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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1897
Page
2
Dispatch from Dawson City describes a grand ball at Lousetown celebrating a new gold discovery. Jokes and gossip swirl around miners and women chasing claims while officials emphasize order, and travelers report feverish activity and shifting fortunes as camps rapidly grow.
The speaker discusses Yukon and Klondike mining prospects with talk of high claim prices and eager bidders. Figures include a Juneau lawyer offering 40 000 for a claim, while Captain John Healy is named as a key figure and former Idaho mine discoverer. References to Montana Idaho and North American Trading emphasize a looming rush. caution is urged to bring capable, experienced miners and avoid unskilled entrants as miners prepare to travel by moonlight due to heat and terrain conditions.
Chicago reports yellow fever outbreaks in Louisiana and Mississippi disrupt plans of major dramatic companies. Keene and Hanford canceled dates across towns from Nashville to Indian Territory, fearing fever spread. Telegraphs sent 400 dollar bill in cancellations, yet Keene adapts to avoid fever districts without financial loss.
A brakeman Samuel Flagelan, aged about 40, wasted by consumption, travels with his wife and two children toward Denver. With no money, they spend three days and two nights in the Rock Island depot in Topeka. Flagelan, once a brakeman on the Hannibal & St Joseph line, had lived in Argentine and hopedColorado air would aid him, but illness worsened, forcing them to seek aid rather than continue the journey.
An advertisement proclaims Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a universal cure for chronic dyspepsia. It criticizes dieting and bitters, claims the tablets digest food regardless of stomach condition, and promises restoration of nourishment and lasting relief, with a free book offered by Stuart Co., Marshall, Michigan.
A police inquiry follows a sick man named Fingelan who could not leave a depot and died soon after. A physician warns he would die within days. Commissioner Tule aids the family sent west. The piece condemns a system of shifting destitute wanderers between communities and calls for a church convention to devise local care.
Mexico City Sept 20 Edurado Velucanes chief of police Lieutenant Cabrera assistant chief of detectives and Commandant Mauro Sanches have been arrested placed in solitary confinement by order of the fifth criminal judge along with 21 prisoners captured for entering the municipal building the night of the lynching Public opinion backs the measures and Archbishop Aracon led prayers for the expo of President Diaz High federal officials back the call for investigation into police conduct if negligence is proven they face punishment and killers will be charged with murder as the government seeks to show lynching is not tolerated locally
Ensign Hawk urges crowds to attend a hallelujah wedding at Fiakiston hall next Monday night. An admission of 10 conte will fund beds in the Salvation Army hospital. During the street meeting, the bridegroom appeared uneasy as many gathered and shouted Hallelujah. The Ensign declared the Army unites people.
A Winniper dispatch reports Manitoba grain dealers millers and banks have formed a combine to fix daily wheat prices regardless of Chicago markets. Telegraph delays hinder timely price updates, and banks allegedly refuse to aid buyers who do not join the syndicate.
Benton Harbor Mich Sept 20 The First National bank did not open for business Saturday Bank Examiner George B Caldwell of Detroit is in charge About 9000 is due depositors and it is believed that 75 percent will eventually be paid In full Deposits have fallen about 50000 in three months The bank capital was 50000 and surplus 24000 Cashier James Batley offered no statement aside from depositor payment belief A crowd of anxious depositors gathered outside The failure is blamed on bad loans and the speculations of Daher James Halley A thorough investigation will be made
Massillon figure J. Coxey visits Leipsia to settle Populist split over J H Carey selling to Hanna Co He brands reports as false and threatens editors with violence saying a revolution brews and law should be ignored He cites a signed contract and accuses reporters, while promoters push potions and local pharmacists advertise tonics and remedies in the same page.
New York reports the Aerial Navigation Co. plans a 1500 pound aluminum airship to carry 4000 pounds and tested next month from Guttenberg. Inventor Charles Kuenzel, 87, Hoboken, argues 18 years of work, with a 195 by 40 foot balloon and 60 by 20 foot craft, gas renewals, a 5 HP engine, and aims for a 100000 grant for military use.
A New York based electric propulsion venture led by J. Astor and Dr W Seward Webb collapsed after failing trials. The Samuels Dynamic Accumulator Company backed by Vanderbilt and Astor produced a battery cell by Zack Samuels. Tests on Astor’s yacht Progress and Webb’s train car failed to scale. Both Webb and Astor withdrew from the company. In Atchison, prominent players defeated Rothschilds 2 to 1 as Eaton and McDonald led A tebiron to the win.
A Charleston woman, age about 74, has not set foot on the Battery or King Street since before the war. She lives near Ratledge Avenue and has never ridden electric trolley cars, preferring to stay in her home under a Confederate flag while knitting. She declares she has never surrendered and never will, and repeatedly declines invitations to ride the electric cars.
Dr. W A Croffat returns from Yellowstone and protests Interior Department plans to diminish black bears by capturing them for museums. He argues bears are scarce near hotels yet entertain tourists, oppose removing them, and cites their harmless nature and value to visitors.
A committee of farmers in Binghamton, New York, urged Assemblyman Tupper to introduce a bill in the next legislature to exterminate rabbits damaging crops. They cited cabbage eaten to the stalks and questioned game laws that prevent killing pests on sight.
The Toledo Commercial formerly Hanna’s official organ suddenly denounces Hanna’s tactics. It claims Hanna’s paid agents aim to tamper with ballots in honest precincts, urging citizens to beware. The paper also accuses Governor Bushnell, George B. Cox, and Mark Hanna of a treacherous alliance against reform.
Res Not provided. The report notes drought hurting 17 Russian provinces and warns the drought will soon impact 129 regions as it halts winter wheat sowing on large tracts. In London, Mrs Nansen, wife of explorer Dr Nansen, has given birth to a son.
The notice advertises Seduced Rates to St Louis for 36.00 and to Chicago for 8.50 with reductions to all eastern points via the Santa Fe Route. Tickets to St Louis may be sold for 2.00 and to Chicago for 5, with further reduced rates to eastern points available by telegram through agents, valid every Tuesday and Thursday until October.
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