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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1887
Page
8
A mandement issued by Cardinal Taschereau prohibits Catholics in Quebec from attending Salvation Army meetings. Salvation Army tract and hymn books are ordered to be burned.
Leavenworth moves to construct a new bridge over the Missouri River with Choctaw Street named as the probable approach, signaling a significant civic infrastructure project for the city.
Sunset Cox, congressman from Ohio and New York, warns that without a tariff compromise the Democratic Party will enter the 1888 contest fractured and routed. He notes that “compromise” was the wartime Democratic rallying cry and predicts it will recur in the current debate.
A Philadelphia publisher says the revised Bible has fallen flat with hundreds of thousands unsold. He notes people refuse to replace the fathers and mothers’ bibles and that tradition keeps them loyal to the old editions.
The text outlines four convict labor systems: contract, piece price, public account, and lease. It notes the public account system, run by prison officials for state benefit, as the model Labor Commissioner Wight favors and as anti free labor.
The Canadian population will attract a new opponent to annexation and to an amended extradition treaty in R. P. Clements, president of Citizens Savings Bank of Leavenworth, who wrecked the bank last week through speculative use of funds, causing $52,000 in losses mainly to those least able to bear it.
The Leavenworth Times describes R. P. Clement as a Canadian born Savings Bank President whose relatives remain in the queen's dominion. He traveled west to earn funds to settle debts with Canada relatives and friends. He is blamed for misusing deposits and is believed to be safe on Canadian soil awaiting consequences.
The Leavenworth Times enjoys a vivid boom thanks to open saloons defiant whisky alliances bogus real estate schemes and four libel suits. A brutal assault on the editor and the bank gutting involving heavy deposits keep the paper in the public eye along with Mayor Neely.
The article traces repeated announcements of Mip and CoLLece being located at Atchison, moving from expectancy to editioning, then a committee ensuring visibility, and finally confirmation by the highest authority that the institution is planted on a solid foundation.
In Atchison the Salvation Army hosts open air concerts described as great social events with civilizing influence. The writer hopes the group directs reformist influence at Krohn and Reynolds of the Champion and Times, calling for drums and tambourines to drive out “unclean spirit” of their journalism.
Junction City Union reports Riley authorities hold $200,000 with possible $75,000 more for winter labor. Contracts to be awarded for eight buildings on August 19, with plans due soon for a new artillery post and work for the season ahead.
The Ottawa Republican reports a four mile by four mile rainbelt centered near Centropolis where crops may be fair if rains arrive soon. West and north of this zone crops are largely burned up and outside the belt the crop may be less than two-fifths of an average.
A Topeka report describes a ready made political slate labeled a patent outside with blanks for local adaptation. It targets Arkansas Valley and the southwest, urging local input and warning against premature or unshared tickets and potential harm to candidates and interests. The piece shifts to Virginia, noting Republican losses after Reconstruction and current indebtedness under Democratic rule, arguing for a Republican return at the first opportunity.
The piece argues that despite Democratic claims of better treatment for the colored race under southern governance, deep prejudice persists. It highlights the Glenn bill in Georgia, a South Carolina graduation speech, ostracism of white teachers in colored schools, and Virginia Democrat Louis H. Blair being expelled from a city committee after advocating mixed schools in New York.
G W Curips of the Philadelphia Ledger plans a 14 by 7 foot memorial window for General Grant in St Luke's Methodist Episcopal church. The window, to be the largest and most ornate in Long Branch, honors the commander who was a summer attendant there during his life.
In the August North American Review Moncure D Conway argues the Queen is a representative, powerless figurehead in a crowned republic with the President of the United States holding real power. Rev Dr Henry M Field writes to Col Robert G Ingersoll praising his anti superstition stance while hoping he becomes a Christian.
A Topeka pharmaceutical firm with a Murray law permit refused to fill a doctor prescribed gin for kidney disease. The patient sues for five thousand dollars, alleging the firm refused because the doctor was not a customer.
Pension Commissioner Black appears to use his office to back a Democratic vice presidential run. He has publicized pension grant recipients to sway opinion, while many cases show evidence assembled under his predecessor. Had the prior official remained, approvals might have moved faster.
Sher man in the Ohio Convention paid high tribute to Governor Foraker and received a strong response from the Ohio Republican Party. The speech urged renomination, saying Foraker deserves to be governor, will stand by Republican principles, and will uphold hopes and aspirations as long as he serves in Ohio.
A New York special notes Edward Gould is closely watched as he mirrors his father Jay Gould by selling short on bets of rises and profits. It claims Gould has earned about $5,000,000 in weeks and suggests a future where a Gould could control vast wealth through market timing.
Joan Taylor president of the Mormon church died in Salt Lake City on the 25th inst. He was a second cousin of Bishop William Taylor, the African mission field leader. The two resembled in physical endurance but differed in intellect. John Taylor rose to church leadership through energy, not intellect, and supported Brigham Young’s policy with blunt temperament.
Junction City struggles with a badly located well and defective curbing as the Union asserts the costly water works project is built where no water exists. A citizens committee urged suspending operations until water supply was demonstrated, but the council ordered continuance despite protests and clearly lacking water.
The Lawrence Business College and Academy of English and Classics invites neighbors to nominate ten youths interested in business training shorthand typing academic education or music or art. The school will pay a monthly educational journal subscription for one year for those selected. Mark the likely attendees with a cross. K L McItRavy Superintendent.
A Kansas writer argues a perfect world would optimize climate water and transport. He notes possible injustices in distribution across Northern Africa and several U S states, and imagines a grand Gulf of Mexico canal and a Rhine like river corridor from Kansas City to the sea for commerce and pleasure.
A dated advert claims to cure premature decline, nerv ous debility and related diseases with psal tation free. It offers books for ten cents and asks readers to address it confidentially to the association in Buffalo, Wichita.
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