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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1902
Page
6
A sprawling, quirky collage from Western Kansas World notes global curiosities and local curiosities alike. It mentions Tolstoi avoidance, Japan arming China, Throne jokes about kings and mothers, Newport horse shows, milliners frantic prep, and a swirl of financial fadeouts and social quips. It parries between politics, marriage, sport, and fashion in a breezy, opinion-free digest style.
The ornate account details a quarrel between the German Emperor and Crown Prince over marriage to Miss Gladys Deacon, an American heiress. It notes the Prince’s disobedience, escape to Bonn, and emulation of Archduke John Orth, while contrasting with later M C A growth and auxiliary work in railways, military, and colored departments.
Gen Lucas Meyer, who commanded Orange Free State troops at Talana Hill near Ladysmith, dies of heart disease. His death follows his role in the opening battle of the Boer War as British forces under Gen William Penn Symons attacked. Also notes Prussian nobles visiting the United States to study social conditions and schooling of American families.
William Lovett of Penn Indiana claims to be the sole Hoosier to attend Queen Victoria’s coronation in London on June 28 1838. He traveled 152 miles to witness the event and though now past ninety can recount many details leading to the ceremony.
The piece notes Cor mack of Tennessee as the closest to red hair among senators, with a sunset glaze to his mustache in heated debates. It also describes McLaurin of South Carolina with tempestuous but never rising hair, contrasting Tillman’s famed leap.
Mrs Squiers raised a dispute with three Havana policemen who barred her coachman from the Ingla terra hotel entrance. The incident strained ties between the American minister and city authorities. The mayor apologized but was rebuked, and punishment for the officers was demanded. Mr Squires accepted the apology.
The charming Ruth Bryan, daughter of the Democratic leader, has become a young woman of note. While accompanying her father on his East coast tour, she engaged visitors in New York, and at Lincoln, Nebraska, she is widely admired for her winning personality, independent of her father’s influence. The Bryan family remains settled in their home towns, with all members reported well.
At a West Point centennial event Col. von Witzieben head of the German school struggled to follow rapid questions from a student. A man behind him quietly translated into German, enabling the colonel to answer and avoiding embarrassment. He never noticed the aid, leaving the group unaware who helped.
President Roosevelt appoints Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr of Massachusetts to the United States Supreme Court. Holmes, 61, Harvard graduate and LL.D. holder, is lauded as a strong jurist though a political path may have opened other doors. The report notes past tensions with Jacob H. Schiff over opera box seating and a later move involving Cornell University funding.
A poetic vignette by Charles Francis Saunder quotes a speaker worn by urban stress seeking solace in country imagery. The lines contrast bustling markets and street noise with a calm pastoral vision, where longing for love and heavenly feeling replaces clamor, ending in a personal moment of inner peace.
Benjamin J. Rice of Pasadena recounts his introduction to John Brown amid Kansas turmoil in 1855. He describes captor Capt. Hamilton aiding ruffians, Rice's capture, and Brown's rescue of 150 men. Rice laments the treachery and warns that outward respectability masks false faith.
An old soldier recalls a tale from Chickamauga when a wounded rider and his mule, claiming to be the remnant of the Fourteenth Ohio led by Gen. Steedman, crossed the Lafayette road. The man reported to McCook’s brigade and vowed to return to duty, living to fight many more battles while avoiding a postwar collection.
A Chicago Inter Ocean writer recalls a frolic involving a regiment marching in order and discipline, while men joke and compliment a guest called Cousin John. West Virginian Zinkie finds a relic hat and collar as he acts as orderly, guiding the narrator on a pony beside a marching Sixth Corps unit. Some men grow thoughtful as the march continues.
An anecdote from the summer around 1890s Tampa Bay recalls Col Duffy of the Sixty ninth New York, a hearty Irish officer. An aide asked to pass through the camp, and the colonel replied that Gen Hall could march through if he did not talk too much dust, a curt test of etiquette and courtesy.
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