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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1895
Page
5
A local clothing retailer appeals to shoppers to wait for its offerings before buying. It promises best made in America suits and boys’ pant suits at lower prices, touts superior fit and durability, and promotes hats shirts underwear and neckwear as superior value.
The Police Court was full with numerous offenders including Jon and Fred Anderson. Drunkenness and small fights led to fines of five dollars for each, with other arrestees fined for concealed weapons and resisting officers in a rugged account of Easter period misbehavior and local residents from Little Russia.
The second annual La Fiesta de Los Angeles opens in Los Angeles Cal with about 50 000 visitors. The city is given over to festival activities with grand street decorations and extensive public and private adornments. The Merchants association oversees the decoration effort and a Crawford opera house performance is advertised.
A jumble of small town items reports Easter events and upcoming activities. Funeral for a woman promised for Easter Sunday. City officers assume duties today. Local entertainments, classes, and community notes fill the week. Farmers report crops and weather concerns. Several residents named with brief updates on work and travels.
J Wilkes Booth alive and a German storyman, Christopher Ritter, arrives with tales of Lincoln’s assassination. Ritter says Booth influenced a Ford theater position, escaped to Brazil on May 2, 1905, later met Booth in Hamburg, and possesses pictures of Booth’s children from a South American wife. Ritter claims Booth sent the pictures and spoke of Booth’s later South American tour.
In Zurich, United States Consul Germain notes Switzerland imports about 400000 dollars more paper than it exports, with much from France Austria and England. Opportunities exist to build direct American trade through agents or catalogs, focusing on finer grades such as surface coated papers linen parchments and fine letter papers. Wall papers may be viable despite higher cost.
The jury found George W. Goss, Lawrence letter carrier, guilty on one count of theft of registered letters. Ex-US District Attorney J W Ady defended him and moved for a new trial to be argued this afternoon. Goss surrendered and was placed in jail this morning.
The Echo de Paris urges Europe to form an economic and industrial defense against the United States. It criticizes U S interpretations of international law and warns of American intervention in Asia and Europe over Armenia. Editors invited to Atlanta exposition. circulation notices and an opera-house seating offer follow.
George T. Anthony to succeed SEL Snider as state superintendent of insurance on Monday. Waggener Horton & Orr open a new office in the Central National Bank building. William Earle, 21, dies of consumption at the state asylum. body sent to Goodland. Adjutant General receives seventy volumes of Civil War reports from Washington. President C M Brooke of Lane University, Lecompton, kansas, worked in Topeka last week for United Brethren college. Patrick Devlin, farmer west of Topeka, dies of consumption. funeral at 2 pm Sunday from Church of the Assumption. H. Nettles appointed examiner in Illinois Trust and Savings bank suit against Burlington. State board of railroad assessors to ride Kansas lines this week with wives aboard Santa Fe trip. Judge Foote aids Senator Dachacher in defense of Senator Rogers before investigating committee. George W Adams and George L Douglass oppose railroads into Wichita for better freight rates. Ex-Policeman J C Cunningham sick with grip then pneumonia. improving. Coroner Bailey investigates death of five-year-old Rossie Brant at 17 East Tenth Street. death due to pneumonia with no physician present.
Report from Victoria B C dated April 1 says Captain Fitzstubbs and his posse reached the site of a dispute involving the Reclamation company employer and the Kootenai Indians. The natives had withdrawn to the American side along Goal river where their tribe and sympathizers camp and guard a miniature fort near Canadian officers.
An advertisement promotes Begged Blood Purifier and Blood Maker claiming they restore vitality and a fresh appearance. It markets through W K Kennedy, a popular druggist, and touts the product as a remedy to counteract aging signs amid a period of unrest. The note also mentions The Starx Jocvaxaz's Want and Miscellaneous columns and a Topeka steam laundry service.
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