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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1895
Page
8
New York Jan 5 John Burne MP sailed at noon today on the Cunard liner Etruria for Liverpool. He is accompanied by J William Benn MP. A number of friends gathered at the pier to bid them goodbye with no special demonstration. Grigge Axtell sell hardware cheap. Cash counts See Jones for coal.
Massive influx of Populist senators and party workers in Topeka press for jobs as session opens. Leaders hint Lewelling will resist sweep of confirmations, naming only a few board and regent appointments. Topeka scenes include caucuses in Ways and Means room, plus a wave of pages and staff candidates amid contests for seats and posts.
The inaugural committee meets tonight as Owen of Olathe seeks a spot on the state pardon board. Lew Sears aims for restaurant chief clerk, while Lucier Baker arrives tomorrow with a senatorial bid. Joseph Moore, a Saline county railroad man, joins the scene alongside Ralph Ingalls active near Copeland. Angle seeks postmaster of the house. Foster edits a Utah populist paper. J.B French vows no more political work. Doster and Hofman skip speeches at the Populist conference. The military board blocks an anti horse thief group from using arms in Lincoln county. Rohrbaugh succeeds Douglas and would hide whiskers and a white hat. Whitmore seeks sergeant at arms, DeForrest Jetmore eyeing postmaster. Attorney General Little replies to a New York Voice attack on Metropolitan police law. Gov Lewelling urged to offer reward for Matson murderers, but police fear sheriff Struble will get it. Struble to oversee Abilene Monitor after retirement. Bone arrives to influence senatorial race for Major Hloat. Infantry companies at Emporia and Pittsburg disband. Leavenworth forms a new unit. Only legislator without a vote is J. L. Cox, Morton delegate. Cox is a Republican. Cols Hughes and Campbell vie for adjutant general, with Hughes favored. Proposal to run pardons board business openly in court instead of behind closed doors. Benedict, out of speakership fight, actively supports Major Hugh for US senator.
Dudley Hilton and another switchman clashed with Night Yardmaster Joe Cullom at the Santa Fe depot. Cullom struck Hilton, fired a pistol, and missed, scratching Hilton’s side. No arrests reported. Also notes a Washburn college lecture by John E. Clarke and a local pill advertisement.
An army of tramps is reported marching from Wichita toward Topeka after being turned out of the city jail and warned by Chief Cone. Police in Topeka threaten rock pile or expulsion if they arrive, while Wichita continues a crackdown on vagrancy.
Harper's Weekly outlines 1895 goals with Julia Ralph and G D Weldon reporting on Asia, new serials The Red Cockads and The Sun of His Father, and continued features including Susy World and strong fiction. It advertises subscriptions, volumes, cloth cases, and orders, plus coal and card promotions from Rock Island and Jones.
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