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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1900
Page
5
A dense ad listing fabrics and garments including Black Dress Silks, waterproof Cheviots, serges, and various dress goods. Items shown include pebbled cheviot, water proof satins, crepans, veinvuta veining, and patterned challies with prices from 50 cents to several dollars per yard. It highlights jackets skirts gowns and dress fabrics with bold claims of quality and color ranges.
A Yorkshire editor contends for substituting broader evangelical thought for the Westminster Commission on Heresy. He notes churches in Scotland adopted statements to sunfession with supplementary explanations, urging clarity and reform.
A dated April 1 letter from William Jennings Bryan in Washington discusses inviting attendance at a ceremony and endorses equal rights and an equitable system. It references the Declaration of Independence and the U S Constitution, urging unity and reform. The National Democratic convention is noted as reaffirming faith in those principles.
Spanish Minister Duke d Arcos grimly faces defeat while refusing to meet Dewey. An ensuing public exchange underscores political tension as officials in San Bartarita Calapay mourn alleged missteps. Alois Wood, once with Arrowhead Ty, is named dead in a cryptic city report.
Washington April 1 The Supreme Court heard arguments over the Kentucky governorship dispute involving Wilkins Buckhart and others. Justices considered jurisdiction and procedural issues as to which party has the rightful claim to exercise the governor’s powers. The discussion touched on preterm termination questions and potential implications for the state’s executive and legislative actions.
Report notes Rev G D Olden gaining a point in the church controversy as Jutey Hazen recounts the Olden Freer church quarrel this morning amid injunctions. The piece mentions a split that formed a separate congregation near Second Gatared Baptist Church and various local actions. Oscar sails for England and John D. Knox is set to lecture on April 2 in Brackville.
Social and personal items cover dances teas receptions and club notices in Topeka. entries mention the Sixty Three club Elmwood Parkhuret N. F. club and KOK Kiub activities. several visits and gatherings at homes including Miss Bele Thompson Mrs Beck Mrs Wittle Edson and Mrs Minty Forey with local families and a planned Orphans Home dance at Hudsons hall.
The Prairie cruiser under Captain M R Mackenzie prepares for a voyage to select and train the naval militia from Florida to Maine. After the militia drill, Prairie will sail to recruit a naval force from each state and return to the navy yard in late October.
Travel special on April 27 offering tickets to Arkansas Arizona Louisiana New Mexico Texas Oklahoma City at fare plus 2 dollars round trip. Tickets valid 80 days from Stonevereening. Information from agent Sings Within Ms Heart in for details. program includes a duet in La Pista San Xavier with a second act duet If You Love Me So I Love You.
The will of Mrs. Mary J. Furman probated today leaves her estate valued up to 250000 to Vanderbilt University in Nashville. It provides a Furman Hall building costing 100000 on university grounds and funding for furnishing. the remainder forms a sacred fund with interest used as the chancellor deems advantageous. A Furman monument costing 6000 is to be placed in Mount Olivet Cemetery with Vanderbilt taking charge.
Chicago April 16 The Times Herald Railcons say Santa Fe helps spearhead a vast internal plan to connect Chicago with the Rockies. The project would cost millions and add at least 200000 newcomers in 18 months. Railroads including Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Chicago Northwestern Milwaukee St Paul Northern Pacific and others drive town formations and map expansions beyond 1902.
Four men are dead and two seriously wounded after a drunken melee in Windber near Johnstown. Italian suspect Gust Ghibback and American Samuel Shives are named in the chaos at a French woman’s home known as Mrs Sioux. Wounded victims Thomas Kipling and Jerk Buckwater found in the street. Authorities say the event followed a prior incident.
Fragmentary text discusses Bell possibly alive and a suspect named Bell among a group. It suggests the suspect might have acted alone, possibly armed, and notes intoxication among others. Details are incomplete and no verifiable conclusion is possible from the remaining lines.
A district court case from March 1887 questions who should receive a life insurance payout after a Chandler cyclone killed one parent. Probate appointees D P Blood Douglass Kansas and F W Rash Chandler guard and administer estates, while the insurer awaits a ruling on whether the decedent died first.
Washington April 16 the house started the naval appropriation bill amid general debate. Mr Foss urged building a strong navy to preserve peace and defend national policy under the Monroe doctrine and the Nicaragua canal. He emphasized maintaining armed strength as the best means to secure international concord and protect American interests.
A fragment notes a battleship anchored in Mannix harbor as a vivid symbol teaching that liberty requires order and reverence for justice, not license, contrasting traveler's view of trade laws with martial presence. The passage emphasizes lawfulness shaping freedom through disciplined authority.
A London dispatch reports South Africans in discussion over postwar mining and railway finances. Banks and both Transvaal and Free State assets are eyed for indemnity payments, with railways and mines as the main revenue sources. British control could seize railways, while mine profits are projected to cover most war costs.
Atchison Judge Will Likely Be Nominated For Associate Justice as fusion talks in Topeka reshape the race. Abilene Judge Mahan, a fusion candidate, faces Democrat opposition amid petitions for David Martina’s nomination. Protests by Jim Orr and BP have helped narrow the path, with current odds favoring Judge Martin’s nomination.
Judge Hazen had scheduled a ruling on the Parsons asylum controversy but postponed the decision after Coleman and Williams, lawyers for Clay Center, requested all owners of the condemned land be made parties to the injunction. James Clayton appeared for the attorney. Om Stebel represented Parsons. A final disposition was set for Wednesday at 9 a.m.
Cincinnati reports Murst Halstead resumes the editors chair as president of a new college work opening its offices. The scene highlights Xavier as a feature act. The chorus borrows from a renowned loaqua sun dance, while the journal notes monthly output.
F. D. Coburn and the relief committee arranged to forward two thousand dollars to India today. Contributions continue to pour into the headquarters of the relief committee at the suite house as fundraising proceeds.
New York reporters describe Staten Island carpenters seeking 49 cents an hour, double pay on Sundays and holidays, an apprentice system, and workweek constraints. The union states wages would apply from April 16 for five days a week with delays on Saturdays under various circumstances.
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