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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1895
Page
5
Mrs Frank Nevels, wife of a colored man jailed for murder, pleads for help at the county poor farm. She says she is destitute and refuses county aid that would separate her from her husband, while the Poor Commissioners insist she follow the clerk’s guidance.
Dernorm Michigan December twelfth handsome women in surplice attended the male choir in the African American? at Grace Episcopal church. The group received warm applause and will likely continue. They wore black skirts and black white mantles that slipped over their heads.
James Digman, on trial for chicken stealing in Perry, escaped courtroom, fired toward Taylor and Gordon streets, and fled home. Police tracked him to a North Topeka residence where he hid in a closet and was captured. his hurried exit left his shoes in the room.
Ex Commander Chief Lawler and members of the Grand Army of the Republic depart Rockport Illinois for Louisville to present the first flag to Kentucky public schools. The citizens committee will host a banquet in his honor and oversee the late reunion.
Neighbors and a sick expectant mother faced unwelcome medical students sent by Dr. McClintock last night. A 14 year old boy and two others tangled in barbed wire while wandering the Lafayette Street yard. Dr. Mitchell arrived to assist, while the community questions the practice of sending students to poor patients without consent.
Mayor E B Cabba of Carthage Missouri proposes a rock pile for tramps as punishment and as pay for meals and a night in the calaboose. Tramps will be fed and referred to the rock crew manager. The broken rock will be used to improve streets.
In Boston on December 18 Governor Thomas J. Morgan, Indian affairs commissioner under Harrison, voices: Bradley of Kentucky could be Harrison’s running mate or Evans of Tennessee. Meanwhile a police raid on Ben Jordan’s West Railroad Street debacle fails to reveal a game. Mrs Jordan hurls a whisky jug, breaking it. G W Newman from Strong City travels to Christ for leg amputation due to earlier injury and blood poisoning.
Three county jail prisoners admitted guilt without trial in district court today. Frank Mitchell confessed to stealing a bay horse from Mrs Isis Mongold of Silver Lake, and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary after his attempt to sell the horse. Henry Timmer pleaded guilty and, at 17, was sent to the reform school. Thomas Frank Clark, a colored man, pleaded guilty to stealing three white notes from Jon Spear's store and received a $10 fine, costs, and 30 days in jail.
North Topeka items report a holiday visit list from Osage City to Golden Red calls on friends, a birth at 908 Monroe Street, trips by Deemer and Maxwell from Arkansas and Mississippi, plans for a kindergarten ball at Union Pacific hotel, and a Galveston printing venture. Local ads promote candy nuts Christmas greens and buggy supplies from Geo J Graves & Sona with Bell Phone 583.
George Douglans announces Wichita seeks one of two Republican state conventions to be held in a presidential year to elect delegates, a national committeeman, and state officers. Also notes rumors of Pacific Mail steering steamship City of Para to the Panama route before sale. Hesing Coal Co Topeka Building.
The Chicago News laments the Frohman company touring the Lost in the City at the Schiller theater in Chicago. It mocks overpricing and poor shows while praising the prospect of better entertainment, noting ticket prices of a dollar and a half and comparing to Mr Sothern.
Mea L. E Thorpe reports there is more actual need now than at any time this year as cold weather looms. Fifty people have left empty handed since Sunday due to lack of donations while charitable groups save for Christmas promises. the poor fear a dire week awaiting aid with nothing received this week.
A Christmas gift from the Sunday school of First M E church was returned after two years. A black eyed girl who once could not attend school wore the coat but is now too large for it. Her father earns $2.59 per day and provides new coats. The coat was re gifted to a girl named June for winter wear.
Mrs Adams, formerly Nellie Dick, now a missionary to Corea, reports to Dr Mages that Corea sent a pair of bone and glass ossaries. She says they are twice as large as glass in use here and that after the queen of Corea was assassinated the king sought foreigners to guard himself from his own people.
Pugilist Dan ver Smith announced he will sail for South Africa within a month to fight Joe Goddard, who he defeated in New Orleans two years ago. He also says he will challenge the winner of the Fitzsimmons Maher contest if it occurs. Meanwhile James Wall ships sixty five horses to St Louis, selling 103 head in two weeks amid low demand and prices. Lemaire Post Opera Glasses touted at wholesale prices by Bennett's Optical Store, 718 Kansas Ave.
A fragment describes an unusual propulsion called the treadmill boat used on lakes and rivers. It relies on rider power plus a geared back wheel driving a screw propeller, allowing operation by one to three riders and by oars or sails when needed.
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