The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A Brief Review of Important Local
and General Happenings.

and General Happenings.
Governor Roosevelt honoFs requisition
for the return Of Nicely to Cuba.
President appoints a number of Off
Gals in Porto Rico and Hawaii.
Gen. Funston has a fight with Filipi-
nos near San Miguel.
The new Philippine commission ar
rives at Manila.
Big steel mills, South Chicago, shut
down rendering $500 workmen idle
Biennial congress of womens clubs
meets in Milwaukee.
State election in Oregon results in the
success of the Republican ticket.
Charges Of nepotism and fraud made
against the American commission at the
Paris exposition.
Women beaten, clothes torn off, and
many people hurt by mob in St. Louis.
British take possession of Pretoria,
capital of the Transvaal Republic.
Street car blown up by st. Louis
strikers
Stephen Crane, author and war cor
respondent, dies at Badenweiler, Ger
many.
wife of ex-senator John Sherman dies
at Mansfield, o.
Santa F'e directors declare a dividend
OF ~ per cent on preferred stock.
Faculty of the Metropolitan Medical
college at Chicago arrested and placed
in jail for swindlfng.
Chinese rebels and Imperial soldiers
fight a battle under the walls of Pekin-
Japan forbids Russia to land troops
at Taku China
United States gunboat Helena was or
! dered to reinforce Admiral Kempff at
Taku-
BattIeships Indiana and Massachus-
etts ordered to prepare for service.
Prominent negroes take steps to Or
| game national party.
Ex-COngreSSman a. M. Dockery NOM
/ mated for governor Of Missouri by the
Democrats
Moors. prepare to attack the French
/ in Algiers
| New York Democrats elect delegates
| to Kansas City and instruct for Bryan.
| Admiral Dewey starts on another tour
/ of the country.
/ Indiana Democrats nominate John w
| Kern for governor.
Socialist Labor party nominates Jas
F. Maloney for president. and Valentine
KENNEL for vice president.
| Forty American soldiers under Capt.
/ CreuShaW, ambushed In the Philippines.
| Natives of Borneo revolt and kill
number of British
Faulkner, Kansas, destroyed by cy-
clone.
Connecticut Democrats elect dele
| gates to Kansas City and instruct for
| Bryan
Congress adjourns at 5 p. m, June I.
West Virginia Democrats nominate
| John H. Holt for governor.
! United States and European nations,
land marines at Taku. China.
| United States Consul Hollis visits
president of the TransvaaI Republic
Three officers shot while guarding
| street cars in St. Louis.
Report reaches America that General
| Funston has captured the archives OF
| the Filipino government.
Gen. Miles receives a commission as
lieutenant general.
Admiral Kempff, commander of the
American squadron at Taku, cables for
| achievements.
LOCAL SUMMARY.
Street fair management announces
! that total receipts Of the fair were ST.
| 500. The total paid admissions were
g. I'll
State Superintendent Nelson advo-
Gates consolidation Of small school dis
tricts in the state.
Engagement of Miss Theresa Ross
ington of Topeka and DR.. Russell Phil
lips Of Leavenworth is announced.
Death of Col. H p. Throop, founder
of ThroOp hotel, in Newark, N. J., and
body is brought to Topeka for burial.
Delegates from various counties meet
and decide to hold an exposition in
1904 to celebrate the semi centennial of
Kansas.
| Governor Stanley makes new rules
concerning conditional pardons, requ1r-
ing more explicit information about the
applicant.
| Contract for brick pavement let to
o. Swanson for $124 per square yard
he to use brick made in Lawrence OF
st. Joe.
Contract let for seating auditorium
| with opera chairs for 81 % each.
| Railroads grant One-third fare fol
harvest hands.
City council authorizes publication Of
an official city map
John BreidenthaI favors selection Of
ex-Congressman Ridgeley for chair
man of Populist state committee.
Estimated cost of city schools fol
next year announced by board of e1u
cation at Sis, S4S, an increase of $552-
Corporations refuse TO send report:
to secretary of state concerning bust
ness done.
Parsons attempts to turn site for new
asylum over to state
Topeka merchants complain about in
crease in valuation of their stocks b.
city assessor.
Glass of Sc graduates from state uni
| versity law school admitted to prac
| tice in state supreme court.
Edward Grafstrom begins his dutie
| as Santa Fe engineer of tests.
Effort to Dust Cyrus Anderson. re
| ceiver of Colby land office fails.
Topeka census takers complain of IN
fair treatment in requirement Of extr
schedules and threaten to strike.
Interest rate in Kansas reduced fror
6 and per cent. to 31a to AZ per cent
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