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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1897
Page
8
Baron Mackay one of the chief promoters of the Rat Jean Coujon charity bazaar, destroyed by fire on May 4, faces a 500 Franc fine. The Cineme-Therapeut Establishment staff tied to the fire area received one year in jail and fines. Another employee drew eight months imprisonment with a fine.
Dispatches from Panama report a dramatic slump causing embarrassment and prompting President Gutierrex to push rapid adoption of Bild tests. The exphaner rate on the United States jumped to 200 at San Salvadue today.
Novel feature of the Territorial Fair at Albuquerque will attract sightseers and entertain the public. The production of the famous sun dance of the prehistoric Aztecs will be staged in all its splendor by about one hundred dancers during the fair in September. Tickets at $1.10 to $? Garvey, agent, and details from the House for detained.
Bids for wood and straw are requested by the Secretary of the Committee Fifteen Festival Association in Topeka. Sealed bids due by noon Wednesday. Delivery: up to fifty cords of seasoned wood and fifty tons of wheat straw to the designated site. Bids may cover wood, straw, or both. The committee reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to contract for as much as needed.
Topeka leaders including President Charles F Street and manager P C Hord returned to Topeka to press settlement talks with the city council over the waterworks controversy. Street said the city may buy the plant when the franchise expires in 1901, and a sale could hinge on bondholder consent, with potential basis set by city or state law.
Topeka city items note Hugeles recovering from malaria and Afarshali’s band turning out 52 men for a parade. Neely, U S marshal, heads to Fork Pa to visit his ailing father. Hay crops near the state house harvested for the third time this summer. Wall Festival funds still under securing. Armstrong & Kassebaum supplied 77 pounds cheese gratis for yesterday’s picnic. Kate Adama in Pittsbirs Kan doing three month mission work. Banks kept open then joined the picnic crowd. Concrete floor work underway for new state library rooms. Haker promises vestibules on Pox poke Street cars by November 1. George B. Harrison launches weekly paper The Kansas News. Topeka streets deserted on afternoon and evening holidays. Caries Wolf leaving for Colorado for two weeks. Shortage of girls for housework eased by new arrivals. Mrs Sessions relapses from illness. Jacquer and Sophie Leigh in parade. Karnival Knights meet next Monday. carnival events set for Sept 5 with intercollegiate football in fall. Iowa U vs K S U in October. An ad giveaway was a full-page cab ad. Republican Plumbbeat Club to discuss Fall Festival participation. Ukanks resolution honors C P Belmar for removing arsenal foundation. Topeka needs more hand carts for street cleaning. the street sweeper on Quincy St. described as filthy. Much poetry sent to State Journal deemed painful. Miss Emm Kelly aims Klondike for Chicago paper. Topeka expected Sept 2. Rev Harrington struggles to enforce executive order barring boys from state house. Bowman home plastering near completion. ready by Sept 15. Andy Jordan.
Seattle reports a Sitka poisoning case where ten Indians bought whisky from saloon keeper McKee. After drinking a fatal mix of whisky coal oil lemon juice and alcohol several died and others lay dying on the steamer Eve. McKee denies knowledge of adulteration but faced charges amid fears of lynching.
An enthusiastic welcome marks Bryan's Lincoln stop on Sept 1 as Nebraska braces for a fierce bimetallic campaign. Organizers plan a state convention of 2700 delegates uniting Populists, Silver Democrats and Silver Republicans for a mass barbecue and speeches by Teller Towne Himpson Weaver and Bryan.
Boston, Louisville, Cleveland, and Baltimore feature results with Boston and Louisville splitting two games, Sullivan and Frazer among batters, and crowds around 5,000. Chicago and Baltimore win, while New York, Cincinnati, and St Louis post scores. Detroit, Milwaukee, and Kansas City also report outcomes amid a busy schedule. A Salina track meet previews record attempts in cycling events, with De Cardy and Eberhardt in a three heat match race and several speed demonstrations scheduled.
At New yesterday afternoon in Cincinnati an accident in the third race left jockey Nostrand with a broken collarbone and a crushed left side after Pirate Queen slipped on the soft track and Louise Bohn toppled. Milburn, the stable’s star jockey, is hospitalized with a broken leg. James escaped unhurt while Nostrand’s recent riding stint with Respess & Co. ends in hospital care.
Chief Deputy United States Marshal Charles Currier of Kansas was visiting Grand Lake on vacation with friends when a party member caught 165 trout in one day at Lulu. Currier witnessed the catches and examined large trout on display at rail ticket offices.
The St. Joseph track meeting drew about 15,000 spectators on a clear day. The program featured a 2:17 pacing with Tapsy & winning in three heats, Mattie G. taking a $400 purse, First Chance winning the mile dash, and Cade and Dick Bowers tying for first in the half mile and repeat.
San Francisco expects a landmark fight at Woodward's Pavilion as advance sale tops seating capacity. Estimated 7 000 held capacity, with many seeking admission. Five dollar chalce seats sold in blocks, no seats likely to remain by 8 o'clock. Green favored in the bets. more money wagered than any bout since the Firesimmons Sharkey clash. Both fighters say they are in top condition and weigh about 145 pounds.
The Pacific advisory board of the American Kennel Club vindicated James Mortimer of New York in charges filed by H. T. Payne of San Francisco. Resolutions declare the charges unfounded and hint at a reconciliation between the San Francisco Kennel Club and the St. Bernard Club after a period of dispute.
The post office department near completes an elaborate souvenir collection for all delegates. It includes an album of congress photos inside and outside the hall, Washington views, excursion pictures, a complete set of canceled United States postage stamps marked Universal Postal Congress, and a silver medal slightly larger than a half dollar. The package costs $1.50 to Kansas City and return on special trains.
The state board of equalization seeks about 40 000 a year in taxes on the Bell Telephone company arguing the lessee firms under the Nichols law do not account for income from box rentals. The plan is to back tax five years totaling around 255 000 with audits to place the charges on county duplicates.
The American party held its first convention in St Louis on Aug 24, with delegates from New York Ohio Michigan Missouri Iowa Kansas Colorado Louisiana and Indian Territory. Ellison Stouker of Coloradine chaired. J J Hazelbach of Detroit secretary. Committees were named, reports due today, and Col ROH Sellers led a lengthy address urging reforms including initiative and referendum, equal suffrage, civil service, and protection of labor.
A Bayonne inventor William A. Rady unveils a vistascope, a camera obscura hung aloft by kites, displaying land and water toward St George. The 160 foot height and rapid movem ent hinder glass use. steadying devices planned. Also notes Chief Conlin’s retirement and a travel offer from Santa Fe Route.
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