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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1895
Page
2
Emergency teams faced a relentless threat as attempts to curb the danger proved futile. Authorities mobilized resources, but the peril persisted, leaving residents anxious and seeking solutions amid ongoing containment challenges.
Washmeton February 27 Senate debated the sundry civil appropriation bill without resolution. The sugar bounty provision, discussed amid free silver amendments, passed 46 to 13. Major figures warned about deficits while the bounty's final vote favored supporters. Additional measures included a retired list for the revenue marine service and various land and railway authorizations.
In Jefferson City on February 27 the house debated the Tatum election bill as a special order, voting Ti to 50 to pass it to the senate. The measure allows circuit judges to appoint election commissioners and mirrors provisions of the TiMingis elections law. The senate also passed various bills including corporate stock taxation and a state board of medical supervisors for insane asylums. In Jerrerson City Ben Deering’s high license bill for dram shops advanced in the house after a committee vote of 68 to 18. Senator James P. O Bannon of Dallas County fainted and was treated for heart and bowel complications. The senate sent to engrossment a substitute for the fellow servant bill, aligning with an Arkansas law and sparking debate among supporters.
The nation records a string of incidents from uprisings to deaths. Notable items include England officialdom’s death, a poisoning death near Bolivar Missouri, a Nickel Plate collision in Ohio, and multiple political acts from Idaho to Tennessee. Authorized bills, court actions, and criminal cases thread through a broad, chaotic snapshot of the era.
Wasuvnetos Feb 27 The president sent to the house a message vetoing the bill to grant a pension to Eunice Putnam daughter of John Putnam who served in the late war.
Savarsan Ga February twenty seventh Catholics clash with 4 000 to 5 000 mobs surrounding Masonic Temple. Mayor Meyers and troops attempt to prevent violence after windows are broken and Slattery and his wife narrowly escape harm. Several policemen and militiamen are injured.
Grand jury in Kansas City, Missouri returns twenty one true bills for alleged election frauds. Indictments name Ed Findley and Arthur Moses in Ninth ward, Wallace Miller and others in Second and Fifth precincts, with charges ranging from illegal voting and registration to ballot manipulation. Local Nebraskan note mentions state treasury interest suit. Brooklyn factory explosion kills several men.
In the Commons Mr Robert Everett Liberal moved a Bimetallic resolution adopted Friday by the parliamentary committee of the Bimetallic League. It urges cooperation with nations to form an international congress on revising or mitigating the gold and silver value divergences. The motion passed without division.
In San Francisco on February 27 the Typographical Union began a boycott of the War Cry, aiming to mobilize Pacific coast trades unions. Copies of a manifesto urge unions to refrain from Salvation Army work as print staff dispute Mil saps who fired two soldier type setters after they sought Gen Booth’s involvement. Captain Merritt and Private Hickok face alleged conspiracy claims.
In Tampa on February 27 Fernandina Figureredo received a telegram from Gonzales Queseda, secretary of the Cuban revolutionary club in New York, announcing that revolution broke out on Sunday and the whole island is in arms. A West Tampa correspondent found the populace agitated. Figureredo, a former revolution colonel, is a noted agitator.
The Mexican man of war La Libertad, sailing from Vera Cruz to New Orleans on February 9, is overdue by more than ten days. The Mexican consul reports doubt she survived the gulf northerly storm from the 16th to the 21st, with fears that all fifty officers and men were lost.
Robert Haight and Company of 220 Front Street, a long standing San Francisco commission house, has assigned for creditors. The firm, 30 years in business, dealt in farm produce on consignment. Liabilities are estimated between 50 000 and 70 000 dollars with assets near 100 000. The failure is attributed to hard times and creditors are mainly farmers.
The fourteenth annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment for Kansas began in Lawrence with four morning sessions across halls including the Women’s Relief Corps and Ladies of the G A R. After a university stop, a public meeting followed.
Dr. John Murray argues the name America may derive from ancient Peruvian terms and tribal names rather than Vespucci. He notes Tamarique on early maps, Sierra Amerrique in Nicaragua, and Amerriques people. Murray suggests Terra Amerique as the land's ancient title and Vespucci’s name possible alliteration rather than origin.
The New York Advertiser recounts Buckstone as a country actor who walked 72 miles from Northampton to London on fourpence halfpenny. He described his threadbare costume a worn whitey blue coat with tarnished buttons and a flowered glazed chintz waistcoat. He also carried a red wig, russet boots, a portfolio with sketches, and used dancing pumps for the journey.
The column explains why ice floats as water nears freezing and why surface ice forms, noting expansion of cooled water and rare ground ice formed when the entire body cools below freezing. It then shifts to morality teaching, asserting religion endures while corrupted morality fades, citing the Ten Commandments as enduring, and closes with a home remedy note on rats and mice using potash and glass to deter them.
In Berwick on Tweed the parish church from Cromwell's era has a bell tower with bells at the town hall. Nearby a pair of stocks remains. The curfew tolls at eight in the evening and at dawn. A bell rings to open the town gates both winter and summer, though the gates have stayed open for centuries.
Detroit prepares a seven story Masonic Temple costing about 400000 dollars with paraphernalia and uniforms bringing total outlay to 500000. Red Missouri granite and Romanesque design, peak 140 feet high, cornerstone laid by nearly 10000 Masons, pigeons released to herald the event.
Reports from Missouri jurisdiction show membership up 60 percent in the last six months of 1894 versus 1873, with reinstatements rising 70 percent. Deaths and withdrawals stay steady, net relief required about 354,818.90. Grand Lodge convened in New York with 328 delegates. Brith Abraham numbers reach 14,600. New Hampshire prepares a grand lodge. February call lists seven deaths totaling 11,000 paid January 18.
Supreme Examiner Witherill processed 1,269 January applications with a 5 percent rejection rate. Net Nobility income for February reached 74,000 with 79,000 collected and a 4,400 balance. For 1504 total examinations were 14,180 with 10,556 rejections, outlining annual demand and workload.
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