The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
LOCAL SUMMARY.

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LOCAL SUMMARY.
The Topeka Choral union opens its
May music festical with the production
of The Creation
The F'raternal Aid association gathers
in Topeka for the general council meet
ing big political war breaks out
over the election of a president
MarshaH's band opens. its season with
park.
Ernest B. Conant is selected dean Of
the Washburn college law school
Probate Judge w. E. Pagan dies at
MS home of pneumonia.
L. Lowry, young negro, shoots Paul
Fease and Smoke" Williams. white.
for annoying him.
Three barns at the corner of Twelfth
ana Quincy streets burn in a Sunday
Santa Fe colored Dorters come to To-
peka to ask for more wages.
feo9le Wait all night in the rain to
get tickets for James K. Hackett.
Kansas is deluged with belated snrinr
rains. ~ -'-9
Grand commandery of Kansas
Anlghts TemDlar gathers in Topeka.
George Swan is convicted of shootfna.
Albert Sage with intent to kill.
Inc Washburn music department Sc
cures Prof G. B. Penny, of Lawrence
for its dean.
Nordica. De Reszke. Duss and the
metropolitan opera house orchestrL
arrive IN Topeka for their concert.
oIlarIes J. Webb is chosen grand com
nnander OF Kansas Knights Templar
Ihe maSnates Of the citv railways
complete the consolidation Of fhe ~,
lines. VI tue Two
n II. Loonlis appointed to help prose-
s'Itt sute me Arkansas river Colorado law
suit Tor the state of Kansas
Inc May music festival closes after q.
1ls. 1useeesslul career. Five hundred dollars
left IN the treasury 1o''e 4 :
fELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
curtis Jett arrested near DovIasv;i1e
Ay-, Tor alleged murder of James r
Marcum at Jackson -
Richard Henry Stoddard fba ,oa+
of the heart. ma 'isl m
Efforts of business men Of Mime
apons and St Paul to settle CSrea
MOI tnern labor trouble avert strike
armament of Victoria, Australia. is
opened Tor the purpose of dealing win
the big railroad strike.
Ottawa, ont, damaged by fire which
swept over area one mile long and
quarter of mile wide. section ,5s,,,., - = =
IN 1SUO practically wiped out
Report of Russian aggression in Man
Pekin. - oi''
John. G. Havemeyer's challenge to
trades unions of Yonkers, N =. to
defend their policy in public. offerine
10 pay expenses of the ..uufzn if he is
allowed to do the questioning. is ac-
cepted.
Internal machine containing 100
pounds of dynamite found in bs3peaoa
Of liner Umbria at New York pier with
lighted fuse having but five minutes to
purn- Letter of warning by which
hundreds of lives are saved tells of
Mafa' plot against all British vessels
chicago strike records broken when
5000 industrial workers refused to re-
sumo work: Deering harvester works.
National Biscuit company bakery. and
laundrieS tied up.
Tables turned on Omaha business
men by striking walters and Injunction
secured against formers association on
plea that it is a member of national as
sociation, whose purpose is to crush
organized labor.
Grady-Salus libel bill signed by Gov.
Pennypacker of Pennsylvania, who in
Inmates its object is to check sensation
alism; Philadelphia papers show disre-
gard for the new law
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
pay their first visit to Scotland and are
greeted by big crowds.
Forty-four Jews, victims of the mas
sacre at kisheneff. in Russia, have so
far been buried. Eighty-four persons
are in the hospitals and 1000 under ar
rest
Tribesmen attacking Tetuan. Moroc-
co, are repu1sed by the imperial troops.
300 being killed on both sides.
! weekly crop report
shows warmer weather needed in Ohio
valley and middle Atlantic states.
Monitor Arkansas will be forced to
remain at st. Genevieve. Mo, until
spring unless an unexpected rise in the
Valparaiso. Chile. in possession of
striking dock labOrers; one policeman
killed and fifty rioters dead or fatally
hurt; South American Steamship com
pany's pier fired and newspaper office
/ threatened.
six Moros attacked Capt. Pershing's
rear guard near Lake Lanao, and were
all killed by his troops; Mgr. Guidi
petitiOned by native women to retain
friars in Philippines.
Cambria, Somerset and Westmore-
land counties in Pennsylvania suffer
from destructive forest fires; towns of
Waterford and Loughlinsville threat
ened.
Cerebro spinal meningitis or spotted
fever has broken out among the 1900
men aboard the receiving ships Mime
apolis and Puritan, at League Island
navy yard.
one man is dead and four others are
seriously i'll as the result of drinking
from broken package in the Cincin-
natl Adams Express company's office.
Cattle from the Mexican border to
Canada and from the Rocky mountains
to the Missouri river are under ouaran-
tine owing to prevalence of the mango
For Farmers.
The Union Pacific railroad is issuing
Agricultural Bulletins giving complete
/ and accurate reports of experimental
work carried on in the states of Ne
/ braska Kansas, Colorado and Wyo-
ming. Also special bulletin on Alfalfa
Wheat, Corn, Beet Sugar, etc.
Mailed free on application to
J. c. Fulton. depot agent. phone "a;
F. A. Lewis. c. T. A., 525 Kansas ave-
/ nue., phone 53.