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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1895
Page
4
Daily edition subscription details offer carrier delivery at 10 cents per week to Topeka and suburbs or at rates in Kansas towns with a risr system. Mail options: three months for 8 90, one year for 3.60. Weekly edition at 2.60 per year.
Weather outlook for Kansas shows pale and warmer tonight with fair Saturday then colder by evening and winds shifting. The column discusses a congressman at large election next year, motormen protection bills, pardon board reform, bond issues, London and China dispatches, Pullman and Debs trial antics, Topeka banquet shock and a heated Globe rebuttal over Topeka society remarks.
The article surveys silver policy debates in Congress, praising Bland's coinage proposal while noting opposition from Reed bill supporters. It lists quirky local items: a future-predicting Horton man, a pink edition for Walnut Valley Times, unrelated county notices, church concerts, an ossified man, and various community anecdotes from Council Grove, Lincoln, Hoxie, and nearby towns.
Gov Seay of Oklahoma is the gulat of the house yesterday. Mission township plans to bring donations to Topeka next Wednesday for the se cufferers. A bill for completing the state house and a special order on county officers’ fees and salaries are moving through the house. The committee on the Kansas City stock yards failed to finish its work due to Chairman Powers illness. The railroad board bought eighty five carloads of coal for western sufferers and Lansing mines supply. Ex Governor Lewelling writes he pardoned John True for Judge Morton’s sake, stating he never saw his own father. Tonight and tomorrow.
Crowded Kansas court hears tense cross examination as Nichols faces fierce questioning over Hillmon case. Defense blocks reading prior testimony while disputes over Col Walker and Dr Fugit evidence spark lengthy objections. Policelaw subjects include deposition challenges and a sharp courtroom clash with Green and Hutchings. The trial, marked by lively rhetoric, continues with jurors attentive to rapid developments.
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