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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1895
Page
4
The notice lists subscription prices and delivery details for The State Journal. It mentions carrier delivery to Topeka and suburbs, mail options for three months, six months, and one year, and a weekly edition price. It emphasizes availability in Kansas towns served by the paper.
The issue reports Kansas weather outlook fair and warmer tonight with a cooler Thursday, and notes improving prosperity as excess exports for the first nine months approach 87 million dollars. It cites a New Mexico irrigation ruling, party debates on silver, and a banker interview defending free coinage after nine years of study.
Public sentiment sustains whisky interests claiming saloons spread nationwide while Governor Morrill faces criticism as enforcement falters. The rush of new joints appears statewide, with counties blamed for lax action though officials point to the governor’s stance on enforcing the law.
In a lively column, Whiting describes a string of disparate local happenings. Carnival like rumors to Atchison weather quirks mix with social shifts and oddities from Olathe Beloit Wichita and Lawrence.
A Dodge City Soldiers' Home display adds 500 fruit trees. Harper county plans a summer teachers' institute. Eggs tariff removal barely dented western industry. SiR Hua of Peabody ships eggs to Boat. Clay from Goeury county sparks modeling uses by Lizzie Kobart in Junction City. Wm. Ratliff shifts milk supply back to shorthorns. Cedarville Juvenile Literary Society raises funds for a public school library with 51 volumes after three years of ice cream socials. Mulching benefits wheat. a Barton county farmer spreads straw. Augusta residents create a low cost life insurance fund with a dollar per member. Kansas high schools begin introducing separate class yells, Coffeyville leading with Trilby dilby.
A correspondent in Loxpon walks Whitechapel Road from Aldgate to Mile End Gate noting squalid back courts linked to Jack the Ripper lore. He describes street amusements, public houses, and street vendors, praising London fakirs while contrasting American meat prices and local behavior with Gothic, foggy night imagery.
Police report describes Joanna Dupree, called one of the town’s most desperate colored characters, drawing a loaded 44 Colt revolver during a confrontation at her shanty near Urane and Monroe. She was fined $20 after a brief court appearance and claimed she would repeal her case. Officers Burgess and Ewing pried entry and restrained her as she fought. she denied intent to kill but threatened harm to the police force.
The Journal reports James I McCabe Henry Engell and W J Fulton appointed to city engineer office posts. Fulton and McCabe will perform outside work as tapeman and rodman while Engell acts as office assistant. Tapeman and rodman earn 55 dollars monthly and the inspector 50, with planned raises to 50 4a once the salary ordinance passes.
Lussox April 17 The St James Gazette criticizes American journalists on diplomacy and says Britain would act under international law if Nicaragua fails to pay indemnity. It notes the Monroe doctrine has long existed without action. The piece also advertises the Ann Arbor Glee Club concert at the Grand on the 17th.
Chicago April 17 Tomorrow night the Civic Federation holds its annual meeting to elect officers. Ralph M Easley is singled out for secretary as he prepares his annual report detailing the groups gains such as halting public gambling through police action and over 500 gambling arrests. The federation funded election fraud prosecutions and helped curb mortgage sharks while pushing reforms in civil service and primary laws.
San Francisco April 17. Durant the young man under arrest for Marian Waliame’s murder and suspected in Blanche Lamon’s death faces possible insanity pleas or nightmares in his cell at Emanuel Baptist church murder scene. An officer’s night-time cry revealed another vivid episode as Durant cried out and wrestled on his mattress. His worn clothing from the Williams case showed no blood. Durant’s mother appeals for public restraint until circumstantial evidence is backed by more.
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