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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1900
Page
5
The audience greeted an evening that mixed sacred passages with minstrel era tunes, ending with enthusiastic encores. The program featured Lee Jones and a chorus, with selections like Wear Ye Israel and Kentucky Home, drawing strong, diverse reactions from patrons and a humorous exchange with speakers and attendees.
The auditorium show featured Louie M. Wood and Lou Jones leading the audience through a full first part of songs and jokes with acts by Katherine Bennett, Gertrude Anderson, T. M. Wood, and Henry Strawn. The second part included piano numbers and vocal pieces, with audience singing along to America and a lively finale.
A local colored talent event headlines the close of the evening with a performance by St Jacksons Twenty Third Regiment. The showcase highlights community musicians and band leaders in a spirited program.
At Murray Bay on the St Lawrence heavy quarantine keeps many American visitors confined. The illness, scar lat ina, entered households including Justice Harlan's family, with Miss Harlan the first victim. Home-made rugs and cloth from local artisans are suspected carriers as others from New York families are also quarantined.
Mrs. F H Conger, wife of the U S minister in Pekin, sends a letter through the state department detailing the siege and the horrors endured by prisoners. She writes of starvation, mines, and fear as troops and ligatures surrounded the legation, and notes the hope of rescue and imminent return home. The missive, from Pekin dated August 1, 1900, portrays lives under bombardment and reports eating horse and mule meat during the crisis.
New York reports large checks drawn on the New York sub-treasury total 2 1/2 million and 3 million, a result of Australian gold deposits on the Pacific coast. Currency transfers this week include 550,000 with 200,000 to St Louis 200,000 to Chicago and 150,000 to New Orleans. Shipments south rise, signaling a weaker bank statement ahead.
Professor John B. Guither of Otterburn University dies at his Westerville home from heart failure at 48. He taught Greek for 30 years and was widely known. Born January 21, 1841 in Greencastle Pennsylvania, he leaves a wife and three daughters. Funeral services will be held Sunday.
A distress message from six shipwrecked men near Port Clarence reports sinking fast with no hope. The vessel left Port Clarence three days earlier and lists Jack Delansy G L Myers Sam Mark Mack John Delan George AM Dean. Seattle dispatch notes Solomon City Alaska was devastated by a coastal storm leaving 200 residents homeless.
Flooding hits Parsons Kansas after Labette Creek dam bursts from heavy rain. Lower city inundated with water several feet deep. no injuries reported. Also notes events in Atwood Kansas involving local party and a church pastor’s temperance push. and political nominations in Louisiana.
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