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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1913
Page
6
A miscellany of eccentric observations and speculative notes from distant lands. Topics range from early paleolithic theories on raw food diets to Panama Canal rumors and novel nautical gear. The column lampoons progress with quips about the Fram, modern binnacles, a New Jersey church funeral phonograph, and a welfare minded note on desertion laws in New Zealand.
A Pennsylvania man of ninety goes to prison for the first time proving habits are no guide to good fortune. Humorous women and green bat decorations are joked about amid light anecdotes. A London genius opens safes with musical tones and plots in polar exploration as Stefanson heads for a four year voyage to the Arctic in search of Eskimo suffragette stories.
The Navy Department received a cable from Lieutenant Commander Frank B. Upham aboard the steel yacht Scorpion dated Odessa Anéala reporting the vessel anchored there on the Black Sea. Officials expressed surprise noting it marked the first time a foreign vessel had passed the Dardanelles and crossed the Mack Sea in U.S. and Turkish history.
Kansas City report says Mrs Julia V Harris a Kansas City lawyer attacked by Cornwall Elliss with a hatchet then took aconite poison at Grandview hospital dying hours later. Police say no note explains her actions. Preliminary hearing held on assault with intent to kill charge after victim began recovery.
17 year locusts overrunning orchards in Otoe county near Nebraska City and Wyoming prompt action by the state horticultural society and entomologist department. Measures will be taken to stop the ravages of the insects.
A broad unloading of European owned securities weighed on the New York Stock Exchange as standard shares fell sharply to low levels. Local traders anticipated the downturn and watched for a recovery as European markets showed declines, then moves toward stabilization.
Delegates from across the United States attend the eighth apnhal session of the Sunday School congress with special railroad rates. The event marks a statewide religious gathering amid banners and pennants in Muskogee Oklahoma. Missouri Girl Has Babies is reported from New York where Nellie Murray, claimed by a Missouri source, is allegedly recovering at Valentine Klein’s home after a disturbance on a Patchogue train tied to hydrophobia concerns.
Lincoln Nebraska May fix wire rates as federal court in Omaha refuses to grant a temporary injunction against the Stebbin Bill. The measure passed by the last legislature fixes a minimum charge of twenty five cents for a ten word message.
Girls at the Jacob Gerhardt shirt factory used concealed screwdrivers and Haselton or Pat Harpins when confronted by mine workers union pickets and other labor crafts.
Reports from Sacramento Valley and southern districts including Fresno and Tulare describe new damage by California hoppers. Observers note widespread agricultural impact and marshy areas affected as entomologists assess crop losses and distribution across the region.
New York police lieutenant Charles Becker, convicted of the murder of Herman Rosenthal and awaiting execution, seeks a new trial in the New York Supreme Court. The move aims to overturn the death sentence and challenge the trial's procedures and evidence.
Editor Theodore Roosevelt wins his vindication in Ishpeming Michigan as George A Newett withdraws slander claims that Roosevelt drunk. In court Roosevelt asserts he sought only nominal damages to end the slander and protect his reputation, paying costs and sealing the case.
Rep Hinebaugh of Illinois introduces a resolution asking the interstate commerce commission to investigate and report on the St Louis and San Francisco railroad for one year before its receivership, citing 26 million dollars in bonds in Paris and alleged mismanagement and stock watering. In Wisconsin a baseball game ends tragically when a 1 year old student Parris Smith is struck by a ball and dies, while Milo Stock 22 loses an eye from the same game.
Four men die in a gas-filled urban well at Chicago Heights, a suburb 25 miles from here. Three men sacrificed their lives attempting rescue work.
Fort Smith Oklahoma patrol reports John C. Sick an express messenger on a Kansas City Southern train shot and killed 19 year old Pat Lawson of Potosa Oklahoma and wounded accomplice Albert Pruett of Porteau as they rode the blind from Heavener to Poteau. Sick, believing them to be holdup men, was arrested in Kansas City at Leflore county authorities request and cited recent Leflore and Polo county robberies as context.
Belfast authorities learned Orange clubs planned to import arms from Germany. A steamer from Manchester delivered one thousand rifles with bayonets in cases marked Electrical Fittings. Detectives seized the weapons, signaling government alert to Orange resistance plans.
Washington Senator Thompson fails to secure Fred Robertson of Atwood as United States district attorney for Kansas and A. W. Ayers of Wichita as first assistant, due to Ayers refusal to accept the appointment.
The telegraph briefs report mass casualties in a Chihuahua battle with about equal losses, a revolver feud killing the Stanley family near Greeley, drownings on Lake Geneva, a Chicago trio, a murder investigation in Joplin, and a pool of political and cultural notes including polygamy amendment proposals, Barrymore’s stage retirement, Pope Pius XII birthday observances, and Maurice Davis saving classmates from a runaway buggy incident.
Washington reports that the Senate finance subcommittee on the agricultural schedule proposes to keep meats and flour off the free list but levy a nominal 1 percent ad valorem duty on fresh beef mutton and pork. The move aims to equalize raw materials and products under the bill.
Jefferson City editor William R. Nelson of the Star was discharged from custody and the contempt proceedings dismissed by Judge Woodson in the Jackson County circuit court. The supreme court en banc held Nelson was deprived of rights by Judge Guthrie and condemned without testimony, with Guthrie preparing the finding the night before Nelson was charged.
In Muskogee Oklahoma a frame court house at Old Jay burned destroying Delaware county mail and records. The siege during the county seat struggle left Old Jay partisans blaming New Jay supporters. Officials refuse to move to a new building amid speculation of arson and a renewed feud.
London Walter de Mumm a French wine millionaire marries Mies Frances Scoville daughter of C L Scoville of Seneca Kansas at noon in St George's Hanover Square church A full choir 100 guests attended The bride was given away by Mr Treadwell and attended by her sister Mrs Treadwell The groom whose family name is Mumm von Schwarzestein was supported by his brother as best man
Judge Stiles T. Rowe former circuit judge of Sebastian county and a leading state attorney died from injuries said to be suffered in a fight with Alonzo H Willett, a carpenter. The death follows the bar films dispute in McCarty’s death.
In a nine hour clash at Matamoros and across the Rio Grande, rebel forces under Gen Lucto Bianco gained control of the city center while federal troops held a last stand from churches and theaters. Maj Estaban Ramos was wounded, a U.S. cavalryman was shot, and rumors linked Matamoros mayor Miguel Baragan to a fatality. Consulate staff faced fire but were unharmed. Dynamite blasts and a final push saw rebels capture the customs office and bridge terminus, narrowing the fight to Hidala Plaza.
Sydney A. Gross, a Central High School pupil, demonstrates a one cent year old device called an oate sector claimed to divide an angle not a right angle. Mathematicians who examined the instrument say it challenges Euclid’s time held theory that no practical method exists to trivect such angles.
John Norris pleaded guilty to drunkenness in Fort Smith police court and was sentenced to attend church each Sunday for three months and assist his wife with dress and bathing his children weekly. He must submit each Monday a minister signed note proving church attendance. No Frisco changes planned. Train kills three near Minnesota and a Joplin murder mystery remains unresolved.
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