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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1895
Page
4
Daily edition delivered by carrier at 15 tents a week to Topeka or thurbs, or the same price in Bancas towns with carrier service. By mail, three months nine dollars and sixty cents. By mail, one year three dollars sixty cents. Weekly edition per year fifty cents.
Special correspondents recount Captain Isaac Bassett long serving as Senate page since 1831. He holds the assistant doorkeeper title and keeps the hours, desks, and snuffbox memory live. Bassett’s pension and daily duties illustrate a veteran’s quiet influence and the senate’s old fashioned personnel.
The March Kansas forecast calls for fair tonight and Tuesday with warmer temperatures and north winds shifting to south. A Baltimore Friends circle endorses woman suffrage, while Ex-Governor Ingalls garners support as a potential next year’s presidential nominee. The Ottawa Herald critiques silver policy and sugar beet legislation, noting a populist governor’s veto amid broader tax and labor concerns.
A Washington correspondent to the Clay Center Times defends Congressman Calderhead’s stance on silver coinage. The letter argues Calderhead is a true bimetalist, seeking laws to maximize coinage of gold and silver while preserving parity and expanding usable paper currency. It notes constituents admired his honesty and favored silver at a 6 to 1 ratio, while acknowledging his prior opposition to silver did not deter support. The piece condemns vague bimetalism as a political dodge and cites a Boston Traveler editorial on national split over coin standards.
A jumble of local item snippets reports on Ft. Riley artillery gains, Kansas city politics, horse trading in Atchison, spring signs in Lawrence, a Santa Fe cow dispute, peculiar city distinctions in Osage and Smith counties, and assorted humorous notes from Norton, Mankato, and Osbourne newsrooms. A stray ad mentions woolen cleaning services by Torexka Steam Laundry.
Washinotos April 1 A detailed review of silver political strategy reveals that Mr Sibley is unlikely to run as a silver candidate in 1896. Leaders seek to avoid a third party, plan to unite silver Republicans and Democrats, and may nominate a free coinage advocate from the old parties or back independent electors to support a pro silver president. The piece also notes turmoil in the St Louis elevator company, its founder Captain Slattery, associated stockholders, and a pending court settlement amid missing assets and bonds.
A morning St Louis report describes a business meeting where leading local merchants formerly aligned as the Mex discuss a shortage in Be. The April meeting drew well known grab merchants of St Louis to address trade concerns and potential changes in their association.
Official report by Ito documents Makalg castle retaken after two fights. The Chinese suffered three killed and one captured prisoner. The Japanese incurred one death and sixteen wounded.
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