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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1898
Page
4
The issue previews subscription terms for Topeka and Kansas readers, noting carrier delivery rates and office addresses. It also prints a collection of humorous proverbs and local notes from the Chicago News and Powhattan Kansas.
The piece discusses Senator Chandler of New Hampshire asserting President McKinley favors international bimetallism and that European powers are unsettled by his stance. It notes Gage’s push to establish gold redemption for silver coinage and questions the administration’s consistency and potential to gain European cooperation. The column also reflects era mood and adds various notes from Globe Sights and local quips.
A jumble of names and opinions features William ree Howells and Charles Dud ley Warn, with Horace Howard Furness and Richard Heary Stoddard, in a Newry literary society context. Missouri ministers condemn Governor Stephens over dancing. a governor’s integrity praise follows. Rev Dr William Rainford questions the ill Munkuesy, and Congressman Acheson seeks a pension for Pat Bane, the Green County giant. Bane, 7 feet 4 inches tall, claims service uniforms were too small, leading to present rheumatism.
New York Jan. 11 Oliver 4% Payne's jet yacht will be built in Bath Maine, reaching 900 feet length overall with 258 feet on load water line. It will sail at 36 knots, carry 48 tons of coal, and feature a railless deck, forward officers and aft suites. The project aims for a New York Yacht Club cruise next year with Colonel Payne inviting friends for a prolonged voyage, while tickets to Eureka Springs are advertised.
In Pittsburg on January 12, the transfer of county offices faced a clash over the county clerk's seat. Republican John Exker refuses to surrender records to elected Democrat F. Cunningham, who has the certificate. Officials and watchers describe bitter factional tension as Cunningham bids to assume the post amid contested ownership of the official keys.
Sam Wheeler vanished from Emporia leaving creditors unpaid. John W. Bell of Bells & Wheeler settled some debts paying $500 to one man and about $1 in cash to others. Bell offered four race horses as settlement but mortgaged them and law books to G. A. Johnson for 1000. A horse was moved by a hostler after Bell claimed settlements.
Beloit January meeting of Beloit post office candidates heated over selecting the postmaster. Electors, under the Australian system, would vote January 23 with EMIS to appoint the top voter. The election costs borne by contestants. judges to include county chairmen and Beloit patrons. Attending candidates included P. G. Chubbie and George.
Mrs J M Hatch of Huna New Hampshire says neuralgia and scrofula sores vanished after using Hood's Sarsaparilla. She notes facial sores healed, limbs and neck sores disappeared, leaving only a single scar on her right arm. She credits the remedy with complete relief.
In Wallace County a highway robber known as Robert Bailey, after holding up a Weskan agent and fleeing toward Sharon Springs, was confronted by section men four miles west of town. As he slept by a snow fence fire, he shot at them twice. they returned fire, he fell, and died before reaching Sharon Springs.
Reports describe the notorious grey wolf known as Old Two Toes, missing toes from a trap, roaming near the south east Barbour County corner and into Comanche and Oklahoma. Local residents plan a $60 reward for capture, with trapper M W Farley seeking help. multiple chases noted and Farley actively pursuing the issue. Also covered is a Sabetha school dispute ending with Miss Irene Penton being reinstated after a magic lantern show controversy and dismissal. The conflict involved a Caploma school board, the teacher, and an attorney, with public and press attention highlighting the reinstatement.
In Lawrence on January 1s2 a report claimed many Kansas University men drank at fraternity events. The university community clarifies that most students avoid intoxicants and praises the women who urged restraint. A few men reportedly drink, but they are not representative of the student body.
Gen. W. E. Hardy, secretary and treasurer of the Kaw tribe, returned to Kaw agency in Indian Territory after a business trip. He is nearly 60, moves with vigor, notes the tribe’s roving tendency and predicts future moves toward Mexico, standing as an uncle to Charles Curtis.
Judge-elect R M Pickler opened his first term in Beloit on Monday in the familiar dim court room. He was warmly received by people of all political stripes. Mitchell county commissioners have moved into a room in the new city building for court use. Two Hutchinson men Fatty Oswald and Frack Kepping were convicted in Heno county district court after a four day trial.
A Arkansas City court convicts two men on counts of gambling and running a gambling house under the Cubbison act. Oswald and Kepping await sentence in county jail. Also reports bank merger in Arkansas City, local officials, wholesale carriage house, and various county notes from Norton, Concordia, Maryville, Larned, Cimarron, Beloit, and Leavenworth with weather and farming updates.
John T Burke a 61 year old cab driver and conductor from Fletcher Street fell in the La Salle street tunnel while changing a rear gate. He was dragged under a car, pinned by wheels, and died at Passavdit hospital within an hour despite rescue efforts by gripman Charles Peterson and power house workers.
The sloop of war Alert sailed for Central America today while the gunboat Marietta plans to depart for Nicaragua late this week. Separate notes announce January through March excursion tickets on Tuesdays with routes across Missouri to New Mexico, listing pricing and contact details for ticket agents.
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