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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1897
Page
4
A long mixed page of notices and opinion pieces from The Gazette discusses subscription forms, price incentives, and advance payment discounts. It also includes various local items on politics, economics, temperance, tariffs, and public matters with idiosyncratic commentary.
A Terre Haute Indiana church splits as a pastor forms a bicycle club and a deacon withdraws after a dispute over pulpit bicycle notices. Other items include reflections on Winans wealth and manners, shifting Georgia peach prominence, and odd local anecdotes.
The Chicago Times-Herald surveys the whisker craze and the rise of fanciful names given by wealthy women to their maids and themselves. It notes maid transforms to LucHa and Birdie, then back to plain Mary Ann, and cites social satire on court humor and public fashions alongside light observations on divorce, color tests for railroad workers, and medical diploma fakery.
Report from Shreveport La Aug 23 indicates a potential nationwide walkout by Kansas City Pittsburg Gulf railway employees over wage reductions. Officials in Shreveport and Port Arthur worry a strike would halt operations, disrupt grain shipments, delay government jetty stone deliveries, and stall rail work on the Sabine Pass contract.
The general trade situation shows steady improvement in New York with only the prolonged soft coal miners strike clouding prospects. Prices rise across staples led by iron and steel with gains in lead soft coal wheat flour and other foods as well as leather hides lumber linseed oil and cotton amid a tight world stock and higher manufactured prices.
The Pennsylvania Republican state convention met in Harrisburg with 364 delegates and nominated James S. Beacom for state treasurer and Major A. G. McCauley for auditor general. The platform endorses the Dingley tariff and sound money, condemns Cleveland’s civil service extensions, and praises tariff results while avoiding Quay’s name. Beacom and McCauley were selected by roll call with narrow votes. York to Visit Canada Next Spring. The St James Gazette reports the Duke and Duchess of York accepted Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s invitation to visit Canada en route to Australia next spring.
The Cincinnati encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic selected J P S Gobin of Lebanon Pennsylvania as commander in chief on the second ballot amid shifting votes and a final unopposed result after Missouri and Illinois changes. The president was denied admission to the camp briefly and later visited Cayuga Island and Hanna’s yacht in Cleveland.
John H. Edmunds, a Kansas City office boy tied to Dr. Fraker of Colorado Springs, was arrested for the Pike's Peak murder of Nebraska journalist Berbert I Kay but evidence shifts toward innocence. Dispatches indicate a key clue against Edmunds failed, suggesting Fraker sought notoriety and framed the boy.
Wixico Missouri August 37 Congress man Dick Bland accepts invitation to speak for silver at Jacoby s pasture near Halliday. Congressmen Clark and Bodine set to speak Clark spoke today at Moline in this county It is reported he aims for Cockrell s United States Senate seat.
Washington August 27 The geological survey will not send a party into the Klondike country until next spring An appropriation of 230000 is available but arrived too late for work before spring.
In Breseven Michigan on August 26, 374 Palms mine employees at Ford Schlesinger’s operation walked off the job demanding daily wages raised to $1.65.
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