The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-05
4TH CLAIMS MANY
Annual Harvest of Patriotic
Victims in Progress.
Kansas Will Furnish Its Full
Quota Killed and Manned.
TOY PISTOL IN LEAD.
Accidents of Every Description
Have Been Reported.
One Killed and Three More In
iured at NeOdesha.
TOY PISTOL IN LEAD.

Neodesha, Kan, July 5.-One dead,
three badly hurt, and all the fire.
works exploded at once by recalcl-
trant rocket. is the record OF Ne
odesha's greatest Fourth of July cell
ebration, held at 100 in the shade
The chief attraction was the I'M
yelling of monument erected at the
Neodesha cemetery to the memory OF
the dead veterans of the civil war
w. ]. Bailey of Atchison, and }: II
RickelT of Topeka, were the primer
pal speakers.
Tom Armour of Fall river, who was
returning home on an excursion tram
which had taken the siding at LaZa-
rus switch, four miles west, got Oh Iilo
excursion train. When the regular
eastbound passenger train Whlzzeo py
he jumped in front of 1t, IN an Ell
fort to get back on the excursion
train. He was struck by the pilot ana
thrown forty feet. Death was instan-
taneous. ArmOur'S wife and 14-yeT-
old daughter were on the excursion
train. There was nearly panic Wheh
If was learned he had been klleo.
Roh Reebe. a carrier boy on the
Daily Sun had his left hand almost
blown off by a frecracker: Two m m
gers are gone. 1t is thoughl lhaI me
thumb and remaining fingers may pS
saved. Another boy had his race ana
shoulders so badly burned thdI MS
condition is serious.
Tom Walsh, a cement worker from
Altoona had a fight with William JET
ferson- a livery stable hand Walsh
was carried to the doctors ot1lce ABOUT
midnight and did not recover con-
seriousness until 8 o'clock in the morn
ing.
off on the principal business corner
a rocket took a shoot downward ana
skidded on the pavement under
canvas and set off all the rest or the
fireworks. creating a panic for thirty |
minutes. Beyond few minor burns |
and many damaged dresses and suits
no damage was done.
Wichita, Kan, July 5.-The Fourth |
was observed in a safe and sane man |
ner here by the holding of services in |
the Philharmony hall by the English |
Lutheran church and by services OF |
the same sort in the Crawford opera |
house in the evening by the Central |
Christian church. The interior of the |
buildings were decorated with nation |
al coIors and the music was patriotic |
as we'll as religious. Electric fans |
kept the place cool and lemonade was |
served to those who attended. 1t was |
the first real sane Fourth ever cele-
brated in the city.
The city ordinances regarding the
firing of torpedo canes and blank
cartridge revolverS were enforced and
the city was quiet except for the FIR
ing. of an occasional small fire crack
er. The Fourth will be observed with
noise, although the police will do all |
they can to prevent the firing of t
pistols. giant fire crackers and torpe-
do canes. No casualties have been
reported here.
SaIina. July 5.-The injured:
F. A Vandyke, chauffeur, both col
lar bones broken and head badly cut
with flying glass.
- Benson. collar bone and one
arm broken.
Dr. A w. Williams suffering from
conclusion of the brain, three ribs and
one arm broken and badly cut and
bruised; may die.
r. o. Brown cut and badly bruised.
Four men while returning from a
Fourth of July celebration at Salems-
burg at midnight were injured when
the steering rod of their car broke.
The car ran against an embankment
and after scraping the dirt for a dis
lance of three telephone poles turned
completely over twice. The car was
running at a high rate of speed when
the accident happened and when men
brought the car IN this morning 1T
was set at high speed and the brakes
were off. The car was badly dam
aged.
Chanute, July 5.-Lee Mitchell, IL 3,
years old. being without firecrackers, !
tried to celebrate by shooting off a
cap used to explode dy-
Mantle His eye was badly hurt The
surgeon thinks the sight can be saved.
Maple Hill. July 5.-While watching
his 6-year-old nephew celebrate the |
Fourth with a. revolver and blank car
tridges near here W. A TurnbulI was | {
injured by being shot in the s
temple The wad in the blank struck !
him. He is under the care of a ply s
sician.
Kansas City, July 4.-The Fourth of I
Iuly's toll of death in Kansas City be-
gan when Mrs. Thelma A. Hogan. IS I
years old. died of lockjaw. the result ]
IF the discharge of a toy pistol. VIII I
our, Mrs. Hogan's 6-year-old son. s
bought the toy which caused his moth 6
sr's death. He shot some of his blanks
md the pistol became clogged. He !
ook it to his mother and while she I
vas attempting to clean it the pistol g
vent off, shooting a bit of paper wad-
ling in her left hand. This brought i
IN the fatal malady.
Spent the Fourth in Wheat Fields. '
Atchison, Kan, July 5.-Most of the I
armers in this vicinity celebrated IN
dependence day in the harvest fields.
The harvest here is about half finish :
d. Some of the farmers believe their L
Wheat will average thirty bushels to
he acre.