The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.


First anniversary of Cuban republic
celebrated at Havana.
Memorial services are held by confed-
crate veterans annual convention at
New Orleans.
SibyI Sanderson. the American opera
singer, dies of pneumonia in Paris.
Fifty thousand Jews ordered to quit
Kief by the governor. who fears a repe-
titiOn of the Kischineff massacre.
During bun fight in Spain the amphi-
theater falls, killing u persons and in
juring So
Replying to renewed demands by the
United States and Japan China refuses
to open Manchurian ports, fearing to
offend Russia
All immigration records viii be bro
ken this year if present increase contin-
ues; 620,710 arrived in ten months end
ing April 80, against total OF 64S,743 in
1902.
Capt. Clough Overton Of the Fifteenth
cavalry and one private killed and one
wounded in bolo rush in island of Min
danao.
Clara Barton, president of America
Red Cross. in letter to public declares
she has conducted its affairs carefully;
establishment of first aid and teaching
departments urged.
Two thousand houses burned at Ma
Mia and 5000 natives homeless and fed
900, 600; verdict against editors of Free
dom reversed by supreme court.
Eight persons were seriously injured
by explosion of the naDhtha launch
Vagabond, belonging to Mrs. J. B. Glib
son of New York.
The twenty-ninth biennial convention
of the Order of Railway Conductors is
held at Pittsburg, Pa.
President Roosevelt left the Yosemite
valley and resumed his journey going
through Washington and Oregon.
James Cummins. of Wellington, charg-
ed with killing his 13year-old servant
girl, is found guilty of manslaughter.
The monitor Arkansas, detained above
Cairo by low water, has hoated, owing
to unexpected rise in Mississippi.
LOCAL SUMMARY.
Mary Mahanna. aged Is, shot and
killed by drunken men at her mothers
road house.
The Kansas grand lodge of the
knights of Pythias gathers in Topeka
for. its annual meeting
Site for q new school building selected
on North Taylor street between Gordon
and Laurent.
Frank Snyder takes charge of the To-
peka street commissioners office.
The city officials decide to test the
validity of the waterworks bonds by
friendly law suit rather than to pay
for an unofficial opinion.
The merger of the Kansas Medical
GUIDED
The trustees Of the Kansas Mutual
Life Insurance company send out their
official report. Four companies bid Tor
the business
Councilman Luther Nellis gives utter
ance to disrespectful sentiments In re-
gard to the late Judge W. E. Pagan
H. F. Don Carlos is reelected presl-
dent of the Fraternal Aid.
The Kansas State Homeopathic Med
ical society meets in Topeka DR.. j. w.
Tiffany Of Hiawatha elected president.
County Attorney Nichols resigns the
Office and Otis E. Hungate IS appointed
to fill the vacancy.
Topeka is wet with half inch Of
rain.
The Knights of Pythias elect F. L.
Britton of Usage City TO be their grand
chancellor. Girard wins prize drill
contest.
J. P. Davis makes a reply to the re-
port of the trustees of the Kansas Mu-
tual company
The Topeka Choral union decides to
incorporate itself under the laws of
Kansas in order to be better able to
handle the purchase of the pipe organ
for the Auditorium.
Washburn college loses to K Z. at
baseball by a score of IL to O.
Porter n. Mitchell is installed in the
place of superintendent of the city cleo
trio light plant to succeed H. K. Good
rich who retires under protest.
City Ticket once. Union Pacific