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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1897
Page
4
In Topeka, Franklin County, the State Journal offers daily and weekly carrier editions with annual mail rates. The item lists subscription terms, office address at Kenana Avenue, and telephone numbers for reader inquiries and advertising services.
For Kanaga general weather shows largely fair skies tonight and Tuesday. Temperatures remain mild with light winds. No precipitation indicated and the outlook favors dry conditions through the period.
A crowded Washington scene links postwar currency reform to party unity. Reports suggest Senator Wolvets plans a broad speech aligning with the mining states while cabinet divisions shape McKinley era currency policy. Observers foresee a push to gold standard and reorganization plans ahead of elections.
Mina Clara Shieldkorsn, daughter of FR Shieldk, was severely burned at Home Canton on December 2 as clothing ignited from an open gas fireplace. She shrieked for help. lower body severely burned. She was to accompany the Day back to the Capital for a social season.
Fragmentary OCR reads like an ad or notice for a business named Mineral Wates offering “the finest in the ent” with a slogan come and PHILLIPS and reference to Eighth he.
The New York City aldermen will sit in a new city hall chamber of luxury. Mahogany desks chairs and a canopy over the president’s desk are featured, with gold leaf ceiling work and a thick carpet. A glass partition separates a smoking room for the city clerks.
British naval units including the armored cruiser Lacamilet and destroyers Virtaw and Vitex lead a complex Pacific approach via South American ports toward Bequimault. The force, part of a vast Pacific squadron, includes other ships like Phaeton and Leander, expected to join Esqui mili group, with great Britain preparing its strongest fleet yet in the North Pacific.
Wichita stockholders plan to buy the bank assets in receivership located at the Golden Hod on 433 Kansas Avenue. Judge Panter in Topeka indicated he would transfer the sale to the stockholders if they bid the highest, offering 51.00 per share and covering receivership expenses.
A Missouri Valley woman reports Hood's Sarsaparilla improved digestion and constipation, increased strength, and purer blood during pregnancy and after childbirth. She credits the remedy with greater energy, less nervousness, and healing of scrofula, noting better health for herself and her newborns.
The Gordon Highlanders, a long celebrated British regiment, trace their romantic origin to 1794 when Duchess of Gordon raised volunteers by giving each recruit the queen's shilling on her lips. Jeannie Maxwell, later Duchess, married the Duke of Gordon through strategic matchmaking and earned fame as "Matchmaking Jeannie" for her five daughters.
The Salvation Army establishes a nonsectarian colony near Saledad Monterey County on the Southern Pacific line. The 5617 acre ranch will house about 400 colonists, all unmarried or financially able to support a family, with ten acres per person under irrigation and seed money of 250 to start. Sugar beets are the chief crop. colonists must work to become self supporting and repay the Army.
Flexible bracelets studded with gems become a fashionable wrist adornment. Opal gains favor as superstition about bad luck from giving this jewel fades amid new style. a peculiar trend notes opal's rapid ascent in taste.
A 20 year gas franchise is under consideration by an Ohio syndicate for Cherryvale and nearby towns including Galene Oswego Webb City Joplin and Pittsburg. The plan would provide free street lighting and church service with city lamps and meters pricing per quarter for gas usage and a charge for store and jet services, subject to local approvals.
Dec 27 report on the First State Bank of McPherson failed in September. Receiver PD A Bradley found five years of insolvency. assets listed at 37,000 with notes and overdrafts totaling over 54,000. Depositors unlikely to receive full recovery. proceedings to charge former bookholders under state law.
Wichita reports Mr B S Tucker announces Kansas will fund a state exhibit at the Transminsigtpool and International Exposition in Omaha from June to November. Kansas is the last western state not to receive a federal appropriation, so Sedgwick County faces a $761 levy as the Commercial Club works to raise the state share of $25,000.
William McNeal a colored man formerly from Topeka, living in Manhattan, was fatally injured Saturday at St George while attempting to board a westbound train. He fell under the wheels as he let go and lost his grip at the depot. Coroner identified him by letters in his possession. Parents in Topeka not yet informed. He was young, well dressed and intelligent.
Leavenworth dispatch reports circulating claims that Inspector General Breckenridge urged shifting control of the national home for disabled soldiers from the board to the War Department to place regular army officers in charge. A private letter quotes him asking what policy best serves disabled volunteers and the law's aims, while noting no official transfer has occurred.
An article fragment discusses whether a board should be kept to assist local and general officials, arguing the title of property should stay with the US if it aids field soldiers. It cites General Breckenhillgus’s report noting high per capita costs for volunteer homes and a DC home, with figures for the fiscal year ending 1897 and prior year. Also reports the death of W. D. Driver in Coffeyville, a noted colored leader and printer. Includes brief item on Angora goats drowned near Ottawa and a Greensburg postoffice fight with candidates Parcell and Shelton drawing party interest.
Horton reports a weeklong power outage after abandonment of the electric light plant tied to financial failure since opening. Gas may be substituted due to lower cost and wider use. In Meriden, Frank Hurd and Postmaster Swatlow push for free rural mail delivery, supported by Congressmen Broderick and Curtis. In Hiawatha, Lulu Sherritt sues for damages from a telegraph pole collapse. Colorado Supreme Court awards her $5,760 of the claimed $10,000.
Christmas brought joy to fighter Hob Fitzsimmons as his baby Martin Carson Fitzsimmons was christened at the Auditorship home. The infant, eight weeks old, was given the name honoring his father’s famed victory at Carson City. Godfather Martin Julian attended as the family rejoiced with festive gifts and a serenade.
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