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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1886
Page
4
The inquiry names A. P. Riddle of Ottawa as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor with the race appealing to regional voters. Further details on the Secretary of State slate follow, outlining party alignment and anticipated platforms.
Parsons has three bands and another organizing. There is music in the air. If New York has any friends she bet ter get. Everets to tackle Ingalls next time instead of Warner Miller.
The text notes an immense railroad building boom in Kansas with substantial projected and underway lines. It emphasizes the scale of construction and growth throughout the state during the year.
Grain valued at 450000 dollars was ruined by a Saturday hailstorm in the Portland area of Dakota Territory. The storm, with hail in excess, dealt damage comparable to a drought.
The Democrats have assembled a full slate in Vermont, suggesting intense effort to recruit candidates in a state where finding qualified Democrats was challenging. The move indicates strategic positioning for statewide contests and party influence in the Green Mountain State.
It is estimated that drug prices dropped by about one third in the past three years while the drug business has expanded, particularly in Kansas.
Secretary Lamar will visit the western Indian agencies in August, as stated by the interior department. No change in the Indian school superintendency at this place is expected until after the secretary's western tour.
The rain is blamed for shifting plans as weather prophets in Leavenworth offer varying forecasts. Predictions diverge, yet the forecasters do not acknowledge the discrepancy in their prophesies.
On the Labrador coast residents face starvation amid extreme cold. A June reading of 18 degrees below zero chilled the region, creating conditions as severe as a drought. Local hardships rise as temperatures stay abnormally frigid.
The Lewiston Journal notes the moon appeared full and then gibbous and gaunt, with mention that the state allows a full moon despite opposition from Brother Richardson and the third party. It frames the lunar phase in local terms and references political figures in a brief aside.
A compact remark notes that Kansas will have a big crop this year regardless of rain. It recalls the 1860 exodus of growlers from the state and asserts those who stayed grew wealthy, enduring two or three droughts.
Fifteen hundred men found a murderer hanging from a tree, a summary act unusual for the land of steady habits. The Kansas idea appears to have advanced eastward, showing aggressive, dominant actions taking the earth.
A Leavenworth visit by Secretary Lamar during his western tour would be a major draw for the Democratic State Convention. He is praised as one of the country’s finest orators and sought after speaker.
An observer notes the country endures a deeper and sorer trial than Congress, with the nation’s experience far surpassing the lawmakers in gravity and impact.
A reader notes Bent Murdock’s column headline Are we Going to Hell prompts calls for reform. The piece may lead editors to consider changing Murdock’s byline to Eli, reflecting changes in tone or stance.
Iris notes a likely large corn crop statewide with expanded acreage offsetting Douglas county’s possible shortfall. The overall yield should compensate for regional differences and boost production.
Nellie Grant Sartoris comes back to live with her mother amid harsh words about her past marriage. The speaker condemns her former husband and warns he would face violence from those in the country. The tone mixes personal rebuke with public judgment.
Mr. Hewett of Rus sell farm six miles from Lawrence arrived in town with ears of corn eighteen inches long and well filled. He estimates a potential yield of 60 bushels per acre regardless of further rainfall.
Rumors suggest Tammany Hall will not back Mr. Cleveland in 1888. The piece notes Cleveland should heed this propitious pointer as Tammany’s corruption is alleged to have influenced New York and the state races, with Tilden carryout and Cleveland narrow margins.
E C Richardson reports Union Seminary New York Presbyterian holds the largest library with 60,000 volumes. Denominational totals list Presbyterian 208,000 Catholic 186,000 Congregational 118,986 Baptist 105,000 Episcopal 60,000 Lutheran 52,000 Reformed Dutch 37,000 Methodist 28,000.
A party of twenty seven visiting Mammoth Cave Kentucky started on a long route. Nine members including five ladies wandered off and were lost. After five hours the guide located them and brought them back to safety as lights failed and panic rose in total darkness.
The Fifth district congressional committee did not call a convention. The meeting at Clay Center is not a Republican convention and Angerson cannot accept a nomination from it. The dispute centers on a fraudulent nomination of Wilson and whether Anderson can accept a nomination by that convention. More details are expected after Thursday.
The New York Sun and the Louis Globe Democrat debate whether a New York senator should carry enough guns to match Kansas figure John James Ingalls. Roscoe Conkling is cited as a past rival who resigned amid political controversy, leaving questions about his future influence.
The speaker highlights John James Ingalls as the best in the American Senate, stating Conkling could have remained a senator if he wished, but Kansas benefited from Ingalls' leadership and influence in shaping state policy.
State Personal S Col Tom Fenlon declines to stand as a Democratic candidate for governor. Geo Innes is favored as town merchant prince. The Leavenworth Standard questions C H Langston’s Democrat affiliation, noting two symptoms off color and drink. Thacher, state printer, returns from eastern trip with daughter. Col W T McElroy of Humboldt Union visits Leavenworth. seen as a wealthy, well-dressed editor with Parisian quality watch and chain.
A Kansas diary excerpt contrasts western Kansas ditch irrigation with drought relief in Atlanta. It notes skepticism about practicality when rains fail and praises irrigation as a vast relief after noting heat and aridity in the southern city. The entry hints at differing regional understandings of irrigation practices and their effectiveness.
Articles filed show The Kansas City & Pacific Railway Company intends a 1400 mile standard gauge railroad from Kansas City to El Paso and Albuquerque with telegraph lines. The project spans Wyandotte to Montgomery counties and includes connections to Southern Pacific and Atlantic & Pacific routes. Capital stock is listed at 20 million dollars.
Transacted at Parsons Kansas with directors including W H Wolverton New York City T Penfield A McNally Chicago J L Loose Kansas City E H Edwards Lee Clark C H Kim. Chicago Parsons parties tied to Parsons Pacific road and Kansas City Pacific railway now under Chicago Alton. The venture has given a bountiful boom to Parsons with related lines built and planned.
Mr Henry Watterson argues in a Courier Journal letter that American women who marry or seek to marry titled Englishmen face melancholy consequences. He condemns foreign marriages as dangerous adventures and prefers the idea of a daughter buried in a local churchyard over a wedding at St George's chapel, lamenting the loss of American lineage.
The Ladies home Journal and Practical Housekeeper, New Moon, Farmer and Manufacturer, and St Nicholas are reviewed for June and August issues. Highlights include frontispiece by Mary Hallock Foote, A Rocky Mountain Hermit, fishing pieces, an outdoor game Regetta, nautical knots by C W Miller, serials such as Little Lord Fauntleroy and Nan's Revolt, various poems and pictures, and Forum articles like The Result of the Majority and Newspaper Espionage. The Forum is praised as a robust, meaty periodical from top essayists.
News arrives from reliable parties of an electric well at Montezuma in Garden County. The 105 foot well has an iron pump and an electric flame that sheds considerable light. Water from the well shows great curative powers in a brief test, with Dr Wheeler testifying to the claim.
In Amsterdam on Sunday and yesterday, police actions at illegal games sparked a bloody riot. Officials report twenty killed and thirty wounded as crowds clashed with authorities during the unrest.
A vivid travel sketch in Munich contrasts shabby street life with grand academic names at the University and a critique of monarchy. The author notes sewers, typhus fears, and German arms buildup, then tours the royal Bavarian Bronze Foundry admiring works and American commissions, including a Columbus statue and Horace Mann among authors.
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