expects widows.
Rail developments report Rock Island will extend its lines to Dallas by April. Plans include running from Fort Worth over terminal tracks and securing funds via a stockholders meeting to extend the terminal company’s lines toward Fort Worth, with construction expected to begin in January.
The Missouri Pacific railway names Atchison as freight headquarters for the western division. Trains run to Kansas City and Omaha, with about thirty trains daily, improving freight movement and crew assignments as new schedules take effect.
A historical note explains railroad car weights and capacities. It cites passenger cars weighing roughly 8 to 19 tons, freight cars varied by type from coal to oil tanks, and logistics about locomotive weights including tenders. It mentions counts of locomotives, passenger coaches, and freight cars in use and notes the impact of weight on train speed and efficiency.
NEW SANTA FE LINE secures control of Chicago Fort Madison and Des Moines route. If Santa Fe gains full control the line will extend toward Des Moines, turning a feeder into a main link. Also reports resignations and personnel shifts within the Santa Fe live stock unit and railroad engineering staff. The Oct. 3 case in Wichita reverses a lower court ruling involving a Santa Fe related dispute.
Washington says Senator McMillan of Michigan is likely the president’s pick to replace John Hay as ambassador to Great Britain. The decision has lingered as the president weighs the proper man, with McMillan repeatedly named as the probable choice.
A large grist mill in Hulmerville, Bristol, Pennsylvania stopped this morning when its turbine wheel clogged with hundreds of eels, some three feet long. Mill heads captured several hundred pounds of the eels.
The record shows a bridge built near Mont on October 13 under the supervision of a high official from the supreme merit of signetnes, praised for unprecedented speed and material efficiency in a dramatic triumph of engineering.
J S Banks advocates Worry over back pain and kidney complaints. He describes severe headaches and fatigue from standing long hours at work. After trying many cures, he reports relief and eventual cure from Morrow’s Kidney Medicines, praising the product’s discoverer.
Fusion candidate F Frasius spoke at Lukens opera house in Northeka on Topeka’s freight rates and state capital status. He argued railroads favor Lincoln and southern towns, urged justice for Topeka, and urged buying Kansas products to boost commercial greatness.
A Topeka citizen charges Kansas railroads favor Atchison and Leavenworth over Topeka in grain and coal freight rates. He cites official reports showing Topeka’s milling capacity and grain handling, argues rates deter local industry, and urges legislative reform to make public corporations servants, not masters, with election rhetoric aimed at Shawnee County voters.
A Shawnee County speech urges voters to back municipal ownership of waterworks and to consider railroad issues. It argues the anti Republican agenda, praises independence, warns the Republican railroad ties, and pledges support to pass local reform and to elect leaders favoring Topeka and Shawnee County.
An American girl, 16, staying at the Scandinavian Temperance home in London, passed as a boy crew member aboard the British steamer Bignon for a full voyage and part of another. Born in Chicago, she steered and performed seaman duties before confession revealed her ruse. The American consul handles the case as she plans to return to the United States.
Washington dispatch surveys annual reports of Indian agents, noting some tribes show limited progress toward civilized living. It highlights harsh critique of the Lemhi Idaho agency and others, alleging widespread misused funds, corrupt leadership, and vote buying within Seneca and other nations, with calls for reform and possible Dawes commission action.
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