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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1895
Page
4
The State Journal offers home delivery to Topeka and suburbs at ten tents weekly or equivalent pricing in Kansas towns served by the carrier system. Mail subscriptions: three months for 800, six hundred for one year, and weekly edition per year for 80.
In a bold promotion the STATE JOURNAL touts a sixty percent annual increase across the dull commer months and asserts exclusive Fall Day AP access for Kansas. It boasts a handsome complete web ster stereotype perfecting press with its eastern office at 73 Tribune Building New York and Perry Lukens Jr as manager.
A fragment from the Globe-Democrat discusses political strife and party peril with references to the Democratic Congress, Secretary Carlisle and a possible $25,000 salary offer from the sugar trust. It notes editorial opinions from the Denver Times and Chicago Record on the fee system and irrigation schemes, and comments on liquor interests pressuring policy.
The piece outlines growing debate over prohibition and saloon regulation across states. It notes Kansas and Massachusetts local options, New York Sunday opening agitation, and splits among reformers between prohibitionists and Gothenburg system backers led by figures like Gladstone and Tilman. It suggests Gothenburg gains attention as a potential path amid stalled national resolution.
The text argues that the nation ships raw cotton, meat, butter, and grain while importing manufactured goods. It advocates exporting manufactured products instead of raw materials, boosting domestic industry, paying higher wages, and underselling foreign markets. It calls for treating raw materials as a home market and making the foreign market for manufactured goods.
A collage of short notices from Hoxie to Lyons and Lawrence covers community clubs, plays like The Woven Web in Miltonvale, poultry fairs, mischief at a lumber pile, a Cripple club in Stafford, and a candy census in Salina Junction City Manhattan. References include a hotel bill act, skating ventures, marriages delayed, and political tensions in Smiths.
The royal yacht squadron met and decided there will be an international yacht race this year for the America's Cup to be held in Losvox on July 7. Receipts may be given if an English yacht wins the cup as specified by the 1887 deed of gift.
A voodoo root doctor convinced Mrs. Bailey Johnson that she was filled with wizards, triggering illness and her death in AvecsTa Georgia. Her family blamed the father for conjuring the curse. Bailey Johnson’s son attacked him during a dispute and was killed by the father in self defense. The elder man was arrested but released.
In Socra Exro Oklahoma Territory on New Year’s night James Smith and James Brown, two locals, with two women, were intoxicated when Night Watchman Dillon tried arresting them. Chief Williams responded, both men drew revolvers and Williams shot Brown dead and mortally wounded Smith. Tense atmosphere follows this fatal shooting.
Prrrseena Jan 7 The 118 fnel mill at the Homestead works is working today and the strike at that place is broken. A mass meeting planned for yesterday was not held. About four hundred gathered but no speeches. All furnaces at the Edgar Thompson Works in Braddock were also working and the steel mill will resume tomorrow in all departments.
Gen Cassius Marcellus Clay known as the Old Lion of Whitehall sails ahead with plans to educate his 15 year old wife Louisyiim. A governess Miss Martin is hired to teach deportment and basic learning while the couple leads a retired life at White Hall. HL C Martin, a noted lawyer and Henry Clay veteran, is her father.
An open letter condemning Dr Parkhurst was distributed at Madison Square Presbyterian Church New York signed by Samuel Milliken of Philadelphia dated year end. It questioned his methods in cleansing the city while Parkhurst remained silent on the matter.
Sherman and Pullman prepare a clash over reducing berth rates in a new bill. Pullman allies including Rep Aldrich of Chicago rally support while John F. Rannells, Pullman Car Co attorney, plans opposition in Washington.
The report notes Michael Nugent died from a nose injury suffered in a boxing bout with a friend, blood rushed to the head causing a brain clot. Also covered: Lenapah depot robbery in Coffeyville area. three masked men stole 355 dollars with no shots fired. Other items include Seligman family club blacklist resignation and local Topeka social gossip on marriage prospects and business notes.
Chicago begins a vigorous probe into corruption in its police department with John W. Goff as lead investigator and Alfred S. Trade named chief counsel and prosecutor. Trade, long a Cook County criminal specialist, defended murder defendants, railroads, and libel cases, and once led as state counsel in a mayoral murder case. Born aboard a quarantine ship in 1847, he rose from Lockport to Union College and Chicago law, becoming a famed jury attorney and Chicago board of education president.
John G. Moore, a New York broker, seeks a restraining order in district supreme court at Washington against Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph S. Miller to halt income tax collection. The suit, first to test the law's constitutionality, could bring Moore wide notoriety.
An apparatus to burn cold coal dust without smoke has been introduced in Germany. It reportedly allows consumption of low grade coal dust with no smoke and intense heat. Berlin smelting works have adopted it with excellent respite. Gas analysis shows 9.8 percent carbonic acid, 1 percent air, 79.2 percent nitrogen.
San Francisco January 7 K Kato the newly appointed Japanese minister to Great Britain arrived aboard the China. He is described as a distinguished diplomat. He said Japan would not cease hostilities until a peace treaty is settled and that China had made overtures for an armistice but Japan declined to grant such a favor. No terms for cessation have been officially announced.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports a rumor that Sir William Harcourt has resigned and Parliament may be dissolved. The claim hinges on Arnold Morley and Shaw-Lefevre being summoned from Monte Carlo to attend a cabinet council in London this Thursday.
A public loan office modeled on the New York Vanderbilts scheme will be established in Milwaukie with a $50,000 capital subscribed by leading citizens. It aims to rescue the poor from chattel mortgage sharks, charging about two percent monthly interest instead of the current ten percent. Agent Frelison of the Associated Charities drives the effort, and a public pawn shop will also be founded.
At a Ministerial Union meeting in Topeka the group adopted a resolution endorsing women’s enfranchisement and urging immediate resubmission of the amendment.
Boston January 7 The Actors Protective Union discusses amending national election laws to let about 50 000 actors vote at their work locations on election day rather than at home. Plan aims to resolve current voting limitations for performers tied to productions nationwide.
The Boston Shoe Store promotes a 30 day discount event to clear space for spring stock. Listings include Ladies shoes from 3.00 to 8.00, children's and infant footwear, Rubbers for ladies, and men’s work and dress shoes with prices ranging from 1.55 to 7.00. Sales pitch emphasizes value and quality with comparisons to Topeka’s metropolitan status.
W S Rankin an experienced Topeka printer at the state printing office has been appointed to the government printing office in Washington through Senator John Martin. Rankin was active in Masonic circles in Topeka. In Washington the annual seed distribution shows 1 890 000 papers of vegetable seeds sent nationwide with about 6 000 000 still awaiting distribution. flower seeds are not yet sold this season. Senator Harris H Ranaaville and State officials held a caucus in January.
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