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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1899
Page
8
Wide Topeka notes show Gov. Stanley speaking on Arkansas issues. Students, judges, and officials circulate among sessions in court and public meetings. Transportation and street life mix with local education and union activity as residents navigate changes.
A crowd gathered Saturday as a runway scene near Pacific station led to a collision injuring a bystander. Bowle and David Bowle were present when a horse scene erupted, striking a man who fell unconscious. No bones were broken and injuries are not regarded as serious.
New York dispatch notes Senator Tom Reed in Portland, Mexico suse, discussing the Philippine conflict. He argues withdrawal may humiliate the nation before the world, warns against endless spending, and asserts Americans cherish freedom as much as Filipinos.
Indianapolis dispatch reports United Mine Workers of America activists angered by government stance toward striking miners in Indian Territory fueling tensions as labor unrest broadens.
President Mitchell received a telegram from A Hitchcock secretary of the interior noting information that J B Recos and Albert Struble labor organizers addressed a meeting at Harretore urging miners to strike and promising a September 01 gathering with a brass band to recruit miners. Hitchcock called for suppression of such violations. Mitchell said meetings by Recos and Struble aimed to persuade miners to join the strike.
Cornelius Vanderbilt dies after years of illness leaving a drawn will. He may provide for charity and the estate is valued at about hundred million dollars. Williams KK becomes head of the family and guardians will oversee probate and funeral arrangements. The move shutters Vanderbilt social life and may close mansions to the fashionable world for some time.
Ex-Congressman Tan W. Rourke Cochran writes to President McKinley urging restraint over the Transvaal crisis. He asks the administration to use moral force to prevent war, arguing that military action abroad should be matched by efforts to preserve peace at home and avoid a dangerous global conflagration.
An excerpt discusses imperial policy, urging a unified response to foreign meddling in electoral rights abroad. It condemns interference as criminal aggression and argues for moral consistency in Anglo American relations, urging disclosure of grounds for policy and a global judgment on the dispute.
In a Sept 13 letter from Jack Miller with the Twentieth, the Globe reports his view of the Philippine campaign. He describes a volatile situation with Aguinaldo’s troops freely moving, natives insulting soldiers, and Filipino squads harassing Americans. He notes guard duty at Manta and deterioration of the overall conflict.
William H. Barnes reports to Judge Fred Wellhouse that the horticultural society meeting started with five times as many attendees as two years ago. Exhibits from New Jersey and North Carolina are large, with Morrells of Benton Harbor selling the Great peaches. He sold about 2,000 bushels and netted per bushel sums from 3 to 37 at wholesale while Kansas lacked such fruit.
Manila analysis details a copy of the Filipino congress reply to the American autonomy proposal. Am brosio Rianzares authored the reply after failing to appear for a possible supreme court post. The document reiterates claims of American war guilt and condemns U S behavior, expressing fear for the future under continued sovereignty.
The Rev Dr W S Crowe pastor of the Church of the Eternal Hope at 142 West Eighty first street preached Sunday on In His Steps, critiquing millions of religious people absorbed in forces, machinery, and theories, neglecting Jesus message of the true religious life.
A Chicago report recounts a Spanish War era tale where a young cavalry officer, using a false name, attempts to mingle in city social clubs after arriving from the Philippines. He writes to a poetically sentimental journalist, seeking confirmation of a pending engagement, while sightings of his portrait trigger a string of social inquiries and a cautionary wedding joke among club members. The incident ends with a convoluted, bittersweet note about marriage, duty, and rumor in wartime.
The Connecticut Valley Patriots, a new branch of the Anti Imperialist League, outlined a platform praising the declaration of independence and affirming that government should be of the people by the people and for the people. The group aims to unite in a common effort to maintain these principles as core to their stance.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup marketed for teething pain and crying, claimed to calm infants and aid eruption of teeth. Advertises worldwide drugstore availability, urging mothers to ask for the product by name, priced at a quarter per bottle.
Fragmented notice combines political plea for Philippine policy with a stray Burlington Route railway advertisement. It questions US intent in the Philippines and urges action to end war, then abruptly shifts to train schedules and travel comforts on the Burlington Route with details of routes, cars, and agents.
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