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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1895
Page
6
A Topeka society column paints a busy scene of travel and visits. Miss Katn Adams and family enjoy Bustin's Island Maine while friends scatter to Minneapolis Colorado Springs and Chicago. Local gatherings, dances, and outings fill weeks with friendships, concerts, and weekend picnics.
North Topeka notes list visitors and interments at Rochester cemetery and a four month old child's death with funeral details. Local businesses advertise services from horse stables to carriage works, groceries, drugs, bicycles, and the Magnet Restaurant. A Harris Hutchinson sermon and band concert news, plus a Maryland town fire report from Berlin, Md. conclude this compact regional record.
Washington Aug 5 The state department has been notified by Ambassador Eustis of the French chamber of deputies action toward a treaty with the United States. The measure calls for arbitration to settle future differences. The resolution passed unanimously. Negotiations may open but the Monroe doctrine and French claims present a difficult obstacle.
John L Sullivan visits Bostons Police Board to request a liquor license promising no knockout drops. He meets Gen Martin and Chairman on a sunny August 5, presenting himself in a light suit. Board notes all licenses are issued for now with potential for changes next May.
Observer Jennings reports a storm near Lake Superior with winds from the south and west to north. Light to heavy rains fall between the mountains and the Mississippi River. Topeka is forecast to see fair and slightly cooler weather tonight and Tuesday.
Chicago August 9 The search for human bones in the basement of H H Holmes castle was given up today. A small force of men smoothed the basement floor filled holes and repaired masonry from the detectives search. The house will be vacated by police and turned over to its owners. Detectives will limit work to aiding witnesses who can convict Holmes of murders he is charged with.
Emperor William of Germany arrived at Cowes at 8 pm aboard the Imperial Yacht Tiehenzollern. He was greeted by the British fleet and ironclads, saluted by the guardship Australia, and met by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Connaught on behalf of the queen. The visit included a royal reception and subsequent private audience.
A clever women demonstrate an inexpensive aviary built on a balcony using glass walls, sand, and plants. She houses canaries bullfinches Java parakeets and a mockingbird thriving in a shared space with nesting fir trees, feeding, bathing, and a steady stream of song from twenty five birds.
The article outlines a method to renew old garments like coats and trousers through repeated washing, rinsing, drying, and careful pressing with an iron. It advises using a fresh suds, avoiding shiny spots, and using an extra cloth to prevent wrinkles. It also shares a hot cheese sandwich relish using grated cheese, cream, mustard, and egg, served on toasted bread or crackers.
The new Sunday excise law took effect yesterday punishing entry to liquor venues with fines or imprisonment. Saloons raided in New Britain Meriden and Bridgeport led to multiple arrests as temperance activists press for a full suspension of Sunday liquor trade. Also reported: quiet on the Black Rock creek Indian country and casualties from a cruiser boiler explosion in Rio Janeiro harbor with sixteen killed or injured. Charlotte Nellson marries Jos He Neill, a Guatemala planter, in New York. Ebenezer K Wright, head of the National Park Bank, is reported dead.
The July 21 murder near Luxcory, Ohio, leads to the arrest of Charles King alias Joseph Leonard Giles from Scio, Harri gan county. He, a discharged inmate of the Ohio state insane asylum at Columbus, confessed and was tied to hostile encounters with a farmer and a fleeing farmer’s wife, both armed with pistols.
A violent August evening brought wind gusts up to sixty miles per hour along with heavy rain and lightning in New York. Several accidents were reported including yacht capsizing deaths at the Narrows, drownings in the Hast River, and a trolley car struck by lightning. Boating party mishaps and crowded returns from excursions added to the storm’s disruption as temperatures fluctuated and rainfall totaled over an inch.
A Washington dispatch reports Join Thomas Bush an apprentice on the gun boat Yorktown was arrested in Nagasaki for murdering a Japanese man during a drunken brawl. Bush, a mute Washington, D.C. native, reportedly drew a razor and caused fatal injuries. The consul and associates failed to reach agreement after hearing the evidence, and the case was sent to the minister for disposal.
Aug 1 In a resort area near Mayville Rev Jno A McCall pastor of First Congregational church New Bedford was seriously injured after a bicycle collision caused by overexertion in an attempt to catch a train. Doctors cite heart failure as the cause. one shoulder blade broken and extensive injuries reported. In a separate incident at Keystone coke boss J M Stroud shot two miners W A Gilbert and James Owens following strikers unrest. Owens gravely wounded and Gilbert seriously hurt. Stroud jailed.
An old advertisement touts a special weekly sale on Misses' shoes at cost. It highlights sample prices such as 2.25 reduced to 1.25, urging shoppers to act quickly as stock is limited.
August 1 1890 in Wasrsoros reports the funeral for Ernest Green a colored boy shot by Miss Flagier after taking fruit from a pear tree The coroner's jury had exonerated Flagler and local preachers urged renouncing violence while noting lives hold little value for colored people The Rev J A Taylor Walter H Bracka and Rev Daniel A Hayes spoke urging restraint and condemning the shooting as a cruel pastime for some in the city
Suanon Pennsylvania August 5 Perkina and Co of the Marble furnace at Sharpeyilla have completed an order for 400 tons of metal destined for Birmingham England. The load forms a twenty five car train to be sent via Erie lines to New York docks. Special car for Stevenson dispatched to Toronto last night at the disposal of Adlai Stevenson and party crossing the continent to Alaska.
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