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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1896
Page
6
Reports from Buda Pest describe a severe sandstorm sweeping northwestern Hungary. Many villages along the Austria Hungary railway are buried, with fatalities in the hundreds in some locales. Cattle and property losses are extensive. transport access via West Sixth Avenue and Bursa Street is noted as a route to the courthouse.
In Topeka society pages the Bangler club hosts a new series with many new members. Readers list numerous attendees including B. T. Lewis, George M. Eagle, Irving W. Doolittle, and others. Personal visits, club meetings, homebound planning, and upcoming events across Topeka are noted, with Miss Adele Dieckreide preparing for Europe and Mr. Irving White departing for San Francisco.
Mr Henderson of Town announced he would introduce a rules committee amendment to the bill changing compensation for United States marshals from fees to a fixed or alternative system. The proposal aims to modify the legislative structure affecting the executive and judicial branches.
The cold wave predicted by the weather bureau was not as severe as expected, yet temperatures fell several degrees. Clear morning gave way to increasing clouds, with rain or snow likely across the state by evening. Tomorrow is forecast colder, with conditions varying along Santa Fe and Rock Island lines and cooler, clear weather in Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico.
Reports from New York Philadelphia and other cities say there are no signs of a general street railway strike. Companies note recent pay increases, labor groups have made no formal demands, and workers appear satisfied. Local notices mention related excise reforms and Sunday closing debates in Albany and New York.
A curious anecdote recalls a 100 year old worker who refused to use a local firm’s chewing tobacco, prompting a ladder descent and a store confrontation. He asked for Bourbon instead, receiving Bourbon in a playful barter, illustrating small town manners and product quirks.
In an ecclesiastical court session Miss Martha Overman described herself as a blackmailer and thief who plotted to ruin Rev. Dr. Brown. She claimed poverty, denied impropriety, and said she conspired with Mary Davidaun to blacken his character.
Mrs Hallington Booth is ill at her Montclair home amid concerns over Mr Booth leaving the Salvation Army in the United States. Papers served in a $17,500 suit against W B Strong as stockholder of Arkansas City Investment Co, filed by First National Bank of Sedan and Kansas National of Topeka. Strong visiting Topeka. Beloit, Illinois, is listed as his home.
Jessie Bartlett Davis hosted a dinner at the Hotel Imperial for the Bostonians Chorus in New York. Guests posing as Leslie Carter Rose Coghlan and Sarah Bernhardt surprised the group with impostor staff and wardrobe tricks. The joke relied on disguises including Bernhardt wigs and a green sarah silk wrapper.
A Boston circular from February 20 and Kiel observations clarify that a February 13 sighting near the Lick Observatory involved Perrine’s 1895 comet rather than a new comet A 1800. Final confirmation awaits German mail reports, as observers resolve the discovery question amid lingering doubt.
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