The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
LOCAL SUMMARY.


will Of the late Sarah Ann Sells.
Paul Forbes dies as the result of lock-
jaw from a wound received on July |
third.
The city council orders an investiga-
ton of the methods of the Topeka Wa
ter company.
Judge Hook of the federal court al
lows Kansas Mutual trustees 5000 each |
for their work and gives their attorneys, /
Rossngton, Smith q Histed, $4,000
The ways and means committee rec
ommends both natural gas ordinances
for passage.
The state board of medical examina-
ton and registration begins the exam |
inatiOn Of charges of professional mis-
conduct against Llr. Robert e. Gray of |
Garden City.
Police commence hostilities against
liquor selling drug stores.
Residents of Fillmore street between |
Thirteenth and Douthitt streets enjoin
the construction of pavement on that
street.
The city council bars the sale OF hop
tea b. the glass.
Edwin Thatcher. of the firm of Keeper |
& Thatcher, builders of the Melan arch |
bridge, offers proposition for the re- |
pair of the bridge.
Superintendent Biddle the victim of an
assault by F. NJ. Hollywood and William
Keeney two attendants, who have diff
ficulty over their pay.
Shawnee county is favored by an inch
of rain.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMAR Y.
Russia has notified the United States
government that it will not oppose the
opening as treaty ports several Man
churian ports now closed to the worlds
-ade.
A remarkable rally in the pope's con-
dition leads physicians to believe that
ocptiff may live for weeks. Popa's per
SON al fortune bequeathed to church; his
s % twas ALREADY cfnlc
Z. ssian massacre petition will not be
t0r-y arded to Russia, as result of con-
terence between B'nai Birth represent
tauces and President Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay.
United States raises flag over twenty
small LANDS off Borneo coast.
DISCUSSION of Secretary Chamberlain'S
Erilish tariff plan will not be allowed
a. present session of parliament.
refiGcnt Roosevelt Endorsed for re-
eisyti0a b. Kentucky Republican state
conver Son at Louisville.
Eigh, u sons killed and fifteen in
jursG nes,f liverpool in wreck of South |
port express which jumped track.
FCur ptfscns lost their lives in a f1re |
which dests ed Bonner Springs sani- |
tariuu az eonner Springs, Kansas.
Whipnihr tn cudgels and cat-o'-
nine ts+fis ehnt shed by car in Russian |
prisons -'ng to car and shaving of |
head al rhibited.
J. J. st. -rly general manager
of the a1le railway. died at Sc
dalia, aIe = a long illness from
lxidnov -r3Llle aged So.
Rrs lass 1cr .erence at Port Arthur
ende1 sn1 Military preparations be-
gun. harraeils for 10000 troops con-
tiaete. for; exclusion of consllls from
Name sa.s due to their being accredited |
to Chine which does not control.
A ut wreck on the Iron Mountain |
iu is- Asas kills two men and 35 cars |
03 41rses and mules.
trs James G. Blaine dies at the
IS ai7s home in Augusta. Me.
Hder new inspection law first cargo of !
e. Trnan food products will be rejected or
royed. Regulations may fcomplicate |
tVal lie relations between United States and
Robert. Shaw Oliver. appointed assistant
secretary of war. is considered as a likely |
candidate to succeed Secretary Root when |
the latter retires from the cabinet.
Gen Nelson A. Miles rode ninety miles
on horseback to prove he is still hale on
eve of his retirement at "a: journey made
from Fort Sill. okla. to Fort Reno, be-
tween $40 a. m. and 2:20 p. NJ
Missouri Pacific fast mail crashes into |
stalled excursion train near Lees Sum- |
mtt No, killing three persons and injur-
Car requested by Secretary Hay to name
arbitrators in dispute of GERMANY Great |
Britain and Italy over preferential treat |
Christian Endeavor convention tent at
Denver. Colo, blown over while 5000 per-
The anniversary of the fall of the Bastile |
was celebrated in France.
Capt Hemphill of the United States flag
ship Kearsarge receives orders to take the |
vessel at the highest rate of speed from
Portsmouth to Frenchman's Bay Me.
United States Minister Conger arrives at
New Chwang to investigate the Manchu-
rian question.
Three troops of the Fourteenth cavalry
engaged In riot among themselves near
wounded.
Mrs. A. F. Johns. New York. rescued by
j. e. Potter from narrow ledge of Yose-
she had fallen.
Mayor Harrison's entrance into national
politics took place at Democratic picnic in
Elliott.s park Chicago. TODAY.
Melvin Wolfe, Blufton. Ind. shot to
death by John Terrell. his father-in-law
while on. operating table preparatory to
having his leg amputated, due to earlier
wound by Terrell
Unsuccessful effort to precipitate general
strike against railroads centering in Chi
cago made by President Curran Of freight