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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1895
Page
3
Speaker Crisp, under doctors orders, will depart Washington within a day or two for about two weeks. He suffers from heart muscle trouble and doctors urge continued absence for the session. Friends advise him to stay only if condition worsens, given little work expected this session.
Dispatch from Minister Willis reports no revolution in Honolulu on January 6. Fighting at Waikiki Beach left Captain Sowleta and RW Wilcox dead. three royalists killed, fifty prisoners, and over fifty noncombatants arrested. Martial law began June 7. vessels barred from leaving. calm at Otter Islands but ongoing tension. President Dole praised for keeping a national ship in port amid disturbances. News notes ships from Vancouver and Armenia landing amid the unrest.
Senator Thurston appears for the Kreeters as Judge Walter El Sanborn presides. Attorneys Winslow Pierce and Hull represent trustees for the first mortgage bonds of Union Pacific, seeking foreclosure on 27 million dollars due since January 1, 1906 and appointment of receivers for the main line division. The court took the matter under advisement and will rule next week.
English stockholder Sir Charles Rivera Wikron will join American counsel to oppose government control of the Pacific railroads. He departs for Washington soon to confer with Sir Julian Pauncetone and Pacific railroad committees, after returning from the Pacific coast where he acted for Central Pacific English shareholders.
A well dressed man from Guthrie arrives at Kunens penitentiary offering to wear a striped suit. FB. B. Milliken, formerly Guthrie city clerk, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to two years in federal court. He traveled without a guard from Guthrie to the peniten tiary in a surprising, solitary surrender.
Sixteen year old Earl Cafferty stabbed Thomas McCambridge on Kansas avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets last night around nine oclock during a scuffle over hats and data. McCambridge, 14, was stabbed in the upper right abdomen, treated by Dr. McClintock, and taken home to 519 East Sixth street. Cafferty, 16, was arrested at 328 Jefferson street. he asserts an accident during a boxing event. No court session today. charge is assault with intent to kill, Cafferty turned over to the state.
In Nashville Tennessee on June 12 the senate opened with judiciary chief reporting the election contest against Senator Butler. Republicans and Populists united to advance bills while motions to adjourn and hold a night session failed for lack of quorum.
District Judge Hazen fined Dr. Coldren for failing to respond promptly to a subpoena to testify on the physical condition of BF. M. Hentig’s case proceeded, while Coldren faced a modest cost. The notice mentions a Western ship plate and boiler plant completed at South Chicago by Hindla Steel, with 500 workers to be employed next month. Personal gossip covers editor Howry Vedder becoming a Baptist minister, Edison’s wardrobe habits, Whymper’s stairs accident, and other brief notes about notable figures and events.
In Paris's Thirteenth arrondisment, retired African army officer Mr Schmitt kept a donkey in his avenue de Choisy flat to bypass a dog prohibition in his lease. The animal brayed at dawn, alarms spread, and Schmitt was charged with creating a nuisance. He argued the landlord authorized the replacement, but the magistrate would hear the case.
Various notes on benzine as a solvent in mills and its ignition risks, including spontaneous ignition under dry cold weather and proposed preventatives. Also discusses thunderstorms, ozone, and bacteria as factors in milk souring, citing Professor Cann and St. Louis Republic observations. Finally recalls the death of Vicomtesse Lepic and General Lepic’s reforming military career with an anecdote from Lyons.
In a London interview Thomas Edison says his other home in New Jersey was a pretty, distant spot. He jokes that his wife enjoys city life and social visits, while he prefers isolation and could live in a primeval forest away from people.
A frightening account from the Shefield Telegraph recounts Valerie Lestrange, a French seductress blackmailer who threatens Dr. X with exposure and murder after demanding £5. A demonlike dwarf figure appears, and the woman flees into night. The next day she is found unconscious, pursued by a large monkey from the doctor’s yard, leaving her fate uncertain.
A garbled note leads to disagreement as a clerk and employer argue over legibility and delivery. A reporter reports the dispute about who should handle the unreadable correspondence.
In this cryptic excerpt the meridian circle challenges a figure about the purpose of a raised pose while an observatory telescope body replies that fort views are the aim, with a clipped attribution to Detrois Trib ane.
Deputy Sheriff Washbore and three deputies tracked Bill Doolin and his outlaw gang to a camp northeast of Hennessey Oklahoma. A dawn shootout ensued and four bandits were killed including Doolin his chief lieutenant Julia Jack Zip Wyatt and Sam Green. The clash left the deputies and tribesmen in pursuit as reports emphasize the fighting continued at 6 PM.
In Montreal about 4000 unemployed men gathered near city hall demanding work or money. The mayor cited lack of borrowing power but pledged a citizens meeting to plan relief. Separately in Washington on January 18 the president sent James D. Tillman of Tennessee as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Ecuador.
A representative body of farmers organized The National Farmers Federation of the United States at the Sherman house. The non partisan group aims to spread literature for better citizenship and farming knowledge, with no secret society features. Directors include J M Thompson Joliet and W R Hustetter Mount Carroll among others. Officers elected: President J B Purraw Iowa, Vice President F B Palmer Illinois, Secretary Milton George Chicago, Treasurer W K R Hostetter Illinois.
Jan 19 Wasurseros reports that admission of New Mexico and Arizona to statehood is likely in the Senate next week. The move would add four new senators. Delegate Joseph of New Mexico backs the bill despite A P A opposition over Catholic influence among the old Spanish and Mexican populations.
Howard Gould plans to christen his new yacht Niagara and has named Captain John Barr of New York as sailing master. Denis Herreshuff reports the yacht will be finished by mid March and Gould will return in February to oversee fittings and trials before racing in the Thames regatta in mid May.
Campen January 19 reports Adolph Segal plans a new $3,000,000 refinery in Campen to process 4,000 barrels of refined sugar daily. A 500 foot frontage site at the foot of Cooper Street extends 1,350 feet to the Riparian line. Operated by Segal, the plant will stand in opposition to the sugar trust.
Rock Island Route offers low rates to all points in this country with agent H. O. Ganway at 60/1 Kansas Ave. Wasson & Croswell handle north Topeka or depot at corner First Street and Kansas Avenue.
Today’s market report shows dull trading across Wheat and Corn with May openings unchanged and declines due to weak demand. Provisions and hogs also steady to lower with packers cautious. shipments and receipts listed for Kansas City and New York gold shipments note $350,000 from Normandie and $850,000 from the Umbria.
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