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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1895
Page
6
Emery, Bird, Thayer & Co. of Kansas City touts an immense stock of light fabrics, silks, ginghams, novelties, and extensive millinery. The store pledges trusted staff, vivid colors, and fashionable wraps and suits at tempting prices to attract thrifty customers. It highlights artful drapery, dress trimmings, and a broad collection for ladies and children.
The store promotes separate skirts as the popular season item. They pair with fancy waists and form a comprehensive collection. Textiles are highly adapted to current fashions, with prices from 1.50 to 50.00. Visitors are urged to travel to the store for a full range of offerings.
The advertisement proclaims five days of Grand Opera style events with special attractions in every department of the store urging customers to visit the Big Store for their shopping.
Personal items from Topeka society chronicle entertaining at Miss Marguerite Bradley s home with a Philharmonic program. The Atchison Bisch wedding date and guests, Michigan Glee Club patrons, and numerous social events are listed with names and locations across Topeka, Leavenworth, Lawrence, and beyond.
The Topeka Municipal League will meet tonight at Trades Assembly hall to discuss relief from the Water company and possible city construction of new works. Reports will be presented by Isenhart Benedict Evans Suuttinger and Macferran. All interested are invited to attend.
The three year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Baird died after a grass fire accident Saturday morning near their home. Clothing caught fire and the child suffered severe burns, dying Monday morning after thirty six hours in agony. Fire doused by parents, funeral services held at the house by Major Sally and Mrs Captain Dodds of the Salvation Army.
A Tiensin dispatch via Associated Press reports officials and diplomats agree the Chinese indemnity terms are settled. The 200 million taels is seen as a modest figure while Japan had sought 3 billion taels. Payment likely in treasury tael valued at $1.50 Mexican silver or about 73 cents gold, equating to roughly 800 million Mexican silver or 150 million gold.
Spreckles sugar refinery, closed for two weeks by the sugar trust, restarts near full time with a reduced force. Williamsburg refinery also resumes work. Demand for refined sugars grows brighter though oversupply remains. McCahan refinery, not trust controlled, runs near full time.
April 17 Gov Stone granted a further postponement delaying executions for six condemned men. The stays affect Jacob Heinze and Francis Kaiser of St Louis, Wil li Taylor of St Louis, James Murray of St Louis County, Edward Murray of Gasconade County, John Burress alias Joseph Dusty of St Joseph, and James Crisp of Webster County. This is the sixth postponement for Heinze and Kaiser.
University of Michigan bands arrived on the Rock Island at 1 50 pm. Alumni committee Frank H. Foster General Sears Matt Weightman and Li Greenwood greeted them. At 2 pm city graduates drove the group about town, carriages in university colors and lively scenes reported. A. Hendry promoted to assistant treasurer of the Mexican Central railway with offices in Mexico City after a career with Atchison Topeka Santa Fe and Burlington Missouri River railways. Earthquakes strike Moodus Connecticut and Taibach near Trieste with minor shocks and no serious damage.
Secretary Gresham lodged a strong protest against a planned tax on Americans and other foreigners in Hayti. The move, traced to August 1893, would violate the treaty guaranteeing Americans equal taxation. The government reportedly abandoned the proposed action after the protest.
Hon George Curzon arrives in New York aboard the White Star liner Majestic from Liverpool and Queenstown with a party including Hon Frank Curzon, Lord Leamington, and Mrs Leiter’s circle. The voyage also lists Astor Chandler and the Morgans among other passengers.
Train No 25 on the Atlantic Coast Line ran into a washout about six miles from Florence, resulting in two burned sleeping cars. The baggage master sustained minor injuries, while no one else was seriously hurt. The incident occurred early this morning after leaving Richmond at 7:15 last night.
In Crixvenann on April 17 Alix Turk aged 23 fired three shots into his sweetheart Miss Julian Fallon then killed himself. Jealousy is presumed the motive as the instant death shocked the town.
A Vienna report cites a Politsche Correspondenz claim that a Russia versus Japan conflict is inevitable if Chinese Japanese peace treaty details are accurate. In Kentucky, taxes on gambling winnings are upheld, while George Stowell is fined for insulting a woman and Rudolph Sharer for drunkenness. One hundred tailors in Future Minnesota strike over wage terms.
James Stokes and Anson Phelps Stokes entertained about two hundred artisans who built a Park Avenue house at an Industrial Building dinner. Bishop Potter and Hulton Cutler attended as guests of honor signaling a new era of equality between workers and employers. The host, a sociology student, urged fellowship to resolve capital and labor tensions.
Colonel Morrison So's Executive Council loses control over appointing the state architect. Colonel T W Harrison, legal adviser to T H Lescher, notes 1841 session law chapter 16 section 6 requires the Board of Public Works to appoint a single state architect who shall exclusively handle state house plans. The council still controls appropriation, but must accept the architect chosen by the board.
A Japanese resident in San Francisco writes to the local paper lamenting daily murders and robberies in the country. He asks where James Creelman is and urges him to be more careful in his writings about other nations, noting his concern for civilization and Christianity.
Denver dispatch reports ex-Congressman Sibley has been called back while Gen. Warner proceeds to the Pacific coast for rest. Senator Jones of Nevada explains he was detained in New York due to heart trouble from grip. Sibley will return after his sister’s illness to resume his western tour.
A garbled passage describes a mysterious case involving pills and tonics said to restore weight and vitality. It references Dr Miles and a bottle claimed to offer miraculous benefits, with dubious claims and uncertain narration.
Mme M Yale describes La Freckla as the sole remedy that removes freckles and sunburn, revealing a transparent skin like roseleaf complexion. She claims it damages freckle traces in three to nine days and strengthens skin, selling for one dollar through Yale Temple of Dentistry and local druggists.
April 17. Chief Justice Fuller announced the denial of the writ of error for Tr. Robert W Buchanan the New York wife murderer. The court deviated from its Monday decision pattern since Buchanan is under death sentence during the week beginning Monday.
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